Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

J INUARY I, 1913. FILMS.— Supplement to THE CINEMA. 75 INVICTA FILM CO., 7l Rupbri Court, W. Phone Gerrard . Releasing: -BISON 101, GEM and VICTOR Films. I 111. t Rl >ss, ROADS. [Victor.) A baby i> discovered in a basket hanging to a tree at the cross roads. Mar) Spaulding, a washerwoman, passes the spot. Mir takes the infant to bei home. Fourteen years latri, Annabel town into a fine, winsome creature. Mary has sent her public school, and she has therefore not grown up in ignorThe love between Mary and Annabel is true, both oi them seeking only the welfare and happiness of the other. One day Annabel delivers a basket of clothes at the home < • r a wealthy, but childless, couple, named Austin, who have always admired and petted Annabel on the occasion ol her visits. They desire to adopt her. They meet with the most strenuous resistance on the part of Mary and Annabel, who refuse to be separated, finally, Mr. Austin obtains Mary's consent. Two years go by, and Annabel has become a society girl. She has two admirers, Harry Owen and liert Matthews, both of whom love her devotedly, but between whom she is unable to di Hert one day invited the entire party to go on an automobile tour. They suddenly meet old Mary, now helpless and feeble, ,1 miserable human derelict. Mary falls in front of the machine, and Bert jumps out and scolds her for her awkward ness. Annabel, not recognising Mary at first, comes to her 1, only to discover her long-lost foster-mother. Bert is filled with repulsion, and draws aside, but Harry rushes forward and greets Mary most cordially. Annabel now knows whom she loves the better. Room is made for Mary in the automobile, but she deprives Annabel of her seat, and she and Harry decide to go on foot to the next stop, and the journey they begin together promises to continue through life. "AT OLD FORT DEARBORN." One day, in the spring of 1812, lllack Partridge, a friendly Pottawatomie Chief, appeared before Captain M. Heald, the commander of the garrison at Fort Dearborn, which occupied the site of the City of Chicago previously to 1812. Singing bird, a squaw, accompanied her father. Black Partridge handed back the famous " Peace Medal " to Commander Heald, telling him that the Indians were on the warpath and beyond control. Rawlins, a dissolute Englishman, insulted Singing Bird, and was confined in the guard house, from which he escaped. He joined the Indians, and incited them to attack and destroy the garrison and settlers. Captain Heald received a message, brought by a friendly Indian, from General Hull, telling him_ that Mackinaw had fallen, and instructing him to evacuate the garrison and distribute the United States lands amongst the Indians. Rawlins plotted with the Indians to offer safe conduct to the Whites at Fort Wayne. Heald deemed it policy to ?ccept the offer, and the garrison and a handful of settlers evacuated and marched out. The attitude of the Indians was unmistakable, and the band played the " Dead March " in " Saul." The attack was made, and, with" few exceptions, the brave band was murdered. Captain Heald was overpowered, and Mrs. Heald, standing bravely by her husband's side, was seized by Crouching Cat, and was about to be captured, when Singing Bird killed the Indian with a tomahawk. Rawlins endeavoured to take her off, but Singing Bird pulled Mrs. Heald, badly wounded, upon her horse and escaped with her. Rawlins had Heald tied to a tree, having saved him in order to torture him. Singing Bird drugged the guard's water, and freed Heald and helped him to escape. The brave Indian girl was badlv wounded, and died in Mrs. Heald's arms as a detachment of soldiers from Fort Wavne rode up to complete the rescue. The Indians burned the fort and celebrated their victory. The devotion of Singing Bird to her white friends forms the main theme of the story, which is historically correct, and the many stirring incidents of the massacre and the brave dee Is performed are vividly depicted. "WHEN UNCLE SAM WAS YOUNG." (Bison.) Gervais Delemere and Sydney Archdale, sen., are lifelong friends. Archdale's son. Sydney, and Constance Delemere are affianced. One day, as the friends are plaving chess, an Indian runner brings a message bearing the information that King George III. has directed thru a tax of threepence per pound be put on tea. Tin message virtually ; a tail to arms. The men argue violently, Archdale asserting the tax an outand Delamere advancing strong Royalist principles 1 1 ties start, and Archdale shows his partisanship b> drilling recruits. Delemere watches his daughter Constancy carefully; he introduces her to Captain Devereaux, and intimates in bei that it will please him if she will show him attention. Delemere and Constance out riding find a six-year-old boy apparently deserted. Constance insists upon taking the child home with her. He is the son of Captain Devereaux, who hi little Phillip after he has struck down his Indian wile, I leaving her apparently dead. Osano r< and vow geance. Delemere accompanies Captain Devereaux Fast 111 answer to the call for men to serve the King. Devereaux pi Constance with a charm from his chain as a remembrance. Constance cannot face the loneliness, and, accompanied by her servants, she Starts for Boston, also taking' the boy, to join her father. Arriving at a blockhouse, Constance requests accommodation for the night. It is acceded to. The blockhouse is attacked, and, after a bitter fight, the survivors are taken prisoners by the Indians. One man escapes, and, arriving at Boston, he seeks out Delemere, who receives a message from General Gage to the Mohawk chief, Main Rouge, asking him to deliver up his daughter. Delemere is on his way to Connecticut when he is arrested by American soldiers and put into jail. In the meantime Constance is taken to the tepee of Chief Main Rouge, where she is found by Osano, the deserted wife of Devereaux. Osano recognises the charm, and is about to kill Constance, but fearing detection and death, she conducts the white girl to the woods, and leaves her to her fate. Constance wanders about, and is found in an exhausted condition by a Quaker family, and is taken by them to Boston. Archdale, junior, leads the Boston tea-party, overpowers the English crew, and throws the tea chest overboard. Constance visits her father in prison, and secures an interview with General Washington. She obtains an order for Delemere's release. The Declaration of Independence is signed. One afternoon Constance and the boy are seen by Osano, who attacks Constance with a knife. Phillip tries to defend her, and thwarts her long enough to allow her to be rescued by Sydney Archdale and his father. The squaw falls, and the knife enters her side. They carry the woman to Delemere's cottage, where they find Devereaux, who has just returned from England. Osano recognises Devereaux, and denounces him as the husband who deserted her. In a fit of rage Devereaux draws his sword and lunges at Sydney, to whom Constance has run. Archdale, sen., kills Devereaux. Osano sees the tribal mark on Phillip's arm, and tells Constance he is her son. The boy runs to his protectress. The old man is reconciled, and the way is open for the marriage of Constance and Sydney. " SISTERS." (Victor.) Annie and Mary are twin orphans, left in charge of an orphanage. Annie is adopted by a middle-class family and Mary is adopted by a wealthy family. Mary marries a wealthy but dissipated clubman, while Annie becomes the wife of a member of the fire department. Mary is afflicted with heart trouble. Annie, knowing that her husband needs a new watch, decides to purchase one for his birthday. Her actions in attempting to buy it arouse the suspicions of her husband. That day Mary's house catches fire, and her husband being awav with some male and female friends, leaves the maid all alone with her mistress, and who, upon seeing the fire, is panicstricken, and rushes out, leaving Mary to struggle alone. Heart trouble overpowers her, and she falls back on her bed dead. Annie's husband arrives and mounts the ladder to Mary's room. Breaking through the window, he dashes into the room, and, seeing a woman on the bed, goes to her. One glance at her and he believes her to be Annie. Carrying her to a place of safety, a physician is summoned, who pronounces Mary as dead. The poor fireman staggers away. Later in the day he wanders home. Annie, who sees him coming, conceals herself behind the curtains. He enters his house, and, crushed by his terrible blow, decides to end his troubles by blowing out his brains. Annie comes from her place of concealment and shows him his birthday gift, and he. stunned by her unexpected appearance, drops the revolver back in the drawer and clasp? her in his arms. Annie never knew.