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I.—Cast Up by the Sea A Sea Coast Melodrama (As Thrown up for 30 cents) —Period, 1880

II.—The Soul Call An Up-to-date Piffle Play. Period, 1923. (In Which a Man and Woman, Both Trying to Find Themselves, Find One Another)

ACT II—The Drawing Room of the Chown Residence

III.—Dead Men’s Gold A film of the great Nevada desert in which Red-Blooded, Able-Bodied Men and Women a hundred per cent American live and love among the cactus and chaparral. Something of the Ozone of the Cow Pasture mingled with the gloom of the great canyons blows all through this play.

IV.—Oroastus—A Greek Tragedy (As presented in our colleges)

V.—The Sub-Contractor An Ibsen Play. Done out of the Original Norwegian with an axe.

VI.—Historical Drama

VII.—The Russian Drama

(A) Old Style

VIII.—The Platter of Life

IX.—People We Meet in the Movies The Vampire Woman; as Met in the Movies

X.—The Raft: An Interlude

OTHER FANCIES

I.—First Call for Spring —or— Oh, Listen to the Birds

II.—How I Succeeded in My Business Secrets of Success as Related in the Best Current Literature

III.—The Dry Banquet

IV.—My Lost Dollar

V.—Radio A New Form of Trouble

VI.—Roughing It in the Bush My Plans for Moose Hunting in the Canadian Wilderness

VII.—Abolishing the Heroine (A Plea that Fewer Heroines and More Crimes Would Add Sprightliness to our Fiction)

VIII.—My Affair with My Landlord

IX.—Why I Refuse to Play Golf

X.—The Approach of the Comet Do You Really Care if it Hits You?

XI.—Personal Experiments with the Black Bass

XII.—L’Envoi The Faded Actor