Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-03-15 | Page 5 | Jack Pickford is Burglar in Film

JACK PICKFORD IS BURGLAR t FILM ,Gets in Bad With Sweetheart and Everybody Else in Picture at Orpheum. Just what criminal court procedure might follow the discovery of a self-termed self-termed suitor in the boudoir of his sweetheart In this city Is difficult to fancy. However, in "Burglary by Proxy," the laiest Jack Plckford film which opened a two-days' run at the Orpheum theatre last night, Dorothy Mason 1b too heartbroken for words. Midnight Girl's Room Man! Plckford, taking the part of Jack Robin, is found by Dorothy In her boudoir at midnight. Earnest pleas on his part convince her that his appearance ap-pearance was forced by two gunmen who are waiting below for him to bring down either jewelry or other val- uables. Dorothy Is constrained to be lenient with Jack because she loves j him. Giving him her own revolver to defend hirfiself, she watches him climb down the wall and cleverly put iho robbers to flight But Jack's career as a burglar just begins. He meets "Spider," a notorious notori-ous safecracker and expert at all other forms of outlawry and they form a combine to break open tho wall-safe in the Mason home. While Jack's motives mo-tives are entirely to recover stolen papers whllch have been hidden in the safe, the Spider's intentions are regulated regu-lated by pure business motives. Jack's untiring efforts to recover the papers make his life one long series of love pleas and alibis to Dorothy. How Jack finally clears himself of all suspicion and wins the girl will undoubtedly un-doubtedly please patrons at the Orpheum Or-pheum theatre tonight which marks the close of the picture. oo