Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

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September 4, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1717 QUEBNIE OF THE NILE— (Sept. 11).— Blllie is not afraid of hard work, but hard work seems to be afraid of him. Each time that he asks for a job he gets thrown out. Finally he meets a physician who offers him work, explaining that his patient is very, very wealthy and as crazy as she is rich. This does not appeal to Billie, but he consents to take the job when he is told that all he has to do is to play Marc Antony to her Cleopatra. He conjures up visions of cocktails, moonlight excursions on the Nile and all sorts of delightful things, and he accepts the job with alacrity and profuse thanks. But Cleo isn't quite as young as she used to be, and this is something of a shock to Billie, and he remembers that the doctor explained a cut in Marc Antony's coat by reference to a knife. Still, he braves it out, but gets in wrong almost instantly by laughing in her face when she comments on his changed appearance. This is smoothed over — a couple of times — and Cleopatra decrees that the evening shall be spent in revelry to celebrate her beloved's return. All might have been well had it not been for Charmian, in reality Cleopatra's maid, and a chubby little dancer. Bill gets Cleo jealous and has to run for his life. He sees a policeman and seeks his protection. Accidentally the policeman clubs Cleopatra and she is restored to sanity. She disowns her love for Bill and turns to the doctor. Bill is quite willing to take Charmian instead, and the policeman steals away, feeling that he is needed elsewhere. EDISON. THE SIMP AND THE SOPHOMORES— ( Sept. 1). — Percy Quince enters the co-ed academy of Prof. Stout. The professor shows Alice Fields, one of the girl students, a letter from Percy's mother, warning him against allowing Percy to enter into any contests of strength, as he is, the note says, "so strong that he may injure the other boys." Alice tells the girls and boys, and when Percy finally does show up, they see that he lives up to his name, and is far from being a future "white hope." Led by Tom Haze, they immediately proceed to make him wish he were dead, and put him through all sorts of indignities. He will beat them at their own game, if he can. By so doing, he argues, he will win the admiration of Alice, who has called him a "simp." A day or two later he is told by the boys that they wish to make him a member of the Hylumpus Debating Club. When Le accepts, he is told that the committee of the club will visit him in his room at midnight, and that he must be prepared. Suspecting more abuse at the bands of the "committee," he decides that this is the time to strike back. In a newspaper he has read the advertisement of Professor Arm. Strong, an exponent of the art of self-defense. He goes to the professor's establishment and "fixes it" with him to come to the academy that night and occupy his bed. At midnight, several dark figures mount the stairway to Percy's room. They are surprised to find that he is not up and waiting for them. On the contrary, snores come from the direction of the bed. As one man, they spring upon the bed and commence to pound the "sleeping" figure. Then the boxing piofessor starts in. Percy, concealed in the clothes closet, listens delightedly to the agonized howls emitted by the badly beaten "committee." Finally the "pug" throws the boys out bodily, and a little later he leaves the building, after having been paid by Percy. Next morning a sad-looking procession wends its way out of the school hospital. Percy, now believed by all of them to be "some scrapper," is seated in the shade of a tree, making, for the first time, a real "hit" with Alice, who has learned of the night's adventure. ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE— ( Sept. 4).— Bob Carson, a New Englander, is betrothed to Mary Sanderson, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Feeling taat his opportunities for success in his native village are small, he tells her that he has decided to strike out for the great west, and promises to return and make her his wife just as soon as his bettered fortunes will permit him to. Months later, in Chicago, he is "broke" and out of work. The fruitless striving has almost completely broken the spirit of the young man and he feels as though he would like to end it all by taking his own life. But each time, the memory of the girl who is waiting for him, spurs him on to try again, and finally, remembering that as a boy he was interested in telegraphy, he determines to take up the work and make a success of it. Later, he is given an appointment as assistant operator at a small station in Colorado. But even then, many weary months are passed without his being able to feel that he can return to the girl in New England and marry her. The part of the state where Bob's station is situated is infested by a band of outlaws, led by the notorious "Black Jack," a man who once held a responsible position as telegraph operator and station agent. He and his band are greatly feared, and a reward of $5,000 is Novel Lobby Pictures of prominent players are BOX OFFICE feeders. MARGUERITE CLARK Appearing only in Famous Players Productions Many of the Big Stars in pictures, will be playing their regular theatrical engagements at your best theatres, during the coming season. Take advantage of the advertising value of these names and Dress Your Lobby with facsimile oil paintings. We Have All the Names. Photo Players Post Card 13 ever on the increase for advertising and souvenir purposes. Five million cards always on hand of all the players in the films — wire us for your wants. $3.00 per Thousand Catalogue contains all the names. Single Column Half-Tone Cuts of AH the Players 40 Cents Each Large Hand Colored Pictures of all the leading players, size 22x28 inches, 80 different men and women. 75 CENTS EACH Transparencies Hand Colored photographs on glass of all the favorites for Day and Night display in various sizes. (Catalogue for details) Transparency Frame holding Nine glass pictures with electric attachments including on and off light. (The catalogue has illustrations) Silver, Gilt and Oak Frames with an 11 x 14 inch hand colored picture, 50 cents each; 500 players; pictures without frame, $2.00 per doz. (See catalogue.) PHOTOGRAPHS, SIZE 8 x 10, of all prominent players, Association and Independent, 500 different names, 20c. each. FACSIMILE OIL PAINTINGS of the stars, all sizes, from $8 to $25 each, with heavy gold frames. KRAUS MFG. CO. 220 W. 42nd Street NEW YORK 12th Floor, CANDLER BUILDING Send for New Catalogue of over 500 players and samples free. Write us giving details of your dull nights, and we will send you a remedy. offered for him, dead or alive. One of the outlaws spends several days in getting Information to the effect that a certain train Is to carry a Wells-Fargo shipment of $300,000 In paper currency. "Black Jack" gets the message sent by this man and at once gives orders to part of his band to hold up the express train at a certain rocky pass. With another of the band he goes himself to the station, and leaving the man outside, on guard, he enters and commands Bob, who is on solitary night duty, to throw up his hands. At the point of a gun he forces him to send a message which will result in a head-on collision between the train which the bandits are to hold up and another passenger train from the east, it being the bandit's theory to cover up the robbery by a collision. Only a few seconds later, a call is heard coming over the wire. It is a message for Bob, himself, anu comes from New England. The girl for whom he has worked and waited is dead. For a moment, the shock of the news stuns bim completely. Then, realizing that he has lost everything that makes life worth while, he reaches out and starts to send a message, countermanding the order that will bring the two trains together. Divining his purpose, "Black Jack" covers his heart with the revolver and fires. Bob falls across the desk, and believing him dead, the outlaw places his revolver in Bob's hand, thinking to make it appear a case of suicide. As the outlaw turns toward the door, Bob slowly raises his head and sees the revolver. Half turning, he fires, and the bandit falls to the floor, dead. Two other railroad men, hearing the shot, rush up and dispose of the outlaw guarding the door, but when they enter the depot, they find Bob in a dying condition. He manages to tell them of the plot to wreck the trains, and one of them immediately sends a warning to hold back the train that would collide with the one the outlaws have robbed. Hardly has he seen this accomplished, when Bob again falls forward across the table. They lift him up, but they are too late. He has gone to join his sweetheart, "Across the Great Divide." WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BARBUDA ( Special — Three Parts — Sept. 10) . — Professor Dislow, a celebrated New York physician, receives a summons from a colleague in South America, requesting him to come at once to attend a patient who is in a critical condition. He finds that no passenger steamer is leaving for three days, and his granddaughter, Ruth, shows him a shipping notice to the effect that the freighter "Barbuda" will sail on the following day for the port he wants to reach. He decides to try to engage passage on the freighter, and Ruth, after much persuasion, gets him to promise to take her along with him. "Beau" Harvey is the leader of a gang of gunmen. The police have been active of late and Harvey is convinced that it is time to seek pastures new. He has been tipped off by one of the "Barbuda's" crew that the vessel is to carry a large shipment of silver, to be used in a South American manufacturing plant, when she leaves on her coming trip. Through this man, he makes arrangements for ten of the crew to desert on the night before the steamer sails, Harvey paying them to do so. Harvey then takes ten of his men and applies to the captain for work aboard the ship. Left in the lurch at the last moment, the captain signs them on, and Professor Dislow and Ruth, having arranged for a passage, come aboard only a few hours later. Harvey's plan is to get as many of the crew to join them as are willing to share in his enterprises, and to seize the ship and its cargo of silver. Meantime, Ruth has become friendly with Tom Avery, the first mate. On the second day out, the Professor receives a wireless message that the patient he is starting to visit has died, and the captain promises to try to send him and Ruth back by an inward bound steamer. That night, Harvey and his men throw overboard three of the crew who are faithful to the captain, and seven others are killed by drinking coffee which Harvey has poisoned. The Captain, Professor Dislow and Avery are then seized, bound, and thrown into a stateroom and the wireless operator murdered. The second mate is forced to join the mutineers. A storm arises and the propeller shaft is broken. The ship runs aground on a reef just off a small island. Harvey has already cut the wireless aerial down, so that help cannot be summoned in that way. The mutineers prepare to go ashore. Ruth persuades Harvey to let her speak with her grandfather, before leaving the ship, and the professor gives her a bottle of morphine tablets, urging her, should the worst come to the worst, to swallow the contents. She is then taken ashore by the mutineers. Harvey orders her to prepare a meal for them and she empties the phial or morphine into the coffee pot. The mutineers fall into a heavy slumber, and Ruth makes her escape to the "Barbuda." She releases (Continued on page 1720.)