Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1918)

ADVANCE PRESS STORIES For Use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or to be Sent to the Newspaper Prior to and During the Display of “Too Many Millions” A Paramount Picture. WHAT WOULD YOU WITH ONLY FORTY MILLION DOLLARS? WALLACE REID HAS SPLENDID ROLE IN TOO MANY MILLIONS’ WALLACE REID A BOOK AGENT IN NEWEST PICTURE This is a Vital Question to Wallace Reid in New Film, “Too Many Millions” At First a Starving Book Agent Then Millionaire Who Has Many Adventures His Role in “Too Many Millions” One of the Best of His Screen Career O UPPOSE you were a young ^ man and suppose you had forty million dollars. Then suppose someone stole the money from you. And suppose you were caught in a fire with a girl you loved, and suppose that you and the girl escaped with your lives, blit without much clothes. What would you do next? That’s the plight that Walsingham Van Dorn and Desiree Lane found themselves in one night. Walsingham’s first move was to throw blankets over Desiree and himself, and his second act was to call a preacher who was watching the fire, and arrange for his marriage with Desiree. His third move was to get a job the next day so as to support his bride. As for the other moves the happy couple made — they are all shown in that delightful comedy, “Too Many Millions,” which will be displayed at the Theatre next Wal lace appears as Walsingham Van Dorn and beautiful Ora Carewe is Desiree Lane. Why They Like Reid ALLACE REID’S admirers like to see him in different situations. W^hy? Because they always realize that he will get the better of the situations and come out with flying colors. Most of his recent picture successes have presented him as a young man who had to overcome large-sized obstacles. His latest picture, ‘Too Many Millions,” which is the bill at the Thea tre this week, is no exception to the rule, although it is quite different in development from any picture Mr. Reid has ever dpne . WALLACE REID has the part to which he is best suited in his latest Paramount Picture, “Too Many Millions,” which will be shown at the theatre next As Wal singham Van Dorn, he is first shown as a poor young man trying to make a living selling books. Then comes a bolt from the blue. Two wealthy skinflint uncles of his are suddenly killed in a motor accident and Walsingham finds himself the possessor of a cool forty millions of dollars by the terms of their will. The cool forty millions, however, make things warm for Walsingham. In the first place a beautiful young woman, Miss Desiree Lane, shows up and tells him that two millions of the money belongs to her, that his uncles robbed her father of it and caused his death. The next thing to happen is the discovery that Van Dorn’s confidential agent, Wilkins, has fled with the forty millions. Taking the girl. Van Dorn goes in pursuit of him in a motor car. They stop for gasoline and while they are at a garage officers take the car away from them. He and Desiree go to a nearby inn for the night, and at dawn the inn catches fire and they barely escape with their lives. Then Van Dorn and Desiree marry and the bridegroom takes a job in the garage to pay for the gasoline. They like the life so well that they live on in the little village quite happily for two years with no money except what Van Dorn earns. Then Wilkins unexpectedly appears and offers to return the forty millions of money, but they hesitate to take it. What would you have done? .. 13 T TiS newest photoplay, “Too I Many Millions,” a comedy of money, love and adventure, which will be shown at the theatre next , affords Wallace Reid one of the best roles of his screen career. In this picture he is a book agent who suddenly inherits forty millions of dollars and the entire course of his existence naturally is changed thereby. He starts to live the life of a man of wealth, but soon falls victim to the ennui which often overcomes the idol rich. Then follow a series of rapid fire adventures, involving a beautiful heroine whose father had been robbed by the book agent’s uncles, and a chase after the millions after they have vanished suddenly. There are many notable scenes, one being the burning of an inn in which the hero and heroine narrowly escape with their lives. The story is in a light comedy vein throughout, and Mr. Reid is said to have his best light comedy role since “Believe Me, Xantippe.” Ora Carewe is leading woman, playing Desiree Lane, and Tully Marshall is Wilkins, the absconding financial agent. Others who have important parts are Charles Ogle, James Neill, Winifred Greenwood, Noah Beery, Percy Wilkins .and Richard Wayne. The picture was adapted by Gardner Hunting from Porter Emerson Browne’s novel, “Someone and Somebody.” The scenes were photographed by Charles Rosher and James Cruse was the director.