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VEGETARIAN PLOT IS FILM NOVELTY4+lt;Slt;$★€lt;?★lt;$FAIRBANKS STAR IN A “THRILLER”“His Picture in the Paper” at the Studsbaker Has Good Comedy Prizefight and Fight on Bold Gunmen.BY JUANITA GRAY.^ MINDFUL, of best selling thrillers, suggesting O. Henry, Rex Beach and others, arranged as by an aggressive publicity man with a keen sense of news values—that’s “His Picture in the Paper,“ 'the Triangle-Fine Arts feature of the Studebaker program. It is corking good novelty comedy and scored a hit with the boulevard audience yesterday.Douglas Fairbanks goes through the ingenious episodes written forthe lead with all the “pep” of his vigorous and cheerful temperament. He is Petey Prindle, an insurgent son of a pater grown wealthy from consistent advertising of twenty-seven vegetable edibles. Pater becomes disgusted with his son because of his love for a meat-eating girl—Loretta Blake (play • name, Christine Cadwalader), who, like the son, is unlike any other member of her vegetarian family. Prindle, Sr., says “Leave me, young man. Do not return until you advertise Prindle produces with your picture in the paper.”PETEY “MAKES GRADE.”y^FTER a few tries for front page limelight, the best Petey gets is his picture embellishing a patent medicine “ad.” He goes out and tries again and then again. Finally he gets into a real story, the sensation of the day. The yarn involves the eradication of the desperate Weazel gang that has plotted to destroy the father of our hero’s sweetheart. For rewardPetey gets not only a three-column picture and several columns of type, but a share of the vegetable business and the meat-eating girl as his wife.Terry McGovern, the former champion featherweight, referees the realistic prizefight raided by bluecoats. The slapstick is vibrated, but you don’t mind it because there’s a plot and Fairbanks, supported by Clarence Handysiaes and Charles Butler.Mabel Normand and Roscoe Ar-buckle lead in the amusing Keystone entitled “He Did and He Didn't,” which pictures w’hat happens when one tries to sleep following an evening diet of dream-weaving lobster. William Jefferson and A1 St. John are in the cast.Travel pictures of war ruins in France and scenes in India complete the bill.• * •forth one release from the Metro studios, which maintain Ethel Barrymore, William Faversham, Emily 5 Stevens, Valli Valli, Mary Miles Min ter, Olga Petrova, Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne and others of stage and screen prominence as stars, will be shown at the Ziegfeld each week. He also asserts that the Hamburger business is growing to such an extern that additions are necessary to tne business office at 1^07 South Wabash avenue and to the number of his South Side movie houses. .
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Feb 01, 1916
Page 20
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