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Comedy Farce
D 30753 Tea Time Capers. This little film is another prized memory from the early days of the cinema. Stan Laurel masquerading as a new house maid plays a trick on the local ' romeo ' of the district and provides us with some hearty slap-stick laughs.
100-ft. FILMS
C 30644 Falsetto. Charlie Chaplin as a dentist's assistant in extracts from
his famous Keystone film, " Laughing Gas." He isn't exactly
everyone's idea of a dentist's helper he prefers a mallet to the
gas but he certainly makes the most of every situation, especially
when a pretty girl is in the chair.
C/30658 Cheese Heads. According to Laurel the best place to sell mousetraps is at a cheese factory. So they go to Switzerland to demonstrate it. Their idea, like most of their schemes, is wonderful on paper but in practice well !
C/30664 Cookoo. Having quite innocently paid for their meal with a
worthless bank-note and having no other " ready cash," Stan and Oliver are forced to work in the hotel until their debt is cleared. In the process they get many marks chalked up against them.
C/30687 Phonetastic. Laurel and Hardy are interrupted during their
phone call by a gentleman who ^vishes to phone his w^ife. The telephone box is the scene of hilarious comedy, until the three chumps succeed in knocking the box over.
C/30688 A Sorry Spectacle. (Laurel and Hardy.) Stan, in cleaning
Oliver's spectacles, breaks one of the lenses. Stan says that they have received a legal letter threatening them with a lawsuit unless their outstanding bill is paid. In trying to burn this letter they only succeed in causing more havoc.
C/30689 How to Sell a Carpet. Laurel and Hardy don Oriental disguise,
but their peaceful salesmanship proves unsuccessful. They apply a more forceful method which unfortunately puts them on the carpet v^^ith the police.
C/30691 Bowled Over. The two chumps, refusing to hand over their money
to gangsters, find that they have been " fixed " in no uncertain manner. Nevertheless, the gangsters are swept off their feet by the antics of these two princes of mirth.
C/30692 Hot Head. Whilst minding their own business (an unusual pro
cedure for Laurel and Hardy), our lean and corpulent friends run foul of a practical-joking sailor, who quickly regrets that he chose such simpletons for his victims.
C/30754 Ghost in the Post. Yet another old time comedy. Laurel hiding from the ever present arm of the law, decides that the local postal sorting office might prove an excellent haven. The escapades amongst the mail bags have to be seen to be believed.
" M" FILMS
M/5015 James and the Brown Hand. As two detectives attached to the
local hotel, James and George are called upon to deputise for the manager when dire threats from a sinister gang drive him away. The continued threats give James and George an opportunity to introduce to you some really amusing slap-stick comedy.
M/5021 Snub, the Skating Ace. Snub cuts quite a figure on the ice until
a rival goes one better. Feats of still greater daring follow until Snub's rival lands him in a hole. See how he rids himself ot icicles and frozen clothes.
M/5029 Gowns Limited. When James and George open a gown shop
there is a furore over a customer's sticky seat. It leads to a chase in which comical situations abound.