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| Moving Picture World, 17-May-1919 |
100 years ago this month, in May, 1919, the Vitagraph released the second film in its new Larry Semon comedy series, separate from the Big V comedies. The Larry Semon Comedies were two-reelers. How about those pants?
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| Moving Picture World, 17-May-1919 |
"Many scenes are shown, but no plot is left in the spectator's mind."
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| Moving Picture World, 24-May-1919 |
"Larry Semon is seen as a house detective..."
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| Moving Picture World, 10-May-1919 |
Larry in prison stripes and his assistant MS Pebbles (I can't find him in the IMDB) work on the third Larry Semon comedy, "The Star Boarder."
Update 05/08/2019 -- Thank you to Tommie Hicks and Steve Massa for identifying Larry's assistant as Mort Pebbles.
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| Motion Picture News, 24-May-1919 |
Larry and the Mysterious Mr Pebbles go over the script.
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| Moving Picture World, 03-May-1919 |
Larry shot some thrill scenes in downtown Los Angeles. There were rumors that Montgomery and Rock of the Big V comedies were splitting up, but Earle Montgomery appeared in one movie while Joe Rock was co-director.
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| Moving Picture World, 24-May-1919 |
Larry treated his company to a vacation at Big Bear Lake in the San Bernadino Mountains.
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| Motion Picture News, 17-May-1919 |
While his co-workers spent time fishing and relaxing, Larry worked on the script for his fourth movie in the Larry Semon series.
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| Moving Picture World, 03-May-1919 |
Jan Rubini was a young Swedish violinist. I do not know about "The Music of the South Pole."
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| Moving Picture World, 03-May-1919 |
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| Moving Picture World, 03-May-1919 |
This item appears twice in the same issue.
I believe the man's name is Mort Peebles.
ReplyDeleteHi Tommie. Thank you. I see he directed some Snooky movies.
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