The Film Index (Jul-Dec 1910)

THE FILM INDEX 23 How Do You Estimate the Cost of a Moving Picture Machine ? Have You Made the Common Mistake of Counting the Original Cost Only, or, at the Most, Adding the Repair Bills? The Actual Cost also must include all time lost by breakdowns, all dissatisfied patrons, all the operator's extra work, and all your own worry. 1911 Model "THE EDENGRAPH" Pat. December 1, 1903 Costs just $225.00. No more Eden^raph Manufacturing Co. GEORGE KLEINE, Pres. 135 W. Third Street, New York, N. Y. SELLING AGENTS: KLEINE OPTICAL CO., 52 State Street, Chicago, 111, C. B. KLEINE, .... 19 East 2 I st Street, New York, N. Y. GENERAL FILM CO., All Offices CLUNE FILM EXCHANGE, . 727 So. Main St., Los Angeles, Cal. Ornamental Theatres PLASTER RELIEF DECORATIONS THEATRES DESIGNED EVERYWHERE Illustrated Theatre Catalog. Send us Sizes of Theatre for Special Designs DECORATORS SUPPLY CO. Ave. and Lime St. CHICAGO, ILL' son, her boy. She worships him, but ere the day closes, the awful truth is revealed to her that her boy is a thief. Mile. Morin at this point reaches the supreme climax of the art of silent drama. A moment more and the gendarmes are in the room searching for the thief and then the dumb terror seizes her. She sees her boy a prisoner. She sees him behind the iron bars — she sees him suffering. Ah, then the greater love comes forth and she takes the guilt upon herself. "I am the thief," but the law of a lie rarely finds a home in happiness and relief. It always reacts upon the offender which is clearly shown in this picture when she is brought before the justice. Who should it be but her former sweetheart. Here before the man she loves, she condemns herself with a lie as a common thief and he is forced to sentence her to one year at hard labor. We then catch a gleam of her prison life and finally her release. We then see her wandering back to her native village, penniless heart-broken and alone. Through the window of a village inn she beholds her boy gambling and drinking. She sends word to him hut he turns from her. Can human being suffer more? At last she is found by the judge, taken to his home and through his love and care we realize that her life will be sweeter and that her boy will learn to bow down before that greater love which has given so much for him. This picture is superbly mounted and the cast is one that is of the highest possible type. The Edison Company can well claim it as the masterpiece of Mile. Morin's motion picture work. "ARMS AND THE WOMAN."— Another story of the rugged life of the mining camps of the West. Mrs. Cushing, a widow, and her two children, a beautiful daughter and a sen, whose inclinations are wayward, are residing in the mountains of California where Mrs. Cushing's late husband had some mining claims. The story opens when Mrs. Cushing receives by registered mail a package containing some two thousand dollars in currency, being the total sum realized on the sale of her husband's estate in Iowa. The son has just asked his mother for a loan of money. She at first refuses him but finally gives him some gold pieces and he leaves the home informing his mother that he is about to invest the money in such a way as to increase its amount. Without telling her son anything about it, in fact hiding the circumstances from him, Mrs. Cushing dispatches her daughter with the money which has just been received by registered mail, to deposit same where she can pay some assessments for work on the mining property. The girl starts with a satchel containing the currency and takes the stage at Dutch Flat. Meanwhile her brother has gone with the gold pieces given him to a gambling house where he loses every cent of it. A suspicious character is interested in his losses and watches him keenly. At the critical moment he calls him aside and is talking to him very earnestly when Hank Young, the big stage driver of Dutch Flat, steps up and informs young Cushing that he had better beware of the stranger, that he doesn't like the cut of his jib. Cushing resents any interference and Hank moves away rebuffed. We now watch the events which transpires in front of the postoffice at Dutch Flat. The stage comes in with a load of passengers who dismount and among them who start out on the next lap of the journey is Miss Cushing holding the bag with the money. There is some talk between the driver, Hank Young, and the postmaster about a messenger on the box, and he tells him that he will find the messenger at the next stop. The coach pulls out of Dutch Flat and no sooner has it gone than we see Young Cushing and the suspicious character trailing through the mountains over a short cut to head off the stage. When the latter arrives at the way station where the messenger was supposed to mount the box. Hank is informed by the stableman that no one is there to go with him. He tries to induce some cowpunchers to ride on the coach, but they refuse, saying they have business elsewhere. Miss Cushing, who is now the sole passenger in the stage, is somewhat afraid of being alone and the driver invites her to ride with him on the seat. We now reach a corner of the road at a wooded spot in the mountains. Young Cushing and his friend are seen masking themselves and going to ambush in order to hold up the stage. This they do and all seems going their way when Hank Young, the stage driver, recalls the fact that the little weman beside him has confided to him that there is two thousand dollars of her mother's money in the bag at her seat. He suddenly rouses himself to action and it will be necessary to see the film to realize the way in which he put the bad men to flight and the quietus on the stage robbing aspirations of Young Cushing. The thrilling moment of the picture is when Miss Cushing discovers that one of the robbers is her brother. She tells this to Hank and he relieves the tension of the situation in a most clever manner. Young Cushing has been badly wounded and Hank rushes his horses back to Dutch Flat where the sheriff attempts to arrest the man in the coach. Here Hank shows his quickness of wit by telling the sheriff that the wounded man was a passenger in the coach. For this he re ceives a look of tenderness and gratitude from Cushing's sister. Hank in his rough way has saved the family honor and the last scene of the picture shows him giving young Cushing the lecture of his life and its effect upon the boy. Hank leaves with the gratitude of mother and sister and a promise from the wayward son to live in the future as a wiser and a better man. Altogether a dramatic, entertaining story acted with a full measure cf the realization of the importance of the parts and scenically, photographically and in point of accuracy to detail, a film up to the best. "THE COWPUNCHER'S GLOVE."— No matter how many motion pictures dealing with the life of the Western man of the plains are given to the market, there is always room for one more. The scope is so broad, the plains are so vast, and human nature so varied that there are hundreds of interesting subjects yet to be gleaned from the man on the horse with his "devil may 'care" life, his wonderful vitality and his deep human love, or hate, as the case may be. "The Cowpuncher's Glove" is only another chapter in his life that is well worth reading. We are first introduced to the Western home of a father and daughter. The cowpuncher enters, and w-e can easily see that his heart is set upon winning the girl's affection in any way that is possible; but the girl evidently has other views upon the subject, as she does not seem particularly overjoyed at his behavior, although her father practically promises her hand in marriage upon the cow-puncher's return from the roundup. Here we are shown a glimpse of the roundup, and in the next scene we are acquainted with the fact that Jim, the cowpuncher, has not been entirely honest in his dealings and now stands in a fair way of having his neck stretched from the branch of a cedar tree by a lynching gang before morning. This information is communicated to another cowboy by his finding of a glove outside of the county jail window-, in which glove is a note from the prisoner imploring the finder, in the name of mercy, to give him a chance to start life over again and be honest. The stranger does not know the culprit, nor has he an opportunity of seeing him, but moved by the appeal for help he takes the chance, and succeeds in securing the keys of the jail and throwing them in through the barred window to Jim without either man seeing the other. The only reward he has for his service is the pair of gloves, which are initialed, in which he found the note. Slipping them into his pocket he passes on into the night, while Jim, a few moments