The only major comedienne of the silent era, Mabel Normand held her own on-screen with Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle before cocaine abuse and a series of scandals destroyed her career. These two ...

THE Americans, victims this season of weird refereeing and the daftest sort of goals (goals kicked in by skates, batted in by overhead sticks, bounced in by referees’ shins), saw a taste of their ...

LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's convoluted policy on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf is less an exercise in smart politics and more an increasingly ...

"Reprint of the illustrated case bound one volume edition ... first published in 2010 by McFarland."--Vol. 1 verso of T.p. Contents v. 1. Mack Sennett and the movies: a historical overview. From ...

FATHER GOOSE—Gene Fowler—Covici-Friede ($3). Michael Sinnott was a good boilermaker but he wanted to sing in opera. So he left East Berlin, Conn., changed his name to Mack Sennett, went to Manhattan ...