Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

338 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIX, No. 7 Synopses of the Latest Film Releases FOR EXHIBITORS WHO WOULD KNOW THE STORY OF THE PICTURE Paramount Artcraft The Song of Songs — (Five Reels) — February 11. — Starring Elsie Ferguson as Lily Kardee in a picture version of Edward Sheldon's famous play which was founded on a story by Herman Suderman. Lily's story is that of a girl who goes through life groping for love and happiness, finding love too late. Lily is an American girl born of a Greek father who is a dreamer and musician. She begins life on New York's East Side and there meets a wealthy young man who falls in love with her, in spite of her lack of education. But he will not admit this love to himself and drops out of Lily's life. She is left to earn her own living by her mother's death and begins as a shop girl in an Atlantic City Bazaar. There an old sensualist sees her, becomes infatuated with her and at last, in order to capture her, marries her. For a time she thinks she has found "The Song of Songs," which is love, but is soon disillusioned and when her early admirer comes in search' of her and her husband's suspicions against her are aroused falsely, she is turned out by her husband. She takes refuge with this early admirer, who is genuinely in love with her. But as yet Lily has not found Love. It comes later with her acquaintance with a poet who asks her to marry him. She reveals her past to him, but he still wants her for his wife and at last she consents. But this chance for happiness is wrecked by an uncle of the poet, who reveals Lily's weaknesses to herself as they are and begs her for the sake of the man she loves, not to marry him. So she renounces her "Song of Songs," only to find that her early admirer needs her and her love and that by marrying him she can give him the happiness which came too late for her. By this act she gains a measure of happiness herself. Goldwyn Dodging a Million — (Six Reels') — January 27. ■ — Starring Mabel Normand. Reviewed in this issue. Our Little Wife — (Six Reels) — February 2. — Starring Madge Kennedy as Dodo Warren. Dodo, bride of a few minutes, is worried to think that in marrying Herb Warren she has sorely disappointed three other men who loved her. Before the wedding guests have dispersed, Dodo dazes her husband with the announcement that she will take all three defeated candidates for her hand on her honeymoon. So off they go — Dodo, a husband and three admirers. Herb, in an effort to have Dodo all for himself, sends a telegram to himself calling for his immediate return to the city. And of course the three other men would have to go, too. But Dodo learns the telegram is spurious, and when Herb returns to get her he finds her being cared for by Dr. Elliott as his sudden leave-taking had made Dodo hysterical. A scene follows, during which Dodo promises never to look at any other man. She keeps her promise long enough for Bobo to become engaged to Angie Martin and for Dr. Elliott to wed Farnie Weston. Angered by her husband's neglect on their first wedding anniversary. Dodo grows rebellious. She telephones Dr. Elliott and her message makes his bride jealous. Meanwhole Angie has called on Dodo. She, too, has been neglected and is going to Tommy's fancy dress party with another man, whose apartment is directly under Tommy's. When Angie goes, Dodo phones Bobo to come and take her to the party to prevent Angie from being compromised. Here trouble begins to fly thick and fast for Dodo. One incident finds her dangling from a fire escape to prevent her jealous husband from finding her in another man's room. After numerous other thrilling scenes Dodo and Herb patch up the quarrel, she vowing never to flirt again. Mutual Star Production Jilted Janet — (Five Reels) — February 11. — Starring Margarita Fischer. A comedy-drama in which the heroine determines to show the man who jilted her on account of the loss of her fortune that she is again wealthy. She entertains him in a neighbor's home and gets into a mix-up she little suspected. Reviewed in this issue. Flare-Up Sal — (Five Reels) — -January 28. — Starring Dorothy Dalton as a dance-hall girl. Reviewed in this issue. The Hired Man — (Five Reels) — January 28. — Starring Charles Ray in the title role. Reviewed in this issue. Madame Jealousy — (Five Reels) — February 4. — Starring Pauline Frederick. An allegorical story written by George V. Hobart, author of the stage success, "Experience." Reviewed in this issue. A Petticoat Pilot — (Five Reels) — February 4. — Starring Vivian Martin in a story adapted from the book, "Mary 'Gusta," by J. C. Lincoln. Reviewed in this issue. Triangle Real Folks — (Five Reels) — February 10. — Barney Sherry has the role of a newly rich old man who tries to have his family become society people. Their natural instincts, which are toward genuine and worth-while things, dominate, and in the end the father is glad. Reviewed in this issue. The Captain of His Soul — (Five Reels) — February 10. — William Desmond and Charles Gunn play the leading roles. They are two brothers and each believes the other guilty of a murder. An unusually tense drama. Reviewed in this issue. Universal Specials Painted Lips — (Five Reels) — February 4. — Starring Louise Lovely. Lou McTavish had been brought up as strictly as it was possible for a sailor man to bring up his daughter, and when he was _ temporarily disabled Lou was taken in by Rosie, a woman of the underworld, a type that Lou had never seen and did not suspect. Rosie dolled Lou up in the fussiest kind of soubrette clothes, painted her lips and curled her hair and took her to the Straw Cellar, a notorious hangout. She had not been there more than fifteen minutes before the place was raided and poor little Lou found herself in a limousine with a strange man but one who looked perfectly honest and respectable though intensely cynical. The man was Jim Douglass, and he had a determined purpose in kidnapping Lou from the police. Never suspecting for a moment, in spite of her protests, that she was anything that her dress and war paint did not proclaim, he had laid a deep and crafty plan to palm off on Andrew Slater, a disreputable character who had entry to the best society, this girl of the underworld. Lou was duly trained and primed for her part, thinking all the time that Douglass intended to marry her, and Douglass himself was intensely surprised when he saw what a truly beautiful woman she was under advantageous circumstances. It was only half heartedly that he introduced Slater, who fell into the trap much more rapidly than Douglass liked, and proposed in all good faith. But when Lou discovered how Douglass intended to cheat Slater and what his real opinion of her had been, it changed the entire aspect of the situation, and she went to Slater's room to voluntarily offer herself. But when Slater discovered that he would not have to marry Lou, he called up Douglass and told him that he intended to send Lou back to him the kind of woman that Jim thought her to be. Jim, overcome with remorse and realizing at last his love for Lou, rushed to the apartment house, but when he broke open the door he discovered the body of Slater lying on the floor. Lou's own father, who had been searching for her for the last six months, had had revenge upon Slater himself. Vitagraph The Other Man — (Five Reels) — February 4. — Blue Ribbon feature, starring Harry Morey as a brilliant doctor who sinks to a life of dissipation after the shock of learning that his wife is unfaithful. Later he is redeemed by the love of a woman more worth while. Florence Desnon and Grace Darmond play important roles. Reviewed in this issue. World Broken Ties — (Five Reels)— February 11. — With Montague Love and June Elvidge. Reviewed in this issue. Betty Howe, who is supporting Elsie Ferguson in the new Artcraft picture, "The Lie." The Donkey Did It — (Two Reels) — L-Ko — Comedy. Last Chance Valley fairly wallowed in wickedness. To it came Professor Polonius Pinhead upon the back of his donkey and boon companion, King Solomon, and there he found two shrinking flowers of the valley. One's name was Violet and the other was Molly, whose expansion was in direct contrast to Violet's shrinking. She weighed 350 and could juggle a beanshooter as well as any gun-toter. And, of course, there was a bad man. His name was