Shorty Turns Actor

1915

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Shorty has been taking a correspondence course in acting from a couple of crooks in Kansas City. They announce that he will shortly be featured in the great Roman spectacle, "The Gladiator's... Read allShorty has been taking a correspondence course in acting from a couple of crooks in Kansas City. They announce that he will shortly be featured in the great Roman spectacle, "The Gladiator's Triumph" and enclose Shorty his part. Shorty retires to the barn and there rehearses his ... Read allShorty has been taking a correspondence course in acting from a couple of crooks in Kansas City. They announce that he will shortly be featured in the great Roman spectacle, "The Gladiator's Triumph" and enclose Shorty his part. Shorty retires to the barn and there rehearses his part. He is stabbing wildly at the air and speaking of his hidden crimes when the cook dis... Read all

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Shorty Hamilton

Shorty

Jay Hunt

Ketchum

Cyril Gardner

Skinnem
(as Cyril Gottlieb)

Gordon Mullen

Sheriff Hammer

Director
- Jay Hunt
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- William H. Clifford
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deickemeyer

The burlesque is tremendously pleasing

A two-reel number featuring Jack Hamilton in his familiar character of Shorty. He takes a correspondence course in acting and goes to a distant town to appear as a Roman gladiator. The burlesque is tremendously pleasing. While the play is on the rascally managers steal the money in the general store and hide it in Shorty's suitcase. When Shorty and his actor friends are run out ot the theater, accompanied by a shower of bad eggs, he takes the suitcase with him. He discovers the money on his way home and exhibits it to his cowboy friends as his earnings. This is full of ginger and laughable throughout. - The Moving Picture World, April 17, 1915