Universal Weekly (1928-1930, 1933-1936)

30 Universal Weekly April 13, 1929 UNIVERSAL SYNOPSES “SHE’S A PIPPIN” IKE and MIKE COMEDY MIKE and Ike got shore leave and looked very fetching in their sailor suits and smart caps. Since they were unsuccessful in making a date they started down the street to look for one. It didn’t seem to be sailors’ day for various “pippins” turned them down cold. However, they finally saw two likely dames breezing by and it didn’t take long for the boys to pull up alongside. As they reached the girls’ home they saw a man crawling through the window. It wasn’t until some very unpleasant things had happened that they discovered they were chasing father, who had forgotten his keys. Things got so hot that the boys leaned out of the window to cool off. They glimpsed two girls coming down the street. In a minute they had stepped out of the window leaving father and the girls to finish their violent discussion. “THE DIAMOND MASTER” Universal Chapterplay No. 10 — “The Reckoning” OR the sake of Doris’ safety Van regretfully releases Latham. At dawn Doris and her father are prisoners of Latham’s men in a mountain fastness. Latham comes to them and gives orders that they are all to move that night. Tug, speeding back from an errand, sees a lone man in a mountain pass and his curiosity is aroused.. He investigates, and discovers the hidingplace of Latham, also the fact that Doris is a prisoner there. He dashes away for help. Meanwhile Van and the state troopers have been conducting a desperate but fruitless search. Tug finally finds Van and they set out to aid Doris. They arrive just as Latham and his men are departing. Van descends a “TIGE’S GIRL FRIEND” Stern Brothers Comedy BUSTER BROWN SERIES LITTLE FLUFFY, Mary Jane’s dog, was terribly ill. Tige, Buster and Mary Jane were all worried. When Fluffy told Tige how that brute of an English bulldog had nearly killed her in order to get her bone, Tige saw red and went out to shadow that brute until he caught him in a vacant lot. When Tige returned he told Fluffy a vivid tale of the encounter. Troubles never come singly. Grandpa was sick and the children had to visit him at the hospital. Rastus arrived just as they were leaving, so they took him along to keep track of Tige while they were in the hospital. Rastus and Tige didn’t like being left out, so they watched their chance and soon arrived in the ward. The doctor caught sight of them and made it very plain that dogs were not welcome. Not until it landed on Grandpa’s nose did they discover a fly had arrived with the children. By the time Buster got through trying to swat the unwelcome pest and Rastus had upset a bottle of ether that ward was a busy place. narrow trail and rescues Doris. Latham misses Doris and follows, while the others are searching for Kellner, who has disappeared. Doris and Van find their way blocked by a landslide, where they are overtaken by Latham. Knowing that he himself is trapped and his career finished, for he has seen the state troopers coming, Latham prepares to shoot them down. Old Kellner appears and falls upon him from the canyon above. They fight on the edge of a tremendous chasm. Van tries to stop them, but they fall over the precipice. Kellner has given his life to save theirs, and has taken with him the enemy who had fought him all his days. “HEN FRUIT” Oswald Cartoon OSWALD was foreman of the egg factory, but even with every modern device in the way of alarm clocks, it was difficult for him to get on the job. The time clock, however, never missed a trick and didn’t let any late pullets get by. A young cockerel managed to sneak in, and certainly disrupted the business of egg laying! Oswald was so long pulling his basket that before he got out to his tin lizzie a goat roaming around had swallowed it. Oswald had a terrible time with that goat, but finally made him disgorge his lizzie. Of course, it was chewed to bits, but Oswald collected it in a couple of tin cans and soon shook it together again. “WILD BLOOD” Western Thrill Series With Rex, supported by Jack Perrin REX, the wild stallion, has evaded capture by Luke Conner, leader of a gang of rustlers. Conner plans to take his beautiful white mare and colt. While pursuing the mare he sees a prairie schooner in the distance, with a beautiful girl on the driver’s seat. His men capture the colt while he watches the girl. Her father and another man take possession of a cabin near his hangout. Pretending to be a friendly neighbor he calls and discovers that Jack Crosby, an erstwhile cowpuncher, is helping Mary’s father, Old Man Ellis, to work the nearby mine. Mary is discontented and lonesome and Conner persuades her that her beauty and youth are being wasted. After much effort Ellis finally strikes a rich vein. He hides his gold planning to accumulate a good stake with which to surprise Mary and Jack. One day while the men are working in the mine, Conner comes and persuades Marv to leave with him for the city. Starlight, Jack Crosby’s clever mare, sees them and sensing danger takes Mary’s sun-bonnet to the mine shaft and drops it down to attract the attention of the men. Racing to the cabin they find that Conner has taken Mary and Old Man Ellis’ gold. Rex, who has wandered the plains disconsolately since the capture of the colt, catches sight of Conner and Mary driving away. As Jack, who has overtaken the runaway couple, struggles with Conner and knocks him from his wagon, Rex leads a stampede of wild horses in pursuit of the fleeing Conner. The penitent Mary is glad to have been saved from her folly and returns with her father and Jack, who has long been in love with her.