The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-09
''MARY'S ANKLE
IS FROLICSOME
Light and Amusing Comedy at
AICazar--CharIie's Wife
in S0mbre Film.

Doris May ana Douglas Mclean. the
two young stars Of Twenty Three and
Half Hours Leave" are featured In
''Mary's Ankle" at the Alcazar today.
"Mary's Ankle" Is very clever
comedy. which sparkles with the light
est and most amusing of nonsense.
Even the subtitle seem to have caught
the humor OF the thing. for they dis
port themselves in a very frolicsome
manner.
Arthur P. Hampton douglas Nc
Lean is n perfectly good doctor whose
only trouble is the lack Of patients.
and the consequent lack of fees. He
is not without friends however; Jay
Stokes, lawyer without any clients
and Bobby Masters. financier with
out any finances are SO devoted to
him that they share everything with
him-even his last 90 cents.
The doctor acquired this 80 cents
by the simple expedient of pawning his
only patient The patient was named
Pollyanna. and she was red and
green parrot who had been entrusted to
his care by his landlady. The 80
cents was accompanied by three dollars
but the Have Heart tag girls took
just as they were making their way
to waffle shop. The leader Of the
efficient saleswomen was named Jane
Smith Doris May and she was the
most efficient Of all. for she knocked
the starving doctor cold with one
glance.
Arthur P. Hampton has a millionaire
uncle who was always wanting him TO
marry and settle down, so the legal
brain of the trio conceived the idea OF
giving uncle his hearts desire without
mountaineering nephew. The too, they
were allured by the thought of the
costly wedding presents which would
surely come crowding in. So they went
to a friendly and trusting printer and
had the wedding announcements made.
then settled down to await the pres
ents. The presents. when they came,
consisted mostly of silk and satin
things evidently intended for the bride.
The temperamental groom smashed the
cut glass bowl on which they were
planning to live six months. Just as
they finished unpacking the last we'd
ding present the young doctor received
a note from his uncle. announcing that
he would be in the city at o'clock
that afternoon, all ready to meet the
bride.
In the movies 1t is always easy to
pick up a life partner at moments
notice, and the bride was even then
its attendant crowd the doctor rushed
out, hot on the trail of possible pa
tient. The patient was Miss Mary
Jane Smith. the Have a Heart tag
saleswoman. and she had broken her
ankle. Given these essentials the
acute movie" fan can no doubt con-
struct the denouement for himself.
The inferior Sex.
Mildred Harris Chaplin ie featured at
the Rialto today in THE Inferior Sex"
Florence mildred Chaplin) had an
annoying habit of calling her husband
UP during business hours and asking
him to tell her that he loved her.
When she obtruded this question on a
directors meeting, her long suffering
husband felt that things had gone
little too far. so he forbade her to call
him up at all. and then inconsistency
missed the familiar interruption. The
story is the much used and sometimes
amusing plot of the neglected wife who
brings her husband to terms by beat
ing him at his own game of indif-
ference, with few appeals to jealousy
thrown in on the side.