Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

416 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 9. girl has grown into deep love. His pal, Jim Dorsey, also loves the girl, but she repulses his advances. The superintendent of the railroad hears that Milford has been leading a wild life and so he sends a man to take his place. Dorsey, for secret reasons of his own, becomes a friend of the newcomer and through him learns that the superintendent and the paymaster are on their way up the mountain to pay the men. He tells Billy of this and he goes with Dorsey and they hold up the superintendent. The money is taken to Billy's cabin and there hidden under a board in the floor. Billy and Dorsey return to the saloon and here Dorsey suggests that they part. Milford goes in and is drinking when the superintendent, the new station master and the sheriff enter and accuse him of the theft. Milford denies this, but Gunhild pleads with him to prove his innocence, so he leads the men to his cabin. Here they search the house from roof to floor and are just leaving when the sheriff stumbles over the loosened board, but upon investigation nothing is found under it. Dorsey had returned to the cabin and had taken the money and hidden it. Gunhild, confident of "Hell-in-the-Mud's" innocence, pledges her love for him and he goes East to live down the past. Taking advantage of his pal's absence, Dorsey annoys the girl, but she soon leaves Addertown to get work in a new place. Two years later Gunhild is companion to an Eastern professor's daughter. They go into the mountains to board at a farm house and the girl meets Billy, who is managing a farm nearby. Their happiness is short-lived, however, as Dorsey, leading a strong-arm man show, comes to the same town. He sees Gunhild one day and follows her. As she passes a clump of bushes he begins to annoy the girl, and Milford, close by, rushes up to the scene, but Dorsey knocks him unconscious. The prizefighter then tells Gunhild that Alilford is a thief, as he had stolen the money from the railroad two years before. Billy goes to a blacksmith in town and there takes lessons in boxing. He later, after hearing from Gunhild that Dorsey has insulted her and also brought up the theft of years before, engages in a hand-to-hand battle with Dorsey and badly worsts him. Having owed the railroad money, Milford goes to the superintendent and confesses his part in the holdup and gives him the amount of money he had stolen. The superintendent, struck by Milford's honesty, gives the entire amount to Gunhild, now Milford's wife, as a wedding present and the two happy young people leave for parts unknown to begin life anew. 0 "The Woman Hater" Reviewed by John C. Garrett N AUGUST 21, Henry B. Walthall, the well known Essanay actor, will be seen in a three-reel production, "The Woman Hater." Walthall is seen in a new role, that of a bashful young bachelor, who because of his dislike for "petticoats," as he calls them, is placed in many humorous situations. Mr. Walthall's handling of the comedy situation shows his adeptness at filling any role and his great versatility. The picture, splendidly photographed, is entertaining and full of clean and pleasing humor. Mr. Walthall is very ably supported by Edna Mayo as Mabel Willing. This Essanay star has won wide comment on her recent appearance in "The Blindness of Virtue." Bryant Washburn as Dick Wainright forms another strong link in the chain. \m Mabel goes to see the "woman hater." Dick Wainright, a young millionaire, has as guest on board his yacht Jack Warder, a confirmed woman hater. He decides to secretly invite Mabel Willing, a brilliant young girl, her brother and wife, and her best chum to go on a yachting cruise with them. The party comes on board the yacht while "the woman hater" is asleep. Wainright promises Mabel $20,000 as a wedding g-ift if she will "land" Warder. The girl enters into the spirit of the adventure and immediately upon boarding the yacht she goes down into the cabin, where Jack is asleep and sits by his side and fans him. Jack finally wakens and is horror stricken to find the girl by his side. He rushes out of the cabin closely followed by Mabel and finally to get away from her crawls clear out on the front of the boat. Later the girl determines to find out whether her "future husband" is a man or a mollycoddle. She jumps into the water and calls loudly for help. Warder very calmly gets a grappling hook, carries it to the side of the boat and finally after poking around in the water the girl grasps the end of it and is pulled onto the boat. Mabel is furious and tells Warder that it might interest him to know Jack calls on Mabel. that she can swim and he replies to her: "My dear Madam, it might interest you to know that I can't swim." Some months later Jack again meets Mabel at a house party given by Wainright. The girl determines to try other tactics to win him. They all start out on a chase and Warder