Exhibitors Herald (1926)

60 EXHIBITORS HERALD November 13, 1926 he falls in love with Mary and she with him. On his way back from the training field Jim is waylaid by the college vamp. She “does her stuff” so effectively that Jim succumbs and kisses her as Mary comes along. She hurries away, disillusioned. Jim and Mary are both students in a professor’s class. The latter beats Jim for persecuting Mary. The dean sees the fight and the professor is asked for his resignation. Jim tells the dean he provoked the fight and the latter is forced to expel him. Next term sees Jim at college as a result of the pleading of the professor. Jim makes no headway with Mary. He learns she has gone to a roadhouse with another boy, and he goes after her, regardless of the fact he will forfeit his place on the team is caught. The rival crowds Jim’s machine off the road, and Mary is seriously hurt. Jim is substituted in the game winning it for the University. He is injured and taken to the hospital, and there secures Mary’s forgiveness. HIGHLIGHTS : Meeting of Jim and Mary .... Their avowal of love . . . . Scene in which Mary finds him kissing vamp .... Scene in which Professor beats Jim . . . . Jim’s expulsion .... His return to college .... Scene in which he forcibly takes Mary from roadhouse . . . . The accident .... The football game .... Scene in which Mary forgives. God Gave Me T wenty Cents Distributor : Paramount Producer: Paramount Length: Undetermined DIRECTOR HERBERT BRENON Cameraman Leo Tover PLAYERS Mary Lois Moran Cassie Lang Lya De Putti Steve Doren Jack Mulhall Barney Tapman William Collier, Jr. Ma Tapman Adrienne d’Ambricourt Andre Dufour Leo Feodoroff Mrs. Dufour Rosa Rosanova A Florist Clive Brook TYPE: Romantic drama. THEME: Regeneration through love and faith. LOCALE: New Orleans waterfront. TIME: The present. STORY : The “John Burns” docks at New Orleans in time for her sailors to celebrate the Mardi Gras. “Gambling” Steve Doren, among the crew, learns his sweetheart, a woman of easy virtue, is in jail but will be out in a day. His gang parade through the town and stop before a restaurant, where a demure little waif, known as Mary, is waitress. Steve takes her in his arms, and places her on the float. This contact with something decent works a remarkable change in him. In a week they are married. Steve later goes to say goodbye to his gang. His former sweetheart insists he take her on his trip. He refuses but she challenges him to match for it, saying heads she goes, tails she stays. They toss two dimes she takes from her handbag to find they both turn up heads. They later appear on the dock at a coffee stand. While paying for the beverage his eyes fall on the coins. He turns them and then hurls them to the dock. Mary learns Steve has left with the other woman and staggers to the docks. She sees a single white rose in a window marked “20 cents.” Steve loved roses in her hair and she wishes she could buy the rose. A Salvation Army gathering is being ■ i Rod La Rocque stars in “Gigolo” with Jobyna Ralston and Louise Dresser in the supporting cast. Wm. K. Howard directed this Pro-Dis-Co release, and Lucien Andriot was cameraman. held, and she kneels and whispers, “If I only had twenty cents!” She starts to climb down a rope ladder to the waters when she spies two dimes in the wood, where Stevd has thrown them. She buys the rose and runs home. She is injured by a policeman who fires on a man and woman robbing a warehouse safe. At the hospital she learns the other woman is Steve’s former sweetheart, who is dying and confesses that Steve had turned her down and she in desperation had joined the other man in a robbery. Steve returns to Mary and their happiness is complete again. The florist comes in and shows Mary the dimes she gave him. They are heads on both sides. HIGHLIGHTS: Mardi Gras scenes . . . . The gambling scenes . . . . Mary’s preparation for the husband who does not return .... Discovery of his desertion . . . . The emotional crisis that ensues . . . . Impulse to drown herself .... Her finding the discarded dimes . . . . Confession former sweetheart makes to wife .... Steve’s final return . . . Discovery dimes are heads on both sides. Bardelys The Magnificent Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Length: Undetermined DIRECTOR KING VIDOR Cameraman William Daniels PLAYERS Bardelys John Gilbert Roxalanne de Lavedam.Eleanor Boardman Chatellerault Roy D’Arcy Vicomte de Lavedan Lionel Belmore Vicomtesse de Lavedan Emily Fitzroy Saint Eustache George K. Arthur King Louis Thirteenth Arthur Lubin Lesperon Theodore Von Eltz Rodenard Karl Dane Cardinal Richelieu Edward Connelly Castelreux Fred Malatesta Lafosse John T. Murray Innkeeper Joseph Marba Sergeant of Dragoons Daniel G. Tomlinson Anatol Emile Chautard Cozelatt Max Barwyn TYPE: Romantic drama. THEME: Wagering for love. LOCALE: France. TIME: During reign of Louis XIII. STORY: King Louis XIII of France sends Chatellerault to win Roxalanne de Lavedan, hoping thus to keep the girl’s fortune within the kingdom and also change her father’s political views. The messenger reports the girl independent and unapproachable. Bardelys wagers his entire estate against Chatellerault’s that he will capture the girl within three months. He finds a man dying and is given some letters bearing the name de Lesperon. Taking the name as a disguise he finds out that Lesperon is sought as a traitor. He seeks shelter in Roxalanne’s room. He tells her he is Lesperon. She is frightened but fascinated. Bardelys is taken to prison under the dead man’s identity. He is brought before Chatellerault who repudiates him, and sentences him to hang. At the crucial moment Bardelys cuts the rope binding his hands, swings himself over his guards and reaches the king’s coach. The latter orders him shot but pardons him. The latter challenges Chatellerault, who has married Roxalanne, to a duel. Chatellerault is killed, and Bardelys and Roxalanne receive the blessing of the king. HIGHLIGHTS: The wager . . . . Bardelys assuming identity of traitor . . . . His arrest .... Scaffold scene .... King’s pardon . . . . The duel. A Briny Boob Distributor: Educational Producer: Christie Productions Length: Two reels DIRECTOR WILLIAM WATSON Cameramen Alex Phillips Fred Jacquimin PLAYERS Billy Billy Dooley The Commander Fred Peters The Maid Natalie Joyce The Vamp Amber Norman Her Husband Bill Irving TYPE: Romantic comedy. THEME: Romantic love. LOCALE: An American city. TIME: The present. STORY : A sailor is sent ashore by his commanding officer with money to buy flowers which he is to deliver. He gets mixed up with a pretty nursemaid in the park, who takes his flowers. He then gets mixed with the law when he attempts to pick a bouquet from the park bushes. He meets a vamp who implores him to save her dog from the lake. The policeman saves the dog but the sailor manages to get the credit for the rescue. When he delivers the note he finds the vamp to be the recipient. The note is from her brother-in-law who writes that he cannot get away to rehearse with her a part in the show she is giving. She picks the sailor as a substitute and starts rehearsing. The sailor thinks she is in earnest. A meddling maid peeks through the keyhole and notifies the actress’ husband that his wife is untrue to him. The latter attempts to shoot the sailor, until the commander arrives and straightens everything out. HIGHLIGHTS: Scene in which nursemaid takes bouquet . . . . Sailor’s attempt to pick bouquet from bushes .... Meeting with the vamp .... Rescue of dog . . . . Rehearsal scene .... Maid’s notifying husband .... Explanations.