"SAFETY LAST."
How> Harold Lloyd performs his thrilling . stunts is a mystery, and in "Safety • Last," to lie screened at Shortt's and the Empress' Theatre -, tomorrow, he is more thrilling than ever. It is certain that he did them himself, for his face is seen plainly in every hazardous predicament he encounters. When a young man attempts to climb the side of a twelve-story building in the'place of a real "human fly," and meets hilarious trouble every foot of the way up,.the result is a continuous run of uproarious laughter. But the comedy is not all thrills. There is a real story—a delightful story with pretty little Mildred Davis—now Mrs. Harold Lloyd— the young lady in the. case. . The first scenes of the comedy take place in a department store in the Big City, where Harold has gone to make his fortune. His trouble commences when a girl thinking he has.acquired a fortune already, comes to town -to marry him. The haughty floor-walker in the store glares, while Harold tries 'to get his lady love out of the building and at the same time pretend to.her that he is the general manager. Then there is Noah' Young well remembered in" "A Sailor-made .Man. Bill Strothers, a real "lluman fly," - makes his: screen debut, and gets into the spirit of the fun splendidly, and Westcott B. Clarke is the floor-walker. . *
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1924, Page 10
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