Universal Weekly (1920, 1923-27)

48 Universal Weekly January 2, 1926 A PAQE OF SYNOPSES “THE HOME MAKER” A Universal-Jewel Co-Starring ALICE JOYCE and CLIVE BROOK CAST Eva Knapp ; Alice Joyce Lester Knapp Clive Brook Stephen Billy Kent Schaffer Henry Maurice Murphy Helen Jacqueline Wells Harvey Bronson Frank Newburg Dr. Merritt George Fawcett Aunt Mattie Farnum, Margaret Campbell Mrs. Anderson Martha Mattox John (janitor) Alfred Fisher Miss West Alice Flower Mrs. Prouty Virginia Boardman Molly Prouty Elaine Ellis Mrs. Hennessey Mary Gordon Mr. Willings Lloyd Whitlock (Length 7,755) LESTER KNAPP was employed as a clerk in the office of a department store. Lester hated his work but had rendered his employer long and faithful service even though it might not have been exactly efficient. By reason of his length of service his fellow-workers looked on him as in line of promotion. However, the boss decided otherwise. Lester didn’t get the raise. Eva Knapp, his wife was efficient, but hated housework. Believed she was fitted for greater things. The Ladies Guild and her neighbors considered her wonderful. She carried her efficiency into her home thus failing to understand her children, thereby making them unhappy. Lester, believing himself worthless, decided to commit suicide. His wife would thus be free of him securing his $10,000 life insurance policy. A fire next door gave him the chance, but again he failed, the result being paralysis from the waist down. Eva took his place in the store where her efficiency won her achievement. The children were happy because he was with them. One day as he slept Eva noticed his legs move. He was better, she thought, and that meant her return to the drudgery of house work. She summoned the family doctor to examine Lester. In the meantime Lester also learned he could walk. When the doctor arrived Lester begged him not to tell Eva of the change arguing that they were now happy but that the time had not yet arrived for him to walk. What the doctor decided furnishes the climax. “A SPEEDY MARRIAGE” Two-Reel Century Comedv Featuring WANDA WILEY WANDA is sole heiress to parental millions. She is awakened by an electrical device which throws her out of bed. Several maids working at once, dress and breakfast her. She is about to go out when a rising storm sends a lightning bolt in through the window. The electric streak passes from one butler to another, going in their mouths and out their sleeves, throwing them into fits, and finally striking Wanda. A cyclone follows the storm and the wind blows so hard that she can’t reach the window to close it. Suddenly the wind stops blowing and she dives at the window, misses aim and goes out, but the window drops and catches her by the feet. Her lover saves her. They sit on the sofa and a young pig licks the back of his neck. Thinking it is Wanda, he turns suddenly and kisses the pig. Her lawyer phones and tells her that she must be married by five o’clock or lose her inheritance. She makes a date to meet her fiance on a street corner and drives madly to the lawyer’s office, followed by traffic cops. She eludes them and gets into a top shop where she stands on a heap of toys and throws them at the police. Escaping again to the street, she is captured after a long chase, but escapes from the corporal’s guard of cops, down a man-hole. She is congratulating herself on losing them when she finds that she is again surrounded, but is caught on the bumper of a speeding car that breaks their ranks and again escapes them, making her getaway in a stolen car, followed by the motorcycle cops. After a wild chase she picks up her waiting lover on the fly at exactly five o’clock. They collide with another car. There is an explosion. On top of all the wreckage sits the occupant of the other car, a minister, who marries them. “KICK ME AGAIN” One-Reel Blue Bird Comedy Featuring CHARLES PUFFY PUFFY is assistant instructor to Prof. Lightfoot, dancing master. An irate husband forbids his wife to frequent the dancing school, but she disobeys him and goes direct to Puffy. He follows, red eyed and ready to shoot, but stops short, entranced, when he sees a living shadow picture of Puffy doing intimate steps with a pretty girl. He begins to approve of the school and wants to work there for nothing until he sees the pretty girl emerge from the room and he recognizes his wife. He chases Puffy, firing. Puffy comes out disguised as a woman, but his pants fall down and he is pursued by the angry husband, whom he evades, jumping in the window of a strange house and getting under the bed quilt. The angry husband comes home and rudely pushes his wife into the “THE CALL OF COURAGE” Blue-Streak Western Featuring ART ACCORD CAST Steve Caldwell Art Acord June Hazelton Olive Hasbrouck Sam Caldwell Duke R. Lee Slim Frank Rice Jeff Hazelton John T. Prince Jimmy Turner Savage The Cook Floyd Schackelford The Servant Mrs. Chris Martin (Length: 4,661) STEVE CALDWELL and Sam, his brother, both work on the ranch of old Jeff Hazelton, who also owns a mine in the hills nearby. Steve’s laziness arouses Hazelton’s wrath and Hazelton fires Steve and foolishly shoots off Steve’s hat as the young man rides away. Steve returns the shot and old Hazelton falls wounded unto death in his home, yet we suspect that Sam, coveting Hazelton’s poverty, has really fired the death-dealing shot from an outhouse at the same moment. Hazelton’s cowboys, at the behest of Sam, scour the country for Steve, but with the aid of his horse, Raven and his dog, Rex, he eludes them, but finally is caught and is locked up with his hands bound behind him in a room in the Hazelton ranch where June Hazelton the dead man’s pretty niece, feeds him his meals and makes love to him. Here, he is rescued by his horse who opens the window and unties the rope which binds Steve’s hands behind him. Escaping from the house, Steve eventually comes to the mine where he finds some one locked in the outer magazine. Upon opening the door, he is astounded to have old man Hazelton still alive, fall into his arms. Carrying him to the ranch house, he confronts the guilty Sam with the evidence of his plot and all hands thereupon pursue the escaping Sam in a mad gallop across the country to the ocean where Sam leaps from a high cliff to the beach only to be followed a moment late by Steve on his horse. The boat in which Sam tries to escape is smashed by the waves and Steve swims out to bring him back. In the meantime, Raven, the horse gallops and brings the posse to the ocean edge, where all hands jump in and drag Steve and the dead Sam to shore. All now ends happily for Steve and the little girl who loves him and refuses to believe him a criminal. room where Puffy is hiding, to change her dress. He comes in himself and squats on the bed. Puffy is discovered in the bed. He escapes from the house and makes his way to the studio in a suit borrowed from a friendly clothesline.