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An article from the Washington Herald, February 1, 1914 about her and a couple of Keystone comedies, Mabel Normand of Keystone Comedy fame, acknowledged ZUZU, THE BAND LEADER & MABEL'S BEAR ESCAPE http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/1914f ... herald.htm

A 25 piece Jazz orchestra with special score for Mabel's UPSTAIRS - In the Washington DC Herald dated August 10, 1919 is an article about the music used in UPSTAIRS (Goldwyn 1919)…. I would love to find the score… of course, I would also love to find the film! http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/upsta ... herald.htm

Sir William Pakenham was a visitor to Mack Sennett Studio in March of 1922 and he got a kiss from Mabel Normand, http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/sirwilliampakenham.htm

A gift from Rob Farr of a photo of Mabel standing beside an elephant made of walnuts posted at Looking for Mabel, please take a look. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/walnutelephant.htm

A gift from Rob Farr of a photo of Mabel standing beside an elephant made of walnuts posted at Looking for Mabel, please take a look. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/walnutelephant.htm

I wonder whatever happened to that walnut elephant?

~Roger

I found a couple of pictures done by Hal Phyfe in my collection, there isn’t one of Mabel Normand but I want to share what I have with you…here is the link http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/phyfepictures.htm

Robert C. Barton, executive secretary of the Morals Efficiency Committee of Los Angeles made Mabel Normand mad and she wrote about her sense of “morality” and what she knew about others in her industry... in an article in the Day Book, August 13, 1915, here is the link http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/1915moralscommittee.htm

I just uploaded 50 pictures from “Slim Princess” (Goldwyn 1920) to Looking for Mabel; awhile ago I did a post about this lost feature but thought an album might be of interest.
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11338523
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/1920slimprincess.htm

I found an article in the Washington Times about Mickey, which rings a rather loud bell http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/mickeytojoefromed.htm

The films of Sennett and Griffith are now in public domain; their ownership is not in dispute, the purchase of rights is long gone. It is copies of the actual reels that interests me; where are the 200+ prints now? I found information on the purchase for just under $100,000 to Jay Ward.
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/1964sennettfilmssold.htm

Part 3 of Mabel Normand trip to Europe is done !!
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/mabels1922trippart3.htmThe1922 trip Mabel made to Europe, the people she met and the places she went. A number of the individuals were of literary note and a little about some of them are in part 3. I have already done 2 parts of this trip and plan to spend some time on her interaction with the people of England (the royals and the commoners) and than move her to Paris and her prince and the races and the gambling and the ‘shopping’ and than there is the trip home and the problems with her PR man and her going back for Christmas and the trip home with Pola and the return to US to make “the Extra Girl”

Mabel Normand visited Limehouse on her vacation to England in1922; you can go with her by following the link at Looking for Mabel http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/limehouse1922part4.htm

Hall Caine, featured in Part 3, is a largely forgotten figure nowdays. He was also the author of "The Manxsman".

Filmed in 1929, probably only the fact that it was one A Hitchcock who directed it, keeps this film available to view on DVD.

The Ince family is just too opulent and impressive not to spend some time with obviously, this is a rather superficial view of the Ince Brothers (and Bertha, too) they deserve more than just a post. I have additional information to share if anyone is writing a book about them, after all there is more to tell than just a death of the middle son. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/ince.htm

"Oh Mabel Behave", she didn't always but in 1915 she made a comedy with Ford Sterling, Mack Sennett and Owen Moore not released until 1922, the print is in France but the poster is in "Recently Added" at Looking-for-Mabel, the link is: http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/recently-added

Lincoln Beachey – Joseph Boquel – Silas Christofferson – Charles Niles – Frank Stites gave Mabel Normand flying lessons and died. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/5aviators.htm

Mabel Normand on the covers of Reel Life http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/reellifecovers.htm

Help! Help! Mr. Sennett (I'm Drowning in a Sea of Love) by Ray Perkins (composer lyricist) which is dedicated to Mack Sennett and His Bathing Girls. It is from 1919 and the lyrics are a delight. It is only a little Off Topic as Mabel was never officially a Bathing Beauty http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/helpmrsennettmusic.htmHELP MR SENNETT MUSIC

The series of Photoplay Medal of Honor winners is being shown at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday nights as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Silent Mondays http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/1922bestpicture.htm

A number of pictures have been added to the LFM photo gallery including a couple by Rolf Armstrong and Haskell Coffin take a look at the Recently Added http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/recently-added
Norma Talmadge, Alice Joyce, Marjorie Rambean, Alice Brady, Colleen Moore, Dorothy Gish, Madge Bellamy, Corinne Griffith, Sylvia Breamer, Bessie Love, and Gilda Gray

Big Mabel fan here.

Had a few minutes to stumble around the net and from this thread I landed on your page about the Elephant Made of Walnuts ... ?

Just had to take a moment to "step inside" and say great job. The research, the story-telling ... and the COLOR pix ! LOVED those.

It's so fun to stumble onto a site where somebody has taken the time to post some details (WITH documentation) about a Hollywood-related personality, event or trivia. (And the results are GOOD, that is.)

The last one I really liked was ostensibly about a guy named Jack Donovan who built homes in Santa Monica but which also provided a fascinating glimpse of what Mae Murray was like :

http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/201 ... lt-part-i/

(And no, not my site nor am I trying to drum up business ... just found it fun, author writes well and knows how to format a page.)

One last kinda thing ... slightly odd ... as I was reading about the elephant, a song started going through my head ... very faint at first ... a Beatles tune ... ? ... coming from the elephant ... ?

All I could make out was "... I'm made of walnuts ... goo goo ga joob ... "

I know ... I've heard it before: "Hmm, that sounds really interesting ... to you."

Thanks again for the elephant -- well done -- and I'll check out Looking For Mabel when I have more time.

Thanks for the kind words and yes the “The Houses That Jack Built” site is brilliant. (I wish I had his style.) Do you actually compose music?

The Academy, Randy Haberkamp and of course, Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys (Cowgirls too) made for a fantastic evening at the screening of “the Covered Wagon.” http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/blog/

There are about 40 paintings that were used as magazine cover in the 2011 photo album at Looking-for-Mabel; you can see them by going to the Recently Added page. Some of these you may already know but frankly a number are new to me. I haven’t always been able to identify the artist, so if you know who did the images, please let me know. http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/recently-added

The paintings of Leo Siekle Jr of the movie stars have grown in number to the point that they needed their very own album, so for some general information there is a page done in 2009 [url]http://looking-for-mabel.webs.​com/leosielkephotos.htm[/url]but the paintings he did are now at [url]http://looking-for-mabel.webs.​com/apps/photos/album?albumid=​11957463[/url]
LEO SIELKE PHOTOS

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival held a rare screening of the masterpiece by William Desmond Taylor HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1920) July 15, 2011 at the Castro Theatre. The program notes by the brilliant historian, David Kiehn are posted at Looking for Mabel, with a few extra pictures and some additional information of Julia Crawford Ivers. [url]http://looking-for-mabel.webs.​com/taylorfilmhuckfinn.htm[/url]

BACK TO THE WOODS (Goldwyn 1918) ad from WID’s Daily came as a gift from John Armijo of the New Mexico Film Broad, isn’t it grand! http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=132608089Or you could just look at the album http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=6521541

There is a brilliant tribute to Alice Calhoun on YouTube and there is now a link to the Link Page at Looking for Mabel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZoAxr47KNo(Stevie Nicks also did a piece of music called “Poor Mabel Normand”) Susann Gilbert’s website for Alice Calhoun is: http://alicecalhoun.net/

There is a brilliant tribute to Alice Calhoun on YouTube and there is now a link to the Link Page at Looking for Mabel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZoAxr47KNo(Stevie Nicks also did a piece of music called “Poor Mabel Normand”) Susann Gilbert’s website for Alice Calhoun is: http://alicecalhoun.net/" target="_blank

Thanks so much, Marilyn!

Another player in the Taylor Saga was Charles Eyton; his testimony at the Inquest is in Off Topic at Looking for Mabel here is the direct link http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/taylorandeyton1922.htm