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SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLE
For Use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or of Editors Desiring Special Story on Wallace Reid or His Latest Photoplay, “Too Many Millions,”
A Paramount Picture
Wallace Reid in His Neiv Paramount Thotoplay, *"Too Many Millions/' Has Hard Tinancial Nut To Crack
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He Asks You to Tell Him What You Would Do With Forty Millions of Dolla:rs If You Had a Lovely Wife and Were' Happy in Your Poverty.
WHAT would you do with forty millions of dollars? Would the iwssession of sucli wealth add to your happiness if you were happily married, satisfied with your job and were doing well? These are the problems Wallace Reid is called upon to solve as Walsingham Van Dorn, a book agent, in his latest and perhaps most delightful photoplay, “Too Many Millions,” which will be
shown at the — — —
Theatre next
Van Dorn is wondering where his next meal is coming from when he suddenly inherits forty millions by the death of two uncles in an automobile accident. He lives the life of a jaded capitalist for a time and then with satiety comes unhappiness and weariness. But he meets the one woman one day and when his wealth disappears through the dishonesty of his financial agent, he gets a job* in a garage, marries the woman he loves and or two years he is the happiest man in the world.
“When my agent returns my millions to me,” said Mr. Reid in
discussing his new photoplay, “he finds me a happy man contented to live upon my small wages. I know that the possession of the money will heap upon me many undesired responsibilities and both my wife and I are in a quandary. We don’t know what to do with the money and we leave it to the audience. What would you do?”
And that is the question everyone will be called upon to answer when
the picture is shown at the
Theatre. It is a delightful comedy, full of surprises and affords Mr. Reid one of the best roles of his career.
As a man of varied accomplishments, Wallace Reid has no equal on the screen. He has done everything that scenario writers can think of — and some that he thought of himself — including falls, fights, dives, and even a female impersonation with John Bunny in the early part of his screen career. It wa^ during the filming of the “Los House,” one of his earlier productions, that he was required to jump from the third story of a burning
building into a life net. As he was falling, one of the men holding the net tripped over a hose, while another misguided person turned a full stream of water upon Reid with the result that he hit on th6 edge of the net and was laid up for a month with a badly dislocated hip. Another big scene that Reid did was the great saloon fight iri “The Clansman,” in which Reid and the men fought all day. Over twenty-five hundred feet of film were taken of this scene.
While playing opposite Geraldine Farrar in the famous screen version of “Joan the Woman,” Wallace Reid reached the pinnacle of success as the unsurpassed popularity of the production testifies as he did in “The Woman God Forgot,” and “The Devil Stone.”
Mr. Reid’s latest Paramount successes include “Believe Me, Xantippe,” “The Source,” “The House of Silence,” and “The Man From Funeral Range.” His characterizations in these photoplays have justified the claim of his admirers that he is the “class’est” player in motion pictures today.
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