Walt Strony accompanies not one but two classic silent shorts. In Laurel & Hardy’s Big Business (1929, 19 minutes), our bumbling heroes try to sell Christmas trees door-to-door in sunny California — and destroy a house in the process. The film was chosen for the National Film Registry in 1992. In Charley Chase’s Crazy Like a Fox (1926, 25 minutes), the rubbery comedian is smitten with a young beauty already promised to another by her father. There’s a twist. Leo McCarey supervised Big Business and directed Crazy Like a Fox. Note: Crazy Like a Fox features a white actor in black face. If you like the way Walt works his magic on the Plaza Theatre’s original Wyler Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, come back at 3:30 pm Sunday, July 20 as he accompanies Harold Lloyd’s most popular comedy, The Freshman, which turns 100 years old this year. — Doug Pullen
