Motography (Oct-Dec 1916)

October 28, 1910. MO TO GRAPH Y 999 Brief Stories of the Weeks Film Releases Friends — Biograph — October 23. — Featuring Alary Pickford, Henry Walthall and Lionel Barrymore. At the mining camp of Golden Creek the little orphan girl of the late proprietor of Golden Creek Inn is the pet of all the miners. She becomes greatly infatuated with Dandy Jack, who is considered by all as her sweetheart. Jack decides to leave the camp for other diggings, and . the little one is almost heartbroken. As he is leaving, he meets Bob, his old chum, who has just, arrived at the camp. Their greeting shows clearly the value of that little word, "friends." Later on Bob comes to the inn and falls deeply in love with the little orphan, who has realized by this time that her feeling for Jack was infatuation rather than love. Hence she and Bob are engaged to be married. Shortly before the day set for the wedding Jack returns and is twitted by the boys about the apparently fickle girl, whereupon he wagers that he can win her back, not knowing, of course, who the successful suitor is. The outcome is a revelation to all. Out of the Shadows — (Two Reels) — Selic. — October 23. — Featuring Robyn Adair and Virginia Kirtley. A review appears alsewhere in this issue. Trouble for Four — Vitagraph — October 23. — " Florence Walters, a newlywed, raves about her ideal husband to the Widow Hartley and the widow tells her that all men are true, until you ' find them out. Florence is indignant and the ' widow suggests putting Harry to the test. The widow writes a note to Harry asking him to dine with her that evening at .the Hotel Norman. .Harry meets a bachelor friend on the way. to the hotel and Bobby begs to keep the appointment. The widow, having never seen Harry, thinks that Bobby is he and after dining with him she makes her getaway, leaving Bobby to foot the bills. He discovers that he left his money in his other suit and calls up Harrv to get him " out of the trouble. The widow tells Florence that she dined with her husband and Florence leaves and returns to her mother's. Bobby calls on the widow and makes violent love to her and she tells him he ought to be ashamed of himself, has he no consideration for the little woman in the next room. Just at this moment Harry appears on the scene and Florence also returns with her • mother. Finally everything is straightened out and all ends happily. The Battle of Elderbrush Gulch— (Two Reels) — Biograph Reissue — October 24. — Featuring Mae Marsh. Two orphan children from over the mountain are sent to their uncle in Elderbrush, a new settlement just being formed close to a hostile Indian tribe. The elder of the two girls insists on keeping her puppies and her uncle forbids her to bring them into the house. She leaves the puppies outside and • later in the evening, thinking the puppies will be cold, she goes out . for them and sees them in the distance running through the elderbrush. They are also seen by two Indians, the chief's son and his friend. They catch the dogs just as the little girl appears, and her uncle, who has followed her, sees ner struggling to gain possession of them. He shoots the chief's son and the next day the Indians go on the warpath and completely devastate the center of the settlement. Then then proceed to the rancher's cabin, where the girl with her little sister and puppies are hiding in a . big chest. Help arrives before the Indians have time to reach the cabin, however, and all ends happily. Borrowed Sunshine — (Two Reels) — Essanay — October 24. — Featuring Richard C. Travers and Marguerite Clayton. A review appears elsewhere in this issue. The Fable of the Throbbing Genius of ' a Tank Town Who Was Encouraged by Her Folks Who Were Prominent — Essanay— October 25. — Lila, daughter of the ' egg and poultry king, scored a knockout in a war drama held as a charity benefit. Friends advised her to go in the movies. Thereafter, when Lila moved irom one room to another the portieres had to be spread the entire length of the pole, so as to make room for her head. A local haberdasher, who vas plotting to surround her with a new bungalow and a lot of mission furniture, went to call as per usual, and found her too busy to hold hands. Father saw he was hooked, so he took her to a moving picture school to have her searched for talent. It took many an egg to have her properly conservatoried. Lila took her diploma the rounds of the studios and found that artist temperaments were more abundant than lamp posts. She finally ■ got on as the Maid who enters with her back to the camera in the early part of act two. When Lila saw the first run and found her scene had been cut out, she caught the first train for the home town. The next day she had a strip of red carpet spread for the haberdasher and was learning to cook on a tireless heater. Moral — The true friend to home talent is one who goes to the benefit and hisses all the evening. Betty's Affair — Vitagraph — October 27. — Betty loves Bob, who has every delightful qualification, except money. Therefore, her stern father objects to the match and plans to wed his darling to a nondescript by the name of Ferdinand who has only one point of attraction, namely, the prospect that he will inherit a wad when his healthy uncle passes in his checks, same time in the dim, distant future. Ferdinand comes to the home of Betty to claim his bride, whereat the cook, who belongs to the Stew Experts' Union, quits rather than cook for "company." Bob, disguised as a member of the female species, takes . the cook's place in the kitchen and maltreats the food to such an extent that flirty Ferddie longs for home and mother. Meanwhile, of course, Betty and Bob put one over on the visitor by being married on the sly and when finally foolish father insists upon the crime of marrying his offspring to the distant legacy, he finds that he has been famously foiled by the lovely lovers. It Never Could Happen — (Three Reels)— Essanay— October 28. — Featuring Richard C. Travers and Frances Benedict featured. Incensed at Robert Prandor's escapades, his father tells him to leave home and return only when he has. earned $100. This will move the ' elder man to make h'm a partner. The boy is soon forced by necessity to take a place as waiter. Here he catches the eye of Wyman, who hires him as butler. Thyra, his daughter, is the chilliest thing Prandor ever met. When she decides to marry him he gets frightened and tries to escape, but tumbles down a stair and is severely injured. Prandor immediately falls in love with Elsie Forbes, his nurse. Thyra is using her supposed engagement to Prandor as a cloak to cover her real affection for another man, opposed by her father. An entanglement of forged checks worries Wyman and his secretary arrests young Prandor. Elsie Forbes is arrested also. While Prandor is making the secretary himself confess to the forgeries, his father, long a friend of Wyman, enters and the situation is happily solved, the final obstacle being removed when word comes that Thyra has eloped with the other man. A Close Call — Selig — October 2S.— Featuring Tom Mix and Victoria Forde. A review appears elsewhere in this isue. periments on the cook, whose sweetheart, the policeman, hears her tell the professor that she gives him the professor's whiskey and cigars. Then the professor's daughter and her lover, Thorpe Willis, a young newspaper man, appear upon the scene, and Thorpe accidentally getting a spray of the liquid on his face, begins to lay bare his soul. The professor kicks Thorpe out and the next morning reads an account in the paper of his discovery. "Smoothy" Smithers, a crook, also reads the notice. The professor is finally so pestered by requests for the formula that he destroys it and locks the liquid in the safe. Smithers manages to get the liquid from the safe, but drops the bottle, allowing some of the liquid to spatter in his face. . He then emerges from the house declaring to the world that he has just burglarized a house. The professor is finally so harassed by requests that he turns to "Thorpe for help. The reporter writes up the whole affair as a hoax on the public and then is accepted as Jeremy's son-in-law. The Folly of Fear — (Two Reels) — Mutual) — October 24. — Featuring Edwin August and Ruth Blair. La Rue, an author, is in love with Grace Ellis, who refuses to marry him. Ethel Rutledge, La Rue's secretary, has an unfortunate affair with Gerard Weir, but discovers in time that he is an adventurer. La Rue marries Ethel and they are happy" until Weir again crosses the woman's path and shows her a mysterious document which causes her to keep him in her room, masquerading as her cousin. Later La Rue discovers the deception and asks an explanation of Ethel, but through fear of Weir she will not explain. Through an odd chain of circumstances Grace Ellis discovers what the document is that Weir is holding over Ethel's head and tells La Rue of it. Years before Ethel had been tricked into a mock marriage with Weir, but had discovered it in time. Weir had doctored a hotel register to make it look as though she had been his wife and this was the document he was holding over her. Weir is killed and Ethel is once more folded in her husband's arms. Selig-Tribune No. 80 — October 5. — Five hundred thousand dollar blaze destroys a portion of the St. Charles Bridge, the onlv highway structure across the Missouri .River, St. Charles, Mo. ; officials of the nation, state and city unite in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Boston Light, the oldest lighthouse in America, Boston, Mass. ; the boys of the Pennsylvania State Militia hold an athletic tournament at Camp Stewart, El Paso, Tex. ; forest fires occurring in Newhall, Cal., destroy hundreds of oil tanks and thousands of acres of timber; the Ohio Field Artillery brings to Ft. Bliss the first observation balloon used during the army's long occupation of the border. El Paso, Tex. ; four hundred and sixty-eight boys of the public schools take part in the aquatic games held at the Sutro Baths here, San Francisco, Cal. ; all Pennsylvania troops stationed along Mt. Franklin, Tex., take part in four-day hike across the mountains. Selig-Tribune No. 81 — October 9. — Society women of the Golden State form the first American Women's Bowling Club, San Francisco, Cal.; John Aitken wins the Astor Cup race of 250 miles, driving a Peugeot over the course in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 4.02 seconds, breaking the world's record for speedway tracks, New York. N. Y. ; society folks from Philadelphia hold their annual Horse Show at Bryn Mawr, Pa., with usual success; the landing at Nome, Alaska, of John Borden and the crew ofhis rescue -ship "Great Bear" from the R. C. McCullough, after his vessel was wrecked on Pinnacle Rock. Mutual Pictures Professor Jeremy's Experiment — (Two Reels) — American — October 23. — Featuring Orral Humphrey. Prof. Jeremy, an eccentric old scientist, compounds a liquid which, if sprinkled on a person's face, will cause that person to speak the truth — and nothing but the truth. He first ex The Barfly — Nestor — October 23. — With Eddie Lyons, Priscilla Dean and Lee Moran. Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed prepare to attend a masquerade ball, he in the attire of a tramp. The tramp from whom Newlywed obtained the idea for his costume turns up, however, and Mrs. Newlywed goes off to the ball with the tramp. This, of course, leads to complications, and the tramp is airested. Newlywed is also arrested by the police and they all meet in the police station, at which place explanations follow. Society Hypocrites — (Three Reels) — October 24. — With Ben Wilson, Neva Gerber and Helen Leslie. This picture deals with the civilizing of an Indian, who finally learns enough of "civilization" to prevent the elopement of his host's youngest daughter with a designing baron, and a theft involving much, which is based on a former incident in the story. After having had enough of "civilization" the man asks the girl who has helped him to share his life and fortune, but she realizes that races cannot mix. A Rural Romance — (Two Reels) — L-Ko — October 25.— With Lucille Hutton and Bill Revan. Farmer McNutt is willing that his daughter shall marry Dick, the farm hand, until the landlord threatens to foreclose the mortgage unless Lucille marries his son. Lucille is forc.-d to be nice to the latter and for her perfidy Dick makes her suffer with the rube. However, Dick finally gets hold of the girl and rides off with her in a flivver. Both meet their doom over a cliff, another instance of the reward of trickery. The Narrow Creed — (Two Reels) — Big U— October 26. — The girl's betrayer in this picture proves to be the deacon's son. The latter, harrassed by his conscience, decides to look up Ruth, marry her, and save her from the disgrace which her fatherless child has brought. At first the deacon is adamant when he learns his own son is the culprit, but the son administers to him a vigorous sermon on hypocrisy. Finally the deacon admits the truth about a number of things, forgives his son and the girl, and the child brings about a happy reunion. Windsor McKay and his Jersey Skeeters— Powers — October 26. — Windsor McKay in his Jersey home is pestered by mosquitoes.. By accident he meets a professor who is studying the language of the mosquitoes and who suggests that he make a series of drawings to illustrate