The Nickelodeon (Jul-Dec 1910)

46 THE NICKELODEON. Vol. IV, No. 2. close quarters The coloring adds greatly to the effect and the film is and causing another man to fall into a tar barrel on the wav incidentsa very interesting one.— 279 feet. Released July 16. which she regards as infinitely amusing.— 426 feet. incident* MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Heloise Helbronn, married to a man for whom she has little affection, is beloved by a young lieutenant. Count Lanvale, a friend of her husband, has also fallen in love with her, and he finally succumbs to his irresistible desire to tell her so. Heloise begs him to refrain from ever again speaking of the matter. Unfortunately, Helbrom later on discovers his wife in the act of reading a note from the young lieutenant; he wrests it from her, but in the struggle she is able to tear off the signature. Count Lanvale's recent behavior convinces Helbronn, however, that he is the writer of the note, and he threatens to kill him. Heloise, afraid for the sake of the lieutenant to tell the truth, warns Lanvale of what she has done, begging him at the same time to forgive her. But Lanvale is not a coward, and although he guards her secret, Helbronn's insults oblige him to accept his challenge. The two men meet, and it is Helbronn who falls. Lanvale gets away, but it is with a heavy heart, for as he bitterly reflects upon the sorry affair, the vision of Heloise united to her soldier lover rises tauntingly before him. — 495 feet. AN AWFUL SYMPHONY. A nondescript band stands in the street giving vent to the most unearthly row. Deafened by the discordant noise, the inhabitants around throw water over the musicians* who immediately dissolve and disappear. Suddenly huge humid spots appear on the wall, take the shapes of the musicians, form into solid bodies, and once again the musicians recommence that awful refrain. Marching further along the street, they seize some gaudy colored umbrellas. After a number of startling changes, in which the umbrellas take the leading part with very beautiful effect, the musicians return to their shanty and continue to play their awful tune. — 42G feet. Released July 18. Lescaut, a soldier, who is a rollicking good fellow, fond of his glass, receives from his father a message that his sister Manon will arrive in Paris the following day, and requests him to meet her and look after her welfare. In. the midst of a round of gaiety Lescaut fails to meet her, and she, arriving without friends, is at a loss what to do, until Des Grieux comes forward and offers to be her escort. They fall violently in love with one another, and it is not until some days later that she meets her brother when promenading in the fashionable Place Vendome. A marquis, the friend of her brother, is introduced and he in turn also falls deeply in love with her. This marquis is a man of great power, and her brother's patron, and in order to remove her from the influence of Des Grieux he has the latter kidnaped and placed in a monastery. Manon then, fickle as all women, agrees to marry the marquis. Meantime Des Grieux has taken holy orders, and Manon, reading one day that he is to deliver his first sermon at St. Peter's, attends, and afterwards congratulates him in the vestry. Their old love refuses to be smothered, and the marquis finding them together, uses his influence and has Manon deported. — 758 feet. CATCHING LOBSTERS. The film opens with views showing the construction of the large wicker pots or traps with which the succulent lobster is caught. Placed on board a fishing boat, we set sail to the banks, where, after being baited, the pots are thrown overboard. The lobster catcher returns the following day, when he is rewarded with a fine haul. Rendering the strong claws powerless, he heads his boat for shore, and strides away to sell his spoils at the local market. — 216 feet. Released July 20. THE COWBOYS SWEETHEART AND THE BANDIT. Jack, one of the cowboys on Circle L ranch, is in love with a neighboring ranch girl, Lucy, and he starts out on his piebald broncho to see her. Leaving the horse on the road, he and the girl wander away through the forest. Meantime a ne'er-do-well, Dick Dazers, coming along and seeing the horse, mounts and gallops to the crossroads, where he arrives in time to hold up the coach as it comes along the rough road, and separates the passengers from their money and jewels. His horse, however, runs away back to its master, and Jack finds it where he left it. Suspecting nothing, he starts on his way back, and arriving at the crossroads, sees there a black mask dropped by Dick; he is handling it, wondering how it came there, when the sheriff and his posse, accompanied by an Englishman who was a passenger on the coach and who had given the alarm, arrive on the scene. Everything points to Jack as the guilty one, and he is bound and led away. On the way they pass Lucy, who does, no^ believe that Jack could be guilty of such a crime. She seizes the Englishman's horse while he is getting a drink and gallops back to the Circle L ranch and tells Jack's friends. They follow and catch up with the sheriff's party just as he is about to lock Jack in the calaboose. On hearing the evidence, things look black against Jack, and they ride homewards to consider what is best to be done. Meantime the Englishman in his wanderings meets Dick, who again tries to hold him up. At this moment Jack's friends come along and capture him and lead him to the sheriff. Lucy tells the sheriff that she believes Dick is the man who really held up the coach, and asks to be allowed to act as his jailor so that she may find out. The sheriff finally consents to her plan, which we will not divulge here. We can assure you it was a very novel idea, and worked out to perfection, with the result that full evidence of Dick's guilt was obtained, and Jack was freed through the efforts of the girl he loved. — 909 feet. Released July 22. MORE OF BETTY S PRANKS. It is lunch time and Betty walks in unconcernedly, and upon being reprimanded for her late arrival at the table, "cheeks back." A smart slap on the cheek is her punishment, and she thereupon makes a dash through the garden gate to escape from a home where she feels_ she is not appreciated. After her runs the whole household, but Betty is fleetfooted, and is not to be caught. Moreover, she knocks over a few customers sitting outside a cafe, to retard her relatives, and before they are again in pursuit she has borrowed a milk cart harnessed to a big dog. Driving away furiously, she is soon far out of sight and able to run the cart into a farmyard; here she unharnesses the dog and enters the farmhouse to buy a bowl of milk to refresh herself after her long and dusty ride. She and the dog are soon very chummy, and drink out of the same bowl in the friendliest possible manner. Their meal, however, is interrupted by the appearance of Betty's friends at the door. Through the window the former dashes without a moment's hesitation, and, followed by the dog, she makes a bee line for home, overturning a farm laborer PETE HAS A GOOD TIME. Pete is caught with the goods, which in this instance is a rabbit, which, the enterprising fellow has poached from some private preserve, and our first view of him is m the police station, from which he makes an ingenious get-away. Very much on the hike., he beats it for the tall timbers, with a posse in full cry a short distance in the rear. Seeing a motor car left unattended, he cranks it up and, putting on the fifth speed, tears off a mile or two to a secluded street corner, where he makes i a rapid change from his old togs to the glad clothes he finds in a valise in the car. Abandoning his stolen auto at a roadside inn, he looks upon tfee wine when it is red in the company of a veiled lady with whom he has "struck up an acquaintance. When the damsel in question finally raises her veil,, however, Pete thinks it would have been a merciful act to himself to have allowed the police to catch him. The sight of the officers of the law, closeon his trail, however, changes his mind and, hastily donning his fair companion's cloak and hat, he does another marathon, ending in the chimney of a house, which he enters through an open window. The police, who suspect his design, beat him to the roof by the outside route and nab poor Pete when he emerges, blackened and much the worse for his trip. — 476 feet. Released Tuly 23. GETTING EVEN WITH THE LAWYER. Herbert Brief is a successful and respectable lawyer. He has fallenm love with Norah, the daughter of parents who look upon him as a model of all the virtues. Norah, however, against the wishes of her parents, has a great liking for Fred Dauber, a penniless artist. Dauber has a lady friend who, like himself, is a student of art. To her he confides his troubles and begs her to help him. She agrees, and a note is dispatched' by her to the barrister. In it she professes her admiration for his eloquence and makes an appointment to meet him after he comes from court. Herbert meets her and is persuaded into going to her studio, where he is lured into posing as a model in fancy dress. ' Other students come in and when the fun is at its highest Norah and her parents enter. Bitter is the disillusionment of the latter as they gaze upon their prospective son-in-law and his company, and Dauber, seizing his opportunity, obtains the consent of Norah's parents to his marriage to their daughter. BREAKING ICE IN FINLAND. The Port of Helsingfors is in the grip of ice and frost and a wide expanse of frozen water meets the eye, with vessels held fast in the ice. Great ice-breaking vessels swing slowly out of the port, plow through the frozen field and masses of splintered ice fly on either side of the thinfurrow of water left in the wake of their stern. The ice-breakers' work is not yet finished, however, for ships caught in the ice have to beassisted and towed back to dock. — Released July 25. detective's dream. Padlock Soames, the famous detective, worried by his non-success in the capture of Sleppery, the notorious thief, falls asleep and dreams that a defiant challenge by the criminal to catch him meets his eye in the columns of a newspaper. In his dream the detective believes himself to be possessed of a magic mirror on the surface of which is reflected every action of the thief, that he accepts the challenge with equanimity, and that by means of this valuable glass, he is enabled to baffle Sleppery in every ruse which he adopts. Physically, however, Padlock finds he is not a match for the agile thief, and although he engages in several struggles with him, one of which takes place on the surface of a broad sheet of water, he is in every case disgusted to find himself suddenly grasping nothing more material than air, or some portion of clothing left in his hands by the wily thief. Exasperated, he loses his calmness, allows an angry ejaculation to break from his lips, and awakens with a start, to find out the whole affair is a dream. ON THE ETHIOPIAN FRONTIER. The first picture has been taken on a feast day, and a group of savage's seated around a fire and hacking at the meat taken from the roast ijs-clearly shown. Then follows a remarkable picture. A number of bird|s are devouring the remains of a hippopotamus, when a sportsman takes aim at one of them. His shot reaches its mark, but before his attendant can reach the "game" a crocodile has seized the wou'nded bird as it lies on the bank, and carried it off. Turning from this scene, we come upon amore novel kind of sport, which is none other than the native method of spearing fish — extremely fruitful, and very interesting to watch. — Released' July 27. TOMMY GETS HIS SISTER MARRIED. An American production. A young American takes a hand in the matrimonial affairs of the family in a manner which results in a film thatr is full of fun from start to finish. — Released July 29. CAGLIOSTRO. A dramatic adaptation from Alex. Dumas' well known work, "The Memoirs of a Physician." The picture opens with Cagliostro in the laboratory of the alchemist Athlotas, his instructor in magic. He predicts to his pupil that his fate is interwoven with that of a gypsy girl, Lorenza. Cagliostro first meets her in a cafe, where he picks a quarrel with the Chevalier D'Oisement, who is conversing with her, and wounds him in aduel that ensues. Lorenza tries to intervene between the duelists, but" Cagliostro, by mesmeric influence, forces her to be still, and afterwards carries her to his home where, seeing that she is an excellent hypnotic subject, he compels her to act as a medium. Lorenza predicts the French revolution and the death of Marie Antoinette. Cagliostro, aided by Lorenza, gains celebrity and repute, and is commanded to give an exhibition of his magic before the king, Louis XVI, and his queen, Marie Antoinette. The latter, delighted with the wonderful things, requests to be allowed toread her own future in the crystal. Cagliostro refuses, but is compelled' to obey the queen's commands, and, raising the glass to her eyes, she reads in it the story of her doom. The king, wild with anger, orders him to be seized, and at the same moment the chief of police appears to denounce him. The Chevalier D'Oisement had not forgotten Cagliostro, and after obtaining proof of his magical practices, had finally accused him to the chief of the police as a sorcerer. In his cell Cagliostro is haunted by visions of the marriage of Lorenza to the chevalier, and this remarkable man, who really loved the gypsy girl passionately, seeks relief in deathby means of a poison ring, rather than wait for the judicial sentence oF