Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-01-20
Married Life . at
Magic City Friday

''To my mind there is no more
commendable mission in life than to
bring the joy of laughter into this
otherwise drab and dreary exist
ence."
The speaker was Mack Sennett
who has probably added more real
hearty laughs to the lives of the mo-
ton picture audiences than any other
directing producer in the profession
of making pictures. For ten or
twelve years Mr.. 5ennett has been
industriously turning out two-reel
comedies whose laugh-making plots
have flooded the civilized world with
merriment. And now he has turned
to even greater ambitious efforts IN
merrymaking, namely, the production
of five-reel super-cOmedies. His
latest one, married Life" a traves-
ty on that time-honored customer
at least a travesty on the silly mis-
understanding that some married
folks engage incomes to the Magic
City Theater Friday, January II.
This comedy and another big five
reeler now in the process of making
are to be distributed by the Asso-
ciated First National Pictures, Inc.
''When l was a mere kiddie it was
my greatest ambition to make people
laugh and my parents used to en-
courage this ambition. Invariably
when we had company, was trotted
out to do my childish bit Of amateur
comedy. Later on this youthful pro-
pensity for fun-making developed
yearly until it reached the stage
where l was hurtled right over the
footlights into a stage career. Of
course my branch of the gentle art
of Thespias l selected was that of a
comedian. But / tried to install va
riety into my work and added bit
of song and dance to it. But it was
not long before the audiences got to
know me as a comedian and no mat
ter how serious l would try to be,
they would give me the laugh as soon
as I appeared before them. For
long time l did not know whether
they were laughing with me or agin
me- but as the applause was always
generous / decided that they were
with me and greatly encouraged by
their seeming approval, | continued
my efforts at producing laughs.
''It was in this frame of mind that
I Joined the old Biograph Company,
one of the pioneers in the motion
picture industry. I was just at the
age then that l aspired to be a rO
mantle leading man, but the very
first picture l worked in the irresisti-
BILE impulse to be funny seized me
and from that day on I was slated
for the comedy roles. Then / gave
up all hope Of contributing anything
but comedy to the stage and screen
and from that time my one resolu-
ton was to furnish the grim old
world with as mnay laughs as posi-
| BILE.
With this object in view organ
| lied the Keystone Comedies and
started in on the production of
screaming farces with a vengeance.
Since then I have probably produced
more of this sort of pictures than
any other producer in the game And
I shall continue to produce them as
long as l am in the game-only in
the future shall develop more of
them into five-reel super-comedies
than l have in the past.
Laughs are better than medicine"
is one of the pet theories of this
comedy-king. "There are too many
people in this world who are always
ready-in fact, ins.stent to give Sc
rlouh lectures on the gravity of ex-
istence. And there are too many
pessimists. They would not matter
so much if they did not insist on
croaking thier gloomy preachments
to the unwilling listener. And it is
to offset these sad-eyed calamity