AT THE PLAZA
•A new programme was screened at the Plaza this afternoon. It is headed by ‘ Tho Soaring Hoad,’ featuring Wallace Reid. The story concerns *• T oodles ” Waldron, who is employed liy J. D. Ward as a salesman lor his (Ward’s) automobile- factory. and, despite opposition, persists in courting his employer’s daughter. Waldron aspires to win the 400-mile Santa. Dlonica race, but this, too, is frowned upon by Ward. Three weeks before the race the throe Darco cars entered for the race are wrecked, and Ward gives up his idea of winning tho third straight race. He calls Waldron to test his ability for promotion to the managership, and Waldron resigns. He manages to piece together ft car from the wreckage of the racers, and enters it in tho race without thg knowledge of Ward. He wins tho race, and overcomes "Ward’s opposition to his to his daughter. Ward announees that he is taking his dau'diHr East for a year, and that he fV '"H 11 ]l t Waldron, believing that tho object of tho trip is to prevent tho marriage, starts out in a car to overnanl them, and succeeds not onlv in record, but in winning the girl of his ■are a ins. Tho supporting pictures are a Mack bennett comedy and the first episode of • The Grey Sea!.’
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Evening Star, Issue 17319, 6 April 1920, Page 4
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222AT THE PLAZA Evening Star, Issue 17319, 6 April 1920, Page 4
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