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140 Class 8 — Dramas
REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER
8076 Code SANER Daddies Warner Bros.
Featuring Mae Marsh, Claude Gillingzvater, Harry Myers, Craufurd Kent and ll'illard Louis
Reproduced for the screen from David Belasco's great stage success of the same. title. A Bachelor's Club has been sadly depleted by the inroads of matrimony, despite the fact that each backsliding member is compelled to forfeit a check for $5,000.00 upon changing his condition from a bachelor to benedict.
One of the members is late at the meeting and announces dolefully that he has agreed to adopt a war orphan, left behind by a former classmate and pal who fell in action. His example is emulated by the others who decide to each adopt an orphan — some with great misgivings.
There is a great deal of quiet humor in the dialogue preceding the actual selection of children to be adopted Later, when the orphans arrive, there are some amusing complications and the fun soon grows fast and furious. The old grouch insists upon adopting a boy and gets a girl instead. The most benevolent of the Daddies finds that he has adopted triplets. The hero adopts, as he supposes, a little girl of six, but finds that she is eighteen. The efforts of the amateur daddies to care for this young orphan asylum produces a condition of hilarity approaching hysteria.
The gradual evolution of the amateur daddies to professional ones is a delightful story. This picture will be enjoyed by everyone between the ages of six and sixty, whether they are or ever expect to be Daddies or Mothers, 4865 feet standard length — on 5 reels Rental $7.50
8077 Code SANIR Conductor 1492 Warner Bros.
Featuring Johnny Hines and Doris May
A comedy drama of unusual humor and charm.
Terrence O'Toole is a young Irishman who decides to seek his fortunes in America whence his father had returned after a brief sojourn in the United States some years before. Some very amusing native Irish scenes occur in the beginning on the subject. Later Terry is seen in the capacity of a motorman in a small American city. The president and vice-president of the trolley company are each owners of forty-nine shares of the stock and the balance of control is vested in two other shares belonging to a Mr Rosenthal, who has disappeared. Terry falls in love with the President's daughter (Doris May) and his suit is advanced by his rescue of her kid brother who is racing the trolley car in a diminutive, but perfect automobile.
Terry lives at a boarding house with forty-seven roomers and two baths, requiring tickets for Saturday night ablutions. The tricks employed by the boarders to beat their regular turns are uproariously funny.
Terry's father joins him and contributes very ably to the humor of the story as it expands. One of the funniest specialties in this or any other comedy is a masquerade roller skating carnival in which Terry plays the front legs and an inebriated friend the rear legs of a camel. The screamingly funny antics of this camel in the Camel Walk and other dances on roller skates convulse every audience.
Near the end of the story the ownership of the missing certificates is divulged in a dramatic manner and their prospective loss is narrowly averted in a thrilling
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