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SYNOPSES OF CURRENT RELEASES
GENERAL
Tie Love of Madge O'Mara" — bust 4 (.one-reel Selig drama, with Iseler Oakman and Bessie Eyton.i. Hailge supports her invalid mother
working as cashier in a cheap Baurant. She loses her heart to I inald Van Dorn and Portuguese B the proprietor of the chophouse, Lbmes jealous of the young millionR. They resolve to be married, but t>ugh the interference of Van pfn's parents and Portuguese Joe, ijjge receives but a farewell note fa Reginald on her wedding day. Tee years later, Reginald, unhapn married, meets with an accident, tidge, now a nurse, attends him and i is about to let the*man die in rer'ge for his wrong when her pro£ional honor asserts itself and she Jes Reginald.
The Long-green Trail" — August I (two-reel Essanay-BlackCat ieafc, with Virginia Yalli). — Bobby iipper's father wants him to marry 1 daughter of his business competii in order to consolidate the busies. Bobby refuses and his father
ploys Jim Dykeman. an ex-convict, (force the marriage. Dykeman plans I kidnap the two and force the marige. He gets Bobby, but gets ronne, the maid, instead of the girl, ■bby and Yvonne escape, fall in it with each other and are married. ie whole thing proves to be a picrization of a newspaper story a bo is reading.
"Fresh Air" — (one-reel Sparkle niedy, with Tom McEvoy and mla Shay). — Jones, upon the advice his doctor, sleeps on his front randa. Mrs. Jones forgets her husnd and a crowd collects. A dog ases Jones down the street and he rts into a minister's house, dons a ir of trousers and is arrested. He mistaken for the preacher, pcrrms a wedding ceremony and then eets the bishop. He tells the bishop make himself at home and runs ini the arms of a policeman and his Sfe, who are looking for him. The Ike marriage is straightened out pen the bishop marries the coupkIth Jones and his wife as witnesses.
{"A Candy Jag" — (one-reel Ray bmedy. with Johnny and Emma ^>")— Muggsy asks his wife and ten his daughter to shorten a pair i trousers. They are both too busy ) he has the colored cook alter them, hen his wife decides to shorten Kin, while later on his daughter its off some more. Muggsy puts urn on, but they are fit only for a rnall boy. A delivery boy steals fs cigar and becomes sick. A poceman tries the cigar and falls a ictim. They return the cigar to luggsy and he finds a herring imedded in the center. He accompan
ies his wife and daughter to a department store. He buys brandy drops and gets into one mixup after another, finally setting off some fire works. He grabs a string of toy balloons when the store employes try to eject him and floats away above their heads.
"The Smoldering Spark" — (tworeel Selig drama, with Thomas Santschi. Herbert Rawlinson and Bessie Eyton). — Bob Hartley, wealthy yachtsman, falls in love with Bessie Bassett, a village girl. Cal Cooper is also in love with Bessie, but she dismisses him when she finds the sailor drunk on the beach. Her health becomes undermined and Captain Conrad, a friend, takes her on a voyage. Bob is shanghaied and shipped on Conrad's vessel. He tries to establish his identity but Bessie denies knowing him, thinking his present position may be the means of developing his latent manhood. The crew abuses Bob, but finally Bob whips two of the bullies and becomes first mate. The ship catches fire, and Bob puts the fire out. He brings the ship safely into port and Bessie fin-^ ally accepts him.
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"The Halfback"
son Conquest drama, with Yale Boss). — Joel March enters Hillton Academy from his father's farm. He incurs the enmity of Bartlett Cloud, a wealthy boy and half-back on the football team. The college society determines to initiate Joel, but he puts up too strong a fight. Joel gets a position on the football team, but is unjustly accused of kicking another player in the head and suspended from further games. The deciding game of the season is being played with Hillton losing, owing to Cloud's playing. Joel is freed of the charge against him by a schoolmate and he is rushed into the game. He wins the game and Cloud is forced to leave in disgrace Hillton honors Joel with anot vear's tuition.
"The Boy Who Cried Wolfreel Edison-Conquest drama, w bert Hackett). — Jimmy, a boy scout, is fired by a war correspondent's talk about German spies. Every real estate agent who dares open a map is threatened with arrest by the boy scouts. Jimmy's first victim is a bugologist but the professor makes Jimmy a prisoner and only releases him on the forfeiture of some cherished arrow heads. Jimmy's next prisoner is a man whom he sees in the act of drawing a map. At the point of a revolver he compels him to drive to a justice of the peace's office, where the gentleman states he is the Captain of Artillery. L*. S. A. The justice discharges him. Later on, Jimmy sees a familiar machine coming up the road, he places a log across the way and recaptures the
stranger again. Jimmy's father persuades Jimmy to let the gentleman go. An auto drives up and secret service men inform Jimmy they are in search of the man whom he had just let go. Like the boy in the story. Jimmy could get no assistance when the real wolf appeared, but he later captured him single handed.
"In Love's Laboratory" — (one-reel comedy-drama, with William Wadsworth and Jessie Stevens). — Jimmy Burton seeks to invent a safety match. His cousin, Charles Henderson, furnishes the money. Charles is in love with Ellen Anderson, who is anxious to call on Jimmy. Meanwhile Jimmy is besieged by creditors. He puts one of them to sleep by the aid oi gas as Ellen and Charles come in. Jimmy makes another attempt to borrow money from Charles. Ellen overhears the conversation, drops her purse and leaves. As Jimmy is examining the purse, a creditor appears and takes the money. Ellen returns for her purse, Jimmy confesses and Ellen buys ten shares in the match company. She further aids Jimmy with a check for $1,000 and Jimmy sells his invention for a large sum. mmv and Ellen marrv.
MUTUAL
"Bab, the Fixer" — August 13 (fivereel Horkheimer comedy-drama, with Jackie Saunders, Leslie Peacocke and Mollie McConnell). — John Porter, a Wall Street broker, fails in business. He goes west with his wife and baby and buys a small ranch. Ten years later his daughter, Bab. has grown up and become an expert with the rifle. Richard Sterling, a former Xew York broker's clerk, through shrewd dealing, has become rich. He is in love with Bab, but Bab's father wishes her to marry into society. The water on Porter's place gives out. In drilling for water. Porter strikes oil and becomes wealthy. Bab goes to a finishing school. Mrs. Porter quarrels with her husband and they separate. Bab seeks her father, learns the truth, and brings about a reconciliation. Then Bab marries Sterling.
"The Widow's Might" — August 14 (one-reel LaSalle comedy). — The widow Tightfist lives in an apartment house. She is watched by Dr. Vee Gates and wife, who hatch a scheme to marry her to Otto and share the money. After the wedding the widow refuses to open her purse strings. The janitor is hired to drop a brick on Otto, which causes a dangerous malady, curable only by granting his every wish. The scheme works, but Otto makes love to the doctor's wife and before the doctor can figure it out, the plotters have a lively time.
"Beach Nuts" — August 16 (one-reel Horsley comedy, with George Ovey).