The Bioscope (July-Aug 1912)

‘vi, oe _ 2 a eaabees to The Bioseope, July 18, 1982. them and completely exonerate Josephine. Anthony is full of regret at his want of confidence in his sweetheart, and has difficulty in convincing her of his continued love for her. Over is mother’s grave the lovers finally become reconciled. (Released August 21st. Length 420 ft.) Lea Downhearted.—Lea comes to the conclusion that life is not worth living, and determines to end her life. She writes a farewell letter to her Rarer) and then hangs her head against the wall. Instead of breaking her neck, the wall gives way and she is precipitated into a gentleman’s room. Her next essay ig to throw herself from a window, but she is caught by her clothes on a hook, and is easily rescued. She next throws herself before a cycle, and is the cause of the poor unfortunate rider being thrown but escapes injury herself. She goes to a dealer and buys a huge sack of charcoal, with which she has many amusing adventures before she finally lands at her room. She closes up the doors and windows, and sets the charcoal alight in the centre of the room. Soon the smoke causes her to open the window, when the local fire brigade arrive under the impression that the house is on fire, and so deluge Lea with water that she is cured of any ides Solax. Outwitted by Horse and Lariat.—A wonderful, trained horse is a Jeadin with his teeth the cords which bind the Ipless maiden, and then dashes off with a note to inform her friends. The final pinnacle of excitement is reached when the cowboy, having rescued his lady-love, the outlaws rush in hot pursuit and run into a roperly warmed up mgth 810 ft.) epperbox of cowboy guns and get r their pains. (Released July th. Ambrosie. Tweedledum Rears a Pupil.—The subject opens in a cine theatre, where a@ young gentleman is so excited by a icture on the screen in which the amous -“Tweedledum ” figures, that he creates a disturbance and is thrown out. Two friendly people direct him to the Ambrosio studio as the best place to find Tweedledum, and there he eventually finds the hero, busily engaged in turning out plots. “I.” immediately takes the new recruit to the studio to see what he is good for, and the venturesome young man is made acquainted with the fact that an actor for moving pictures cannot look forward to a bed of rbses. He is made to jump through a window, is thrown out of the room by an angry film “husband,” is put on a skittish horse, pitched bodily into a crowd of stage hands playing cards, and finally makes his way to the office again, swathed in bandages, which he discards when a contract is placed before him for signature. (Released July 25th. Length 660 ft.) Friscot is Too Honest.—A middle-aged gentleman has just emerged from the bank with his pocket-book of notes when, seized by a fit of sneezing, he shakes the valuable wallet to the ground. Friscot sees the wallet, and, picking it up, approaches the other to restore it. Believing he meditates an attack, the other takes to his heels, with Friscot, determined to return the lost property, hot upon his heels. In their haste, the pursued and pursuers cause not a little trouble to the many inoffensive pedestrians who obstruct their path. The two take to cycles, and later each jumps into an unattended motor-car, which charges through a wall, crashes clean through a wedding party which is dining in the open, carries away the gates at a level crossing, and finally charges full tilt off the wharf into the harbour. The quarry cannot get free now, and his astonishment when Friscot, instead of assaulting him, hands him the pocket-book, can be imagined. (Released July 28th. Length 387 ft.) Google of taking her life. (Released August 2lat. Length ft.) Pe the lawyer. Bil member of the company and he unties . e Vitagraph. The Old Kent Road.— Bill Simmonds is a poor coster with a large family. His wife is a good woman but has a short temper. Their daughter, Sue, the eldest, is their great comfort. The first picture shows the Simmonds’ family life, and Harry Gettings, a young coster, who is paying court to Sue. One day to the Old Kent Road comes Mr. Maller, a lawyer, who tells Bill that his uncle at Camberwell has left his house, a yearly income, and his donkey and “shay” to Bill. With money that Maller advances they buy fine clothes, and Bill drives the family in his newly acquired “ shay.” Bill does not now think that Harry is good enough for his daughter, and breaks off the rata hey remove to the cottage at Camberwell. In an,old desk Sue comes across a package addressed to Mr. It proves to be a later will of Mr. immonds, leaving all his money to charity, and so poor 1 goes dejectedly back to the Old Kent Road. Harry is again received as Sue's suitor, and Bill and his wife make the best of things. (Released July 25th. Length 889 ft.) Red Ink Tragedy.—Jack Sport returns to his boardinghouse in high spirits. He looks upon a bottle of red ink, mistaking it for wine. He spills it all over his face and shirt front. He falls upon the couch, and is soon in slumberland. The maid enters, decides that a murder has been committed, and calls up the police. A young detective is assigned to the case. A boarder who is shaving cuts himself and rushes intu the room with his razor in his hand. The detective puts him under arrest and then calls for he}; and an ambulance. When the surgeon discovers that Sack Sport is “dead drunk,” and the “blood” is only red ink, all hands join in a good, hearty laugh. (Released July 25th. Length 446 ft.) The Hieroglyphic.—Peter Barton leaves his wealth to ms niece, Mary, disinheriting his son Edgar, who steals the wil. Jack Smart, an associate of Edgar’s, keeps close watch upon him. He compels Edgar to surrender the will to him. Mary takes a position as a reporter, and meets Tom Swayne, who falls in love with her. Tom sees Jack Smart in a restaurant, and picks up a menu card, upon which Smart has written some hieroglyphics. Mary shows him an envelope which she picked up in her uncle’s room, where Smart took the will from Edgar. Tom compares the hieroglyphics on it with those on the menu card. Smart agrees to return the will to Barton for $10,000. Mary and ‘om enter the restaurant where Tom found the menu card, and see Smart enter and leave. They ask the waiter who wrote the hieroglyphics on the card. He tells them the man who has just Toft, Tom and Mary trail him. Smart returns to the restaurant and meets Edgar Barton. They enter a private dining-room. Barton passes over the money to Smart. Edgar is applying a match to the will when a policeman, with Tom and Mary, enter. The policeman rescues the will and gives it to Mary. (Rel July Length 900 ft.) The Woman HMaters.—Married, but not mated, are Mr. and Mrs. Henson. She tires of him, and leaves him un. ceremoniously. He becomes a woman-hater, and confines his associations to men of like sentiments. They form a mysogamists’ club with a membership of three. These three old fellows take a liking to Dick Morley, and adopt him ag their son. They send him to college, with the strict injunction to beware of women. The young fellow returns from college. He is supplied with plenty of money by his foster-fathers, and starts to see the town. He falls in love with a woman, and boasts of it to his benefactors. He becomes engaged to the woman. She follows him to the Woman Haters’ apartments, and he introduces her to