Universal Weekly (1924-1936)

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40 Universal Wkekly Vol. 24, No. 11 A PAQE OF SYNOPSES "THE RADIO DETECTIVE" Ten-Episode Adventure Picture Starring JACK DAUGHERTY No. 8— "The Truth Teller" RAE VARIO, disguised as a scrub woman, is suspected by Craig Kennedy iwho is experimenting with the only piece of Evansite in existence. She beckons to the henchmen, hiding in the garden. They attack and overcome Kennedy, escaping with the Evansite, which Vario recognizes at once as a piece of glass. Thus tricked by Kennedy's wit, Vario announces his intention of preventing Easton from filing his claim. Disguised as a man, Rae gets in to see Kennedy, who brings her under the influence of a scientific machine which he calls "The Truth Teller," She is compelled to confess everything before the henchmen come to her rescue and escape with her. Kennedy sends Easton a warning message. Easton and the old miner work on the proof of the claim in their tent. Vario, sneaking up, hears them talking and orders his men to attack. Easton beats the bullies off and then looks around for Ruth, who has run into the old mine shaft for safety. She clim.bs in an ore bucket, the holding cable gives way and she is carried to the middle of the canyon on a suspended cable. Easton goes to her rescue, hand-over-hand. The cable breaks and both fall. "SEPARATED SWEETHEARTS" One-Reel Blue Bird Comedy Starring ARTHUR LAKE ARTHUR is crazy about Dorothy. He reads of an abduction case in the daily paper and, fearing for the safety of his sweetheart, calls her on the telephone. While she is reassuring him her kid brother brings in a white mouse. She shrieks "Help! Help!" Arthur, visualizing kidnappers, drops the phone, rushes to her house while Dorothy overturns furniture and throws pillows at her little brother who keeps after her with the terrible mouse. Then she goes out for a walk just as breathless Arthur and her father and mother meet in front of the house. He tells them of the kidnapping. The appearance of the room verifies the fear. They call the police and offer a thousand dollars for her safe return. Dorothy goes riding with a young sheik. She is lifted from the car by a pair of detectives, who start for home with the struggling girl. Arthur sees the battling trio and follows them down a hill in a kid's wagon, scooping her up from between the two detectives whom he believes to be her abductors and returning her safely home. Her grateful pa offers him the thousand but Arthur says he wants only the girl, which seems to be 0. K. all around. "HONEYMOONING WITH MA" Two-Reel Stern Brothers Comedy FeatiL7-ing CHARLES KING CHARLIE'S mother-in-law arrives during his house warming party and announces that she has come to stay. Charlie, in a huff, takes the parrot's cage and throws it roughly in a corner. The bird swears vengeance, and later tells the motherin-law that her daughter's husband has said nasty things about her. She takes him into a vacant room and begins to manhandle him. When guests pass through she pretends to be teaching him new steps; when they pass out she throws him up against the wall. The next morning they take a ride in the country, taking along camping equipment. There is an accident to the car in which the mother-in-law is hurled down an embankment. Charlie is beginning to break even. They set up the tent and there is a violent windstorm that bothers the tender mother. A homed toad gets down her back and causes havoc. She rushes from the tent wriggling, the others following. The tent blows away, but they finally retrieve it, packing the kit in a canoe, from which she sights game. Firing at a duck, she upsets the canoe and the family party ends in a swim. "THE OPTIMIST" One-Reel Blue-Bird Comedy Starring CHARLES PUFFY THE bride is kept waiting for the fourth time and Billy proposes that she throw over the big stiff and marry a regular guy; meaning himself. This she agrees to do if Puffy does not show up for the wedding by two o'clock. The fat bridegroom is ambling along serenely unconscious of time. Suddenly realizing that he is late for his wedding, he hales a taxi but is crowded out. He is picked up by Billy in his flivver. Billy stalls the flivver on purpose and leaves Puffy tinkering under the car while he goes for a mechanic, but instead of calling a mechanic he runs to the bride's home. Puffy reaches there in a borroAved car, just too late. He smilingly hands the wedding ring to his rival "THE ESCAPE" Blue Streak Western Stwi-ring PETE MORRISON Directed by Milburn Slorante. Story by L,. V. Jefferson. CAST: Johnny Bowers Pete Morrison Evelyn Grant Barbara Starr Jeremiah Grant Franlt Norcross Howard Breen Bruce Gordon Wingro Wade E. 8. Dewey (Footage: 4283.) JOHNNY BOWERS of the Rockin' P Ranch, rides out to a railroad siding to be the first to greet Evelyn Grant, daughter of the owner of the ranch and the town banker. She is arriving from an Eastern college. He interrupts a gang of train robbers headed by Wingo Wade who flee when they see him coming. Later Wingo and Howard Breen, who has his marital eye on Evelyn and who admits to Wingo that he is $5000 short in his account at the bank, plot to waylay and rob a stage that is bringing a consignment of money to the bank. Fearing Johnny Bowers, Breen accuses him of highway robbery and has him and his two companions jailed. Johnny hears Wingo and Breen talking about the forthcoming coupe under the jail window. Johnny and his pals trick the constable and tie him up, taking his badge. They ride out and rob the stage, deliver the money to the bank and then go back to jail, where they hold the constable under threat of a hidden six shooter so that he acts as if nothing had happened when the sheriff returns. Wingo's gang, made desperate by their failure to waylay the stage, enter the jail, handcuff the sheriff to the bars and then go to the bank •where they demand the money that has just been delivered. The bandits escape with the money, pursued by Johnny and his pals, who set the sheriff free on their way out of jail. The bandits are all rounded up by the posse except Breen, who is overtaken by Johnny. They engage in a finish fight and Breen' falls to his death, leaving nobody but Johnny Bowers to marry Evelyn. and agrees to act as best man. They drive in the borrowed car to the minister's home. The brakes go wrong and they drive through the walls of the house into the minister's study, wrecking the car, which Billy thinks is his own, and also demolishing the house. The owner of the stolen car comes with a cop and arrests Billy, who loudly owns up to being the flivver's papa. As he is dragged off to jail Puffy takes the wedding ring away from him and marries the girl.