The Moving Picture World (November 1907)

6i8 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. MOVING^PICTiiRE *l : o NEW MOTION PICTURE FILMS We shall place upon the American market the following Urban-Eclipse subjects during the Week of November 4-KoveoBber SI, S90f j With every passing week the name of Urban-Eclipse becomes mare popular in the United States. There are two factories making Urban- Eclipse films; one in Paris, the ether in London* Their product is noted for its pbotcgrapbic quality, and we need only to refer to such scenic films as "Victoria Falls" in Africa and comedies lite the "Near Sighted Cyclist*" to recall se vera l of the most striking 151m oneeessss of recent times. Clean morally, bisisisalcally end piclcjrcplilcclljr. These films can be purchased by any rental agency or exhibitor. King Edward on H. i. S. Dreadnought Topical 534 Feet Launch of the British Battleship iellerephon Naval • 437 Feet An Anonymous Letter Dramatic - 534 Feet Accidents Will Happen Comedy - 474 Feet Send your advance order to your rental agency to day. If they can't supply yoa. write us. We'll tell you some- body who can. Postal brings yoa advance list of the very latest Moving Picture Subjects every week, free. Moving Picture Machines, Lenses,&c.,at right prices ^CATALOGUE FRE E Every Subject Usable Anywhere 52 STATE ST. CHICAGO G62 sn NEW ►RK. ■ ;?•■;■ For a moment he stands poised on the apex, silhouetted against sapphirine sky like an acroterion—but it is only for a moment, for terror fills his soul, so down he comes and is. off again on the wings of iEolus. On rushes the howling horde; the vanguard reaching the edge, fearless and undaunted they leap, tumbling, bumping, tossing, roll- ing to the rcrd below, and the hitherto Fluffy Ruffles, _e now huffy ruffles, towsled indeed, but with grim intent they are up and after their prey. On, on goes the vic- tim until he reaches a most formidable handicap, a lake fully a~ hundred yards wide. With one leap he lands on the other side, like unto Ganymedes in the talons of Zeus. As the maidens reach the lakeside they follow his example and leap across the broad expanse of Water in a most mys- terious manner. The chase now leads up over a hill, through cornfields, over fences and down a lane, where the fair pursuers, from sheer exhaustion, drop one by one along the wav. One, however, more reso- lute than the rest, comes upon an old nag that looks like "Hobson's Choice," in the roadway, and leaping on his back, gallops on, overtakes and wins the prize. Bidding her captive get up behind her, she drives back to the humble home of the honest farmer. Here they are greeted by children nineteen- She: "Ah, a kindergarten." He: "Kindergarten, thunder Them's my kids." Tableau 1 Williams, Brown & Earle this week issue The CollarM Herring." A couple of fish- ermen, after bringing in a good haul, pro- ceed to unload their boat. Two ill-clad tramps, seeing their opportunity, and after glancing at the contents, seize it and make off. A gentleman draws the attention to , the robbery, and they rush after the thieves with yells of vengeance. The latter, directly they see and hear they are found out, race off like mad, and any and every person who tries to stop or hinder them, they quickly bowl over. The crowd in pursuit gradually grows in numbers, and the two men, turn-. ing down a narrow side street, jump on a barrow, throwing all they can lay their hands on at all who endeavor to. arrest them, and jumping into a boat, row out to sea. Although the tramps do their best to keep the assailants back, using their oars as weapons of defense, the pursuers draw their boats close to theirs. They then sink boat and thieves in the deep sea and leave them to scramble out as best they can. Film Review. Biograph advertises "Wife Wanted" as their latest film. Selden, the illustrious English lawyer, once said: "Marriage is a desperate thing: the frogs in iEsop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again." This maxim, logical as it may seem, did not appeal to the hero of the Biograph's latest film story, for having just lost his fifth helpmate, he seeks another. None will blame him, though, when we say that he has been left with an interest- ing family of nineteen children. He rea- sons that there are times when Cupid needs a little help, and so solicits the aid of the press by means of a "want ad." For the first time he fully realizes the power of the press, as there appear in answer to his advertisement, one, two, three, and then droves of females of all types and natures —the Brobdignagian and LHiputian, the indigenous and exotic, the Xanthippe and Euphrosyne—each confident of his predilec- tion. In front of his cottage flocked this herd of muliebrity like an army of Ama- zons about to storm a citadel. Our friend appearing, tries to -reason with them, but they make for him en masse, and it would have taken the fortitude of Diomedes to defy the onslaught of this cyclonic pnalanx of skirts, so he darts into the house, mounts the stairs, with the determined Pleiades at his heels. Finding escape cut off, he dives through the second-story window, followed by fearless Flossie, the "village belle. Onto the ground they land with a dull thud, and off they go in detour over shaded paths and greensward, with the mob madly gal- loping after. Slightly distancing them, he arrives at the edge of a precipitous cliff. "Only Kids" is the latest from S. Lubin. Two boys play hookey and carry out aD kinds of childish pranks. They play tricks on a blind man for which an innocent passerby gets all that is coming to him. They interfere with a spooning couple in the park, and play a trick on Charley's best girl. When they try to play a trick on an old maid's darling they meet their Water- loo, and get all that is coming to them. Pathe Freres introduce in "The Pirates" a young man of^ military bearing proposing to a beautiful girl. She rejects his offers, and while he is persisting her more favored lover enters and the military-looking in- dividual departs with a scowl. He goes to the den of a band of pirates "and makes a deal wh ereD y they are to help him gel possession of the girl She is now seen at home alone, when two men enter with a note, which she opens and is just about to read when they throw a rope about her and carry her off- They take her to their vessel and carry her down the hold. The vessel then sailJ