Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

fio Supplement to THE CINEMA. J Wl'AKY 8, Kyi 3. ESSANAY FILM MANUFACTURING CO., 1 p. (making Cross Road, W C. "AN INDIAN'S FRIENDSHIP." (Essanay.) Broncho 1 instrumental in saving Yellow Wolf, an Indian, from the wrath of Dan Runnion, a surly cowpuncher, and Runnion swears revenge. His chance conies when he sees a notice from the county sheriff, advising that cattle rustlers are at work and for ranchmen to watch their stock. Finding one of Broncho's -hirt-; out on the clothesline, Runnion places an ini iiminating note in the pocket and steals away. Getting the ranchman, he returns to Broncho's shack and accuses him of being one of the rustlers. The ranchman finds the note in the pocket oi Brom b.0'9 shirt, advising Broncho to come and get his share of the proceeds from the stolen cattle. In a rage, he summons his cowboys, and Broncho is led away to be hanged. Meanwhile, Yellow Wolf, who has witnessed Runnion writing the incriminating note and heard his threat to get even with Broncho, rides madly t < » town, summons the sheriff, and they arrive in time to prevent the hanging of Broncho. Yellow Wolf tells his story, and the guilty Runnion tries to escape, but is captured and meets his just deserts, while the boys gladly congratulate Broncho on his narrow escape. "THE HOUSE OF PRIDE." {Essanay.) FEATURING— James Williams, city purchasing agent Francis X. Bushman Ruth Williams, his wife Beverly Bayne James Williams, a young city purchasing agent, receives a letter from Flannery, the city political boss, advising that the Acme Paving Material Company must get a city's winter contract. A large bribe is offered Williams to put the deal through. In a fury of resentment, Williams orders the bearer of the letter, Mullin, a corrupt politician, from the office. Mullin goes, but unknowingly leaves the letter in Williams' possession. A few days later, Williams quarrels with his wife about her extravagance in dress, and she unthinkingly demands that he get money as other men do and support her properly. In a blind rage, Williams calls Flannery on the 'phone, and agrees to accept his proposition. A week later Williams gives a reception at his home. During the course of the evening, Frank Holt, president of the Acme Paving Material Company, attempts to embrace Mrs. Williams, while under the influence of liquor. Williams comes upon the scene, furiously confronts Holt and his henchmen, including Flannery, Mullin, and Wharton, produces the incriminating bribe letter, and threatens to send them all to prison. Next morning, Mrs. Williams receives a letter from Mrs. Holt telling of her great suffering, and to plead with Williams not to prosecute her husband. Thoroughly repentant, Mrs. Williams does so; Williams tears up the letter, and happiness reigns once more in the house of pride. " CHAINS. " (Essanay.) FEATURING— Ruth Keene Ruth Stonehouse Harry Madden, her husband Bryant Washburn Robert King, a young city lawyer Francis X. Hushman Ruth's mother Eleanor Blanchard Doctor John Steppling Sheriff William Walters The story concerns the love of Ruth Keene, a beautiful young girl, for Harrv Madden, a handsome and presumably upright and conscientious fellow. Dn the eve of their engagement, Madden becomes entangled in a card game with some dissolute companions in the loft of a barn, detects one of their number in the act of cheating, a quarrel ensues, and Madden, in the struggle, kills the man with his own revolver. Crazed with fear he attempts to escape, and is captured in Ruth's home, where he seeks protection. The result of the trial is a sentence of fifteen years in the penitentiary. Ruth's innocent love now 'Phone : City 2129. her to do a strange thing. She marries Madden in the jail, in spite of the protests of friends and the clergyman, and swears to be ever faithful until he comes back to her. Securing a position in the office of Robert King, a wealthy young lawyer, Ruth finds that King loves her dearly, and desires to make her his wife. Gradually a kindred love springs up within her — a love that she battles against desperately, but in vain. King reveals his love, and the wretched girl is forced to confess her marriage and the fact that her husband is a convict serving time for murder. King begs her to divorce Madden. With a new hope for freedom, Ruth journeys to the penitentiary, and is shocked to find Madden now a degenerate, brutal creature, who coarsely refuses to consent to a divorce under any conditions, and becomes so violent that the guard has difficulty in removing the girl from the cell. Returning to King, she hysterically tells him the hopelessness of their love, and he heartbrokenly allows her to go. Chained to the degenerate who languishes in his cell, Ruth stumbles from the room, and. with the awful truth ringing in her ears, " Until death do us part," gropes her way blindly into the unknown future that stretches blackly before her. •' MR. UPS TRIP TRIPPED UP." (Essatm FEATURING— Mr. Up Howard Messimer lli> wife Dolores Ca>-inelli Mr. Up receives a letter from his neighbour, Calvert, just across the hall, to join them at the summer resort for a week's outing. I'p immediately 'phones a baggage man, and leaves word to call for his trunk at seven next morning. Seven o'clock arrives, and Up's alarm clock does a merry jig on the chair beside the bed, but Up sleeps peacefully on. Awakening at last, he discovers he has but fifteen minutes to catch the train, piles all his clothes into the trunk, and sends it off with the baggage man. Then he looks around for some clothes to wear, and finds everything has gone in the trunk. Clad only in his pyjamas, he dashes madly down the street after the departing wagon, is arrested, hauled back to his apartment, and is released when he forks over a bribe. Determined to secure clothes, he enters Calvert's apartment across the hall, holds up the new butler at gun's point, relieves him of his duds, and forces him to don the pyjamas. Endeavouring to make the train, he is forced to forsake a slow cab, is knocked from a crowded stre'et car, bowls over a coloured washerwoman, and is again arrested. Meanwhile, the new butler is discovered by the maid, and, not being able to explain his pyjamas, is also arrested and hauled into the station. A moment later, Mr. Up is likewise led in, and complications set in thick and fast, when Calvert arrives, having returned because of his sick child. Matters are finally untangled to the satisfaction of all concerned. "'ALKALI' IKE'S (LOSE SHAVE." [Essanay.) " Alkali *' Ike, with a luxuriant growth of beard that he has carefullv fostered, determines to see the city for the first time. He arrives, and, not being a good dodger, is knocked insensible by the first automobile he encounters. His disfigured face is shaved by a doctor, who adorns it with several large strips of plaster, gives him some new clothe-, and turns him loose. Arriving back in his home town he meets his wife'> sister, attempts to embrace her, and she, not recognising his shaven face, summons the aid of a group of punchers, who immediatelv put Alkali through a course of rough treatment, including a ducking in the watering trough, and finally land him in the town jail. In desperation Alkali sends for his wife to identifv him, but the loss of his whiskers puzzles her, and she refuses to claim him. Alkali puts in a few more hours of torture and the sheriff is about to identify him a< a notoriously escaped criminal, when the city doctor arrives and manages to extricate Alkali "from his predicament. Thereupon, wi fey claims him and takes him home for -afe keeping.