Howlin' Jones (1913)
Occasionally the first son of an English family wishes he were second, preferring the gay and easy life to the pressure of a coronet, and many an available candidate for the house of peers has quietly slipped away to some far corner of the earth, to lose himself in preference to entering the world of politics and submit to the irksome conventions of its social obligations. So it came about that Rowland-Jones (who is in reality Lord Howland), comes to America, incognito, and slides down into the great lone land of Arizona, to try out himself, get next to the people, and incidentally a lot of other "varmints," and try to earn his own living at some occupation not quite as laborious as golf or as dangerous as polo, as extravagant as baccarat, or as asinine as sitting in the club windows, watching the ladies crossing Picadilly on rainy days. The English lordling has the "h's" in his name dropped by the cowboys on the Diamond S Ranch, and becomes known as "'Owlin' Jones," but after he gets rid of his monocle, his tweenies, (hideous checked knickerbockers that fit only in fancy), the switch-cane and the monkey-cap (a remnant of his grenadier days), and climbs into general store overalls (equally good, going or coming), fitted with bachelor buttons, and guaranteed to stand the strain of any bucker, he begins to attract more respect in the eyes of the good-naturedly scornful. They try him out as a joke by putting him unwittingly on a bucking horse, but he turns the tables on them as he directs the bucker their way and keeps his seat in the fashion that surprises the most hardened broncho buster. They find out that although he is a lord, "a man is a man for a' that," for he manages to outdo them at most of their athletic stunts and takes to the country like one to the manor born, and although he is the stature of a man, he settles down to grow up with it, for the love of the new land he has found so congenial.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William Duncan | Director |
| O.H. Nelson | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Duncan | |
| Rex De Rosselli | |
| Florence Dye | |
| Myrtle Stedman |
