Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

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January i, 1913. FILMS.— Supplement to Till-: CINEM \. 85 TYLER FILM CO., 12, <;> rrahd Street, \V. Phone Gerrard Releasing : ECLAIR. ITALA. TYLER, and AMERICAN STANDARD Filmi. "THE MERRY WILOW " [Eclair.) Missia is a charming young lady with whom Prince Danilo is in love. She is in love with him also, but her mother desires her to wed l'almieri, an ancient millionaire. Danilo, unsuccessful in his suit, leaves for the Marsovian court. Amidst a gay assembly the millionaire presses his suit, and under her mother's persuasions Missia regretfully consents to the marriage. The scene shifts to the gorgeous Court of Marsovia. Popoff, diplomat and banker, has a handsome wife who flirts with the Lieut. Camile. The banker learns that Widow Palmieri is entrusting the 50 millions left to her by her husband to the Marsovian bank, but that if she marries a foreigner the money will be removed from the bank. He takes counsel with two other old cronies, and they deside that Missia must marry a Marsovian. She, in the character of the Merry Widow, arrives, and creates a tremendous sensation, all the men, young and «ld, clustering round her, to the disgust of the other ladies. Alarmed by the attentions which strangers show to Missia, at the ball, the banker and his friend decide to send for Prince Danilo in order that he may captivate the widow. The Prince, as it happens, is enjoying himself in very gay, if not very respectable, company, and when he is dragged out he is a little the worse for liquor. Conducted to an anteroom at the ball, he flings the note which has been sent to him explaining the situation on the floor, lies down on the couch, covers his face with a handkerchief, and goes to sleep. Missia, entering alone, removes the handkerchief, and discovers her former lover. There is a pretty scene between them, ending by their breaking away into the " Merry Widow " waltz. Afterwards Missia discovers the letter and learns of the plot to marry her to Danilo. She is fond of Danilo, but is naturally somewhat annoyed at being dealt with in this way. At the ball Camile makes an appointment with Madame Popoff by writing on a fan which Missia has given her. They make an appointment in the conservatory. In playing a game of forfeits old Popoff acquires the fan as a forfeit, and thinking he has discovered a lover's secret, he shows it to Danilo, and they, not knowing whose the fan is, proceed to the conservatory to spy on the couple who are already there. Old Figg, a servant of Popoff's, to save Madame, persuades Missia to take her place. He creeps into the conservatory by another door, turns off the lights, effects the exchange, and when Popoff rushes in, after having got a glimpse of his wife, he is astonished to discover Missia flirting with the Lieutenant. Danilo also is astounded, and, of course, Madame Popoff escapes scot free. Still, to clear Missia, she writes on the fan stating that it was hers. Prince Danilo is once more enjoying himself amongst his gay friends when Missia enters. She shows him the fan, and, before old Popoff can see it, she tears it up. Danilo still holds back because he says she is too rich, whereupon Missia produces her husband's will, which says that if she marries again she loses all her money. This turns Danilo ; he proposes and is accepted, receiving the congratulations of all present. But one astute young lady turns the will round and finds that it continues, and says that although she loses all the money it passes to her second husband. " HOW MR. POTIPHAR MARRIED." (Itala.) Potiphar has made the mistake of being too familiar with his housekeeper, and she bullies him when he is late for meals. He escapes to his study, where it gives him much pleasure to write a note to his beloved, to be sent with a case containing a little watch as a present. Now, the housekeeper has ideas of her own about Mr. Potiphar's marriage. She opens the drawer where the present is concealed, discovers what it is, and determines to squash Mr. Potiphar's hopes in that direction. She fishes out of the kitchen cupboard a small slice of sausage, very far gone, on a piece of string, and puts this in the case in place of the watch. Then she mr\kes up the parcel again, and it is dulv delivered to the young lady when she is entertaining guests. Proud of her coming marriage, she opens the note, reads it to the ladies assembled, and then opens the case, "'Twixt War and the Girl," the greatest money getter of all times. WALTURD AW. with the results that may be imagined. Potiphar calls just after, and is astounded at the gruff reception with which he meets. When he enters the drawing-room he is still further alarmed when his intended bride's father seizes roughly upon him and compels him to eat the undesirable slice of sausage. This has disastrous effects upon poor Potiphar, who is kicked out, and arrives home to find his housekeeper apparently upon the point of leaving. She promises to stay if he will marry her. And that's how Mr. Potiphar came to marry his housekeeper. " IN SEARCH OF A TITLE." (American Standard.) Helen Van-Pelt and her girl friends make a solemn vow that they will marry nobody except a foreign nobleman. Consequently the young men in the boarding-house with whom they had flirted on the previous day are much disgusted when they receive the cold shoulder. At lunch a telegram is received that the Duke de Vermicelli will be arriving. This causes a tremendous flutter in the female bosoms, to the increased disgust of the masculine element. The boys determine to teach the young ladies a lesson, and when driving in their motor they pounce upon an Italian organ-grinder, take him with them in the car, and after faking him up in their own clothes, introduce him as the Duke. For a duke his manners are peculiar, but all his peculiarities are covered in the estimation of the ladies by his title, and they fight with each other for his favour. After some humorous incidents, during which the Duke is taught how to kiss the ladies' hands and solemnly warned against his propensity for flinging his arms round them, a meeting is arranged in the conservatory. Each of the young ladies is informed that the Duke wishes to see her at 11 o'clock in the conservatory. Each, believing herself favoured, goes in good time and conceals herself, and when the sham duke arrives he is suddenly surrounded by a bevy of ladies. The only way out of it is to put the Duke up by lottery, and he falls to Helen Van-Pelt. She is naturally elated, whilst the other girls are consumed with envy. Whilst the buzz of conversation is going on a card is sent in bearing the name of the Duke de Vermicelli, the real owner of the title having arrived. The young men, not to be done out of their joke, seize upon the reai duke, and fling him out as an impostor. Then early next day they get rid of the sham duke, so that when the morning newspaper arrives, with an account of the flinging out of the real duke, they are able to enjoy the joke and the humiliation of the snobbish young ladies, who are brought to see that after all the young men about them are not so undesirable as they thought they were. "RESTITUTION." (Eclair.) Duchesney, the notary, receives a visit from Marval, who has made a fortune in New Vork speculating on the Stock Exchange. Marval entrusts his pocket-book, crammed with notes, to the notary, who locks it away in his safe and invites his guest to accept his hospitality. He shows his visitor the bedroom, and as the weather is cold, indicates the gas-stove should his guest desire warmth. At night, in his office, counting over his friend's cash, he is seized with the temptation to make it his own. Creeping stealthily upstairs, he cautiously opens the door of the sleeping man's bedroom, pulls the tube from the gasstove off, and thus allowing the gas to escape, closes the door. Next morning a servant, entering the bedroom, is nearly suffocated by the fumes of the gas, and Marval is found dead in bed. Marval has a little boy, Robert, and as a sop to his conscience Duchesney adopts the orphan. Twenty years roll away, and Robert, grown to be a young man, is grateful to the notary, whom he regards as his benefactor. Robert is taken into partnership by Lazare, the financier, and is favourably regarded by Susanne, the financier's daughter. One day Robert receives a note signed " Darbois," which puzzles him and arouses suspicion. It asks a favour, and concludes thus: "The service I ask is small considering that I was your father's partner when he made the great fortune he left to you." Robert has Darbois shown in, and begins to Drotest that no fortune has been left him. Darbois suggests that the notary must have keDt the Those that have shown " 'Twixt War and the Girl " langh at the Opposition missing it.— WALTURDAW.