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HAVE YOU PLAYED ALL THESE?
A Handy Guide to Christie Comedies, Series of 1922-23
1. Neal Burns in “That Son of a Sheik.”
2. Bobby Vernon in “Pardon My Glove.”
3. Dorothy Devore in “Let 'Er Run.”
4. Neal Burns in “Ocean Swells.”
5. Bobby Vernon in “Choose Your Weapons.”
6. Dorothy Devore in “Chop Suey.”
7. Neal Burns in “The Chased Bride.”
8. Bobby Vernon in “In Dutch.”
9. Dorothy Devore in “Hazel From Hollywood.”
10. Neal Burns in “Be Yourself.”
11. Bobby Vernon in “Second Childhood.”
12. Henry Murdock in “A Hula Honeymoon.”
13. Dorothy Devore in “Babies Welcome.”
Gets Realism From Painful Experience
A1 Christie has been making a comedy in which the opening discloses three ex-service men, languishing outside the window of a ham-and-egg emporium, while delicious odors— wafted to the sidewalk — bring torture to their anguished souls.
The three boys, Neal Burns, stout Felix Valle, and the lean and hungry looking George Burton, nearly fainted when the ham and eggs burned to a crisp right before their eyes as a result of the chef’s engaging in animated conversation with a pretty waitress. Their part in the picture is to collapse on the sidewalk when the chef carelessly tosses about two dollars worth of charred delicacies in the scrap can.
“Suffer, boys! Suffer!” shouted Christie through the plate glass. “I don’t believe you fellows ever went hungry.”
And then he recounted the narrative of the ginger snaps. It happened in Wheeling, West Virginia, some years back when A1 Christie and Harry Edwards were stranded with a show. Christie was the capitalist; he had ten cents in cash.
He nonchalantly tossed the coin on a counter, after glimpsing a barrel of crisp looking ginger snaps overturned in the window. “I’ll just take ten cents worth of those snaps” he said, and seizing upon the bag, led the ravenous Edwards to a park bench.
According to the story, Christie and Edwards lived on ginger snaps for three days while beating their way back to their home in Canada.
Al says, “Ginger snaps are wonderfully filling if you drink lots of water. They swell just grand!”
Navy Blues
As a special comedy attraction (with Ruggles of Red Gap) “Navy Blues,” featuring Dorothy Devore, is presented. This comedy selection will make your sides ache from the first scene until the fadeout. — W. J. Minshull in the Portsmouth Star.
Babe London and Jimmie Adams — “Psyche at the Well” in “Done in Oil”
14. Neal Burns in “Hot Water.”
15. Jimmie Adams in “Green as Grass.”
16. Bobby Vernon in “Take Your Choice.”
17. Dorothy Devore in “Winter Has Came.”
18. Jimmie Adams in “Roll Along.”
19. Bobby Vernon in “Plumb Crazy.”
20. Neal Burns in “Back to the Woods.”
Planning Expansion
That the Christie Film Company would branch out with further film activities was announced following the purchase of forty acres for a new studio site at Westwood, which lies between Hollywood and the Ocean at the western edge of Los Angeles. When the new studio is built, the organization will move from its present historic location, which was Hollywood’s first motion picture studio, started by Al Christie in 1911.