The Bioscope (Jan-Mar 1913)

wee re SUPPLEMENT TO THE BrIoscopr, JANUARY 9. 1913. Chief White Eagle—White Eagle, at college, hears of hig father’s death, making him chief. Tis tribe threaten rebellion, and he is despatched to the fort to aid in suppressing the rising. Estrella leads the Indian to love her, but rejects his offer of marriage. He atrangles her, and eacapes to his tribe. The white troops follow, and to save his people he confesses ,and pays the penalty. (Released January 19th. Length 1,062 ft.) Lux. Pursued by a Lioness.—Pierre Marchant is a quarreleome fellow, who is no favourite with his fellow settlers in a little French colony. . Robert Mordant is very popular. When he and Marchant fight a duel, in which the latter is killed, all the sympathy of the colony is upon Mordant’s side. The Mounted Police arrive, and Mordant ia taken prisoner. They proceed to shoot him, as martial law exists in the colony. Before they shoot their prisoner, the police agree to allow him to go and visit his old mother. Marcel Revere agrees to act as hostage for him as a guarantee that he will come back. It is agreed that if Mordant does not return by a certain time Marcel shall suffer in his place. Mordant pays his farewell visit to his mother, mounts his horse, and starts on the return journey. His path leads through a wild country, infested y wild animals. He is thrown from his horse, the horse bolts, and he is left to continue the journey on foot. Undaunted, Mordant sets out. He is suddenly pounced upon by a leopard. A fierce struggle ensues, in which man and beast wrestle together, but finally Mordant triumphs, and throws the beast off. He resumes his journey, but next encounters a hungry lioness. He gete away, but the lioness follows him. ordant takes refuge among some rocks. The lioness holds the key of the situation, and simply waits for her victim to appear. Meanwhile the moments are fleeting by, and Marcel will have to answer for his friend’s absence with his life. Mordant takes his first opportunity to escape the vigilance of his fourfooted foe, and goes to meet his death at the hands of the police. He arrives just as Marcel is about to be shot. The police listen to his story, and are so impreseed by it that they agree among themselves to let their prisoner escape them. (Released January 11th. Length 800 ft.) Naval Manceuvres at Lortent.—This film shows the French Naval Brigade carrying out their manceuvres on land. (Released January 15th. Length 640 ft.) Majestic. Belligerent Benjamin.—Benjamin Benton, a bully, finds his wife in tears. She tells him that while out walking a stranger kicked her poodle, Toodles. On her resenting the kick, the stranger was rude. Some weeks later the Bentons go for a walk. Mrs. Benton sees the unknown, and points him out to Benjamin, who accosts him. Benjamin slaps the stranger, who then proceeds to beat enjamin, and the latter. in short time is stretched out unconscious. The stranger then takes a card from his pocket. and places it on Benton’s chest, then walks away. Mrs. Benton walks to her prostrate husband, and reads the card: “Jim Brannigan, Light Weight Champion.” She afts Benjamin’s head and shows him the card, whereupon he looks about wildly and faints again. (Released January 15th. Length 295 ft.) A Garrison Joke.—Before his marriage, Lieutenant Harris had been a somewhat wild young man. He feels sure that his wife knows nothing of his escapades, but in reality she knows all about them. It is announced that Mise Katharine Nielson, a former sweetheart of the lieutenant, is to play in the city where his post is located. Some of his brother officers concoct a plan to have some Google fun at hia expense. They beguile Mrs. Harris. into the plot. She writes a letter in disguised hand, and sends it to her sister in Kansas City, ao that she may mail it to Harris in time to have it delivered on the first of April. This letter is supposed to come from Katharine Nielson. The lieutenant becomes very excited. He informe his wife that he must be absent from his post for a few days, and that. she must go to her sister in Kansas City. He helps her pack, and rushes her to the depot. She gives him a note before she gets on the train. As the train pulls out he reads the note, which says, “I wrote the letter myself, April Fool!” He looks up, to see his wife standing opposite him, where she alighted from the other side of the train. His brother officers appear, and the joke is enjoyed by all but the unhappy victim. ((Released January 18th. Length 680 ft.) The Call of the Blood.—John Ford, chief of a party cf civil engineers, wede a gipsy. After two years the chill of normal life palls upon her. From her drawing-room window she sees a light of a camp fire, and, unable to resist its appeal, she answers the call of the blood. Forsaking her husband and child, she steals to the woods and sits upon the earth attired in her evening gown. A year later, a gipsy woman peddling her laces near the Fords’ home, sees doctors coming frum the house. She learns of the fatal illness of the child. Going into the woods, she gathers herbs and brews a mystic medicine. Later that night she looks through a v.indow, and sees a despairing group gathered about the child's bedside. The gipsy steals in and administers her medicine. The child cries, and the mother hides behind a portiére as the father and doctor enter the room. The doctor pronounces the crisis past. The gipsy looks longingly at her husband and child, then steals away. Later she joins her gipsy band. (Released January 18th. Length 943 ft.) Hepworth. The Luck of the Red Lion.—A poor actor goes to stay at a village inn on the borders of Surrey, where his manners and curious air impress the villagers, who do not know quite what to make of him. The landlord’s wife happens to see a paragraph in the paper to the effect that Prince Rustitoff is staying incognito at a Surrey inn, and she comes to the conclusion that this must be their eccentric visitor. The landlord scouts this idea. A week passes, and then comes the time when the actor's bill is presented, which he is unable to pay. The landlord seizes the autor’s luggage, and in the struggle out falls a coronet, which, as a matter of fact, is a “property ” one. The landlord is now convinced that the real prince is staying at his house. He announces the fact far and wide, and pre ares himself for the rush that he is certain will ensue, y engaging a large staff of extra waiters and by getting in a stock of the best provisions and wines. As he anticipated, there is a big rush of people, all anxious to make the acquaintance of the famous Prince Rustitoff. The actor does not hesitate to make hay while the gun shines, and lives on the fat of the land without paying anything for it. One day the truth comes out, for the actor receiveg a postcard informing him that his old part of the hind legs of the dragon is vacant and awaiting his acceptance at the annual Christmas pantomime. This gives the whole show away, and the landlord and the guests realise that they have been hoaxed. The actor. gathering up his Inggage, slips out of his bedroom window, and sets off on his return to London, feeling much better for his six weeks’ free board and lodging, which he secured during his impersonation of Prince Rustitoff at the Red Lion. (Released January 9th. Length 750 ft.) Plot and Pash.—This picture is a skit on the old-fash. ioned melodrama. In the first scene we find the impossibly