In Search Of The Sons Of Barnum

Oh happy day, I have found Cy Slocum’s original press book in the biography section of the Academy of Motion Picture library. It’s true he was represented by the mighty press man Wilton Locknaye.

How thrilling to discover that the revolver used in the gunfight scene in ‘Dream of a Rarebit Fiend’ was loaded with live ammunition. I can reveal that the arrest after filming was not a scam! The real spin was his re-launch two years later in Gilbert M. ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson’s “On El Monte Ranch”