The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

40 The Moving Picture Weekly May 20, 1922 "THE TRAP" Universal-Jewel Starring LON CHANEY CAST Gaspard LON CHANEY Benson Alan Hale Thalie Dagmar Godowsky The Boy Stanley Goethals The Teacher Irene Rich The Factor ..Spottiswoode Aitken The Priest Herbert Standing The Palace Sergeant.. ..Frank Campeau GASPARD, French-Canadian trapper, is a child of the great outdoors, loving all mankind. Benson, an adventurer, comes into his life, steals his mine and his sweetheart and turns him into a human wolf. Step by step he achieves his revenge. He takes Benson's child under his wing to use in his campaign of torture, but the child wins his heart and gradually brings him back to manhood, after the powerful climax based on a terrific fight between Gaspard and a halfstarved wolf, his instrument of revenge. "THREE WEEKS OFF" Two-Reel Century Comedy Starring LEE MORAN EVERY ONE but Lee is given a vacation by the boss. Lee does his best to get the vacation by taking a fit and by other methods. Finally, through a doctor's order, the boss gives him the much needed vacation. So Lee takes his family to the country. There, where he should be resting for his health, he is raising the very devil in the hotel dance hall. In the midst of his actions the boss walks in. Then Lee goes into hysterics and tries to feign illness. After much excitement the boss catches Lee and tells him calmly that he has just earned for himself another three weeks' vacation for forcing him to chase him, the chase having caused him to lose his rheumatic pains. "IT'S A CENTURY" "THE GETAWAY" Two-Reel Action Drama Starring NEAL HART RAND CLEBURNE, in self-defense, strikes Bull Carter, ranch boss, and makes his getaway on a stolen horse. Pursued by a posse, he takes refuge in the foothills and "WITH STANLEY IN AFRICA" No. 17, "The White Tribe" JACK manages to rescue Nadia, Selim and himself from the whirlpool, and eludes the Arabs, who give them up as lost and plan to continue their search for the White Tribe. Surrounded by an attacking party of hostile savages, the trio is saved by the intercession of the tribe's chief, who turns out to be the Negro Nadia saved from slavery. At Ujiji, Stanley and Livingstone return from extensive explorations which have revealed the presence of the supposed White Tribe. Jack and Nadia later discover the village of this tribe and are attacked by the guards. Jack is apparently killed and Nadia, seeking to escape, falls from a high cliff to the bottom, where Harden is fighting off a band of the natives. "THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE" Chapter Nine "The Jaguar Trap" CRUSOE relents and gives Gale water. Will and the sailors plan to kill Crusoe for the treasure. Crusoe goes to conciliate the sailors and is captured and made prisoner, together with Holding. The Water Witch, hastening to warn Crusoe of Torquada's and the Patriarch's plan to assassinate him, sees Marion inside the stockade. Thinking she is Crusoe's sweetheart, she sadly turns back. She suddenly hears voices and sees the sailors about to shoot Crusoe and Holding. She rushes to a trap wherein Crusoe has imprisoned a jaguar, releases the spring and allows the beast to leap over the stockade on top of the firing squad. becomes a victim to the deadly desert sun. He crawls to Sheriff Harper's cabin and enters, thinking Harper is away with the posse. He helps himself to some food and is leaving when he hears a crash of glass and finds the sheriff's baby niece has overturned ? lamp and set the room on fire. Rescuing the baby and putting the blaze out, Rand meets the sheriff's widowed sister, who, although she recognizes him as the man sought by her brother, aids him to escape. When the (sheriff returns she makes good her intention and helps Rand flee. He promises to return as soon as it is safe for him to do so. "THE LITTLE RASCAL" Two-Reel Century Comedy Starring BABY PEGGY BABY PEGGY is continually getting herself into all kinds of mischief. No other expression than she is a little rascal really suffices. She makes herself so devilish that the help threaten to leave unless she behaves herself, and father promises to see to that. After hitting some of them with pies, others with baking flour, others with clubs, and again electrocuting the entire squad of them, she climbs into bed. When father calls to spank her, he finds her safely tucked in bed, and he cannot see how such an angel child can be the little rascal they say she is. But she certainly is. "IT'S A CENTURY" "HIS SHAKY FA?V1ILY TREE" One-Reel Star Comedy NERVY NED, manager of a beauty shop, falls in love with his most successful job, a girl whom he has made extremely beautiful; but on being rejected, he goes into a drugstore to buy poison. The bottle labeled "poison" contains hootch and Ned gets inebriated and obtains a job as soda clerk. To impress his girl's parents, he has his ancestors traced back to Ned the Conqueror and gets married on the strength of his lineage. He finds out his father-in-law is his boss and tries to run away; but after a stirring chase he is caught and brought back to the altar. "HIS PREHISTORIC BLUNDER" One-Reel Star Comedy ROY, a henpecked husband, wants to spend his vacation fishing, but his strong-minded wife has other plans. To fool his wife, Roy enlists the aid of a sympathetic neighbor, who, posing as a doctor, threatens a nervous breakdown for Roy if his wife doesn't give in to him on all occasions. The plan works, and Roy and his wife join the back-to-nature movement, living in a tent and wearing skins for raiment. Roy's ally, the neighbor, comes to congratulate him on his strategy. Mrs. Roy overhears him, however, and takes revenge on him and her husband for the discomfort she has suffered. Are Your Ideas Worth Money? Enter the $7,000 "Robinson Crusoe" Contest.