Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1914)

1140 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD MATTY JOINS THE JUVENILE POLICE FORCE (August ai). — Yearning for a dog. our Universal Boy adopts one trom the Home for Lost Dogs. Returning home with it. he is scolded bj' his aunt, but she finally consents to him keeping it. Later, the dog is stolen by a hobo. The hobo trades the dog at an East Side saloon for a glass of beer. Heartbroken over his loss. .Matty seeks aid of the newly-organized Juvenile Police force, admiring the snappy appearance of the boys. At this juncture we are shown how these boys train for their work in regenerating the bad boys of the neighborhood. Matty himself is instrumental in breaking up a gang ; this gang afterwards become policemen and assist in reclaiming their companions. Sometime later, while Matty is doing duty on a side street, he notes a little girl entering a saloon for beer. He follows and causes the arrest of the saloon-keeper. .\s he leaves the saloon he hears a familiar bark : running behind the counter he discovers his stolen dog. There is a happy reunion and Matty takes the dog to the station. Further on, the dog, trained to understand Matty's commands, assists by carrying messages in his mouth in rounding up miscreants. JOKER. THE LITTLE AUTOMOBILE (August 2(3).— Wifie becomes disgusted with hubby's Ford car. Because he refuses to buy her a large touring car she goes home to her mother. Hubby receives a telegram trom his father saying that he is coming to give him the $.5.(KK) promised upon his getting married. Hubby fears that he will lose the money as he has no wife to present. 'Wifie's brother, however, comes to the rescue. He gets a chorus girl friend of his to act the part of Hubby's wife. Father is fooled, but when 'Wifle reads of Hubby's good fortune in the papers, she hurries home to be in on it. She discovers the other woman. Hubby tells her it is his father's wife. 'RTiat she happens to overhear, however, lets her in on the true facts in the case. Meanwhile the chorus girl, at the instigation of hubby, has been making violent love to father. Hubby hopes to thus e-?tort a further ^o.lMO from the "old bov." as heart balm for making love to his wife. Father "falls." Wilie interferes. The chorus girl leaves and explanations follow, bringing the story to a happy ending. WELL! 'W'ELL: (August 29).— Mrs. Henry's old well has gone dry. Mrs. Henry is a rich widow with many suitors, .\mong them are two who pester her much. One is Farmer Jones, and the other is Hank, her hired man. To decide between the two she set them to work digging the well, promising to marry the one who flr-~t strikes water. They dig like mad. Matilda, the widow's maid-of-all-work. Is deadly in love with Hank, the hired man. She schemes so that Jones shall be honored with the water's discovery. Meantime the widow meets the deacon, he proposes and they hie themselves to the village and are married.' Jones supposedly finds water first and rushes in search of the widow to claim her hand. Hank, disconsolate, will not heed the love avowal of Matilda, preferring to remain at the bottom of the well. Matilda leaves. Hank climbs out and, filled with jealousy, shovels the dirt back into the well. Jones discovers that he has been deceived — that the widow has double-cro.ssed him. Matilda returns to find the well filled with dirt : she imagines that the walls caved in and that Hank is at the bottom. Wild with excitement, she calls out the villagers : they all join in the work of digging the well over again. But Hank is not found at the bottom. He is found back of the barn filled with joy and a flask in his hand. -\s punishment he is made to marry .Matilda. All are happy in the end but Farmer .lones. He goes to Nanev for comfort. Nancy is a donkey. HE UP TO DATE Install CORCORAN TANKS Get No. 6 Price List A I pnonnDAU i . ^^"^^ •'O"^ street A. J. UUnLUIUN,lnc.,NEW YORK city NESTOR. A MIXERS ROMANCE (August 26).— John Burns, "villain." meets a bear which chases him. Burns falls over a cliff. Bob Jenkins, a young miner, finds the unconscious Burns and carries him to his cabin. The injured man is cared for by Bob and they become pals. Dave Williams and his daughter. Lucy arrive in the mining town. The girl and Bob begin to write for 'themselves the first chapter of the old, old story. Burns meets the girl and at once loves her. She likes him but repels his advances. He finds that she cares for B'ob. The worm of jealousy eats the heart out of him. Crazy with his love. Burns arranges a gun in the cabin with a string running from trigger to the door latcH. so that Bob will be shot when he comes in. Fate, however, sends two mice who gnaw the string. Bob finds the gun and realises ih^ treachery. He fires his revolver.. Burns hears the shot, thinks Bob is dead and hurries to Lucy. "With a tale of Bob s hurting himself he drags her away into the hills, determined that she shall be his. "Bob has brought the men and the death of Burns ends the picture. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY (August 28).— Three stunning young men at a seaside hotel and not a girl in the place. They sit on a bench and look out upon the ocean yearningly. Presently the thing that must happen, happens. Victoria, the slender, beautiful and redlipped, arrives with her father and mother. Buck, the unblushing, sets his eyes for her and receives a smart slap upon the cheek. To relieve the monotony each of the four. chums puts twenty-five dollars in a pot. The first to kiss Victoria is to win the money. Buck gets on her trail, as he thinks, and kisses a young negro woman. Joe is determined to win the money, even at the expense of propriety. He grabs Victoria and kisses her. Victoria screams. Buck runs to her rescue and kicks the ungallant Joe. Victoria allows Buck one kiss. Then Walter, the romantic and prim, comes upon the scene. He alone uses the right tactics. He swears eternal love and she listens. After awhile she listens a little closer and pretty soon she listens very close. He promises he will never tell and Walter, in turn, receives his kiss. In the meantime the three chums are fighting over the bet. Each claims to have won and Victoria is summoned to settle the matter. She is chagrined and ashamed and she weeps. Walter alone recognizes the fine opportunity. He denies indignantly that he kissed her. She turns to him as her natural protector and from thence onward until the end Walter has smooth sailing. POWERS. THIS IS THE LIFE (August 28).— Edna and Beatrice, two typists, go to the beach for a holiday, each betting the other her bracelet that she will make the better male catch of the day. Beatrice meets a charming young fellow and feels sure that she has won the bet. Edna, however, soon has her efforts rewarded and feels confident she has inade the better catch of the day. Imagine the consternation of Beatrice, when she finds her hero enacting the role of Bell Hop at the hotel and later, that of Edna, when she discovers that her Beau Brummel is none other than a waiter in the dining room. Both girls are pretty sore until new quarry appears in the person of a prosperous looking broker. Both exert their charm upon the newcomer. To her great chagrin Beatrice learns that he is a married man. The broker is astounded when he recognizes in the waiter his only son, whom he has sent from his door several months previous to earn his own living. He is taken into the paternal bosom and all is well. The broker's son seeks to have his father square him with Edna, which the father gladly does. Beatrice sees that she is thoroughly beaten and, disrovering the happy couple upon the beach, slyly slips her forfeited bracelet to Edna. REX. THROUGH THE FLAMES (Two PartsAugust lo). — Bert Daley and Bill Hampton are firemen and close pals, although Bill is years older than his friend. Bert's sweetheart is Anna Jones, a seamstress, who lives with her tiny sister Olive in a tenement house. One day Frank Carter, owner of the tenement, derides to collect some rent from tenants in arrears. Anna has found life difficult supporting the tiny lot who must have nourishing food and her child pleasures. Carter meets the giri and becomes fascinated with her. His advances are. however, met with disdain by the poor seamstress. He persists, and E'ert comes in. Without fuss and feathers of any sort Bert tweaks the wealthy man's nose and throws him out of the place. Carter, determined on revenge, waits for his chance. He is a member of the Hoard of Fire Commissioner.^. Visiting the fire-house, he sees the great friendship of the two men. and, having no way for a direct attack on Bert, strikes at him through Bill. The latter is retired on halfpay because of his age. Bert sees through the act. however. That night Carter, intoxicated, goes to Anna's door, but she refuses to open it. At the solicitous landlady's sugestion he decides to occupy an empty apartment for the night. Fire from bis lighted gas jet breaks out and soon the tenement is in flames. Bert rescues Anna, and Bill takes out the baby. They think all are saved, when the landlady thinks of Carter. She tells Bill. All thoughts of personal wrong are forgotten. Into the flames he darts and up the burning stairway. He drags Carter into the hallway : but the landlord, recognizing his rescuer, breaks away. Dazed, still under the influence of drink. Carter falls through the stairway before Bill can get to him. Escape cut off, the heroic fireman is soon overcome. But Bert, too. is made of stern stuff. Into another building, over the roofs, down an elevator shaft he goes and pulls but his friend. A month later, the Fire Commissioners, realizing that a wrong ha.-^ been done, reinstates the convalescing Bill. FOR THE SECRET SERVICE (Two Reels^ .\ugust 27).^Bosnovia. a strong foreign power notPd for its advances in aerial navigation.