Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

September 4, 1915. MOTOGRAPHY 491 Brief Stories of the Week's Film Rel eases General Program Broncho Billy's Marriage — Essanay — August 20. — Featuring G. M. Anderson and Marguerite Clayton. Broncho Billy is in love with a beautiful girl whose father orders her to marry a wealthy man. He tells the man to keep guard over her while he goes for a minister. While the father is away, Broncho Billyholds up his rival, forces him into a barn and locks him in and then elopes with the girl. Years later the father, aged and penniless, comes to them and he is forgiven and all are happy. Hearst-Selig News Pictorial No. 67 — Selig — August 23. — Power boat Miss Detroit, wins Gold Challenge Cup at Port Washington, N. Y.; tablet unveiled to Lucy Stone, pioneer suffragette in Orange, N. J., by Alice Stone Blackwell; trap shooters gather at Grant Park for Grand American Handicap tournament, Chicago, 111.; baby zebra welcomed at Central Park, New York; Mid-west exhibitors visit the home of Hearst-Selig News Pictorial at Chicago to inspect factory and studio; W. T. Reed of Watertown, Mass., attaches novel engine and aeroplane propeller to rowboat and sails about 12 miles per hour; Serbians at Semendria, Serbia, advance under heavy fire from Austrian guns and have sharp skirmish; "Babe" Youngetob, eight-yearold athlete, and said to be perfectly developed, demonstrates athletic ability at Rockaway Park, N. Y. ; baseball officials of Federal League are received at new park, Boston, Mass., by President Gaffney; marines from warships gather at Naval War College, at Newport. R. I., for yearly instructions and hold track meet. Hearst-Selig News Pictorial No. 68 — Hearst-Selig — August 26. — Silvio Pettirossi, Argentine aviator, makes daring flight at San Francisco Exposition; fire in Houston, Texas, destroys wholesale liquor house; United States ship Celtic with small menagerie returns from Vera Cruz; Olympic games at stadium of Panama-Pacific Exposition; efficiency of German military machine demonstrated on battle line in France; forty-seven thousand baseball fans attend opening of Braves' new park in Boston, Mass.; crowds flock to scene where body of Leo M. Frank was discovered after he was taken from prison at Marietta, Ga. ; Earl Cooper wins Chicago automobile cup in first event of Illinois road classic in Elgin, 111.; twenty-sixth U. S. infantry arrives to guard the border with Colonel R. L. Bullard as commander at Brownsville, Tex. Her Return — Essanay — August 27. — Featuring G M. Anderson and Marguerite Clayton. A wealthy young man accustomed to gaieties of the cafe life, marries a poor girl, but fails to give up his fast friends and continues to live a gay life. One night when he returns home intoxicated his wife packs her grip and goes to the railroad station, where while waiting for the train she faints. The husband awakens and finds his wife gone. He rushes to the police station, where he learns that his wife has been taken to the hospital. Hurrying to her bedside he promises never to drink again. A Triple Winning — Biograph — August 30. — Featuring John K. Roberts, Isabel Rea and Hector V. Sarno. Tom Brown, the deputy sheriff, is in love with Mary, the sheriff's daughter. Manuel Lopez, a bandit, holds up the stage coach and a reward of $1,000 is offered for his arrest. Brown starts out to capture him, but receives a note from Mary asking to meet her at a rendezvous in the woods. He goes to the broken oak, but Mary is not there. The sheriff, noticing Brown's absence, accuses him of cowardice and confiscates his badge. Brown is wandering in the woods when he meets the bandit and after a hand to hand encounter captures him. He is wounded in the struggle, however, and faints at the girl's door, but she prevents the outlaw's escape. He wins not only the reward, but also the badge and the girl. The Masked Dancer — (Three Reels) — Kalem — August 30— Featuring Anna Orr. Wright, an art dealer, visits the Orient and accepts the invitation of Mustapth to join him and friends in a game of cards. A quarrel ensues between Mustapth and Wright and in the course of the battle the lights are extinguished and when they are relighted a knife is found in Wright's hand which had been thrust through Mustapth's heart. Hera, the Persian's daughter, vows to slay the murderer and follows Wright to New York, where she obtains a position as a dancer in a cabaret. As she always wears a mask she arouses curiosity and Wright is delighted when he is invited to her home. Alam, who has been madly in love with Hera, follows her to America and hides in her closet. Wright also falls in love with the girl, but she suddenly turns upon him and attempts to slay him. He learns her story and tells her he is innocent. Alam breaks through the door and in a struggle wounds himself. With death near, the Persian confesses that it was he who had stabbed Mustapth and we last see Wright takingHera into his arms. A Romance of Mexico — Lubin — August 30. — Featuring Jack Lawton, Vinnie Burns and Henry Russell. Jim French, a young mining engineer, loves Carmen, sister of Pablo Cortez, who in turn is in love with Nita Garcia. Juan, who also loves Carmen, tells Pablo that Jim is in secret Nita's lover, his attentions to Car men being merely a blind. Pablo comes upon Jim just as he is climbing a rope, which is hanging down the face of a cliff and at once' begins to climb after him. Carmen witnesses the affair and begins to shoot at the rope between the two. It parts and Pablo falls to the ground, but is not seriously injured. Carmen and Jim go to his assistance and it is soon proved to him that they have been victims of a trick. It is later apparent that Juan is the guilty person, but in the completeness of their happiness they do not seek revenge upon the futile coward. The Way of a Woman's Heart — (Two Reels) — Selig — August 30. — Claude Harris and Rose March, two members of s. theatrical company, are lovers. Claudeaccepts an offer from his uncle to enterbusiness and tells Rose he will return, and marry her. He meets Amie Dante,, a beautiful young society girl, and soonforgets Rose, who sends for him. Hetells her that marriage is impossible. Three years pass and Amie, whose secret ambition is to go on the stage, tells; Claude she is going to interview Rosalind Ayre, a noted actress, who has come to the city, and see what she says about her taking up a stage career. Claude determines to see the actress first and tell her to discourage the girl. When he arrives at the opera house he finds that Rosalind Ayre is none other than Rose March, the girl of his past. He tells her that she holds his happiness in her hands and Rose in contempt tells of how her child was born after he had refused to marry her. Claude succeeds in melting the woman's heart, however, and she discourages Amie about taking up a stage career and the girl tells Claude she will marry him at once. Mr. Jarr and the Visiting Fireman — Vitagraph — August 30. — Featuring Harry Davenport and Rose Tapley. Jarr grossly deceives the Smalltown Fire Company by pretending to be a "smokeeater" from the city. His wife sees him leading a parade with a "chicken" on each arm and things look bad for Jarr, but a fake fire and rescue set him right again. The Mystery of Henry Villard— (Two Reels) — Biograph — August 31. — Featuring Isabel Rea with an all-star cast. Henry Villard, who is engaged to the youngest of the De Bevoise girls, is made manager of their investments. He loses the girls' money and conducts an affair with the tavern host's daughter. Uncle Darby, the negro servant of the girls, tells the older one of Villard's crookedness. Frances later hears of this and dies of a broken heart, and Grace, embittered, insists on Edgar Calhoun, her fiance, avenging her sister. The next morning Henry Villard is found dead on a lonely trail and Grace receives a note from Edgar reading "Frances is avenged." After some time it is discovered that Villard, challenged to a duel by Edgar, had bribed a lounger toattend the meeting and secretly to shoot Edgar in the back, but the lounger had lost his nerve and the duel proceeded, Villard firing first and missing.