The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

"HOT APPLICATIONS." -THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -47 The discovery By LYONS and MORAN. CAST. Eddie Eddie Lyons Lee Lee Moran Hiram Quill Fred Gamble Kittie Edith Roberts Scenario by Fred Palmer. Produced by Roy Clements. NESTOR COMEDY. "Yes, I'm fired, and all I get instead of my back pay is three trunks of samples — women's wear. 'Jever hear such nerve ? " "Well, I've got a hard luck story, too. I've inherited my aunt's business, on condition that I run it with my wife, and I haven't any wife!" "Gee whiz! Eddie, that's a cinch. I'll take some of the classy clothes out of my samples, and be your darling wifie. We'll run the store together, and make the rubes sit up on their hind legs and bark!" Asparagus Corners received the good-looking young manager of the store and his smart city wife, with all the excitement which was usually caused by the annual visit of the circus. Hiram Quill, the village lawyer, and his daughter Kittie had been making a bluff at managing the store, but it was easy to see that it needed a change. It got it. Eddie and Lee, who made a distractingly beautiful female, established a beauty parlor and did a rushing trade. The men simply flocked to have facial massage and steam baths with Lee in attendance, while the women fought for the privilege of treatments from Eddie's expert hands. Trouble started when the wives discovered their husbands' sudden interest in their physical appearance, while husbands, who found no supper on the table when they returned in the evening, began ,to suspect that their better halves were growing altogether too interested in the art of beautifying themselves, under the manipulations of the fascinating Eddie. The EAGLE'S WINGS Endorsed by 1,500 Chapters of The Daughters of the American Revolution Enthusiastic Praise from High Government Officials "The Eagle's Wings" plays to capacity at every performance — it makes box-office records. It is an unusually fine drama to use for local patriotic work in connection with the Red Cross— Home Defense Leagues — Boy Scouts — Daughters of the American Revolution. Ask your nearest BLUEBIRD Exchange about booking, or BLUEBIRD Photoplays, Inc., 1600 Broadway, New York. BOOK NOW At last, Mr. and Mrs. Dub chanced to arrive at the Beauty Parlors at the same time. Mrs. Dub was quickly smothered in hot towels by Eddie, and Mr. Dub was totally obliterated from view in the same manner by Lee. Then the two villains joined the hands of their victims, and both went out to flirt with Kittie. Mr. and Mrs. Dub grew tired at last of mere handholding, and snatched off the sheltering towels, discovering each other! Then they leaped from the barber chairs, and rushing into the front of the store, attacked Eddie and Lee tooth and nail. Mrs. Dub won, and getting her hands firmly embedded in Lee's blonde wig, she tore it from his head. Sensation! which was augmented when Hiram declared that as Eddie was not really married the store reverted to him. "If I'm not married I soon will be," cried Eddie, leading forward the blushing Kittie, so all ended merrily as a marriage bell.