Exhibitors Herald (Dec 1924-Mar 1925)

52 EXHIBITORS HERALD February 21, 1925 Story: Isobel attempts to support her aged father by working as a seamstress in a fashionable Fifth Avenue shop. She is discharged when she engaged in a fight with a model. Her father is caught in the home of wealthy man and sent to jail. Isobel works in the office of art dealer. They fall in love with each other and finally her father returns, she explains everything and she is made happy. The Rag Man Distributor : Metro-Goldwyn Producer-. Metro-Goldwyn Length : 6 reels DIRECTOR EDDIE CLINE Author Willard Mack Adaptor Irene Morra Cameramen Frank B. Good and Robt. Martin PLAYERS Tim Kelly .Tackie Coogan Max Ginsberg Max Davidson Mrs. Malloy Lydia Yeamans Titus Mr. Bernard Robert Edeson Mr. Kemper William Conklin “Dynamite” By Himself TYPE: Story of East-side New York of a little boy who lives with a junk man and how they came into a fortune. HIGHLIGHTS: The stealing of Ginsberg’s patent. . . . The “partnership.” . . . Discovery of evidence in old suit. . . . The righting of the wrong. Story: Little Tim Kelly, homeless when the Orphanage burns, takes up life with a Hebrew junk man, Ginsberg, and becomes his partner. He is such a shrewd little business man, they are soon on the road to prosperity. One day he gets an old suit from a lady, finds an important letter from lawyers in the pocket and is able to have Ginsberg’s lost fortune restored. Back to Life Distributor : Associated Exhibitors Producer: Whitman Bennett Length: 6 reels DIRECTOR Author Andrew Sartou Adaptor.._ Whitman Bennett Cameraman Edward F. Paul PLAYERS John Lothbury, later John Walpole John Powell Margaret Lothbury Patsy Ruth Miller Sonny Frankie Evans Arthur Lothbury George Stewart Wallace Straker Lawford Davidson June Porter Mary Thurman Henry Porter Frederick Burton TYPE : Drama of the Enoch Arden type based on return of a World War veteran reported dead, with face so altered by surgical operation that wife, newly married, does not recognize him. HIGHLIGHTS: Return of John Lothbury as “John Walpole” from front to old deserted home. . . . First meeting with former wife. . . . Walpole's guardianship of “Sonny.” . . . German prison-camp scenes. . . . Margaret’s first suspicions as to real identity of mysterious “Mr. Walpole.” . . . Walpole’s disclosure to Straker (Margaret’s new husband) of his real identity. . . . Reunion of Lothbury family. Story: Margaret Lothbury receives news of her husband’s death at the front. In reality, John Lothbury has been picked New Toys Distributor: First National Pictures, Inc. Producer: Inspiration Pictures, Inc. Length: 7,363 feet DIRECTOR JOHN S. ROBERTSON Authors Oscar Hammerstein II and Milton Herbert Gropper Adaptor Josephine Lovett Cameraman Roy Overbaugh Subtitles Agnes South PLAYERS Will Webb Richard Barthelmess Mary Lane Mary Hay Natalie Woods Catherine Wilson Tom Lawrence Clifton Webb Sam Clark Francis Conlon Mrs. Lane Bijou Fernandez TYPE: A comedy of domestic life in New York middle class circles, adapted from the stage play. HIGHLIGHTS: Will Webb’s meeting ivith Mary Lane, after Natalie, his fiancee had sailed for Europe. Natalie’s return and first visit to Will and Mary and their baby. Mary’s decision to try a stage career in spite of Will’s opposition. Her complete flop on opening night. Will’s terror of Natalie ivho tries to win him away from Mary. Reconciliation of Will and Mary. Story: Will Webb accepts tickets to an amateur performance from his fiancee, Natalie, as she sails for Europe, and there meets and falls in love with Mary Lane. He marries her. They live in a Harlem flat and have a baby. Natalie returns, still considering that Will belongs to her. She visits them, throwing Will into terror and arousing Mary’s jealousy. Natalie tries to win Will back, and Mary accepts Tom Lawrence’s suggestion that she should have a career for herself on the stage. The premiere is a complete flop, due to a trip and the antics of her false nose. Will fears she has killed herself. He escapes from Natalie and finds her still in her dressing room at the theatre. They are reconciled. Drug Store Cowboy Distributor: Independent Pictures Corp. Producer: Independent Pictures Corp. Length: 5,100 feet DIRECTOR PARKE FRAME William Lester PLAYERS Marmaduke Mortimer Grandon Franklyn Famum “Gentleman Jack” Robert Walker Jean Jean Arthur Wilton Malcolm Denny Director Murray Ronald Goetz Sheriff Dick Loreno TYPE: Western comedy-drama in which a clerk who wants to become a motion picture actor finally succeeds. HIGHLIGHTS: Rehearsals for “bad man” role. . . . Farnum’s work. . . . Robbery of bank. . . . Fight until outlaws. . . . Hard riding. Story: Mortimer Grandon, clerk in a drug store, is ambitious to get into pictures. He travels to the company’s location in a freight car, and is forced to change clothes with an outlaw. He blunders into the company making scenes and gets into a fist fight. He finally wins out and wins the leading lady’s hand. Mack Sennett presents Harry Langdon in “Boobs in the Woods,” a Pathe comedy full of new antics. WHITMAN BENNETT up by British ambulance unit and placed in British hospital. Here by marvelous, newly developed science of facial surgery Lothbury is given a new face. On return to America he finds his wife married to Wallace Straker, richest man in town. The union is an unhappy one. Lothbury adopts name of Walpole and withholds identity. He assumes guardianship of his son while Strakers tour Europe, while abroad Margaret Lothbury is acquainted with real facts of Lothbury’s disappearance from battlefield. Later circumstances confirm her suspicions that Walpole is in reality her husband. Revelations follow leading to re-union of family. Soft Shoes Distributor : Producers Dist. Corp. Producer: Stellar Productions, Inc. Length: 5,500 feet DIRECTOR LLOYD INGRAHAM Authors Hunt Stromberg and Harvey Gates Cameraman Sol Polito PLAYERS Pat Halahan Harry Carey Faith O’Day Lillian Rich Dummy O’Day Paul Weigel Quig Mundy Francis Ford Bradley Stanton Heck Mrs. Bradley Harriet Hammond The Chicago Kid Jimmie Quinn Yet Tzu So-Jin Mabel Packer Majel Coleman Markham John Steppling Hank By Himself TYPE : Melodrama concerning the capture of a band of crooks by San Francisco police aided by a small town sheriff. HIGHLIGHTS: Faith invading Pat’s apartment. . . . Raid by police. . . . Pat’s agreement ivith police. . . . Rounding up the gang. Story: Pat Halahan, Sheriff of Boulder, goes to San Francisco to see the sights. He meets Faith O’Day, in league with a gang of crooks. Faith decides to go straight, and Pat with the aid of the police rounds up the gang in a last desperate encounter. Author