“Shorty” Hamilton — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸

“Shorty” Hamilton is a great popular hero these days. The fact that the character he plays is liberally spiced with fun endears him all the more to lovers of first-class comedy.

The unusual photograph of the Kay Bee, Broncho and Domino star appearing on this page, is one of those satisfactory impromptu snap-shots which are real portraits. The camera has caught the characteristic, quizzical expression of the actor.

About to dismount from his broncho, his attention is riveted upon a bunch of cow-punchers galloping over the Santa Monica domain. The costume and trappings of the horse are no “fake” productions of the property man, for “Shorty” — on the screen or off — is the real thing. Though he stands a full foot below his pals in stature, he is more than a match for them in all sorts of stunts.

Every fresh release of “The Adventures of Shorty” is funnier than the last, and the latest plot always is teeming with original situations. The hero disentangles himself from seemingly impossible complications, saves everybody else involved, and wins the laugh, where also he has the heartiest sympathy of his admirers. He is a regular Don Quixote of the motion picture screen.

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“Shorty” Hamilton is the real thing on the stage or off

Collection: Reel Life Magazine, October 1914

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