Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

February 26, [913. Supplement to THE CINEMA. TYLER FILM CO., 12, Gbrraro Street, W. Pi. one : Gerrard 9997. Releasing : -ITALA, TYLER, and AMERICAN STANDARD Films. •• PRIVATE FXQUIRV Or I l< E." [Eclair.) Di lorme breaks ofl hi friendship with Yvoime in ordei iiv Cecilia. Vvonne does hei besl to keep him, but without avail. Pive years latei Rogei and his living happily with their little girl, when unexpectedly he meets Yvonne once more. She agaii, seeks to exercise hei old influbut In' breaks away from hei with scorn. Determined to gain her end, Vvonne seeks a private enquiry agent, and says that she wi I a friend oi hers divoi his wife. The ageni says n will be costly, I" done. Then b a scheme "I trickery. The agent gets into the Delorme b hold a lady detective, who goes in the guise oi a music teacher to the little girl. Then he employs a clever phot who snapshots a male friend oi the Delormes as he scans tne pictures in the academy. The lady detective gets ; i issessii □ oi si me clothes belonging to Roger s wife, and she 1 also photographed. The clever photographer combines tl iphs, so as to incriminate Madame Delorme. Roger i ceives an anonyi letter calling his attention to the unfaithfulness ol his wife, 1 ienced by the photograph i This arouse suspicions, and creates a coolness between husband and wife. Hut the work ol the fiendish plotters is not yet complete Vvonne, knowing \1 idame Delorme's kind heart, persuade to visit a room in a certain hotel, where she alleges there is sonn e in need. Delorme's friend who has been photographed es a note asking him to go to the same room at the same time. Fie gets there first, and Madame Delorme di not suspect anything when she finds, him there. But whilst he xplain, Roger arrives with a detective, and they find the two together under distinctly compromising circumstances. The injured and innocent wife consult h lawyer, but, unhappily, circumstantial evidence is too strong, snd the divorce takes place. The husband is given the custody of the child, and there is a pathetic episode when the police calls to tike the child away. Roger seeks consolation with Vvonne, but the child will have nothing to do with her new mother. Madame Delorme, heart-broken at the loss of her child, sees one day in the paper the advertisement oi the private enquiry agent. She consults him, and he promises to get possession oi the child. With the aid of an accompli enters the bedroom of the Del run household, and carries the child off during the night. Madame Delorme is almost hysterical with joy when the little girl is n her. Hut r, who is fond of the child, is grief-stricken, and determines to find her. Yvonne sueeests that it is his wife wh i ■ >len the child, and she says she knows an enquiry agent who will be able to get it back. Together they visit the agent, wh> promises to restore the child to them. In the disguise canvasser he calls upon Madame Delorme. in order to spy out the premises. She dismisses him, but, haunted by the remembrance of his face, becomes uneasy, and decides to watch over the child herself. Xieht falls; the little child is sleeping in her C t, and Madame Delorme in an anteroom is watching armed with a revolver. Suddenly a circle of light ii bull's ev lantern travels about the windows, and the sup canvasser breaks into the room and makes for the child in the Ouick as thought Madame discharges her revolver; the accomplice escapes, but the agent himself falls mortally wounded upon the bedroom floor. The noi the house hold, and Madame Delorme sends for her husband. The iniquitous agent confesses all that has happened, and R ger learns how both he and his wife have been victimised. The curtain rings down on a happy re-union as conclusion to a drama of remarkable quality. Released March i ^t h . Length 2,1^0 feet. "FUNNICUS'S SERENADE." [Eclair.) Kept in late at school, Funnicus happens to meet the sempstress who comes to the house of the principal, lie falls v; love with her, and when she leaves the house follows her home. However, he is driven off bv the angry mamma. At ni:ht, in the dormitory, he has dreams which make him restless. First, a pretty cupid appears, and shoots him with an arrow. Then he sees the pretty sempstress, but as he rises to embrai e hei the vision cb I Aw akened from In -> sleep, l lieu taki a raani from the wall, ut of thi his charmer, and ow the window. answering, lowers a sheet so that he may climb up, bul mamma '1 d issui S out She 1 1 1 111 with a broom. He falls into a tub ol water just as his ma fi om the house ol ft nds, round the corner. Funnicus's love affair ends by his being fished out, soundly kicked, and sent back to school. Reli asi d March 13th. Length 545 fi •• THE CIVILIAN." [Bron, It is a pretty scene that greets its as the -1 3, A it ■ ng thi colonel's daughter, and cer seems to bi favoured. Hut a letter arrives announcing thai Harry Stanley, a young doctor, is being sent by his father to the fort to stay with his friend the Colonel. The swings through the gates, and pulls up before the Colonel's house. The young do. tor alights, and meets the exp He also is smitten with the charms oi th daughter, and she ated by the civilian. The Lieu 1, left cmt m the cold, has to bear his disappointment as best he can. One morning he mounts his horse and goes cid. But he has not long left the fort when a settler arrives there, begging medic tl assistance for his daughter. The 01 services, and invites his fiancee to go with him. They 1 ; igether, the settler riding on in advance. Hut the toi has forgotten his medicine chest, and to save time the ttl.r rides back for it. A little further on the back wheel the buggy. The Lieutenant in the distance sees the narty in distress; rides up, discovers who they are, and offers • 1 help them. Hut before anything can be done a troop of Indians swoop down upon them. The Lieutenant's hoi t Hiding by, and quick as a flash the cowardly civilian vaults into the saddle and makes in the direction ol the fort. Hastily fixing on the wheel, the Lieutenant helps the girl into the buggy, and they set off on a terrific race for lit.-. Rounding .1 bend, they jump out of the vehicle, and then set the off. The Indians follow it. and let ire they capture it and or exactly how things are the two young people have had opportunity to scramble off over the rocks into a place of A swift fate has fallen upon the coward, for, galloping down a steep hill, he fails and is hurled to bis death Night is coming; the young people have taken n in ' cave, and all they can do is to make the best of a dangerous situation. The Lieutenant strips off hi coat, and uo the shivering and exhausted girl. Seated at the mouth f the cave with revolver in hand, he waits for the dawn. Dawn breaks, and with it comes the call I 1 sacrifice. For the Indians • r expl ring the vicinity in search of the fugitives. Stealing bai k into the cave, the ] w lightly kisses the sleeping girl, then, dropping down, clambers awav along the rocks, and turns the Indians off in pursuit of himself. It is a frightfully perilous and exhau tnd finally he is wounded bv a -hot from his enemies. He sinks pn ne high up 1 n the mountain side, whilst the Indians begin tn climb up towards him. I'll ! Lieutenant' horse has returned riderless to the fort. An darm is given and the troops set out. The girl in thi s, and, advancing to scan the plain, she percen Indians pursuing; her lover. In the distan he sees the approach iambi in. t down, she run- through the and finally meets her father at the head of the soldiers, wi r^'s suffice to explain the situation. She is lifted on to a horse, the troops dash off. and quickly disperse the Indians. Tb° Lieutenant is found seriously wounded, but still alive, and 'lavs later, outside the Colonel's house at the fort, he is made hapov bv knowine that he has reeained th? love of the girl he had th lUghfl was lost to him. It is a fine, clean, healthy -t r\. nil a word of praise is due for the masterly skill with which the thing is staged and managed. The scenery '.' unio"e and interesting in character, whilst the photographic quality is perfection throughout.