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Babe London
Jimmie Adams
Natalie Joyce
William Irving
“Dinah”
“ROLL ALONG” IS RIOT OF COtO
CHRISTIE LEADS FIELD AGAIN V
Christie Adds One More Novelty To List of Unusual Comedies
A1 Christie is responsible for many innovations in Filmdom. His newest innovation, like many others, is as old as the American theatre, but has never been utilized to any great extent in pictures, until in the two-reel comedy “Roll Along”, the vast possibilities of blackface humor are exploited in a big way for the first time.
The leading Christie comedians appear in burnt cork a-la-Minstrel show. Anything savoring of burlesque is taboo. The result is a genuine negro story— and who can deny that the colored race is responsible for some of the
world’s best and most natural comedy?
The new Christie two-reeler has" been produced the usual progressive scale which is keeping this popu brand of pictures leading the two-reel field. A steambc race is one of the features and to produce tnis, the orga zation was taken to the Sacramento river, and two c fashioned stern wheelers chartered, resulting in a pict of a real down-south river and local color to back up : comedy of the story.
Cotton fields, dancing on the levee, Rastus and S i fighting each other wordily for the hand of black Man , the steamboat race, and the seizure of dusky Sky Pil \ to tie the knot, combine to make something which i
“Dancin’ on the Levee”
The Dusky Rivals and the Belle of the Ball
All CHRISTIE COMEDIES Released