The Moving Picture World (November 1907)

636 THE- MOVING PICTURE WORLD. her husband, leave their home and go to a fashionable millinery, where the lady buys a beautiful hat. From there they go. to a restaurant and seat themselves for a meaL The_ waiter, in serving the soup, stumbles, with the result that he spills the contents of the tureen on the lady's new. hat. She is mortified and enraged, and her husband, immediately halls a cab and takes her home, where on reaching her room she throws the hat to the ground and falls to weeping. A servant enters, and seeing the mined headgear on the ground, adopts it as her own. She fixes it up to suit her taste and is next seen wearing it as she meets her lover, the policeman. To- gether they go to a park and seat them- selves on a bench, the servant placing her hat beside her. While the couple are busy, a very stout gentleman comes along, seats himself on the hat and proceeds to read his newspaper. As soon as _ the servant discovers this she is filled with rage and departs, leaving the hat there. An unfortunate woman filled with liquor and very unsteady now takes possession of it and goes to a saloon. Here she is made sport of and the hat suffers at the hands of her tormentors. Emerging from the resort, she staggers near a lake and finally throws the hat in. It floats to the Other side, where a fisherman pulls it up with his line and places it beside him. A small boy -now conies along whistling and seeing the hat begins to kick it through the streets. The final resting place of this piece of headgear of fashionable descent is now on a pile of garbage beside some ash cans, where dogs come to sniff for bones. And "The Clock-Maker's Secret" The town-crier summons the inhabitants-of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that day the Lord Mayor will receive bids for the building of a town clock. One of those who reads it is an old clock- maker, who, stopping before the placard, reflects long and thoughtfully before put- ting in his bid for the work. While he thus stands the devil appears on the scene and hands him a drawing showing a clock of exquisite workmanship such as could never have been fashioned by human hands. The old man accepts this design from the evil one and is next seen compering with other clock-makers for the work. Of course his bid is accepted and the Mayor instructs him to begin his work at once. He is how seen in his shop, tinker- ing with springs and wheels and other mechanism, when suddenly Mephisto ap- pears again. The latter presents a paper to the old man, which he finds on reading to be a contract so drawn up that if he, the clock-maker, agrees to same, the won- Wi Are $m® in The Optical Projection Line and confine ourselves exclusively to Film ■* S@ng Slide isital We are not hampered by the endless amount of detail that is experienced by others who sell ma- chines, outfits, supplies, etc., operate vaudeville . and five cent theatres and do a little of everything else connected, with the line. That's only one reason why we can furnish such me We are pioneers in the business and have in ser- vice from one to several of every desirable subject in both Films and Song Slides that have been pro- duced, and yet, without the use of either larga advertising spec© or circus talk, we have most of the time ha'd all the customers we could supply and sometimes have many on our waiting Est. The quality of oar service does our advertising. We are increasing our facilities and If you need a machine we can tell you where to get the right one at the right price, but, we" want to furnish your films and slides. You prefer a specialist in medicine or in law, so let as snow yoa what a specis&st can do for the bank account of a five cent theatre. Writs at mm fm m Special Offer. THEATRE FILES jBEflmOE Room 128, 8S Dearborn St., Chicago derful clock will- be his, but at the price of his own soul, which the devil proposes to take into his own keeping.' The clock- maker at first refuses vehemently to con- sider such a proposition, but the devil with some mysterious passing of the hands causes all of the Roman figures on the clock to-appear as in a tableau and execute a pretty dance, after which they quickly vanish. Again he proffers the contract, but the old man is still steadfast in his refusal, but Satan, not to be thwarted in his wicked designs, causes to appear another tableau which shows a shop of flaming fire, in which the devil and his emissaries are at work with anvil and forge molding the parts of the clock. Suddenly the scene changes and the wonderful piece of mechanism is seen complete and perfect The clock-maker is bewildered and tries to move toward it, but the devil intercepts him and then the entire scene disappears. With the image of the wonderful clock whirling in his brain, the old man accepts the proposition of Mephisto and signs the contract, but while he is in the act of affix- ing his signature to the document, his daughter slips unseen into the room and witnesse his act. Now the devil leads his victim out into the public square and bring- ing his infernal power into play causes the gigantic timepiece to rise to its proper place. The Mayor now appears and seeing the marvelous clock orders the town crier to summon the inhabitants of the town, who quickly gather around in mute admiration On the appearance of the old man—the sup- posed creator of this wonderful work—he is quickly raised from the ground and borne on the shoulders of the jubilant and admir- ing crowd. This happy scene, however, is not of long duration, for the old man's daughter coming in upon them upbraids her father for his act in contracting with the devil and raising her hand hurls "a rock at the face of the clock, smashing it com- pletely. Now Mephisto appears to claim the old man's soul, but the daughter, aware of his intention, draws, forth a cross, at the sight of which the evil spirit takes flight. The expose of his wickedness and dishon- esty causes the old clockmaker to lose his reason, and he soon becomes a raving maniac. He is next seen at a tavern, where he happens to see a clock, which he dashes to the ground in maniacal fury. It seems that the devil still has control over the old man, for when they are gathered to- gether and he raises his cup to drink, his glass as well as those of the other guests seem filled with flame instead of - liquid The old man now becomes violent and tears around the room in a rage. One now sees the delusions of the unfortunate man's dis- eased brain,'which cause a wine cask to become a clock, and then change into a hideous human visage. The next scene shows the old clock- maker in his home, where all manner of imps persist in tormenting him, and finally the devil himself appears and mockingly flaunts the signed contract before his ag- onized victim. The old man's daughter now comes in and endeavors to help her father, but Mephisto is obdurate and is just about to seize the aged man when the Angel of Light and Truth descends with flaming sword and quickly routs the evil one The last scene of the fifm is symbolic of the angel's victory over the devil Here a pretty tableau is seen, which terminates with a picture of the.Angel pointing to the ground, where the devil lies crouching! and quivering with. fear.