Catalogue of Pathépictures Selected for Educational, Religious and Social Groups (1925)

PATHEPICTURES 11 co-operate to trace the girls and arrest the criminals. As guests the two young men obtain admittance to the Long Island house in which a gang of kidnappers hold the girls for ransom. They find plenty of evidence but are themselves kept prisoners and can find no way to send for help. An explosion wrecks part of the building and in a short time every branch of the police department is in action. Mounted police, motorcycle squads, armored cars, police boats, airplanes, dogs, strong-arm and riot squads are rushed to the scene to round up the gang of crooks and rescue the twenty heiresses. DYNAMITE SMITH (M.) 7 Reels "Dynamite Smith" runs the literary department of a small town newspaper. One night all the regular reporters are out so Smith is sent to cover a "knifing" at Rourke's Cafe. Rourke refuses to give out information, but his wife, beaten and downtrodden, tells Dynamite the story, which he turns in. As a result and fearing the consequences, the wife persuades Smith to flee with her to Alaska, where her baby is born, on the trail, and she dies. Dynamite takes the baby and becomes quite a figure in a small Alaskan town, but Rourke follows him and he lives as Rourke's slave because of his fear of him. Finally he resolves to be tortured no longer and plans to destroy both Rourke and himself, but a girl intervenes and only Rourke is killed, while Dynamite and the girl find happiness together with the baby. THE BATTLING ORIOLES— Comedy Drama (M., H.S.) 6 Reels The Battling Orioles are professional baseball players of the '70's who were terrors of the diamond in their day. Nearly all live in an old man's club now. Tryon is the son of a deceased Oriole, whose girl has been brought from her home town by an uncle who forces her to work in a low cafe. Glenn has rescued her and brings her into the club in a laundry basket. The former Orioles drive him out as a disturber of the peace and before making his exit, Glenn tells them what he thinks of their present state in comparison with their former prowess. His words make a hit and the Orioles start on a home run to help the boy rescue his sweetheart. In a heated and long drawn out fight in the cafe the old timers win and aside from getting his girl, Glenn is given a vote of thanks for showing his father's old pals that they were not back numbers. THE WHITE SHEEP (M., H.S., Ch.) 7 Reels Tobias Tyler is the only pacifist in a family of fighting mountaineers and his pugnacious father and brothers look upon him with great contempt. Patience and her family move to town and Tobias immediately falls in love with her — but his two husky brothers do the same. When Pa Tyler is convicted of murder,, the brothers are helpless, but Toby goes after the real criminal. He saves his father, wins Patience and the respect of his brothers and father. BARRIERS BURNED AWAY (M., H.S.) 7 Reels Featuring Frank Mayo and Mabel Ballin A dramatic story of Chicago before, during and after the great fire of 1871. The picture was made in co-operation with the Chicago Historical Society and includes an absorbing love story, pictures of the incident of Mrs. Leary's cow kicking over the lantern that started the fire and sensational realistic pictures of the city burning. THREE MILES OUT (M., H.S.) Featuring Madge Kennedy and Harrison Ford. 6 Reels A half hour before her marriage Molly Townsend discovered that she did not love Luis Riccardi, her fiance, and did love John Locke, a young sea captain, who was about to sail for South America. She eloped on the ship with Locke, but before they could be married, he was knocked unconscious and thrown overboard by thugs in Riccardi's employ. Molly was exposed to many perils before her lover, who was pulled out of the water by a passing boat, arrived with police reserves and Alolly's parents. EAST OF BROADWAY (M., H.S.) 6 Reels Featuring Owen Moore and Marguerite de la Motte. A story of a young Irishman who loved a girl and wanted to be a cop. When Peter Mullaney was rejected because he was under the minimum height required, he went out to prove that strength counted for something as well as length. With an older policeman who has long been his friend, Peter helped to capture a gang of thieves who had broken into a wealthy home. The older man was shot and Peter wounded, but his girl came to the hospital to tell him that he'd been made a member of the force. NEVER SAY DIE— Comedy Drama (M., H.S.) 7 Reels Featuring Douglas McLean and Lillian Rich Jack Woodbury goes to a doctor's office to view his friend Hector's new painting. While there, the doctors, with the assistance of a bee discover that Jack has heart trouble and will die in three months. In order to leave Hector his money, Jack obligingly marries Violet, Hector's fiancee. Violet goes to Florida and Hector goes to Paris for three months. At the end of three months Hector returns to find that Jack is still