Universal Weekly (1920, 1923-27)

38 Universal Weekly December 10, 1927 “CRIMSON COLORS” “KEEPING IN TRIM” Starring GEORGE LEWIS Two Reel Junior Jewel No. 1. 2nd “Collegians” Series IT is the first clay of the fall term at Calford College. The sophs scatter banana peels on the hill in the path of the freshies who are bringing up luggage on a truck, causing a downhill slide ending in a comical disaster. Ed is the author of a story which appears in the college paper on a motor boat trip from coast to coast. Don, jealous of the attention Ed is receiving, accuses him of being a faker and a land lubber. Don, who has a new speed boat, challenges Ed, who has no boat at all, to a motor boat race. Ed accepts the challenge and tries to rig up a row-boat with an over-stern motor. The motor goes overboard, to the great amusement of Don, but one of Ed’s friends lets him take the motor out of his flivver. They manage to attach it to the rowboat and the race is on. Don, who is carrying some fat boys as mechanicians, has too much weight but advantage in power. Ed steps on it, his motor gets red hot and alarms the crew, but he drives the boat to victory and the hot gas tank explodes just over the finish line, doing no damage but giving the boys a bath and the onlookers a thrill. “BLAKE OF SCOTLAND YARD” Twelve-Episode Junior Jewel Serial Starring HAYDEN STEVENSON No. 3 — “The Vanishing Heiress” TH E explosion puts the Spider and his men to rout. Blake and Lady Diana return to Blanton Towers with the formula, which Blake hides in a chanHayden Stevenson delier. He is seen to do so by the woman of mystery, who opens a secret panel. Albert, in conference with the Spider, reluctantly agrees to aid in the abduction of Lady Diana as a lure for Blake, who is in love with her and who is expected to follow her into a carefully laid trap. That night the Spider and his men enter Blanton Towers through the moat on signal from Albert and abduct the young woman from her bedchamber. Blake hears her scream and rushes to her room. The girl has disappeared, but the Spider has left hi.s warning web. Two Reel Stern Brothers Comedy “Keeping Up with The Joneses” CLARICE McGINIS and Julie rout Aloysius out of bed for morning radio exercise. The radio announcer, a lazy man, gives the morning pep stuff to the microphone from his bed where he yawns and snoozes between his invigorating bursts of talk. Aloysius jumps back into bed after each muscular effort but his wife drags him out. Mrs. Jones, the society leader, gives a radio talk praising the smart Acme Athletic Club. Clarice decides on the spot to join the club and get into society like the Joneses. At the club, Mrs. McGinis has a hard time getting Aloysius to put on his athletic clothes and go into the gymnasium, but she has a harder time getting him out when he finds himself in a class of pretty girls. When she sees him going through the calisthenics with the girls, Clarice blames Aloysius for everything. The day ends in a battle between the McGinises, during which Aloysius takes refuge on the flying rings, in the ladies’ steam room and elswhere until he is captured and vanquished by the undefeated wife. “TOO MUCH SLEEP” Two Reel Gump Comedy Starring JOE MURPHY ANDY and Min try to get Chester up in the morning. Chester puts his shoes on the dog so they can hear him walking in the room overhead. Later the dog scrambles down the stairs, the truth comes out and Chester is routed from bed. Chester plays with the revolving clothes rack in the yard, tying the dog to the rack to make it whirl. Andy butts in and gets caught round the neck by a flying noose. His life is saved by Min who comes out to get him to call a plumber to repair a gas leak. Andv, who thinks he knows everything, repairs it himself. He gets the water and gas pipes mixed so that water comes out of the gas range. Min warns him not to turn on the water, as it may be gas instead. To show her how foolish she is he touches a match to the hydrant and flames rush out, setting the kitchen afire. He turns on the garden hose to put it out but the hose too spouts flame. The fire is extinguished after the room is wrecked. “THE DANCING FOOLS” Two Reel Stern Brothers Comedy Mike and Ike Series IKE dreams he is at the beach and dives from the bed into the floor, his head going through. Mike and Ike hear the landlord coming up the stairs. They cover the hole with a rug Universal “OUT ALL NIGHT” Universal Super Comedy Starring REGINALD DENNY JOHN GRAHAM, wealthy young bachelor, falls in love with Molly O’D a y, leading lady in a current musical comedy. After failing to meet her at the theatre, he runs across her in the automatic elevator of his apartment house. The elevator breaks down, and when it is repaired the next moiming, John and Molly step out and into a taxi headed for the marriage license bureau. Shortly after the wedding, Molly discovers that a clause in her contract calls for the loss of $100,000 in case of marriage. They decide to keep the wedding a secret, and when Molly sails with the show for London that afternoon John boards the boat as the ship’s surgeon. They attempt ruse after ruse to be together, but are frustrated first by the Chief Officer, who had fallen for Molly himself, and then by Molly’s room-mate, Rose Lundy. John gets into all kinds of difficulties because of his shortcomings as a surgeon, which are climaxed when he attempts to treat the Captain for gout. In the meantime, the manager of the show troupe bas proposed to Molly, and upon being told of the contract, tears it up. At this juncture John comes sliding down a ventilator, where he has been chased by the irate crew, right into Molly’s stateroom. They embrace as the manager gazes ruefully at the torn bits of the contract floating around on the ocean. and sneak out. The landlord goes through the hole and falls to the apartment below. He chases them all over town for the rent. They finally evade him and let an auto salesman drive them to the home of their girls, pretending to be in the market for a car. Mike’s girl is fat but insists upon dancing with him. He slyly breaks the phonograph record and puts an end to the agony, but only fo a minute. The girls make Mike and Ike take them to a tough cabaret where a prize is offered for the roughest dance. The fat girl takes Mike on the floor and all but kills him, winning the loving cup. She leans back on the table, which collapses under her. The waiter tries to collect the check. Thev offer him the loving cup in payment and are thrown out of the place,