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74 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Film Review. FOILED BY A WOMAN; or, FALSELY ACCUSED. In Seven Scenes—Beautifully Colored Throughout. Williams, Brown & Earle. Scene I.—Drawing Room. A gambler with his pretty decoy are seated at a table waiting for guests. Two young noblemen, one of whom is in love with the lady, ar- rive, and the party quickly settle down to gambling with dice. The game, however, is too slow for the blase gamester, who takes the earliest possible opportunity of drugging the young men's wine. The result is soon apparent and they are quickly at the villain's mercy. While, however, he is at the pocket of one, the other arouses sufficiently to see what he is doing, and attacks the thief vig- orously, but is quickly repulsed, and the villain drawing his revolver shoots him dead on the spot The villain, now a murderer, puts the revolver in the drugged dupe's hand and smearing his shirt front with his dead friend's blood, goes for the police, who, upon their entry, find the drugged man just recovered from his stupor standing over his murdered friend with the incrim- inating revolver in his hand, and he is immediately marched off as a murderer caught red-handed. Scene II.—A Prison Cell The poor dupe, having been found guilty, is now seen as a convict in durance vile and resolves to escape. Taking a nail he has secreted from his boot he picks out the mortar round the bars of his prison window, and wrenching out a bar amid a shower of stone and mor- tar, he puts his blanket round one of the remaining bars, climbs out of the window and lowers himself to the ground. Scene III.—The convict is here seen scal- ing the 25-foot prison walL Scene IV.—A Shrubbery. Creeping through the bushes, the convict is unaware a warder is following him, but on his ris- ing to his feet the warder fires, wounding him on the head, but not sufficiently to hin- der his escape. Scenes V. and VI.—The River. Climb- ing down a tree overhanging a river, the convict takes to the water, followed by the warder, who eventually catches him, and a terrific struggle takes place in a shallow part of the stream, the injured convict again escaping. Scene VII.—Drawing Room. The gam- bler is here seen with lady just finishing supper and quarreling. After threatening the lady, he leaves the room, when the con- vict's face is seen through the curtains of the French windows; seeing the lady is alone, he tht^ws himself at her feet, asking her to hide him, which she does behind the curtains. The gamester now enters, fol- lowed by prison warders, and, while threat- ening the lady with concealing the convict, is about to strike her, when the convict emerges from his concealment and hastens to protect the lady. The warders rush on their prisoner, and the villain, who is about to depart, is stopped by the lady, who, point- ing to him, shouts dramatically, "Stop!— that man is the murderer—I saw the deed done." A warder rushes to the door, but the villain would have been too quick for him had not the' lady drawn a revolver and brought him to the ground by a well-aimed shot The scene closes with the villain cursing, and the lady and convict embracing. SLIPPERY JIM, THE BURGLAR, Williams, Brown & Eari.e. The scene opens with the exterior of a house with policeman on duty. Looking occasionally at the house he is seen by the cook, who brings him out a mutton pie, etc. Slippery Jim, the burglar, seeing they are fully engaged, slips by and forces the door. He is, however, seen by the cook, and the policeman thinking he can make an easy capture, enters the house. But Jim has escaped by the window, bowling over the cook; both policeman and cook then hurry after the burglar. Jim, however, is slippery, and meeting a swell and his lady-love, forces the former, at the point of a pistol, to change clothes— the policeman comes up and attempts to arrest the swell, but on matters being ex- plained continues the chase. Jim has by this time again exchanged clothes with a coster, and coming up to a supposed old woman he attempts to repeat his manoeuvre, but the supposed old woman turns out to be a policeman, and the crowd coming up, Jim is "carted off on the coster's barrow, the crowd enjoying the fun. DANIEL BOONE: OR PIONEER DAYS IN AMERICA. Edison Mfg. Co. On a ramble through a forest, an Indian maiden approaches a swiftly running stream, crosses on a narrow stone dam, and, with the aid of a long stick, carefully picks her way over the rugged rocks be- yond. She does not go far, however, until she makes a misstep, slips and seriously sprains her ankle. Daniel Boone's daugh- ter, also roaming in the forest comes upon the injured girl and carefully assists her over the dangerous rocks to a place of safety. On this eventful day, Daniel Boone and a companion had made preparation for a hunting expedition. Everything in readi- ness, the horses brought around to the cabin, his wife, two daughters, and the man left behind to protect them, assemble outside the cabin to witness their departure; they mount and ride away into the forest in anticipation of a good day's sport Immediately after their departure, one of Boone's daughters is sent to the spring after a pail of water. She returns hastily and frightened, with the news that a band of Indians are approaching the cabin. Knowing what this means, they all enter and bar the doors and windows to resist the attack. In those days, an attack by Indians was a common occurrence and the cabins were built with loop-holes four or five feet from the ground to enable those within to repulse, if possible, the attackers. As the Indians approach nearer and nearer, they drop flat on the ground and crawl stealthily up to the cabin, by this means keeping below the range of the loop-holes. One Indian, however, stands up and is im- mediately shot down. Several more at- tempt to rush upon the cabin, but meet with the same fate. Within the cabin a different scene is en- acted. The protector of the cabin fires from one loop-hole, and then another, as fast as the guns are loaded and handed to him by Mrs. Boone and her daughters. A fearful discovery is then made—only one shot left The powder horns are empty: In desperation, Mrs. Boone peeps through one of the loop-holes, realizes the situation and swoons. The door is battered d the protector killed, the house set on and Boone's two daughters abducted. Indians execute a dance around the frigte! ened girls while the cabin burns, and put off to their camp. Boone and his companion return find nothing but smoking ruins where stood his home; no sign of life visil Knowing full well the perpetrators of this disaster, he and his companion take oath of vengeance. They endeavor to find the trail and 1. ing their horses, search on through forest Boone comes upon a handkerc^,. which he picks up and recognizes as k longing to one of his daughters. Hop5 arises that they may still be alive, r hopes of sooner picking up the trail, Booa departs in one direction and his companies in the opposite. In the meantime the Indians have n turned to their camp with the capture girls. While a sentinel keeps watch ore the camp, and when he moves away fro! the tent containing the prisoners, an India girl steals out presently followed by <n of the abducted girls, whom we recognh as the one in the opening scene. The b dian girl helps her to escape the notice c the sentinel, leads her down through th woods to a spot where a horse has bee tethered to enable her to escape. Tb escaping girl mounts the horse and dii pears in the forest, the Indian girl ret ing quickly to the camp. The sentinel covers the escape, the camp is aroused pursuit started. The white girl gallops She soon ' comes upon the companion Boone, who has struck the trail, hastily explains her escape and togi they dash through the forest closely pi sued by the Indians. Seeing further effi to escape by this means is useless, dismount and, crouching behind a await the arrival of their pursuers. As leading Indian comes within range, a «d directed shot tumbles him from his hon A second meets the same fate, and still third. Panic seizes the remainder of band and they turn and flee. All this time Boone has ridden on, vairs searching for some clue to the directis taken by the Indians. At last dishearten^ and worn out, he dismounts, rolls hinK in a blanket and soon falls asleep. He discovered by the Indians, captured z. carried off to their camp, and tied to a he Wood and brush is piled around him c set on fire, while the Indians perform war dance and torture him while dance around him. After the repulse of the Indians in p= suit of the escaping girl, she and her re cuer come upon an Indian sentinel standi: on a cliff. Silently the man creeps behc the Indian, seizes him by the throat, 2 after a desperate struggle, succeeds throwing him over the cliff. The girl < proaches, and together surveying th surroundings, discover the Indian cai where her sister is still held captive. Rt cue seems impossible. The Indian's jw and arrow lay on the ground. An MCI comes to the resourceful pioneer, think is to act Knowing well the supsp stitions of the Indian, he drops on his keep hastily_ prepares the head, of the arrqsj lights it, places it to the bow, and, *>& unerring aim drops it directly in the fe dian camp. As it strikes the Indians ' come panic-stricken and flee, leaving to his fate. Then is displayed a remarkable feat, which but few dumb animals are capak Boone's horse, having been led by the