The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ■33 STORIES OF THE ONE REEL PHOTOPLAYS OUT FOR THE DOUGH. Joker Comedy. Story and scenario by Jack Cunning' ham. Produced by William Beaudine. CAST. James Cartottle John Cook His Daughter Lillian Peacock "Wandering" Webster Wm. Franey Hired Girl Gale Henry Lillian's Sweetheart-.Milbum Moranti Cartottle catches his daughter Lillian and her sweetheart Milt making love, and he kicks Milt so hard that he lands in a hay-stack. Then he leads Lillian by the ear into the house, telling her that she must be very pleasant to the new minister, who is on the way to their house. Lillian hurries out to tell her troubles to her lover. Meanwhile, "Wandering" Webster, a tramp, sneaks to the kitchen window and is seen by the hired girl, who can love anything in the shape of a man. Bashful and smirking, she invites him into the kitchen to eat. Cartottle passes the window and sees this picture of contentment. He rushes in and kicks him out. Wandering Webster meets the new Reverand driving a lazy horse, and reading the Bible at the same time. He forces the man to descend from the buggy and to exchange clothes with him. When Wandering Webster arrives as the minister, Cartottle receives him with great gusto. The visitor makes many demands with well-assumed nonchalance, and makes love to Lillian in the most presumptuous manner. Having been informed by Milt that the hired girl is an heiress, the tramp proposes to her anc soon afterward they became man and wife. He then finds that her fortune consists of a smill pile of pennies. The real minister tells him he must stay by his marriage contract. Milt and Lillian have also been married. The unfortunate tram pis set to washing dishes, large tears dropping into the pan all the while. "RED VENGEANCE.' Big U Drama. The Indians and whites are living in peace until one of the whites commits an overt act, which arouses the redmen. Johnson, the trapper, finds Peach Blossom out in the fields gathering herbs, and kidnaps her. The girl sees the Indians out on a hunt. and calls to them. The trapper throws her to the ground and then escapes. Eagle Eye, in revenge, goes to Johnson's and takes his boy, who is carried to the Indian camp and turned over to Peach Blossom. She becomes a little mother to the child, refusing to permit others to touch him. Mrs. Johnson rides to the fort and informs the commander of her loss. He orders out a troop. When the Indians hear of the approach of the soldiers, they break camp and are caught in a very poor tactical position in a hollow, where the soldiers can not only shoot down into them, but roll rocks among them. The Indians are captured and lodged in the stockade. Big Rock and Peach Blossom scale the fence. Big Rock steals up behind the sentry, throws him to the ground and gets away. The soldiers pursue. The chief, exhausted, is overtaken and shot. The Indian woman plunges a knife into her heart. THE HIGH COST OF STARVING.' Victor One-Reel Comedy. Scenario by Male Havey. Produced by Leslie T. Peacocke. CAST. Sidney Simpson Eugene Walsh Mrs. Simpson Eileen Sedgwick Chef Al McKinnon Maid Dolly Ohnet Mrs. Simpson attends a lecture on "Vegetarianism," and is invited to join the club by the professor. She becomes a fanatic on the subject, and forbids any meat to enter the house, much to the disgust of Sidney, their servants, and the local butcher. The cat's chop is the only morsel of meat that is allowed to enter the house. Sidney manages surreptitiously to eat the chop. Then a great idea strikes him. He buys several kittens and brings them home in triumph. He then tells his wife that they must have at least three more chops daily. Sidney then reads in his paper an announcement of an alarming epidemic in Russia, brought on by vegetarian diet, which causes terrible blotches on the face. He takes the cook and the maid into his confidence and they and Sidney pretend to be sufferings from "Ricketts," shaking violently all over. Sidney paints all their faces with blotches of "Iodine" and that of his wife, while she is asleep. Her alarm in the morning sends her to the telephone to order in a plentiful supply of meat. "THE VALLEY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS." Victor Fairy Drama. Story by Helen Jonas. Scenario by Fred Myton. Produced by Lule Warrenton. CAST. Sea Foam Peggy Custer Prince Happy Day Antrim Short Zamba Elsie Cort One day, Zamba, a wicked witch, finds a box washed up by the waves, and in it is a beautiful fairy child, Sea Foam. Zamba takes her to her cave and begins her up-bringing. Years later, when Sea Foam has developed into a beautiful young girl, Zamba uses her as a lure to draw travelers to a pool into which she pushes them after removing their valuables. One day, the news of Sea Foam's unhappiness is brought by the Wind to the Goddess of the Good Fairies. It is discovered that love is the only charm that can overcome the machinations of Zamba. So Prince Happy Day is sent to the rescue, but Zamba casts her spell over him and, blinded, he goes the way of the others. Sea Foam manages to elude the witch. When she kisses the Prince, the spell is broken and his sight restored. Fire flares up and consumes Zamba, and Sea Foam and Prince Happy Day are free. AVARICE.' Imp Drama. Story, scenario and production by E. Magnus Ingleton. CAST. The Ragpicker Claire McDowell Death T. D. Crittenden The Man Leo Pearson The Wife Betty Schade In a dirty, dilapidated hovel, lives an old ragpicker. Though existing in a wretched cellar, yet she possesses a bag of gold and a magnificent diamond necklace. One night, while worshipping her hoard. Death appears before her and reviews with her the horrors of her past life. All has been for worldly gain. When young and beautiful, she auctioned her body to the highest bidder; she sold her son to the gallows for gold; and because of her monstrous greediness, throttled a young woman for her jewels. Death claims her, and she has to leave all.