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| Moving Picture World, 01-December-1917 |
Billy West closely imitated Charlie Chaplin in a long series of comedies for different studios. While Chaplin was making the excellent Mutual comedies, West was making imitations of Chaplin's Essanay comedies.
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| Moving Picture World, 01-December-1917 |
Billy West was the favorite comedian of the inmates of Sing Sing, a prison in New York state.
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| Moving Picture World, 01-December-1917 |
Adjacent items state that, contrary to previous reports which I could not find, that King Bee did not rent the Christie studios when they came east and that King-Bee (note the hyphen in this item) had commissioned original scores for its Billy West movies.
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| Moving Picture World, 08-December-1917 |
King-Bee planned a big Thanksgiving party for everyone at the studio. This makes sense since they had all come from the East and were probably away from their families.
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| Moving Picture World, 22-December-1917 |
The Bee-Hive exchange, which distributed King-Bee comedies, was buzzing with business. They released a set of waltzes composed by star Billy West. Another thing he did like Chaplin.
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| Moving Picture World, 22-December-1917 |
King-Bee Comedies were seven months old.
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| Moving Picture World, 29-December-1917 |
"The Prospector" was shot on location in the Rockies.
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