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SPECIAL FEATURE STORY
For Use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or of Editors Who Desire Original Articles on William S. Hart or on “Branding Broadway.”
An Artcraft Picture.
Fancy William S. Hart Wearing A Dress Suit in His New Photoplay, Branding Broadway
Interesting Artcraft Picture Provides Popular Star With Many Strong Situations of Which He Takes Due Advantage, the Result being an Artistic Production.
CAN you fancy “Big Bill” Hart in a dress suit? Well, it was a great affliction to him for the time being, but those who have seen him in white shirt and clawhammer coat in “Branding Broadway,” his latest Artcraft picture are compelled to admit that he presents an excellent appearance. In fact, he demonstrates that dress suits or chaps, red shirts or “B’iled” ones, they are all in the day’s work with an artist of his calibre. J ij .
It is said that “Branding Broadway,” is riotous fun from start to finish.
Here is a really different Hart picture. Bill on Broadway — still a buckaroo, but in new stamping grounds. Bill chasing a crooked detective across Manhattan on a mounted policeman’s horse. Bill in love with a waitress, kidnapping a millionaire’s son and generally transferring the wild west to Gotham. If that isn’t a novelty — what is ?
As stated, “Branding Broadway” is the title and it would be hard to find a better one. For Bill brands the White Way with his own peculiar mark. He shows the rounders where they head in and uses his puncher methods on the gay and festive mavericks of Times Square and vicinity with the result that he wins out in the end after almost turning Broadway upside down and making the North River jump into the East.
It is a “Jimdandy” of a picture, to use a slang phase. It’s the kind of entertainment that anybody can enjoy. It doesn’t require thought to
follow an intricate plot; there isn’t a weep in it — but laughs and excitement and sensation every minute of the way. “Big Bill” Hart, stoical of countenance and demeanor ; quick with the gun, spoiling for a scrap, stern and implacable in his desire for justice — is just as big as ever, but no great life problem confronts him in this story. He is just a live wire from the Arizona mountains and plains, a fellow with nerve and grit and a heart — a regular guy, one might say.
The story is simply that of a puncher who is shipped east against his will but seeing an advertisement that he thinks suits him, goes on to Manhattan and gets the job of taming a mlliionaire’s son. In seeking to get letters from a waitress, he falls in love with the girl himself and in the end it is all straightened out perfectly, with everybody happy. And there is one of the greatest chases that was ever shown when Bill pursues the detective who has stolen the letters.
Mr. Hart directed as usual, assisted by Robert Broadwell. Joe August did the photographic work and C. Gardner Sullivan wrote the story and scenario, too. Pretty Seena Owen is the girl; Arthur Shirley and Andrew Robeson have important roles. “Branding Broadway” will be
shown at the theatre next It
is “some” picture — it is just the kind of entertainment for the whole family that everybody welcomes in these serious days.
William S. Hart
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