Back Pay (1922)

A Cosmopolitan Production          IT'S A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
"BACK PAY"         "THE HOSPITAL JUST PHONED -- HE IS DEAD."

Ethel Duray, Seena Owen

Although this exact shot is in the surviving print, this dialog is not in the film. Hester is giving a big New York party, but it is not interrupted by a phone call. There is a cut to Matt Moore being shot on a World War I battlefield, but his character survives long enough to make it to a hospital in New York City. There is always the chance that the story was changed after the lobby card was designed, or that the censors cut out the reference to whomever has died. -- Bruce