Universal Weekly (1923-1925)

40 Universal Weekly August 9, 1924 "THE IRON MAN" No. 13— "The Crisis" Universal Chapter Play Starring LUCIANO ALBERTINI DICK and Arline are rescued by Paul. Mimi and the crooked lawyer are trying to make Arline's guardian turn over to them Arline's inheritance which is rightfully hers that day. The guardian knows Mimi is not the rightful heiress but he can do nothing if Arline does not appear. Arline and Dick appear after a running fight with Despard's gang. Paul has gone to get back the pearls from the lawyer's apartment. He is apprehended by the gang and is handed over to a policeman. Mimi quickly makes her way to the lawyer's apartment where she takes the pearls out of the safe. Ax'line and Dick arrive just in time to be overpowered by the gang and locked in a garage. They break open the doors and give chase to Arline and Despard. They take a short cut over a railroad trestle, but as they reach the middle a train demolishes the car. "TEMPEST CODY GETS HER MAN" Universal Two-Reel Action Drama Starnng MARIE WALCAMP WHILE Jack Rutledge is away hunting cattle rustlers, Pete Munsey breaks into his ranch and "sells" it to Tempest Cody, a newcomer, for twenty thousand dollars, two thousand of which he receives in cash. Jack, formerly a revenue officer who once saved Tempest's life, returns and discovers what has happened, but keeps silent, hoping to trap the man who forged his name to the deed. ^he picture of the hour! f Give them Boy! iheyll 1 it to How love it I meanwhile taking the job of foreman on the ranch. Pete returns, rustles some of Jack's cattle, collects the rest of the payment and abducts Tempest. Jack pursues, but is captured by Pete's accomplices. He later manages to effect his and Tempest's escape, overpowers Pete, recovers the twenty thousand dollars and wins Tempest's lasting affection. Universal-Jewel With CLARA BOW and a splendid cast JOHN WARINER, facing financial i-uin, accepts the proposition of a bootlegger to lend his name to the business of illegal wine-selling. Then comes the gradual disintegration of the Wariners. The coarsening, weakening process goes on through a cycle of dramatic incidents until at last Wariner stands stricken in the ruin of all that he loved best — his own hand having cast the boomerang that has returned to shatter the lives of all three. The daughter that Wariner has sought to shield is a victim of the poison which had wrecked the lives of so many other men's children; the beautiful wife for a time loses her eyesight, due to wood alcohol. Out of their tribulation comes a new vision and after bitter atonement comes peace and understanding. "HYSTERICAL HISTORY COMEDIES" One-Reel Universal Mirthquakes "WiUiam TeU" TELL, pursued by the tyrant's troops because he refuses to doff his hat to the latter's edict, escapes up a cliff by means of a windlass manned by his wife. Eventually caught by the soldiers. Tell is given a chance to win his pardon if he will shoot an apple from his son's head. He begs for, and obtains, two practise shots; the first cuts the rope of a suspended water bucket, drenching the tyrant — the second arrow gets caught in a spectator's beard and carries him over the house-tops. Tell, Jr., takes his position, but the tyrant refuses to permit him to substitute a pumpkin for the apple. As Tell is about to shoot, a Swiss Apple Hawk (a very rare bird) swoops down and steals the target. Another apple is set in place, and Tell scores a bullseye. The tyrant wishes to try a shot at Tell, so Willy, Jr., bends his arrow, so that it boomerangs and pierces the seat of the tyrant's pants. "TRAFFIC JAMS" Century Two-Reel Comedy Featuring HARRY McCOY HARRY, on his way to see his girl, gets caught in the busy traffic jam at the crossing of the main street and after trying many times in vain to get across he hires a big ballshaped steel cage designed for getting one across the street in safety. After rolling around quite a bit, Harry bumps into his rival's car and puts it on the bum. He then rolls his merry way to see his girl and while he is there the rival bursts through the wall, car and all. Unable to control it, the rival lets the car run wild and everybody in the house has a merry chase keeping out of its way. Finally it gets out again and Harry and his girl go after it on a tandem bicycle. The car and the tandem are eventually wrecked, but Harry gets his girl and the rival gets the gate. "SWEET DREAMS" Two-Reel Century Comedy Starring WANDA WILEY WANDA falls in love with a lawyer, whose car she "borrows." He has been forced into an engagement by his mother to a society vamp. While delivering the wash to her wealthy rival's home, Wanda horns in on a swagger entertainment and breaks up the show by pinchhitting as a jazz dancer. Later Wanda — she is the rightful owner of her rival's wealth on account of a mix-up when a hospital nurse accidentally substituted their identification tags — races by auto, motorbike and horseback to stop the wedding of her sweetheart to her rival. Arriving at the rival's home, Wanda kidnaps the minister and bridegroom and — marries the latter herself. "THE IRON MAN" No. 14— 'bidden Dangers!" Universal Chapter Play Starring LUCIANO ALBERTINI THE Weazel jumps from the car with the gems and goes to Dick and Arline, who have leaped from the auto to safety. They phone Graham, telling him they're returning with the pearls. Graham obtains a postponement of the hearing to enable him to bring Arline in person to the referee. Arline, Dick and the Weazel are pursued by Despard and his gang. The girl is captured and taken to a cave, while the other two, chased by the gang, jump from a high cliff and return by a round-about route to the cave wherein Arline is held prisoner. In the ensuing fight the Weazel is shot by Despard, and Dick and Arline fall through a trap-door into a deep pit.