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February 1, 1913.
MOTOGRAPHY
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A DiamoncUS Potpourri
Interesting Items from Selig's
THE ministry of the motion-picture play is vast and varied. From sensational to educational, from historic to melodramatic, the bewildering phantasmagoria of films goes on day by day, week by week. The mammoth plants thrive with equal facility to all, and a month may compose a group of releases as widely different as though they were produced in opposite corners of the globe — and sometimes they are, almost.
Take, for example, the house of Selig, and consider a few of its products for a limited term.
"The Altar of the Aztecs" is a romance opening in fashionable New York and then working out its thrilling epidodes in the ancient mines of Mexico. It teems with tense and ingenious situations.
"The Governor's Daughter" is another drama of the great desert and wild West, showing that true gallantry occasionally has its reward and the murderer and assassin generally get their dues despite the adventitious aid they may get from circumstantial evidence.
"The Three Wise Men," is a beautiful feature — released on February 5th, a tale reflecting the centuryspanning influences of Biblical times. It is not a preachment, but the sort of subject that will move and make the way straight for the weak who close their eyes to the glory of the star of Bethlehem.
"The Artist and the Model," is a charming story of devotion to a high ideal and its working out through a strange source to win a victory after it seemed quite impossible.
"Sweeney and the Million" is shot through and through with the things that make and multiply the laugh. A hod-carrier who comes into a million throws it around like so much mortar — affluence piled upon ignorance makes a strange mixture; and Sweeny never feels easy until he gets back to his hod dress suit and all.
"Pierre of the North," is one of those vivid, intense stories of the pathless forests of the North where primitive men love and hate in vigorous and vengeful fashion in its planning and working out it has an element of picturesque savagery astonishingly unusual.
"The Artist and the Brute," is a wild animal story in which vengeance and romance weave a tangled web in two lives. The fight to the death with an untamed leopard gives realism to this pictorial.
"How It Happened," again incorporates the vim and vigor of the West in its love interest, and a cartridge shooting stove that serves where the ready revolver failed.
The mother song and the mother story has depth of interest that no other topic can attain — the appeal of a
'Bill's Birthday Present," February 13. Copyright 1913, Selig Polyscope Co.