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COPYRIGHT, ESSANAY
RUTH STONEHOUSE AS PRINCESS KALORA “IN THE SLIM PRINCES’’
“The Slim Princess”
one OF the comedy hits of the month was “The Slim Prin¬ cess,” by George Ade, produced by the Essanay Com¬ panies and shown at a private press rehearsal at their studios in May, when released.
“The Slim Princess” is even more of a scream on the screens than it was in either book or play. Ruth Stonehouse plays the Princess Kalora, the Slim Princess, and Francis X. Bushman stars as Alexander Pike, King of the Penna. Million¬ aire Octopuses, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order of Elks, Knight Templar, King of the HooHoo’s and a few other titles, all of which he proves to the Governor of Morovenia, Turkey, by means of lodge pins, watch charms and other insignia.
Alexander, longing for new fields to conquer and willing to give the Federal Grand Jury a chance to forget him for a time, takes a trip to Morovenia, where the ruling governor is desper¬ ate because his oldest daughter, Kalora, refuses to get fat enough to conform to the Turkish idea of beauty and so be safely married off. The law forbids her younger and fatter sis¬ ter to marry first. Popova, the tutor, has a secret grudge against the governor and encourages the Slim Princess privately to devour pickles and so preserve her slim outlines.
Pike drops in for an informal call on the Slim Princess one afternoon by way of the back wall of the garden. The Princess is delighted to find that slimness is an added charm in America. He proves it to her by a magazine and introduces himself in the same number. He is discovered by the guards and flees after sending the black ones to the mat as fast as they come up.
The Slim Princess is sent to America to be fed on a fatten¬ ing breakfast food guaranteed to put fat on any bones. She en¬ joys America so much and a renewal of her acquaintance with Alexander Pike that she becomes still slimmer, essaying to con¬ form to the lines of the American girls. Her father discovers this through the reports of the Turkish legation, and she and Popova are recalled in disgrace and the tutor sent to prison.
COPYRIGHT, ESSANAY
ALEXANDER PIKE, THE AMERICAN MAGNATE, DROPS IN TO CALL ON “THE SLIM PRINCESS”