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Show : ; 1 , rrt T CAN A FATHER SHOULDER LIFE'S KNOCKS FOR SON? Dad Fears "The Freshman" Will Get Either His Heart or His Neck Broken a,t School' ' ' How many parents have - wished they could save their children from the hard bumps of life! It is a natural, nat-ural, human wish, that, to protect your own from unpleasant though character-building experiences, and the wise will let youth learn its own lessons. ' The father of Harold Lamb, the character portrayed by Harold Lloyd in his newest rathe picture, "The Freshman," feared, when his son started for college, that he was in for trouble. "I'm afraid," he told his wife-, "they'll either break Harold's heart or his neck if he imitates that movie actor at college!" And Dad's prophecy proved true! They broke his heart but not his spirit, and in the end he triumphed over the greatest obstacle the derision de-rision of his fellow students. , It happened hap-pened like thisl Harold's wants were sin(p1e he only wanted everyone in college from the dean to the dullest clod to idolize him to look upon him as the prince of regular fellows. He wanted not only to be voted the most popular of all the heroes that had gone before. That was all! So he went to college, a freshman armed with a bag of tricks copied after the hero of a college movie he Lir! seen. These were carefully rehearsed re-hearsed for weeks before the great day. when Tate College would open its arms to receive the best fellow it had' ever known. Harold didn't have alliance to get away from thA depot. on the day of his arrival, before his tricks gave hi in away to an tapper; c!ssV bully who made Simon Lcgree look like the Good Samaritan. "Pipe the latest sport-model Freshman with the old-fashioned old-fashioned trimmings," observed this terror of the freshmen. "Let's ride him I" It was great sport to these pranksters, for Harold's sincerity and eagerness to do the thing that would make everyone ike him, made him an easy prey to their rough riding. Day by day in every way Harold thought he was getting to be a big- ger and better fellow. Hadn't he done everything they told him he must do to become popular? Hadn't he spent money on them right and left? And given a big party at the town's leading lead-ing hotel? Didn't they call him Speedy the Spender?' And he bad made the football tesmt But that was where the catch came. He was only kidded into believing he was a sub on the team. In reality he was only the water boy, and when this staggering stag-gering truth was told him his heart, as his father feared, was broken! "The Freshman," aimed to be dramatic dra-matic as well as comical; tense in its story interest as well as in its thrills; pathetic as well as humorous, and in these it is said to have succeeded. It is more of the type of "Grandma's Boy" than an yother feature comedy Harold Lloyd has produced. Heading the cast supporting Lloyd in "The Freshman" is Jobyna Ralston Ral-ston as the girl who eases the boy's headache and gives him the sound advice that, if he Would win admiration admira-tion he must stop pretending and be himself, not the person he thinks they want him to be. Others th the cast are Hazel Keener, Brooks, Benedict. James' Anderson, Joe Harrington and" Pat Harmon. "The Freshman" will be the. feature attraction at the Trin-Icess Trin-Icess Theatre Thursday and Friday. |