Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1912)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 87 ■^ The Blighted Son Pathe Release September 9, 1912. Four Reels. This is a story of a young man whose father is very wealthy. He leads a life of reckless dissipation until the father, learning the use his son is making of the money, refuses to furnish further funds. The young fellow thereupon commits his first crime; the crime of theft. The shock of thU disgrace brings an attack of apoplexy upon the father, which makes him totally blind. From this time it is a rapid drop to bankruptcy for the once honored familv When it is too late the young man realizes his error and determines to begin life anew. He leaves his native country for South Africa and. after fearful hardships, which develop the better side of his character, he returns to his native land— a man. Fire at Sea Pathe Release August 26, 1912. Two Reels. An old sea captain, a slave to liquor, is hired to sail the schooner "Joanna" with a cargo of gunpowder for a revolutionary project. A young man sails with liim. against the advice of his sweetheart, who has a premonition of evil. When a few days out to sea, and while the young sailor is asleep, the skipj«r drinks until he is irresponsible. He goes into the powder room smoking his pipe. Soon he falls asleep and the pipe, dropping from his hand, ignites the powder. A deafening roar and the vessel is a mass of names, leaving a wreck-strewn sea and a red flow in the aky to tell a waiting sweetheart the story of her lover's fate. Rip Van Winkle Vitagraph Release August 19, 1912. Two Reels. This legend is written by Washington Irving, of the time of George III of England, during the 'occupation of this country by the English in the 18th century. The story of Kip Van Winkle, the happy-go-lucky ne'er-dowell, is well known to every child. Rip Van Winkle is portrayed by that eminent actor. Mr. Robert McWade, St., who was associated for so long with the famous Joe Jefferson. The splendid Vitagraph Company carry out the other parts in their usual creditable way. Rameses, King of Egypt Cines Release August 12, 1912. Two Reels. A production of unparalleled magnificence, depicting a thrilling romance, laid in the days of ancient Egypt. King Rameses, hearing of the beauty of a young shepherdess, disguises himself as a peasant and journeys to her home. She resents his ardent advances and tells him of her devoted lover, a shepherd, tending his hocks on the mountain slopes. The King, angered, has her carried off by force to his palace. Although rejected, he determines to win her with lavishness, but without avail. The shepherd, hearing of his lover's abduction, vows vengeance on King Rameses and attempts to stab him. When again the king's advances to the shepherdess are rejected, he orders the two lovers before him and, in all the magnificence of the Egyptian court, he magnanimously commands their marriage to take place. The splendor of the Oriental Courts, wonderful processions and ceremonies are all shown in a story not soon forgotten. Don Juan and Charles V Pathe Release July 29, 1912. Two Reels. Charles V, abdicated the Spanish throne in favor of his son, who became Philip II. Almost the first thing Philip did was to fall in love with Lucinda. a beautiful Spanish maid, who was practically betrothed to Don Juan, a young student. Don Juan insults the new king when he finds him forcing his attentions upon Lucinda. Don is arrested and Lucinda brought to the torture chamber to see him suffer in the hope that in order to save him che will consent to marry the King. Charles V is informed of the situation and, coming out of the monastery to which he has retired, he astounds the younger men by acquainting them with the fact that they are brothers. He makes them pledge their loyalty to one another, asks Lucinda to choose between the two men and when she and Don Joan embrace,, gives them his blessing. Siege of Petersburg Kalem Release July 22, 1912. Two Reels, A \isit of a Confederate officer to his betrothed and her family Is Interrupted by a young man and his crippled su>ter who have been made lumpers by the ravages of the war. The young pauper proclaims his love for the young lady of the house, and In order to demonstrate his bravery and loyalty, enlists in the Confederate cause. Some months later the young soldier rescues his rival, the Confederate officer, from a burning bridge. A year elapses, and the pauper has been promoted to a lieutenancy. The Confederates are entrenched before Petersburg, and the Federals succeed in mining a part of the Confederates' outer works, but their batteries are discovered in time to frustrate their plans. The Confederates place a small detachment under command of the poor, young lieutenant, to keep the nearby batteries working. The officer whose life has been saved, realizes the danger to the young lieutenant, forges an order, relieving him of that hazardous duty and takes command himself. The mine is exploded and tha gallnnt officer and his men are killed. The Money Kings Vitagraph Release July 15. 1912. Three Reels This is a story of a conspiracy on the part of the Money Kings to Involve the United States in a war. A representative of the United States Government starts for the peace conference at The Hague, with the Preslent's signature on an agreement of peace. The Money Kings employ a clever woman, as their secret agent, to trap the young representative and steal the precious document. A little dinner "for two" is arranged, during the course of which the woman conspirator removes the document from the young representative's coat and replaces it with one that resembles the original. The daughter of one of the Money Kings learns of the conspiracy and that the original document is in her father's sale. On a pretense she opens the safe, extracts the original message and, in turn, replaces it with one to resemble it. She sends a wjrejess message to the young representative on his way to The Hague. tcluTTg^him of the conspiracy and to watch for her cousin in his hydroplane, bearing the original message. The Money Kings are foiled. The Adopted Child Pathe Release July 8, 1912. Two Reels. A little child, whose father is lost in a foreign country seeking his fortune, becomes bereft of her mother and is adopted by some kindhearted ragpickers. When she reaches budding womanhood she falls in love with a young physician, who reciprocates her affection. This pnysician is in turn loved by a young woman, married to an elderly man, and she does her best to win his affection. She makes her advances so pronounced that her husband discovers the situation and challenges the doctor to a duel, which is fought by the flickering light of a passing ragpicker's lantern. The latter recognizes in the outraged husband a remarkable resemblance to his little ward's fathefs photograph, and, following up this clue, he succeeds in establishing the young girl's identity and she lives out her life happily with the man of her choice under her father's roof. Tragedy of the Desert Kalem Release July 1, 1912. Two Reels. This is a story of the wife of an English surgeon practicing in Egypt, who falls in love with an Oriental diplomat. When the doctor learns of his wife's infatuation, he leaves, half crazed, for the desert; becomes lost and is found by a young Egyptian woman who carries him to her tribesmen in a Mohammedan village. When the doctor recovers his health he embraces the Mohammedan faith and marries the young Egyptian woman who rescued him. Some time after the doctor's former wife visits the quaint village with a party of tourists and discovers her husband. The Egyptian wife sees her husband and the strange woman and believes she will be deserted. The doctor accompanies his former wife to the edge of the village to bid her farewell, and when he returns to join his Egyptian wife, finds, to his horror, that the heart-broken girl has killed herself. A Nation's Peril Pathe Release June 24, 1912. Two Reels A foreign power, anxious to learn the location of the mines in New York harbor, sends the Countess Mentenberg to gather the information. At a naval ball the countess makes the acquaintance of a young officer. He invites her to visit the mine chart room at Fort Wadsworth. The countess comes to the fort accompanied by two accomplices and, after the officer has shown them a diagram of the location of the mines in the harbor they steal the drawing. With their prize the countess' two confederates board a launch and make for their cruiser, which is anchored off shore. Through the window the woman watches them and suddenly she realizes that she is in love with the young officer. He calls her attention to the little craft and says that it js now over a mine. If his button is pressed, he says, pointing to it, the boat would be blown to atoms. The countess, realizing the disgrace that would befall her lover when the fact of the theft bee.-.n e known, presses the button and the mine explodes, blowing the launch and its occupants to fragments. theft I lunch M m