Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

26 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS mother, at home alone, longs for companionship while her daughter is in the Settlement. Mrs. Morris becomes seriously ill and is attended by Dr. Gerald, Helen's ardent admirer. Helen neglects her mother and lover to devote herself to the care of Mrs. Dawson, whose daughter is entertaining her beau, another of Helen's proteges. The trained nurse neglects Mrs. Morris while her patient cries in vain for a drink of water. Helen returns home to find her mother unconscious on the floor while the nurse is flirting with the butler. Fully awakened by the incident Helen resigns from the Settlement Club and vows to devote her time and companionship to her own mother and lover, thereby realizing the truth of the old adage. "'Charity Begins at Home.'' NESTOR A DOUBLE SACRIFICE (May 28).— Jim and John Marsh, twin brothers, are totally unlike in nature and appearance. Jim is healthy, while John is sickly. Their father is a ranchman. May, the daughter of Ranchman Holt, has grown up with them. May is much attached to Jim and pays a good deal of attention to John from sympathy. He is hopelessly in love with her but refrains from showing it. On their birthday Mr. Marsh gives the boys each one thousand dollars. John banks his, but Jim embraces the chance to see the outside world. Two years pass and Jim has had a good time, but no money. He receives a letter from May telling him that his brother John is failing fast and asks for him. Jim returns, and his father berates him for squandering his money. Jim is astonished at the change in his boyhood sweetheart, May. It is not long before they are deeply in love with each other. Jim proposes and is accepted and asks Mr. Holt for his daughter. Mr. Holt tells him that when he can show him one thousand dollars that he has earned he can have May. Upon his return home John notes his downcast demeanor. He persuades Jim to tell him what is the matter, and upon learning the truth he persuades Jim to take his thousand dollars. Mr. Holt is puzzled but is a man of his word, and Jim rides away to buy the ring. Marsh has bought a bunch of cattle from Holt and has to deliver his thousand dollars the same day. During the night one of the cowboys steals the money. Marsh comes to the hasty conclusion that Jim has taken it. He goes to Holt to explain the delay and learns that Jim had one thousand dollars, and thei'suspicions become certainties. They ride off for the sheriff, for Marsh intends to punish Tim. May overhears them and runs to John for advice. He tells her of the monev he gave Jim and hards her the check stub. She gives him a good kiss and hurries off and intercepts the sheriff. They return to thank the sick man but find that he has peacefully passed away. SELIG THE NOISY SIX (May 23).— Dick Carter, aged six and an orphan, lives with his grandparents. The only resource of the family is the army pension of the old man. Just when the money is needed most it is lost by the old veteran. The little boy, impressed by the magnitude of the job, writes a letter to heaven for help; but, as he cannot reach the mail box, puts it into the slot of a hitching post. "The Noisy Six," the chief mischief-makers of their college class, on a night raid, drag away the hitching post and are much sobered when they intercept the letter of the orphan boy to heaven. They return the post to its original location with a letter of reply enclosed. Then they follow the boy home and surreptitiously slip in the amount of money that was lost. The boy and old Carter are led to believe that the money came straight from heaven. "The Noisy Six" stopped their mischief-making for an errand of mercy, and impress :d youth in the faith of the higher power. THANHOUSER A BUSINESS WOMAN (May 20).— When a wealthy manufacturer died he left all his property unreservedly to his widow, and his choice was a good one. The woman had excellent business ability, ran her late husband's factory herself, and year by year made it a better paying proposition. She had two children, a boy and a girl, and they had all the luxuries that they could desire. Both graduated from college, returned home, and calmly permitted their mother to struggle with life's burdens alone. More than that, they were not grateful, and were constantly lamenting because they were "wasting time" in the dreary little town when they might be leaders of business and fashion in New York. On numerous occasions they urged their mother to let them go out into the great world and finally she consented, making each a liberal allowance. The boy secured a position in Wall Street, and dreamed of the time when he would call J. P. Morgan by his first name. The girl had talent as an artist, engaged highpriced instructors, and made many friends of whom she was extremely proud. Some months later the widow, who had been engrossed in business, awoke to realize that her children needed attention. The girl had a suitor, a foreign nobleman, who, as she said, "was willing to overlook" the lack of social position. The boy had become the favorite of his employer and was offered a partnership for the trifling sum of $50,000. The business woman was a real business woman, and her suspicions were aroused. She hired detectives and made investigations. The count was a plebeian barber and a fortune hunter; the "business man" was a crook. The widow carefully collected evidence, unmasked t^e barber and drove him away, then communicated with the postal authorities and had the satisfaction of furnishing conclusive evidence of the crookedness of her son's "friend and employer," after which she told her children she was tired of their foolishness, compelled them to return to their home town and became her aids at the factory. If these two young people had had a foolish mother they probably would have been penniless before many years. But as she was a busmess woman she showed them their errors and they grew up to be good members of society. IN THEIR HOUR OF NEED (May 23).— Some of the influential members of a little country church were dissatisfied with their minister. They pointed out that he was oldfashioned and growing more and more feeble, forgetting the fact that he had spent all his life in their service. The leaders got the rest of the congregation into line and finally a committee broke the news to the old pastor that his services were to terminate, "a young, active minister" having been secured to replace him. The old man grieved bitterly, but was of too kind a nature to hold resentment against any man. He greeted his successor courteously, admonished him to take good care oi his flock, and then wearily departed. A relative offered the minister and his daughter shelter, but forced them to work like laborers on his farm, while all the time he took credit to himself for his self-styled charity. The minister's daughter had been engaged to the young village doctor, but returned his ring, telling him that her father needed her undivided attention. The new mirr'ster was a great success in the village. His sermons were bright and snappy, he took an active part in the social side of the church, and for a time the general opinion was that the change made was most successful. Then trouble came. The village was smitten with cholera, quarantined, and practically became a detention camp. The doctor stuck to his post loyally, the young m.nister, in cowardly fear, vanished during the night. And thus was the flock left without a shepherd. It was not for long, however, for the old minister in his place of exile heard the sad news and returned with haste to the village. He was not afraid of death while his people were in peril. He nursed the living and cared for the dying, then was stricken himself. For a time it seemed that he, too, would pass away, but he recovered, and one day there was an interesting ceremony in the little village church. The trustees who had driven the old minister away now escorted him into the building in triumph, led him to the pulpit, and told him that h's place was with them, now and always. Thus were his latter days as peaceful and I appy as they deserved to be. RELIANCE AFTER THE MASSACRE (May 17).— Dick Martin and Sue Brown are sweethearts. With many others they start for the Golden West in a wagon train. Before leaving, Dick presents Sue with a locket with his picture in it. He puts it around her neck. Later, the wagon train is chased by a band of Indians and the whole party massacred except Dick, who is left for dead, and Sue, who is carried away by Red Arrow, the son of the tribal chief. Dick rises from the ruins of the wagon train. He has been struck on the head and all memory of the past is gone. He wanders away on the prairie and finally falls unconscious. He is picked up by a couple of cowboys who take him to a roundup camp where he is treated kindly. Meanwhile, Sue has been taken to the Indian village. Red Arrow, her captor, is beloved by the Indian maid, White Fawn, but he has no further use for her now that he has seen Sue. He demands of the chief that Sue become his squaw. The old chief consents. Sue is indignant. Red Arrow sees the locket Dick has given her hanging from Sue's neck. He appropriates it to himself and hangs it around his neck. He then tells White Fawn to keep Sue a prisoner until she consents to be his squaw. Both girls are indignant, but White Fawn dare not refuse. A few days pass. The girls have become great friends. One day the Indians learn that a large party of palefaces are within a few miles. Red Arrow is sent in the guise of a friendly Indian to learn how strong they are. He goes to the roundup camp and begs for food, which is given him. Meanwhile, he is sizing up the camp and sees there are too many whites for the Indians to safely attack. As he is leaving, the chain of the locket becomes broken and it falls to the ground. Dick, still mentally unsound, is standing near and sees it fall as Red Arrow strides away. He picks it up and recognizes it. Unknown to the cowboys he follows Red Arrow to the Indian village. As he is gazing down at it from a nearby bluff, he sees Sue among the tepees. His memory comes back with a rush. He realizes that he cannot rescue her alone. While crouching there, White Fawn, who has been catching a stray ponv, almost stumhles over him. He fears she will betray him, but she reassures him. She sees the locket in his hand and recognizes it as the one Red Arrow has taken from Sue. She offers her horse and tells Dick to ride to the roundup camp and bring help to rescue his sweetheart. He hastily writes a note to Sue, gives it to White Fawn and rides away. White Fawn takes the note to Sue. who is overjoyed. Red Arrow becomes suspicious of JP£C/AL -STATE, TUGHTST KELLY ?S?M EMERALD ISLE THREE REELS With the Famous BARNEY GILMORE in Title Role Advertising matter includes two kinds of one-sheets, two kinds of three-sheets, six-sheets, heralds, lobby displays, booklets, slides and miscellaneous material. Read y for shipment latter part of May. 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