Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

October 9, 1915. MOTOGRAPHY 749 a young minister of the village, is a friend to all the children finally persuades her to brin and especially fond of Darling Dandy. The young minister going to call on the girl one day finds her apparently reading a book and tells her that he didn't know she could read. The little orphan shamefacedly closes the book and says she can't and later turns to the front page whereon is the picture of a well built, good looking young man. who Dandy confesses is her "dream man." Walter Dixon, a civil engineer, bids farewell to his sweetheart in the city and goes out on an engineering job and arrives in the village where Darling Dandy lives. Through a strange situation the girl meets the young surveyor and discovers in him her "man in the book." She goes home and dresses up in some clothes which were in style possibly thirty years ago. In this ridiculous makeup and barefooted she goes to the village store and there sees Walter Dixon and also Rev. John Cameron. In her nervous attempt to be calm the girl accidentaly steps into a pan of molasses and causes much laughter. She runs out of the store and is followed by Dixon. He takes her home and there catches her in his arms and kisses her. The next morning the engineer is called to the city and leaves no word for Darling Dandy. A few days later he brings a child which belongs to the girl he had wronged, and leaves it on the minister's doorstep. The orphan girl sees it and takes it to her home where it is seen by some of the children and they tell the minister of its presence. John Cameron the child to his home that night and the girl places her rag doll in the basket, weights it down with flour, puts a shawl on the top of it and carries it to the minister's home. Just as Darling Dandy arrives at the house a bolt of lightning strikes it and the place is soon in flames. Young Dixon and the girl from the city run out of the place and the girl finally drags out the minister and later she brings to him the baby which had been left on his doorstep and he clasps them both in his arms. "A Disciple of Nietzsche" Reviewed by Thomas C. Kennedy THIS drama, having for its theme a discussion of the radical principles advanced by Friedrich Nietzsche, entitled "A Disciple of Nietzsche," merits the prominence given it in being made the first offering of the new brand of films presented by the Thanhouser Film Corporation. It is from the pen of Phil Lonergan. These three act subjects are known as the Than-O-Play, one of which will be released every three weeks. In this play the author strives to prove that Nietzsche's goes to substantiate the statement he has heard, but the girl warns him away at the point of a gun and it is not until the surveyor and the city girl come for the child that he finds that Darling Dandy has it in her possession. The minister pic of ideas for the betterment of social conditions while theoretically sound and quite acceptable, fall short of realization when practically applied. From the standpoint of what may be termed brutality Nietzsche has built up a strong argument in favor of his principles. In the play an attempt is made to show that, as nature is not guided by any set rules, this doctrine is speculative-science pure-and simple. ? The story concerns a man who accepts the principles of Nietzsche, this character represents the "strong." He is aggravated when his daughter brings into his home a poor girl, as he believes that the poverty stricken are so, because they are too weak to be anything else. He also deems it a waste of strength on the part of the strong to uplift the weak, as it only prolongs their life that they may continue to be a burden to the strong, and as the strong must grow stronger it is their duty to conserve their energy. The father firmly believes that it is best to allow the "weak" to their own devices so that in time they will die off. Since life is only a question of the survival of the fittest, the day will come when all men will be strong, and poverty, weakness, illness, all things detrimental, in fact, will have disappeared from the earth. But later he finds that this "weak" girl grows strong, and not through any help of his. It also happens that his own daughter, the offspring of one, long since proven strong, is capable of doing that which he terms weak. So in the end he is convinced that his doctrine is faulty and he repudiates it. Evidently the author has given the subject his close attention, for he approaches it with directness, and a confidence which is highly commendable. As a drama "A Disciple of Nietzsche" is thoughtfully constructed, plausibly developed,