Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

January i, 1913. FILMS.— Supplmmt to THE CINEMA. 83 SELIG POLYSCOPE CO., 12, Gerrard Street, W. "THE AWAKENING." {Selig Co.) Cast. Thomas Williams, an Inventor Frank Weed lira. Willi mi-, lus wife Lyllian Leighton Mrs. Coleman, a devotee of society ... Rose Evans John Johnson Lafayette McKee Bonita, a dancer Francis Mason Mr. Morse Carl Winterhoff Mr. Dudley Maxwell Sargent Thomas Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his head, and he changes at once from the plodding mechanic of the dingy shop into an ultra-fashionable man of the town. His wife, dazed with her new surroundings, stops at home ministering to her family as of old, while her husband soon finds congenial feminine companions, who flatter him into forgetfulness of his worthy but modest and retiring wife. Strangely enough, Mrs. Coleman, the woman of fashion, takes a fancy to the neglected wife, and persuades her w* ^ufl^i^* 'X^*'** B jHBh * '1^1 ^ ■ |R\ ^ ^lKW. r 1 PvBl B ' v B M* X 1 1 J9 to follow the example of her husband, in order to win him back. This eventually brings the husband to a sense of his obligations, and he becomes reconciled to his wife — as the mother of his children — as the only woman in the world. • GETTING ATMOSPHERE." {Selig.) The Director of the Mutascope M.P.C. Hobart Bosworth The Leading Lady of the Company Phyllis Gordon The Ingenue of the Company Hetty Harte The Camera Man E. II. Philbrook The Gate Keeper ('. E. Green The Actor-Tramp A. E. Garcia I J. K. Ennis Three Real Tramps -: ('. C. Fralick Elmer Clifton A Farmer Wm. Hutchinson A Mother Mrs. Shaw (Bennie Bear Bennie Weiss Saminie Wei:>s The story of this little comedy is soon told. The director of the Mutascope Moving Picture Company is rehearsing a scene in the studio, where two weeping young ladies have lost a purse which a gallant tramp returns. The actor who is to impersonate the character of the tramp is made up so absurdly that the director lets loose the vials of his wrath upon him. He inveighs against him for his caricature of nature, and as the light is failing, dismisses the people and goes out to look for locations. He meets three real tramps, and conceives the Phone : (lerrard 5156. idea to have the best one of these play the scene, and offers him work at the studio. The tramps see an opportunity, and steal the clothes of some little boys sporting in the old swimming hole, pawn them, and rig the tramp up in style. The poor boys go home in a barrel to a waiting mother, and the Hobo, clean and wonderfully arrayed in nifty clothes, appears before the astonished and disgusted director with all his value destroyed. He is promptly thrown out, but in one of his panions the director finds a valuable substitute, and g<with his scene-making contentedly. "JIM'S VINDICATION." {Selig.) ■ Cast. The Pony Express Rider William Duncan. The Prospectors Lester Cuneo. The Sheriff Rex de Roselli. The Judge Frank McClintock. The Office Manager Marshall Stedmdn. The Express Guard Charles Reeves. The Posse Colorado's Best. Many thrilling adventures of the wild West cling about the daring doings of the pony express riders, who cover the territory between the East and the West on horseback. One of these daring riders, exhausted after a long ride, is doped by a dose of morphine and robbed. A jury at trial convicts him of robbery, and he is sentenced to serve time. His friends enable him to escape, having a string of faithful horses at command. During his wild fight for freedom he encounters the real criminal and runs him down, after one of the most thrilling rides ever shown in a picture. "KINGS OF THE FOREST." {Selig.) Miss Betty Harte, the girl without fear, as...Sona Thomas Santschi, as Fritz Baby Lilian Wade, as their child John Kruger and his wife, an old-fashioned Hoer couple, have an only daughter, Sona. Sona is loved not only by her sweetheart, but also by an old friend of the family, John Yogel. When John Yogel learns of the love of Sona for Fritz he gives her up to the younger man. They marry, and the young couple leave the Kruger home to make a little nest of their own in a distant part of the Transvaal. The last eood-byes are said, the ox-like animal hitched to the white canvas-topped wagon is given a slap of the reins, and the young couple are on their way to their new home. In the little thatched cottage, made from cane-brakes and jungle weeds, there is much happine--. Fritz is an industrious farmer, and Sona is busy with her housework and day-dreams. Then the day-dreams come true, Fritz is permitted to see his tiny daughter, and solemnly enters the room where little Miss Iona lies curled into a ball on the pillow beside her mother. It seems a sacrilege to Fritz t the tiny thing, but after drawing his shirt sleeve several