The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1918)

3Sr THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY •THE BELLE.S OF LIBERTY." Directed bv James Davis. Two-Reel L-KO Komedy. CAST. TRIXIE Eva Novak PIXIE Caroline Wright HAROLD HATBAND Frenchie Bianchi .SAMMY SPA1TS Capt. Peacocke SILASS PATTS Rube Miller (Copyright 1918, L-KO Motion Picture Ko.) |N the beautiful garden of girls there gi-ew two poppies who ceased to bloom ever since the Civil War was over, only they didn't know it. They still considered themselves lady killers. Two of the most beautiful flowers in the garden were Ti-ixie and Pixie. Old Hatband and Spatts saw them, and no effort seemed too great on their part to win them. Even a liberal contribution to the Liberty Loan was cheerfully forthcoming. But the finances of the two Liberty Belles happened to be the respective sons of the gay old boys, and much as they disliked it, the fathers became a party to the marriages of their respective sons, just when they fondly thought that they were teaching them the lessons of their young lives. "OH, man:" Nestor Comedy. CAST. FLO TILLA Eileen Sedgwick HAROLD DUBB Ralph McComas UNCLE HENRY Milton Sims NEIGHBOR'S WIFE Dollv Ohnet HER HUSBAND Ed Baker MANDY Anna Hernandez RASTUS Charles Haeflfli \X7HEN Harold Dubb returns home after having been told "Yes" by his sweetheart, he finds a telegram waiting for him. Said telegram is from Uncle, upon whom Harold has imposed many times. Uncle tells him that he is making a business trip and will drop off for a little while. Now, for obvious reasons. Harold had written Uncle that he was maiTied. and had a family. Harold needs must procure a wife. He sends a message to Flo. but Flo has gone to the coun V. and Rastus, Harold's messenger, foilhwith sets out on foot to deliver the message. Uncle aiTives and wants to see the wife. Haix»ld pei-suades the wife of his next door neighbor, who has quarreled with her husband, to act as his wife while Uncle is about. Then Uncle wants to see the baby. Out goes Harold to get a baby. Rastus finally delivers the note to Flo and she makes haste to return to the city. She arrives while Hai-old is out, and announces herself as Har -'d's wife. Uncle does not believe her. By a trend of circumstances Flo is led to believe that the darky cook is Harold's affianced. Then Harold i-etunis with a baby can-iage and baby. His baby is dark, too, for in his haste he did not think to look. Flo is cominced that what Mandy told her is true. Then the neighbor returns. «nd findng his wife in the arms of the Uncle, he makes it hot for Uncle. At last Harold succeeds in explaining to Flo. They return to the room and satisfactoiy explanations are made. Uncle believes that Harold has had his lesson, and gives V sm his blessing. •SHOT IN THt DUMBWAITER." Lyons-Moran Star Comedy. MR. EDDIE UPZ Eddie Lyons MR. JACK DOWNS Lee Moran MR.S. UPZ -...Edith Roberts MR.S. DOWNS..- Gertrude Astor POLICE OFFICER O'BRIEN _ Harry Nolan H^R. and Mrs. Upz and Downs occupy the apartment directly over Mr. and Mrs. Do^^"ns. but the families have never met. One evening Mr. Upz starts off to his Club and Mrs. Upz goes to bed. Mr. Downs goes to bed and Mrs. Do^^•ns starts off to the Red Cross meeting. Heavy rain comes on and both Mr. Upz and Mrs. Downs seek shelter under the same awning. Each decides to retui-n home. A taxicab drives up and Mr. Upz gallantly sees Mrs. Do%xTis into the taxi, and learning that they both live in the same place, drive home together. In the meantime, the cat in Mrs. Upz' apai-tment makes such a terrible noise that it wakes Mrs. Upz up, and she thinks it is a burglar. She mns screaming from the apartment, unwittingly locking the door. Her screams attract the attention of Mr. Downs, who in his pyjamas nishes out into the hall. She urges him to get his gun and shoot the burglar. Squeezing into the dumbwaiter, ihey haul themselves up to the kitchen above. In the meantime, Mr. Upz and Mrs. Downs have amved home. Both are sui-prised and alarmed at finding their spouses not home, Mrs. Downs runs up to tell her newly found friend, Mr. Upz. about her husband being missing. Mr. Downs peepes in from the kitchen and seeing a strange man shoots at him. Police Officer O'Brien, on his beat, has heard the shooting and nashes into the hall. Mr. Downs and Mrs. Upz, both in their pajamas, tell him about the burglar. They send the Policeman up in the dumb-waiter. He arrests Mr. Upz and Mrs. Downs, leads them do^\"n to the couple below. Consternation and explanations follow. SYNOPSES OF L-KO, NESTOR. LYONS MORAN STAR COMEDY, WESTERN DRAMA. and all ends happily, with the rightful husbands and wives in each other's arms, and Policeman O'Brien left scratching his head, ti-jing to imagine how it all happened. "THE BRANDED MAN." Two-reel Western Drama. CAST. JOHN EWING Donna Kee HELEN EWING _ Helen Gibson JIM CALVERT _ M. K. Wilson VAL HEYWOOD G. Ravmond Nve TROVIO VALDEZ Noble Johnson SHERIFF Hoot Gibson yAL HEYWOOD and his confederate, Trovio Valdez, are caught rustling cattle, and He%-wood, branded on the chest as a punishment, vows vengeance on John Ewing, the leader of the avenging cowboys. Hex'wood and Valdez again join forces, but are ordered out of the town by the sheriff. They send word to Ewing that he is wanted ui-gently at his ranch. Then ambushing Ewing. they leave him bound and gagged while they hold up the stage. Ewing is finally unbound and left in a weakened condition with a mask and enough of the loot to incriminate him. Heywood and Valdez escape to a deserted hut in the hills. Helen, Ewing's daughter, becomes worried over the disappearance of her father and with her sweetheart, Jim Calvert, foreman of Ewing's i-anch. set5 out in search of him. The sheriff is informed of the hold-up of the stage and also starts out with the posse. Sometime later Ewing is discovered in the underbrush and the sheriff is ready to believe him gtiilty. Helen forces the sheriff to delay his decision. After the others have left with Ewing. Helen and Jim notice a deserted hut. They investigate and ind the loot — the men have been frightened away. Valdez rides away to catch Heywood, who dashes to the i-anch and • hi-eatens Ewing. The posse approach the ranch and begin firing at Heywood, who quickly snatches up Swing's little daughter. Sierra, and rides away. The men don't dare to hoot because of the child. Jim is slightly wounded. Heywood finally thinks himself out of danger and releases the child, and as he starts to depart, Helen lassoes him, yanking him so sharply from his horse that he is killed. Valdez is killed by Jim.