Paramount Press Books (1917)

= r _ aw ne ~ fF a WW Si ue oT Le oa 5 ent at . ye % ‘Tr C %=hts D ST m J ba Ged = . ie _ For Use of Exhibitors in Ther" House Organs or for General Publicity. Foal A Paramount Picture “THE VAMP” DELIGHTFUL PHOTOPLAY FOR DAINTY MISS ENID BENNETT Story Deals with Young Wardrobe Girl who by Her “Vamping” Tactics Frustrates Big German Spy Plot. “THE VAMP” The Cast Nancy Lyons, a Wardrobe Girl. . . .Enid Bennett Robert Walsham, a Settlement Worker Douglas MacLean James Walsham, his Uncle..... Charles French Phil Weil, a Labor Agitator. ...Robert McKim Mr. Fleming, a German Spy Melbourne MacDowell Manus Mulligan, a Miner... .. John P. Lockney THE STORY ANCY LYONS, eighteen years old, sweet and lovable, is assistant to the mistress of the wardrobe of Musical Comedy company, and is utterly unlike the chorus girls with whom she associates and who are decidedly vampirish in their manner. Nancy loves Robert Walsham, a settlement worker, who is to leave within a few days for Ore Junction, Pa., where he is to take charge of a Community House for Miners. Walsham had paid some attention to Nancy, but she has not quite succeeded in bringing him ‘to the point of popping the question. In desper‘ation, she resolves to utilize the ‘“vamp’’ tactics which she had heard the chorus girls discuss so learnedly, and one night arrays herself in the gorgeous evening gown of Mazie Evans, an actress, and when Walsham appears, she practices her vampirish arts on him with signal success. Before he leaves he has asked Nancy to become his wife, and repenting somewhat of her method, she fiercely resolves to prove herself worthy of the man she is engaged to wed. The couple are married and in due course reach Ore Junction, where they are met by James Walsham, Bob’s uncle, who conducts them to the Community House where the principal citizens of Ore Junction are gathered to bid them welcome. Among these are Phil Weil, an evil influence among the miners, ‘r. Fleming, ‘a mysterious man who secretly is a German spy " , wa eee hen ee at overalls, who observes Nancy with unashamed admiration. Lae and Manus Mulligan, a miner philosopher in tee Bs B During the progress of a benefit for the suf| fering Belgians at the Community House, Weil harangues a mob of miners at a nearby saloon — In the Community “vamp” and incites them to strike. House, Nancy dresses as a their marriage. Nancy and Bob are having a good time, and they are observed by Weil, who uses the incident as an argument with the miners against the mine owners, he declaring that Bob and Nancy are wasting their money in fast living. Attracted by the excitement, the miners and they descend upon Nancy and Bob just as the former is singing a popular melody to her husband. Nancy is scolded for flirting with her husband, and she meekly promises to be good in the future. A few days later, Bob leaves Ore Junction with a detachment of Boy Scouts whom he secretly has been training, and Weil takes advantage of his absence to annoy Nancy with his attentions. Nancy realizes that Weil is playing some secret game and she encourages him in order to wrest his secret from him. She confides her plan to Manus Mulligan and hides him in a room where she is to receive Weil. The latter brings with him a flask of liquor and she prevails upon him to drink and under the influence of the lipuor he tells her of the impending miners’ strike which is to be called that night. Nancy holds the attention of Weil until he Bob's uncle joins | in celebra— tion of the second anniversary—two weeks—of is drunk, and through the window she sees the © miners who are in search of him. She pulls up | she 1% the shade and as the miners approach, quietly sits beside Weil on a couch. The men | are infuriated at the spectacle and they rush into ~ Nancy informs them that Weil has — confessed that he was paid to foment a strike They are — the house. and she is corroborated by Mulligan. about to deal roughly with Weil when two Secret Service operatives enter with Fleming — It transpires that Fleming is a When. between them. German spy and Weil his paid tool. asked by Uncle Walsham to tell how she wrung so important a confession from Weil, Nancy ex— He mutters, plained that she ‘““‘vamped”’ him. ‘‘Thank the Lord!’ and turns his back as Bob takes her into his arms and congratulates himself that he has the fairest “‘vamp”™ ‘4 that ever vamped anybody anywhere. ep » “td