Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)

30 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "Martin Lowe, Fixer" Marc Robbins I'nink .Martin pleads for siceethearts Martin and the sweethearU enjoy themselves. Laemmle Drama — Released July 11. Scenario by Ben Cohn. Produced by Frank Lloyd. CAST. Martin Lowe Frank Lloyd Abner Stebbins Marc Robbins Harry Matson M. E. Wilson Helen Stebbins T'em Sisson Abner Stebbins, Martin's crony, has a daughter, Helen, whom he wishes to marry to the bank clerk, Richard Willis, who is a "swell dresser." but addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages, unknown to Abner. Abner's clerk, Harry Matson,. and Helen are simply "made for each other" and Helen does not take to the idea of tieing up with the bank clerk as she knows some of his bad habits. Abner, however, can't see things that way and insists that she marry him. He also takes the occasion to "bawl" Harry out for daring to think of marrying his daughter. The two youthful lovers seek out their mutual friend, Martin Lowe, and find him engrossed in a very interesting magazine story. He puts his book aside and they pour their tale of woe into his sympathetic ears. He agrees with them and promises to use his utmost efforts in bringing the girl's father to their way of thinking. Martin finds his old friend engrossed in a magazine story and eating peanuts "by the peck." He is welcomed in and offered some of the "fruit." Martin tactfully tries to talk Stebbins into letting the two youngsters have their way. but in vain. At last, desperate, he tells Abner of a seemingly true story wherein a father forces his daughter to marry a man of his own choice, who turns out to be a drunkard and abuses his wife shamefully. Both old men are touched by the story and wipe the tears away. Just as the story is finished. Willis comes in with a "jag" on. They tell him he has been drinking and he indignantly disavows the charge and leaves. The two lovers come along and give him the merry ha! ha! which insults his dignity more. The two lovers come into the ofl5ce to learn their fate, and so diplomatic has been the work of "the fixer" that her father grudgingly agrees to the match. Martin then takes out the two to a celebration at the soda fountain, wherein they indulge in soda water and ice cream cones. Stebbins, although he appears to have been taken in by Martin's story, is not so d<'nse as he appeared and. slyly going to Martin's room, finds the identical masazine he had been reading telling the story that Martin claimed as his own. In a spirit of fun he marks across the page the word "plagiarist" and gleefully leaves. Martin, coming home from his celebration with the two lovers, finds the book. His poor old brain whirls when he tries to figure out the word. As the story closes the old man is seen painfully searchins out the word in the dictionary. HALF-MINUTE INTERVIEAVS. (Continued.) Anna Nessel of Chicago said she enjoyed the "eats." "And would you believe it?" she went on. "I've gained fifteen pounds on the trip. Well. I guess that's because I never cheated myself once. Me a movie actress? Never. Why? Because niy face won't let me." Nellie Bell, of Pittsburgh. Pa., met at San Diego an aunt whom she had never seen before — Mrs. Anna Sarver. "After the visit to the San Francisco Exposition." said Nellie. "I'm coming back to live with my aunt. She wants me and California looks better to me than old Pennsy." Daisy Fulwiller of Oklahoma is "just crazy about the movies." and plans to return to Ixis Angeles at the earliest opportunity. "I hope to have a chance with the Universal." she said, "as I feel I will be able to make good."