Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)

September 2, 1916 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD secreted himself la the house. He overheard how the two plotters had him, their follow bank clerk, accused of the crime Helen, too, overhears, and compels Harvey to telephone a i,, to the newspaper* The police urrlve, but Terrain picks up the pistol his wife had laid down, and eiuls his life. Royle and Helen begin anew. HIS STOLEN FORTUNE (Two parts— Reissue—Aug. 15>).— The cast: Prank WentwortB (Francis X. Bushman) ; Lola Holconibo ( Beverly Bayne). Prank Wentworth, an adventurous young American, la left a vast fortune by an u After enjoying It for six months and engaging himself to a society girl, ho discovers a letter from the deceased relative, confessing that the fortune was atolea from a role, named Max llluakl Prank is ordered to return it. He advertises for the rightful heir and hundreds of llluskis appear llolcombe, his prospective mother-inlaw, denounces him publicly. His experiences In seeking the lost heir give him a thrilling twent] our hours, at the end of which he is exhausted by the attorney for the estate. The latter Informs him the letter was merely to test his honesty and that he Is the rightful sor of the fortune. All ends pleasantly. YKUNON HOWE BAILEY'S SKETCH BOOK OP WASHINGTON \ND SCENIC (Aug. aO).— The internationally famous beauties of our capital, repeatedly photographed, are here pictured more graphically than ever before In these motion drawings. They offer the best idea of what the seat of government is like from an architectural standpoint, attaining this result by perfect development of perspective. This split reel, picturing as It does the White House, the Capitol proper and the various department buildings, together with the numerous embassies, legations and such, Is highly educative and Is the next best thing to a trip there In Its vivid description. The other 500 feet of the reel Is made up of beautiful scenic. THE HIGHER DESTINY (Three parts — Sept. 2). — The cast: Helen Blair (Warda Howard); Richard Standing (Sydney Atnsworth) ; John Standing (Edward Arnold) ; Ailene Blair (Gertrude Glover) ; Philip Cobb (Patrick Calhoun). A physician advises Helen Blair to seek a different climate. She is without money. Philip Cobb, her daughter's sweetheart, tells them his employer, Richard Standing, has refused him an Increase. Thus Mrs. Blair discovers the whereabouts of Standing, whom she rejected years before to marry Blair. Standing treats her savagely when she appeals to him. His son, John, overhears the conversation and, seeing the girl, forces them to take the necessary funds to save the mother. The father discovers his love affair and sends him to Honolulu. The jealous Cobb gets a letter from a friend there and forges a new note telling that young Standing has become a drunkard. Ailene and Cobb are married. John Standing returns after months and he and Ailene learn of the deception. Cobb repents his deceit and drowns himself. LUBIN. THE USURER'S DUE (Two parts — Aug. 22). — The cast: Larry Finn (L. C. Shumway) ; Mrs. Dell (Velma Whitman) ; Martin Keen (George Routh) ; Italian Fruit Seller (Melvin Mayo) ; gang leader (Robert Gray). Written by Kenyon T. Nolan. Directed by Paul Powell. Henry Dell, a clerk, becomes Involved In debt to Martin Keen, a loan shark, and when Dell dies, his widow discovers that Keen holds a judgment note for $125 for which her furniture Is security. Keen tells her he proposes to collect. Larry Finn, leader of a tough gang, becomes involved in a quarrel with the leader of another gang in a dance hall. The quarrel leads to a bitter feud. On the day when the widow Dell must either pay the judgment or lose her furniture, Finn Is discovered by the opoosition gang in their district. None of his followers is with him and he is obliged to seek safety in flight. He is pursued when Mrs. Dell opens the door of her home. Finn takes this avenue of escape, dragging Mrs. Dell inside with him and slamming the door just before his pursuers arrive. When he has explained the situation to the frightened woman, he finds her sympathetic. Finn Is still In hiding in the apartment when Martin Keen arrives for his money. Thinking it may be one of his enemies, Finn hides in an adjoining room and overhears Keen bullying and threatening Mrs. Dell. Keen leaves to obtain a constable to eject the poor woman. Finn returns to the living room and tells the woman to follow Keen and tell him that If he will return a few hours later, the note will be paid. Finn then leaves and proceeds to put Into execution a plan which he has made. He knows that an Italian fruit dealer In the vicinity has saved up a sum of money to bring his sweetheart to America and he calls on the Italian. By pursuasive arguments he sne m borrowing $128 for a fow hours. Ho takes the money to Mr. I '.II and Instructs her to pay Keen anil destroy the note. Keen Calls on Mrs. Dell at the appointed time and receives tho money surrendering the note. Then he starts back to hi offloa, but on the way meets with an unidentified footpad who relieves hlra of his fat purse. Later In the ovenlng Finn turns up at the fruit Bland and repays the money ho borrowed from the Italian. Several months later Mrs. Dell changes her name to Finn. VITAGRAPH. A RACE FOR LIFE (Aug. 1). The Kitty (Mary Anderson) ; A Studious Student (William Weston) ; The Cook, Oliver (Otto Lederer) ; The Waitress, Mollle Mush (Jack Mower). Written and directed by William Wolbert. BUI Strongarm, a college student. Is In love with Kitty. Kitty Is a hero worshipper and as there Is not much of the hero about Bill, she pins her affections on one of the athletes of the college. When Bill goes to a restaurant for his luncheon, he Interrupts the reading of a dime novel by Mollle, the waitress, who sees him as the Incarnated hero of the book and proceeds to fall In love with him, much to the annoyance of Bill and Oliver, the cook who loves Mollle. Enraged Oliver chases Bill from the place and In seeking a haven of refuge Bill stumbles into the room of a stranger who, objecting to his presence, proceeds to throw him out. In the process of expulsion, Bill loses all his wearing apparel with the exception of his nether garments. Outside once more, the cook resumes the chase and Bill keeps on going in fine style. A college meet is going on nearby and Bill's college Is on the losing end. The last race — one mile — Is about to start and on It the college bases its last hopes. Just as the pistol shot goes off. Bill appears on the scene, followed by the cook. He runs along the track outdistancing all the other runners, breaks through the tape and wins the meet for his college. After a triumphal ride around the field on the shoulders of his admirers, Bill finds that he has worked his way into the good graces of Kitty, who now considers him her hero. THE BOND OF BLOOD (Broadway Star Feature — Three Parts — Aug. 5). — The cast: Holden (Van Dyke Brooke) ; Evelyn (Leah Balrd) ; Tom Ware (George Arvine) ; Jack Moore (Jack Ellis). Written and produced by Van Dyke Brooke. Penniless, forsaken by all his friends, and with nothing left to live for except the vain hope of finding the daughter he has not seen for a great many years, Holden, a former actor, determines to consign his body to the mercy of the waters and thus end his misery. He is rescued by a fellow vagabond and they both drown their sorrows In liquor. A clerk from a theatrical agency, in search for "down and out" types for a new play, sees Holden and hires him to play a "super's" part in the show. During the first rehearsal the leading lady enters and Holden on seeing her face and hearing her voice recognizes her as his daughter, but when he tries to approach her, she repulses him. With a pained heart, Holden watches the rehearsal and sees his daughter clasped close to the breast of Gray, who plays her father. The night of the show's opening approaches and everything is in readiness. The company gathers for a final rehearsal and all goes well until the reunion scene between the leading lady and her father whom she has not seen for many years. Then Gray, the father In the • play, Is stricken with heart trouble and is unable to go on. The company is in a panic — their biggest scene has been spoiled — and there Is no one else acquainted with the part. Holden steps forward and asks permission to play it — it will be his only chance to caress his daughter. Although skeptical, the producer consents to give him a chance. The leading lady, however, revolts against playing with the old tramp. The rehearsal goes on. Holden throws his heart and soul into the part and when, after be has been roundly applauded by all those present for his excellent work, he breaks down from the effect of conflicting emotions. Even the leading lady becomes sympathetic. The rehearsal over, Holden claims his daughter and she accepts him willingly. CONDUCTOR KATE (Aug. 14).— The cast: Kate (Kate Price) ; Her Husband (Templer Saxe). Written by William Addison Lathrop. Directed by Edmund Stratton. When her husband, a conductor, comes home considerably "under the weather" and unable to go to work, Kate, about twice his size, hands him a good beating, and after donning bis coat and hat, starts off to take his place. The Inspector objects to her running the car, but a large size fist overrules his objections and with two pulls at the bell rope, she starts off for a day's work. A large, important looking individual, contentedly smoking a quarter cigar, 1587 to heed her request thut he "clinch the ind tiiniH hlmaefl nicely bruised up and minu ir in Jig time, With an old woman and hi r child i otei the ear and none <>i the "gentlemen" oil. i In i hi. more take matt* ■ i hum hi r own band .md m ni i ol the mi a. Now that she h.i boss of Hi no nun until three or four "I ad r. ii pay their far. A rial scrap I 0 making the others look like unre sklrmishtH. and this time Kate's Job Is not Ho i-u .iy for Humid are too great against her ; but hubby, sobered up a bit, conn to In r assistance Just In time, and aavi ■ the day. THERE AND BACK (Aug. 18). 1 I" Hughlo (Hughle Hack); Vampire (Josephine Earle) ; Mrs. Huglile (Patsy I Au thors, C. Graham Baker and Lawrence Semon. Director, Lawrence Semon. Hughle Is a past master at the well-known art of "double cross." When be " M I the old "sitting up with a sick friend" albl, it m Are, and although wide allows him to I that she has swallowed It "hook, line and sinker," she really plots to trail him and see i n k friend herself. Hughle chuckles to himself at how easily he has deceived friend trifle and starts out to have one Jolly little time. In the cabaret, Hughle starts a flirtation with the vampire detective his wife has hired for the purpose and is having a Jolly time when wifie enters. Hughie sees her first, though, and beats a strategic retreat with a table covering his manoeuver. When wifie, baffled in her search, returns home she Is met by her Irate husband, who jumps out of bed and demands to know where she has been. She explains and begs forgiveness for suspecting him. After delivering a little lecture to her, Hughle Is well satisfied to let the matter rest. THE WANDERING HORDE (Broadway Star Feature — Three Parts — Aug. 19). — The cast: Carlton Wood (Evart Overton) ; Paul Travers (Denton Vane) ; Lola (Adele Kelly) ; Renshaw (Edward Elkas). Author, James Oliver Curwood. Director, Eugene Mullin. The brakes are applied. With a screech the long freight comes to a halt, and from one of the cars a band of hoboes scamper to the ground and leave the yards to find a secluded place where they may eat. A newcomer enters the scene, young, handsome, frank, but lacking the signs of poverty which distinguish the others. When they hear his hard luck story, he is welcomed as one of the band and invited to partake of their frugal meal. Wood, the stranger, soon makes friends with the "hoboes," especially a man named Brown, who tells him his tale. He had been unemployed for a long time, he says, and was unable to support his wife and daughter. Then when he obtained a position in a town far away, and by dint of careful saving, has amassed a fortune of $100. He felt reluctant to spend part of it on fare, and had chosen the "side door pullman" as a cheaper conveyance than the real way. When the trip is resumed. Wood goes on with the others. In a wreck, he suffers injuries and Brown takes him to his house to be cared for by his wife. After his recovery. Wood becomes fond of his new friends. Lola, Brown's daughter, finds herself fast losing her heart to Wood, and is disappointed on learning through a newspaper clipping that he is really wealthy and Is not one of them. She takes the paper to Wood and shows him the clipping, which says that he has been ruined by a reversal In the stock market. Suspecting that this Is the work of Travers, who has been working against him, Wood starts out for revenge. He learns that Travers Is out driving in an auto and follows him, but discovers that vengeance has been taken from his hands when Travers' machine Is destroyed in a railroad blast, and all Its occupants are killed. Wood now completes his book on "The Wandering Horde" for which he had been obtaining material when he sojourned with the "hoboes," and the sale of the work nets him a tidy sum. With this money he returns to Brown and becomes his partner for the purpose of pushing his Invention. Still Wood feels that there Is a void somewhere which he cannot analyze — but when he does analyze it, he has no difficulty in persuading Lola to fill it, by becoming his partner for life. DID HE OR DID HE NOT? (Aug. 21).— The cast: Adam Bluffer (William Lytell. Jr.); The Boss (Geo. O'Donnell) ; Cynthy (Shirley More) ; Stenographer (Dorothy Long) ; Mrs. Shannon (Florence Natol) : Hiram (Ralph Whiting.) Author, Charles Israel. Director, Frank Currier. Buying farms in the country Is a much more congenial occupaction than laboring over a desk in the sultry atmosphere of the crowded city. Unable to get his boss to give him a vacation. Harold decides to be overcome by the heat and thus obtain the desired rest. In Pumpkinsvllle he announces his intention of buying a farm, and all the real estate owners of (.Continued on page l."«?>0.)