Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

January 5, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 41 their efforts should make the serial a wonderful success. This is a sensational picture and should bring patrons back for more. The story concerns Henry Blake and his wife Bessie. Blake has been the means of having a desperado known as "Black Jack" sent to the penitentiary with a fifteen-years' sentence. "Black Jack" makes a threat to have revenge upon Blake, and soon after escapes from prison. With the help of Comanche Pete, an Indian outlaw, he secures horses and turns a locomotive loose which is to crash into a train upon which Blake is traveling. Blake sees the impending danger and jumps from the train just as the two engines collide. Hearing that Black Jack is at large, Blake hurries home to find his home in flames and his wife missing. Bessie, who has been captured by the outlaws, makes a sensational escape but is lassoed off her horse by Comanche Pete, who throws his lariat from a high cliff under which she is riding. She is seen suspended in the air at the finish of this episode. "Bucking Broadway" Harry Carey in a Butterfly Western Feature. Reviewed by Genevieve Harris "THIS picture opens with some unusually fine ranch and mountain scenes. The beauty of the outdoor views, excellently photographed, and the exciting episodes of western life, the taming of ranch horses, for instance, are the best features in this offering. The story offers some unusual situations, for instance the race through crowded city streets of a band of mounted cowboys, and the free-for-all fight at the roof-garden, but its plot will not bear close analysis. If your people look for consistency, they won't find it in this, but if they like rapid action for its own sake, and applaud a good fight and last minute rescues, they will enjoy this to their hearts' content. A group of youngsters who want excitement will appreciate this picture. _ • The story: Cheyenne Harry, a ranch foreman, falls in love with the daughter of his boss. He gives her a small heart which he has carved, and breaking it in two, tells her to send him the other half if she is ever in trouble. Her father, a little reluctantly, consents to their marriage. To the ranch comes Captain Thornton to buy horses for the British government. The boys try to frame the Captain, giving him the "outlaw" horse to ride, but he masters the animal easily and wins Molly's admiration. He lays siege to her heart and manages to oust the cowpuncher from her thoughts. Harry and Molly's father wake one morning to find that she has gone away with the Captain. In the city, Molly soon finds that the Captain's intentions are not honorable. She makes him send her to a boarding house, until they are married. She is troubled and sends the trinket to Harry. As soon as he receives it he sets out for the city. Captain Thornton sees that he cannot detain Molly in the city much longer without making a bluff to marry her. He gives a dinner that night to announce their engagement. In the meantime Harry's pals, the cowboys, have arrived at the stockyards with the shipment of horses, and Harry knows that they are there. A woman to whom he has confided his story is having supper on the roof garden, and sees and recognizes Molly. She at once phones to Cheyenne. He calls his pals and then he rushes up to the roof, and engages the entire party in a desperate battle. The men fight all over the supper tables, and the arrival of the cowboys, just in time, saves the day. Thornton is knocked out, and his pals are ducked in the fountain, while Cheyenne and Molly are cheered by the victors. "Sadie Goes to Heaven" Mary McAlister in Essanay-Perfection Release, Kleine System. Reviewed by Genevieve Harris "TAKE a lively youngster from a poor home and let her, accompanied by her dog, romp through a millionaire's house and there is likely to be some fun and excitement. That is the situation in Mary McAlister's latest five-reel feature and the fun and the excitement follow. Sadie, played by Miss Mary, thought she had arrived in heaven and accordingly took possession of the place. Comedy predominates throughout the picture. It is unforced and not overdrawn. Much depends upon the personality of the star in this sort of a play and the talented little star has plenty of personality. She is as clever and natural as ever, and makes Sadie an amusing little rascal, playing the role with vigor and plenty of "pep." Her boxing match with the heir of the house, her rollerskating and her bathing experiences are sure to be enjoyed by the average neighborhood audiences. The youngsters will like this play and it is a good special for a matinee. Russell McDermott has a small but important role and shows a sense of humor in playing it. The grown-ups in the cast include Jenny St. George, Frankie Raymond, Rodney LaRocque, Kathryn Kennedy and Bobby Bolder. George Washington Square, the dog for which Sadie left heaven, plays his part very nicely. A magazine story by Dana Burnet served as the basis for the play. The story: Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker; so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Welland Riche. The latter personage has left earlier in the day on a trip so when Sadie and her dog, George Washington Square, who has been her companion in the hamper trip, are dumped down the clothes chute of the Riche home while concealed in the basket, they find easy access to the upper regions of the mansion and then, indeed, Sadie thinks she is in heaven. Sadie soon is discovered by the servants, but they believe she is just another of Mrs. Riche's fads when she tells them she is there to stay. Believing Mrs. Riche as desiring that the best of care be given the child, Sadie is dressed in rich garments and is very much at home until Mrs. Rich returns unexpectedly. When the servants' explanations have been made, Mrs. Riche in the meantime having been won over by the child's beauty and sweet manners, decides Sadie may remain. But the tenement child's happiness is shortlived when George Washington Square appears upon the scene. Mrs. Riche orders that the pup be removed and tells Sadie that, instead she can play with the Riche collection of Poms. Not so for Sadie. She informs the wealthy matron that she wouldn't give up George Washington Square for all the heavens that ever was and that if G. W. S. cannot remain she will go. So hugging her doggie close to her she returns to her worried mother with the explanation: "I have been to heaven but they sent me home because they didn't like my dog." EASTMAN FILM The result of highest grade materials and painstaking manufacture is shown in the results on the screen. Identifiable by the words "Eastman" and "Kodak" on the film margin. EASTMAN KODAK CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y.