Exhibitors Herald (1926)

September 25, 1926 EXHIBITORS HERALD 65 Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes in “Forever After,” a First National picture. Beauty a La Mud Distributor: Educational Producer: Christie Length: Two reels DIRECTOR HAROLD BEAUDINE PLAYERS Jimmie Jimmie Adams Charlotte Charlotte Merriam Madame Louise Billy Engle Edouard Brillliantine Eddie Lambert TYPE: Comedy of a beauty parlor. THEME: Story of a pseudo professor of beauty. LOCALE: An American town. TIME: The present. STORY : In love with the daughter of a proprietor of a beauty parlor, a boy disguises himself as a celebrated European beauty specialist and gains admittance to the beauty parlor. He is accorded a wonderful reception and is assigned to treat a rich customer who desires warts to be removed from her face. What happens as the result of the treatment causes a great mix-up. Everyone finally placated and all ends happily. HIGHLIGHTS: The disguise . . . The treatment . . . Arrival of the real specialist . . . Disappearance of the warts. Forever After Distributor : First National Producer: First National Length: Undetermined DIRECTOR F. HARMON WEIGHT PLAYERS Theodore Wayne Lloyd Hughes Jennie Clayton Mary Astor Jack Randall Hiram Cooley Clayton David Torrence Mrs. Clayton Eulalie Jensen Wayne Alec Francis Mrs. Wayne Lila Leslie TYPE: Romantic Drama. THEME: Romantic love. LOCALE: A New England town; France. TIME: During the World War. STORY : From their adolescent school days and through their adventures of college, a poor boy and the town’s wealthiest heiress take it for granted they are meant for one another. At the same time the wealthiest boy in town lays siege to the girl’s heart with the approval of the latter’s mother. The mother has no objection to the poor boy but is dazzled by the other’s wealth. She convinces the former that the girl’s happiness hinges upon the twin asset of position and wealth. The boy sacrifices his love and leaves town with his mother. The maelstrom of the great war offers sanctuary to the boy’s perturbed mind. The girl, meanwhile, has refused to marry the wealthy fellow, and has become a Red Cross nurse in a French hospital. The boy, now a captain, is brought in, desperately wounded, from the front. The girl is assigned to nurse him, and her love helps to cure him. HIGHLI GHTS : Love of girl and boy . . . College scenes . . . Boy’s sacrifice ... The war . . . Reunited. Twisted Triggers Distributor: Associated Exhibitors Producer: Associated Exhibitors Length: Undetermined DIDRECTOR RICHARD THORPE PLAYERS Wally Weston Wally Wales Ruth Regan Jean Arthur Norris A1 Richmond “Angel-Face” Art Winkler Hiram Weston J. P. Lockney Jim Regan William Bertram The Cook Harry Belmour The Sheriff Lawrence Underwood TYPE: Western drama. THEME: Fight to exonerate criminal. LOCALE: An American Western town. TIME: The present. STORY : The story deals with the fortunes of a kind-hearted son of a religious bigot, who mistrusts all humanity. The son befriends the unjustly outcast daughter of a jailbird. Matters are brought to a head when the son is arrested for engaging in a brawl to save the ex-convict from shooting the man he accuses of framing him. His father disowns him. Unable to find work he heads for the Bar X, hearing that men were needed there. He is held up by a youthful bandit, “Angel-Face.” Seeing the weak condition his victim is in the bandit shares his food with him, and a friendship springs up between the two. On a turn of the cards it is decided they will go straight. Meanwhile the convicted man is released from prison and in going to bid the son good-bye is driven off the premises at the point of a gun by the boy’s father. Later the ex-prisoner is found dead and the father is charged with murder. The son with the aid of “Angel-Face” prove the girl’s “A Dippy Tar” is another of the sailor comedy pictures of Billy Dooley for Christie. It is an Educational release. father innocent of the crimes of which he was accused, and expose his murderer. The father leaves the prison a kinder and wiser man, and approves his son’s marriage to the one-time convict’s daughter. HIGHLIGHTS : The street brawl . . . Scene in which father disowns son . . . Son’s meeting with bandit . . . Murder of ex-convict . . . The exposal. A Dippy Tar Distributor: Educational Producer: Educational Length: Two reels DIRECTOR WILLIAM WATSON PLAYERS Napoleon Jinks Billy Dooley Von Herring Jack Duffy His Daughter Molly Malone TYPE: Slapstick comedy. THEME: Overcoming hypnotic powers. LOCALE: An American city. TIME: The present. STORY : One of Uncle Sam’s tars by the name of Napoleon is invited to dinner at the home of an exclusive family. The husband is an amateur hypnotist and decides to use the sailor as his subject. Numerous exciting incidents occur when the sailor is under the spell. Things are further mixed up when he is asked his name and he answers “Napoleon.” Believing him still in a trance the hypnotist says the only way to bring him out of the spell is to stick him with a pin. Finally everything is settled and Napoleon goes back to make love to the daughter. Just as he is telling her his real name is Napoleon, an officer who has not been told of the mistake sticks him and Napoleon runs for his ship. HIGHLIGHTS : The invitation . . . Scene in which the sailor is hypnotized . . . Curious things he does while in a trance . . . Attempt to wake him up . . . Mix-up caused by his stating his name is Napoleon.