The Great Selection: "First National First" Season 1922 - 1923 (1922)

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Jaugh and thrill to these $T. '"Paging the Laughs! JHBk Douglas MacLean in "Bell-boy 13" As apt with comedy as with drama Thomas H. Ince presents all the elements of entertainment here in clever combination "Front! Front/" Hear the night-clerk grunt, See the bell-boy greet it — Leap on any stunt. Tangled rooms or burglar scare, Fire fright or family flareJoyfully he'll meet it, Knowing how to treat it — Or discreetly beat it — When the night-clerk hollers, "Front!" The girl they wanted bim to marry — THE Thos. H. Ince contract brings another famous comedian under the First National banner — Douglas MacLean, who earned his right to front rank honors with " 23 T { Hours Leave," " What's Your Husband Doing?" "Mary's Ankle," and 'The Rookie's Return." Convulsive comedies they were — and yet impressed with logic ; they were human ; they protrayed things that could happen to anyone. And here's what could happen to a bell-boy — provided he had a rich uncle to disinherit him and a chorus girl to kiss him twenty times for every brass button on his jacket. And the way Doug puts it over. A top-notch cast surrounds him, too. Margaret Loomis, John Steppling, Jean Walsh and Eugene Burr — all favorites with the fans. Wonder what e bell-boy — and the girl he pnally got Better nail up the S.R.O. sign for "Bell-boy 13" — You 'won't hare to take it down Page Twelve