Hughie Mack — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Hughie Mack is all that the name indicates and some more.

He likes everybody and everybody likes him so there’s no chance for an argument, no-how; besides, arguments are warm things and when a fellow reaches the 318 pound mark he has to consider not only his disposition but his avoir-dupois as well, and that’s Hughie Mack’s job. He has others, oh yes, and people enjoy seeing Hughie at them (the jobs), for whatever they are, they’re sure to mean a laugh.

His work in the Vitagraph company is almost of a year’s duration. Perhaps he is best known as “The Amateur Lion-Tamer”; Hughie says the people enjoyed that more than he did as the pursuing lion was untamed.

While it is expected of all fat men that they be genial, Hughie is especially so; you’d almost believe he hailed from Newark, but he doesn’t. His benevolent smile is a permanent institution.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1913