The Alan Theatre on Stickney Avenue, photographed in 1922. Advertised on the marquee is Paramount Pictures’ 1922 silent comedy Is Matrimony a Failure?
The lobby poster for the lost 1922 silent comedy Is Marriage a Failure?
In this goofy-sounding farce released a decade after Paramount Pictures’ 1912 founding, Arthur and Margaret elope on the very day that her parents are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary—only to discover that their marriage may be illegal. (They were married by not by the county clerk, who is on a hunting vacation, but by his deputy.) But as in all good farces, everything turns out well in the end.
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