The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

38 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY Joker ''Soup and Nuts Comedy. "SOME MEDICINE MAN." CAST. Pat „ Pat Rooney Grouch Jean Hersholt Medicine Man Clyde Bensen Indian Princess Peggy Coudray Her Father Ed. Sedgwick Pat and Grouch arrive on the stage at Medicine Sap, a frontier town. He unfolds an invalid chair to the astonishment of the natives. When the Indian, princess passes with her father, Pat asks the clerk who she is. The clerk tells him it is Chief "Rain-inthe-Face" and his daughter. Pat is lost in admiration, but has to wheel Grouch to the hotel barroom. In the room Pat thinks of the princess. In the camp the princess thinks of Pat. In the meantime the Grouch is going crazy. Pat comes in and gives him some medicine, but it only gets Grouch on edge. He is sure he is going to die and sends Pat out to get a doctor. The clerk tells Pat that the only doctor in the country is "Heap Much Dope," the Indian medicine man. Pat beats it to the Indian camp, gets the medicine man, sends him to the hotel and remains to flirt with the princess. In the meantime the medicine man calls on the Grouch, and the latter promptly kicks him out of the room. So the medicine man declares war. The town people learn that the Indians are coming and wonder what to do. Princess promises to save them and she and Pat set out. Pat gets frightened when he sees the Indians and climbs a telegraph pole. The Indians try to smoke him off, but Pat throws down a high tension wire and puts the Indians out of commission. 'SOUP AND NUTS. Joker Comedy. Written by Ben (John. Produced by Allan Curtis. Hanianda Gale Henry Lillie Lillian Peacock Frank Milburn Morante Capt. Salt Wm. Franey Heine Chas. Conklin Lillie, the daughter of Hamanda, is beloved by Frank but Hamanda strongly discourages this attachment. Capt. Salt loves Hamanda and is coming to call upon her when Frank, endeavoring to escape the ^\Tath of Hamanda bumps into him. Capt. Salt suggests that Hamanda and Lillie take a trip upon his ship and so avoid the nuisance — and, likewise, give him an opportunity of pressing his own suit. Hamanda agrees and the sulky Lillie is dragged away. But their departure is seen by Frank, who hides on the back of the machine until they arrive at the wharf and, having no money, uses a boat which he finds to take him out to the ship. As he attempts climbing up on the deck, he sees Heine, the mate, and falls into the water in trying to escape him. He finally hides in a boat covered with sail. The crew headed by Heine, plot against Captain Salt; and just as that worthy is assisting the idol of his heart at the rail, they tie the two; Lillie sees this and \\it\i the aid of Frank rescues the pair — thus winning the good will of the discomforted couple and also Hamanda's consent to their marriage — and poor Heine and the crew are made to walk the gangplank, which in "land" language means a dip in the ocean. COWBOYS ELECT GRASSBY MEMBER ^NTIL he was cast for the role of a Mexican in "Liberty," Bertram Grassby, the Universal City actor, had never ridden a horse. When the company arrived at the location in San Fernando Valley, the cowboys discovered Grassby's lack of education along this line and picked out a "bad horse" for him to ride. Grassby decided that while in Rome he would be a Roman and rode the horse down a steep embankment, where the animal had to slide down the entire distance on its haunches. Grassby stuck. This delighted the cowboys of the company beyond measure and Grassby was voted a regular at once. Nestor ^^Some Medicine Man'' Comedy.