Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

1464 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 26. Brief Stories of the Week's Film Releases Pay Dirt — (Five Reels) — Knickerbocker — June 18. — Featuring Henry King. The Easterner, a young miner, digs for gold by the day and gambles by night. Moll, a woman of the camp, takes an interest in him and tries to break him of the habit of his ruin. She finally gets his promise to quit gambling. Kate Gardner, a girl of the west, is loved by Bill Turner, a miner, loves him and later saves his life when he is about to be lynched by a mob at the command of the jealous Turner. The Easterner learns that Moll is his mother and because he refuses to disown his mother, Doris Wendell, daughter of a wealthy landowner, breaks her engagement with him. His passion to gambling proves too strong and he bets his claim. As he loses Oby, a half-wit who haunts the camp, snatches away the table, jumbling the cards. Gardner strikes him down and his memory returns and he recognizes Gardner as the man who robbed him years before and he shoots him. Dying, Gardner admits that Kate is Oby's daughter and, reunited with her father, Kate marries the East.erner. A Misunderstood Boy — Biograph Reissue — ■ June 19. — Featuring Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Lionel Barrymore and Kate Bruse. Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisterers made fun of her and his love. That made trouble and the chief vigilante believed him the cause of it all. So he was "in wrong" all around. The girl's father also sided with the opinion of the world and sent both the boy and girl away. Mother was on a visit at the time, and therein the need of such a one at home was proved, for once back she sent the father out to bring them home again. The boy in the gold hills had been misunderstood again. Marauding merchants had left their victim on the mountain pass and the boy, coming on the scene, was again accused, but the lie in the end destroyed itself. Otto's Legacy — Lubin — June 19. — Featuring. Davy Don. Otto Finnegan, a bricklayer, receives a legacy of gold coins and as the bank is closed he conceals the gold in a hollowed brick, which he' buries in a vacant lot. Two sons of a . policeman dig up the brick and hold Otto at bay while they make their gecaway. A mason loading bricks from a pile in the same yard throws the gold brick in with the rest and before Finnegan can have the boys arrested the brick is built into the walls of a chicken house. He hires an automobile and drives it, through the wall of the chicken house and the owner, enraged, knocks him out with one of the bricks. He is taken home and when seized with a chill his wife warms his feet with a hot brick, which, happens to be the gold one, and when he awakens, and finds it he. clasps his wife to his breast and tells her for the first time of his sudden riches. The Reprisal — (Three Reels)— Selig — -June 19. — Featuring Fritzi and Jack Pickford. A review appears elsewhere in this issue. The Reformers — (Two Reels) — Biograph Reissue— June 20. — Featuring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron. Behold in this film, the uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds everybody's business but his own, until that business is as clean, pure and spotless as himself. Verily in these later days is there no school of art named "minding one's business?" The Girl at the Curtain — (Two Reel) — Essanay Reissue — Junk 20. — Featuring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. To Warren Bradley, a young attorney, half of an immense fortune is left, provided he marry a distant relative, a girl he has never seen. He is content, but, it seems, the girl is not. i Mary Burns, a pretty "country . school teacher, refuses even to see him. Reverses, however, make her agree. She insists that they be married with a curtain between them,, so that neither shall see the other. They separate immediately. Later she decides to get first hand .experience as a business woman and goes to work as a stenographer for Warren Bradley under an assumed name. After a few months Bradley deplores his marriage, having fallen in love with his stenographer. It is our aim to make this department as complete as possible, although to do this, we must have the co-operation of all the manufacturers of film in the United States. If brief stories of the films you are releasing this week are not contained in this department, it must be due to the fact that you have not supplied us with synopsis sheets. In that case please see that we are advised of your film titles and release dates, and furnished with a brief synopsis of the story. This department is intended for every film manufacturer, whether he uses our advertising pages or not. She returns the affection but thinks he is in love with a society woman. When he dictates a letter to Mary Burns asking her to divorce him, she can stand it no longer and reveals her identity. Warren tells her the real reason for wanting a divorce and both are happy. The Fable of the Undecided Brunette — Essanay — June 21. — A dark-eyed maiden was being rushed by two candidates, one a cheap man, the other a provider. The cheap man was trench broke and could be kept busy changing the records on the phonograph. The provider was a financial featherweight. The brunette was up a stump when it came to making a choice. She could not bring herself to' lean against a stingy old thing who never unbttckled. If she married the provider he would giver her everything he owned, but what he owned you could put in a steamer trunk. Auntie's advice was for girlie to center her affections on some tractable person who was neither a prospective pauper nor a close-fisted clam. Brunette falls desperately in love with a general manager of set habits and calm untheatrical generosity, who put things on a business basis. MORAL — It is necessary to make a few purchases both before and after marriage. Love's Law — (Three Reels) — Lubin — June 22. — Featuring Adda Gleason and C. E. Van Auker. According to the custom of the Pueblo Indians, the tribunal oath is taken never to marry outside of the tribe. Wi-ni-ne-ma, daughter of a Pueblo chief, meets the son of the Hopi chief and they become interested in each other, but Ni-a-wa-ca, who is in love with the 'girl, drives Set-ta-wa off the reservation and takes Wi-ni-ne-ma home. Shortly after the chief's son takes the tribunal oath and is sent off to college. At the same time Ni-a-wa-ca and Wa-ni-ne-ma take their tribunal oath and .also, leave for college. In the year of their graduation Wa-ni-ne-ma and Set-te-wa have fallen in love, but Ni-a-wa-ca informs her father of' the affair and he takes her from college. However, "after much hardship the lovers make their •getaway" and are -married. The Ancient Blood — (Three Reels) — Knickerbocker Star Feature— June 23. — FeaturingVirginia Nofden" and Ne'al" Hardin. This story deals with "the unforeseen' consequences arising from the marriage' of; an Englishman of noble birth to a halfbreed mountain girl. Reviewed elsewhere in this issue. ATraitor to Art — (Three Reels) — Essanay — June 24. — Featuring Ann Kirk, Edward Arnold, Hugh Thompson and Marion Lydston. Brenda . Adams, and Arthur. .Synott,. small town sweethearts^ become .engaged. . She goes to the city, -however, .to .pursue .her .art .s.tudies. Some years pass and she makes but little progress. Blount, an eccentric artist with whom she works, persuades her to pose as Cleopatra. Pancha, who loves him,' is enraged. Synott, now a minister, seeks Bferida," as he has received an excellent call "arid requires' a" wife at the city church. They marry and she gives up the Bohemian life. Pancha has seen the painting and is sure Blount is inlove with its original. She slashes it to shreds. Brenda, -in great fear because her minister husband has decided to visit the exhibition, goes to his studio to destroy the painting. Blount discovers, her. and the ruined work. He threatens arrest — :but offers a way out. She leaves to think it. over and Pancha sees her depart. In a jealous fury she kills both Blount and herself. Persistency — Lubin — June 24 — Featuring Octavia Handworth, Thurston Hall and Florence Williams. John Hallett, a well-to-do man about town, meets Dorothy McLean and immediately makes violent love to her, but she, knowing of his convivial habits, repulses him" but he continues his unwelcome attentions. In despair Dorothy goes to the seashore with her aunt, but she is closely followed by John, where his assaults upon her heart become more persistent and her refusals more emphatic. Dorothy and her aunt return to the city and he follows. Then it occurs to him that perhaps the better way to win the young lady's affections would be to call at .her home and present his card. This he does that evening dressed in his' best, and he seems so different from, the" "fresh" individual she has known before that Dorothy capitulates and permits the inevitable embrace and kiss. Taking a Chance — Selig — June 24. — Featuring Tom Mix and" Victoria Forde: Tom Manton, a cowboy on the"ranch "of "William Saunders, is in love' with Flo; -Saunders' daughter, .who is not in favor of the match". Henry Weir, a crook, tries, to sell Saunders an automobile, and Weir_ takes Flo out for a ride. 'Tom learns that Weir is wanted by the" authorities. Meantime Weir en-" deavors to make -love to Flo, -who escapes, meets # Tom and tells him of Weir's actions. Tom" chases Weir in hisauto; rides alongside and jumps" tothe top of the automobile where he" is taken into town by Weir. -When at the railroad station Weir jumps from the car and tries to escape, he is confronted by the cowboy. . Saunders has so much -admiration for Tom -that he gives his consent to the marriage of Tom and Flo. Selig-Tribune No. 45 — June 5. — German and Irish societies join in huge parade and bazaar in an effort to raise $100,000 for war sufferers, San Francisco, Cal. ; fifty girls narrowly escape death when large motion picture film exchange is destroyed by fire, Detroit, Mich. ; thousands of Sinn Feiners parade through Sackville street prior to the rebellion, Dublin, Ireland ; Boy Scouts give practical demonstration of what they can do in bridge building, Rivcrgrovc, 111. ; members of Cabinet and Congress will inspect this gigantic 1 ■ / h i • \m W9 B[ EJkw 1 r ■^ Looking ahead at new Vitagraph dramas. .It the left, "The Man Behind the Curtain"; center, "Ashes": at right, "The Redemption