Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

1100 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 21. ises Mabel to help find her brother and learns that he is known as "Little Great Bear." Mike and Dick, learning that he is Mabel's brother, decide that with the boy out of the way Mabel will be the only one standing between him and an inheritance. After a spectacular Indian fight and a prairie fire, "The Gambler of the West" wins his highest stakes, Mabel's love and her hand in marriage. His Wife's Sweetheart — Edison — November 17. — A one-reel comedy with Raymond McKee and Jean Dumar, directed by Will Lewis. Mr. Whine's wife leaves him because he refuses to buy her a dog. She stops at a hotel. He follows f BL» rSf^^MI I 1: ' 3* ■in wLJt ™BjF ... i ■ aC and engages the adjoining room. Mrs. Whine repents and returns to her home. A vaudeville couple engage the room and rehearse their act. Believing his wife is entertaining a sweetheart, Mr. Whine breaks into the room and engages the actor in battle. After receiving a good beating he learns his mistake and humbly returns to his home where he finds wifie. Canimated Nooz Pictorial No.' 2 — Essanay — November 17. — Cartoons by Wallace A. Carlson. Split reel containing five hundred feet of animated cartoons as a burlesque on such topics as Mayor Thompson clamps the Sunday lid on in Chicago, Dan Cupid pots big game at the White House, and Henry Flivver, automobile manufacturer, introduces two Flivver submarines to the Navy Department. The Night of the Embassy Ball— (Two Reels) — Kalem — November 17. — Featuring Guy Coombs and Anna Nilsson. Prince Rudolph, ruler of Weerhelm, is traveling in America incognito. Sheldon, the English ambassador, is ordered to locate the prince and induce him to sign a treaty of peace, while Sarniff, Brabanian ambassador, is ordered to frustrate all peace moves and has the prince, who is scheduled to attend an embassy ball, abducted and imprisoned in a shack in the country. Nora, a maid, accidentally learns of the kidnapping and tells Larkins, her sweetheart, of this, and the prince is rescued and rushed to the embassy. He signs the document held before him_ and thus frustrates the designs of the BraCount 'Em — Vitagraph — November 17. — Featuring Anita Stewart and Earl Williams. Anita Barnes is sought after by many suitors. Earl, a young American, is her most persistent admirer, and when she hears that a Count wants to marry her she forgets all else. The boys send a tele gram to Mr. Barnes purporting to be from the Count, saying that he wishes him and his daughter to call upon him at the Plaza and then the boys disguise themselves as counts. When Anita and her father arrive they become disgusted and leave for home, while the happy outcome is that Anita's heart and love return to her American lover. In Love's Own Way — (Three Reels) — Lubin — November 17. — Featuring Mary Charleson. John Clark, State Senator of the Rural District, is in love with Mary, a farmer's daughter. Later, upon being elected Governor of the State, he falls in love with and marries Jane Guyton. His wife becomes heavily m debt and accepts a loan from the State Senator, who makes her promise that she will influence her husband to accept the irrigation bill. Mary, learning of the bill and knowing that it will mean ruination to her father's farm land if passed, goes to the Governor to plead for its veto. Jane goes to Worden's apartments to return the borrowed money and there meets Mary. Clark is informed that his wife is at the State Senator's apartments and he goes there to verify his suspicions and Mary comes from hiding to shield Jane, who escapes from the rear of the house. Later happiness comes to the Senator's family and Mary is wooed and won by Bob, the Governor's secretary. For a longer review see another page of this issue. J. C. G. The Eyes of the Soul — Biograph — November 18. — Featuring Jose Ruben and Claire McDowell. Joe Abbott, a crook, escapes from the detectives and in a distant village enters the first house he sees and proceeds to rob it. He is interrupted by the entrance of a blind girl, who places her money in the desk drawer, and when she asks for an explanation of his presence he tells her he has come to read the gas meter. The girl finds Ins skeleton key in the door and realizes that he is a thief. He returns and asks her for employment, as he knows she is alone and needs help, and redeemed through honest labor he is happy in his love for her when the detectives discover him and take him away. After serving his sentences he returns and confesses to the girl his true character, who tells him she knew it all the while and lays her head upon his breast. Snakeville's Eugenic Marriage — Essanay — November IS. — Featuring Margaret Joslin and Victor Potel. Sophie Clutts and Slim go to the office of Dr. McSwat for an examination. The doctor takes charge of Slim while the nurse ushers Sophie to an adjoining room. Sophie, alarmed at Slippery s cries of pain, rushes into the room and drags the doctor out by the coat collar and proceeds to give him a good trimming. Sophie and Slim then walk out with the certificate which she had forced the doctor to sign. Margie of the Underworld — (Two Reels) — Lubin — November 18. — Featuring Lucille Youn^e and a strong cast. In a small hotel fire Mrs. Harris, after escaping, gives her baby to a young man, Lawson, to hold for a moment. Later Lawson takes the child home and she is brought up in the home of a family of crooks. Sixteen years later Margie is discovered as a shop lifter. Later she learns that a job is planned to rob the home of one Dr. Forsythe and she warns him. The doctor is called to attend Mrs. Harris, who has an hallucination that Margie will return and insists upon waiting at the gate at sundown. Margie fleeing trom the police, passes the gate, and Mrs. Harris immediately claims her as her child. The doctor arriving, recognizes Margie as one of the crooks, but the minister, a friend of the doctor's, tells him of Margie's reformation, and the girl is finally led to play her new part as the daughter of Mrs. Harris, and that she really is her daughter he never knows. The Prints of the Nails— (Three Reels)— Selig —November 18.— Featuring Earl Foxe Vivian Reed. Edwin Wallock and Helen Wolcott in a story of the politics of a big city and the love of a mayor for a young girl, who attempts to aid him in reforming the citizens. For a longer review see another page of this issue. J. C. G. A Motorcycle Elopement — Vitagraph — November 18.— Featuring Jewel Hunt and Arthur Cozine. Jack Dare and Bessie Norwood decide to elope after father forbids Jack to call. Jack tells Bessie, whose father is going to take "her to a boarding school in his big car, in a note to extract all but a gallon of gasoline from the car, and that he will follow in his motorcycle and whisk her off to the parson's. Unfortunately the note falls into father's hands, and when he gets to a lonely spot he pretends his gas has given out. Jack comes up and steals her away and a short distance beyond the gasoline in his car gives out. The result is that when her father shows up an hour later she begs him to take her to boarding school or anywhere from that dreadful Jack. The Lonedale Operator — Biograph Re-issue — November 19. — Featuring Blanche Sweet and a strong cast. The daughter of the station agent is left alone in charge of the station. She receives a shipment of money and two tramps attack the station to steal it. The girl wires for help and her sweetheart, an engineer, is dispatched to her aid and arrives at Lonedale just as the thieves are halted by the glisten of steel in the hand of the girl. When the tramps have been captured the girl shows her lover a little spanner which she has used as a weapon. The Undertow — (Three Reels) — Essanay — November 15. — Featuring Richard Travers, June Keith and Harry Dunkinson. Molly Austin's father, a crook, and "Weasel" are caught robbing a house and sent to prison, and Molly goes to the country, where she is married. When "Weasel" is released from prison he follows the girl and she gives him her engagement ring as hush money. One day while driving her car the girl accidentally runs "Weasel" down, injuring him fatally, and on her way to the doctor's the girl's brother commits his last robbery by taking his sister's engagement ring from "Weasel's" finger. The Veiled Priestess — Kalem — November 19. — ■ An episode of the "Ventures of Marguerite." Hal, who lov«s Marguerite, meets a woman who tells of how Dunbar, a mystic, who seeks to induce Marguerite to become his priestess, robbed her of her fortune after promising to wed her. Hal, unwittingly, places himself in Dunbar's power and he is imprisoned, and then the mystic entices Marguerite to the house, where he tells her that unless she marries him Hal will die. Martha, the woman who has been abducted and taken to the house, enters Marguerite's room and induces her to don her clothes while she puts on the bridal garments and heavy veil laid out for Marguerite. Hal, compelled to witness the ceremony, unloosens his bonds at the moment it is completed, and at this time Martha lifts her veil and confronts Dunbar. Hal dashes into the next room, where he finds Marguerite, and the two make their escape. The Death Web — Lubin — November 19. — Featuring L. C. Shumway and Lucelle Younge. George Grafton, manager of the Hydrox Power Company, is sent out to buy a farm from one Davis, whose daughter is in love with Dick Sudlow, son of the president of the Hydrox Company. Being unable to buy the farm from Davis, Grafton manages to ruin the old man. Grafton takes the deed to the farm to Sudlow and pockets a good $35,000 through the plot. Dick persuades his father to go to the valley and Grafton hurries to the transmission station, where he has put Summers to work, to induce him to leave the country. When Dick and his father arrive Grafton tries to trip Summers and throw him against the high power cables, but Summers seizes Grafton and drives him back into the high tension wires, where both are killed. Dick and his father go on to the Davis farm to square things and arrive there just as Davis and Phoebe are leaving. Diplomatic Henry — Vitagraph — November 19. —Featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. Henry Newlywed prides himself on his ability as a diplomat. He receives word from his wealthy Aunt Becky and some excellent suggestions as to the kind of a wife he should have married. He writes Aunt Becky and tells her that no one can sew like she. His wife gets hold of the letter and adds a postscript saying that sh-* is an expert housekeeper and replaces it in Henry's pocket. Aunty arrives on a surprise visit and then she and Mrs. Newlywed, with a pair of home-made trousers, get Henry into a ridiculous predicament and teach him a lesson in diplomacy. Black Eagle — Edison — November 20. — A Western drama with Richard Tucker, Margaret Prussmg and Augustus Phillips. Dick Rockwell sells his mining interests and prepares to leave for the East. His partner, Parker, fails to return to the cabin that night. Rockwell is surprised in the middle of the night by Barbara Dunbar, a visitor from the East and Dick's friend. She warns him that Black Eagle, a notorious road agent, plans to rob him. Black Eagle and his band ride up to the cabin. The road agent enters alone. Dick shoots and kills him, and when his mask is removed discovers that Black Eagle is none other than Parker. The River of Romance — (Two Reels) — Essanay — November 20. — Featuring John Lorenz and Elizabeth Tinder. Ramon Randolph, a young engineer, is offered $10,000 if he can find a way