Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

August 7, 1915. MOTOGRAPHY 271 Brief Stories of the Weeks Film Releases General Program Hearst-Selig News Pictorial No. 60 — Selig — July 24. — Strikers at Standard Oil plant, Bayonne, N. J., fight fierce battle with guards; Governor Spry of Utah reviews Salt Lake City high school cadets at San Diego, California; Kitchener's recruits at Epsom, England, taught to use bayonets; latest fashions by Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon; thousands greet Liberty Bell at San Francisco; "Chick" Evans of Chicago wins western amateur golf title of Cleveland, Ohio; scenes of the steamer Eastland which capsized in the Chicago river at Chicago, 111. Hearst-Selig News Pictorial No. 59 — Hearst-Selig — July 29. — Miss Christie MacDonald wins woman's motor boat race at Thousand Islands, N. Y.; Elks march at big gathering in Los Angeles; Schooner Hardy is rammed by steamer Shasta just outside the Golden Gate, California; strike threatens to tie up arms industry where war munitions are being made for European countries at Bridgeport, Connecticut; Director F. L. Brown of the Panama-Pacific Exposition presents Edward A. McManus of the Hearst-Selig News Pictorial with a bronze medal, highest award for moving picture industry given at exposition; first exchange of prisoners between Germany and England at Stratford; old French castle captured by Germans is made headquarters; typhus plays havoc with Serbian forces at Nish, Serbia. Broncho's Surrender — Essanay — July 30. — G. M. Anderson and Marguerite Clayton featured. The wife leaves with her child for the west and secures work as a school teacher, where Broncho, a fugitive from justice, seeks shelter in her cabin. After sheltering him and he has left, the husband enters and kidnaps the child. Broncho later holds up the stage coach and takes the child, returning it to its mother and then gives himself up and is lead to jail. Love's Rescue — Biograph — August 2. — Isabel Rea and Frank Newburg featured. Roberta Winthrop's father advertises for a secretary, and a bunch of crooks seeing the ad get one of their gang to apply for the position. The crook meanwhile falls in love with Roberta, but after being egged on by the gang robs the safe and locks the housekeeper in a closet. Roberta, who is on top of a cliff, calls to her lover and just then loses her balance, and the secretary picks her up and carries her home. Later matters are cleared up, and the crook regenerated by love is accepted as the girl's lover. The Kiss — Essanay — August 2. — With an all star cast. Lady Joyce poses for Simeon Henley and snubs the Duke of Rosemont for the artist. She later marries the artist and after two years of struggling goes away with Arthur Kane. Lady Joyce's mother, who is dying, sends for her daughter and later her death brings her daughter and her artist husband together again. The Maker of Dreams — (Three Reels) — Kalem — August 2. — Mrs. Merwin de sires that her son Harold marry Rena, an heiress. While at a house party Harold meets and falls in love with Lorna, a girl of the woods. Mrs. Merwin discovering this succeeds in making Lorna believe that Harold's future demands that he marry Rena. The girl breaks her engagement and filled with rage and pique the boy makes Rena his bride. Lorna is driven insane and years later, Neal, Harold's son, who bears a remarkable resemblance to his father, elopes with Josie and they go to the old Merwin mansion to spend their honeymoon. Lorna mistaking him for Harold captures Josie and is about to kill her when Neal saves his bride in the nick of time. When Harold and Rena come to the mansion later, Lorna seeing Harold is restored to her sanity and she dies in the arms of the man she loves. The Taunt — Lubin — August 2. — William Kelsey, ex-bank cashier, who has served three years for burglary, comes begging to the house of Fred Mack, a broker. His wife gives him a coat of her husband's in which he finds an important paper proving that Mack was the one who had robbed the safe for which Kelsey was imprisoned. Kelsey goes to him and demands one thousand dollars for silence, but Mack says he hasn't got the money and Kelsey tells him he will meet him that night and he can rob a safe as he did before. Mack's mind goes back to the time when he longed for riches and met Florence, who was then Kelsey's sweetheart, and how later on winning the girl he had robbed the safe and had Kelsey convicted. Mack comes back to the present and is planning to kill Kelsey when he meets him alone that night, but falls into a trap Kelsey has set for him and is imprisoned for the robbery. The Melody of Doom — (Two Reels) — Selig — August 2. — Henry learns from a Hindu how to play "The Melody of Doom" upon his violin. Later Zara, the adventuress, receives a note telling her that the police know of Adolphi's death and telling her to go to a certain address where she is confronted by Henry, who locks her in a room and plays "The Melody of Doom" which makes Zara confess her crime. The Serpent's Tooth — Vitagraph — August 2. — Wally Van and Nitra Frazer featured. Amateur dental operations, anaesthetics and the "Society of the Serpent's Tooth" all help Cutey to win his bride and effectually silence pa's objections to the match. The Drab Sister— (Two Reels)— Biograph— August 3. — Louise Vale and Madge Kirby featured with an all star cast. Upon the death of the Sheldon girls' mother Olive makes the way smooth for them both. Tom Weston loves Evelyn and asks Olive, who loves the man in secret, for the girl's hand, but Evelyn has fallen in love with Walter Courtney, a summer visitor, but later realizing she must marry someone marries Tom. Sometime after this Evelyn returns to the city with Walter, who comes after her and they are killed in a wreck. Tom breaks down and after months of companionship learns to value Olive's friendship. Business Rivals — (Two Reels) — Essanay— August 3. — Featuring Nell Craig, Sheldon Lewis and Raymond Binder. Braga upon learning that Primrose McFarland is to give a birthday party and display the famous family jewels plans to attend and Dominica pledges to assist him and succeeds in being engaged as the singer for the event. LeGrand, an ex-police official is discovered by Dominica and neither he nor Braga, who is hiding in a chest, have succeeded in procuring the jewelry. Young McFarland, Primrose's nephew, is in the act of placing the jewels in a safe deposit vault when he is attacked by LeGrand and later when Dominica steps in and is injured, he takes her home in a taxicab. Dominica later renounces Braga as a coward. The Hypnotic Monkey — Kalem — August 3. — Ham and Bud fall asleep in the park. Bud awakens and when Pasquale, his daughter Rosa, and a monkey pass the spot, Bud gets Rosa to take a walk with him. Ham dreams that he sees a hypnotist performing wonderful feats. He dreams that he has learned how to change Bud into a monkey and then cannot get him back again. At this time the Italian's monkey wanders over to Ham and wakes him up. Ham vainly tries to turn the monkey into Bud and when the Italian tries to get possession of his monkey Ham is willing to fight for "Bud" to the death. When Bud finally returns Ham's grief melts into rage and he chases Bud into the lake. A One Reel Feature — Lubin — August 3. — A cartoon comedy depicting the interior of a moving picture theater. Another one of those cartoon screams. On the same reel with : The Rakoon Hose Company — Lubin — Mattie, the belle of Ethiopia, is loved by John, the fireman, but Rastus, who has fine clothes, attempts to steal her away from him. Later Rastus abandons an old hut which he sets on fire and John's fire department answers the call, and after putting out the fire, Mattie chooses John and Rastus is given one hour to leave town. The Scar — Vitagraph — (Three Reels) — August 3. — Featuring an all star cast. John Morton after accumulation of evidence against him is found guilty of murder in the first degree, but is saved from the electric chair by a witness recognizing on the convict's hand a peculiar scar. This is a story centered around a cocaine crazed assassin trying to cover up his crime and fastening it on another.