Buck Jones -- Only Rival of Tom Mix -- December 15, 2021

Omaha Bee, 18-December-1921

Buck Jones was Fox's second-string cowboy star, after Tom Mix. I like this image from Riding With Death. Jacques Jaccard directed. 

Clovis News, 22-December-1921

This item about Riding With Death reminds us that we recently saw Buck Jones try to change his billing to Charles Jones.

Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 31-December-1921

This ad refers to him as "Charles (Buck) Jones." 

Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 23-December-1921

While this ad refers to him as "Charles Jones," omitting "Buck" entirely. Personally I would rather be called "Buck." 

Great Falls Tribune, 20-December-1921

Bar Nothin' is a good title. Eddie Sedgwick was the director.

Alaska Daily Empire, 29-December-1921

I like the name Spickett's Palace. 

Cambridge, Maryland Daily Banner, 22-December-1921

Hoot Gibson was a contemporary of Tom Mix and Buck Jones. His movies tended to emphasize humor.

Pueblo Chieftan, 18-December-1921

John Ford directed Sure Fire. 

Great Falls Tribune, 18-December-1921

Note that the Capitol Theater in Great Falls planned to show Rex Ingram's The Conquering Power with Rudolph Valentino, but the print got "lost in transit," so they showed Sure Fire. 

Pueblo Chieftan, 08-December-1921

Bill Fairbanks was not Doug's brother, but he may have been related. They were both born with the family name "Ullman," but that may have been a coincidence.

Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram, 24-December-1921

Lester Cuneo had worked with Tom Mix at the Selig Polyscope Company and then served in the army during World War One. Unable to deal with the death of his wife, Cuneo died by his own hand in 1925.

Cine-Mundial, December, 1921

Tom Santschi (hard name to spell) had a long career, but mostly worked in small character parts after the mid-1920s.

Indiana Daily Times, 03-December-1921

I see that I have not mentioned Texas Guinan in this blog. She started out in vaudeville and theater, then went into the movies, making a series of westerns. Later she ran several speakeasies in New York and became known as "The Queen of the Nightclubs." She died in 1933, just before Prohibition was repealed.  This ad calls her "The Female 'Bill Hart.'"

The Cleanest, Brightest Once-a-Week Comedy That Money Can Buy -- September 26, 2021

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. 

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.

Exhibitors Herald, 10-September-1921

"Arrow's New Comedies and Their Stars." This ad mentions a fourth series, "Bobby Dunn Comedies."

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.

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.

Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921

This jolly-looking gentleman, Herbert C Raymaker directed the Hallroom Boys two-reelers. 

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."

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.

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. 

Moving Picture World, 25-September-1921

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. 

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.  

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.

 

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.

Toonerville Trolley -- One of the Worst Accidents That Ever Occurred on the Line -- August 3, 2021

Perth Amboy Evening News, 01-August-1921

I love Fontaine Fox's The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. The bottle of good stuff contained bootleg whiskey, which was illegal under Prohibition.

Moving Picture World, 23-July-1921

There was a popular series of live-action Toonerville Folks two reel movies. Dan Mason played The Skipper.