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July 4, 1925
Page 31
DRUSILLA WITH
$1,000,000
FOR EXHIBITORS
TRULY, a million dollars' worth of showmanship material is contained in this big F. B. O. special. It is well called a "Gold Bond" photodrama, for to show it is equivalent to putting more money in the bank.
The picture itself might have been titled "Drusilla With a Million Heart Throbs," for it is the type of production that reaches deep into the soul. It is a wonderful combination of sunshine and shadow. It brings a smile to your lips even while your eyes are moist with tears. It is the sort of entertainment everybody loves, and will pay well for at your ticket booth.
Consider the story which has been filmed from Elizabeth Cooper's widely read novel. In the first place, picture Marv Carr, filmdom's finest "mother," in the pathetic role of a charity inmate of an old
One of several "Drusilla With a Million" stills for use in window displays for the F. B. O. picture. A catch line "fresh as a daisy" will tie-up with Vivi face powder, and local tie-ups may be made with any "Daisy" brand product.
ladies' home. Then imagine stalwart Kenneth Harlan, as the lovable waster who makes good with a vengeance when it becomes necessary for him to do so. Think of Priscilla Bonner, with all her innocent wistfulness, playing the part of the girl-wife whose ordeals will bring a pang of pain to a heart of granite.
BRIEFLY, this is the action. Collin Arnold is disinherited by his irate father. In speeding away from home, he wrecks his racer and himself. Sally May Ferris, an orphan slavey in the home of a hatchet-faced spinster, finds him by the roadside, and in her mistress's absence cares for him. Propinquity begets love, and they marry.
The boy secures work in a garage, and all goes right merrily until Collin's former fiancee persuades the unsophisticated Sally that she must leave her husband for his own benefit. The scene that will be long remembered.
Meantime, Collin's father has died, and his immense fortune goes to a distant relative — none other than Drusilla.
HERE is delightful comedy. The erstwhile ward of charity is ensconced in the stately residence that should have been Collin's home. Her introduction is full of humor. She shakes hands with the butler and other menials much to their disgust.
But the little old lady soon gains the poise and confidence that come with wealth, and blossoms forth into a rarely beautiful woman whose lovely face reflects her saintliness of soul.
Then one day an abandoned child is found upon her doorstep. It is welcomed with an open heart. Thereafter these poor, unwanted babies arrive thick and fast. Soon her mansion is a veritable orphanage. And Drusilla loves them every one.
In order to break the will that has given Drusilla her million, and place Collin in possession of his heritage, a rascally lawyer arranges that the house be guarded, and that the next mother to leave her waif to partake of Drusilla's bounty be turned over to the grim justice of the law. (Continued on Page 42)