Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

32 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS WARNER'S FEATURES that's enough by America's most popular moving picture artists. AT THE HALF-BREED'S MERCY (July 19). — Temptation has always been disguised in the most pleasing settings just as the bitterest pills often have the sweetest sugar coating. When Ed leaves home, to deposit his employer's money in the town bank, he takes affectionate leave from his wife and little dreams of the pitfalls that confront him before the day is over. How he would become dishonest, disloyal, brutal and a coward before he would again see the sweet countenance that radiated inspiration and love into every fibre of his big frame. The tide turns quickly and from the hunted criminal he becomes the worshipped hero. Twice the daughter of the saloon keeper is rescued from the clutches of death. The mad rush of horses on the country road as they are urged on to aid in the administration of justice give rise to a singular condition of anxiety as one half hopes that justice will be done and at the same time fervently wishes that the case go by default. Excitement, sentiment and pathos are blended and one is assured a truly interesting picture. LUX THE TRAIN ON FIRE (July 11).— Denise is an orphan, and lives with her grandfather, who loves her dearly. Her beauty gives birth to a violent passion in the heart of the Squire, but his advances are sternly rebuffed, and he swears that he will have revenge upon Denise. -Sometime later the Squire ruins himself at the gaming tables. Without wealth and without friends he at last accepts a job as stoker on fie railway. In this position he discovers that the engine-driver with whom he works is none other than Denise's husband. He remembers the insult of former days and awaits an opportunity to avenge himself. This comes when Denise travels up to town one day in the train driven by her husband. The Squire sets fire to the train, which dashes along wrapped in flames. Denise and her husband have a narrow escape, but the Squire meets with a dreadful end. RAMO A DOGGONE BARON (July 16).— Adolph Shiiltz sat in the little room behind his little delicatessen shop and cursed the fate that saw fit to cast him for a delicatessen merchant instead of a Baron. In the daily papers Adolph had read of the epidemic of iieiress-seeking Barons and promptly contracted acute Baroneits. He lost his appetite for sauerkraut and potato salad and every time he looked at his plump Frau, or one of his seven children, he experienced a sensation about the same as a bad man's hereafter. There was no cure for poor Adolnh's malady but an heiress and a mess of wild oats, so during his wife's absence, he sold his shop, packed his grip and departed. Mary Aldcn, a newspaper reporter was in court When Mrs. Shultz and her seven children broke in. .She (Mrs. .Slnillz) filled the air with riot and requested the judge to rivet a pair of handcuffs upon runaway .'\dolph and bring him back. At Kirby's farm there was great excitement. The Baron Dietrich had picked Madge Kirby for a steady listener of his love tales and Madge was delighted. A Baron for a son-inlaw made Ma's heart flutter overtime. Now, Farmer Kirby had no intention of splitting his fortune with a man he couldn't talk with, so every time the Baron asked for Madge's hand. Farmer Kirby got an attack of hesitation and called Peggy, the bull-dog, who showed his disapproval of the Baron by making half-moons with her teeth on different parts of his anatomy. In fact, Peggy assisted Farmer Kirby and Jack Hopkins, Madge's former suitor, in making the Baron as uncomfortable as possible, but his finish was made certain by the arrival of Mary Alden, the reporter, who came to visit the Kirbys. Assisted by Peggy, she prevented the pair from eloping, and to confirm her suspicion that Shultz was one and the same, she telegraphed for Mrs. Shultz. Five minutes after the lady arrived, something that sounded like yells of mortal agony came from the tall grass back of the farm to prove that the lady was making good. So endeth the romance of Adolph — the doggone Baron. MAJESTIC THE INGRATE (July 12).— A New York broker was caught in one of the financial flurries for which Wall Street is famous, and lost his fortune. Like many others before him, he left the East to seek wealth in the gold mines of the West. Success did not come to him and he would have starved if a young prospector had not taken pity upon him and made him his partner. A claim was located and gold discovered. The miner was taken ill, and his treacherous companion, taking advantage of his partner^s helpless condition, took the gold and left his benefactor to die in the desert. The sick man was found by prospectors and nursed back to life. He discovered other rich claims and became one of the mining kings of the West, but cherisl'ed a strong hatred for the ingrate who had treated him so heartlessly. Many years later, the rich mining man received a report from a detective, stating that his enemy was now a prominent Wall Street broker, and was conducting a fight for the control of certain railroad properties owned by an elderly capitalist. The ingrate, the detective said, was sure to succeed unless the miner chose to interefere. And the miner did. The elderly financier, harassed and exhausted, received a visit from a grim man from the West, who placed his immense fortune at the other's command, for the purpose, as he exnressed it, of "crushing the snake." Money is .all powerful in the world of finance, and after a few days of fierce battle on the "Change," the treacherous broker came to the office nf his elderly opponent to plead for mercv. He received none, and loft a ruined man, but not before he saw the man who had waited long for the day of reckoning, the miner whom lie had so shamefully treated. The robbery of the desert had been avenged on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. THANHOUSER FOR THE MAN SHE LOVED (July 8).— The ranchman's daughter had two suitors, botli Iicr f;ither's employees. One was a clcarcut intelligent young cowboy, energetic and ambi tious; the ot' er capable in his way, but sullen and revengeful. The girl liked the first of the two, and as her father was quite content with her choice, the course of true love seemed to be running quite smoothly. On one occasion while the girl and her father, escorted by the two cowbo3s, were off on a business trip, they camped on the summit of a mountain. The girl was standing at the edge of a cliff. Her bracel;t fell off. and as all supposed, rolled thousands of feet into t e chasm below. She agreed with her father, however, that search for the jewel would be useless. The favored cowboy planned a surprise, however. Part way down the cliff a ledge of reck jutted out, and he figured out that perhaps the bracelet was lodged there. One day when work permitted he rode away from the ranch and halted at the cliff. He tied a rope to a tree, lowered himself down to the ledge, and ther; made diligent search, being finally rewarded by finding the bracelet. Unfortunately for him. his rival had noticed his departure from the ranch, and followed him. In jealous rage the vengeful cowboy pulled up the rope, leaving his rival to die of exposure and starvation. When her sweetheart failed to return to the ranch t'-at night, the girl was worried, and intuitively suspected that the rejected suitor was to blame for the strange disappearance. The next morning she saw him ride away and followed. He went to the edge of the cliff, to hurl taunts at his helpless victim, and then rode away. The girl, who had been in concealment, emerged after he had departed, and single handed rescued her sweetheart, who was imconscious and near death. When he had been revived he returned to the ranch, there to confront his enemy, who at first believed him a ghost, but realized when the hand of the law fell upon him that his plot had failed through the girl's devotion to the man she loved. AN ERRAND OF MERCY (July 11).— A little American girl, returning home from Europe, where she had been studying art, met a young doctor on the steamer and fell in love with him. They were married soon after the steamer reached New York. Her parents, who lived on a farm in the West, were unable to attend the wxdding, but the bride wrote them enthusiastically, telling them how happy she was. And she was happy for more than a year after the marriage. Her husband was devoted to her and their baby, but in spite of his many good qualities he was of an intensely jealous disposition and resented the admiration which his pretty wife excited. Quarrels were frequent and finally the girl left him with her baby and returned to her parents leaving a note in which she said that she would never see him again and that she and the child were provided for. The husband believed that slie had gone away with another man and plunged into the practice of his profession to forget a wife whom he deemed unworthy. ■The young mother and her baby were tenderly received by her parents. The girl told them of the jealousy of her husband, whom they had never seen, and her indignant father told her that she must never return to him. In a short time the young wife died, and the little girl was brought up under the loving care o£ lier grandparents. The child's father, who had prospered as the years passed and was now a famous physician, left New York on a tour of the country. But success had not brought him happiness, for he was a lonely man. The train stopped at a little Western town and the physician noticed the conductor talking to a little girl of ten, just the age his own child was, he thought sadly. The conductor entered the car and told the doctor that the child's grandfather was dangerously ill and there was no medical help available. The famous physician left the train and accompanied the cliilcl to her home, arriving just in time to save her grandparent's life, lie did not expect any reward for his errand of mercy and yet he received one, for he discovered that his little guide was none other tlian his little daughter. DRAGON FILM CO. THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN (2 Reels) (July 7). — The play opens in the Bellevue Tea Gardens, just out of London, where a large company of folks are taking refreshments at the different tables. Among them, cunningly disguised, is Hawkshaw, a famous police detective. To him other detectives occasionally report. They announce the presence of old Sloss, a receiver of stolen goods, and are warned to keep an eye on him. Soon after. Moss is joined by Jem Dalton, nicknamed the In writing to advertisers please mention "MOVING PICTURE NEWS"