The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 21 marriage and accepts Alberta. This angers her husband's family and such is their treatment of her that she finally leaves and returns once more to her settlement work. In the same tenement flat with Alberta — and now Anne makes her home with her — lives the Shane family, typical tenement types, with a beautiful young daughter, Molly. Larry, an unscrupulous cadet, makes the acquaintance of Molly; she trusts him, believes in him and things being so unbearable at home, she finally goes to him upon his promise of marriage. Cruel is her awakening, but she feels that she must go on with her life as she has started, and not return to her heartbroken father and mother. John finds things not so pleasant after the departure of his wife, for his mother and sister make life miserable for him; he entreats Anne to come back, but she cannot go back to the old life, and tries to find solace in helping the unfortunate girls who come to the settlement mission. At last Anne gets trace of Molly, and with Billy Shane goes to the dance hall where she and Larry are dancing. But Molly gives Anne a note for her father, telling him that while she loves him she feels that she has dishonored his love and so will have to continue living her own life. Molly discovers that she is to become a mother, but this fact she hides from Larry, knowing what his attitude would be. Secretly she prepares clothes for the coming child, but the day comes when Larry discovers her secret and treats her so badly that Molly leaves home and subsists for days upon the refuse of picknickers until finally, one day, she finds the card that Anne has given her, and then she seeks her out. She is taken care of, and John arrives once more to plead with Anne to return to him, just as she is doing her utmost to comfort Molly and another girl of the mission. Gradually he begins to realize what a power for good Anne is and before long he is contributing to her charitable society. Molly's child is born and a new vision comes to her until finally she will allow Anne to send for Billy, and great is the joy when the two meet and Molly promises to return home. Now that Molly is taken care of and has no further need of her, Anne cannot overcome the longing and the ache in her heart for her own children, so she returns home just as John and his mother are packing up the household belongings preparatory to breaking up the home. When John's mother sees her she vehemently denounces her, but John, for once taking the reins in his own hands, commands his mother to silence and takes Anne back into his life again — a life that has promise of much happiness and contentment. After the picture play, "Life's Mirror," is finished, we see the audience leaving the theatre. Maud George, as the wife of the prologue, has followed her husband and seen him enter the photoplayhouse with the other woman. She hides in the aisle, half ashamed of her tears. But he Idle Wives" with LOIS WEBER AND PHILLIPS SMALLEY catches sight of her, puts the other woman into a taxi, and gladly accompanies his vdfe to their home, where they have a scene of reconciliation. The young girl, tremendously affected by the fate of Molly, begs her escort to take her straight home. The young man, who is shocked at the result of the cadet's cruelty, has taken the lesson home to himself. He escorts the girl to her house, and suggests that next time they go out, they invite her mother to go with them. The tenement house family have also been deeply affected by the play. The father and mother determine tc be more gentle and affectionate with each other and to have more sympathy with their pretty young daughter. She is horrified at Molly's fate, and decides that home is not such a bad place after all, and that she will try to be satisfied with it. So the lives of these thi'ee groups are made happier by the inner vision which has come to them at the "movies." The picture play is the embodiment of one of the strongest of the Smalleys' Articles of Faith, their belief in the power for good of the motion pictures. From the Popular Novel by James Oppenheim PRODUCED BY THE SMALLEYS Authors of "Where Are My Children "Hypocrites," "Scandal," "Jewel" and other masterpieces. WONDERFUL STATE RIGHTS FEATURE Sensational run at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York The most dignified and moral preachment ever presented on the screen — Endorsed and applauded by Press, Public and Clergy. CAST. John Wall Phillips Smalley Anne Wall Lois Weber His Mother Countess Du Cello Richard Wall Edward Hearn Billy Shane Seymour Hastings Mrs. Shane Cecelia Mathews Molly Shane Mary MacLaren Alberta Gertrude Astor IN THE PROLOGUE. A Wife Maud George A Husband Ben Wilson A Young Girl Neva Gerber Her Mother Mrs. Witting THE CELEBRATED STIELOW CASE (Continued from page 9) Green, a brother-in-law. Separated and told that the other had confessed, or was about to, and that the only way to escape death was to tell first, both confessed, or were reported to have done so. Green pleaded guilty and was sentenced for life. On Stielow's trial the chief evidence against him was the confession alleged to have been made to Newton, not a signed and written confession, but one that Newton had written out and which he swore had been made to him — his testimony being corroborated by the sheriff and a notary. The court said that except for this alleged confession there was not sufficient evidence against Stielow to defeat a motion for a discharge. "Doubt as to Stielow's guilt grows out of his repudiation of the alleged confession, a knowledge of the circumstances under which it was obtained, and various unchallenged facts in the record. It would seem that Mrs. Wollcott must have seen her assailant. If she did,, and it was Stielow, it was remarkable that she fled tohis house for safety. If Stielow killed the woman it is amazing that he should have allowed the body to be found on his doorstep. Equally remarkable is his report of the crime while Phelps was still living and might revive and identify Stielow if guilty. Finally, notwithstandng the legal theory of the inconsequence of cumulative testimony, it is improbable that Stielow would have been convicted if the damaging expert testimony against him had been met by the evidence now available. In view of all the circumstances the judgment that Stielow is innocent would seem justified except for the parallel confession of Green."