The Bioscope (Jan-Mar 1913)

XViil. SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIOSCOPE, JANUARY 9, 1913. Gontran’s Unknown Nelghbour.—Gontran is so absorbed in his piano practice that his wife swears she will go back to mother. There is a scene, ending in the lady slapping her husband’s face, and departing. Gontran returns to the piano. The wife conceives a plan for winning him back. She takes music lessons, then establishes herself in a house opposite, and ravishes the sou] of Gontran by her performances. Concealed under a large veil she walks in the garden, so that Gontran is consumed with curiosity as to his fair neighbour. He writes to his solicitor to proceed with the divorce as he is in love with an unknown neighbour. The solicitor consults the lady, and leaves the letter with her. Whilst the lady walks in her garden Gontran walks in. his, and wrapping a note round a stone he tosses it over the garden wal]. He implores the lady to be his. She replies that he is not free. He sends back another note stating that he will suun be free, and will forget the other. Then she flings him a little bouquet. They rest ladders against. the wall. and climb up so that. they may see each other. Gontran, raising the lady’s veil, discovers—his wife. Explanations follow, and we leave the lady in the arms of her husband. (Released January 16th. Length 680 ft.)) ; The Spider.—A messenger knocks at the door of Tamayo. He comes from her lover with a note inviting her to go to him. She enters the house for her walking things, and Guemba, who also loves Tamayo, steals up to watch her depart. He follows the lady, and accosts her on a bridye over a stream. She repulses him. He pursues her. be comes violent, and is attacked by Tamayo’s lover. The lovers are drinking at a fountain, and then, filling their water bottle. wander away to gather flowers. They put the bottle. Immediately he is affected by the poison. captures a large and poisonous spider, and crushes the poison from it into their drinking water and hides. The couple return, and Tamayo gives her lover a drink from the bottle. Immediately her is affected by the poison. She runs for assistance, and Guemba, springing out of his concealment, taunts and kicks the dying man. The victim draws his sword and rushes upon his enemy, but Guemba, plucking the weapon from his grasp, smites him to the ground. The sound of the conflict has attracted Tamayo. She runs back, and is seized by Guemba, who attempts to carry her off. But the dying man prevents this, and Tamayo, seizing a knife from her enemy’s girdle, stabs Guemba. Then she finds her lover dead, and stabs herself. falling prostrate over his body. (Released January 16th. Length 550 ft.) Through Greece.—Opening with a birdseye view of Athens, the film takes us to the streets. The Academy of Fine Arts is a fine piece of architecture, and the Stadium is immense and impressive. The Royal palace makes a picturesque view. We sees the soldiers changing guard, and has also a view of the Royal profession. After a view of the ruins of the Temple of Corinth, a glimpse of the marble quarries and of the market, we pass to the canal of Corinth and see the sentinels on guard over this important waterway. (Released January 16t6h. Length 465 ft.) : Funnicus, Boatbuilder.—Funnicus is on the landingstage setting passengers afloat in their pleasure boats. when his employer receives a note reminding him that he had promised to send a sample cance to a hoating club. Funnicus is dispatched with the canoe. As he staggers through the streets he comes within an ace of inflicting injury on the passers-by. He summons a four-wheeled cab and puts the canoe on top, but when the cab starts off boat and boatbuilder come toppling to the ground. He makes another try, and this time all goes well, except that. the boat sweeps away the occupants of other cabs. Fun. nicus determines to toboggan down a hill. and he does it very successfully. He glides with great speed down this. up a flight of stairs, up a drawbridge ,and dives splash into the water. Next we see him staggering down a uar vow lane with the boat; he goes bump ayainst a wall. which collapses, to the indignation of the occupant of the room behind the wall. He gives Funnicus a blow which Google sends him bump into the other wall, and that, too, collapses. But he has at last reached the boating club, and after fishing the cance from under the pile of bricks, the president gives him an order for a dozen exactly the same as the “sample.” (Released January 16th. Length 465 ft.) Victor. The Cross Roads.—A baby is discovered in a basket hanging to a tree at the cross roads. Mary Spaulding, a washerwoman, takes the infant to her home. Fourteen vears later, Annabel has grown into a fine creature. Mary hag sent her to a public school. The love between Mary and Annabel is true. One day Annabel delivers a basket of clothes at the home of a wealthy but childless couple named Auatin, who have always admired Annabel. They desire to adopt her. They meet with resistance on the part of Mary and Annabel, who refuse to be separated. Finally Mr. Austin obtains Mary’s consent. Two years go by, and Annabel has become a society girl. She has two admirers—Harry Owen and Bert Matthews—between whom she is unable to decide. Bert one day invited the entire party to go on an automobile tour. They meet old Mary, now helpless and feeble. Mary falls in front of the machine, and Bert jumps out and acolds her for her awkwardness. Annabel comes to the rescue, only to discover her long lost. foster-mother. Bert draws aside, hut Harry rushes forward and greets Mary most cordially. Annabel] now knows whom she loves the better. Room is ‘made for Marv in the automobile, but she deprives Annabel] of her seat, and she and Harry decide to go on foot to the next stop. and the journey they begin together promises to conse Peete life. (Released January 18th. Length ly ‘ Biograph. Hoist on His Own Petard.—Henrico, off tu the masked ball as a Highlander, invites Smith’s maid to accompany him. Smith gete the note, and thinks it is meant for his wife. He waylays Henrico, seizes his costume, and takes the maid to the ball, believing her to be his wife. Mrs. ; Smith liberates Henrico, sete off to the ball, and assists at the great unmasking scene. (Released January 16th. Length 406 ft.) Their Idols —Schmaltz and Labrun, drinking their children’s engagement, fall out, and the lovers are parted. Mr. Wise intervenes, suggests a duel, which he takes care shall be bloodless, and tells the young people to elope. While escaping, they are attacked by Thugs, but the fathers appear in time to acare off the miscreants. (Released January 19th. Length 593 ft.) Heredity.—A white trader marries the daughter of an Indian chief, and heredity makes his son prefer the society of her people. The father compels the boy to accompany him while he cheats the Indians with broken guns and bad whisky. The redmen attack the party, and the war cry of his tribe rouses the boy. The trader and his friend perish, but. the chief saves mother and son, and they return to their tribe. (Released January 19th. Length 1,015 ft.) The Final Settlement.—Ruth was engaged to Jim, until she discovered that he was a drunkard, when she broke it off, and became the fiancée of Jim’s rival, John. Jim is lost. sight of; then one day he stumbles across John at a lumber camp. They quarrel, and agree to fight that evening. Jim breaks into a cabin, where he is astonished to find Ruth, now his rival’s wife. Jim rejoices to think he is going to kill Ruth’s husband. Then his better nature prevails; he takes the bullets from his revolver, and meets John with blank cartridges. (Released January 16th. Length 981 ft.)