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Mack Sennett: The Limits of Slapstick (1928)

From “The Best Motion Picture Interview Ever Written”, by Theodore Dreiser, Photoplay Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 3, August, 1928, pp. 32-35, 124-129.

[Novelist Theodore Dreiser interviews the Master of Comedy Mack Sennett]

Mack Sennett

… One of the things I was moved to ask at this point was, slapstick being what it is, was there any limit to the forms or manifestations of this humor? And to my surprise, yes there was, and is.

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