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| Motion Picture Classic, May, 1922 |
Baby Peggy Montgomery grew to become Century's biggest comedy star, even surpassing her old comrade Brownie the Century Wonder Dog. Universal released Century Comedies.
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| Moving Picture Weekly, 13-May-1922 |
The rest of the Century lineup included Brownie the Century Wonder Dog, Lee Moran, Charles Doherty, Harry Sweet and a new kid, Johnny K Fox. Johnny Fox's film career lasted until 1929.
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| Moving Picture Weekly, 27-May-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922 |
The Christie Film Company was a major producer of short comedies from 1911 to 1933. Al Christie was the director and Charles Christie ran the business. The Christies featured situation comedy more than the slapstick favored by Mack Sennett and Hal Roach.
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| Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922 |
Snub Pollard and others starred in one reelers for Hal Roach.
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| Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922 |
Australian Billy Bevan was Sennett's busiest star.
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| Moving Picture World, 06-May-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 27-May-1922 |
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 for Universal-Jewel. Lee Moran had been a member of Lyons and Moran, with Eddy Lyons.
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| Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922 |
Lloyd Hamilton, who had been the Ham of Ham and Bud, starred in a series of Mermaid Comedies distributed by Educational Comedies. Most of them were destroyed in a vault fire.
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| Moving Picture World, 13-May-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 27-May-1922 |
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| Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922 |
Stan Laurel launched a new series of comedies. I like the image.
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| Moving Picture World, 20-May-1922 |
"Laurel is not an imitator of Chaplin."
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