Cinema News and Property Gazette (1912)

F II -MS.Supplement to THE CINEMA. August, 1912. necessary in order to track the real thief. Nat disguises himself and returns to Mr. Redmond's house. He overhears a telephone conversation in which Lucie tells her lover of Philip's arrest and implores him to return the papers to her adding that she is coming for them immediately. Hurriedly, Pinkerton leaves, and in a few minutes, in another disguise, is driving a cab past the house. Lucie hails him and gives the address of George's flat. Nat drives his fare to her destination and then resumes his usual appearance. George receives Lucie coldly and refuses to give her the papers. Lucie pleads with him tearfully, but in vain. Pinkerton enters, accompanied by two policemen, and compels the thief to sign a confession. Pinkerton liberates Philip and with George's confession the two return to Mr. Foster's house, where the two young people discover their mutual affection, to the joy of Mr. Foster. VITAGRAPH CO., 15-17, Cecil Court, W.C. "THE CYLINDER'S SECRET."— Released August 29th. Length 1,007 feet. This is a remarkably striking and dramatic film, which introduces in the shape of evidence of murder given by a dictating machine an original note in dramatic picture plays. " Murder will out ! The discovery in this wonderful story of a crime which convicted the guilty man, and freed the innocent one, is marvellously strange and interesting. Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Earl, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage, and he quarrels with his son. Marjorie has a half-brother, Dave, who is of an inventive turn of mind. Earl has introduced him to Mr. Abele, who becomes interested in the young man, and tries to promote a mechanical device which Marjorie's brother has submitted to him. The young fellow imagines that his benefactor is holding his invention and trying to get possession of it himself. He demands money from Mr. Abele. m\ pfo*&~h JjBh^ — *i?'?«^^ -■ k ulUtk One day, just as Mr. Abele has started his dictating machine to dictate a letter, Dave, Marjorie's half-brother, enters. Hequarrels with the millionaire, and, in passion, kills him. The machine has registered all that has passed between them and the threats of the murder. Earl Abele is arrested on suspicion of having killed his father. As his trial is progressing, Marjorie, who has read the record of the dictating machine, brings it into court, attaches it to the electrical chandelier connection, and it gives the evidence which frees Earl. Just as he is acquitted, Dave, the guilty man, rushes into the court room and confesses his guilt. The great excitement of the moment and the strain of remorse has so divitalised his strength and affected his heart, he drops dead into the arms of an officer of the court. "THE TRIUMPH OF RIGHT."— Released August 24th. Length 1,010 feet. Leaving his consumptive wife with her child alone, and in poverty, Tom Dexter passes his time playing cards. His wife, seized with a choking cough, realises that the end is at hand. She sends little Mary to the saloon for her father. She finds him in a dispute over cards. She steps between " Mexican Luke " and her father. Luke slinks back, shamed by the child. The father returns to his cabin, realises his wife's condition, and hastens out for help. The Mexican steals a cowboy's horse and rides towards Dexter's shack, meeting Dexter going on his way for help. Dexter tells him of his wife's sickness, and begs for the loan of the horse. The Mexican strikes Dexter with his whip. Driven to desperation, Dexter pulls the Mexican off his horse, mounts, and rides away, leaving the Mexican swearing vengeance. The cowboys miss the stolen horse and find the hatband from the Mexican's sombrero. They start after him. " Mexican Luke " visits the Sheriff, and accuses Dexter of being the long-sought horse thief. The Sheriff and he ride to Dexter's home and find him bending over his wife's dead body. The Sheriff listens to the stricken man's story, but is forced to do his duty. Mary pleads with the Sheriff in vain. Tearfully the child produces her little bank and tries to bribe the Sheriff, adding to the offer her dearest treasure, her old rag doll. Touched by the appeal of the motherless child, he forgets he is Sheriff and gives Dexter a chance to escape. He declines it. The Sheriff is about to replace the handcuffs, when the cowboys crowd into the cabin. The Sheriff silences them, telling them they are in the presence of death. With uncovered head, the leader proves the innocence of Dexter by producing the missing hatband and pointing to the Mexican's sombrero. " Mexican Luke " is led away by the Sheriff and the cowboys, leaving Dexter and his little daughter alone with their dead. -Released August 24th. Length "THE PICTURE IDOL.' 1,010 feet. Beth Ward, a young high school girl, falls in love with Howard Hanson, a moving picture idol. She unexpectedly sees him in the street and follows him, and carefully notes the number of his house. Beth becomes so violently carried away with her picture man, she falls behind in studies. Her parents soon learn of her insane infatuation. Her father calls on Howard, and thev arrange a plan to cure her of her foolishness. Howard dines with the Wards. Beth is enraptured until he exhibits such astounding table manners and insists upon bawling instead of singing; then she begins to see some defects in her idolised ideal. In return, Howard asks the Wards to take tea with him the next day. He arranges with his room-mate to impersonate his wife, and employs several children from the neighbourhood to represent his family. Mr. Ward and Beth call, and she is so shocked by the coarseness of his wife and children that she is forever cured of her idolatry, and she goes back to her lover. " MOCKERY."— Released August 13th. Length 968 feet. In the Middle Ages Prince Dionio of Italy is affianced to Princess Dolorosa. Pepito, the Jester, falls in love with the Princess. He forgets his ill-shapen body in the yearning of his heart. At the wedding feast of Dionio and Dolorosa the jester cannot conceal his jealousy, and, even after her marriage, he would feign court the Princess. Lorenzo, the court physician, observes the hideous attentions of Pepito, and asks, " What right has a shrivelled fool like you to admire the Princess? " This cuts him to the quick, and when the Princess mocks his love he vows vengeance. He arouses the jealousy of Dionio against Lorenzo. The fool forges a note from the doctor, making a clandestine meeting with the Princess. This he gives to the Prince, then placing Lorenzo's medicine-case beside the sleeping Princess, whom he covers, he tells the Prince that the physician is asleep in one of the adjoining court chambers, and leads Dionio to stab the Princess, thinking she is the court physician. When Dionio discovers his mistake, with the same dagger he stabs himself, falling dead over the lifeless form of his wife. The jester gloatingly triumphs over the vengeance which he has brought upon his hated mockers. EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! WHAT? Why running Walturdaw's ExclusiYes. with a Power's Projector. A mine of information in a Walturdaw Catalogue, it, post free 9d. Send for