Motion Picture News (Jul-Oct 1915)

August 14, 1915. MOTION PICTURE NEWS 83 "WHEN LOVE IS MOCKED" (Seligr— Three Keels) REVIEWED BY T. S. MEAD FROM every standpoint this three reel Diamond Special deserves a high place among meritorious features. A story of the French novel type supplies an excellent plot which is not only intensely interesting and well developed, but also entirely plausible. Foreign atmosphere is injected into all the scenes, particularly those laid in the little fishing village on the coast of France. The scenery is beautiful and very well photographed and the settings, such as the interior of the fisherman's cottage and the dance on the village green, show close attention to detail, Eugene Pallette in the role of the young Adonis of the fishing village and Anna Luther as La Glou, the beautiful but morally unscrupulous Parisian wife, most ably interpret the leading roles. But praise also belongs to the rest of the cast, particularly Lillian Hayward as the fisherman's mother, and Lotta Grimes as Yvonne, the fisherman's sweetheart. Piqued at her husband because of his refusal to buy an expensive bracelet, La Glou runs away to the seashore where she meets a fisherman who is happily bethrothed to Yvonne, a charming but simple girl whom he has known and loved since their childhood. La Glou attracted by the young fisherman's splendid physique, deliberately sets out to ensnare him with her charms. He becomes hopelessly infatuated with her and entirely forgetting his little sweetheart, stays with her at her villa for several days. Later when her husband arrives, seeking forgiveness, she scornfully throws over the sailor lad. In desperation he jumps off a high cliff. Nearly dead, he is found by his mother, who with Yvonne nurses him back to life. Some time after La Glou in the THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SWEETHEART YVONNE city remembers her fisherman and decides to return to him. She is met at the door of the cabin by the old mother, who offers to row her to the island where she tells La Glou her son is. The mother, fearing that her son may again be ensnared by this woman's charms, batters a hole in the bottom of the boat, and as that sinks beneath the waves after a struggle, she exclaims : "You took him from me once, but you shall never have him again." LARGE BOOKINGS FOR "THE PRINCESS OF INDIA" ARTHUR LANGAN, president and managing director, Sun Photoplay, Inc., Candler Building Annex, New York City, reports satisfactory reception of the latest feature of the company, "The Princess of India," by the exchangemen. The picture is full of action and the photography has called forth encomiums for its clearness. The president of the company expects large booking in the near future. LUBIN PLAY ON WAR SITUATION IS PLANNED LOUIS REEVES HARRISON has written an as yet unnamed five-reel masterplay, which Lubin will produce at once as a special feature. The play deals in a big way with the present war situation and is pregnant with things vital to today. "THE EXILE OF BAR-K RANCH" (American — Two Reels) REVIEWED BY T. S. MEAD THE narrow hypocrisy of a small Western community is contrasted in this picture with the generous sacrifice made by a cowboy to right a wrong committed by his murdered friend. The film opens with a realistic and well enacted bar-room brawl in which Burt saves Dave from a drunken Mexican known as Tex, thereby incurring the deadly enmity of Tex. Burt is in love with the pretty daughter of Bar-K ranch. He learns that their marriage must be hastened to save his sweetheart's honor, but as he is returning with the marriage license, the revengeful Tex shoots him in the back. Before he dies he scribbles THE BAR-ROOM BRAWL a note on the marriage license asking Dave to make good with Millie, the girl whom he (Burt) has wronged. Millie's secret, however, is discovered before Dave receives the note and she is turned adrift from her father's home. Later Dave runs across the disgraced mother and her baby and defends them from the scorn of his neighbors. When he discovers that the mother is Millie, the girl referred to in his friend's dying request, he sacrifices his own sweetheart in order to marry her. An excellent cast including Vivian Rich, Roy Stewart, Jack Richardson, Louise Lester, Charles Newton, Walter Spencer and Jimsy Maye enact this drama. O'CONNOR, WITH LITTLE HAIR, CAST FOR BALD-HEADED WALLINGFORD IN PATHE RELEASE U" DWARD O'CONNOR, the comedian who is well known in l—» farce, extravaganza, comic opera and vaudeville, has been engaged for the Pathe series, "The New Adventures of Wallingford," now being made by the Whartons at Ithaca, N. Y. Mr. O'Connor will play "Onion Jones," one of the leading characters in the story. While Mr. O'Connor is somewhat bald, the character calls for total absence of hair. In consequence the Ithaca barbers are getting rich from the almost daily hair cuts the comedian is compelled to have and his little remaining hair shows signs of getting discouraged and giving up in disgust the fight to grow. WISCONSIN FILM INCORPORATED AT §10,000 THE Wisconsin Film Corporation, with a capital of $10,000, 1 has just been organized in Milwaukee for the purpose of exhibiting "The Birth of a Nation" in Wisconsin. It has purchased the state rights in this great photoplay from the Epoch Producing Company, of New York. The officers are R. E. Aitken, president; H. A. Sherman, vice-president and general manager, and W. S. Griswold, secretary and treasurer and attorney. The offices of the company are with Mr. Griswold at 1409 Majestic Building. Bookings are being made for exhibitions of the picture in other cities in the state after it leaves the Davidson theatre, where it is running with marked success.