Paramount Press Books (1919)

Cast and Story of “PARTNERS THREE” For use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or for General Publicity in the Exploitation of Enid Bennett’s New Photoplay A Paramount Picture Dainty Enid Bennett9 s Latest Photoplay “Partners Three" A Stirring Story of Desert Life Popular Paramount Star Ideally Cast in Role of Exceptional Strength Which Affords Her Rare Opportunities for Dramatic Effort THRIVEN by necessity, Agnes Cuyler, a refined girl, is compelled to accept a position as dancer in a cafe and dance hall. While dancing among the tables one night, Grant Haywood, a drunkard and coward, seizes her and attempts to kiss her. She slaps his face and for this insult to a patron, she is summarily discharged. Haywood, who is smitten by the girl’s charms, follows her out of the resort, pleads remorse, begs her forgiveness and promises to make amends. Disgusted with her life, she ultimately accepts his proffer of marriage, and they go Westward. When it is too late, Agnes discovers the real character of her worthless husband, who is an abusive sot. As they are driving across the desert in an automobile, she tries to prevent him from drinking a whiskey flask, whereupon Haywood brutally throws her out of the machine and leaves her to make her way to town as best she may. Losing her way, Agnes falls exhausted and is found by Hassayampa Hardy, a desert rat, who takes her to his adobe dugout. In the town, Haywood becomes feverstricken and delirious, so that if he had purposed to do so, he is in no position to tell anyone of his wife’s llllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllilllllM “PARTNERS THREE” THE CAST. Cafe Agnes Cuyler, a Dancer. .Enid Bennett Arthur Gould, an Invalid Casson Ferguson Hassayampa Hardy, a Desert Rat John P. Lockney Grant Haywood, Agnes’ Husband Robert McKim Gossip Lydia Yeamans Titus iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiM plight in the desert. Agnes tells her story to Hardy, and it develops that he had been defrauded out of a valuable mining claim by Haywood, for which he had sworn to kill him. When Agnes recovers her strength, Hardy takes her to Sandflat, where she obtains employment as waitress in a railway eating house. While serving table one night, Agnes meets Arthur Gould, a penniless young man of education, who is forced by ill health to live in the desert. When she gives him food, he is thrown out of the restaurant. She gives him refuge in her own cottage, whereupon the tongue of scandal gets busy. Hardy arrives in town after striking it rich, and he forestalls the scandal mongers by 5 taking Agnes and Gould with him to his dugout. Meanwhile, Haywood recovers and searches for his wife, his quest taking him to Hardy’s place. Haywood sees Hardy scooping up his rich ore, and meeting Agnes, hypocritically tells her that he has reformed. After stealing Hardy’s claim notice, he induces Agnes to return with him to town. Unknown to her, he has drained the water barrels, thereby forcing Hardy and Gould to return to town. Gould falls exhausted, and Hardy proceeds to the town for assistance. While dusting Haywood’s coat, Agnes discovers the stolen claim notice. She accuses him, and a quarrel follows. Haywood is choking her when Hardy bursts into the door. Haywood escapes by means of a window, and, followed by Hardy, flees into the desert. Hardy shoots a hole through the gasoline tank of Haywood’s automobile, and then, when Haywood is seeking to drink water from a canteen, Hardy perforates it with a bullet. Haywood sinks exhausted, and when Hardy is satisfied that his enemy’s end will be that to which he had exposed his wife some weeks previously, he returns to his dugout to find Agnes and Gould safe. He tells them the story of Haywood’s fate, and it is quite apparent that the friendship of Agnes and Gould has ripened into love.