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CLASS 8— Dramas 192
REEL NO.
8150 Code SEKA The Grand Duchess and the Paramount
Waiter
Featuring Florence Vidor and Adolphe Menjou
Florence Vidor, a Grand Duchess, has been forced to flee to Paris with a vestige of her court, following the rise of revolutionists in her home country.
Attending a theatre one evening, she is seen by Adolphe Menjou, a millionaire Beau Brummel, who immediately becomes infatuated with her. When his attempts to meet her are coldly ignored, he engages a suite of rooms directly below those she occupies at a prominent hotel, and bribes an old waiter to allow him to act as a floor-waiter in her suite. In his efforts as waiter, however, he fails miserably and ends by spilling a pitcher of cream over her.
Angered by his clumsiness, the Duchess determines to punish him, first making him a member of her personal staff, then proceeding to make his life miserable by loading him with every unpleasant task from washing her dog to shining her shoes.
One evening, unable to sleep, she orders some champagne. Menjou brings a bottle and two glasses. The Duchess demands an explanation and Menjou discloses his love for her. Although the idea of falling in love with a servant is unthinkable to the Duchess, Menjou's love-making finally sweeps away all barriers, and he takes her into his arms — just as the court members enter the room! The Duchess, though realizing she is in love with the waiter, is forced to repulse him out of mortified pride.
The humorous and exciting events that bring the story to a stirring climax and eventually lead to a happy ending, furnish delightful entertainment.
As the wealthy boulevardier, who masquerades as a waiter, Menjou is his own suave, sophisticated self. It is for him a perfect role and he plays it with the smoothness and the subtlety that stamps the finished actor. 4961 feet standard length — on 5 reels Rental $6.25
8151 Code SEKE Behind the Front Paramount
Featuring Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton and Mary Brian Mary Brian gets Detective Riff Swonson and Shorty McGee, a burglar, to enlist in the army during the hectic days of 1917. And she does it by vamping each of them, unknown to the other, just in order to fill a quota of 25 men. For her father has promised her that if she enlists 25 men, she can go to France as a war worker.
Beery and Hatton, enemies in civil life, are buddies in the great A. E. F. in France. They are in a company commanded by Mary's brother. Each secretly believes himself engaged to Mary.
Of course it doesn't take very long for them to get thrown into the guardhouse. Each appeals to Mary's brother on the ground that he's a prospective brother-in-law. The captain goes right to Mary and tells her to set them right. But meanwhile Hatton's old profession comes in handy. He picks the lock, they outwit the M. P.'s and take refuge in a French wine shop, presided over by a pretty barmaid. When they stagger out, they seek a convenient place to sleep — and find it is an army provision truck.
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