Motography (Jul-Sep 1916)

744 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XVI, No. 13. Brief Stories of the Week's Film Releases eneral Program The Unveiling — Biograpii RE-ISSUE — September IS. — Featuring Mabel Normand and Robert Harron. The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his boyhood sweetheart and her mother come to spend a few days. A show girl, who learns that he will soon come into great wealth, determines to win him. Unsophisticated as he is, he is an easy prey. A friend of the family warns the mother of her boy's danger, which she is loath to believe until positive proof is presented. Pleadings, are in vain for the boy is fascinated, and so the sorrowing mother, feeling she has lost all that she has lived for, determines upon selfdestruction and is prevented only by the timely appearance of her visiting friend, who devises the plan that awakens the boy. She has the mother pretend suicide on account of the loss of fortune. This shows the boy the true nature and design of the object of his infatuation. Into the Northland — (Three Reels) — Selig — September 18. — Featuring Fritzi Brunette and Leo Pierson. A review appears elsewhere in this issue. When Justice Won — (Two Reels) — Essanay — September 19. — Featuring Marguerite Clayton and Sydney Ainsworth. Fifteen years before the story opens James Dillon is entrusted with a document by a fellow convict. He discovers the paper designates him as guardian over the dead man's daughter, who is heir to her grandfather's immense fortune. Dillon escapes, and visits the orphanage. The meeting with the child softens him, and, a changed man, he determines to make something of himself. Clemens, another convict, who sees Dillon rising as a citizen, blackmails him. When Grace Marion is grown her guardian has fought himself to a position of respect, becoming a leading citizen of the state. Clemens continues his persecution and tries to force Dillon to permit his ward to marry Frank Smith, a young accomplice. He denounces Dillon and the girl turns from her guardian. Dillon tells his story to the governor, a friend, and the latter soon puts a pardon in the hands of the girl. Dillon finds her trapped by the two crooks and rescues her. He finds that she desires him to be more than a guardian to her. Strongheart — (Three Reels) — Btocraph — September 20. — Featuring Henry Walthall and Blanche Sweet. Frank Nelson and his sister, Dorothy, are on a hunting trip in the West, and Strongheart, an Indian chief's son, saves Frank from drowning. Strongheart is so impressed with Frank's tales of college life that he begs his father to send him East to acquire the wisdom of the white man for the benefit ot /lis race. He goes to Columbia College with Frank and becomes a great favorite with the boys. Dorothy is loved by Ralph Thome, but she favors Dick Livingston, her brother's chum, and Thorite, jealous, plans to disgrace Dick by exchanging his list of football signals for Dick's and sends them to the opposing team, who are too honorable to take advan• f the stolen information. Through Strongheart, Thome's treachery is discovered and he is discharged from college. Dorothy falls in love with Strongheart, and when he received word of ther's death -in pleads with him to take her with him, but he refuses, realizing thai Dorothy could not live the lift of his people, and thus two loving hearts arc Beparated by inexorable fate. Canimated Nooz Pictorial. No. 16 — Essanay — ubei 20. — A splil nil release sharing the thousand feet with beautiful Canadian scenic. Cartoonist Carlson has pictured the ninety-seventh annual track and field meet of the Boneyard Old Peoples Home at Boneyard, 111. Lads between the ages of seventy-three and ninety-eight participate in the 200-yard dash. "Dad Time," the champion, is handicapped with a long brush which causes him to drop out at the third post. Rufus Rawsberry wins in 12 minutes, 7 seconds. Dreamy Dud has an amusing experience with Kid Kangaroo, just before father awakes him to see his birthday presents. Honeymoon Car — Vim — September 20. — Featuring Rosemary Theby and Harry Meyers. Harry receives a letter from his uncle telling him to buy a car with the money order enclosed, get married and make the trip to uncle's home in the car. On the way the bridal pair run out of gasoline and hubby walks to the nearest gasoline station and while he is away a tramp holds up the bride and relieves her of her jewelry. When the groom returns he is told of the affair, and he starts in search of said robber, but returns soon, being unable to trace him. They start out again and later they discover that the gasoline tank cap is lost and again the car is stalled. They come upon the tramp and after a merry chase manage to get him and have him arrested. When they arrive at uncle's home he refuses to recognize them as they are so dirty, and the pair return to their car, sit on the running board and try to fathom out a way to make uncle admit his relationship to the groom. Love and Duty — Vim — September 21. — Featuring Babe Hardy and Billy Ruge. The bugle's call rouses Private Plump and he hurries to Lieutenant Runt's tent to aid his pompous little superior's dressing. Secure in his authority, the officer tortures poor Plump with unnecessary drilling and departs for the day's work. The colonel's daughter loves Plump. The lieutenant loves her. Plump's heart is given to the little pet of the regiment, so that things are rather mixed. A trumped up charge places Plump in the court martial's hands and unthinkingly the colonel sentences him to death. Risking her life, the pet aids him to escape. About this time the maneuvers are taking place and the bursting of a cannon scatters the troops and sends the colonel's horse away on a mad gallop ending in a flying jump into the river. Plump sees this and rushes off to a crane, jumps into the scoop and with a mighty heave drags out the drowning colonel. Before the whole regiment the hero is now restored, decorated and promoted, and with the pet in his arms, his happy future is assured. A Lesson from Life — (Three Reels) — Knickerbocker— September 22. — Belle Keene, aspiring to become a playwright, frequents the slums in order to perfect her types, but her husband, a successful novelist, does not approve of this. He decides to let his wife vfcit the slums, and elicits the aid of Steve, a former actor, to make life for her very miserable while she is in the slums. In the tenement house Bella comes in contact with Steve and his confederates. Steve enters her room through a window, supposedly being sought by the police and threatens her ami she aids in throwing the police off the scent. Sieve becomes so interested in Bella that he determines to ditch his old sweetheart for her and complications ensue between the jealous and discarded girl. Steve is supposedly killed by this girl and Bella seeks safety in flight in order to avoid being mixed up in the affair. She goes lo a beach hotel and Richard goes to the tenement, where Steve, the cop and the girl await further unlets. He is acquainted with the melodramatic stunts md decides to locate his wife. lie finds her and she informs him that she has gained all the material necessary to perfect her story. The Man Hunters — Vim — September 22.— Featuring Robert Burns and Walter Stull. Pokes, the village boob, and a graduate of a correspondence school for detectives, volunteers to arrest two outlaws who have been terrorizing the town. Pokes follows on the trail of every stranger who enters the town, and when Jabbs, the famous city detective summoned by the town police, arrives, Pokes follows him, and when he discovers Jabbs disguising himself as a woman and entering the postoffice, he summons the police and Jabbs is arrested. Meanwhile the outlaws enter the postoffice and make away with the contents of the safe. Jabbs finallv establishes his identity and when the police return to the postoffice and discover the robbery they set out after Pokes, who, they believe, is responsible for the affair. Pokes eludes them, however, and in so doing comes upon the outlaws, who are so surprised at his sudden appearance that they allow themselves to be captured. Just as Pokes marches his captives to the front, and Jabbs is praising him, and the village belles rush to kiss him, fate steps in, and instead of a hero, Fokes finds himself once again the village boob. The Way of Patience — (Three Reels) — Essanay — September 23. — Featuring Nell Craig and Darwin Karr. A review appears elsewhere in this issue. A Corner in Water — Selig — September 23. — Featuring Tom Mix and Victoria Forde. Pete Johnson takes possession of a water hole, and charges all who come along for the use of same. Joe Simpson and his daughter, Vicky, traveling in a covered wagon, and looking for a location, stop at the water hole, but Johnson refuses to give them water, and shoots a hole through the bucket which Vicky carries, hoping to secure some water for her horses. Tom Smith, a cowpuncher, sees this, ropes Johnson, drags him from the water hole, and Vicky gets some water. Hostile Indians sight Vicky and her father, and give chase. As they approach, father and daughter prepare to hold them off. Tom discovers the state of affairs, and with an automatic rifle kills three of the Indians. The others retreat, and Vicky's eyes tell Tom mutely of her admiration. Selig-Tribune, No. 72 — September 7. — The National Tennis Championship tournament attracts great throngs of enthusiasts who witness the defeat of McLoughlin, the one-time champion and favorite, Forest Hills, X. Y. ; first hospital train for the United States Army, under the command of Captain Howard H. Bailey. M. B., arrives here and is put into instant service, San Antonio, Texas; Countess Von Bernstorff, wife of the German ambassador to the United States, arrives in New York on a safe passage guarantee from the Allies, New York, N. Y. ; an interesting incident attracting attention in Los Angeles is the adoption of a tiger cub by a Great Dane, herself the mother of two puppies. Selig-Tribune, No. 73 — September 11.— Mrs. Edna Rothard Passapae, while attending the convention of the National Association of Dancing Masters, demonstrates her new "Skating Waltz," Chicago, 111.; clad in the prosaic garb of men's fashion, King Nicholas of Montenegro presents in the streets of Paris, France, anything but kingly aspect; Charles E. Hughes' campaign party attends the county fair at Loveland, Colo.; Lloyd George, the new British War Minister, accompanied by Sir Manuel Hughes. Canadian War Minister, reviews the Fourth Division Canadian troops prior to their departure for France, Surrey, England ; aviators, who flew to their rendezvous in hydro-aeroplanes, indulge in the first "aviation luncheon" tendered to the members of the new Flying Yacht Club, New York. X. V. net first, then the. [mtrican drama, "Land with Frank Borsage and Anna Little. On the ' t'j Beauty* "The Stinger Stung." Mutual will, of course, present them all.