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"I Have Been Eagerly Following..."

Source: Chicago Sunday Tribune, 6 December 1914, pt. 7, pg. 9.

Dear Miss Tinée: I have been eagerly following the discussion of the merits and demerits of the Keystone comedies, and I agree emphatically with the person who said they were vulgar and disgusting. With the exception of two I will say I have never seen anything so cheap in the line of comedies.

Although I am considered by my friends to have an abnormal sense of humor, I cannot see anything in Keystone comedies but a waste of film, time, and money, and unlike the person whose sense of humor was broad enough to embrace them, I avoid them always, as do all my friends.

I enjoy all of your page and, above all, your answers to the movie fans. O, Miss Tinée, please continue "The Love Affairs of Peggy," and let me say I think Ruth Stonehouse and Francis X. Bushman would be ideal as Peggy and Elliott.

BETTY THOMASON.

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