Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

September 4, 1915. MOTOGRAPHY 495 comes to see her. Later Tom is in the act of committing a crime when a vision of his little playmate of years before dissuades him from a criminal career. He finds the girl in her country home and there their old affections are aroused. For a longer review see another page of this issue. J. C. G. The Massive Movie Mermaid — Falstaff — August 30. — The director of the Desperation Film Company is putting on what he regards as the greatest "water tragedy" that was ever written. He knows that it is great because he has written it himself. He engages the heroine on the misleading evidence of a photograph, and when she arrives she is as large as all out of doors. There are an infinite number of misgivings in the taking of the picture. When it is shown later in the projection room of the factory, the director gets the credit of producing a winner in slap-stick comedy and is detailed to do all the comedy thereafter. The director blandly takes all the credit and never explains how the comedy came to be. For His Pal — Reliance — August 30. — Jim and Joe are pals in the gold fields. They stake the same claim and Jim's wife, Priscilla comes on from the east house. Convalescent, the young_ physician discovers his love for Madeline and makes it known to her. What follows Wcr ^^ffMr^ S" i ■Sr^ sS^l '' , 2 insures ensuing happy summers for the newsies and ensuing happy years for Madeline and Astor. Hearts and Flowers — Majestic—August 31. — Alfred Wantez, a violinist, leaves his wife, Olga, and their boy, Billy, to go on a concert tour. On the way to the train he is knocked senseless by a tramp who dresses in his clothes and boards the train. The train is wrecked and the tramp is buried for the dead musician. Olga receives word of her loss. The musician is carried to a hospital, but on recovery from injuries his memory is a blank. Several years later, an itinerant musician wanders into a seashore community, whither Dr. Allen, a friend, has sent the widowed mother and her boy. The strains of woman seized by a black bearded man and bundled into a waiting taxicab. Dick rushes to the scene and finds a vanity box which contains an assortment of rare and priceless jewels. He sees the taxicab return and the bearded man looking for the lost vanity box. The taxicab again speeds away and Dick follows on a bicycle. He sees the man enter a skyscraper and follows him. He later discovers that the man was a detective and the woman a notorious jewel thief. When Dick hands over the vanity box the last link of the chain of evidence against the woman is forged. Dick returns home with his belief in the death of the spirit of adventure somewhat changed. The Turning Point — Reliance— September 1. — David Drummond surprises a thief in his Alaskan cabin, but frees the man. Years later, in Washington, D. C. he meets the same person and learns from him of a plot against the government incriminating Senator Delafield. Drummond is in love with Elinor Delafield, the senator's sister. Delafield and Drummond are almost the counterparts of each other in physical appearance. The Alaskan determines to save Delafield from turning traitor to his government. The latter falls ill and cannot attend a to join her husband. It is then discovered that Priscilla is an old sweetheart of Joes. Jealousy begins to creep in between the two pals. Ling Hung Foo, the Chinese cook, outrages Priscilla's housewifely ideals and she discharges him. Joe chances to be in the cabin. Ling takes his revenge by bolting the door on them and telling Jim that his partner is making love to his wife. Jim returns to the house, finds Joe and Priscilla and is overcome with rage. Joe makes it appear that he is trying to rob Jim of his nuggets and that Jim's wife is holding him up. The ruse breaks the friendship between the pals, but it saves the woman's honor. Long afterwards, Ling, dying, confesses to Tim that he lied. Green Apples — Beauty — August 31. — Webster Campbell and Neva Gerber featured. Herbert Astor, a young physician, seeking quiet moves into a country bungalow, which is adjacent to. the home of Madeline Selfridge, who corrals fifty newsboys and gives them an outing at her place. The boys discover an apple tree and descend upon it and gorge themselves with green apples. That night there is many a stomach ache in the newsboys' tummies and young Astor is called. He has formed an acquaintance with Madeline and from that time on he is the hero of the boys. One day while helping the boys explore a rugged bit of nearby country Astor is hurt and the youths carry him to Madeline's "Hearts and Flowers" bring Mrs. Wantez out of her cottage and she finds Billy with his father walking at the head of a little procession of children. Dr. Allen operates upon Wantez's brain and he is restored sane and happy to his wife and child. The Spirit of Adventure — American — September 1.— Vivian Rich, Walter Spencer and Jack Richardson featured. Dick Barrows, a young bachelor, who believes that the spirit of adventure is dead, is looking out of the window of his apartment when he sees a beautifully gowned committee meeting. Drummond impersonates the absent senator. The speech he makes is not at all the one Delafield had intended to deliver, but it saves the senator's honor and wins Drummond the grateful Elinor for his wife. Making Matters Worse— Cub— September 2. — Featuring George Ovey with an all-star comedy cast. With Curlock Bones, the famous detective, on his trail, Jerry decides to adopt some unusual method to evade the clutches of the sleuth. He chances upon two pretty girls, who have been harassed by members of the police force. They ask Jerry to take the place of their maid so that they may avail themselves of his masculine powers in case the policemen insist upon carrying on their annoying tactics. Seeing an opportunity to outwit Bones, Jerry accepts the job. For a while he has a time of his life flirting with the police officers. In the spirit of fun he chides the master of the house, who takes the impostor in his arms just as his wife enters. ' She strikes the intruder and her husband with a flower vase and Jerry's wig falls from his head just as Curlock Bones enters. Jerry permits Bones to escort him to jail, adding another coup to the detective's long list of triumphs. Hidden Crimes— Reliance— September 3._Grant, the grazer, who sells hides to the sheriff, a dealer in pelts, is jealous of Horace Dunn, the sheriff's assistant.