Throw Mabel Normand from the cliff, circa 1913

[Joel S. Berson]

Los Angeles Times, 1913 Feb. 12, page III4.  Encountered in "Mabel
Normand: A Source Book to Her Life and Films", by William Thomas
Sherman, 4th revised edition, 200, 2005.  Retrieved from ProQuest
Historical Newspapers.

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With the Photoplayers.

Little Mabel Normand, leading woman with the Keystone company ... has
had many hazardous experiences during her career ad a photoplayer.
...
"In comedies," assert the dainty little Mabel, "we have risks as
great, if not greater, than those necessary in dramas."
...
Miss Normand has had many adventures, such as being thrown from
cliffs and into teh [sic] ocean, but aside from a few scratches and
bruises, she has never been injured.
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In Feb. 1913 little Miss Normand was 20.  Note that this is some
months earlier than the first suspenseful serials.  But somehow the
English language did not take to describing those serials as "cliff-throwers".

Joel

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