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CLASS 6— Comedies and Juvenile 67
COURTESY TITLE REEL NO.
Courtesy of B. B. NICHOLS, INC. 3558-2
WINTER HAS CAME
A Christie Comedy featuring Dorothy Devore. Preparations are being made for welcoming home Mary, who has been away from the farm for four years. Her childhood sweetheart, Joshua, drives his sleigh to the depot to meet her. Victor Rodman, the banker's son, has the same idea. Victor meets Mary as she gets off the train on the side away from the depot and tells her that he alone has come to meet her. As they are driving ofif, the train pulls out and Mary sees Joshua. She elects to let Joshua drive her home, leaving Victor to bring her trunk. Mary learns that the farm has been mortgaged to give her an education and that the squire is coming to foreclose. Part of the money was invested by Mary in bonds and she decides to drive to the bank to raise money on her securities.
Mary tells Joshua to detain the Sheriff and the Squire, while she goes for the money. Joshua ties the Sheriff's cutter to a post and when the officer tries to leave with the cutter, the horse runs away. While the Squire is away from his rig, Joshua unhitches the mare and puts in its place a wooden horse from a harness shop. A blizzard starts. In the driving snow storm the Squire does not notice the substitution. He thinks his horse is frozen stiff. Follow then several tense, exciting scenes with the various people in the cast battling the perilous blizzard. Sleighs overturn and horses get stuck in the drifted snow. Mary gets back with money to pay the mortgage. The old homestead is saved and the lovers are united. An excellent comedy-melodrama.
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Courtesy of CHANSLOR-LYON STORES, INC. 3559-2
DONE IN OIL
A Christie Comedy featuring Jimmie Adams. As a stock salesman Jimmy is so optimistic that he tries to sell oil stock to drillers. They throw him out. Subsequently he meets Mary, who is running a cheap restaurant. She formerly owned an oil well, but two crooks cheated her out of it. Jimmie promises to help her get the well back. He gets a telescope about the same size as the pump shaft of the well and rigs it up so that it looks as if the pump is working, although the flow of oil is shut off. The crooks think the well ha^ gone dry, 1iut disco\"er the hoax when the telescope comes apart.
Next Jimmie runs a water hose up to the pipe at the tank. He gets Babe London, the cook, to work the pump. One of the crooks, who is sweet on Babe, offers to work the pump lor her. The other swindler sees the water flowing into the tank and thinks the well has started pumping water. He offers to sell the well back to Mary, who accepts. After he has delivered the deed to her, he discovers the trick and tries to get the deed back. Jimmie grabs a blank piece of paper, saying, "Here's the deed. Come and get it." They chase him all over the oil field. He climbs to the top of an oil derrick and almost falls off when a swarm of
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