Motion Picture News (Oct 1915)

94 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 12. No. 17. degradation through the effects of drink. Fordyce meets a Salvation Army lass, Joyce Ferdon, who is posing as a charity worker to get local color for a new play in which she is starring. The past and present idols become interested in each other, and Fordyce reforms his mode of living. A theatre musician tries to abduct the actress, and Cecil proves his manhood in rescuing her. He finally understudies the star and comes into his own in brilliant fashion. The uniformly adequate cast is composed of E. Forrest Taylor, Helene Rosson, Jack Prescott, A1 Fordyce, Ashton Dearholt and Robert Klein. William Bertram was the director. “THE RECKONING” (Eamona — Associated — Three Reels) REVIEWED BY H. S. FULD THE producers of this production are to be congratulated, not so much on the story or plot of this particular release, but on the general construction of the entire piece. The interiors, especially that of the reception room of the mansion, are masterpieces of the scene maker’s art. Too much credit cannot be given the director. During the progress of the story some very interesting exteriors are also shown, among them views of extensive oil fields. The father of a young lady, desirous that his daughter shall marry for money, sends her lover away with a request to wait a year. The young man, accepting the superintendency of a plant in the Western oil fields, goes West. His letters to his sweetheart are intercepted by the father and after a few months she acquiesces to the demands of her father that she marry a man he has picked out for her. At work in his new surroundings the young superintendent makes an enemy of his assistant by knocking him down in defense of a cripple whom he was maltreating. That same night the assistant robs the safe, leaving the superintendent for dead after a struggle, and escapes to the East. A FACE FBOM THE FAST This is the man now posing as a rich Westerner that the girl’s father has picked out for her. Her lover, on a trip East, gets to the house as the engagement reception is being held. An awakened conscience causes the now repentant man to excuse himself, hurry to his rooms and commit suicide, leaving a note explaining all. The picture is interesting throughout, and there are quite a number of tense moments. Good acting on the part of the principals in conjunction with beautiful settings make this a welcome release. “WHEN YOUTH IS AMBITIOUS” (Lubin — Two Reels) REVIEWED BY PETER MILNE THIS Lubin release is quite above the average two-reel drama. It is by Daniel Carson Goodman and contains a convincing and smoothly running theme. It is not grotesquely decorated with a load of unbelievable betraying, murdering and the like. It is more true to life than many pictures, although the intensity of its situations is by no means belittled by this realism. Ambition causes Forbes to sacrifice love for business prospects. Years later, when he has become the owner of a flourishing business, the daughter of the girl he once loved is employed in the office as stenographer. His son is secretly engaged to her. His wife being dead, the business magnate proposes to the girl and then is terribly surprised when informed of her true identity. He awakes to the fact that his age casts him totally out of the running and later he heartily sanctions his son’s marriage. THE GOSSIPS HINDER LOVE MAKING The cast comprised of Robert Cain, Mary Charleson, Francis Joyner, George Clark, Rosetta Brice, Kempton Greene and Liela Frost renders entirely satisfactory work, making the picture thoroughly enjoyable in respect to both story and acting. PARAMOUNT WILL OFFER “NEWSPICTURES ,” WITH UNIQUE FEATURES, WEEKLY FROM NOVEMBER 8 PARAMOUNT NEWSPICTURES is the name of the celluloid newspaper which will make its initial appearance on the Paramount program on November 8, sponsored by the Paramount Pictures Corporation. Every week one thousand feet of film taken by experts will tell the public what is going on in the world with a new idea in mind. This Paramount Weekly, according to the plans and specifications of the Paramount Corporation and Walter E. Greene, who is in immediate charge of the venture, will contain many unique features. Some of them, about which more detailed information will be made public later, have never before been seen on the screen, it is said. Paramount exchangemen are enthusiastic over the prospect of this new addition to their program. ELEPHANT, ON RAMPAGE, SETS OTHER ANIMALS AT “U” CITY BY THE EARS ALL the animals in the zoo at Universal City were in an uproar several nights ago, all due to the fact that Charlie, the elephant, had started on a rampage. The racket made by the elephant aroused all the animals from *• their sleep, and lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, hyenas, bears and all the rest made the night hideous with their uproar. Frank Frutell, who has charge of the elephant, mounted a horse and started in pursuit of Charlie. He found him down by the river bed where he was having one glorious bath. Frutell . had no trouble in getting Charlie to go back with him to the zoo. BEULAH POYNTER WRITES DRAMA ON HEREDITY BEULAPI POYNTER, who plays opposite Arthur Donaldson in the Charles K. Harris feature picture, “School Bells,” has written a play on heredity entitled, “The Unborn,” which is to be produced under the sponsorship of the Medical Rczdew of Reviews in New York November 5. The play will be produced with a strong cast. It will also be published by that magazine. Miss Poynter has been on the stage for about ten years, and has appeared in her own plays, “Lena Rivers” and “The Little Girl That He Forgot. In “School Bells,” which will be released through the World Film Corporation, Miss Poynter plays the role of “Mrs. Wagner.” Table of contents will hereafter be found every week opposite inside back cover