Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

24 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS In a cosy^ part of the canyon lived charming Pauline,' commonly called "The Angel of the Canyon," because of her many good deeds for the villagers. One morning she saw the artist at work, with pretty Madge gazing petulantly at bis canvas. She saw them quarrel, Madge fly toward the house and Jim turn angrily toward his work. Then she stepped up close beside him, and he, thinking it Madge, took up her hand and kissed it without looking up from bis work. Even an angel can have human feelings, and the angel in this case found a special delight in the unexpected kiss. When Jim, in confusion, apologized, it seemed a desecration. But Madge, watching from a distance, thought otherwise. Several days later the angel, walking in the direction of the artist's glen, found and took away his canvas. Three weeks later he called upon her and found a check for $100 awaiting him and a brand-new box for his equipment. Delighted, he showed his treasures to Madge, who only pouted and then cried. Meanwh'le Bill Hogan nursed a grudge in secret. A day came when the angel, strolling through the woods, saw a terrific fist fight between Bill Hogan and Jim. Beside them stood Madge and Carrie, vainly trying to separate them. Then came the angel's moment of renunciation. She had grown to love Jim, and had to fight herself to repress the desire to go away. But her better nature conquered. She separated the combatants, gave Jim to Madge and pacified the troublous Bill. She strolled with Bill into the forest, and when she returned he went willingly to the happy Carrie. THE KISS (April 15).— Old man Hathaway was a trapper and lived with his only daughter in the mountains. Pretty Claudine often went forth to visit the traps with him, and one day, when so bound, they saw a youth kiss a maiden affecionately. Seeing a chance for an object lesson, f'e old trapper sagely shook his head, saying, "My child, such kisses are poison. Guard against them." Claudine had a herd of goats which she tended carefully, and one day, sitting on a rock, with them scampering about her, she made so pretty a picture that Ralph Walters, a young artist from the city, asked her to pose for him. They arranged an engagement for the following day. He posed her prettily and then, overcome by her beautv, impulsively kissed her upturned, inquiring lips. ( laud'ne fled in shame. From a distance she watched him, debating her father's advice. Then, plucking a handful of poison berries, she went aga'n to him. He ate them gladly. In a few moments he fell deathly sick across the rock, and Claudine ran, badly scared, to her father. Together they rescued the sick artist and took him home. He recovered, and one day, while away with her father, she told him her reason for giving him the poison berries. Fu rious at the insult offered his daughter, the aged trapper hurried back, gave Ralph a gun, and offered him a chance for his life. Overcome by feeling, Claudine stepped in between th:m and spared Ralph from the deadly hatred of the old man. A few minutes later Ralph was picking his way through the boulders, pondering upon the quaintness of backwoods ways and the ease with which an innocent expression of admiration was transformed into an excuse to kill. SOLAX THE PAST FORGIVEN (May 9).— Margaret Reeves, an unfortunate girl who has fallen into the clutches of a white slaver, is induced by a Salvation Army rescue worker to give up her present life and make a new beginning. She decided to redeem herself in the new West as a helper to an overworked wife on a big cattle range out West. She meets the foreman of the range, a typical Western man, unused to the ways of woman and having pure ideals of womanhood. Attracted by Margaret's reserve, he falls in love and tries to win the girl as his wife. A conflict between conscience and love rages in the girl's mind and love wins. She pushes the past far behind her and takes a chance for happiness. Secure in her Western home, her joy reaches its zenith when their child is placed in the foreman's arms. The first jar to her happiness comes when she meets the keeper of the dance hall. She pleads with him, for the child's sake, to keep her secret and leave her secure in an honest man's home. Pretty faces being scarce, the man follows her home and forces his attentions on the terrified girl. The foreman, entering unexpectedly, sees him and hurls the intruder against the wall, and the disgruntled man sneers his revenge to the husband, leaving a shattered faith and a wrecked home. The husband, unforgiving, drives the shrinking wife from his hearth, and, snatching their baby girl from its cradle, swears she will never follow in her mother's footsteps. Margaret, bereft of home and child, wanders into the open and encounters a young Indian mother playing with her papoose. The desolate woman, hungering for her own baby, caresses and croons over the Indian child and so wins the gentle young squaw's heart that she takes Margaret home to her people. In her simple way, t'-e Indian wife sees the white woman is in great trouble and draws the story from her. She determines that Margaret's baby shall soon rest in its mother's arms. Stealing away from t'"e camp, she locates the home where the lonely man mourns over the motherless babe in its cradle, and in her tragic, broken English shows the husband his cruelty in keeping the child from its mother. With barbaric gestures she depicts Margaret's remorse, and, seeing the man's face softening, she gently places the sleeping child in his arms and leads him, with his precious burden, to the camp which shelters a bruised and stricken woman. IMP THE HEART THAT SEES (May 15).— King is the greatest optician in New York, and his delicate operations upon the eye have made his name famous, while his broad charity to all who have come to him in need has made his memory dear to many suffering hearts. While a child he suffered an accident that deformed him for life and left him to bear forever the curious glances and pity of all beholders. The famous oculist and philanthropist is a hunchback and moves always with bowed head, stiffened neck and halting stride. He is almost abnormally sensitive of his deformity and has never known a woman's love save his mother's. Fate throws him across the path of another sufferer from Nature's grim jests — a poor blind girl — and her younger brother,, who are waging a desperate battle for existence. King takes them to his home and his mother offers them a home and protection. The girl is later taught by the oculist how to operate a typewriter by touch, and thus assists him. He believes her to be unaware of his deformity, for he has instructed all to keep from her the knowledge of it, but coming upon him asleep in his easy chair, with the acuteness of touch of the blind, she finds out his secret. Nevertheless, love grows up between them and, trusting because of her blindness that she will never be able to see him, they become engaged. Later he finds her condition so improved that an operation for the restoration of her sight is possible, and after a bitter struggle he operates upon her and restores her sight, determining to leave for Europe when the bandages are taken from her eyes, that she may never see the man she has learned to love in the dark. His departure is delayed by her brother and he learns from the girl that she has always known of his deformity, and loved him nevertheless, and as he takes her in his arms he realizes that it is the heart that sees best. GEM BILLY'S ADVENTURE (May 13).— Violet Horner is in love with Billy Quirk. Her father dislikes Bill and tells this to Bill's father. Incensed at this, the elder Quirk bets Yi's dad that he (Horner) will beg Bill to marry his daughter. Horner takes the bet. To keep Vi away from Billy, she is sent to boarding school. Bill, disguised as a girl, gets into the same school and nearly wrecks it. The ruse is discovered by the principal. Billy persuades Vi to elope with him, and while running to the parson's they bump into her father, who calls an officer, but Bill gives the cop the slip. Later Mr. Horner gets a letter from his old friend, Captain Spar, who has settled in the Canary Islands, telling that his son, the prince, will call. Vi steals this letter and shows it to Billy, who conceives the idea of hiring a couple of tramps. He makes them up as Zulu slaves and himself as the young savage prince. In this disguise they go to the Horner home, where they get dad's goat. Pa Horner phones to Billy's dad to have Billy come over and marry Vi and collect the wager, which the young folks may have as a wedding present. VICTOR A FAIR EXCHANGE, Two Reels (May 16), — A rich young man is attached to his father's stenographer, who is insincere and heartless. Knowing her character, the father objects, disowning his son when he persists in his attentions to the girl. In the grip of poverty the girl's true nature is disclosed and the gentleness and goodness of her sister is revealed. The insincere girl finally rejects her lover, who is aided by the better sister. Father and son are reconciled, the latter realizing that he has chosen the wrong sister. An embezzling clerk in the father's employ finds favor with the fickle girl and an elopement is arranged. Through an error, the elopers carry away a suitcase containing embroidering. The other case, containing the embezzled funds, is unknowingly restored to the rightful owner by the sincere sister. "101 BISON" THE TOLL OF WAR, Three-Reel (May 13). — Edith Eldridge, daughter of Colonel Eldridge, disguises herself as a boy to enlist with In writing to advertisers please mention "MOVING PICTURE NEWS"