Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1917)

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1342 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 26, 1917 In another week Travers completes his plans. Feigning drunkenness, Pollard reels into the hotel room occupied by Travers. When the young man sees his seeming condition, he places Pollard on a couch, where he pretends to fall into a deep slumber. Travers places the completed plans into the pocket of his dress uniform and while he is in the adjoining room with Tommy, Pollard steals the plans. At Pollard's home Wootchi offers Pollard a check for the plans. Pollard demands cash. The Baron leaves. Polly arrives and finds a cigarette case with a Japanese inscription; she asks the butler whether the Baron has been there, but the man denies all knowieage of the Baron's call. She runs into her father's room to ask him, and sees him hastily ~hiding some bulky papers that have a familiar look. She becomes suspicious. Travers discovers the loss but will not report to the War Office, for fear that the scandal might implicate Pollard, ajid for Polly's sake, he must nrotect her father. Polly sees her father and the Baron leaving in an automobile, and follows them in another car to a little inn. She nr^vaiis upon the waiter to allow her to bring the drinks to the men, assurine him that it is all a little joke on her father and his friend. Inside the room she notices the stack of bills near her father. and sees the Baron looking over Travers' Mans. She realizes the truth and leveling a revolver at the Baron commands him to return the plans. He attacks her. She fires and hits his shoulder just as he is about to go out of the room. Stuffing the money back into the Baron's pockets and taking the plans, Polly explains to the waiter and landlord who enter, that the Baron had been explaining to her how the Japanese held their revolvers at target practice, when she discharged the barrel by accident. Baron Wootchi corroborates her story. The next morning Polly reads a newspaper item, telling of the accident in which Wootchi had been wounded, adding that in a few days he will be able to leave for Japan. Travers reads the same account, and telephoning Polly, asks whether it truly had been an accident. She replies: "Certainly — it might have gone through his head." Realizing that the plans are worth a good deal more than fifty thousand dollars to him, Travers pays Singleton the money which Pollard owes him, gaining as a reward the hand of Polly Pollard. ART DRAMAS, INC. LITTLE MISS FORTUNE— (Erbograph— Five Parts — May 10). — The cast: Sis (Marian Swayne) ; Ned (Bradley Barker); jim (Hugh Thompson):' Flossie (Lucile Dorrington). Scenario written by Rev. Clarence J. Harris. Sis is a poor country girl of unknown parentage. In the small town where she lives she is snubbed by all the other girls, and life is made generally miserable for her. It is her ambition to be a famous actress, and when an opportunity for escape comes she takes it and goes to the city. Here she secures a position in a theatrical boarding house. In this institution there are Flossie, an ingenue; Jim, a leading man, and Ned, a leading man out of a job. Jim is rehearsing his part and seeing Sis sweeping up his room one morning he persuades her to take the opposite role and help him rehearsc\ Her ability in delivering the lines astonishes him and he begins to see real promise in her. Ned steals Flossie's jewelry and Sis is accused. She is taken to jail, but Jim discovers that Ned is the thief. Sis is released and as Flossie is ill, she gets an opportunity to play her part, in which she is letter perfect. From this point the love between Jim and Sis grows until it brings about a delightful ending. FOX FILM CORP. HTS BOMB POLICY (Two Parts).— The cast: C. Gull (Charles Conklin); Nichols (Alf Coulding) ; The Cook (Ann Ivers). Directed by Charles Parrott. C. Gull is a manicurist. He loves a cook. An insurance agent induces him to take out a policy of which the cook is the beneficiary. When Mr. Gull takes the policy to his culinary love he finds Nichols, the cop, in the kitchen. Believing the cook false to him, Gull hastens away to commit suicide, but everything he tries fails. Finally he hires two amateur assassins to kill him. Then a gang of bomb tossers work their way out of jail and into the plot. They are intent on blowing Nichols, the cop, into an early New Improvements of The Motion Picture Camera Send portal. Know bow Universal Motion Picture Camera rlvee greater Permanent, Speed. Aemraoy, T.irht Weieht. Results. A dozen (treat advantajiea. Adtfraej Burke A Jame«, Inc., MO E. Ontario St.. Chicago. Bole Wholesale A Kent*. Write for Announcement Westinghouse-Cooper Hewitt Rectifier Outfit Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. East Pittsburgh, Pa. ROLL TICKETS SAVE MONEY on Special and Stock Tickets by Ordering from KEYSTONE TICKET CO. 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GERTLER 1018 Candler Building 220 W. 42nd St., New York The Original and Leading Moving Picture Journal in Europe The Kinematograph Weekly The reliable Trade organ of Great Britain ; covering the whole of the British Film market, including the American imported films. Read by everyone in the industry. Specialist writers for Finance, Technical Matters, Legal, Musical, Foreign Trading (correspondents throughout the world) — and every section devoted to the Kinematograph. Specimen copy on application to : — The Kinematograph Weekly, Ltd. 9-11 Tottenham Street, London, W., Enf. grave, but Gull, who has disguised himself as a policeman, attracts their attention and they decide to try the bomb on him. Pursued by the bomb throwers, the hired assassins, the cook and the policeman, Gull flees over the skyline of Los Angeles. He climbs to the dizzy heights of the electric signs that surmount the sky-scraper and courts with death in every way that comes to him. Finally he is run to earth by the cook and the cop ; the cook accepts him for better or worse, and he celebrates by falling off the. roof of a fourteen story building. HEART AND SOUL (Five Parts— May 27). — Jess is taken when a child by her mother to the Hawaiian sugar plantation of her uacle. Her little sister, Bess, goes with her. En route the mother dies and exacts a promise from Jess that she will always look out for the welfare of her younger sister, Bess. When the girls grow to young womanhood Bess is wooed by Martin Drummond, a cruel planter and renegade, whose estates border on that of the girl's uncle. Bess spurns him, hoping to win the love of John Niehl, a young American. Niehl pays little attention to her, as his love is for Jess. Jess learns of her sister's love for Niehl and, recalling her vow to her dying mother, she leaves home to overcome her own heartbreak leaving Bess and Niehl to know each other better. Bess, still spurning Drummond, is captured by the latter, who has started a revolution against the United States Government. Niehl goes to rescue her, but is wounded and captured. With Jess he escapes and they make their way back to her home, only to find it In the hands of Drummond. Jess faces a crisis. Should she care for the wounded man she loves or go to her sister and rival? Duty to her oath wins. She rides to a distant fort and brings a detachment of United States soldiers to the rescue. Niehl meantime has been captured again by Drummond and, with the girl's uncle, ordered shot. Just as the Bring squad is about to shoot. Jess returns with the American troopers. Drummond, mad with hate, fires into the charging soldiers. Jess falls and is taken to the house dying. She places Bess' hand in Niehl's and tells him to look after her little sister. She dies. GREATER VITAGRAPH. THE SIXTEENTH WIFE (Five Parts— May 14).— The cast: Olette (Peggy Hyland) ; Kadir (Marc MacDermott) ; Warburton (George J. Forth) ; Hackel (Templer Saxe). Written by Molly Elliott Seawell. Directed by Charles Brabin. Olette is posing in Russia as a dancer of the ballet. She is supposed to be French. She has as a maid a black woman, Zula, represented to be a Nubian. Hackel, her manager, plays up Olette's proclivities in dress and mood and makes a great success of her. Kadir II Raschid, a noble and wealthy Turk, falls in love with her and showers rich gifts upon her. He pays Hackel a great sum to cancel her engagement in Russia and come to the ballet at Constantinople. There he offers her as a treat a view of the harem. Once inside among his fifteen wives he offers Olette the honor of becoming the sixteenth. Olette's embarrassment is heightened by the violent jealousy of Mimi, the fifteenth wife. She wants to escape, but huge slaves bar her way. Although Kadir has trapped Olette he intends to win her fairly or not at all. Olette forms an alliance with Mimi. who aids her to escape. She flees to America, followed by Kadir. Here he renews his wooing. Jimmie Warburton, a live young New York n£wspaper reporter, comes to 'nterview her about her reported engagement to Kadir, which has been used for publicity purposes by Hackel. During many adventures while Kadir hounds her, she and Jimmie fall in love and conspire to get rid of the Turk. Jimmie incidentally having penetrated her identity as a girl he had known as plain Mary Ann in the old home town in Kentucky. Jimmie dresses up as a rival Turk. This does not get rid of Kadir, but only makes him more determined. He disguises himself as Jimmie, whom he has kidnapped, and so secures an audience with Olette. Jimmie gets free in time to spoil the effect of this coup. At length the Turk is eluded by Olette setting sail for , Europe, he shadowing ber on the same boat, but she slips away out in the harbor with' the pilot boat to rejoin Jimmie and marry him. i ^Irtiflt!0 Picket selling and VS*i>rc) cash register co. mmmmm? lovms&xy&z BROADWAY