Some Nephew: A Laugh Movie in Six Reels

by C.S. Montanye

Humorous movie industry themed novel of "Robin, who came out of the West to visit his uncle, a movie magnate. Picture Charlie Chaplin in a veritable blizzard of custard pies, or Marie Dressler doing a toboggan slide down the Woolworth Building, or all of your pet laugh-makers of the movies in an all-star performance - then bring on a boy who makes the famous offspring of a gentleman named Pick blush with chagrin at the things he forgot to do".

The novel is set in New York, as the film industry had not yet moved west to Hollywood.


Excerpt from Some Nephew: A Laugh Movie in Six Reels
When I come in for breakfast the other morning I found friend wife in a state of agitation - also negligee. The kimono end of it was nothin' unusual, but to find her excited so early in the day was surprisin'.
"What's up, besides the shades?" I asks, droppin' into one of the real leather-seated chairs some salesman had bunked Gracie and me into buyin'. "What's on your mind besides your curl-papers?"
As I asks her the question, I get a peek at a letter lyin' beside her coffee-cup, and it don't take no Shylock Holmes to understan' pale-blue stationery, strugglin' for air under one of these here crests, had somethin' to do with the funny noises Gracie was makin'.

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1920