Universal Weekly (1920, 1923-27)

Universal Weekly 39 Vol. 18, No. 24 filing,” Jack Hoxie’s Latest and Qreatest THE PLOT HERALD WHO’S WHO 4 JACK HALLOWAY covets the land of David Messiter, cattleman, but Messiter won’t sell. When Ned Bannister escapes from prison and falls into the hands of Halloway, the latter recognizes a tool put into his hands by Fate. He tells Bannister that he won’t give him away to the authorities if he’ll follow instructions. Instructions are to take a herd of sheep, supplied by Halloway, and graze them upon the government land adjacent to the Messiter ranch. The sheep will spoil the land for cattle pasture. Bannister, unwilling to go back to prison, consents. He is gently ordered by the Messiter cowboys to make himself scarce. He declines firmly, and when Messiter himelf come to argue with him he is still firm. Just as he is finished talking with Messiter the latter, on his way to leave, is shot in the back. Bannister is suspected, but his gun is 0. K. and nothing can be proved. Helen Messiter, niece of the dead man, comes to the ranch from the state capitol, where she has been living with her guardian, the governor, and as she drives to the ranch she meets the scene of a lone man ambushed by many. She saves him and finds out later that he is suspected of killing her uncle. The men who ambushed him were her own cowboys. From then on the desires of Halloway — now directed toward the woman of the I ranch as well as the ranch — perils of Bannister and the impulses of the young girl who has taken charge of the Messiter ranch tangle up in a maze of dramatic adventure with a final solution in a thrilling climax. WITH her sporty roadster straining at the rough climb over mountain roads, Helen Messiter came to a stop in the center of a fair open space surrounded by tumbled rocks and brush. On her right, behind a rock, the hat of a lone man could be seen bobbing up and down, with his arm occasionally appearing, a gun in his hand. He stopped firing when he saw her. On her left, more distant, were a Scene from "THE MAN TROM WYOMING Starring d/vCKs A, UNIVERSAL attraction One-column Scene Cut. Ad. Punches 1 — The big dramatic angle of this picture is the feud between the cattlemen and sheepmen. Some of the bitterest gun fights ever staged in the West have sprung out of disputes over the grazing right to the open range country. 2 — Play up Jack Hoxie’s name strong. It stands as the symbol of the real western cowboy, the spirit of the Old West. Hoxie pictures are always crammed with action — hard riding, shooting — full of the romance of the open range. 3 — Emphasize the fact that the picture is a screen version of the famous novel, “Wyoming,” by William MacLeod Raine. His books are widely read and are authentic narratives of life in the western range country. dozen men, entrenched behind a string of boulders. They stopped firing for a moment. What was the fight? Why were a dozen men attacking one lone man? She didn’t stop to seek an answer to the question — it merely flitted through her mind and, simultaneously, she threw the car into gear, shoved off the road and motored through the sandy soil to the spot where the lone man was valiantly defending himself. She commanded him to step on the running-board. Thus protected, he made his “getaway” from the men who were after him. The Messiter ranch presented an ominous look when Helen drove into the yard. She had come from the state capitol to look into the death of her uncle, owner of the ranch. She introduced herself to a group of sour-looking cowboys. NED BANNISTER JACK HOXIE Helen Messiter.... Lillian Rich David Messiter. William Welsh Jack Halloway Claude Payton Red Ben Corbett Jim McWilliams Lon Poff Sing Lee Wah George Kuwa Governor of Wyoming James Corrigan Display Lines One Man Holding His Own Against a Dozen in a Desperate Battle of the Western Range Country. They Were Sure to Get Him . . . But Just as They Were Closing in On Him a Roadster Whirled Up and He Escaped in a Maze of Dust. See Jack Hoxie in “The Man from Wyoming.” Cowboys Hitched Up Their Gun Belts and Swore. Sheep Grazing on Their Range. Sheep! The Curse of the Cattle Country! The Law Gave the Cattlemen no Protection — and the Sheep Herders Were Very Straight Shots. See the Big Feud of the Cattlemen and Sheepmen in Universal’s “The Man from Wyoming.” He Had Been a Cowboy Until He Got Into Trouble and Went to Prison. Then He Escaped and Found Protection in His Home Country — As a Sheep Herder. Stubbornly He Fought to Protect His Sheep Against the Cowmen Who Had Once Been His Pals. See Jack Hoxie in “ The Man from Wyoming.” Great Herds of Cattle on One Slope — Great Herds of Sheep on Another. They Came Together in the Hollow — and Their Herders Came to War! Don’t Miss Jack Hoxie’s Thrilling Western Drama, “The Man from Wyoming.” “I Could Almost Love You If You Were a Cowboy, But You’re a Measely Sheep Herder.” Harsh Words from a Beautiful Girl. But She Was the Owner of a Cattle Ranch and the Sheep Man Was Grazing His “Woolies” On Her Range. See Jack Hoxie in “The Man from Wyoming .” “So you’re Helen Messiter!” exclaimed the oldest. “Well — well, you just saved us from ‘getting’ the man we think killed your uncle!” There is plot and counter-plot, spiced by a dramatic romance, in Jack Hoxie’s latest Universal picture, “The Man from Wyoming,” in which he plays all sorts of a crook — to appearances — and which will entertain you at this theatre next