Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

SYNOPSES OF CURRENT PUBLICATIONS MUTUAL "Tom, Dick and Harry" — November 27 (one-reel Strand comedy with Jay Belasco). — Tom, Dick and Harry are in love with Mary and when Harry brings candy Tom coats it with glue; when Tom brings flowers, Dick substitutes vines. Harry writes a note supposedly to come from Mary arranging a meeting in the grove. Tom and Dick arrive in the grove and Tom mistaking Dick for Harry deluges him with ink. In the midst of a mixup Harry and Mary arI rive and tell the boys they have just been married. "A Fight for a Million" — November 26 (Episode 11 "The Lost Express" Signal serial with Helen Holmes). — General Thurston recovers from his illness and sends a telegram to Helen telling her of his proposed visit to the mine. Pitts receives the telegram and withholds it. . In the guise of bookkeeper Helen learns of the stolen telegram and the syndicate's plans to loot the mine before the arrival of her father. She and her friends arrive at the mine and by engaging in a pitched battle the enemy is routed but manages to escape. "Jerry and the Burglars" — November 29 (one-reel Cub comedy with George Ovey). — Jerry, escaping from the police, falls in with two crooks who invite him to join them in robbing one of the fashionable homes. Jerry accompanies them and when the vault is opened locks one of the crooks in it and holds the other until the arrival of the police. His reward is the hand of the millionaire's daughter and a large sum of money. Gl custody of the child, but he returns to find them gone. Years later a young man, dressed in Eastern cowboy clothes, comes to the town and shoots at Pedro, the sheriff. Summers follows the boy and brings him back to be tried, when he discovers, by a scar, that it is his own son. There follows rejoicing in Mojada county. FOX "All For a Husband" — November 18 (five-reel Fox drama with Virginia Pearson). — Henry Hardin, a candidate for mayor, is a confirmed woman hater. His sister believes that her friend, Henrietta Downs, would make an ideal wife for Henry and wants to send her to Hardin, but Hardin refuses to see her. The girls read of an escaped lunatic and they decide that Henrietta shall portray the lunatic girl and go to the Hardin home. Henrietta arrives at the house and when Henry comes home he orders her out but she insists on remaining. The escaped lunatic arrives at the house and many complications arise, bringing the story to an unexpected finish. GENERAL it. h IK 0*1 "The Lonesome Road" — (Two-reel Broadway Star Feature drama with Chet Ryan.) — Perry Rountree and Buck Caperton are inseparable companions until the arrival of Marianna and when she becomes Mrs. Rountree Buck is unsuccessful in persuading Perry to return to the old life. One day Buck comes along and suggests they have one more good time. Dressed, as his wife taught him to, Perry accompanies Buck to the saloon where he drinks sarsaparilla and plays checkers, much to the disgust of Buck. The Terrible Trimble gang arrives in the saloon and begins to throw the place into confusion. Perry has to be home at seven o'clock and at five minutes before that hour he arms himself with a table-leg and the gang leaves, Perry arriving home five minutes late. When Buck sees the look of affection with which Mrs. Rountree greets her husband he begins' to believe that he, and not Perry, is the fool. "Law and Order" — (Two-reel O. Henry drama with Chet Ryan.) — While talking to an old timer, Bud Oakley tells him a story of the early days when a shooting iron was the final word in Western law. Luke Summers rescues a young woman from a runaway stage coach and then marries her. A few years later an Easterner comes to the town and Mrs. Summers and the stranger elope. Summers is planning to get a divorce and "The Renaissance at Charleroi" — I Four-reel O. Henry drama with Agnes Eyre.) — Grandemont Charles, descended from the Charles family of France, is in love with Adele Fauquier, who constantly refuses his proposals of marriage, always ending with a plea for him to find her brother, Victor, who ten years before had disappeared, and with whose disappearance Adele believes Grandemont is connected. Victor was living with a notorious woman and in order not to cause Adele pain, Grandemont had paid her to leave. When Victor heard of this he threatened that no one should see his face again. Adele was an uninvited guest to the quarrel and not knowing its true cause, held Grandemont responsible. The anniversary of the renaissance at Charleroi draws near and as the family mansion has been sold Grandemont rents it and has it fitted up appropriately and plans to observe the occasion. None of the invited guests appear, believing it a joke. However, a tramp comes in and is made guest of honor and after the meal is finished he reveals to Grandemont that he is Victor. Being able to bring Victor to Adele. Grandemont is assured of a happy future. his son-in-law. But Tom loves a little parlor maid and refuses the millionaire's daughter. Spraggins learns of his daughter's elopment and gives chase, but when he sees who the man is he gives his blessing. For Celia, in order to obtain love for herself, had donned the apron and cap and became a parlor maid. Spraggins is happy and the next year when a McLeod, Jr., makes his appearance, Spraggins cancels his charity donations and raises prices on his products in order that the youngster may have a fortune when he grows up. "Zollenstein" — (Falcon feature with Monroe Salisbury.) — Boris endeavors to gain the throne of Zollenstein and at the birth of the reigning king's son, he bribes the nurse to kill the heir. But the nurse takes him to London, where he grows up under the name of John Mortimer. Upon a hunting expedition the king is killed and Boris again attempts to assume the throne, but the appearance of John Mortimer interrupts Boris' plans. John is made king and marries the Princess Zenia, daughter of the princess whom his father had loved. "Brand's Daughter" — ( Falcon feature with Daniel Gilfether.) — A couple of swindlers, posing as Russian government munitions agents endeavor to cheat Roger Brand, a banker, out of some money, but his daughter, Alethea, saves him by inducing the baron to elope with her and they are both locked in a vault. Spencer Rutherford, the bank's cashier, is in love with Alethea. He arrives just in time to open the vault and save her life. Brand consents to their marriage. The baron is confronted with a sentence to Siberia and begging his accomplice to i save him, she kills him. "His Old-Fashioned Dad" — (Falcon feature with Daniel Gilfether.) — Silas Morton, finding that he is in the way of his son's progress at college, decides to disappear. By exchanging cards with a man killed in an automobile accident, the doctor is believed dead and his insurance money is collected, which is sufficient to allow Emory to complete his education and become a great physician. He marries Nettie Wright and the widow is left alone. She has a fear for tramps and when her husband comes to the door in tramp clothes, she shoots through the door, killing him. She finds to her horror that she has killed the husband she thought dead. GOLDWYN "A Night in New Arabia"— (Four-reel O. Henry comedy-drama with Patsy De Forest.)— Jacob Spraggins has attained a large fortune, but even his donations to charities do not make him happy. He finds that in some way during the early making of his fortune he cheated a man out of ten thousand dollars. He meets his debtor's heir, Tom McLeod, and pays the money. The boy's independence impresses him and he wants to make him 35 "Joan of Plattsburg"— December 2 (six-reel Goldwyn comedy with Mabel NormandL— The orphan asylum in which Joan lives is infested with a band of spies who are watching the movements of a military concentration camp nearby, reporting by wireless to various other stations until the information finally reaches Berlin. Joan is very much interested in the soldiers, especially Captain Lane, who has been detailed to guard a certain inventor of an explosive