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As stars and other notables of yesterday mingled with today's great to help Irving Cummings celebrate his 30th year in the motion picture industry at a dinner in honor of the director at 20th Century-Fox where he is now under contract.
From the upper left: Francis Powers, Cummings, Don Ameche, Alice Faye, Buster Keaton, Rosemary Thebe, Stuart Holms and Chester Conklin. In the right foreground are Director Mal St. Clair and Ben Turpin.
#MovieMonday Buster Keaton never trained harder than he did for “Battling Butler,” 1926. A case of mistaken identity that ends up in the boxing ring & resolved outside of it - the movie was a knock-out hit ;)
It took three umpires to handle the situation when Buster Keaton's indoor team christened the new ball grounds at Standard Film Laboratories, Hollywood. The lugubrious comedian plays there every Sunday morning. He is insisting here that a hit into the crowd only counts for two bases. The "crowd"-two, count 'em--is in the background. The others, left to right, are John M. Nickolaus of the laboratories organization, and Lou Anger, general manager of Keaton comedies, and Joe Roberts.
"Boys, your program ran two minutes overtime," admonishes J. Walter Thompson. And Rudy Vallee and Buster Keaton promise not to let it happen again. Buster looks sufficiently penitent, doesn't he?
Guerriero [Doughboys] is distributed in Italy with sound, without dialogue, but with synchronized captions and effects. Passed to the censors on September 30, 1931 with the title The Warrior. [x]