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FILM RELEASES SOUND

T9661 6 REELS
''NIGHT ALA

featuring

BRUCE CAUO'l~ and JUDITH ALI.EN

Hal Ashby, of the "Morning Smith is Helen's father. After a
Times", likes to chase fire engines, quarrel with Hal, Helen joins her
but he dislikes his own column "The father's staff at the factory where a
Garden Beautiful" so much that he banquet is held to celebrate the
\ neglects it. Caldwell, managing occasion. All is merry until fire
breaks out at the plant, and in the
editor, is about to 'fire' Hal when
Helen Smith wanders in to ask for a panic that follows Helen becomes
job. Hal induces Caldwell to give separated from her father and is left
1 her his job and let him cover fires. helpless in the blazing building.
The city has been subjected to a Meanwhile, Hal learns the where.
number of incendiary fires, and the abouts of the fire-bug and dashes
"Times" is waging a relentless cam- madly to the factory and finds the
paign against the city administration place a seething furnace; he rushes
for failing to capture the fire-bug. into the blazing structure and creeps
through tumbling walls and scorching
Hal discovers that but for the
Manufacturers' Association and flames. He locates Helen and tries
Henry B. Smith, political boss of the to haul her over a roof, but the walls
town, many of the burned factories of the room cave in and they are
hemmed in by flames on every side.
would have been condemned long Firemen sight the pair on the
ago; the owners thus sacrificing the tottering roof, and succeed in
lives of workers rather than install
fire safety measures. saving them.
Hal becomes the hero of the day
Romance blooms between Hal and and the future son.in-law of Henry
Helen, but Hal is unaware that Boss
Smith.