Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library 16mm Motion Pictures: Sixth Edition (1936)

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CLASS 8— Dramas 181 8143 Code SEGO The King on Main Street Paramount Featuring Adolphe Menjou, Bessie Love, Greta Nissen, Joseph Kilgour and Mario Majeroni Adolphe Menjou is a bored king. His ministers advise him a large loan is necessary to save the country. There are only two ways of getting it, either through an alliance with the House of Slavonia, or through a lease of oil lands to American capitalists. The king decides to try America. At the king's hotel in New York, while Arthur Trent and his fellow financiers are waiting for the king to arise so they can discuss the proposed oil lease, he slips out to Times Square, sees a sightseeing bus marked "Coney Island" and boards it. By a strange coincidence, at Coney Island, the king meets again Gladys Humphreys, an American girl he had previously met in Paris, and is introduced to her friend, John Rockland. John invites him to visit him at his home in Little Falls and the king accepts. Later at the hotel, the king orders his secretary to make the arrangements and the secretary phones John the names of the king's retinue. John is amazed, but decides to put on a big reception. He turns out the local Boy Scouts, the girls from Aunt Tabitha's school, the Mayor — in fact all the local citizens of prominence including the undertaker. It is a gala occasion. Gladys is there, but Trent also shows up to negotiate the oil lease and interrupts the king's efforts to be alone with her. He makes her promise to meet him on a second story balcony. She does, but Trent discovers them and they are locked out. Here the king ceases to be a king, and becomes only an earnest young man romantically in love. He shields Gladys from the night air with his dress coat. When the door is opened next morning he protects her reputation by signing Trent's lease as the price of Trent's silence. Then he bids the girl farewell with deep emotion after telling her he must go on "Kinging." It's a perfect role for Menjou. He has the temperament, the air of blase sophistication, the finished type of acting necessary for it. It is one of his greatest efforts. 1885 feet— on 5 reels Rental $5.00 8145 Code SEGAR The Spanish Dancer Paramount Featuring Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Adolphe Menjou and Wallace Beery Maritana, a beautiful Spanish gypsy dancing girl, goes in search of Don Cesar de Bazan of whose prodigality she has heard much. She finds him at a banquet given by him to his friends and tells his fortune, which she predicts is one of evil. Don Cesar distributes money among gypsies, one of whom steals his purse. When Maritana hears of this she battles with the thief, is badly wounded, but forcing the purse from him restores it to Don Cesar. The latter's creditors swoop down upon him and he flees. The King's soldiers capture Maritana and in rescuing her, Don Cesar kills a captain, for which offense he is sentenced to death. Through the aid of a wily courtier, Don Cesar and Maritana are married en masque, the design being to have Don Cesar shot and his bride carried to the King who is enamored of her. Don Cesar is providentially saved by one of Maritana's supporters who substitutes bread pellets for the bullets in the guns of the firing squad. Select plenty of alternates