Warner Brothers Pictures -- April 20, 2023

Motion Picture News, 28-April-1923

April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Warner Bros. Pictures. The Warners had been in show business for nearly 20 years, but the company regards this year as its centennial. This trade ad promised a series of "Classics of the Screen," based on books including F Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street. TCM is showing a solid month of Warner movies.

Vaudeville Comedian Signed by Lesser -- April 19, 2023

Motion Picture News, 28-April-1923

Harry Langdon, after a long career in vaudeville, was the last of the great silent comics to go into films. 100 years ago this month, Sol Lesser signed him to a contract to appear in Principal Pictures.

News Reel Shows Frisco Fire -- April 18, 2023

Motion Picture News, 14-October-1922

Today is the 116th anniversary of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco.

Motion Picture News, 14-October-1922

Universal's International Mirror #2, "part of a series recording historical events in the United States," showed images taken before and after the Earthquake and Fire.

Buck Jones -- Action Every Minute!! -- April 17, 2023

Motion Picture News, 28-April-1923

Fox was still trying to change Buck Jones' name to Charles. Scott Dunlap directed Snowdrift. 

Motion Picture News, 21-April-1923

Hoot Gibson looked like a funny guy. Eddie Sedgwick directed Dead Game. 

Motion Picture News, 07-April-1923

Leo Maloney directed several movies with Hoot Gibson, but he also starred in a series of two-reel Range Rider westerns, which he co-directed with Ford Beebe.

Motion Picture News, 21-April-1923

Brownsville Herald, 21-April-1923

Guinn "Big Boy" Williams was a tall, muscular guy who had worked as a cowboy and played professional baseball. Will Rogers helped to get him into the movies and gave him the nickname. Big Boy had been an Army officer during World War One. He remained active during the talkie era.

Tom Mix -- More Durned Action in "3 Jumps Ahead" Than You Ever Before Saw in Any Picture -- April 16, 2023

Casper Daily Tribune, 20-April-1923

Tom Mix, Tony and Alma Bennett starred in Three Jumps Ahead, which was directed by John Ford. 

Omaha Bee, 01-April-1923

One of the three jumps. Sarcasm.

Casper Daily Tribune, 19-April-1923

Some or all of these things are not true.

Harry Carey -- Crashin' Thru to Golden Profits! -- April 15, 2023

Motion Picture News, 07-April-1923

Harry Carey was a pioneering cowboy star. I like the dynamism of this ad for Crashin' Thru. Val Paul directed. 

Motion Picture News, 28-April-1923

John Ford directed The Wallop in 1921. Frank Mayo had a long career but never became a star. John Ford directed him in Hitchin' Posts. Robert Thornby directed Archie Mayo in The Blazing Trail. 

Casper Daily Tribune, 19-April-1923

"Atta Boy, Harry!" Val Paul directed Good Men and True. That's an exciting image. 

William S Hart -- Riding on a Quest Your Heart Will Thrill to See! -- April 14, 2023

South Bend Tribune, 18-April-1923

William S Hart had scary eyes. Three Word Brand (great title) was a 1921 film. Jane Novak co-starred and Lambert Hillyer directed.

South Bend Tribune, 18-April-1923

I like the lettering on the name of the theater, and the image of William S Hart and Fritz. 

Birmingham News, 27-April-1923

This is an interesting case. As far as I know, Hart never made a movie called The Last of the Stagecoach Bandits. Perhaps it was a rerelease of one of Hart's earlier movies for Thomas Ince, such as On the Night Stage (1915).

Allentown Morning Call, 28-April-1923

"Blue Blazes" Rawden was a Thomas Ince production from 1918. Hart directed and starred.

Chillicothe Gazette, 17-April-1923

White Oak was a 1921 production directed by Lambert Hillyer.