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- Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:24 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: HER FRIEND THE BANDIT found?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12732
Re: HER FRIEND THE BANDIT found?
Has anyone ever researched the British trade magazines to see if Her Friend the Bandit was among the Keystones issued and re-issued over there? If Chaplin was really in it, the ads or reviews would probably say so.
- Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:09 pm
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Vaudeville resources?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 53889
Re: Vaudeville resources?
Steve, have you ever run across anything documenting the act called Swayne's Rats and Cats? Groucho Marx and George Burns both taked about what an amazing act that was, but it isn't mentioned in Joe Laurie Jr.'s big vaudeville history, or in any other source I've seen. Can we really document that th...
- Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:10 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Walter Hiers' property auctioned
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9203
Re: Walter Hiers' property auctioned
Eric Stott wrote:Woah! It appears that Hiers lived quite well!
I love that half of this stuff is related to his kitchen or dining room. The man had his priorities.
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:38 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Our Favorite Clifftop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13927
Re: Our Favorite Clifftop
Actually, Chris, it's in Pacific Palisades, just southwest of Temescal Canyon Road, an area called Palisades Park where there is now a street called Via de Las Olas (there was no street then). I first visited and figured out the location in the early 1980's, but I revisited in in 1999 or 2000 to ph...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:54 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Slapstick Sheet Music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12081
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:52 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Our Favorite Clifftop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13927
Our Favorite Clifftop
Most of you will recognize this clifftop... it appears in Billy Bevan's Wall Street Blues (1924), Charley Chase's A Ten-Minute Egg (1924) and the Boy Friends' Air-Tight (1931), to name a few. I've also seen an undated gag shot of Snub Pollard at this location, but here's the earliest use of this loc...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:26 am
- Forum: Research Archive
- Topic: Case Closed!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7109
Case Closed!
It's the question you love to hate: who was the greatest silent comedian after the Big Three? This 1923 press release from Educational has the answer... at least as they saw it! http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii286/Unknown_Video/Ham.jpg Source: Exhibitors Herald , September 22, 1923, page 68.
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:18 am
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Silent Comedy Babes - Random Graphics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12421
- Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:54 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Now *Here's* an Unusual Question
- Replies: 22
- Views: 41729
Re: Now *Here's* an Unusual Question
The accusation alone would have been sufficient to destroy his career, though, and I imagine his treatment by the authorities and the press (and his neighbors) was pretty darned rough. Well, who knows what did or didn't happen at the police station, but the charges don't seem to have brought any at...
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: SILENT COMEDY MAIN
- Topic: Now *Here's* an Unusual Question
- Replies: 22
- Views: 41729
Re: Now *Here's* an Unusual Question
Well, how did his Son feel about his Father's innocence or guilt? I wish I knew. The info I passed along in my previous post is just about all there is in Mein's entry from David K. Frasier's monumentally depressing encyclopedia Suicide in the Entertainment Industry (pages 217-218). Frazier doesn't...