Movie Age (1927)

AUGUST 1 3, 1 927. PAGE 21 — . jt jt. jt. j c jfc — ■ jc )C^^= SHORT SUBJECTS , Spice of the Box Office 1 1 -*f 3C ' 1g . . 16-' 1C V If ->C =>£ Screen Snapshots Columbia — One Reel. The current issue of these enterpris¬ ing little features shows a number of well known stars at their work. Con¬ stance Talmadge is seen working in a ball room scene, Monty Banks rehears¬ ing a sequence from a new comedy, Marie Prevost doing an eccentric dance. Francis X. Bushman and Jacqueline Logan are shown going through an in¬ tense scene in a costume play. Johnnie Hines is seen practicing kissing Edna Murphey while Ben Lyon goes in for boxing with some able trainer. Night Owls Educational — One Reel. STAR: Phil Dunham. A gentle American, seeking a rest in a French village, finds himself mixed up in an Apache war. He meets a girl, the daughter of the tough inn keeper, and woos her. A particularly ugly Apache takes a dislike to the American for his attention to his girl. Things begin to get warm, a chase follows, in which the Apache and the American are seen falling down a well. “Buster’s Picnic Two-Reel Stern Brothers Comedy Buster, Mary Jane and Tige go to the picnic grounds. Tige visits a nearby table and eats the frothy frosting off a cake. A moment later he greets an¬ other picnic party, frothing at the mouth. They think he is a mad dog and run. He drags the table cloth under a tree and a hornet’s nest falls on the cloth. The insects chase the dog around the lot. He gets hold of a corner of Buster’s table cloth. Mary Jane and Buster grip the other two corners as the wind gets under the cloth and blows it away, carrying the three picnickers through the clouds. Buster and Mary Jane are dropped on the brink of a cliff while Tige is carried out over the ocean. “What’ll You Have?” Two-Reel Stern Brothers Comedy “The Excuse Maker” Series J. Pep Mint, a soda clerk, who is a devil with the women, meets Miss Van Sleek, an heiress, whom he picks up af¬ ter an accident on his way to work. He leaves her, pleading an appointment with J. P. Morgan and almost loses his job for being late again. Leaving the soda emporium, he meets Miss Van Sleek again and goes home with her in her car, four-flushing all the way. As they enter the house he is attacked by a pair of burglars who are knocked out by a lucky fluke. Mr. Van Sleek offers him a fat check as a reward for capturing the two criminals but he grandly waves the check aside and claims the daughter as his reward. His chivalry makes a hit with the girl, who accepts him. He asks her to step from the room while he speaks to her father. As soon as she is out, he graciously accepts the check and then follows her. Why Girls Love Sailors Pathe — Two Reels. STAR: Stan Laurel. A rough sea captain kidnaps Stan’s girl and takes her on board his ship. Stan makes several unsuccessful at¬ tempts to whip the sea dog. At last he conceives the idea of dressing like a woman. A show company has left its trunks on the boat and Stan uses a vamp costume which he finds in one of the trunks. The captain falls for the masquerade, and Stan manages to get him into a trap just as the captain’s jealous wife comes on board. She beats up the captain and Stan saves his girl. Meet the Folks ' Educational — Two Reels. STAR: Jimmie Adams. Jimmie goes to the mountains for his health and discovers that his name is the same as another family in the midst of a bad feud. He meets a girl on the train which is met by her uncle, a leader of the other family’s clan. Jimmie ar¬ rives just in time to get in the thick of the fight. After many adventures, he escapes with the girl when the hut in which they are hiding is thrown over a cliff and lands on a moving freight train. Plumb Dumb. Educational — Two Reels STAR: Poodles Hanneford. Poodles is the hard working helper to Glen, the blacksmith, Lucille, Poodles’ girl, wants him to enter the ring against Slaughter-House Slattery when Glen, who was scheduled to fight him, pre¬ tends to be sick. Poodles knows noth¬ ing about fighting, but he promises to compete when he learns that her father has staked all his money against Slattei-y. If he wins, he can marry Lucille. Poodles* enter the ring in armor and is promptly made to take it off. At last the two men fight. At first Poodles gets the worse part of the battle, but he warms up and knocks Slattery through the ceiling, thereby winning Lucille. The Beauty Parlor. F B O — 2 Reels. The first of this series is now ready. Lorraine Eason takes the place of Alberta Vaughn who starred in pre¬ vious F B O comedy series. However, Kit Guard and A1 Cooke are present to supply the humor. The first story con¬ cerns Thelma and Lorraine who are in financial straits over their beauty parlor. The landlord says they must pay up or clear out. The girls expect a beauty expert to give a lecture which will bring in enough money to pay the rent. A1 and Kit are avoiding the cops and hide in the beauty shop. The girls think they are the expert and his as¬ sistant. The men give a lecture and bring in the money. “Tired Wheels” Paramount — One Reel An amusing travesty on a bicycle race in which the busses bringing spectators to the event form their own arena in which an elephant, a hippopotamus, a giraffe and Krazy Kat compete for hon¬ ors. The giraffe heads off Krazy for a long time, but after various adventures the Kat crosses the tape an easy winner. A Midsummer Night’s Stream Fox — Two Reels Sally Phipps appears as one of the six bathing girls who are hired to jazz up a theatre that is about to flop. Eddie Clayton is the peppy press agent. He starts to the train to meet the girls and his taxi meets with an accident by run¬ ning into a freshly tarred street. This scare figures, with the chauffeur, a mo¬ tor cop, and an Italian after him. He dodges into a side show, gets mixed up with the fat woman and a disappear¬ ing act and altogether the excitement is kept up at high pitch. George E. Marshall supervised this Imperial com¬ edy.