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June 12, 1915.
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Brief Stories of the Week's Film Releases
General Program
Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 43 —
Selig — May 31. — President Wilson, Secretary of Treasury McAdoo and Secretary of State Bryan attend Pan-American Financial conference at Washington; girls of Cambridge Lady Navy have outing at Waverly Oaks, Mass.; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., poses for motion pictures in Washington; homing pigeons are loosed in Washington for flight to New York; Miss Eva Booth heads Salvation Army parade in Washington; Italian steamer, Stampalia, makes preparation for voyage from New York to Mediterranean; British women start on route marches through streets of London; hundreds gather at funeral of Charles Frohman, theatrical man who lost his life when the Lusitania was torpedoed; American ship Nebraskan torpedoed in Irish waters.
Hearst-Selig News Pictorial No. 44 —
Selig — June 3. — Knight Templars arrive in Philadelphia for march in giant parade; Major-General Leonard Wood inspects Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind.; girls of Industrial Institute of Columbus, Miss, give big pageant; Antideath Penalty League presents petitions to save life of Leo M. Frank; Governor Brumbaugh of Harrisburg, Pa. joins hundreds of men who volunteer on good roads day; Italian Building at San Francisco thrown open; Dr. Foss, survivor of the Lusitania disaster returns to New York; German soldiers render grease and pour candles into cups to furnish light for men in trenches at Front in Russia.
The Tear on the Page — Biograph — June 7. — Frank Newburg and Isabella Rea featured. Boyd, a wealthy bachelor, has long admired the work of Frank Forbes, a young painter, and the artist is invited to visit his country place. To his amazement Frank Forbes proves to be a charming young girl. He calls on his aunt to play chaperone and Frances mistakes his interest and falls in love with him. While hunting he fires at a deer and wounds Miss. Forbes, and the doctor realizes that unrequited love is retarding her progress. The bachelor, thinking himself to blame, marries the girl. Boyd has been keeping a diary and has put in it his resolution to marry one he does not love. One day he comes across this page and finds it blotted with tears. He knows that his wife has read it and he suddenly realizes that he does love her.
The Gilded Cage — Essanay— June 7. — Bryant Washburn and Ruth Stonehouse featured. Eloise, a young and beautiful
girl, who is in love with Kent Harding, a poor young man, will not sacrifice the luxuries of life for love, so when Weston, a wealthy bachelor, asks for her hand they are married. Her sister, Marie, who has been a slavey around the house, sympathizes with Kent, who is heartbroken over Eloise's marriage. Eloise soon learns that wealth without love is unhappiness. Marie and Kent are married and Eloise spends her life in a round of pleasure which palls without love.
Her Husband's Honor— (Two Reels) — Kalem — June 7. — Florence aids her father in smuggling diamonds, and later meets Robbins, a customs inspector, and marries him. Secret Service Agent Ellen suspects Florence and her father, and his suspicions are confirmed when he visits Stoddard, a jeweler. Cole, Florence's father, some time later tells Robbins that he wishes Florence to accompany him to Europe. When they return Florence places a box of candy on the table and Robbins carelessly takes one and bites into it. Horrified he finds that each piece of candy contains a smuggled gem. He will not listen to Florence's explanation, but later, realizing that she is repentant, he forgives her.
Mrs. Jarr and the Beauty Treatment —
Vitagraph — June 7. — Mrs. Jarr is impressed with a beauty page in a woman's magazine and goes to a beauty doctor, insisting that Jarr take care of the children. She goes to her friend's house, and her husband, being pestered by the two women, goes out for a walk. He and Jarr meet and buy the Jarr children toy balloons. In the meantime Mrs. Jarr and Mrs. Smith are suffering tortures for the sake of beauty. Little Izzy Slavinsky bursts Willy Jarr's balloon and cuts the cord holding Emma's. After much excitement Smith and Jarr are arrested and come near being sent up.
The Web of Crime— (Two Reels)— June 7. — Marion Ward, whose mother conducts a thieves' den, knows no other life nor the difference between right and wrong. After an unusually successful haul, Egan, a brutal but daring criminal, decides to make Marion his wife. She goes to Sandy Murry and they escape to a fishing village. Here she meets Earl Worth, a young fisherman. Egan, now a fugitive from justice, finds her there and is talking to her when Earl sees him. Egan tries to take the girl away and places her in a boat, but Earl makes a flying leap to her rescue, deals Egan a crushing blow and the crook is knocked into the sea and drowned.
Man and His Master — (Two Reels) — Biogkaph — June 8. — Louise Vale and Franklin Ritchie featured with an all star
cast. The selfish factory owner is stern and unyielding, but his young daughter does everything in her power to alleviate the misery of the poor. The factory foreman proposes to the girl, but her father declares that his daughter shall not marry a man who has risen from the ranks. Some time later his employes are discontented and go on a strike. The master decides to bring greater pressure to bear upon the malcontents and decides to raise the rents in his tenement district. A young Italian finds the factory owner in the tenement district unconscious and takes him to his home, where many of the men threaten to revenge themselves upon him. He is taken home after he has recovered from a long illness and is a changed man, and he gives his blessing to his daughter's marriage.
The Romance of an American Duchess
— (Two Reels) — Essanay — -June 8. — With an all star cast, including Richard Travers and Ruth Stonehouse. The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, who is on a tour, comes to America and wins the hand of Stephana Martin, an American heiress, defeating his rival. Marquis Ferdinand. He brings his wife
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to Europe and the Countess Marie, who has loved the Duke de Longtour, and Marquis Ferdinand plot to estrange the young couple. They hire an adventuress and the Marquis, posing as a friend, brings Stephana to a cabaret just in time to see the adventuress throw her arms about the duke. She is heartbroken, but the duke at last gets the adventuress to confess all. The plotters are denounced and husband and wife are reunited.
Ham at the Fair — Kalem — June 8. — Ham meets Goldie at the fair and kisses her. When she screams for help he shoves part of a roll of bills into her hand and she consents to be quiet. Later Ham sees Bud meet the girl and he is also victimized.- The two meet a wester'ner and induce him to try his luck with Goldie, who not only falls in love with him but also gives him the money she
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