THE FIGUREHEAD

Evening Star, Issue 17595, 25 February 1921, Page 6

THE FIGUREHEAD

A new programme was screened at Everybody’s to-day. The headliner is ' Ihe Figurehead, ’ featuring Eugene O'Brien, Mr O'Brien appears as a popular young society idler who is generally considered as short of brains as he is long on money and manners. When the two political bosses of the town get- together to decide on their plans for framing up the forthcoming election, they hit upon this young idler, Sheridan Dow by name, as a candidate certain of defeat. That is just, what they are looking for to run against James Durfee, one of the bosses himself. Dow treats the matter as a huge joke, until the girl he is in love with chides him for wasting time and accomplishing nothing. The idea suddenly occurs to him that here is his opportunity to really do something, so he accepts the nomination. The campaign proves a bitter one, since Dow is not the figurehead his sponsors had planned for him to be. Through the jealousy ot a girl who long tried to capture him for her own, there is a scandal started involving the name of Dow’s, sweetheart in the hope that he will withdraw from the tight rather than have it published. But the editor of tho paper admits publicly that tho story is [also, and the election goes te Dow. Tho supports are a Co-operative Weekly, a- comedy, a Pictorial Educator, and a further episode of ‘The Purple Domino’ serial.