Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

36 EXHIBITORS HERALD EDISON-CONQUEST "Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" — (four-reel Edison-Conquest comedydrama, with Joseph Burke and Nellie Grant). — Chris Flagstaff becomes the possessor of a lamp. Accidentally he rubs it with his sleeve and a genii appears. Chris has this genii take the form of himself and do all the things which Chris disliked to do. However, the genii picks up a history and reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and tells Chris that according to that he is no longer a slave. As the genii departs he requests that Chris turn over the lamp. Which he reluctantly does. "Roaring Camp" — (two-reel EdisonConquest drama, with William Wadsworth). — No strangers are allowed in Roaring Camp. Women were not known there until one day the stage coach brings in a half dead halfbreed and a little baby. The mother dies and the little baby girl is left in the care of the rough miners. After a few years the "diggins" begin to peter out and everybody in Roaring Camp is out of luck. One day the miners miss the little girl and search for her. They find her playing with a pretty stone streaked with gold. Further investigation discloses a gold mine and once again luck descends on Rearing Camp. "He Couldn't Get Up in the Morning"— (Split-reel comedy, with Raymond McKee). — Jonah Morpheus can not get up in the morning. He ties a string to his toe and to the bed, but this does not work. The largest alarm clock he could purchase does not arouse Jonah from his slumbers. So he ties a rope to his foot and has a friend pull it in the morning as he passes by. The friend fastened the rope to an express wagon. Jonah is pulled out of his bed and dragged by the wagon, down an embankment. A charge of powder explodes and Jonah is lifted in the air and lands right in his office on time. FOX "The Siren" — June 23 (five-reel Fox drama, with Valeska Suratt). — Vivian Courtney, an adventuress, who changes her name to Cherry Millard, is about to marry Derrick McClade, a young millionaire, from whom she has extracted large sums of money. However, a man known as "The Stranger," who had been sentenced to jail many years before through the intrigue of Cherry, is released, and before he can be stopped, kills the woman who has ruined his life. "His Final Blowout" — June 25 (tworeel Fox comedy, with Hank Mann). — A stranger, who actually is a spy, comes to town and supplants Hank in the affections of a girl. He be comes leader of the Home Guards and a factor in the village life. His real purpose is to blow up the Home Guards, and he is prevented in this by Hank, who has been following him. Hank forces him to leave town and wins his pbice back in the affections of the girl. "Patsy" — July 1 (five-reel Fox drama, with June Caprice). — Patsy Prim is sent to a friend of her father's in' the city so that she might learn the refinements of a city. The friend had died and Patsy is received by his son, a young bachelor. Soon Dick is in love with Patsy, but because of a previous marriage with an adventuress, he cannot marry Patsy. At a house party given by Dick's sister, Dick learns that the adventuress was already married when he married her, so her previous marriage annulling his, the house party is turned into a wedding and Patsy and Dick are married. METRO "Aladdin's Other Lamp" — June 25 (five-reel Rolfe drama, with Viola Dana). — Patsy is the drudge in Mrs. Duff's boarding house for seafaring men. She hears a tale of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, and believing that if she finds such a lamp she will see her mother, she searches the town for it. Mrs. Duff sells, a trunk which had been Patsy's and which contained valuable things which Mrs. Duff never stopped to examine. A lamp of peculiar design is among the trinkets and when Patsy finds it, she purchases it. She falls asleep and dreams that she rubs the lamp and finds herself in a room with beautifully dressed people. She awakens from her dream and decides to throw the lamp away. In falling, some papers fall out, and Patsy learns the address of her mother. A telegram brings the mother to the little girl and at last Patsy finds happiness. "The Trail of the Shadow"— July 2 (five-reel Metro drama, with Emmy Wehlen). — After the death of her father, Sylvia lives alone on the timber claim and sells beadwork to support herself. Henry Hilliard, a young millionaire from the east, purchases some of Sylvia's beadwork and falls in love with her. One night she is attacked in her cabin by Jack Leslie, who demands her hand in marriage. When Hilliard returns to Sylvia she turns away from him, believing that she was unworthy of him. However, at his death, Leslie confesses Sylvia's innocense and she and Hilliard are married. PATHE "The Cigarette Girl"— July 8 (fivereel Astra drama, with Gladys Hulette). — The Cigarette Girl is the favorite of a New York restaurant. Money Meredith, a young millionaire, is struck with the girl's honesty. Mrs. Wilson, a scheming person, is anxious ^o get Meredith's money. His attor