Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

56 Supplement to THE CINEMA. January 8, 1913. COSMOPOLITAN FILM CO., u, Gerbard STKtiiT, W. 1'hone: Gerrard 934. Releasing:— COSMOPOLITAN, ECKO, FOLLY, LONDON, and NEW 101 BISON Films. "THE GARRISON TRIANGLE." {101 Bison.) Jim is favoured by the Colonel's daughter, and Benton, a brother ..Ih. er. is jealous. An emigrant train dashes madly through the gates of the fort, bringing news of an Indian rising. The troops are called out, and the rival lovers with the rest of them ride off to suppress the rising. The opposing forces meet each other, and a keen fight ensues, during which 1 nn's horse runs away with him. This is an astounding piece if riding. We see horse and rider come at a break-neck pace down steep patches into the river, where in his efforts to stop the brute Jim comes a frightful cropper, the horse apparently trampling over him. He sticks to the beast, mounts it again and rides back. But Benton, seeing his disappearing figure, .alls the Colonel's attention to it, and when Jim returns he is placed under arrest, court-martialled, and accused of cowardice and dishonourably discharged. Naturally a disgraced soldier cannot aspire to his Colonel's daughter, and Benton hopes to profit by the incident. The Sioux Indians have pitched their camp on the beach of a river. The Cheyennes come to join them, and a pretty sight it is to see the canoes skilfully sent along, each with its load of warriors. A trapper witnesses the meeting, and reports to the Colonel at the fort. He rides off at the head of his troops to nip another rising in the bud. But the Indians are cunning, and he falls into an ambush. A terrible conflict takes place. Jim is leading a hermit's life, and the sounds of conflict reach his ears. The situation getting desperate, the Colonel has dispatched Benton to the fort for aid. But the messenger is pursued by Indians, who shoot him and then proceed to rifle the body. Jim arrives in time to kill both Indians, and turning to help the white man, finds that it is his enemy. Benton is dying; he whispers his message to Jim, who sets off for the fort. Absolutely dead-beat he reaches the gates and falls exhausted into the arms of the sentries there. He succeeds in gasping out sufficient information to send off a reinforcement, which arrives and turns the battle in favour of the whites. Victory achieved the troops ride back, and in the general rejoicings Jim is reinstated in the honour and estimation of the garrison, and in the affections of the Colonel's daughter. "AT THE RISK OF II EK LIFE." (A'eue.) Passing through a busy shipping yard, we reach the office of Engineer Watkins, who is wrestling with a problem connected with a new invention. Later on we see the engineer with the owner of the shipping yard — Harland — and his daughter Ella. The two young people love each other, and as they are seated by the riverside the solution of the problem Bashes upon the engineer. They return to the office and complete the plans. Harland is informed, and a demonstration of the new invention takes place at the works. Unhappily, at the trial a steam pipe bursts and fearfully scalds the engineer. With the assistance of Harland and Ella he is taken to his rooms, and is compelled to lie up. Beckdahl, a shipbuilder in Xew York, receives a cablegram telling him that an invention that will revolutionise a certain section of the works has been installed at Harland's. This will affect his prospects so seriously that Beckdahl determines to possess himself of the plans at all costs. Lindberg, his confidential agent, is despatched to secure them. The agent arrives at the works, and in the guise of a reporter interviews Harland, and endeavours to obtain particulars of the invention. This not proving successful, lie gets a foreman at the works to take him round, and succeeds in making the foreman talk. As they leave the works the latter indicates the engineer's room, where the plans and models are kept. Lindberg gains access to the office, and with a hand camera commences to photograph the plans and models. Watkins is being nursed by Ella, and to settle some point arising out of the correspondence he asks her to fetch his sketch-book from the office. She surprises the at work, and running back informs the engineer. He declares that they must have the camera at all costs. Taking advan; of her absence, the spy goes to the window, climbs out on to the roof and drops into the deserted yard. Ella arrives just in time to see him go, and dashes after him. He calls a cab and drives off to the station. Stopping on the way at a telephone box, he instructs the telephone boy to telephone for a special. This little delay enables Ella, who follows on £1 to arrive at the station just as the special begins to move out. She springs on to the back buffers, and then as the driver gets up speed she endeavours to climb along the top of the coaches. Some goods trucks impede her progress ; she is compelled to get down and work her way along the footboard. Lindberg, seated in his compartment, is suddenly surprised to see her face at the carriage window ; but it is only for a moment, and he concludes it is an illusion due to his excited state. The train arrives at the quayside, and as Lindberg makes his way he looks around, but Ella has hidden herself. He steps across and boards the liner, Ella following and successfully hiding herself from observation. One of the men loading the vessel hides her in a case which is being lowered into the hold. Then she escapes out of the case, clambers on deck, and is very nearly discovered by Lindberg, who passes within arm's length of her. Lindberg retires into his cabin and puts the camera on the cabin table. Ella, seizing a rope, ties it to a post, casts it over the side, and lowers herself down the side of the vessel. Putting her hand through the porthole, she abstracts the camera from the agent's cabin. The noise she makes arouses him ; he discovers his loss, dashes on deck, grasps the situation, and begins to cut away the rope. She, seeing what will happen, pushes herself off from the side of the vessel and drops into the water, where she swims with the camera in her teeth. He dives from the boat and swims after her. She is picked up by a motor-boat, and he by another. There follows an exciting chase to the breakwater. Ella arrives fij-st, runs up the breakwater, and makes for the streets of the town. Lindberg follows her. but the plucky girl commandeers a horse which is tied to the road side and gallops off into the country. Her pursuer bargains with a cyclist, and buys his machine to follow the rider. Galloping under a tree Ella's hair is caught in the branches, and she is clicked out of the saddle. Getting free, she succeeds in obtaining a motor, and again takes to flight. He, finding his bicycle useless, follows in another car. As the car rounds a corner near a wood Ella jumps from it, coming a fearful crash in the toad. Undaunted by her injuries, and still holding the camera, she takes the path in the woods, and at a country cottage sol: aid from an old woman, who disguises her like a rustic maid. T.indberg overtakes her car, finds the door swinging open, and realises that his quarry has escaped. He returns, and, observing the path, dismisses his car, and follows into the wood. As he approaches a rustic maid is seen hauling some calves along to market. The agent passes her without recognising Ella in her disguise: but finding the old woman learns what she has done. Ella in a clump of bushes strips off her country robes, and once more sets off for home. She still has the camera, and again has a narrow escaDe, for Lindberg discovers the discarded clothes just after she has left. At last the works are in sight, but, alas ! the doors are closed. Lindberg, hot in pursuit, dashes down the street. Ella rushes into an adjacent hduse, the door of which is luckily open : she enters and slams and bolts the door in her enemy's face. Then working her way from the roof, she seizes the telegraph wires, and makes her hazardous way across the intervening space to the roof of the works. Her journev is now safely accomplished, she enters through the open back window, and, to the joy of her father and lover, returns triumphant with the camera, leaving her foiled enemy outside. Mention THE CINEMA when dealing with any of our Advertisers. . .