Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

Jam mm i. iwi;. FILMS.— Supplement to THE CINEMA. lefari the shrine, she humbly prayed the god that Be would nol be angry with her, foi her heart had gone out to the brave man, and ahe could not deserl him [hen the warrior and tii. priestess departed. The God oi War was naturally the hi od soldiers, and in t li i time oi peril he aided them. Knowing thai the absence oi the priestess would bi noted, and that | would be l.ilal to the fugitive, llacln man descended from hi shrine, and took the place of the priestess at the altar, The brave soldier reached a pla< safety, bui gpired oi his wounds. The broken-hearted pricste- returned to her temple, in fear and trembling, to pay t i the god W h<-n -he reached th iti-id.. she was stri ken with awe, for she saw herself, in hei garb of a priestess, kneeling at the altar. The priest and a number of worshipp d in time to see a miracle. I I altar stops, fainting, was lying the beloved priestess. Thi the God of War was alive. It stretched forth it hands, and slowly resolved back iii!:> -tone. A it did so, the body of the priestess das 1. and a lotus blossom appeared in the place where she had been. "THE CALL <>l THE BLOOD." [Majestic.) John Ford, chief of a party of civil engineer-, wo, and weds I, whose tribe are encamped in near-by wood-. After two year the chill of norman life palls upon her. With the arrival of spring comes a longing for the woods. From her drawing-room window -he sees the light of a camp fire, and, unable to resist its appeal, -he answers the call of the blood. Forsaking husband and child, she steals to the woods, and sits upon the earth, attired in her evening gown. A year later a gypsy woman, peddling hex laces near the Ford-' home, sees doctors coming from the house. She learns from a maid of the fatal illness of the child. C.oing into the woods, she gathers herbs, and brews a mystic medicine. Later that night she looks through a window of her former home, and sees a despairing group gathered about the child side. When the nurse dozes, the gypsy steals in, and administers her medicine. The child cries, and the mother hides behind a portiere as the father and doctor enter the room. The doctor pronounces the fever broken, and the crisis passed. The gypsylooks longingly at her husband and child, then steals awav Later she joins her gypsy band, and as thev pass from the town she looks back once toward her home and her child. "GUY MANNERING." [Reliance.] Guy Mannering is present at the birth of Harry Bertram, the heir to the Bertram estate. Meg Mernles, queen of the gypsies, living on the Bertram estate, is also present, and, by consulting with the stars, they cast the voung heir's horoscope. This show he will have much trouble and misfortune during his life, holding forth until he reaches his twentv-first birthday. Several years pass. The older Bertram is made Justice of the Peace. With this new authority he at once takes action isies, wle have lived turii VI eg Metrites, who ha long been a friend of the house <>f Eliangowan, takes tin a a pi all down the curse of her race upon the home oi Bertram. In taking action against the smugglers who infest the coast, Bertran Inspector Kennedy to tout them Young Harry, now five I, and hi tutor are walking about the shore. They pass Kennedy, who places the i luld upon In horse. The sm tntime recogni-e Kennedy a theil enemy. The) attack him, and throw him over the cliff. Thi boy, being a witness to <\, Meg, who has seen thi-. begs foi th> boy's release, but Law -in, a silent friend of the mugglers, prevails upon them to kidnap the boy, for without an heir the house of Bertram, by his clever manipulation, will 1-1 h pass into his hands. Sixteen years later young Bertram, now known as Brown, becomes an officer in Colonel Mannering's regiment in India. He is very much in love with Mannering's daughter, Julia, whose mother, fearing the colonel's anger, enCourages the young lover in their secret meetings. This is misinterpreted by the colonel, who think that Brown is paying attention to his wife. Thi -ituation leads to a duel, in which Bertram i -hot. and supposed by Mannering to be dead. In he i taken prisoner by the Sepoys, and held captive until he manages to <• ape. Learning that the colonel has returned to England, he follows, and finds him living in Scotland, a widower, with hi daughter, near the Bertram estate. !!■ ids sweetheart again. Old Meg recognises him as the heir, and the smugglers also recognise him, and inform Glossin, who, upon the death of the young man's father, acquires the estate at very small cost, leaving Miss Bertram, the daughter of his old master, penniless. Glossin at once takes action with the smuggler, who, to protect himself from the charge of the murder of Kennedy, i a willing tool of Glossin, and agrees to get the young man out of the way. This plot, fortunately, is overheard by one of Meg's trusty men, who immediately informs her. Realising that she owes many a favour to the house of Ellangowan, -he -.•ndword to the colonel that if he would like to see that the heir to the house of Bertram is still alive, to come at once to the -muggier-' cave with help. Sh< tells Bertram who he is, and bids him be at the smugglers' cave, that she may prove what she say-. She leads him into the cave. Here ahe confronts Glossin and Hatterick, and promises that her prophecy shall be fulfilled. A struggle ensues, which by the timely arrival of Colonel Mannering and hi help, terminates in the capture of Glossin and Hatterick. Meg has been hot during the affray, and with her dying breath announces to all that Bertram is the long-lost heir to the house of Ellangowan. The colonel recognises in yroung Bertram, Brown. His daughter, Julia, arrives, and the lover-like attitude of the young couple explainto him the error, and he consents to their speedy mar Bertram meets for the first time his sister Lucy, in whom Colonel Mannering ha shown an interest more than brotherly. They all repair to the castle, where Bertram is formally proclaimed its mast r