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Show Laugh Making 1 Serloes Task1 i CHESTER CONIvLIN, Tho Mack Sonnott comedian who declares lnugh making is serious business. "Gee," sighed a little comedian with a big, fierce mustache, "what , a cinch these actors havo who only havo to make people cry." And the llttlo man ought to know, for it was Chester Conklln, one of the stars of the Mack Son-nett Son-nett Comodies. "I never could figuro why it is," said Conklln, "but people cry moro easily than they laugh. They say they want to laugh, and ask for plays with laughs In them, but if you hand them a laugh and a cry, they pick out tho cry. "Any lame old sob stuff will get tho handkerchief. They will cry over tho samo old things time and time again. But the man who Is in tho business of selling laughs to the public ha3 a strenuous stren-uous Job. "Ono of the toughest tasks 1 know in tho world is to thiuk up a really new situation with a real laugh In It. In my next reincarnation reincar-nation I am going to bo a. very thin young lady -with sad blue eyes. Then I -will make my living easy. |