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Okay Gang, here’s a contest for you:

Here is a candid still of a crowd scene, can you identify the comedy it comes from, and how many of the people in it:

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We know the answer, but whomever gets it first online here will be the Official Cool Silent Comedy Mafian for the week.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

Looks like the upper peanut gallery from Chaplin's A NIGHT IN THE SHOW ('15). I spotted John Rand, Leo White (in blackface), Frank J. Coleman, James T. Kelly, Paddy McGuire, Harry DeRoy, Dan Albert, and Dee Lampton (in drag), but I don't see Mr. Rowdy.

And Steve wins the Kewpie Doll! And the brass plaque declaring him COOLEST MAFIAN OF THE WEEK!

Except Dee Lampton's not in drag, he's sitting in his costume as the kid on the left in the second to top row. Which begs the question, who is the fat lady? And you missed the fellow sitting between Coleman and McGuire!

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Steve Massa wrote:Looks like the upper peanut gallery from Chaplin's A NIGHT IN THE SHOW ('15). I spotted John Rand, Leo White (in blackface), Frank J. Coleman, James T. Kelly, Paddy McGuire, Harry DeRoy, Dan Albert, and Dee Lampton (in drag), but I don't see Mr. Rowdy.

Oh yeah, Mr. Bud Jamison sitting between Coleman and McGuire. This is a wonderful shot Richard - where'd it turn up?

Steve Massa wrote:Oh yeah, Mr. Bud Jamison sitting between Coleman and McGuire. This is a wonderful shot Richard - where'd it turn up?

I think that's Lawrence A. Bowes next to Leo White. The fat lady might be May White.

Phil Posner wrote:

Steve Massa wrote:Oh yeah, Mr. Bud Jamison sitting between Coleman and McGuire. This is a wonderful shot Richard - where'd it turn up?

I think that's Lawrence A. Bowes next to Leo White. The fat lady might be May White.

I was wrong there - it's John Rand, now that I look more closely. It might be Bowes in the second row, extreme left.

And of course, there's John Wayne sitting right behind Lloyd Hamilton.

At last, confirmation that Chaplin taught Wayne his walk.

Harry Langdon's widow Mabel actually knew Duke Morrison back in the twenties, they both attended the same cotillion dance parties. If the John Wayne loonies knew that in advance, I'm sure they would've come up with another doozy of a story.