The Show
About The Show
Larry Semon is a stagehand and also turns up in the audience. He steals a bouquet meant for the star and hands it to a chorus girl, not knowing a cat has spilled ink on the flowers. He switches on the wind machine at the wrong time and fills the stage and the house with black powder. He tries to save the star's jewels, is knocked out, dreams a wild chase to get them back, and wakes up.
Cast & crew
More about The Show
Larry Semon and Norman Taurog wrote and directed. Semon and Albert E. Smith produced it, and Vitagraph released the 20-minute short on March 19, 1922. Exhibitors Herald described the action in its issue of March 11, 1922.
Themes
Look
Hans F. Koenekamp photographed the backstage short for Vitagraph.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, is the stage manager and also an audience member.
- Lucille Carlisle is the leading lady. Frank Alexander is a ballet dancer. Betty Young is a dancer. Alice Davenport is in the audience.
- Al Thompson plays a man who smuggles his family into the show. Frank J. Coleman is an audience member, a woman with a hat, and a cop. Jack Miller Jr. is the villain.
Scenes
- A cat tips ink onto the bouquet Semon steals for a chorus girl.
- The wind machine blows black powder over the stage and the house.
- Knocked out while chasing the star's jewels, he dreams the recovery and then wakes.
Also available
- Internet Archive (The_Show1922)
- Wikimedia Commons (The Show (1922).webm)
