Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

230 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 5. Your Personal Subscription for Motography America's Leading Film Magazine $3:22 a year would prove both a convenience and a means of real profit. Each issue is of vital interest and practical value to every man in the motion pidture business. If you miss one copy, you may miss an article or an idea that would have a vital effedt on your work. As a regular subscriber, you would be able to read Motography carefully and systematically at your leisure, and to preserve a file of copies for reference and for binding. Bound volumes of Motography form the best foundation for a reference library. We suggest that you have the magazine sent to your residence. Address Motography Monadnock Bid g., Chicago The Straw Man— Majestic— July 29 — Georgie and Dan quarrel in school because Georgie gets in wrong with Carmen, and during recess they go to the cornfield to fight it out. A youngster tells them that the straw man has come to life, and they run, as fast as they can, back to the schoolhouse. Georgie follows his grandfather into the cornfield yl'.l ] '"if V ffllpi^ MAl'JUOSI^ fl and helps in capturing the straw man, who turns out to be an escaped convict. The criminal is turned over to the guards, and Carmen, the cause of the fighting, kisses her hero. After the Storm — American — July 30. — Featuring Vivian Rich and Harry Von Meter. Rev. Jerold Roper and his baby escape from a wreck. He places the baby in a strong bound box which is swept away by the waves and he falls unconscious on a raft. The box floats safely to shore where Jacques and Meg find it and decide to keep the infant girl. Twenty years elapse. The Rev. Roper and Fortells live in the same city. Meg and Jacques Fortell are the head of a band of thieves, but the woman has managed to protect her adopted daughter, Jane, from a life of crime. Lloyd Perry, an evil youth, demands that his price of silence concerning Jane must be herself and her foster parents agree. She is taken to his apartments and there her cries are overheard by Jerold, who rescues her. The minister discovers his daughter's identity by a strange birthmark on her arm. When the Tide Comes In — (Two Reels) — Kay Bee — July 30. — Nina's parents were lost at sea, and her one joy in life was Glenn Morey's love. Miss Arnold, a young artist, visits the island, and attracted by Morey's appearance, engages him as her model. Nina is neglected and heart-broken, and near the end of the summer, overhears Morey ask the artist to marry him. That night Nina throws herself into the sea. The following day, Morey comes down on the rocks to brood over the artist, who spurned him and went back to the city with Blake to whom she was engaged. The body of Nina washed ashore by the incoming tide brings him out of his reverie. Universal Program What Might Have Been — Imp — July 20. — Marion receives two proposals, one from a policeman and the other from a sport. The #former promises her a happy home, while the latter promises her a life of ease and luxury. Later, Marion leaves the policeman in the dining room, and sulks into the parlor. She dreams that she marries the sport. In the beginning everything is rosy, but her husband turns out to be a gambler, and before long he is down and out, and they are living in poverty. Her mother awakens her, and she is relieved to find that it is all a dream. It is needless to say that she accepts the policeman's offer. Universal Animated Weekly No. 176 — Universal — July 21. — Mimic war craft on at San Francisco; mountain climbers reach top of 11,224 foot peak, Mt. Hood, Ore.; train blown from track and villages destroyed in recent storm at St. Charles, Mo.; giant gas gusher pours wealth from earth at McKeesport, Pa.; Lincoln shaft unveiled at Long Beach, Calif.; head-on collision put on to thrill spectators at Oakland, Calif.; Harry Thaw free at New York; Lieutenant Warneford is laid to rest at Brompton Cemetery, London, England; cartoons by Hy Mayer. According to Value — Laemmle — July 25. — Arthur Graham, confidential clerk to Edmund Stewart, receives a letter from his brother . James, who has just finished a term in prison. On James' promise to live straight, Arthur secures a position for him in the same office. Stewart is financially embarrassed, and on receiving a • note telling him that James is an ex-convict, he calls him into his office. Stewart gets James to consent to stealing some bonds and makes the necessary arrangements. Mabel Stewart and Arthur are to elope this night, and while waiting she hears a loud noise. She shoots the burglar as he is dropping out of the window, and rushes to the outside. Her father and Arthur appear on the scene and she recognizes the culprit. James tells of the agreement and Arthur forces Stewart to confess. The New Jitney in Town — Imp — July 27. — Featuring King Baggot and Jane Gail. Drake, salesman in a department store, leaves his position for that of a jitney-bus operator. His bus being painted on one side causes considerable trouble with customers, they thinking that it is not the same car. Later, he succeeds in winning Jane, a saleslady, away from the floor walker, and takes her in his jitney to the parson to be married. Having had troubles galore with his bus, he offers it. in lieu of a fee, but the minister refuses it. Before long the car breaks down, and they leave it in a field. The auto objects and starts up the road of its own accord. They hide behind a tree and get rid of the white elephant. The Flight of a Night Bird— (Two Reels) — Gold Seal — July 27. — Featuring Cleo Madison a"nd Hobart Henly. Cyrus Holt, a lawyer, is telling Chase, a young millionaire, to go easy with his money, and calls his attention to Katherine Weaver, who has just left the office. She is a living example of how fleeting riches are. Chase leaves in a huff and arrives at the railroad station to wait for Natalie. Seeing Katherine drop her purse, he picks it up, and jumps on the moving train. He restores it to her, and as the train is going too fast for him to get off, rides, to her town. She shows him where she works, and he later obtains a position there, while people in his own town are wondering what has become of him. Circumstaces lead him to board with the Weavers and the outcome is,