Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

1734 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD September 4, 1915 DOMINO. THE LIVING WAGE (Two Parts— Aug. 26). — Dustin Blake, a millionaire philanthropist, is approached by the rector of his church and asked to aid a girl who is only receiving $6.00 a week salary and who is in need of financial assistance. Blake refuses and tells the rector and his family doctor and personal friend, Doctor Merritt : "This girl lacked moral fibre. Statistics prove that one can live comfortably on $0.00 a week. I am sorry, but I cannot help her." The rector leaves in disappointment and a sociological debate follows between Blake and the doctor, which ends by Blake offering to prove his theory by living for a month in one of his own tenements on $6.00 a week allowance. , Blake takes board at Mrs. Flannery s boarding house under another name. There he meets Miss Vail, and her brother, Harry. Although Blake does not know it. Miss Vail is in reality the girl he has refused to befriend. She and her brother have seen better days. Blake finds the girl and her brother cultured people and the three become great friends, Blake, of course, keeping his real identity a secret. Harry has served a term in prison in a noble cause. One day Detective Grogan happens upon Harry at work and tips oft Harry's employer that he is a crook. Harry is fired and is unable to obtain another job. Miss Vail, in spite of her own hard life, is always cheerful in disposition and is helping others. Blake's friendship and admiration for her turns into love. Miss Vail refuses to accept a dinner engagement with her employer and rebukes "him for his attempted familiarities. The employer discharges the girl. She and Harry are broke and, with their room rent coming due and board. Miss Vail makes a loan from a loan shark to meet the landlady's wishes and the loan shark presses his claim. Blake saves her from the loss of her clothes to the loan shark by parting with his own last ten dollars of his allowance. Shortly afterward, while looking for work. Miss Vail is run down by a machine and badly hurt. An expensive operation being necessary, she and her brother are in despair. Blake, rather than sink his pride and apply to the doctor for aid, resolves to burglarize his own house. He and Harry do so and pawn the loot for money for the operation. Grogan trails Blake and Harry and places them under arrest just as the operation is to be performed upon Miss Vail. They are dragged off to the station and it being the last day of the wager, Blake phones for Merritt, who comes down to the station and secures the release of Blake. The operation is a success, and Blake marries Miss Vail and lays plans to aid the indigent poor with the erection of a costly free hospital. KAY-BEE. KENO BATES, LIAR (Two Parts— Aug. 27). — Keno Bates and Wind River are proprietors of the Double Stamp gambling and dance hall. Keno presides at the faro table and Wind River dispenses beverages. Keno is soft spoken, while Wind River is jolly and boisterous. The Mexican dancer, Anita, is infatuated with Keno, but he puts her aside. As they are closing early one morning when Keno and Wind River are alone in the place, a man quietly enters and holds them up and escapes with the bank roll. In the pursuit, Keno kills the bandit and, on taking the money from his shirt, fiBds a miniature of a sweet-faced girl and a letter to the bandit brother, saying that the writer, his sister, will arrive on the stage the following Thursday. Keno and Wind River return to town and report the killing of the bandit and warn the townspeople to say nothing of how the man was killed to the girl on her arrival. When Doris arrives, Keno meets her and tells her that her brother was killed in a mine accident and that he was his partner and turns over his cabin, money and saddle horse to the girl. A friendship follows that ripens into love. Anita, in a jealous rage, goes to the cabin and tells Doris that Keno killed her brother. Doris is horror-stricken and when she sees Keno climbing the trail to the cabin, gets a small revolver that Keno has given her and shoots Keno In the shoulder. Keno staggers from the cabin. Anita confesses to Wind River that she told Doris the truth concerning who shot her brother. Wind River goes to the cabin and tells Doris that her brother was a thief and that Keno shot him in self-defense. Doris rushes from the cabin and down the trail where Keno is slowly mounting on his way from the camp. She halts him and stammers out her sorrow and he slides to her feet in a faint. On ripping open his shirt Doris is horrified at the wound she has inflicted. Wind River takes Keno to the cabin, and Doris nurses him back to health and strength. CUB. JERRY AND THE GUNMAN (Sept. 9).— Mr. Goodrich, Mrs. Goodrich and their daughter, Jessie, arrive in a small western town just as a bad man is shooting up the place. Dead Shot Dick enters and protects the easterners. Dead Shot Dick is a gunman at loggerheads with the law's forces. Sheriff Gunning posts a notice offering a reward of $1,000 for bis capture. Dick sees the notice and compels the sheriff to eat it. As monarch over all he surveys, Dick has no hesitancy in interrupting the spooning match of Jessie and Jerry, the latter having made quite a hit with the pretty easterner. Jerry is peeved and sets out for revenge. The Goodriches leave for home and invite Dick to visit them. Dick accepts and arrives in the East a few days later with Jerry on his trail. Both pay marked attention to Jessie. Dick orders Jerry out of the way. Jerry refuses and in the tilt that follows the lordly one is vanquished. The doctor is called to attend Dick. In the midst of the treatment Dick revives, grabs his brace of six shooters, and shoots up the room, Jerry, coming in for an extraordinary share of attention in commemoration of past performances. Dick compels him to swap clothes, then continues on his rampage. At the opportune moment Jerry, who has followed, applies a club to the head of Dick, who falls into dreamland. In Dick's pocket Jerry finds a copy of the notice offering the $1,000 reward for Dick's capture. With visions of the big reward, Jerry ties a rope to the ankles of the gunman, drags him to jail and turns him over to the authorities, who pay the $1,000 The sight of the $1,000 leaving his hands is too much for the judge, however, and he arrests Jerry on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, convicts him, deprives him of his hardearned reward and then puts him in a cell with Dick. 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