Universal Weekly (1920, 1923-27)

28 Universal Weekly September 22, 1923 Additional Exploitation and Publicity for "WHERE IS CAST John Harley Jack Hoxie Sallie Summers Mary Philbin Bimbo McGurk Bob McKenzie Buck Osborne Sid Jordan Wild Honey ......Slim Cole Lawyer Brown ...Joseph Girard Indian Servant, Bernard Seigel THE STORY JOHN HARLEY has a job juggling milk cans for a big milk company in a small Eastern town, but he isn’t exactly stuck on it and, with his friend Bimbo McGurk, makes it as light as he can by getting what fun there is out of it. Sally Summers is unhappily working out her salvation in a lunch room in the same town, juggling plates of various sizes and hollerin’ out her orders to the tune of banging dishes and rattling silver. One fine day along comes an announcement telling John he has inherited half of a big ranch out in the great open spaces. Sally must have received a similar announcement, because she shows up at the lawyer’s office the same day that John does and they discover that they are partners. The lawyer attempts to discourage them, but they are both too anxious for a change and agree to take a chance and see what’s what. John’s friend Bimbo goes along with them, but he has to ride the rods because he hasn’t the price of a seat in the coach. The poor fellow gets left when they are almost there, just because he had to stop too long for a drink of water. The foreman of the ranch to which John and Sally are bound hears of their coming and, desiring the property for himself, plans a little scheme by which he hopes to make the tenderfoots’ visit very short. With the help of the other boys he fakes a terrible town and stages a couple of holdups. John gives them a good run for their money and they finally have to kidnap Sally. When this happens John goes up in the air because he has come to think quite a lot of his new partner, and he starts right in to show these rough riders where they get off. He swipes a motorcycle and chases them right to their lair in the hills. In the meantime Bimbo has wandered into the camp of a tribe of In "WHERE IS THISWEST" StarringJACK HOXIE ajuniversal Scene Cut No. 3 dians, who are in on the game too and have been paid to stage a raid on the cabin in the hills. Bimbo follows them when they start on their trip and enters into the free-for-all fight that follows. With his motorcycle and the help of Bimbo, who doesn’t know who he’s helping, John manages to vanquish his foes and rescue his sweetheart and partner. Bimbo is sure surprised when he finds out who he has been fighting for, and so glad that he doesn’t know what to do. John and Sally, however, are quite sure about their next move and start out to find the nearest parson so that they can make their new partnership a lifetime affair. TRAILERS are one of the greatest helps you can have in selling pictures to the public. Universal has arranged for speedy service on a trailer for any Universal picture you may desire. Address National Screen Service, Inc., 126-130 W. 46th St., N. Y. C., or 732 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago AT A GLANCE “WHERE IS THIS WEST?” BRAND — Universal Attraction STAR— JACK HOXIE PREVIOUS HITS— “Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande,” “Cyclone Bliss” and “Lightning' Bryce.” SUPPORTING CAST — Mary Philbin, Bob McKenzie, Joseph Girard, Sid Jordan. DIRECTED BY— George E. Marshall STORY BY — George C. Hull fll| SCENARIO BY— Clyde DeVinne ^ TIME— Today LOCALE— Western cattle country THE HERALD FRAMED ! John Harley had never been west before and had never before had the pleasure of shooting at any Indians, but he had practiced shooting at milk cans before he left his home town back East and he knew that he should be able to shoot straighter than that. He aimed at the Indians, but he couldn’t hit them. Even when they stood still he couldn’t hit them. He was much perturbed. The whole outdoors seemed full of Indians. It didn’t seem possible that there was enough room for a bullet to get through the crowd without winging one of the copper-hued visitors. He shut his eyes and fired. But nary a redskin bit the dust. It was then that he examined his ammunition. The shells were blanks! Frantically he searched for real bullets. Hundreds of bullets lay around him. All were blanks. He was whipped before the war began. Some one had framed him, had stolen his ammunition, replacing the real bullets with blanks. Then out of the haze of smoke from all the shooting came one clear thought. Hundreds of Indians were shooting at him. Why didn’t some of them hit him? He was big, a nice target. Could they, too, be shooting blanks? There are many laughs and a lot of thrills in “Where Is This West?” the rollicking comedy drama starring Jack Hoxie which comes to this theatre next