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

34 PATHEPICTURES ingly watch her depart in her limousine, the old man says that when he hecomes rich lie will buy a car and take them all for a ride. Just then the postman brings him a letter telling him that he is to get some money. He gets a dilapidated flivver and they start off on a picnic. They have many exciting adventures including taking the car to pieces and putting it together again and fighting a ferocious tramp in a hay stack. But they have a glorious day and finally get safely home again. THE BIG SHOW (M., H.S., J., Ch.) 2 Reels A traveling circus comes to town but the Gang has no money to pay for admission and every time they try a secret entrance they are foiled. So they decide to have their own circus, with the help of a circus boy who is airing the trick ponies. They improvise a merry-go-round, side shows and a marvelous and mysterious menagerie. Everything goes well until Jackie, deserted by the older members of the gang, gets revenge by letting loose the menagerie, and the owner of the ponies comes wrathfully looking for them. During the show they give a performance in which several prominent movie actors are taken off by the gang. BOYS TO BOARD (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels A stern looking lady, with a henpecked husband, takes children to board. She is so severe in her treatment of her juvenile boarders that they decide to run away and look for Indians. The husband overhears their plans and when they sneak out under cover of night he joins them. They discover a man making whiskey, capture him and turn him over to the authorities. The husband is so impressed with his own ability that he asserts himself at home, demands more and better food for himself and the children and life assumes a more pleasant aspect. A PLEASANT JOURNEY (M., H.S., J., Ch.) 2 Reels The rich lady whose hobby is philanthropy has a devoted lover who does not share her love of children. When some children in the lady's town run away, she wires the lover to bring them home. He gets the gang by mistake — a sad mistake for him, the Pullman car conductor, the porter and all the passengers. When the nerve wracked man arrives with his charges the object of his devotion asks him to take them back immediately and get the right children. GIANTS VS. YANKS (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels The Yanks are ready for the game but the Giants have to help out in many chores at home. When finally everything is fixed the game is stopped by the man who owns the lot. Meanwhile the woman who lives near by borrows the baby and when the boys go to get it they are quarantined in the house because the maid has scarlet fever. The boys wreck the house and when their parents come for them they laugh. But the doctor returns and says he has made a mistake so the children are hustled out to be spanked by their parents and the doctor is properly punished by the young man. BACK STAGE (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels A theatrical company playing in a small town go on strike and the manager, loath to give back his receipts, calls in "The Gang" to save the show. It was a great evening for the members of the gang who exposed all the magician's tricks, put on acts of their own, upset the scenerj', turned on the wind at the wrong time and in the end wrecked the show. DOGS OF WAR (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels The Gang started to play war in a vacant lot but decided to get jobs as extras in the movies. The casting director did not need their types but by joining the dummies on a truck the gang got in the studios. By taking parts in many scenes they were soon more waned upon than warring and glad at the end of the day to see the outside of the studio. LODGE NIGHT (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels The Gang decides to initiate the new boy who comes to school into the secret society of the Kluck Kluck Klams in spite of the fact that he is a "sheek" with the girls. Mickey and his brother have some difficulty leaving home that night since they are supposed to practice. When they are in the midst of the secret devices, automobile thieves come into the barn and they are forced to run. The thieves escape with two of the Gang in the back seat. The other members pursue them, catch the thieves, and gain the reward. JULY DAYS (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels The Gang is much excited over the arrival of a new family, and when Mickey sees the new girl he decides that she is worth dressing up for, but his rival, who is the bully of the Gang, decides the same thing. So Mickey gets a wagon and a goat and takes Mary riding while the rest look on and jeer. Mary's small brother puts glue on the seat