Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

January 29, 1 9 1 3 . Supplement to THK CINEMA. night. The reporter solved the puzzle. He called in a policeman pal. and had the suitors arrested as burglar suspects. Then he eloped with the girl, quietly, visited the parents, calmly, and was forgiven without any fuss whatsoever, just as he had expected. For, as has been already stated, he was a good newspaper man and an excellent reader of character, and knew that i mi h parent would be consoled because a good part of the joke r The young nun who were arrested as burglars did not forgive. Rut then they did not count anyway. Released February 19th. Length 1,000 feet. "CUPID ON THE JOB." [Majestic.) "The Woman Haters' Club" is composed of seven dashing young fellows who have been disappointed in love. "The Mao Haters' Club,' composed of seven beautiful ladies, hire a house next to the men's club. Universal hatred of the opposite sex is cultivated until sweet little Cupid wakes up one fine morning. J I i ';:'*»V£V ■1 L. it and goes forth from his leafy bed in the woods, bent upon mischief. Ethel starts from a near-by city to visit the women's club, but misses her train, and arrives late at night. Cupid arranges things so that she gets into the cellar of the men's club by mistake. She is discovered by the butler, and escorted by the horrid men to the women's club. Cupid sees his chance, and works like a beaver. He succeeds in arranging the couples to his liking, and, after four days of hard work, drives them all off to church in a body, where they are married. Released February 22nd. Length 759 feet. •TWO OF A KIND." (Majestic.) Jane, daughter of a socially inclined mother, hates balls and being dressed up. She wants to become a teacher at a charitable kindergarten under the patronage of some of her girl friends. Iler mother will not listen to this, but wants the girl to make a rich marriage. Mrs. Morton, another society leader, has a son. Jack, who runs away from all his mother's balls. She insists upon his coming to one. .Jane and her mother, with cousin Vera, attend. Jack is forced to ask Vera to dance, but he makes a bad job of it. Jane with scowls frightens everyone away. She seeks refuge in the conservatory. She sees Jack trying to take Vera around the floor and laughs. Later he stumbles into the conservatory. They are both very shy— and each backs away from the other. Finally Jane's sense of humour gets the better of her, and she tells Jack of seeing him dance. They both laugh and get a bit more friendly. Realising this, they become embarrassed again. Next morning Jane goes on strike, and says she will leave home if she is not permitted to go and teach. Her mother — seeing her with packed suit case — is forced to consent. Jane finds her element at the kindergarten. One day by chance she meets Jack down town. She asks him in to see the work. He goes. At first he is afraid of the kiddies, but later becomes friends with both them and their teacher. Jane's mother, paying a visit to her obstinate daughter, finds Jack and Jane in the midst of an hilarious time in the kindergarten, in which they are enjoying themselves as much as the children. Perfectly satisfied, she returns home. A few nights later Jack summons up courage enough to call upon Jane. Learning that he is to be bei ^isit.^. she takes her plain dirk frock of] and changes it foi one of the loathed li^ht gowns. In the parlour they have no trouble in entertaining each other. Rut Jane's mother stumbles bo just as J i< k is handing the girl a bunch of flowers, and immediate! j comes to the wrong COOL 1 lusion. She thinks the two " good pals " are in love ! And exi using herself, she bows her way out, leaving the young pair turned to stone with horror. It is obvious what the mother thought; they both realise why she was so confused; Jane, shamefaced, attempts to explain, but Jack — no longer shy — and not unwilling to let things go as mother saw them — take bei into his hands, and the pals are sweethearts. Released February 26th. Length 982 ft "A MESSAGE FROM NIAGARA." (Thanhouser.) A widower and his only child, a daughter just budding into womanhood, lived at Niagara Falls. The man had retired from business with enough to live in comfort, but his lonely, purposeless life led him into evil habits, and he became a drug fiend. He kept the secret from his daughter. Then a chance meeting with the man who supplied him with the drug revealed everything to her, and she laboured earnestly, but unsuccessfully, to reform her father. About this time she met a young artist from New Vork, and he immediately fell in love with her. The girl liked him, but, because of her sorrow and anxiety, did not respond to his passion. When the smuggler again appeared at her home the girl refused to permit her father to have dealings with him. The old man stormed and raged, and in his weakened condition his emotion was fatal to him. Frantic ally endeavouring to reach the drug he craved, he staggered and fell dead. Over the body of her father the girl vowed vengeance on the man she blamed for his death, and swore she would bring him to justice. A chance encounter and an overheard conversation put the girl on her enemy's track, and she trailed him to a lonely hut on the river bank above the falls, where the smugglers had their rendezvous. Listening at a window she soon discovered their secret, and realised that she had the evidence to put her enemy and his pals in jail for long terms. Unfortunately for her, one of the gang, arriving late, surprised and captured her. The smugglers locked her in an upper room of the hut intending to detain her until all danger to them was past. She wrote a note telling where she was a captive, and put it in a bottle, corking it. She knew that a bottle, might be overlooked, so tied her light hat to it. Then she hurled this unique message into the swiftly rushing river, knowing that it would be speedily carried away. There it was found by the artist, who was out rowing, and aid came on without delay. The smugglers, preparing to depart, were overpowered and led away to prison, while the girl at last listened to the pleadings of her lover, who had come to her aid in response to a plea for help sent over Niagara Falls and through the Whirlpool Rapids. Released February 26th. Length 1,000 feet. " FATHER." (Alliance.) When John Morris loses his entire fortune on the Stock Exchange his first thought is of his motherless son Dick. He decides that the boy must have an education, at all events. He gives Dick over to the charge of a lawyer, to whom he also trusts all he was able to save from his wrecked fortune. The lawyer promises that the boy shall receive as good an education as possible. Satisfied that Dick will be cared for, the father disappears. For twenty years he works in a city far away from the town where his boy is at school. Ashamed of his poverty he never intrudes on Dick. A month before graduation day. the lawyer sends to John for $1,000 which he will have to have before Dick may graduate. John has not the money, and there is no one of whom he may borrow it. Crged on by the fear that his boy will have the coveted diploma snatched away from him, he steals the money from his employers. On graduation dav the father sits fa* back in the audience and watches his boy graduate with honours. Returning to the city, he is arrested. Young Dick is appointed lawyer for the employer. It is the bov's first case and, anxious to win, he makes a scathing speech against his own father. The judge charges the jury, but before they can announce their decision the lawyer dashes in and explains the whole case. The employer, softened, with draws his charge. Dick overcome with remorse greets his father with love and affection. And for the first time for years John clasps his bov in his amis Released February 26th. Length 997 feet.