Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

November 27, 1915. MOTOGRAPHY 1143 of him. Vail manages to intercept the mail between George and Grace and later receives a letter from Grace saying she is coming to the Philippines with her father as she fears something is wrong. Herbert, the living image of George, has taken up with a pretty Filippino girl, Tatuka, and she keeps him constantly under the influence of liquor as this is the only way he will remain with her. Vail seeing Herbert thinks of a plan. He gives the Filippino girl money to keep Herbert under the influence of liquor for a long time and dispatches George on a secret mission to keep him away from the camp. When Grace arrives in the Philippines Vail leads her to Tatuka's hut where she sees Herbert who she thinks is George, intoxicated. She casts the locket at the drunken man's feet and is led away and later Vail secures her promise of marriage and they leave for America. Herbert manages to secure money and also returns to America and when George returns to camp he happens to see the Filippino girl wearing the locket he had given to Grace and she tells him the story how it had been cast at her feet. He loses no time in getting a leave of absence and takes the next boat bound for the States. He arrives there on the wedding night of Grace and Vail and he is instrumental in overpowering a burglar who is in Grace's home, and the burglar is discovered to be his brother, Herbert. In this manner the happenings of the past are cleared up and Grace and George are reconciled to the life of happiness forever. are well cast. Jacob Silbert also must be given credit for an excellent "bit" as the servant and personal bodyguard of the countess, for he makes the part stand out distinctly. The story concerns the neglect of Mrs. Leonard by her ' The Current Triangle Bill This Week's Offerings from Ince and Griffith Studios Reviewed by Neil G. Caward. DEYOND all question first honors belong this week to the *-* Griffith studios, whose offering in the current Triangle bill is "Jordan Is a Hard Road," produced in five reels from Sir Gilbert Parker's novel of the same title by Allen Dwan. The Ince studios offer "The Winged Idol" in five reels, from the pen of C. Gardner Sullivan, with Katherine Kaelred and House Peters featured, and the Keystone-Triangle picture is a four-reeler called "A Submarine Pirate," which serves to introduce Syd Chaplin to Triangle patrons. * The opening number is the Ince offering, which, from the standpoint of photography and stage settings, is elaborate in the extreme, but somehow the story hasn't the appeal that some of the former Ince productions have had. Katherine Kaelred as Countess Iva Ivanoff, a Russian crystal gazer, much patronized by society folk, has a lavish array of Frank Campe nd Dorothy Gish a Hard Road." gowns, and plays her role most convincingly, while she is splendidly supported by House Peters as Jack Leonard, a millionaire derelict. Clara Williams as Mildred Leonard, Jack's wife, and Harry Keenan has a few moments as Mr. Stone, a banker who is devoted to the countess, and both 'The Winged Idol." husband, who is a spendthrift and rounder. Leonard, after a night's debauch, calls on Countess Ivanoff and later falls under her spell. She frankly tells him that to become her mate he will have to love her better than life itself, better than God, man or devil, and that if he ever fails her he need expect scant sympathy at her hands. Leonard, some days later, comes to the apartments of the countess in a drunken condition and after being tied to a bedpost and lashed with a knout is left half senseless to recover from his ordeal. He awakes a better man, and resolves to turn over a new leaf. With a clear head and thoroughly repentent for his past neglect, he visits his wife and begs to be shown the baby. Visiting the seeress, the wife is told she can win back her husband's love, but, later, when the countess learns the identity of her visitor she seeks to change her advice. When Leonard once more calls upon the countess he is told that he has failed to live up to the ideals prescribed for her mate and returns once more to his wife and child, as the picture fades out. The Triangle-Keystone offering presents a wonderful lot of antics with the aid of a submarine and gives Syd Chaplin unlimited opportunities for his peculiar style of comedy. A funnier scene than the one in which Syd goes beneath the waves, clinging to the periscope of a real submarine would be hard to find, though it is followed with even funnier ones in the same picture. Glen Cavander, Wesley Ruggles and Phyllis Allen are seen in the support of_ Mr... Chaplin in. this, story of "dirty work" aboard a pirate submarine craft. After the intermission, Frank Campeau and Dorothy Gish make their Triangle debut in the production staged under the direction of Allen Dwan and a most successful one it proves, for many were overheard declaring as they left the th-eater that it was the best single offering yet seen on the Triangle program. The director has chosen some truly wonderful locations for his picture and these, combined with the unique and excellent allegories used in the telling of the story, make "Jordon Is a Hard Road" a picture decidedly out of the ordinary. Frank Campeau really lives the part of Bill Minden on the screen and a more powerful character portrayal is seldom offered by a player. Ere the picture ends everyone feels an affection for the ex-outlaw, and views his death with regret. Miss Gish is just Dorothy Gish in the role of Cora Findley, but that is what the part requires' and accordingly no possible improvement could be suggested. Sarah Truax is splendid as Mrs. Findley and Owen Moore quickly wins the sympathies of his audience as Mark Sheldon. Others in the cast are Ralph Lewis, Mabel Wiles, Fred Burns, Lester Perry, Jim Kid, Walter Long and Joseph Singleton. Bill Minden, an outlaw and stage robber, upon being captured by the Canadian Northwest Royal Mounted Police, turns Cora, his baby daughter, over to Mrs. Findley, a neighbor, with instructions to raise the child without ever letting her learn the name of her father. Eighteen years later Minden returns, and after being reformed at an evangelical meeting, provides a home for Mrs. Findley and Cora. Bill is