Select Pictures Magazine (1918)

SELECT PICTURES MAGAZINE Page 5 SYNOPSIS No. 1 Constance Talmadge, presented by Lewis J. Selznick, will be seen at the Theatre on in her latest Select Picture, “A Lady’s Name,” taken from Cyril Harcourt’s play of the same name, which was adapted for the screen by Julia Crawford Ivers. Mabel Vere, a young and popular writer, is engaged to be married to Gerald Want- age, a priggish young man, with whom she is growing dissatisfied. To be relieved of the ennui caused by her very conservative fiance and also to obtain good copy for a novel she intends writing, she advertises in one of the daily papers for a husband. Maud Bray, a suffragette of determined character, with whom Mabel lives, is thor- oughly disgusted with her friend. Maud’s one ambition is to “strike off the shackles that man has forged for woman.” The first applicant to Mabel’s ad arrives, but proves impossible and is hurriedly ushered out by the masculine Maud. Then Gerald Wantage arrives to express his dis- satisfaction of the ad which he had seen in the paper. He finally gets her to promise that she will not answer any more of the letters. After Gerald’s departure, Adams, a but- ler who is anxious to find a wife with a little money, arrives. He invites Mabel to tea the following afternoon at the house where he works, telling her that his master will be out. Mabel, delighted to have found an interesting character, accepts.. The third applicant is Noel Corcoran, whom she turns away. The next afternoon she keeps her engagement to have tea with Adams and his fellow servants. The cook, who is in love with Adams, objects to Mabel and finally becomes hysterical. Suddenly Adams discovers that his master is coming home to dinner with friends. The cook refuses to prepare the dinner and Mabel finally decides to cook the dinner herself. Adams’ master turns out to be Noel Cor- coran. He finds Mabel preparing the din- ner and on hearing the story enters into the spirit of it. Mabel finally breaks her engagement with Gerald. Adams tries to blackmail her, when he is stopped by Noel, who suddenly appears upon the scene. When Noel learns of her broken engagement he takes things into his own hands and before long Mabel is the proud possessor of her second en- gagement ring, which promises to be the last. SYNOPSIS No. 2 PROGRAM COPY SELECT PICTURES LEWIS J. SELZNICK presents Constance Talmadge in “A Lady’s Name” by CYRIL HARCOURT Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers Directed by Walter Edwards Cast of Characters: Mabel Vere . CONSTANCE TALMADGE Noel Corcoran Harrison Ford Gerald Wantage Emory Johnson Maud Bray Vera Doria Flood James Farley Adams Fred Huntley Bird John Steppling Bentley Truman Van Dyke Emily Zazu Pitts Mrs. Haines Lillian Leighton Margaret Emma Gerdes Photography by James C. Van Trees SYNOPSIS No. 3 After a vacation of two months Con- stance Talmadge will again make her ap- pearance in a spick and span new comedy. Lewis J. Selznick presents her to the Theatre on in her latest Select Picture, an adaptation of Cyril Harcourt’s play, “A Lady’s Name.” Mabel Vere, a writer, bored with her fiance and seeking new material for a novel, advertises in one of the daily news- papers for a husband. Several applicants present themselves, among them a butler, who appears to be interesting copy. He invites her to call at the house and have tea with him and the other servants while his master is away. She accepts. The next day she calls to have tea with Adams. The other servants are present and among them the cook, who confides to her that she expects to marry Adams. Mabel naively answers that she thought Adams was going to marry her, and at that the cook immediately becomes hysterical and vituperative. Adams answers the phone and returns to say that his master is coming back to din- ner after all. Cook refuses to prepare the meal and Mabel volunteers. When the master returns she discovers that he is Noel Corcoran, an applicant who appeared in answer to her ad the day before. Mabel’s fiance calls to upbraid her because of the insult she tendered him in inserting the ad which he has seen in the paper. They quarrel and the engagement is broken. Later Adams, the butler, arrives and tries to blackmail Mabel, claiming that he has lost all chances of marrying the cook be- cause of her. But Noel soon arrives and saves the situation by sending Adams about ' his business. That done, he turns to Mabel, finds that she has broken her engagement, and prevails upon her to accept another engagement ring from him. SYNOPSIS No. 4 Constance Talmadge is presented by Lewis J. Selznick in Select’s latest offering, “A Lady’s Name,” written by Cyril Har- court, author of “A Pair of Silk Stock- ings,” which will be seen at the The- atre on . “A Lady’s Name” introduces Constance as a young and popular writer in search of literary material. She is engaged to a rather priggish young man, but is rapidly tiring of him. In order to secure material for a novel she advertises in a newspaper for a husband, thereby shocking her room- mate, a young suffragette, and incensing her fiance, who asks her to promise not to answer any more of the letters that she has received. She promises but she has already answered three of the applicants who are due to call. The applicants arrive, the first one prov- ing frankly impossible, but the second is a solemn little man, a butler, and Mabel is delighted with him as a subject for ma- terial and agrees to have tea with him at the house where he works while his master is away. The third applicant is a hand- some young man, Noel Corcoran, and Mabel becomes very much interested in him, though she hides her interest and sends him away because she thinks he needs to be taken down. While she is having tea with the butler the next day his master unexpectedly en- ters and she finds him to be her third ap- plicant. On a bet she answers two more of the letters which she has received which causes her to break her engagement with her fiance. She then becomes engaged to Noel Corcoran. SYNOPSIS No. 5 Mabel Vere is a young and popular writer. She shares a pretty little flat with Maud Bray, a suffragette of determined character. Mabel is engaged to be married to Gerald Wantage, but she has become aware of growing dissatisfaction with her somewhat priggish fiance. However, she tries to ig- nore this discontent, working off her unrest in her own original ways. One of her “ways” is to advertise for a husband. She hopes to obtain good copy from the applicants, and she invites three of them to call. Adams, a butler, arrives, in whom Mabel sees prospects for a good story. She ac- cepts his invitation to tea for the follow- ing afternoon at the house where he works, telling her that his master will be out. Noel Corcoran is the third applicant, to whom Mabel does not show the interest that she feels in him. The next day she keeps her engagment for tea, only to find that the butler works at Noel Corcoran’s house. He informs her that her fiance is making bets with the men at the club that she will not answer any more letters in reply to her ad. Mabel decides to punish him, so she answers two of the newly arrived, lurid letters. Want- age discovers it and after a quarrel they break their engagement. When Noel learns of the broken engagement he calls and suc- ceeds in impressing Mabel with the fact that he is the right man for her. This is the brief story of the interesting and amusing comedy, “A Lady’s Name,” in which Lewis J. Selznick presents Con- stance Talmadge, and which Select Pic- tures will offer to the Theatre on .