Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912)

July, 1912. FILMS.—Suppiement to THE CINEMA. depredations. Out in the desert he rides and is seeking a place for the night when he suddenly sees a covered wagon in the distance. Riding up, he finds a little girl weeping over the dead body of her mother. Tenderly Bart takes the child in his arms, then sees a letter in the dead woman's hand. There are only two lines, but they are enough to tell him the poor wasted form was once his sweetheart, Betty, and that she was going to her brother's home with her little girl after the death of her husband. For a moment Bart bows his head in silent grief with the little one clasped in his arms. The first shadow of night is upon the desert when he rides slowly away from the lone grave. Reaching an abandoned shack, Bart makes a bunk for the child with his horseblankets and tucks her in. But the spirit of the dead mother causes the little one to climb from the bed and kneel in prayer, and Bart, for the first time in his rough life, bows his head in solemn communion. reload, Broncho corners him and a terrific hand-to-hand struggle ensues on the brink of the yawning chasm. Back and^forth they sway until Broncho forces Kelly to his knees, then picks him up bodily and is about to cast him over the precipice, when the Bible falls from his pocket and Broncho sees the words "Thou Shalt Not Kill" open before him. For a moment he fights with himself, then allows Kelly to escape .unmolested. Bible in hand, he finds a seat against the rocks and begins the faithful study of God's Word, and the following Sunday finds him in church for the first time in his life. GAUMONT CO., 5-6, Sherwood Street, W. OF FAME. Released "THE LAUREL-WREATH August 1st. Length 989 feet. Guido Marcello, a young composer, is madly infatuated with Maria Medici, a pretty singer. Maria sings his first composition and, overcome with her beauty and his emotions, Guido begs her to become his wife. Maria, however, prefers her musical career to marriage and rejects Guido's proposal. Heartbroken he returns home. The death of his mother leaves him alone in the world. Years later Guido is housed in a wretched garret, poverty-stricken and still searching for musical fame. Meanwhile, Maria has become a noted prima donna. One day Guido, in passing the theatre, sees the posters announcing Maria's grand concert. Sick at heart he turns away only to come face to face with Maria. Wishing to avoid recognition, Guido goes on to his lodgings. Maria has recognised him, sends her maid to secure his address, then visits him in the garret. Guido confesses his poverty and shows her his rejected music. One piece attracts Maria's attention, she sings it over and instantly agrees to render it that night at the concert. Guido refuses her money for it, but thanks her for her aid and Maria leaves with the song. That night her concert is a great triumph and Guido's music has set the critics agog. Meanwhile, Guido's brutal landlord threatenshim with eviction and, during his absence, ruins his violin and destroys his music. Guido returns, discovers the awful situation, drives the landlord from the garret, and worn out with hunger and exhaustion becomes delirious. Maria and her delighted friends now enter to tell him of his fame, only to find a gibbering ghost of poor Guido. His reason partly returns at hearing Maria sing his music but, on realising he is famous, he is stricken and dies, while Maria sobs out her grief over his wasted body. "THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD, The leading Trade paper in America says : — Judging by the first two issues of THE CINEMA its success is already assured. " BRONCHO BILLY'S BIBLE. 989 feet. Released July 28th. Length Broncho Billy and his pal, after robbing the stage coach divide the loot and part company. Among the valuables in his share Broncho finds a well-worn Bible, and, after skimming over the pages with a grim smile, he puts it in an inside pocket and rides into town. In the saloon, a poker-game is flourishing and "Quick-Draw" Kelly, a notorious cheat and gun-man, is clearing the cowboys of their earnings. Broncho sits in the game, detects Kelly sliding an ace from the top of his boot, calls his cheating at the point of his gun, brands Kelly with disgrace and kicks him out. Burning with revenge Kelly tries to kill Broncho with a shot through the open door, but the bullet lodges in the Bible and saves Broncho's life. Picking the bullet from the pages Broncho replaces the holy book in his pocket, rushes out, mounts, and starts'after the escaping ruffian. After a thrilling chase, both dismount and take to the rocks. Higher and higher Kelly ascends until the distant plains stretch before him miles below. Broncho now rolls a heavy boulder off to one side of Kelly, who instantly empties his gun in the direction of the sound, thinking it to be Broncho. Before he can " BOBBY AND THE SATYR."— Released July 25th.— Length 700 feet. This comical skit displays the Gaumont juvenile comedian Bobby to advantage in a very novel role. %e has wandered into the realms of mythology, and, as Peter Pan, with pipes all complete, finds the nymphs in that region so attractive that his attentions excite the jealousy of a Satyr, whom the ladies have previously regarded with favour, but who now finds his nose put out of join by Bobby's fresher charms. The Satyr applies to Bobby to tell him the secret of his success with the ladies, and Bobby, cycling to the abode of his god-like parents with two tame goats following him, returns with his pipes full of flour. When the Satyr blows, expecting to produce the sweet sounds with which Bobby has entranced the nymphs, he is discomfited more than ever, but renews his application, and Bobby, determined to teach him a lesson, has his pipes filled with soot. Unluckily, he is induced to blow the pipes first himself, and, with his eyes full of soot, is left lamenting, while the fickle nymphs again transfer their attentions to the Satvr. "THE COTTON INDUSTRY."— Released July 28th. Length 500 feet. This subject contains a series of most comprehensive views secured in one of the largest cotton factories in the world. We follow the cotton from the period of its arrival from America at the docks, in huge bales, which are swung to the wharf on powerful cranes, and soon find their way to the factory. The first process, performed by ingeniously designed and exceptionally powerful machines, is the opening of the bales and the beating and spreading out of the cotton, which leaves the machine in long flat rolls, and passes to the "carder," whose duty it is to clean it, and give it up ready for the next process. In this the cotton is crushed and emerges in the state of rough thread. Spinning follows, transforming the rough threads left by the previous process into finer threads and at the same time adding strength by stretching and twisting. The spinning machine is one of the most delicate and cleverly designed used in the entire process. The resulting threads are mounted on bobbins and fixed on a warping beam, the warp is sized, to give it the rigidity necessary for weaving, and with the combining of the threads of the warp and the woof we have the actual operation of weaving, resulting in cloth, which, after being examined for defects, is joined up in lengths ready for the market. HEPWIX, 2, Denman Street, W. "A MAN AND A SERVING MAID."— Released July 11th. Length 775 feet. Charles Waring is walking across the common one summer afternoon, when a young girl calls his attention to a child that has fallen into the water. The rescue is an easy matter to Charles,