Mes p'tits
French postcard. Cinématographes Méric. Mario Guaita aka Ausonia performs under his stage name as strongman at the booth of the widow of Paul Mons, on a French fairground in the countryside. Note that the posters may well have been from Ausonia's former own stage career, in which he was also subtitled "l'Athlète mondain". Scene from Mes p'tits aka Le Calvaire d'une saltimbanque (1923) by Paul Barlatier and Charles Keppens.
Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s, he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema.
Mes p'tits
French postcard. Cinématographes Méric. Mario Guaita aka Ausonia performs under his stage name as strongman at the booth of the widow of Paul Mons, on a French fairground in the countryside. Note that the posters may well have been from Ausonia's former own stage career, in which he was also subtitled "l'Athlète mondain". Scene from Mes p'tits aka Le Calvaire d'une saltimbanque (1923) by Paul Barlatier and Charles Keppens.
Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s, he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema.