Motography (Jan-Jun 1915)

162 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIII, No. 5. of the Kennedy apartment, Kennedy shows them the seismograph concealed in the panel and is amazed to discover by its record that someone has entered his rooms. Preventing his visitors from entering, Kennedy, alone, explores the chambers, and at last discovers that some one has moved Miss Dodge's picture. He is instantly suspicious, and by using a long fishing pole manages to so manipulate the picture that it explodes the weapon. All danger then past, Kennedy invites his visitors to enter and explains to them in detail the trap arranged for him by the Clutching Hand, but which he has so cleverly foiled. At this point the exciting story ends, to be continued in another episode. feature written and directed by Lois Weber; if not, you should see the picture, as it is a treat not to be passed over lightly. Pictures such as this are the kind exhibitors and "The Power Behind the Animated" By Captain Leslie T. Peacocke. From East to West, from pole to pole, he scours all the earth ; for the mighty Universal he secures all things of worth for t he Animated Weekly which now everywhere is shown, give credit to its brainy head, our genial Jack Cohn. He's a hustler, he's a hustler, he is tried and proven true, and he gives us more live topics than the other weeklies do. When Jack Cohn puts on his thinking cap he never thinks in vain, and he's planted operators in a neverending chain, who record each daily happening and film them for us, and Jack Cohn makes up a program which is gay and humorous. He studies all exhibitors, he knows their likes and tastes, from the launching of a cruiser to the latest style in waists. He shows us fierce-fought battles from the various seats of war, he gives us baseball matches and all other games galore, he shows us how a battleship is blown up in the air, and the latest way the ladies have of doing up their hair. He gives us views of presidents and kings upon the throne, all come as fish into the nets laid daily by Jack Cohn. Jack Cohn. "It's No Laughing Matter" Can you imagine Macklyn Arbuckle as a village postmaster, poet, town cut-up, hen-pecked husband, and philosopher, and wearing spectacles that sit on the end of his nose, a vest that seldom has its top button buttoned and never any of the others, while woolen socks which are prone to gather about his ankles, shoes whose two top hooks are never in use, a seedy suit of clothes, and a wide-brimmed straw hat which has no especial front or back? If so, you have an exact picture of how he, as Hi Judd, looks in "It's No Laughing Matter," a four-part Bosworth Macklyn Arbuckle in scene from Bosworth's "It's No Laughing Matter. manufacturers have in mind when they tell the censorship board that they are luxuries. There is not an objectionable feature in it, and it "presents comedy in a way that is a remarkable character study and appeals to nothing but one's finer artistic sense. There is a touch of pathos in the story, coming near the end and creating a situation which is dispelled by the climax. No end of praise is due Macklyn Arbuckle for the manner in which he makes Hi Judd everybody's friend and favorite, spectators included. Cora Drew plays the part of Mrs. Judd, the scrupulously neat housewife who has no patience with Hi's poetic inclination and good-natured negligence. Myrtle Stedman is exceedingly clever as Bess Judd, and possesses a disposition exactly the opposite of that of Jim Skinner (Charles Marriott), who was never known to smile at anything but money. To Adele Farrington falls the only melancholy role in the cast, that of the Widow 'Wilkins, and to Frank Elliott the part of Sam, the heart-breaking city sport. The best thing, possibly, that can be said of the play is that it lifts one bodily out of his surroundings and places him in a small, "one-train-a-day" country town. The acting is so natural, the incidents so commonplace, and the people, streets, houses and store so countrified that one forgets that he is seeing the picture through the courtesy of the projection machine, and becomes as enveloped in Hi Judd's joking-bees and home and postmaster experiences as though they were transpiring in real life. Good photography is also 'numbered among the picture's assets. The story of the play is given in the synopsis department of this issue. C. R. C. Next Favorite Players' Release "The High Hand," the next production of the Favorite Players, is rapidly nearing completion. The picture is taken from the novel by Jacques Futrelle, and is the story of a successful fight waged against the grafters and gun men of a political ring. It is a strong story of red-blooded action, in which stirring situations of dramatic interest abound. Carlyle Blackwell takes the leading part, that of Jim Warren.