Universal Weekly (1923-1925)

44 Universal Weekly October 25, 1924 A PAQE OF SYNOPSES "DON'T FALL!" Century Two-Reel Comedy Starring BUDDY MESSINGER BUDDY'S parents are poor, so he decides to go out and make the family fortune. He takes with him his friend Bubbles and they start out. They travel in a boxcar and when the baggage-man sees them there is a chase. From the boxcar they jump into a van and after they are chased by the van driver they jump on an automobile in which a moving picture star is driving to the studio. They get inside the studio and after the gateman finds out that the star doesn't know them, there is another chase and they are thrown out of the studio. They pose as dummies and are taken in the studio. They get into a lot of trouble as they interfere with the different directors on the sets. One of the directors is in need of a colored boy as the one he has been using can't do the work, so when he sees Bubbles he puts him to work and Bubbles does his partso well that they want to sign him up immediately. Buddy acts as his manager and at times gets temperamental as to letting Bubbles do certain things. Bubbles finally becomes a big star with Buddy as his manager and the family fortune is made. "FINANCIALLY EMBARRASSED" Universal One-Reel Comedy Featuring ARTHUR LAKE and OLIVE HASBROUCK ARTHUR was trying desperately to make his expenditures and his salary coincide and still leave himself a little margin of profit to show that he was following the example of Benjamin Franklin. Amusement is usually put on the list of the best regulated families as being a necessity. Therefore Arthur felt entirely justified in taking his girl to the theatre. However, the item of taxicabs, if eliminated, would leave him a handsome balance for the week; so he telephoned to Olive and told her that it was such a nice night, wouldn't she like to walk to the theatre. Olive was agreeable, but when he got to her house he found a taxicab in front of it and Olive with a sprained foot, but an unlessened desire to go to the theatre. Arthur had only brought a dollar along, thinking she might like to have a sundae after. So when the meter stood at .$2, the only thing he could think of was his watch. But there was a long line in thpi pawn-broker's. around the corner from the place where he stopped the cab, and when he came out the extras had already rung up another $2. By the time he got to the theatre he had thirty cents and his tickets. They had missed the first act and they didn't care for the show, anyway, so they came out early. Arthur's deadly rival, Eddie, passed them on the street and Olive suggested he join them, which he was only too glad to do — at Eddie's expense. To Arthur's amazement, the deadly rival ordered a club sandwich and a peach melba as a starter, and when the bill came it was $1.70. The proprietor was just throwing a guy who couldn't pay his bill out the door and Arthur was in as tight a place as he ever expected to be, until his father came hurriedly into the cafe to grab a cup of coffee, and very generously took Arthur out of hock. "WOLVES OF THE NORTH" Universal Chapter Play Starring WILLIAM DUNCAN No. 7— The Man Hunt" ALAN falls thi'ough hole in burning roof and rescues Helen from from the flames. Mears accuses Alan of starting fire to cover up fur theft. Madge, her love scorned by Alan, goes to steal his gold claim. McLeod arrives as Mears and men are storming Chester Post and announces the merger of the two posts made possible because Madge has sold out to the Great Northern. The testimony of an Indian cook incriminates Mears as the slayer of Allerdyce and he is arrested. Alan promises Helen to help her father establish his innocence and traces Dan, Allerdyce's slayer to Blake's outpost. Here, just as he is about to capture his man, an infernal machine, planted by Dan, explodes, tearing the house to pieces. "SWEET DREAMS" Century Two-Reel Comedy Starring WANDA WILEY WANDA and her little brother, "Spec," orphans, live with their foster-mother, who sews for a living. Wanda is out posing in a Dutch costume for an artist, when she is bumped by a car driven by a wealthy young attorney, Harry McCoy. She goes home. The picture of her which the artist just finished accidentally blows away and falls near McCoy. McCoy, thinking it is the girl, starts to flirt with her. Wanda comes back, sees him talking to her picture and, when he turns away, she takes the place of the picture. He drives her home and they are both very much in love with each other. When McCoy gets home his mother tells him that she has picked out a girl for him, but he tells her of meeting the little orphan girl and how much he thinks of her. He also tells his mother that he has a case of finding a girl who has a certain locket, and if the girl is found he has a lot of money to turn over to her which was left by a rich relative. The other girl overhears this and decides to find the locket and get the money. McCoy calls on Wanda, the other girl follows him, sees Wanda with the locket, steals the locket, goes to McCoy's mother, tells her that she is the heiress to the money. Delivering some dresses to McCoy's mother, Wanda overhears them planning for the engagement of McCoy and the other girl. She reads in the paper all about the engagement of McCoy to the girl who is an heiress and was located through her locket. Wanda then realizes that the locket she lost was the locket that would prove that she is the heiress. Luckily she had taken the picture out of the locket which would really prove that she is the rightful heiress, so she takes the picture and starts to where the wedding is going to take place. (Gags of her riding different vehicles in order to get there). She finally gets there, proves her identity and McCoy turns around and marries her, as she is the girl he really loves. International News No. 84 New York Harbor. — Schoolship Newport abandoned in thrilling night fire drill. Yokohama, Japan. — Cloudburst floods new homes in "quake-ravaged" city. Paris, France. — Champion kid scooters of Europe stage new kind of racing thriller. New York Zoological Park. — Zoo experiment shows a turtle will hurry — if he sniffs food. North of Point Barrow, Alaska^ — Ice packs crush many ships in Alaska's worst winter. Santa Cruze, Cal. — Schooner cast ashore in storm, is battered by roaring surf. Mineola, N. Y. — Defying death curve at a mile a minute. At Lakehurst, N. J. {An International Special) United States — Germany.— Shenandoah on world's longest airship journey across U. S. A., as her sister ship ZR-3 soars over Berlin in final tryout before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.