The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

40 The Moving Picture Weekly June is, 1921 Benefit Hotel Show Proves Big Success "Custard's Last Stand" Two-reel Century Comedy Featuring ■ ZIP MONTY and FLORENCE LEE THE room-clerk at the Bilkmore Hotel is in love with the star summer guest, but the girl doesn't notice him. After being refused a dozen times he goes to the restaurant to drown his sorrows in strong coffee. That night the guests of the hotel are acting in a show for the benefit of the crippled furniture of the hotel. In the last act the stagehand comes in when the villain is choking the girl and is supposed to rescue her. But just at that time the hotel clerk wakes up and thinks that the girl is really being attacked. He stalls throwing everything within reach upon the stage. The audience joins in the fight with pillows, pies and crockery and drive the actors off the stage. The show, nevertheless, was a great financial success. Masked Prize Winner Only The Grocery Boy "Rubes and Boobs" One-reel Star Comedy Featuring BILLY FLETCHER REUBEN -was a grocery boy with romantic ideas. When he saw the modem edition of Queen Elizabeth hesitate before crossing a puddle of water he laid his coat at her feet. The girl ignored the coat and passed him by while Reuben picked up his water-soaked garment in disgust. At the next house he finds a note saying that the key is under the mat and with special instructions for him not to touch the beer but to put the groceries in the icebox. Reuben enters the house and proceeds to take a bath in the tiled bath. In the meantime the girl he had encountered on the street meets the owner of the house, who is an old school chum ,and she volunteers to keep an eye on the house during the owner's absence. The girl is in bed in the f'uestroom when Reuben enters the room in his pajamas. He jumps out of the window and is chased by the cop on the beau ^Seeing a garden party in the next block he gets a mask and is awarded first prize for having the best costume. When they unmask, the cop discovers Reuben and take? him off to the city jail. ' ; •. ^ "THE WHITE HORSEMAN" Episode No. 14 *^A Jest of Fate" AT the cabin of, a forest ranger The White Spider, leader of an outlaw band, is battling desperately with the ranger for his freedom. He' overcomes the ranger and starts to untie a member of his band who has also been made prisonei'. Hoping to effect the outlaw's capture, Jean Ramsey has led Wayne Allen, owner of the ti-easure ranch, and his Indian friend, Cuvas, to the cabin of the ranger. The girl is unaware of the dealings of her unc'e, Dick Ramsey, with the outlaws, and with the desire of Ramsey to possess the secret of the opal caves hidden on the Allen ranch. In the meantime Allen and his Indian friend have encountered the outlaws at the ranger's hut and a desperate battle is in progress whe i the boulder from the adjoining cliff crashes into the house, bringing Ramsey and the Indian girl in its wake. In the crash Ramsey seizes the bracelet and makes his escape. He is followed by the Indian girl, relentless in her pursuit of the key to the treasure cave, which is the tomb of her ancestors. Meanwhile the Mummy Man, strange phantom who lives in the hills and appears at times when Jean Ramsey and Wayne Allen seem in great peril. has learned that the Spider has the bracelet and determines once and for all, to put an end to the trouWe by making away with the outlaw band and burying the bracelet bensaih an avalanche of earth. The White Spider and his men make for the Spider's cave, Allen, Jean and the Indians are hot on their trail. Wayne is determined to wrest the bracelet from the White Spider. The Mummy Man, with dynamite and fuse, prepares to blow up the Spider's cave, burying outlaws and bracelet in the explosion. He lights the fuse, but his plans go wrong, for the Spider and his men leave suddenly enroute to the treasure caves, and Wayne Allen, Jean and the Indians ride on and dash into the Spider's cave, hoping to overcome the outlaws. Too late the Mummy Man realizes that those whom he has protected are about to meet death in a terrific explosion. He rushes in to trv to save them and snuff out the burning fus-c, but he is too late, as they are pinned in the cave. A terrific explosion occurs. INTERNATIONAL NEWS NO. 44 AnnapoHfi, Md. — President Harding sees new crop of admirals. Naval Cadets in Graduation parade prove they're as good on land as on sea. Hoylake, England.— V. S. Golf champs fail to lift British title. American stars make gallant effort but lose out by narrow margin. (Omit from San Fi-ancisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Denver, Dallas and Salt Lake City prints.) Oppeln, Sileaia. — Latest pictures of the Silesian crisis. British and Italian officers allow German volunteers to organize against Polish invaders. (Omit from Los Angeles and Boston.) Los Angeles, Cal. — School boys stage a brilliant review. Expert drilling wins high praise from army officers. (Los Angeles only.) Boston, Mass. — Fire plugs bring joy to youngsters. Mayor Peters inaugurates the city's new system of open-air showers — free. (Boston only.) Oyster Bay, N. Y. — Trial spins for yacht cup races. Six meter boats in preliminary tests for British-American trophy events this summer; (Omit from Boston, Dallas, Cleveland, Phila., Seattle, Portland, Spokane, L. A., S. F., Denver, Salt Lake, Cincinnati.) BEST PICTURES CROWDED OFF HIS SCHEDULE "Foolishly I booked too many pictures last Fall. For this reason I was not able to take advantage of a lot of pictures that were offered to me, though I was satisfied that they were better than V the ones I had booked."