Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

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February 9, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 281 way is engaged to some foreign beauty. He gives his room to Celia and accepts the hospitality of his friend, Doctor Grierson. Next morning Ordway's fiance calls up and Celia answers the phone. Hearing a woman's voice the affianced one comes to the studio to find Ordway and Celia togteher. She notifies the authorities at Cliff Haven, who come post haste only to find that in the meantime Ordway and Celia had gone out and had been married. "Out West" Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy Starring Fatty Arbuckle. Released January 20. Reviewed by L. J. Bourstein FATTY ARBUCKLE'S latest is a dashing, slashing, shooting tale of the west. Fatty literally falls in on an isolated town in the Western desert and routs the bandit who is about to loot the place. The bartender is shot in the fight and Fatty gets his job. His quickness with the gun and ability to shoot gains for him the respect of the townsmen. But the bandit and his gang return for vengeance, and this Why don't you give up this life?'' time carries away the Salvation Army girl, the only good thing in the town, and this touches the heart of Fatty. He starts in pursuit, and then follows one of those uproarously funny chases that cannot but help convulsing an audience in mirth and laughter. Fatty beats up the villain, brings the girl back to town, and all turns out well This is bound to be a sure fire hit. It is a departure from what the big comedian has done in the past, and its burlesque on the familiar western dance hall with its two-gun man, made even the sometimes hard-hearted and unrelenting reviewers and critics laugh. When this can be done the subject must, indeed, be a humorous one. Al St. John, the popular contortionist and tumbler who has appeared in many of the Arbuckle successes, is again very much in evidence in the part of the rascally bandit. But, as usual, he gets the worst of it. Mazda Lamp Projectors So many letters of inquiry have come to us since we ran Mr. Porter's article on "Mazda Lamps for Motion Picture Projectors," January 19, that we take pleasure in calling the attention of exhibitors to our outside back cover this week. The "open letter" printed thereon not only answers most of the questions asked us, but doubtless will solve the unstated problems of many others who read the article and are eager to try the modern method of projection. 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. 'The Phantom Riders" Harry Carey Star of Universal Special Feature. Reviewed by Genevieve Harris ■"THIS is well up to the standard; of Harry Carey plays. It contains the same sort of material which we usually find in his western pictures, swift riding, danger, a plot in which a beautiful girl is rescued from outlaws, panoramas of magnificent mountain scenery, and some fine long "shots" of large numbers of horses and riders. If your patrons like Harry Carey, advertise this as one of his best and you will not disappoint them. Carey plays "Cheyenne Harry." Vesta Pegg is a villainous villain. Molly Malone is appealing as the heroine. Bill Gettenger, Buck Connor and a large number of cowboys are in the picture. Henry McRae and George Hively are credited with the story. Jack Ford directed The story: Dave Bland is the dominant figure of the valley of Paradise Creek — a tract of land belonging to the government. Through the efforts of a band of masked, white-clothed riders under the leadership of the "Unknown," Bland reserved the entire tract for himself. Everything was coming his way, and having conquered Pebble Grant and made him his subservient foreman, he stretched forth his hand to Pebble's daughter Molly. Then one day Cheyenne Harry, with his single helper, drove his little herd into the valley, and when warned to leave declared his intention of fighting Dave's band single-handed. His first act was to disarm Dave himself and give him a slap in the face for insulting Molly. This brought down upon him a sentence of death, but gained him two supporters — Pebble and his daughter Molly. The former made an appointment to meet Cheyenne the next night, and when Cheyenne came to the appointed place he found Pebble hanging from the limb of a tree stone dead. Such was the swift vengeance of the Unknown, and when the Unknown got a flash of Cheyenne Harry himself, he called off his phantoms and told them that this man was his meat, and that he would get him himself. But Cheyennewas too much for him, and in a bar-room fight he put to rout the half-drunken phantoms, who were celebrating Bland's marriage to the unwilling Molly. The cattlemen caught him, however, and he stood siege until nearly nightfall, until Molly could ride to the neighboring canyon and get the United States rangers, who came in the nick of time to save the day.