Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

1716 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD September 4, 1915 General Film Company LUBIN. TEASING A TORNADO (Sept. 6).— Colonel Bickford's favorite niece, Laura, with several of her Eastern friends, pays a visit to his ranch. While making a tour of the corral, Laura spies Tornado Jack, an awkward cowboy, afraid of nothing but a woman. Laura starts a mild flirtation with Jack. There is a lawn party and dance being held at Howard's ranch, across the desert that night, and Laura induced her uncle to let her invite Jack. Tornado receives the invitation with joy. His clothes are limited, but the cowboys see to that, each contributing some cherished article of wearing apparel to make complete the wonderful outfit with which they bedeck him ; the fact ■is that it is ludicrous, but Jack is ignorant of this fact and goes to the dance anticipating the time of his life. Laura, with the aid of her friends, plays many pranks upon him, until at last, in shame and anger, he slins away. He hastily dons the clothes in which he feels "at home," and rides away to forget his bitter experience. Out in the desert he encounters his tormentors coming home in the family carryall and, putting a handkerchief over his face, he holds them up, with a pipe as a revolver. The fright of his tormentors satisfies his wounded pride and he allows them to proceed, continuing his way in the darkness. A turn in the road brings the carryall face to face with a couple of real bandits, who handle the already badly frightened party rather roughly. Jack hears their screams and wheels his horse and rides to the rescue, putting the bandits to flight after a fight in which he battles unarmed against two desperate gunmen. The next day those who have scorned and teased Jack come to praise his bravery, but with lofty manner and outraged pride, he ignores his former tormentors. FINN AND HADDIE— (Sept. 7).— Hermann Finn and Fergus Haddie here resolve to essay life as a vaudeville team. They present themselves at the theater for a trial. After a vain attempt to nlease, they get the "hook," while the audience pelt them with various missiles. They wander down the street until they espy a sign before an employment agency, calling for a first and second cook. Haddie applies for the job and the agent sends them to the house of the wealthy Tom Van Austin. They are engaged by Mrs. Van Austin, who directs them to prepare a dinner, which is to be an adjunct to a ball to be given that night to celebrate her wedding anniversary. Mrs. Van Austin proposes to wear at this ball an expensive set of pearls, but Mr. Van Austin calls her attention to a paragraph in the dailv paper which relates the many thefts of jewels at social functions, and suggests that she place her pearls in the safe deposit vault. The pearls are placed in a box to be taken to the vault. On telephoning to the bank, Mr. Van Austin finds that it is closed for the day, and determines to place the box in his house safe. Haddie, who has gone to the store for a box of eggs, at that moment enters the rooms to register a protest with his master about the way Finn makes him do all the work. Both boxes are laid on the table. After his interview, Haddie inadvertently picks up the box and departs to the kitchen where he places the supposed eggs in the refrigerator, while Mr. Van Austin locks the real egg box in the safe. The fact that Mrs. Van Austin is to wear her pearls at the ball having been chronicled in the papers. various bands of crooks resolve to make an attempt to steal them. The night arrives, the guests are assembling and among them Raffles and his confederate. if inn and Haddie, who have been drafted in as waiters to serve the guests, overhear the two crooks plotting to steal the pearls and resolve to forestall them. While engaged in their attempt, they are surprised by the real crooks whom they capture one by one, and stand in a row against the wall. The waiters having disappeared, Mrs Van Austin becomes suspicious as to the safety of her pearls, and she and her husband go to the library to investigate. There Mr. Van Austin is attacked by the thieves and overpowered. Mrs. Van Austin gives the alarm and the police drive up to the house. Finn and Haddie escape from the library and take refuge in the kitchen, pretending to be asleep at the table. Mrs. Van Austin leads the police to the library, her husband is released, the robbers placed under arrest, and the safe is opened. The box is discovered to be filled with eggs and the crooks all faint. A light breaks upon Mr. Van Austin, who recalls the interview with his cook, who was carrying a box at the time, and he heads a rush to the kitchen. There the right box is found in the refrigerator and the pearls restored to their happy owner. THE IRISH IN AMERICA— (Special— Three Parts — Sept. 8) .—Dan Murphy loves Peggy O'Sullivan. but he is too poor to think of matrimony. Dan sells his one cow, bids farewell to the weeping Peggy, and sets sail across the Atlantic for America. Arriving there, he makes track for a mining camp, where he has many adventures until he strikes it rich. Immediately he writes to Peggy, sending her money to come on to be married. But the mail bag containing his precious missive falls from tne stage coach and is rifled by a marauding Indian. In the meantime Peggy is very much worried, for she has not heard from Dan for weeks. Finallv she can stand it no longer. Her aunt has died and she sells the few things she possesses and begins the journey to America. Arriving in America she goes to Dan's last known address and on the way meets two working girls who befriend her. Dan has disappeared, however, and the only clue to his whereabouts is a picture postal card bearing the postmark of the western mining camp. Undaunted, Peggy packs up her few belongings, and in the course of time arrives at the camp to the delight of Dan. It doesn't take long to summon the priest and they are married. ROMANCE AS A REMEDY— (Special— Two Parts — Sept. 9). — Jack Lowe's fiancee, Ann, worships romance. A few days prior to her planned marriage with Jack, Ann is visited by her cousin, Nora, who brings along her chum, DicK. Rogers. By this time Jack has determined to disillusionize Ann, realizing that if she does not get the sillv idea out of her head, their married life will be seriously marred. Jack goes to Nora for advice. Nora has been secretly in love with Jack all along. Also Dick has developed an affection for Ann which he is trying hard to conceal. Nora, delighted at the opportunity of giving Jack "advice," suggests that he arrange to have Ann kidnapped from the marriage altar in a highly romantic way by a handsome masked highwayman. She suggests that Dick play the highwayman, and take Ann to the country home of Dick's Aunt Amelia and there keep her imprisoned until she Is disillusionized forever about romance. The affair is carried out as planned. As time passes, Jack begins to worry. Instead of the letters begging for his help that he had expected from Ann, he receives only subtly worded messages which convey the impression that Ann is not only enjoying her romantic experience, but is falling in love with her abductor. Jack, realizing he is not yet Ann's husband, becomes desperate, but Nora is secretly delighted. While Ann and Dick make constant love under Aunt Amelia's chaperonage, Jack develops more and more tenderness for Nora. But his desperation as concerns Ann grows worse and worse when he receives a wire from her reading : "I am in love— what shall I do?" Jack wires back "Wait for me — and sit tight." While he makes a mad dash for a train, taking Nora along with him, Ann obeys Jack'stelegram to the letter and "sits tight" with Dick on all occasions. The presence of Ann at Aunt Amelia's home fans into a flame the almost extinct love-flre of two old hayseeds boarding at Amelia's — Hy and Jed. They play checkers constantly to see which of them shall win the fair lady from the city. One day, after they have come to blows following a heated argument as to their respective claims upon Ann, they look through the window and see Ann being married to Dick. Jack's former fiancee has not only been unchanged by her severe lesson, but has proved herself a stronger advocate of romance than ever by marrying the handsome young chap who was employed by Jack to abduct her. Jack and Nora, meanwhile, arrive breathless in the little rural village to learn from the Justice of the Peace that Dick and Ann are just being married. Nora and Jack hurry to Aunt Amelia's, where the wedding is just being completed and a big barn dance about to start. After the ravings of Jack and the hilarity of the others have subsided, Ann suggests a way out of the difficulty by having Jack marry Nora — just what the foxy little Nora had been wishing for. JEALOUSY (Sept. 10).— Will Bradley, a college undergraduate, loves Nellie Birch, a fair co-ed. but is insanely jealous of the innocent attentions paid her by Bob Walker, his friend. College days over, Will, now Dr. William Bradley, marries Nellie. 'the years pass. Will is very fond of Nellie and their little son. Then, one day he receives a letter from Bob, who is coming tovisit them. Instantly his expression clouds, and he looks at Nellie suspiciously when she expresses joy at seeing her old friend again. Nellie pats Will's head reprovingly, tells him he is all tired from overwork, and leaves the room with the child to get his slippers and jacket. Shortly after, Bob arrives. Will notices in alarm the way Nellie greets him. He almost catches them in an embrace when he comes from the telephone to say that he has been called out of the city. That night when he returns, he finds Bob eloping with Nellie. There is a stormy interview. Bob brings out a revolver, and in the scuffle that ensues, the child, who has been awakened by the noise, is shot and killed as he rushes in to protect his daddy. The guilty pair make their escape, and Will, alone with his dead child, vows vengeance. Then starts a search lasting for several years. Will finally locates Bob and Nellie in a cheap dive in the underworld. They have sunk to the depths, and Will confronts them as Bob is taking some money away from Nellie. Will keeps his vow and kills Bob, but as he turns to Nellie, several policemen seize him, and he Is led away. At the trial, Will is convicted. He denounces Nellie before the whole court, and she faints. While all bend over her. Will seizes the opportunity to jump through an open window. Pursued hy the police, he Is just about to jump off a bridge when they catch him, and beat him over the head with their clubs. And then — Will awakes. His child is beating him with his slipper, and telling him mamma is waiting. It has all been a dream, and Will Is cured of his foolish jealousy when Bob does arrive, bringing with him a surprise in the person of his bride, Mrs. "Bob." Perfect Developing and Printing FOR ALL THOSE WHO TAKE MOVING PICTURES FOR PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL USE We Supply Fresh Eastman Negative. Highest Grade Stock and Prompt Delivery Guaranteed. PRICES, REFERENCES AND FACTORY DESCRIPTION SENT BY REQUEST. Industrial Moving Picture Company, ^^tostem \£SSSET' WATTERSON R. 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