The Moving Picture World (1907)

650 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD. Film Review. Love yril\ find its way Through' paths, where wolves would fear to. prey, And if it dares enough 'twere hard If passion met not seme reward.— Byron. . "The Elopement." In this production the biograph has struck the dulcet chord in the gamut of human emotion, and in the very genesis of the story wins the sympathy oi . the spectator for the young- couple., who are the leading characters. The gallant lover, whose proposal of marriage is ac- cepted by his sweetheart, meets with a storm of disapproval from her father, on account of her youth. Tearful and discon- solate, they receive this prophylaxis to the consummation of their wishes. But "beauty's tears are lovelier than her smiles," and when the young knight be- holds the tender orbs of his lady fair welled with those heaven-moving pearls, he be- comes desperate, and as a dernier ressorl suggests elopement, to which suggestion his sweetheart cheerfully assents. - When the "queen of night shines fair, with all her virgin stars about her," the young chevalier rides up on that twentieth century Pegasus, the automobile, and tak- ing his inamorata aboard, they chug off down the road like the wind, with Eros at the wheel. They have hardly disap- peared before Pa and Ma, awakened by the snorting of the gasoline steed, start in pur- suit, clad only in their robe-de-nuit, in another auto. The young lovers are madly spinning along the Toad, touching only the high spots, when suddenly, frowns wrin- kle the brow of Fortune, and the idiosyn- crasies of the buzz-wagon for a time seem to militate against a happy denouement of the story. First, in making a sharp turn in the road, it skids and whirls around like a weather vane,, and a little further on it sticks fast in. a heavy morass, and no amount of manual persuasion will induce the carburetor to "carburet." Here they find themselves impaled on the horns of a dilemma. The pursuing auto is seen rap- idly advancing along the moonlit highway. Think, and think quickly. . Ah I to the woods, for autos have not as yet been trained to fly or climb trees. So through the woods they make their way until they come to a lake where a motor-boat is tied to the landing. Into this they leap and are soon swiftly cutting through the scintillat- ing ripples of the turquoise waters. But misfortune sits ahelm, and the Sphinx would shed tears of pity at their plight when, while darting along towards their goal, the opposite shore, the motor-boat ex- plodes, hurlinsr them into the cold, merci- less water, The stout-hearted lover suc- ceeds in bringing his precious burden ashore, and carries her prostrate form to a farmhouse nearby, where the bucolic altru- ism of the old country couple soon revives their chilled spirits, attiring their bodies in suits of their clothing in place of the wet ones they had on. You may imagine they cut most ludicrous figures as they stood before the village parson, whom the good old farmer hurriedly summoned—the bride- groom in. his host's dress suit, which, what it lacked in length, more than amply made up in breadth, and the blushing bride in a pristine creation of dressmaker's art be- longing to the old lady. But Cupid is no respector of raiment—if he was, he would dress differently himself—and so the happy A NEW, COMIC AND MYSTERIOUS FHO* ,:. "MUie'.-tHe ■ M@dl©l - A combination of mystic and comical ideas that is simply irresistable. Surprise and laughter alternate from beginning to.end, and Mike the Model meets the demand for a really comic sub- ject with a vein of mystery throughout that the, wisest cannot fathom... ....... .. . *» ^«1'.V. *«*.,-.-•- V Length about 600 feet " ? Code Word, Amode The mischievous kids and the'unhappy heavy weight, with other comical situations Jiave made this the most popular subject but. Send for it if you have not received it from your renting agency. Length about 8IO feet Code Word Attn COMING What is Home Wit Length about 600 Feet . ©<n>«2© "SSSroipfia^-IA.fcGs.o'© THE SELIG POLYSCOPE /.'.->-.. !■■;■'•■''.:~ % • UMCORPORATSD) 43-45 PoeSs. Court, 9 IIL1L.