The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

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2& THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY— (Copyright 1917, Universal Film Manufacturing Co.) EXCITING Butterfly Picture. Produced by Charles Swickard. R. CATHCART, let me introduce my son, Jim." Charmed, I am sure." Cathcart's manners are perfect, thinks Margaret Dennis, a widow, as she enters his office with her son Jim to secure a position from the latter. Cathcart does possess charming, polished manners and a fascinating personality, but they hide a sensual and brutal nature that delights in torture. He is feared and loathed by all his employes, among whom is Raymond Taylor, a young man whose family has been ruined in a financial deal with Cathcart. His mother died of a broken heart and his father, Old Man Taylor, is now a drunkard, depending entirely upon the eighteenyear-old sister, Steve. Both Raymond and the old man vow to get revenge on Cathcart. Jim quickly senses Cathcart's attitude toward his mother and learns from Raymond (/'athcart's reputation. And when Margaret later announces to her son that she is going to marry Cathcart, Jim seems to lose his mind and begins to fight with the older man. Raymond separates them and warns Jim that Cathcart is his own game. Jim makes his mother choose between him and Cathcart and tells her he never wants to see her again. Cathcart, having desired Margaret years before, now CAST. Margaret Dennis. ...Gretchen Lederer Oliver Cathcart Joseph Girard Jim Dennis Chester Bennett Raymond Taylor... Val Paul Robert Shepherd Chas. Mailes Bess Shepherd Peggy Custer Steve Taylor Donna Drew Old Man Taylor George Berrell By E. MAGNUS INGLETON. finds that he can get her by no other means than marriage and is willing to wed her to get his way. They go to a country estate called "The Pines," but by the villagers, "The House of Gloom." Here Margaret discovers that her husband is a beast whose caress is an insult and whose subtle cruelties are sharper than the lash of a whip. She is left mistress of the uncanny house which Cathcart visits only when he pleases. The garden of "The Pines" is cared for by Robert Shepherd, a man who has never been unkind to a living thing and who worships his young daughter, Bess. Near them live the Taylors. Steve and Bess are good friends. Old Man Taylor pals with The Man With the Crutch, a short, thin, sinister, lame man, who also craves vengeance on Cathcart because of the latter's treatment of a sister. He and Taylor plan revenge together and finally the cripple offers to pay Taylor for committing the murder. Meanwhile, Steve, full of rdmance and a longing for adventure, has been reading books of adventure and is determined to see the world. She does washing once in awhile and now has ten dollars. With the book, "How I Became a Stowaway," she sets out, dressed in boy's clothes, leaving a note to say that she has gone out to' see the world, but will return some day to assist in cleaning up Cathcart. Raymond comes to visit his people and also to see Milly, Margaret's maid, and his sweetheart. Margaret commissions him to take an important message to Jim and he and Jim are