Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1918)

EXHIBITOR’S PRESS BOOK CHARLES KENMORE ULRICH, EDITOR PRESS STORIES ! FAMOUS PLAYERS -LASKY CORPORATIOK r ADOLFU ZUKORPrsf JESSEX.lASlCirMc*P/X!iCECaB.DEMaU':P/m*rfo AD CUTS and MATS FACTS CONCERNING WALLACE REID’S LATEST PiaURE “TOO MANY MILLIONS” WALLACE REID, STAR AS a talented and popitlar screen star, Wallace Reid is surpassed by few, if any, motion picture players now before the public. An excellent actor, an artist of discriminating taste and judgment, possessing personal magnetism to a degree unapproached by the average player, he is known among his admirers as the “classiest” man in the silent drama. His record as star is one of unbroken successes and his recent photoplay, “The Man from Funeral Range,” presented him in a characteristic role of unusual powej and effectiveness. But in his latest picture, “Too Many Millions,” Mr. Reid has a heroic role, that of a book agent who inherits vast wealth, loses it suddenly, finds love in a cottage" and when his wealth is restored, he wonders \vhat he shall do with all the money, rhose who know Mr. Reid’s artistry will be assured that the role fits him like a glove and that in his capable hands not a single opportunity to add to its effectiveness is neglected. If he fails to make this one of the most talked of productions of the current season, I shall be keenly disappointed. THE AUTHOR "T'HE story of “Too Many Millions” is based upon the successful novel “Someone and Somebody,” written by Porter Emerson Browne and which scored a decisive hit on its appearance some time ago. Mr. Browne is one of the best known of contemporaneous writers and playwrights of this country, and the story alluded to is accounted as one of his best. THE SCENARIST ^ I *1 IE adaptation of “Too Many Millions” for the screen was made with signal skill by Gardner Hunting, one of the most capable photo-playwrights in the country as his long string of successes amply proves. In his splendid handling of Porter Emerson Browne’s fine novel, he has given us a story that is a happy combination of action, mystery and humor. THE DIRECTOR JAMES CRUSE, who directed “Too Many Millions,” is one of the most versatile men in pictures. As leading man, character man, star and director, he knows film work from every angle. Although a young man, he has appeared in several hundred photoplays. His skillful work displayed in “Too Many Millions,” proves him to be one of the most progressive directors in the field of the silent drama. THE STORY TWALSINGHAM van DORN, a book agent, falls heir to forty millions of dollars by the death of his two uncles. Wall Street brokers who, among many other victims, have robbed the father of Desiree Lane of two millions. The newly made millionaire enters upon his new life with gusto, hut he tires of his idle existence and appeals to Wilkins, his confidential manager, for a remedy to drive away the blues. Wilkins installs Van Dorn in the former home of Desiree Lane, who is now working as cashier in a restaurant. Wlien she reads of Van Dorn’s good fortune, she convinces herself that he is responsible for her misfortunes, and goes to his house, her former home, to extort her two miliions from him. Hence it is that when \^an Dorn awakes in the morning, he finds Desiree watching by his bedside. He laughs at her demand for the restoration of her inheritance, hut is promising to comply ^vhen he learns that Wilkins lias rlecamped wdth his money and that the house lie is in has been attached by creditors. He fiees with Desiree in an automobile, but when his gasoline runs out, the machine is taken from him by detectives. The two are obliged to spend the niglu in an inn and it is burned to the ground, the two escaping in their robes de nuit. In attempting to save his personal effects Van Dorn is almost suffocated, but saved by a garage keeper to whorn he owes the price of ten gallons of gasoline. Deprived of their clothing, they accept garments from a minister and his wife and the two are married. Van Dorn gets a job in the garage and two years later, while they are still honeymooning in their cottage, Wilkins returns with their forty millions, saying he has tired of the responsibility of its custodianship. Van Dorn doesn’t know whether to accept it or not. He finally leaves it to the audience to decide. What would you do? THE SUPPORT A STRONG cast supports Wallace Reid in “Too Many Millions.” Ora Carewe has the leading feminine role of Desiree Lane, Tully Marshall plavs the important character part of Wilkins and James Neill appears as Mr. Lane. Others who round out the cast are Charles Ogle, Winifred Greenwood, Noah Beery, Percy "Williams, E. Pasque, and Richard Wayne. TABLE OF CONTENTS Front Cover — Billing Inside Front Cover Production Cuts and Mats Page Editorial and Contents 1 Special Feature Article 3 Cast and Story 6 Press Reviews 7 Advertising Cuts 9-10-11 Advance Press Stories .... 13-15 Accessories 17 Mail Campaign 18-19 Inside Back — Cover Paper and Slides Back Cover Latest Releases