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| Moving Picture Weekly, 03-September-1921 |
In Century Comedies, Brownie was ably supported by Harry Sweet, Charles Doherty and Baby Peggy. The company produced 52 one-reelers a year.
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| Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921 |
Arrow Comedies also promised 52 movies a year. Arrow offered three series:
- Arrow Broadway Comedies starred Eddie Barry, Harry Gribbon and Helen Darling.
- Arrow "Cruelly-Weds" Comedies starred Paul Weigel and Lilie Leslie.
- Arrow Speed Comedies starred Neely Edwards and a mob of other people.
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| Exhibitors Herald, 10-September-1921 |
"Arrow's New Comedies and Their Stars." This ad mentions a fourth series, "Bobby Dunn Comedies."
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| Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921 |
Fox Sunshine Comedies frequently featured pretty girls and lions. "The Book Agent" starred Al St John and Claire Sedgwick, but I don't think that is Al St John in the photo.
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| Moving Picture World, 24-September-1921 |
Harry Cohn, his brother Jack and Joe Brandt provided the initials for C.B.C. Film Sales Corp. The Hallroom Boys Comedies were a long running series of short comedies, based on a comic strip by Harold MacGill. At this point, Sid Smith played Percy and Harry McCoy played Ferdy.
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| Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921 |
This jolly-looking gentleman, Herbert C Raymaker directed the Hallroom Boys two-reelers.
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| Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921 |
This item says that the new comedy will be "a censor-proof bathing girl comedy." Harry Cohn, always noted for his refined sensitivity, said "A picture to be funny need not be vulgar."
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| Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921 |
Joe Martin was an every-day average orangutan who was frequently billed as a chimp. With his wife, Mrs Joe Martin, he starred in a series of short comedies. "Joe's on the Watermobile Now" is a play on "going on the water wagon" as a name for giving up alcohol.
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| Moving Picture World, 17-September-1921 |
"Signing the pledge" was another euphemism for quitting alcohol. Here we see a drawing of an actual water wagon, being pulled by a camel.
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| Moving Picture World, 25-September-1921 |
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| Exhibitors Herald, 17-September-1921 |
On the other hand, Snooky the Humanzee was a chimp. "Does Everything a Human Being Does/And Does It Better." That's debatable.
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| Moving Picture Weekly, 03-September-1921 |
I did not know that Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran, who had been a team for years, playing in short comedies, had made a feature-length film which they both directed.
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| Moving Picture Weekly, 25-September-1921 |
"They knew more about water in pipes than water in mining stocks." Stock watering is an old scam which involves inflating the value of stocks before selling them.
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| Moving Picture Weekly, 25-September-1921 |
"Four hundred and sixty short comedies they had to their credit when Universal rewarded them with a long-time contract to make five-reelers.
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