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January 18, 1913.
MOTOGRAPHY
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Photoplays From Essanay *s
Starting the New Year
FEBRUARY'S list of Essanay releases contains three corking good "Broncho Billy" features, several high class dramatic features, and some laughgetting comedy screams. "Odd Knotts" is one of the funniest films yet released by the Essanay company. A pathetic story, entitled "The Broken Heart," is a masterpiece in photography as well as dramatic portrayel. This subject should run a close second to the tearful "Madame X."
In "The Making of Broncho Billy," released February 1, Broncho Billy is seen leaving his humble home in the East to make his fortune in the far West. He kisses his mother fondly good bye. Broncho Billy, a tenderfoot at this time, arrives in the West, goes to a hotel and engages a room. After placing his belongings in his room he saunters about the hotel lobby. Al Wilkes, a rough western cowpuncher, imagining he can make this unknown man of the East dance, plays a lively tune around his feet with a forty-four caliber revolver. Broncho Billy gives Wilkes a look and calmly leaves the room. Broncho then strolls into the gambling house, and refuses to take a hand in the game. He then walks
'The Broken Heart.
"Don't Lie to Your Husband."
into the barroom and orders a glass of soda. Wilkes enters the saloon and seeing Broncho Billy drinking the nearest thing to water, makes fun of him. This grates on the young easterner's nerves. Wilkes calls him a "mollycoddle," or something to that effect. Broncho suggests a fight to take place right then and there. Broncho is informed by the cowpunchers who have congregated that they are not accustomed to using fists out West ; that if he wants to fight he will have to practice shooting with a gun. Broncho immediately purchases a beautiful horse pistol. Filling his pockets with ammunition and taking his new treasure, Broncho puts up a bottle on a rock in the road and fires several shots at it. None of them hit the mark. A larger bottle is then shot at without effect. Several months later Broncho Billy is seen in a clearing in the woods with six beer bottles lined up before him. He shoots at them and hits his mark every time. A more difficult stunt is then performed by his placing six playing cards on a table some distance from him. Broncho Billy shoots at these cards and punctures each one of them. Now