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Pasquale Ventura wrote:Did these have music scores? All of the ones I've seen either have no score or a newly added one.

Nope, no scores on the prints.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Hey Gang, Ed Watz added a great five-star review for the Book on Amazon today: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989301907/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Here it is to save some of you a mouse click: "Instant Classic: THE Essential Book on the Films of Hal Roach! By Edward WATZ on...

Forgive me for saying this Phil, but basically, you never had any real evidence that Helen Carruthers is the woman in those Chaplin Keystones, and you have even less that Carruthers is actually Peggy Page or that Peggy Page is a stage name for Carruthers. As I said before, the one picture of Carruth...

Here's a curious one: over at Nitratevile yesterday, one of the nameless ones had started a Christmas Purchase reccomendations list with SMILEAGE GUARANTEED at the top of the list, and today, mention of the book and the whole thread has mysteriously vanished. Is this a new level of pettiness they h...

Here's a curious one: over at Nitratevile yesterday, one of the nameless ones had started a Christmas Purchase reccomendations list with SMILEAGE GUARANTEED at the top of the list, and today, mention of the book and the whole thread has mysteriously vanished. Is this a new level of pettiness they ha...

Hmm, even with the poor reproduction of the photo, the nose on Helen Carruthers is much wider, her face is much rounder, eyes are wider set, and the mouth is different than the actress in LAUGHING GAS. The actress in LAUGHING GAS may be Peggy Paige, but I'm not convinced that Peggy Paige is Helen Ca...

Definitely a question for Pokes and Jabbs expert Rob Stone, but I've only seen one Kriterion release, THE MISSING HEIR (1915) extant in all the years I've been looking at old film. Kriterion barely lasted nine months and most of those firm folded within that year even if they found different distrib...

Here's an obscurity, one of Fred Parker's blackface comedies he made for Producer William Pizor in 1927-28. Even the Weiss Brothers thought Pizor was cheap. Be warned, PC goes out the window on this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DYNC5VOPAQ Obviously an old Mar-Lu Television print. RICHARD M R...

Louie Despres wrote:Check out the new "Change One Letter" thread. Are people REALLY that bored that they need to come up with stupid games like that to stay connected??

Yep. I already played that, i took an "l" out to get "Nitratevile".


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Over at his wonderful blog THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR, which you all should be reading if you are already not because he writes good about all the things we hold so dear, Ivan Shreve Jr. gives another positive and hearty review to SMILEAGE GUARANTEED: http://thrillingdaysofyesteryear.blogspot.com/...