The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-30
HIS BROTHERS PLACE
Hale Hamilton Has Strong
Part In New Film w
Production

10. harrington Drake iale hamilton
Nelson Drake Hale Hamilton
Bessie Judd MARY McIvor
Kitty Judd Marguerite Snow
Martha Judd Jessie De Jarnette
Abel Cruck Howard Champion
Abel CIuck Jr. Ward King
Jonathan Drake Emmett C. King
Amanda Drake Ruby La F:,yette
| (Their parents)
John Darlington Drake and Nelsol
Drake are twin brothers by blood;
but in temperament they are as differ
ont as day and night.
John is a dynamic, forceful and
successful young business man, while
| Nelson, the minister, not only lacks
his brothers initiative but is Slowly
realizing he cannot hold the interest
of his small-town congregation. The
parents of the young men have I'M
plicit faith in Nelson's ability al
though they are forced to se9 that
/ the shadow of failure hangs oy er his
ministerial efforts.
! In the hope that John may be able
to do something for Nelson the moth
| Ell takes the former into her conf
! dence and as a result John evolves q
plan for putting into practice pet
scheme of his by assuming the identi-
| ty of his brother
John explains his idea to Nelson,
who, reluctant at first, agrees to
change clothes with his brother. john
then, in Nelson's sombre clericals, re-
turns to the village and the failing
church, determined to apply to the
pulpit his successful business tactics.
There John meets for the first time
Kitty judd who is Nelson's sweet
heart, and her sister, Bessie, whom
he Immediately becomes interested in.
4 But he does not know which is which
from his brothers description.
Here is where Deacon Abel Cruck
pronounced liable crook, is introduce
ed to a new side of the formerly slow
slow-moving pastor whom he thinks
is Nelson. Johns shrewd business
sense enables him at once to discover
the crooked impulses of his deacon
plans for the sale of the church prop
erty, and sets him about in an effort
to discover the resason for the dis
content among the congregation and
the vestry in particular.
John also discovers he is in fine
fix as there are many little person
al secrets which Nelson had neglected
to impart to John such as the knitting
he had been doing for his sweetheart
the location of hir own room IN The
Judd homestead, and in fact lot o.
minor details which cause John mucl
temporary embarrassment.
Meanwhile Nelson sits a
home with his father and other
wondering what progress John i
making and whether he will disgrace
the church with his bombastic plans
But John does neither. Under hi
forceful presence and unique applica
ton of the fundamental principles o
business to the church of God, h
o succeeds in reviving the interest 0
the pastorate, and building up TO
5 Nelson an attendance heretofore un
y heard of. Among the Innovations h
e introduces is the jazz band Instead o
e the organ, and a tuneful quartet. An
v instead of reading the hurndrur
q sleep producing weekly notices fror
/ the pulpit, John has one-sheets pas
Q ed around the little town.
The whole affair ends happily wit
the downfall of the deceitful deacon
who secretly planned to purchase flo
himself the land on which the churc
stood and in which he alone kne'
there was a fortune in oil.