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- Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bristol Slapstick Festival - The Gems / Highlights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 25629
Re: Bristol Slapstick Festival - The Gems / Highlights
Yeah I agree, looking at the screen caps, it's definitely not CHASING HUSBANDS and on second look it does seem to be Paul Parrott. You can see Charley sans mustache in POWDER AND SMOKE and this looks more like Paul Parrott rather than Charles Parrott....
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:55 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bristol Slapstick Festival - The Gems / Highlights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 25629
Re: Bristol Slapstick Festival - The Gems / Highlights
Hi Yair Yes, it must have been Chasing Husbands. Although DW introduced it as THE PERFECT LADY, it didn't look like a 1924 Chase style. And when Kalla Pasha appeared, I had serious doubts! Unfortunately, I believe only 1 reel has been found.... THE PERFECT LADY is a one-reeler, so if it's missing a...
- Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:14 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Bristol Slapstick Festival - The Gems / Highlights
- Replies: 15
- Views: 25629
Re: Bristol Slapstick Festival - The Gems / Highlights
Sounds like a great event - thanks for the roundup, Dave. The rarities program must have been terrific - WHEN KNIGHTS WERE COLD was previously screened at Slapsticon and it brought the house down, easily one of Stan Laurel's best solo comedies. And was the rediscovered Charley Chase short CHASING HU...
- Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:14 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Katherine Grant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14045
Katherine Grant
Hello all, I've added a short piece on Katherine Grant to my Chase site written by researcher Bill Cappello, who was able to uncover a bit more information on the elusive Ms. Grant, best known for her appearances in numerous Hal Roach comedies of the '20s with Charley Chase and Stan Laurel: http://c...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:31 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10793
Re: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
RUN 'EM RAGGED will run at SLAPSTICON 2011. Either in ROB'S RARITIES or elsewhere during the weekend. Rob, it has only been a couple of days since the conclusion of SLAPSTICON 2010 and you're already making me anticipate the '11 edition. This is great news - the more Snub, the better. I'm assuming ...
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:30 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10793
Re: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
Yair - Here's the review from the Moving Picture World, 21 Aug 1920: "The knockabout scenes are taken for the most part in a park, where Snub and a fat friend get in trouble with pursuing cops. Snub gets out on the lake in a boat with no bottom and two of the cops jump through it from a high b...
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:29 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: "Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10793
"Run 'Em Ragged" (1920) with Snub Pollard
Does anyone have any information on "Run 'Em Ragged", the 1920 Snub Pollard short that was part of the cache of silent films recently uncovered in New Zealand? IMDb suggests it was directed by Charles Parrott, but as we know that site is not always 100% accurate. Does a synopsis (or credit...
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:19 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Down on the Farm Sheet Music
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18718
Re: Down on the Farm Sheet Music
I double-checked Brian Anthony's Chase bio and he does include at least some of the lyrics from "Down on the Farm (They All Ask for You)" (p.54-55): Down on the farm, they all feel blue Every day, in every way, they all ask for you Sister and Ma, brother and Pa Even the mule, with his old ...
- Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:09 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Down on the Farm Sheet Music
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18718
Re: Down on the Farm Sheet Music
Apparently this song is featured in the animated film BARNYARD (2006) where it's performed by Kevin James and the North Mississippi Allstars. Can't say I've seen this movie, but the fact that this song was resuscitated 80+ years after it was written is pretty amazing.
- Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:04 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Hank Mann/ Charley Chase still identified.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14858
Re: Hank Mann/ Charley Chase still identified.
Calling Yair Solan! A few months ago on that other minor silent comics newsgroup we were trying to identify a still of a Hank Mann Arrow comedy that had Mann, Madge Kirby, Charley Chase, and Vernon Dent dressed in medieval garb. Well, another still from the film turned up on ebay and the title of t...