Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

Supplement ro "The Cinema," January 15, 1913. Mel; "THE CINEMA" critics attend the leading film demonstrations, and all films reviewed in this Supplement have ^been specially selected from the various programmes of releases, and are <». THE PICK OF THE MARKET. <»• THE AMERICAN CO., LTD. (LONDON), ioi, Wardour Street, \V. 'Phone: City 9674 ^P Releasing:— FLYING A Films. "NELL 01 THE PAMPAS." {American Co.) Down among the pampas-growers Nell, the daughter of old Pedro Villi. ir, has many suitors. In the kindness of her heart she has been generous to an orphan idiot who lives off her father's bounty, and >he becomes the idol of his eye, and he follows her like a faithful dog. Among all her suitors, Juan Cardoza is the favoured one. Hut Juan's personality has unwittingly aroused the affections of another woman, a half-breed, who has desired to win him. She watches the lovers with a jealous eye, and one day, seeing Juan giving Nell a bracelet of silver, she waits until he leaves Nell, and when he passes her she throws herself into his arms and implores his love. All this is witnessed by Nell, and, sick at heart, she throws the trinket away and starts home. Juan renounces the woman, but the harm is done. En route to her home, Nell encounters a stranger, and he engages board with her parents. But Jim Beverley soon shows his true colours, abusing the poor idiot and lording it over the simple pampas-growers. He overreaches himself when he insults Nell. Juan sees the attempt, and gives him a trouncing. Smarting for revenge, he plots back to his horse, and finds the vindictive idiot waiting C< 1 him. In the fight that follows both are mortally wounded. Nell, started by the sounds of shooting in the night air, hurries in the direction of the sound, to find Juan kneeling over the body of the woman. All is explained, and the lovers are reunited. "THE LAW OP GOD." [American Co.) Jim Gleason had come to Montecito, where Vera Bradley, the daughter of the minister, attracted his fancy. In her innocence, she confides to her father, and he, with the welfare of his daughter at heart, consults the young man as to his religious beliefs, and is horrified to learn that he is an Atheist. The following Sunday a wandering cripple stops at the church, and endeavours to sell small religious pamphlets. The minister examines them, and finding the Ten Commandments and other religious quotations in the book, procures a copy, and urges the congregation to do the same. Vera gets a copy, and, meeting Jim C.leason, she shows him the book, and is so horrified at his blasphemous remarks that she refuses to see him again. Disappointed in love, Jim Gleason falls in with the lawless with the half-breed woman to kidnap Nell, thus securing her and leaving Juan for the half-breed. Watching his opportunity, Beverley sees Nell leaving her home one evening for her accustomed stroll in the pampas field, and, getting his horse, follows her, and is in turn followed by the idiot. Juan starts out in the hope of seeing Nell, and is followed by the half-breed woman. Jim sees Juan coming, and, raising his gun, attempts to kill him, but the half-breed, anticipating the treacherous act, springs in front of him, and receives the bullet in her own breast, giving her life for her love. Jim hurries element of the town, and becomes a great crony of the leader, Bud Black. One day Bud Black plans on a crime of large dimensions. If he can get Jim to throw the derailing switch outside the town at the railroads yard limit they could wreck the Sunset Limited and secure a large booty. In Bud Black's gang one member, who has always been timid, in thinking over the magnitude of the proposed crime, began to fear for his safety, and determined to notify the sheriff. So it was that when Jim arrived at the scene of action his every movement was watched by Bud Black and his gang to make sure of no weaken