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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 47
"MRS. MADAM MANAGER."
By ALLEN CURTIS.
A Joker Comedy, Featuring Gale Henry. Produced by Allen Curtis.
CAST.
Mrs. Madam Manager. ... Gale Henry
Her Husband Milton Sims
Tessie Lillian Peacock
Manager Charles Haeffli
{Copyright 1917, Universal Manufacturing Co.)
Film
"Sure, I'll clean the opry house. Sure, I'll print the tickets, sell them, and take them at the door. Course, I'll pull up the curtain. Delighted, I am sure, to get the props, and to "make up" the actors to "
"I'll just fix you, too," said Mrs. Madam Manager.
Pruneville had real cause to be proud of its opera house. Its manageress, doesn't she do everything in it from taking tickets to filling in on the stage in an emergency? But when the Imperial Burlesquers came to town, one of its members, Tessie, attracts the husband whom the manageress loves dearly. She is determined that she shall not lose the man she has to work so hard to hold. At the rehearsal, which "the company manager calls, a lot of difficulties are encountered, but the doughty manageress is on the job and things are straightened out for the evening performance.
That night finds her a very busy woman — selling and taking tickets and acting as usher. Curtain time finds her behind the scenes to lend a hand while her husband leads the orchestra— not, however, without a lot of "spiritual" assistance. All goes well until the end of the first act when the husband, becoming very thirsty, borrows some money from one of the audience and sneaks off to the family entrance next door. En route, he encounters Tessie, who is not averse to a little refreshment.
The clever work of Dorothy Phillips — her sparkling personality and the wonderful vitality that she throws into her part as "Queen of the Barbary Coast" places
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When it comes time for the second act to open, there is neither an orchestra leader or dance specialist. The manageress perforce must take the
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dancer's place — which she does — tolerantly overlooking the absence of her husband.
But, when the said husband sneaks back to his place in the pit with powder marks of a pair of woman's arms about his neck — and — at the same time Tessie hurries to her place on the stage and the wife sees the powder on her arms — it is too much for her and a fight starts in which everybody becomes mixed. Finally triumphant, she turns her attentions to her battered husband and taking him fondly in her arms assures him that she knows she stopped Tessie just in time to keep from losing him. And, of course, with the bunk so easy, why spill the beans?
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