A Near Max?

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A Near Max?

Postby Steve Massa » Sat Jan 30, 2016 11:28 am

Recently, while researching the silent character actress May Foster I came across an interesting bit of Max Davidson info. This is an announcement from A. H. Giebler's News of Los Angeles and Vicinity column from the February 15, 1919 Moving Picture World (pg. 881):

"SULLIVAN PRODUCTIONS
The Sullivan Productions Corporation, of which Charles E. Sullivan is president, Max Davidson, vice-president, and Charles P. McHugh is secretary and treasurer, has begun production of two-reel comedies featuring Max Davidson, late of the Griffith studios. Specialty will be made of Hebrew characterizations and of Irish stories in the comedies, which will be called "Max's Adventures."

In support of Davidson will be players such as Jack McCready, May Foster, Irene Darville and Bobby Feuror. Troy Brown, formerly with William Fox and the Larry Semon companies, will turn the camera crank, and the scenario department will be in charge of Ed Durling."

Charles E. Sullivan later became a big wig at FBO and RKO, E.V. Durling wrote a lot of Mickey McGuire and Toot and Casper scripts for Larry Darmour, and supporting player Bobby Feuror (usually Fueher) had been Universal Ike Jr., worked with Davidson in earlier Komic and Bill the Office Boy comedies, and in the 1920s changed his name to Bobby Ray.

Haven't found any other items related to this or anything that supports that films were actually released, so this looks like it was just an intriguing Max possibility.

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