Universal Weekly (1923-1926)

40 Universal Weekly April 17, 1926 A PAGE OF SYNOPSES “THE MAN WITH THE SCAR” Two-Reel Mustang Picture Featuring FRED HUMES K/^tOLD CASH” HARDING, who ^^1 won’t allow his daughter, Bubbles, to have a suitor who hasn’t at least a thousand dollars, throws Jerry Evans off the ranch and tells him not to return to see the girl until he can show his “credentials.” Jerry, who believes in the god of luck goes forth confident of getting the $935 he needs to make a thousand. He sees a placard offering $1000 reward for the capture of Barney Russell, a horse thief, and in his zeal to get the money captures the first man he sees, who turns out to be Chicago Joe, training for a championship bout, who knocks him out. The next man he “captures” is a harmless professor. The third man he encounters is the thief himself, disguised as an old man for a trip to town. He limps along, leading a pack horse. Jerry lets him ride his horse to town, where he buys the “old man” a square meal. Here he sees a tell-tale scar on the rustler’s arm and jumps on him, but the sympathetic bystanders drag him away from the “aged man” who escapes on horseback toward the border. Jerry pursues, followed by the posse. At the border he lands his man. They fight on both sides of the line and the rustler is finally knocked out on U. S. soil, winning for Jerry the thousand and the girl. “HER LUCKY LEAP” Two-Reel Stern Brothers Comedy Starring WANDA WILEY ALL on the ship are seasick. Three slick jewelry crooks pass a necklace down Wanda’s back. Wanda accidently bumps their female accomplice, and the dame takes a long tumble into the deep blue sea. A detective tries to keep his eye on the crooks, who are busy keeping their peepers on Wanda, for fear that they lose their precious swag. They chase Wanda until she is almost bowlegged, but she manages to elude them and gets on shore. Here they spot her again, and she pops into a cab. They follow and enter her cab. She battles them and escapes to another cab. Finally, she seizes a telephone wire and pulls herself into a home which proves to be that of her aunt. They are delighted to meet each other. She discovers that her aunt who has considerable jewelry, is also bothered by thieves, Wanda’s original pair make several efforts to get in, and when they succeed, she dives out of the window, is picked up by a passing motorcycle, and finally lands in the police station, with the thieves hot on her trail. The two gyp artists run plumb into the arms of the law, and Wanda is rewarded with a cop’s coat, hat, and badge. “THE SCARLET STREAK” A Ten-Episode Adventure Picture Featuring JACK DAUGHERTY No. 9— “The Dive of Death” BOB EVANS, saved from the whirlpool, by Count K, solves the cross word puzzle and tells the party that the blueprints of the Scarlet Ray machine are to be found by digging in the shadow of the anchor at Pirate Cove on the opposite side of the island at high noon. Leontine overhears and carries the news to Pug Logan, wishing to square herself with The Monk, who casts her off as soon as she gives him the information he is seeking. Leontine, however, beats Pug and The Monk to the Cove and digs up a tin box while they look on from a distance. She puts the box in her car and drives off, pursued by Pug and The Monk, who are determined to get the blue prints away from her. Her car swerves and goes over an embankment. Bob and Mary Crawford are speeding on horseback to the hiding place of the blueprints, when Mary’s horse gets the bit in his teeth and runs away, stopping suddenly at the edge of a cliff and throwing her oyer into the rapids below. Bob, following her, dives to her rescue. “THE PHONEY EXPRESS” One-Reel Bluebird Comedy Featuring CHARLES PUFFY LITTLE Nell, fighting her way to Hollywood in a covered wagon, is besieged by Indians on the plain, and her little party defends itself from the oncoming reds while Puffy rides the Phoney Express to bring aid. He carries his horse across a stream, only to be kidked back to the starting point by the nag. He fills a cannon with tomatoes and aims it at the Indians but catches his foot in a rope which swings the cannon around, giving one of the defenders a tomato surprise. The Indians circle around the hero, filling him full of arrows which fail to penetrate the “WESTERN PLUCK” Blue Streak Western Featuring ART ACORD Directed by TRAVERS VALE Story by W. C. Tuttle Art Aeord “Arizona” Allen Marcellne Day Clare Dyer Ray Ripley Gale Colling Robert Rose “Rowdy” Dyer William Welsh “Dynamite” Dyer S. E. (Al) Jennings Buck Zaney (Length: 4207 ft.) ROWDY DYER, weak, but tough acting son of Dynamite Dyer, a wealthy rancher greets the stage in which his sister is returning from school in the East by impersonating a highwayman and firing a shot which causes the sleepy driver to fall from his seat and the horses to bolt. Arizona Allen, a cowboy, pursues the runaway and is shot at by Gale Collins, manager of the local bank, who is accompanying the girl and has some of the bank’s money. Arizona stops the horses, saving their lives, but Collins is none too gracious in apologizing for trying to kill the rescuer. Dynamite, hearing of the affair, cuts off his scapegrace son’s allowance and puts him at a puncher’s work and pay. He hires Arizona to ride for his outfit. Clare asks Arizona to try to keep her brother from carousing and gambling, and Arizona incurs the enmity of Buck Zaney, the gambler who is fleecing the boy, by pummeling Zaney and taking Rowdy home. Arizona’s pocket knife is found at the site of a stage hold-up and he becomes a fugitive rather than reveal the fact that he had loaned the knife to Rowdy. Before fleeing he tells Clare that he is innocent but can’t prove it. Rowdy is seen spending large sums of money at Zaney’s saloon. The money is identified as the stolen bank notes and Rowdy is thrown into jail, maintaining a sullen silence. Believing that his father’s influence is going to set him free, the angry mob assails the jail office. Arizona enters, giving himself up as the real robber to shield the boy. Zaney and Collins, both of whom hate Arizona, exult over his confession. Then Rowdy tells them that he won the money from Zaney. Zaney tells that that he won it from Collins. Dynamite, who has been depressed over the worthless son, now rejoices that the boy is displaying the traits of manhood. He congratulates Arizona, his future son-in-law. pulp, so he leisurely saves the girl with whom he innocently walks off a precipice and lands in the current below, wet but happy.