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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
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(Copyright 1917, Bluebird Photoplays, Inc.)
By WALDEMAR YOUNG
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HE personal attributes of John Benson, Oliver North, Langdon Crane and Robert Curtis were noticeable to all their friends and acquaintances. Benson was a rich, hard-headed business man, who drove shrewd bargains and demanded his full share in every transaction. Oliver North was known as a kindly philanthropist, unselfish and charitable. Crane was the author of the "best seller" — a book that reflected the author's personal experiences in wild adventure and deeds of daring. Robert Curtis was a young society "blood," to whom the world had grown stale and uninteresting.
Lydia Benson was a plain and sensible girl, with wealth at her command, but no desire to idle her time away at society's behest. She knew full well the measure she placed on Crane's mock heroism; on North's selfadvertising charities; on Curtis' idleness and wasting — but best of all she knew that her father was, deep in his heart, the soul of gentleness ' masked behind a gruff and falsely brusque exterior. She was glad when her father proposed a business trip to the Orient and asked her to go along.
There was special interest in the Far East — Mongolian nations were showing surface indica
A WONDERFULLY artistic Bluebird production by Lynn Reynolds, showing the effect of pure nature on human nature.
CAST.
Lydia Benson Myrtle Gonzalez
John Benson George Hernandez
Oliver North Arthur Hoyt
Robert Curtis George Chesebro
Langdon Crane Edward Cecil
Parkes Jean Hersholt
tions of unrest that meant much to American commerce; and it was appealing to Robert Curtis in the thought of breaking the monotony of his ill considered ease. Langdon Crane announced that he was going to the Orient to gather "local color"
Lydia, nerves shaken by the shipwreck, has to be carried up the beach.
for a successor to "Back to the Primitive," his greatly successful novel. Philanthropist North declared that the heathen needed his attention — and so all these different types of humanity took passage, by merest chance, on the same steamship,
German submarines had not been reported in the Pacific, hence it was a double shock and utter surprise when a torpedo worked havoc with the steamship, and another stroke of fate that brought the Bensons, North, Crane, Curtis and a couple of sailors together in the same life-boat. Eventually cast up on a verdant island in mid-Pacific, the true natures of the various characters came open and unequivocally to the surface.
North, the philanthropist, developed a streak of selfishness that required force to thwart else the others might have perished. The heroauthor proved a craven coward. Benson showed his dominant spirit by taking command of the situation and to Robert Curtis the adventure roused a sense of usefulness that he had never felt, and life was to him a glamour of interest and enjojTnent. Lydia Benson made a study of Curtis, and his newer and better self won her admiration.
The castaways lived on tropical fruits and shellfish, built a camp and shelters, and then drew lots to decide who should explore the island. While Lydia held the "straws" that should decide, Crane and North trembled with