Universal Weekly (1927-1930)

Vol. 26, No. 4 Universal Weekly 39 Synopses “TENDERFOOT COURAGE” Two-Reel Mustang Picture Starring FRED GILMAN HAL BRENNON, who has lived in the West for two years, but is still known as a tenderfoot, sees a party of rustlers making for the border. He informs the sheriff’s posse, but is called a liar by Jim McCall, foreman of the Jones ranch and secret leader of the rustlers, who insists that the rustler trail leads toward Nevada. They fight, but are stopped by Helen Jones, half owner of the ranch, who settles the question by sending men on both trails, Hal’s report is verified and McCall, suspected of complicity, is fired. Hal proves his mettle by riding an outlaw horse that none of the ranchmen can master. As a result he is engaged as foreman. The horse herd is ready for shipment when the rustlers return and run off the best part of the stock. Helen sees them and pursues, but she is captured by McCall, who forces her to gallop along with him. Informed of the girl’s peril, Hal follows, leaving orders for the ranch outfit to take to the saddle. He beats two of the desperadoes in a galloping fight and then tackles McCall. The ranch men pick up the outlaws and return the horses to the ranch, while Hal convinces the girl that an ideal husband for her would be nobody but himself. “GEORGE RUNS WILD” Two-Reel Stern Brothers Comedy “Let George Do It” Series GEORGE, newly married, sneaks out of the house and falls in with evil companions bent on flirting. After several disappointments in mashing with strange women they are caught peering through a crack in the high board fence surrounding a school of nature dancing. The cop pulls off George’s pants as he scales the fence in making his getaway. George waylays an effeminate male dancer dressed as a fawn and changes clothes with him. He dances all over the place. A raving beauty wearing a half mask lures him into a private room and vamps him. It is his wife in disguise. She leaves the room and then comes back without the mask, accusing him. Then she takes out a revolver and shoots into the room where the strange woman is supposed to be. George runs home. The strange woman is there. Also the wife, who frightens George by running all over the house pretending to be shooting at the unknown vamp. A policeman, hearing the racket, comes in and arrests George, who takes the blame for the killing to shield his wife. She explains to the cop that she has only been curing her husband of flirting. “THE WRONG MR. WRIGHT” Universal-Jewel Featuring JEAN HERSHOLT Length: 6459 ft. SEYMOUR WHITE is vice-president of the White Corset company, a concern dying a slow but sure death because of the old-fashioned methods adhered to by Seymour’s father, J. Silas White, who refuses to listen to advice from wellmeaning employees, who urge him to manufacture corsets and lingerie that will appeal to women of the present day. Seymour, a middle-aged man, has never married because of a childhood sweetheart who jilted him fifteen years before. Seymour receives a letter from his long-lost sweetheart and departs for Atlantic City to see her on the same day that Fred Bond, sales manager of the company, John Wright, cashier, and Wright’s daughter, Teddy, conspire to take $10,000 allotted by White for advertising purposes and manufacture twentieth century lingerie which they show at the fashion review in Atlantic City. Upon discovering the disappearance of his cashier and the $10,000, Silas employs a private detective and his assistant, who see Seymour scrutinizing a corset advertisement. They decide he might be the missing Mr. Wright and follow him to Atlantic City. Seymour catches sight of his erstwhile sweetheart before she sees him and his love for her immediately cools, as she has grown very fat and has three children tugging at her dress. When she faintly recognizes Seymour, he denies that he is White and, seizing upon the first name he can think of, takes the name of Wright. When he registers as Wright, the detectives are sure they have their man, but the girl asks for more time in order to wring a confession out of Seymour. When she makes herself attractive to Seymour, he falls desperately in love with her and, forgetting his years of scrimping and saving, dresses in the height of fashion. In the meantime the real Mr. Wright and his daughter enter their new designs in the fashion show and take it by storm, assuring a wave of prosperity for the White Corset Company. The girl detective, instead of wheedling a confession out of Seymour, falls in love with him herself, much to the disgust of her employer. Seymour gets out of his engagement with the childhood sweetheart by disguising himself as a seedy oaf. Seeing her first love looking like a tramp, she breaks her agreement before witnesses, to Seymour’s great joy, “HIGH AND MIGHTY” One-Reel Blue Bird Comedy Starring CHARLES PUFFY JACK and Jill are in love, but Jill’s father, the judge, hates Jack and warns him to keep away from the daughter. The determined couple scorn the warning and are joined in wedlock by Charlie, who has just hung out his shingle as justice of the peace. Then they go on their honeymoon to a mountain resort. Charlie tells the old man that he has just married Jack and Jill. The judge is horror-stricken, for Charlie has not yet been sworn in as justice, and the marriage is therefore illegal. The judge swears Charlie in. Then they follow the couple to the mountain top, pumping themselves up the incline in a handcar, the last electric carriage having just left. Something breaks and they slide down again, but Charlie makes the grade alone and breaks into the room occupied by Jack and Jill. Jack beats him up but Charlie is finally victorious and succeeds in marrying them right. With head bloody but unbowed, he emerges from the room announcing to the judge, who has just arrived puffing, that the couple are now really married. Hearing this, the judge hits him on the head with a club. ts „ , “SNOOKUMS DISAPPEARS” Two Reel Stern Brothers Comedy “Newlyweds and Their Baby” Series SNOOKUMS is having his portrait painted. When the painter has his back turned the baby eats the paint and smears it over his face. Posing as Cupid, he shoots the arrow through the canvas. It goes down the artist’s throat. While they are pulling it out, Snookums makes 'his getaway to the apartment of a neighbor who is jealous of his dizzy blonde wife. Dovey chases him into: the bedroom with the blonde. The husband comes in red-eyed. Dovey explains his errand, but the baby has gotten away again. The angry husband kicks Dovey out. Snookums gets into the automatic elevator and runs it up and down while his pa tries to catch him above and below by chasing up and down the stairs. The baby gets off the elevator to let the jealous husband and his wife on. As the husband steps off at the ground floor, Dovey plunges into the elevator and embraces the blonde. The baby is missingagain. The jealous husband beats up Dovey while the child enjoys the fast play. When Dovey picks himself up and gets back to the apartment, he finds the baby asleep. for he is now able to straighten out the whole mess and marry the lady detective.