Word: turpin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel Preferred. The presence of Ben Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...
...second of the Union's series of sport motion-pictures will be shown on the screen in the Living Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Besides the tennis reel which will be of the slow-motion type, a Mack Sennett comedy, entitled "The Wild Goose Chase", featuring Ben Turpin, will be shown...
...Dick Turpin. Tom Mix displays his values in the present film with the aid of silk breeches, boots and a feathered hat He plays the famed bandit who robbed to help the poor. Beside robbing, he fights barehanded with the Bristol Bully, makes love, sticks up a bishop. A sense of comedy assists materially. Many critics noted that Tom Mix is acquiring agility, more resilient than that of Douglas Fairbanks...
Three other pictures have been secured: An "Aesop Fable" in animated cartoons; another action picture of "Broncho Busting"; and a Ben Turpin comedy "Three Foolish Wives", a burlesque of Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks". No pictures will be shown until about 8 o'clock, but the returns will start coming in over the special wire at 6 o'clock and will be continued as late as the audience desires. The Crimson Ramblers Orchestra will play during the program, which will be open only to Union members...
...announced by-the Union. The pictures will consist of "Gridiron Glory", a football picture in fast and slow motion; "Taking a Chance", hazardous moments from all forms of sport both in fast and slow motion; "Three Foolish Weeks", a burlesque on Eleanor Glynn's famous story, with Ben Turpin as the fair-haired hero; and an "Aesop Fable", an animated cartoon by Paul Terry...