Motion Picture News (Oct 1913 - Jan 1914)

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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS 21 ceremoniously drags the culprit to the house. Nick has proved his ability, and, incidentally, the value of the police dogs bred at Barrow-on-the-Hill. But "Tiny Tim" is forgiven. All concerned realize that it was love for the child that led him to cause so much anxiety, and in the last scene we see the baby, Nick, and "Tiny Tim" a happy and contented family. Prisoner in the Harem Blache Four-Reel Special (Featuring the Countess de Marstini) A picture that undoubtedly has a very favorable future. It is a "corker," that not being the best Websterian English, but it is expressive, and in this case suits the subject. It is not often that we have a real, live Countess to pose for a picture. We have them on the legitimate stage, and we have a dancer in vaudeville who is the daughter of an Earl, but there are few who act in the motion picture COUNTESS BE MARSTINI dramas. This is also one of the very best animal pictures ever shown, there being lions supernumerary and a tiger, who seems to know more than the plain rudiments of "acting." Toru, a miser's daughter, is sold to the Rajah (the story being laid in India) for a bag of gold. This is much against her will, and Akbar, her lover, decides that he will help her all he can. While he is prospecting his chances, he comes across a tiger, who has the proverbial thorn in his foot, and this he removes and thus makes a friend. Together they proceed to the palace, where the tiger so scares the eunuchs that Akbar is able to get inside the palace and rescue the girl. The settings inside the palace are wonderful, and the Blache Company must have spent a great deal of money and time in fitting out the reception room. They are caught again, and the lover is brought to the palace, where the Rajah orders him to be thrown into a cage with his tiger to be eaten alive. This not working, the lions are also let in, but the tiger protects his friend. The lions are excellent. Their actions are most realistic. When this scheme fails, the Rajah decides to kill Akbar himself. He is, however, killed by the tiger. Toru is to be sacrificed as the Rajah's widow, STANLEY TWIST From Dopester to Picture Maker? Mr. Stanley Twist, who was for a considerable period identified with the Selig Polyscope Co., of Chicago, 111., is no longer connected with that organization, and proposes at an early date initiating, so far as we can learn, a film proposition of his own. Mr. Twist is a young man of great acquirements both of education and temperament. He belongs to that young school of motion picture men which perceives the artistic possibilities of the picture and is animated by good ideas in respect, not merely of the making of the picture, but also as to its publicity end. He can make good artistic ads. As a scholar he is full of progressive ideas. We shall watch Mr. Twist's career with interest. It is constantly said that new and better men are still entering this primeval business. Mr. Twist is one of our rising hopes. but at the moment that the flames are about to reach her, the English soldiers, headed by Akbar, arrive and rescue her. There is a battle and the Indians are defeated. Countess de Marstini is undoubtedly a most beautiful woman, but she does not possess great skiil as an actress, the action, however, covering her weakness. Why does not the director of the Blache films allow someone to be killed in their war scenes? In this picture it is some time before any of the shots tell, although there are three cannon in use. A. M. A PERILOUS RIDE Taking a recent photoplay entitled "A Perilous Ride," Wilbert Melville, director of the Lubin studio at Los Angeles, required a small isolatedlooking railroad station close to the track, with an old-fashioned chimney built against the outside. Miles and miles of adjacent country were searched but no such structure could be found. Realism not only in acting but in atmosphere is Melville's hobby. He would have the real thing and no makeshifts. A piece of the Salt Lake railroad track was rented and the Lubin director i built himself a complete depot of the primitive persuasion, inside and out, signal tower, platform, telegraph connections and every detail necessary. Rude as the structure was, it cost over $1,000, all just to take one scene in the picture which the director insisted must be right or nothing. 'TpHE "Barbary Coast," the famous A "tenderloin" in San Francisco, where originated the turkey-trot, grizzly bear, Texas Tommy, bunny bug, and other "modern" dances which have revolutionized dancing and relegated the old-fashioned two-step and waltz to the obsolete class, is closed. But before its day ended, caused by the revoking by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors under pressure of public opinion, a motion picture archive of it was taken which, as a film showing the underworld, is probably unexcelled. This film, made by the Progressive Film Producing Company, at the head of which is Sol Lesser, active principal in the Golden Gate Film Exchange and the newly formed Northwestern Film Exchange, was taken on the last days and nights of the old regime on the "Barbary Coast." Taken with the aid and ass'stance of the Chief of Police of San Francisco and under the protection of hismen.it records accurately a merry, sinister life. The Barbary Coast A "Progressive" Feature Fifty thousand slummers, it is estimated roughly, crowded four blocks of sidewalks during the last hours of wide-open license when Carnival was indeed King. Of poignant interest are these camera views of the crowd which, knowing that their tenderloin was to be no more, were determined to make the most of it while it lasted. The night views are photographic masterpieces, taken as they were under the strongest of innumerable arc lights. The Midway cafe, its name derived from the Cairo thoroughfare, where 500 dancing girls were employed, is one of the places taken both exteriorly and interiorly. There are also intimate film glimpses of the interesting "characters" which swarmed in the notorious district, including tatooers, street fakers, slummers of all social degrees, dancers of varied respectability, etc. The film will be sold as a feature. Its length very nearly approximates 1,400 feet.