CHRISTIE COMEDIES 1925 Silent Movie trade journal ad JIMMIE ADAMS 9 X 12

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GREAT IMAGE WITH LIGHT SOILING AND STAPLE HOLES WHERE REMOVED FROM BOOK. SLIGHT RUNS ON THE RED INK USED WITH TWO SHORT TEARS IN RIGHT MARGIN EDGE. REVERSE PAGE IS DATED AUGUST 15, 1925 FROM THE TRADE JOURNAL "MOVING PICTURE WORLD"
TWO SMALL TEARS ON THE RIGHT EDGE (PHOTO 3)
In 1921 Adams starred in two-reel comedies for Educational Pictures and Al Christie. The slightly built, pencil-mustached Adams has been described by historian Kalton C. Lahue as "a poor man's Charley Chase." Like Chase, and unlike the other comics at Educational, Adams favored situation comedy over slapstick.
He briefly replaced Mack Sennett comic Harry McCoy in the cartoon-inspired Hall Room Boys series (produced by Harry Cohn and Jack Cohn, later of Columbia Pictures). By 1924 Adams was back with Educational.
Christie hired Adams for six comedies released in 1926 and 1927. The Christie comedies were more polite and less extreme than the slam-bang comedies of other studios, but Christie's soft-pedal comedy style did find an audience. Star comedians Jimmie Adams, Bobby Vernon, Lige Conley, Neal Burns, and Billy Dooley constituted a lineup that was no threat to Hal Roach, but nevertheless entertained millions with a style than neither Roach or Mack Sennett could or would provide.
I recently purchased a collection of books and other items from the estate of the owner of a former New York City bookstore named Cinemabilia at 10 West 13th St , run by
Ernest D. Burns
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It was located in Greenwich Village in the 1970's and 1980's and, I believe, closed down in the late 1980's. Many of the books I will be listing are "new old stock" in that they were never sold. When his store closed down, he boxed everything up and they have spent the last thirty years boxed and/or bagged. As many were bagged, they will retain the brand new crispness of the jacket and pages, with many of the books clearly having never been opened until I did so to inspect and photograph them for purposes of identification. Those that were not bagged may have dusty edges or toning to the edges of the jackets and pages. If that is the case, I will describe them as such. Most of the new books that I have were printed in the 1970's and 1980's and
I will also be listing many used books as this was also a used bookstore. I also have a bunch of signed books
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