Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

74 Supplement to THE CINEMA. January 15, 1913. NEW AGENCY FILM CO., 81-83, Shaftbsbom Avenob, \v. 'Phone: Gerrard Ojji. Releasing AMBROSIO, PASQUALI and SVEA Films. "TWEEDLEDUM AND FRISCOT FIGHT A DUEL." the big house with her. Peter, meanwhile, has been drinking {Ambrosio.) with the man who has been the cause of his misfortune, and. Tweedledum and Frisrot, both in pursuit of the same attrac inflamed by the other, and scarce knowing what he is doing, ling lady, come into coll ison, angry words are exchanged, ne flin8s a lighted brand into the window of his employer's flMF^K^*' -A **** IK BK^H it followed by a challenge, and a duel is quickly fixed up. Swords are the weapons chosen, but unfortunately articles made of very inferior metal are chosen, and buckle up as soon as they are brought into play. Pistols are then procured, but a furious discharge sees the principals uninjured, though the seconds are one and all brought to the ground. Now recourse is had to heavier armaments, and each fighter stands by ili< side of a huge cannon, loaded to the muzzle with grapeshot. Still the result is the same — the new seconds are wiped out, but Tweedledum and Friscot are unscathed. So each enter a motor, and the two vehicles are driven full-tilt at each other. They are reduced to ruins, but the enemies are still intact, and in desperation take to an aeroplane each — which are driven together in mid-air, but only serve to precipitate the two combatants in the river together, where, finding themselves still unhurt, they embrace and swear eternal friendship. "FLASHES OF LIGHT." {Ambrosio.) Mr. Walford, a wealthy manufacturer, allows his daughter to play with the children of Peter, his gatekeeper. The latter, led away by worthless companions, is guilty of neglecting his duties, and is discharged. Fanny, however, the daughter of the employer, successfully appeals to her father, to reinstate the father of her young friends, and is given a letter to take to Peter, telling him to resume his duties. She finds he is not in the cottage, and leaves the letter for his return, with an added line to the effect that >lu is taking the children back to house. It is not till he returns to his cottage and reads the letter there that he realises that he has perhaps murdered his own children. Half crazed with remorse and fear, he summons, assistance, and soon a large body of the workmen are busily engaged getting the flames under. It is left to the heroism of Mr. Walford, however, to carry out the children, and the brave deed leads to him receiving an ovation from his workmen, an effective last scene showing him on the balcony of his house, Fanny by his side, while below Peter leads the cheers with which his men greet him. "POLIDOR'S PERFUME." (Pasquali.) Polidor is sent by his father with a note to a friend asking the latter to give the young man hospitality during Polidor's serious absence from home. Polidor is a somewhat effeminate young man, and has sprayed himself liberally with scent, and when he is fortunate or unfortunate enough to attract the attention of both his host's dainty daughters and his by no means dainty wife, the scent plays by no means an unimportant part in bringing about a state of affairs which promises ill for Polidor. Both the ladies get it into their heads that Polidor has made an appointment for the late hours of the evening. In the dark each seeks to locate Polidor's room by scent, unaware that the negro servant has liberally sprayed both himself and the dog. Therefore, the girl is led to the kitchen, where the dog is sleeping in a basket, and the mother to the negro's room. The head of the house, missing his wife trom his side, goes in search, and encounters Polidor on the landing. There are high words, but Polidor's assurance that the daughter is the object of his affections pacifies everybody, and all join in laughter at the mistakes to which the scent has given rise. "THE UPPER VALLEY OF THE BREMBO." [Ambrosio.) One of the richest and most attractive districts of Italy is pictured in this travel subject, which combines the scenic and historical elements to perfection. The old town of Bergamo, whose romantic past history is reflected by pictures of the old walls and moat and the strongly fortified sates, is also shown to have moved with the times by further pictures of the busy, well-kept streets of the present day. Leaving Bergamo on the railway which runs through the rocky valley of the river Bumbo, we are furnished with a series of scenes which can only be described as magnificent. The quality is stereoscopic, each pinnacle of rock, as the train rushes by, standing out in relief, while full justice is done to wonderful tunnels through ilu cliff face, through which the railway coils, following the course of the stream. The famous gorges of Sedrina, which furnish probably the finest rock scenery in Europe, are also undo the subjects of a series of scenes, while the pictures of the B rem bo itself are full of charm.