Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (1926)

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138 Class 8 — Dramas KEEL NO. TJTLE PKODUCEK But Sally has many friends, among them, Rifdolph Van Alten, a young man of shady reputation who makes his living by secretly conducting the Blue Boar Tavern. Judge Whipple does not approve of Rudolph or of several of Sally's other friends, and he and his close friend Colonel Crosby have many discussions in which the Judge expresses his belief that the average woman of today has descended far from the ideals of her mother and grandmother. Rudolph persuades Sally to accompany him to the Blue Boar Inn where he tries to force her to marry him by showing her some papers which involve her mother in what Rudolph believes to have been a dishonorable act which he and she both know will deeply grieve her father. To save her father Sally consents, and when Jimmy suddenly appears she tells him she is going to marry Rudolph, and Jimmy leaves in disappointment. Just then, however, the Tavern is raided by the police and Jimmy with the Judge and Colonel Crosby go to rescue Sally. Rudolph seeing the Judge, shows him the supposedly incriminating papers and brazenly demands his protection upon threat of making them public, but the Judge quickly shows him that the papers are harmless, and Rudolph's hoped-for protection falls flat. Hurrying back into the hotel he is confronted by an angry, jealous woman with whom he had pretended to be in love, and who upon being repulsed shoots and kills him. Meanwhile, the three rescuers succeed in reaching Sally who, the Judge now realizes, had been ready to sacrifice herself in order to save him. His faith in the modern woman completely restored, the judge decides that the average woman is finer than she ever was and Jimmy loses no time telHng Sally his strong convictions about the particular "average woman," who happens to be in his arms at that moment. Strong cast, good direction, real acting, good plot and fine photography. Isn't that enough? 4712 feet standard length — on 5 reels Rental $7.50 8073 Code SANO The Legend of Mah Jong Independent An interesting explanation of the origin of the popular Chinese Game. Five friends help the noble W'ah Chang keep rendezvous with the Chinese Princess. He is beneath her in rank, however, and obliged to flee for his life as he incurs the enmity of the Governor. He devises the game as a code, and in it his friends become the four winds, his enemy the red dragon, the pure white tile is the Princess, a bamboo means a day's journey into the forest, etc. The Governor tries to win the Princess, but she loves Wah Chang, and says that she will marry only a man who can play the game of Mah Jong with her. The Governor offers a reward to such a man, knowing that Wah Chang will try to win her and thus fall into his hands, but Wah Chang following the advice of his friends decides to teach the game to all of China, so that many can compete against the Governor. Many competitors appear, but the Governor ignores them all and captures Wah Chang. Just then the Princess also arrives and intercedes for Wah Chang, but the Governor ordered him killed, and would have put the order into efTect had not the Prime Minister also come to the contest. The Princess appealed to him, declaring Wah Chang To secure subjects of your own choice