Moving Picture World (Sep 1916)

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1596 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD September 2, 1916 downward plunge his neck is broken and skull fractured. Jim and Dick hurry to help the victim, but when his body is dragged from the trap it is lifeless. The sight of Tom's face brings a scream from the woman which reveais the fact that he is the one who lured her from her husband. Peeling that his wife has been punished for her wrongdoing but not inclined to forgive her and take her back, Dick rides with her to the stage station where he gives her money enough to take her to her home. He then returns to live the life of a hermit and to help the youth attain the end which brought him to the west. AMERICAN. ENCHANTMENT (Two Parts— Aug. 21).— The cast: Faun and Helen Carew (Vivian Rich) ; Faun's Mate and Jack Carew (Alfred Vosburgh) ; Nymph and Celeste (Laura Sears) ; Billy Norbert (George Periolat). Director, Carl M. LeViness. In the forest a wood nymph sits playing with a pipe of reeds. From their cavern home come a faun and his mate. He leaves her. As the faun nears the place where the wood nymph sits she succeeds in attracting him by her music. He soon forgets the mate he left behind in the cavern. The faun s mate begins a search. She hears the pipes of the nymph and feels the first thrill of impending danger. She follows the music to its source and there finds the faun. Distressed at the faun's attraction for the nymph his mate now gives way to anger. She seizes the pipes from the nymph's hands and hurls them into the stream. As she does so, the nymph's spell over the faun is broken. The faun realizes the fool he has been and returns to his mate while the nymph disappears into the woods. The scene dissolves out. In an artist's studio Jack Carew gives a supper in honor of his success. Billy Norbert rises to a toast — may he obtain even greater success in his future work. To this toast they all agree and the suggestion is made that he prepare another example of his art for exhibition at the fall salon. His wife, Helen, keeps in the background and listens to the unstinted praise of Jack's friends. Only when Billy Norbert suggests the subject of his masterpiece, The Lorelei, does she experience a shudder of fear at some impending danger. Asked the reason for her silence, she can give neither answer or explanation. Eventually the party breaks up. Billy Norbert sees the condition into which Carew is falling. Time after time he tries to start work but the lack of a suitable model prevents him from getting into the spirit of his subject. When things have reached the state where Carew has absolutely stopped all attempts to paint, he, Helen and Norbert visit the cafes and resorts of the artist quarter. In one of these Carew at last discovers his ideal. She is Celeste. Carew works ceaselessly but, after the first few days of his preliminary work he becomes secretive, hiding his canvas from all eyes and even locking the studio for hours at a time. Between him and Helen comes an estrangement of which Norbert is not slow to take advantage. He listens to her expression of fear that Carew is falling under the influence of Celeste and while he defends him in a way, yet he leaves the doubt alive in Helen's mind. Eventually, the picture is completed. On the canvas is the exact reproduction of the nymph as in the prologue. The evening of its completion a celebration is planned ; Carew and Celeste plan a little dinner party for themselves. Norbert has uncovered and frankly suggests to Helen that she leave Carew. She realizes that Carew no longer has a claim upon her and at last she succumbs to Norbert's pleas and agrees to go with him. Carew and Celeste leave for the cafe in which they are to have dinner. Helen believes it only fair to Carew to acquaint him with the fact that she intends to leave him for Norbert and to offer him an opportunity to explain the past. Accordingly she goes to the studio to see him. Carew proposes a toast to the newly-completed painting as Helen, in the studio, discovers him gone and the finished painting. Rage seizes her. She picks up a knife from (Sarew's pallette, cuts the canvas from its frame and tosses it into the Are. Carew sits with his glass poised in his hand. Something seems to arrest his arm. The glass falls from his hand and upon the floor ; Celeste looks at him in surprise. The spoil is broken ; Carew rises slowly from his chair and leaves the place. In the studio Helen sits In front of the ashes and weeps. When she looks up Carew stands before her. Without a word she indicates the fire. Carew looks and sees what has happened but ho does not blame hor. He sits down beside her on the arm of the chair and places, his arms about hor. Just outsido tlio studio door NorbeTt enters in search of Helen. One glance through the door into the studio and he realizes that by some means a reconciliation has boon effected. Ho slips away without being soon. Carew silences Helen ns she bogs his forgiveness for hor hasty action. He appreciates that the destruction of his work has meant, also, the destruction of his Infatuation for Celeste. All the Players of prominence in any sized picture can be furnished instantly— WIRE US YOUR WANTS — If you fail to display the' face of a popular player who is appearing at your house, you are overlooking an opportunity for larger receipts. THE FACE OF A WELL-KNOWN PLAYER prominently displayed will draw more money than the mere announcement of a name. LARGE HAND COLORED PICTURES Size 22 x 28 inches, 75 cents each. Every prominent player. FAC-SIMILE OIL PAINTINGS, all sizes, from $8 to $25 framed. Quotations submitted on any size, framed or unframed. THE SEMI-PHOTO POST CARDS, $3.50 PER THOUSAND, of over 600 players. The indispensable article for your mailing list. PHOTOGRAPHS, SIZE 8 x 10, of all the prominent players, 600 different names, 20c. each. LARGE PICTURES, HAND COLORED, size 11 x 14, all the prominent players, $2.00 per dozen; in aluminum frames, 50c. each. GRAVURE FOLDER, containing pictures of the prominent players, including stars from the stage, $10.00 per thousand. SINGLE COLUMN CUTS of every prominent player, 40c. each. KRAUS MFG. CO. 220 We«t 42nd Street, NEW YORK 12th Floor Candler Building Send for Catalogue of over 600 players and samples free. Write us, giving details of your dull nights, and we will send you a remedy. Get acquainted with "FULCO" The Department Store MOVING PICTURE trade MACHINES -S EQUIPMENT -«=»■ SUPPLIES Our catalog coven the line from A-Z E. E. FULTON COMPANY 152 W. Lake St. CHICAGO, ILL WATCH FOR £. & R. Jungle Film Comedies EAR JUNGLE FILM CO. Loa Anf rl««. Ca). MUTUAL STAR PRODUCTION. A MILLION FOR MARY (American— Five Parts — Aug. 21). — The cast: Louie (C. William Kolbj ; Mike (Max Dili) ; Mary, at 10 (Dodo Newton) ; Mary, at 18 (May Cloy) ; Bob (King Clark). Scenario written by Al Santello. Directed by Rea Berger. Louie is the vendor of an article of diet known to the trade as "hot dog." Mike is a sandwich man, who carries the advertising legends of a tent and awning manufacturer. They observed a gang of urchins maltreating a little pup. In trying to assist the little dog Mike and Louie were treated to a bombardment of sundry loose building materials close to the hands of the small boys. But the dog was rescued and Mike and Louie were united in friendship through the common cause of the pup. Mike and Louie sought an adjacent drug store for first aid to the dog. The drug store was operated by an unprincipled person, whose chief trade was in "dope." Mike and Louie happened in just at the time the alleged druggist was apprised that a police raid impended. He was preparing for a hasty retreat. He seized the opportunity and presented Mike and Louie with the drug store until he should return if in return they would keep a little girl Mary, aged ten, who had been left to his care. Mike and Louie become owners of a drug store, guardians to the child, and masters of a pet dog. The police, not knowing that the place had changed hands, decided to raid it. Mike and Louie were dragged to court, where they had to prove that they had just come into possession of the drug store and assumed guardianship of the child. The judge commended them after a pathetic scene and Mike and Louie returned to the drug store. Eight years later the drug store is more dilapidated than ever. Mike and Louie were eking out a bare existence, giving all their money to the education and desires of Mary. Some time during the eight year lapse, Mike and Louie had acquired a clerk. Bob, who had graduated from a school of pharmacy and who had come to them to gather practical experience. Mary and Bob fell in love with each other. Things took a bad turn when the "Drug Trust" refused to grant Mike and Louie more credit. They were forced to make spurious drugs. Through an accident Mary learns of the trickery. The next day she imparted to Bob the details of her discovery. Contrary to her expectations, he laughed and told her that it was far more harmless to sell the stuff that Mike and Louie were making than the actual dope which was harmful to the customers. In the midst of the explanation Mike and Louie came in and saw the two youngsters in an embrace. They demanded that Bob stop his love making. He replied that he intended to marrv Mary. He was told that if he had any business ability he would be working some place for a salary instead of with Mike and Louie for nothing— and to make the thing harder Mike suggested that before Bob marry Mary, he make a million to buy her all the little trinkets that she might want. Bob decided to make a million for Mary. Sitting in the park reading the paper, an article on the new "Science of Mind" caught his eye. He stopped to think and recalled his argument with Mary that it isn't what vou take, but it is what you believe when vou take it. So Bob got the great idea. Bob rushed back to the drug store and imparted his idea to Mike and Louie, who merely scoffed and asked him where he would get the money with which to advertise and distribute the wonderful pills. Bob had an idea and betook himself to the "Drug Trust" and impressed them with the fact that he had the greatest drug panacea< ever discovered. They drew up a contract with him, and agreed to pay Mike and Louie one million dollars on date of distribution of the pills. An enormous system of advertising was instituted. All over the world appeared the legend, "Mike's and Louie's panacea for all Ills, take a pill everv hour, pray and have faith." Orders flocked in from everv portion of the globe. The night before the dav upon which the pills were to be released. Mike, Louie, Bob and Mary were so engrossed in their work that they forgot poor Fritz, the dog. who became hungry and ate a cake of soap. Finallv he was discovered by Mike, whe knew he was sick. They looked for remedies and could find none, when Louie had the groat idea that if the pills could help people, they could help the dog. But Mike answered that the dog could not prav. Howover, they decided they would prav for him so Fritz was handed a bunch of pills. Unknown to Mike and Louie, the pills contained a light narcotic, so that when taken in large quantities they caused profound sleep. They thought that the pills had killed him. Immediately they had visions of thousands upon thousands of dead people, all of whom had taken the puis. After due consideration they made a suicide pact deciding to kill themselves with their own pills. Mike and Louie slept and dreamed that they had gone to Heaven. Here they met the druggist. Mike, certain that the druggist was in the wrong place, decided to throw him out \