Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 25 ARE YOU LAUGHING? Whether you are laughing or being laughed at depends greatly upon box-office results. The best "patronage and profit-getter" in the picture game today is KINEMACOLOR. That isn't founded on fancy but on fact. BE A FACTOR! KINEMACOLOR COMPANY New York, 1600 Broadway. Chicago, 532 South Dearborn Street Cincinnati, 132 East Fourth Street. Providence, 509 Westminster Street honored. Jack is found by Molly, and later Nita saves them. Jack is taken to their cabin and tenderly nursed by Molly. His mind is a blank. Her pity turns to love. Jane hears of Jack's disappearance and, heartbroken, goes to the Philippines to act as nurse. She is told that Jack is dead, and will have nothing to do with Frank, who tries to court her. The sergeant, Milly's brother, escapes and, knowing that he will inform American headquarters of their whereabouts, the Filipinos surround the Americans. Jack wanders off and. seeing a cave, enters it. It leads him through the hill to the basin beyond. The excitement clears his brain and memory returns. He reaches the troops and, leading them through the secret passage, they turn defeat into victory. Jack, wounded, is found unconscious by Jane. Molly finds them and, overhearing Jane's impassioned words, knows the truth. The sergeant finds them all there and Frank, knowing his end is near, shoots at Jack, the bullet killing poor Molly instead. IMP SECRET SERVICE SAM (2 Reels) (May 26). — The chief of the secret service warned his detectives to watch for Mme. Trebillic and two noted spies, suspected of shadowing diplomatic attaches. Secret Service Sam was given charge, a congenial assignment, as it enabled him to see Mayre, the girl he loved. Secret Service Sam had a non-commissioned aide in a boy who looked upon Sam as a composite of all the great detectives. The lad determined to do a little sradowing. One night he saw a scrubwoman enter the diplomatic building. The flash of diamonds on her white fingers convinced him she was a spy. The head scrubwoman suspected the newcomer, but a large bribe silenced her. As the watchman locked the doors the spy got busy with tie safe. The boy climbed the fire-escape, to better watch the spj\ Suddenly looking up from her work, the woman spy saw the boy through the windows. Covering him with a revolver she dragged him into the room. She bound and gagged him and thrust him into the wardrobe. Something was wrong, however, with the combination, so she waited until morning to overpower the girl who opened the safe. In the meantime Mayre arrived, and opened the safe. The vigilant spy silently stole away with the portfolio. When the chief arrived he accused Mayre of the theft. She protested her innocence. Sam. the first to arrive, was shocked to learn that his promised wife was suspected. Ma3're was taken away to await action of the grand jury. Sam remained behind to gather clues. He summoned the scrubwoman and noticed the diamond ring of the female sp3' upon the rough finger of the head scrubwoman. He at once put her through the third degree, but could learn nothing. The female spy telegraphed her success to her comrades, and tickets were engaged for a European steamer, but their auto broke down almost at the sailing hour. Sam heard the bound boy writhing in the %vardrobe. Unlocking the door he liberated the bov. who fainted before he could tell of Mayre's innocence. The spies reached the wharf, but the steamer was gone. They hurriedly hired a motorboat to overtake it, and hastened full speed down the bay. When the boy regained consciousness he told of the disguised spy, and the scrubwoman was put under arrest. Then Sam. who had obtained a line on the spies, set off with the boy in a taxi. Hiring a tug the detectives set out in pursuit of the fast-disappearing motorboat and. overhauling it, shots were exchanged. One of the spies jumped overboard with the papers. Secret Service Sam leaped after him. T^ere was a rough struggle in which Sam was victorious, and he arrested the spies. Returning to the city Sam reported to his chief, who gave orders for Mayre's release. Sam got a promotion and the boy promised a great future as a secret service man. POWERS THE END OE THE TRAIL (2 Reels) (May 30). — Bruc, a cowboy, loves Dolores, the elder daughter of Ranchman Hicks. Hicks' foreman would bke to claim Dolores, but she does not fancy him. He awaits his chance to get even with both of them. Dolores goes to town to study singing. Hicks is worried because t'e drought has decreased his bankroll and borrows money of R'dgewav. who takes the ranch as security. Hicks tells Ridgeway to call upon his daughter in the city, and this he does, finally taking advantage of her. Time goes on and Dolores returns to find her father worried over money conditions. She hears that the man who loaned the money will come to claim the ranch. She surprises Ridgeway and her young sister together and, sending the girl away, she confronts Ridgeway. Their talk is overheard by Carlos, a half-breed, who owes a debt of gratitude to Dolores and the foreman. Bruce would kill Ridgeway, but Dolores begs him not to for her sake and her father's. Carlos goes secretly after Ridgeway after picking up Bruce's gun. Bruce whips the foreman, who sneers at Dolores, and the foreman arrives at the ranchhouse at the same time that Ridgeway does. Ridgeway sees the halfbreed after him with a gun and hastily persuades the whipped and tattered foreman to put his coat on. The half-breed kills the foreman, thinking it is Ridgeway, and Bruce arrives in time to pick up the gun and be suspected of the crime. He is jailed. The half-breed rescues Bruce, and a providential happening enables Hicks to pay Ridgeway off. The latter goes to some Mexicans and persuades them to help him trj and get Paquita, the young girl. They succeed in this, but circumstances cause the sheriff, Bruce and Carlos to arrive in time to save her and to arrest the Mexicans. Ridgeway leaves the others to their fate, but is tracked by Carlos and meets his deserts. FRONTIER A ROMANCE OF THE RAILS (May 29).— Charles Blake, the young engineer, passes on his daily run the home of Kitty Burke, and flirts with her. At last Charley stops his engine in front of Kitty's home and speaks to Kitty while she is arranging flowers in the yard. " Charley wears Kitty's picture in his watch fob. Lingering over it '-e hesitates too long and rushes to the roundhouse. The superintendent, finding him late, places another engineer on his engine. Charley is discharged for back talk. Meeting the engineer who took his engine he quarrels with him and throws him from the cab. Thinking the engineer dead he rushes into hiding. Evening comes, he starts for Kitty's home by a circuitous route and comes upon a burglar. The police had been watching and come upon the scene, thinking Charley one of the burglars. A fight ensues. Charley gets away, leaving his watch fob in a policeman's hand. The policeman falls and the thief gets away. Charley comes to Kitty's home and he explains all. A detective opens the locket and, i-pcognizing Kitty's picture, starts on the trail. They find Charley at Kitty's house, but he breaks awav. The thief, who has been wounded by the policeman, crawls along the fence by Kittv's home and she sees him. Later the thief exonerates Charley. Some time passes. Kitty received a letter from Charley, who has secured work on a stock ranch in California. In her joy she rushes to telegraph him to come "back; that he has been vindicated. One week later Charley's old engine, decorated with ribbons, forms a background for a wedding partj' of which Charley and Kitty are the principals. REX THE TOURIST AND THE FLOWER GIRL (May 29). — Harry and Lee are college chums. Lee proposes to his cousin Lois, but she puts him off. Harry, who is spending some time in California as a tourist, one day takes a walk. Lois sees him and, taken with the handsome stranger, throws him a rose. He wonders where it came from. Later he buys some flowers. Lois is determined to know Harry, and pays a flower girl to let her assume her coat, hat and flowers. Lois sees Harry and offers him her roses. He is vastly attracted to her. Lois induces the flower girl to let her take her place for several days, and Harry and Lois get quite chummy. Harry discovers the deception, and bribes the real flower girl to show him where Lois lives. Bribing the butler, he dons his uniform, telling the maid that he has taken the regular butler's place as the latter is sick. Lois and the pseudo butler meet in the garden and, observing that Lee is jealous, Lois asks Lee to go shopping for her. Harry's awkwardness at serving tea causes Lois mother to scold him. The demands of the real butler for money to get drink causes a delay, and Harry is scolded again. Lee comes back and recognizes Harry through his disguise. The two college youths then set upon the tipsy butler and trounce him, and explanations clear the way for Harry's formal introduction to mamma, who looks amiably upon Harry's suit. GEM BILLY'S HONEYMOON (May 27).— Billy Quirk and his sweetheart, Dolly, plan to elope, and get away with it. However, troubles follow fast and furious. Dolly refuses to leave her pet dog behind. This causes a number of complications that sorely tax the groom's devotion. They are put off street cars, out of hotels, and forced to climb trees and fences, while Billy's friends, who have got wind of the affair, track them in hot pursuit. While the young couple are trying to elude their friends the bottom falls out of the box in which the dog is concealed and the pup runs away. Finally, after many ludicrous happenings, the baggage is collected, the dog returned, and amid a shower of rice and old shoes the Quirks start on a real quiet trip. CRYSTAL WHERE CHARITY BEGINS (May 27).— Helen, daughter of Mrs. Morris, a wealthy widow, devoted her time to teaching at St. James' Settlement House, helping the sick and needy in the tenement district. Helen's In writing to advertisers please mention "MOVING PICTURE NEWS"