Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

274 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 6. The King of the Wire— (Three Reels) — Edison — August 13. — Written and directed by Ashley Miller, featuring Gladys Hulette and' Pat O'Malley. Tom Stratton, a boy wire walker with a traveling circus, is injured during the performance in a small town. Tom is taken to the doctor's home and treated. Patricia Beverly, who often visits Tom to read to him, persuades the boy to remain in town and work his way through college. Patricia, now a young woman, secures a position as reporter on a New York newspaper. None of the reporters have been able to interview Senator Strong and Patricia begs for the assignment. Dressed as a little girl she enters the house and secures the interview. Tom's opportune arrival and his skill in walking the tight-wire enable him to save the girl from the political crooks and the senator from ruin. For further review see page 263, this issue. When Love Is Mocked — (Three Reels) — Selig — August 12. — Yvonne is engaged to a fisherman, but when the fisherman meets Mme. LaGlou he forgets all about Yvonne and becomes the slave of Mme. LaGlou, but it doesn't last very long. Mme. LaGlou's husband comes and when the fisherman sees her with another man he becomes crazed and falls oyer the cliffs, unconscious. During his convalescence Mme. LaGlou returns, but the fisherman's mother will not let her see her son and so ends the story of Mme. LaGlou and herself. Yvonne and her lover, unaware of the sacrifice of the mother, are happy. For further review see page 259, this issue. F. M. E. clothes. She brings him food and he tells her wonder stories. That night Violet is aroused from sleep by voices in the library. Attorney Vane is trying to bully her father, a judge, into agreeing with his verdict. Violet enters. Vane, springing forward places a revolver at the child's head. "Agree or I fire!" he act, on account of the knife thrower being drunk, the "strong man" locks up the "angel." Dottie is terrified by the flying knives. The "angel" escapes, and, cries. A long arm from behind snatches Violet to safety and Vane is gripped by the collar and ejected from the house. The judge learns that Vane has unjustly accused Jim. Jim's innocence is established. The Deacon's Whiskers — Komic — August 1. — Fay disobeys her father, the deacon, and runs off with Edward to go in bathing. Father, siting on the beach rushing into the ring, flings himself between her and the weapons. He is seriously injured and taken to the hospital, where Dottie and he pledge their troth. The Game — Thanhouser — August 1. — Broken down in health, thinking of the support of her child, penniless, and about to give up her room in the boarding Tangled Paths— (Two Reels)— Majestic— July 25.— Featuring Sam De Grasse. Ben Rand and Jack Doe are rivals for the hand of Nell Summers. She becomes engaged to Rand. Doe agrees to join Rand in an expedition to the gold fields. They strike it rich. Doe 0 ^ -ggr ^Kf BHS house, was causing the young widow to worry, when the door opened softly and a woman appeared before her. After hearing the widow's story and assuring her that she and her husband were well off, the widow gratefully accepts a loan. Later, a gentleman calls on the widow and tells her that her child who takes short walks with her benefactors, is being used as a tool by two clever thieves. At first she doubts his word, but when he reveals himself as a detective, and places the man and woman under arrest, she changes her mind. The widow who once thought the detective a crook, in course of time, falls in love with and then marries him. The Bride of the Sea — Reliance — August 2. — Grace is a hypochondriac, and no fit companion for Ralph, her husband, shoots his partner and stakes the claim. He returns east with the news of his pal's death. Nell, urged by her mother, promises to marry him. Rand is rescued by gypsies and nursed back to health. Later, at a shore resort, Rand and Doe meet. The latter, astounded to see his old pal alive, steps back over the cliff and is killed. Rand marries Nell. Her Fairy Prince — Reliance — July 26. — Violet, a lonely little rich girl, discovers Jim, a convict, in her attic playroom. He tells her that he is a fairy prince, whom wicked dwarfs have transformed into a striped zebra. She "changes him back" by giving him with his wife, is informed of Fay's actions by Steve, the suitor of his own preference. The deacon starts to find Edward. The latter, warned of his_ coming, changes the signs on the outside of the bath houses. The deacon gets into the women's corridor, and seeing a door ajar, peers in. Instantly the door is slammed and he is caught by the whiskers. Here his wife discovers him in a compromising position. Meanwhile Fay and Edward have captured the minister and gone out on a raft. Steve again rushes to inform his would-be-father-inlaw, but the deacon and his party are too late to stop the ceremony. Detective Blinn — (Two Reels) — American — August 2. — Edward Coxen and Winifred Greenwood featured. Detective Blinn, by means of a clever ruse, in a frameup works himself into the graces of a pair of crminals and by patience and diligence becomes their confidant. He at last succeeds in clearing up the mystery of a number of jewel thefts which had been occuring of late. For further review see page — this issue. Victorine — (Two Reels) — Majestic — ■ August 1. — Featuring Dorothy Gish and Ralph Lewis. Dottie, "side kick" to a knife thrower, is loved by the "angel" nor Marie, her daughter. She invites who is backing the side show, but her Maude, a friend, to visit them. The lateyes are all for the handsome "strong ter determines to rouse Grace to her man." For objecting to Dottie doing her responsibilities as wife and mother.