Picture Play Magazine (Oct-Nov 1915)

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PICTURE-PLAY WEEKLY 7 ewt brushed a hand across his fore [ don't know why I'm listening to ." he said, more to himself than the jr. "I don't know what's come over I — I guess the islands have made pward of me." N'ot a coward, but a man," said Fali impressively. "If I had made a r for my gun, you'd have potted me antly. But I chose not to defend self, and a man — I say a man — Jims to kill an unresisting foe. In the I days on the mountains you'd have ill kged me from a bush. You couldn't 3; that now. War makes devils of ue people; it makes men of cowards, i vr, we're soldiers ; soldiers and men. Ii've started on the way to be a credit vour country. Don't spoil it by anjer killing. I'm not preaching. I'm pleading for my life. It's you I'm iking of. There's one other " le stopped abruptly, then demanded denly : Xewt, have you ever had a girl [,!:nd?" 'ewt's thoughts flew back to the jntain cabin, and linerva !" he whispered. Her last Is were ringing in his ears : '"Come k to me," she had said, ''but whether . come back or not, play the man." )nce again his sleeve brushed his s. He stared at his old enemy for ong moment. Then he stuck out a Id. 've begun to understand a lot of gs since I joined the army," he said, voice trembling. "I didn't know at it meant to play the man, but yo've wn me — and long ago a girl pointed way. We'll forget what happened k in Kaintucky. I'm through with ds. Will yo' take my hand?" "alkins grabbed the outstretched id. "Spooner, you're all right," he .Jinerva Rawlins had left the moun. i cabin. A college girl now, workher way through, she had set herf to the task of educating herself y ;that she might be independent, ohe had not heard from Newt, but -. knew he would come back to her i ne day, though she looked forward I that day with mingled feelings of night and dread, t was in her third year Newt Spooner came— Sergeant Spooner now ; no longer the shuffling man of the mountains, but a stalwart, broad-shouldered soldier with clear, smiling eyes. "Oh, Newt, you came back to me !" she cried, as they stood in a quiet corner of the campus. "I came — and, thank God, these hands of mine are clean !" She caught the hands he held to her and kissed them impulsively. "But Henry Falkins — you did not meet him " she began. "I met him, and the feud is over," he answered, with a happy laugh. "I came to understand myself in the islands, and now I have come back to tell you I love you." "Oh, Newt, I have always loved you, dear," she told him, her head on his shoulder. "That could not be," he said gently. "But you made a man of me, and now I have my chance to make something of myself. I have studied hard since I saw you. There is promotion awaiting me. I have put the ghastly past behind me and have won to manhood through your influence, little girl, and through the help of the man I hated above everything else on earth — Henry Falkins." Film Flams By Dean Bowman JOSEPH GOLDEN, a pioneer producer, is devoting his traditional knowledge to the efforts of the Equitable, and is featuring Hilda Spong in "Divorced," his first work. Charlie Chaplin, Essanay's worldfamous comedian, loves music, and is a brilliant musician. He can play almost any instrument, and will sit at a piano for hours, playing ghostly and weird music, all his own improvisation, which has the power of carrying his listeners away with it. The lure of the movies has finally attracted the savings banks, and the Worcester County Institution for Savings in Massachusetts is possibly the first to use the movie screens to call public attention to its facilities. Such is the popularity of Charlie Chaplin, that Chaplin ties, Chaplin shirts, Chaplin cocktails, Chaplin yachts, and Chaplin clubs and societies have been named after the world-famous Essanay comedian in all parts of the world. One city has a street named after him. Cities where new distributing offices have been opened by the Mutual Film Corporation give this organization a total of sixty-eight establishments in the United States and Canada. The widow of John Bunny has gone into the hotel business, having bought Schrieber's Hotel, at Valley Stream, Long Island. The movie comedian left but a small estate. The Oliver Morosco Photo Play Company will release, in one of their forthcoming Paramount pictures, "Jane," an attractive comedy by W. H. Lestocuque, with Myrtle Stedman prominently displayed. George George, of type long, lanky, and lopy, makes his debut with Horsley in "A Change of Luck," a Cub comedy, released in current Mutual program, with George Ovey, short, slight, and slippery. W. R. Rothacker, president of the Industrial Moving Picture Company, of Chicago, was selected as vice president at large for the newly organized Motion Picture Board of Trade. Mr. Rothacker is the pioneer of the industrial motion picture, and is rapidly forging to the front in his chosen line. A series of motographics, with African settings, beginning with "Stanley's Search for the Hidden City," followed by Stanley's "Close Call" and others, is being staged on Dead Man's Island, in the Pacific, by Frank Montgomery, of the David Horsley organization. "Papa's Wife," one of the Terriss' comedies on the screen, is soon to be released through the Picture Playhouse Film Company, Inc., New York, and there are now in the hands of this distributing agency a number of the prints. Louise Emerald Bates has deserted the Winter Garden to become one of the colony of Thanhouser, "forty-five minutes from Broadway." Thanhouser thinks Miss Bates will prove an acquisition to his New Rochelle forces, believing her peculiar ability will enable him to feature her in Falstaff comedies effectively. »