Charles Murray

Louise Fazenda

Harry Booker

Louise Fazenda was a natural comedienne (not unlike Carol Burnett) who rose quickly to the front ranks of early silent comedy kingpin Mack Sennett&apos;s Keystone company. Here she gets a prime role as the starstruck daughter of a prov...

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Rehash At The Hash House

Louise Fazenda&apos;s father sends her to get the money to pay for their hash house&apos;s mortgage. Charlie Murray sells her a half interest in his touring vaudeville show with the cash.

It&apos;s an okay late Keystone two-reeler. It uses a lot of the cheap-and-disgusting-luncheon-counter gags in the first half, and the second half in made up mostly by the lousy-show gags. By this point, competitors in the comedy shorts business had caught up with Mack Sennett, usually by poaching his talent; Sennet&apos;s attitude was that he could always find and develop new talent, but it was he who had the brand name, and that was worth a good deal. Mack Sennett was the King of Comedy, so he combined with D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart to form Triangle. Keystone was a valuable brand, but within a year, better offers came along to Hart and Griffith, so Sennett abandoned Keystone and went on to set up a new studio under his own name.

Louise Fazenda's father sends her to get the money to pay for their hash house's mortgage. Charlie Murray sells her a half interest in his touring vaudeville show with the cash.

It's an okay late Keystone two-reeler. It uses a lot of the cheap-and-disgusting-luncheon-counter gags in the first half, and the second half in made up mostly by the lousy-show gags. By this point, competitors in the comedy shorts business had caught up with Mack Sennett, usually by poaching his talent; Sennet's attitude was that he could always find and develop new talent, but it was he who had the brand name, and that was worth a good deal. Mack Sennett was the King of Comedy, so he combined with D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart to form Triangle. Keystone was a valuable brand, but within a year, better offers came along to Hart and Griffith, so Sennett abandoned Keystone and went on to set up a new studio under his own name.

Louise Fazenda was a natural comedienne (not unlike Carol Burnett) who rose quickly to the front ranks of early silent comedy kingpin Mack Sennett's Keystone company. Here she gets a prime role as the starstruck daughter of a provincial hotel and cafe's owner. At their establishment, apparently, no knack for hospitality or gastronomy is required. When a burlesque troupe blows into town, she first serves them "indigestion a la carte" then tries to make her name onstage to save pop's mortgage. Fazenda quit acting at the end of the 1930s but remained Hollywood royalty; she married producer Hal B. Wallis and was a beloved social figure until her 1962 demise. - Dennis Harvey

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