The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-09
VIOLA DANA At THE
|ALCAzAR IN COMEDY,
PLEASE GET MARRIED
Screen Production of Fa-
nous Broadway Success
Attraction at Alcazar
This Week

please Get Married" starring dainty
Viola Dana, a screen production of the
| famous Broadway comedy of honey
m oons is booked for the Alcazar theatre
for the coming week, beginning Monday.
The management of the Alcazar assures
! its patrons entertainment of the most
amusing kind Please Get Married, -
| by James Cullen and Lewis Allen Brown,
was one of the hits of the season, when
| it was produced in New York by Oliver
Morosco, and all of its nirth-provo king
qualities have been transferred to the
screen
Miss Dana is ideally suited for the role
! of Muriel Ashley, the timid young wife
| in please Get Married In the delicious
situation of wife. but not wife, she
distNls every drop of comedy and clever
naughtipess with which the play is
charged
Muriel Ashley is affianced to Ferdi-
mana Oliver Walton, who lacks three
months of being of age. Robert Walton
| a widower and father of Ferdinand. is
violently opposed to the marriage. The
young couple have been engaged so Ions
they are thoroughly sick of the UNI
happy state.
| Provided with a marriage license to
forestall Freddy's irate father, they make
their way to the country home OF the
brides parents. There it happens
'Soapy" Higgins and the 'parson' are
| in the act of relieving the Ashley's OF
| their plate and other valuabies. When
| the little bride be goes upstairs to get
| her wedding clothes the two intruders
i hide and later one of Them "Soapy,
escapes.
| The Ashleys are there, as they sympa-
thize with the young couple, and when
the parson finally makes his presence
known, having no other alternative, they
] III 70. "a
jenkins, a local minister, and importune
him to tie the knot. This he does.
The .'newleyweds," for that is firmly
what they believe themselves to be,
start on their honeymoon, with Ffeddy
father in hot pursuit He discovers that
the man who marries them is thiel.
Then word reaches the hotel to when
they have repaired that the pair have
been Illegally welded, and they are inter-
ri,pted in their marital career even before
thew can get started, when they are or
dered from the hotel
In Their night clothes they make their
way to the fire escape, and after the. en-
element has blown over. return to their
rooms, only to be driven forth again
when the hotel catches fire.
The next morning the pair return to the
home of the Ashleys and learn that q
detective has been set on their trail.
Then they learn that the parson- was a
burglar, when they had believed him to
be regular clergyman. Muriel is horror
stricken and Freddy IS beside himself
with ernbarra ssment and chagrin.
Freddv's father meanwhile has fallen
for the Establishments Of a giddy spinster
and prepares to marry~her. 1t is Fred
dv's ttQn to demonstrate. but all in vain
The elder Walton goes for the real Rev.
Jenkins with the idea of a double cere-
mony. Parson on another burglaring
venture in the house, is struck over the
head by Freddy and rendered uncon-
scious The Rev. Jenkins comes in and
recognizes the parson as bona fide cler-
gyman. The parson awakehs from his
coma and finds that Freddy's blow has
restored his memory. He had been suf-
fering with amnesia and of course hadln
recollection of his pilferng expeditions
SO everything is all right Freddy
turns to Murel and says: Come on. little
bride wife. :" His father asks where they
are going. "Well. YOU see, dad" ex
plains Freddy. 1--WE didn't get much steep
last night"