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| Motion Picture Magazine, July, 1923 |
Jocko, a stuffed animal, receives instructions from Baby Peggy.
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| Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923 |
A New York doll manufacturer made a deal with the Stern Brothers of Century Comedies to make a Baby Peggy doll. This is not related to the Baby Peggy dolls made by disabled artist Peggy Wheeler:
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
Fox promoted Imperial Comedies, their new brand of two-reelers. "Because of the standard set for these productions the distribution schedule is limited to 12 releases for the season."
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| Cine-Mundial, July, 1923 |
Al St John had his own series of two-reel comedies for Fox.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
The Covered Wagon was the first epic western and an enormous hit. Many parodies followed, such as Hal Roach's "The Uncovered Wagon." Paul Parrott, Charley Chase's brother, was the star. JA Howe directed.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
The hero and heroine escape from jeopardy by catching a streetcar which is running across the open prairie.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
"...full of whimsey and good for a round of laughs."
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| Motion Picture News, 21-July-1923 |
This ad for Hal Roach's one-reel comedies features Paul Parrott, Stan Laurel and the Dippy-Doo-Dads. I see a dog sitting in a police vehicle, a monkey dressed as a fireman and a duck who appears to be in distress.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
"Pick and Shovel," was directed by George Jeske and starred Stan Laurel.
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| Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923 |
In "Kill or Cure," Stanley played a patent medicine salesman whose product could be used as "a varnish, stove polish, or bug exterminator -- delightful after shaving." Scott Pembroke directed.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923 |
With Harold Lloyd having flown the coop, Hal Roach's biggest success was the Our Gang Comedies.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923 |
"Lodge Night" was directed by Robert McGowan.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923 |
Billy West started as a Chaplin imitator but later developed his own character. He starred in an Arrow series called Broadway Comedies.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
Eddie Lyons starred in another series for Arrow. "The Love of Tut" was one of many films inspired by the recent discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923 |
A bevy of performers from Christie comedies.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
Snub Pollard appeared in a series of two-reelers for Hal Roach. I have always liked the title of Snub's film "The Courtship of Miles Sandwich."
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
Sid Smith was a veteran comedian. He starred in a new series of two-reel films distributed by Grand-Asher, which was a fairly new company. "The Joke Smith and Gloom Chaser."
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| Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923 |
"The Boy That Packs Em In." "King of Komedies."
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| Motion Picture News, 14-July-1923 |
Grand-Asher distributed series with Sid Smith and Monty Banks. "Happy Snappy Peppy."
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
Scenes with Sid Smith and Monty Banks.
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
"The Monarch of Mirth." "The Covered Schooner" was another parody of The Covered Wagon.
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| Motion Picture News, 28-July-1923 |
"12 Two Reel Comedies/Every One a Knock-Out."
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| Motion Picture News, 07-July-1923 |
Comic T Roy Barnes ("Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, Capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong.") signed with Grace Page Productions to star in a series of "two-reel domestic comedies." Domestic comedies usually went light on the slapstick.
Paul Terry's animated Aesop's Film Fable was "The Covered Push-Cart." Another satire of The Covered
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