Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 33 Tiger, a notorious thief. Hawkshaw had been on the lookout for him, and during the evening keeps a close watch on his doings. Dalton has in tow a good-looking country youth, one Bob Brierly, who, having received a small legacy, has come to London to see life. Falling in with Dalton that worthy has volunteered to show him around, and has contrived to lead him into such dissipations as drinking and gambling. The young man is completely unnerved, and flies to champagne to drown his reiiiorse. Old Moss tells Dalton that he has a lot of "beautiful" counterfeit banknotes, and offeif them cheap to Dalton if he will pass thom. While the others are engaged May Edwards enters the gardens with her guitar and sings a song. She is rudely chaffed by some, unnoticed by others; but on approaching Brierly the country youth, though sadly out of humor, feels for her distress and gives her a glass of wine, and tries to soothe her by kind words as he learns that she is actually famishing. Brierly is led off by Dalton, and during his absence May turns dejectedly away. Brierly returns. Dalton had offered to lend him some money, but, saying that he had no change, got him to go into a little cigar shop which they were passing and get change for a twenty pound note. He did so, and rett;rned to the gardens with the change. Meeting May, he tells her to cheer up from crying, that she looked like a little sister of his. Then he insists upon her taking a couple of sovereigns. She would fain refuse them, but he insists, and gives her his address. Dalton comes in — the detectives follow — and in an instant Hawkshaw grabs Dalton, but he breaks away. Brierly is, however, handcuffed after a brief struggle and carried off to prison. Three years elapse. May, by her industry and virtue, has gained friends and work. She is living resignedly in her neat room awaiting a letter from Bnerly. He, poor fellow, had been tried and sent to prison for three years. He had behaved well, and had written as often as the rules allowed to May, who kept him in faithful remembrance. May lodges with a garrulous old lady, Mrs. Willoughby, who has a grandson Sam, at once the delight and terror of her soul. It turns out when Brierly is released from prison and writes May that Mrs. Willoughby is the very woman upon whom Brierly passed the twenty pound note, and led to the poor woman being obliged to give up her little cigar store. The released prisoner no sooner learns this fact than he manages to repay the woman her loss out of money which he had saved at Portland prison. Mrs. Gibson, a lady who had taken a very friendly interest in May, enlists her husband in the same cause and, after a while, Mr. Gibson, a rich private banker and bill broker, emplo3'S Bob Brierly as janitor and porter, and May as housekeeper. Brierly is smart, honest and diligent, and is about to be married to May, after which they are to live over Mr. Gibson's bank. But Dalton and Moss, in the course of their attempts to swindle Mr. Gibson by means of forged drafts, recognize Brierly, and on his refusal to let Dalton take impressions of locks to rob the bank, old Moss denounces him to Mr. Gibson as a ticket-of-leave man. The banker, indignant at being im Eosed upon by Brierly, turns him adrift, and e is reduced to the lowest ebb of poverty. May clings to him like a guardian angel all the time. At length, when Bob is just yielding to despair and has grown reckless of life, Dalton and Moss appear and get him to consent to aid them in breaking into Mr. Gibson's place. Hawkshaw, disguised as a laborer, is hovering about the taproom, apparently drunk, and when Brierly, having mastered all the burglars' plans, seeks for a person to convey a note to Mr. Gibson warning him of the plot, Hawkshaw makes himself known to Brierly, and arranges to entrap the thieves in the very act of the burglary. Sam Willoughby also becomes of much use at this juncture. The closing scene is strong, Dalton being overpowered and Moss and him taken prisoners; Bob becomes the husband of faithful May, and Mr. Gibson takes them both into his employ. IMP A POSSIBILITY (2 Reels) (July 14).— Some clubmen in New York, watching the suffragette parade from the club window, discuss the possibility of the final success of the suffragette movement, and the whimsical idea strikes one man to picture to the others what will happen in the future when women have MI4TT PATENTS become not only the equal but the stronger sex. The story then unfolds of the simple farm boy who is wooed by the big-hearted farmer girl and how the boy, while coy and coquettish of the girl's advances, still is possibly fond enough of the girl; how this gently budding romance is shattered by the advent in the village of an unscrupulous and wealthy clubwoman from the city who steals away the country boy's heart by her tales of the gay life of the city. The boy remains true to the virtuous principles taught him by his honest parents but does consent to an elopement, believing, however, that the handsome woman from the city intends to marry him on their arrival in New York. The elopement is successfully made and the boy's irate mother awakes too late to reach the unscrupulous woman with a shotgun and the pair are well on their way. Fortunately for the simple-minded boy his country girl has suspected something wrong and followed the car to the city. There she succeeds in frustrating the schemes of the unscrupulous clubwoman and shows the weak but still honest boy how close he has come to a life that could only lead to shame and remors,e. The country girl has a terrific struggle with the clubwoman for the safety of the weeping boy, but finally returns the now thoroughly awakened young man to his weeping father and irate mother. She succeeds in softening mother's stern wrath toward the erring boy, who has been more sinned against than sinning, and finally the young man, recognizing true and honest love, goes into the strong arms she holds out for him. CRYSTAL m DEATH'S SHADO'W (July 15).— Frank Perry, an American mining expert, is located in Juarez, Mexico, where he is looking out for the interests of and assaying the ore for Mr. Barrows, the wealthy mine owner. He lives at the hotel, and is attended by the native Mexicans. Carlotta, a beautiful girl, who was wont to bring Frank his meals at his little office, has fallen deeply in love with him, though Frank is unaware of her infatuation. Mr. Barrows calls Frank back to New York for an important consultation, and there Frank meets his employer's beautiful daughter Irene. The young couple are thrown into each other's company a great deal and their strong friendship ripens into love. Frank goes back to Mexico, and Mr. Barrows later on decides to visit his properties. With the return 01 Frank Carlotta is again happy and attempts in many ways to please Frank, and rejects the many offers of her countrymen. Mr. Barrows and Irene arrive at Juarez and put up at the hotel where Frank lives, which, incidentally, is run by Carlotta's parents. Pedro, a waiter, comes in for much abuse from Carlotta's father. Carlotta becomes insanely jealous of Frank's attentions to Irene. She pleads with Frank, but he cannot take her seriously. He explains to her in playfulness the workings of an assayer and some of the dangers attendant thereto. He shows her a bottle of cyanide of potassium solution and tells her of its deadly qualities and how it would cause sure death to any one taking any of it. The next day she sees Frank kissing Irene, and her insane jealousy getting the better of her, she determines to kill either one or both of them at the first opportunity. That evening Pedro sees her take some of the cyanide of potassium and put it into Frank's food. Carlotta's father starts to abuse Pedro and is choking him nearly to death when Irene returns and stops the cruelty. Pedro, out of thankfulness, informs Irene of Carlotta's doings, and that she is at that moment on the way to Frank's office with the poisoned food. Irene rushes out and rides furiously to the office. She arrives just in time to save Frank by knocking some poisoned food • from his hand. Irene confronts Carlotta, who, admitting the accusation, is ordered from the office. She goes, leaving Irene and Frank in each other's arms, thankful that she was just in time to save her lover's life. FOR SALE 3 Reels of talking and singing: pictures with Gramaphone machine, $260.00. EAGLE FEATURE FILM CO., Inc. 6 East 14th St., New York Olty. Tel. Stuyvesant 2771 POWERS THE AWAKENING (July 18).— Irene Farwell, a selfish girl, breaks off her engagement to the man she loves and marries a man of wealth so that she will have the luxuries of life. The boy's heart and spirit are broken over the affair, and his life ruined. After five years of lu.xury the selfish nature remains unchanged and she exhibits a lack of consideration for others at every turn. Her modiste is unable to have her gown finished at a certain time. Irene threatens to withdraw her trade unless the gown is finished as promised. Fearing to lose her custom the modiste overworks one of her girls which causes the girl to lose her sight. The gown is finished on time but the thoughtless woman flippantly decides to wear another. Her selfish nature again asserts itself when her sister appeals to her for money to save her invalid husband's life. Irene, instead of lending her the money, purchases a racing car and, unable to procure the necessary money, the sister is forced to see her husband die. Seized with the speed mania, she neglects her husband's warning, with the result that she runs over a child, and is only brought to a realization of her selfishness when she finds it to be her own. NESTOR THE OPERATOR AND THE SUPERINTENDENT (July 16).— The lure of the West, its freedom — its bigness — appeals so strongly to Ellen, seated in her tiny hall bedroom, that she determines to answer an advertisernent for a telegraph operator for a Western station. Ellen is successful in securing an appointment at Tempuch, a very small Western station, and is escorted to her new office by Wilson, the superintendent of the Western division. A mutual attraction springs up between the two young people, and Wilson departs for this office, six miles distant, reluctantly. The freshness and beauty of the new operator attracts the attention of one of the most notorious gamblers in Tempuch, who, after being scorned by Ellen, determines to win her. Later he proposes to her and in a rage at her refusal advances toward her, but the timely advent of the superintendent saves Ellen from further unpleasantness. The gambler is ordered away and the superintendent proposes to Ellen and is accepted. The Meet Me Face to Face at SPACE 32 (Main Floor) I -want to show ■you the grandest and finest line of Stock Announcement, Adver tising:,Featuf e Advance, Photo-Players, Glass, Brass and Mica Slides that you ever had the pleasure of inspectingf. JOSEPH F. COUFAL Gen. 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