Motography (Jan-Jun 1917)

542 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XVII, No. 10. Universal Screen Magazine — Issue No. 9. — March '9. — This issue begins with views of Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, the noted bee culturist who instructs Boy Scout Masters in the art of handling bees with security. Cutting ice on the upper reaches of the Hudson River for storage is the next subject. The third shows the making of frankfurters and sausages, under the rules of inspection of the New York Board of Health. Casting the death mask of Admiral Dewey is then shown. The sculptor, Ulric S. J. Dunbar, who made the masks of McKinley, Garfield and Grant, and many other famous men, is seen working on the mold. A few minutes with Willie Hopkins and his animated sculpture close the reel. The Beauty Doctor — Victor — March 9. — With Sylvia Ashton and Billy Mason. Billy and Sylvia decide to open a beauty shop for thin women. He poses Sylvia as a wonderful example of before and after taking. Reading in the beauty column that watermelon seeds are a great fattener, he buys a large supply of melons. A husband and wife get notice that an eccentric uncle, in his will left the couple the wife's weight in gold. She decides to take the treatment of Billy. A young girl is engaged to a Turkish Prince, but when he sees how thin she is, he refuses. She also takes the treatment. After a few weeks the two women are thinner and poor Sylvia is fatter than ever. The husband and the Prince go to bring vengeance on Billy. A battle with the melons ensues and Billy and Sylvia take passage for other parts. Wanta Make a Dollar — Joker — March 10. — With Gale Henry and William Franey. Gale, a suffragette leader, notices an advertisement in which a marriage broker advertises his "Insurance Against Spinsterhood." Bill is the broker • and he is in love with his secretary, Lillian. Gale pays her money down in one lump. Bill goes out to find her a husband. He offers a dollar to each man he sees. They all refuse after one look at Gale. Bill is in despair. Gale calls a policeman, who says that Bill must live up to the contract. •He is standing up to be married to Gale, when Lillian rushes in and claims him. A mysterious character has been watching outside the door. He comes in and Gale recognizes Milt, her long-lost husband. She demands the money back from Bill, but he says that he has provided a man for her after all. The Man of Mystery — (Two Reels) — Imp — March 11. — With King Baggot. Two policemen observe a man acting strangely. When taken to .the station house, the man is unable to respond intelligently. The doctor says he is under the influence of an opiate. The man is dressed like a sailor. King, the detective, finds one complication after another and believes there is a crime back of the strange man's condition. Depough, a sailor, returning from sea learns that his brother is a prosperous broker. He conspires with a clerk to get the broker out of the way. They drug the broker and turn him loose on the . street. The sailor, dressed in his brother's clothes, goes to the brokerage office and cashes large checks. They are just about to leave when they are apprehended by King. The broker's sweetheart is told what has happened and by her soothing presence, the broker regains control of his faculties. King retires, happy in the thought of another good work done. The Mysterious City — (Split Reel) — Powers — March 11. — Imperial Peking is the mysterious city, which was photographed by Dr. Dorsey, first showing a panoramic view, and later details, such as the main gate, the National Museum, formerly the Imperial Palace, with some of the Chinese curios inside it; the Summer Palace, with the famous Porcelain Pagoda, erected for a Mongolian prince. On the same reel is: Mr. Fuller Pep — His Day of Rest. — Fuller Pep takes his mother-in-law for a ride in her wheeled chair. She has not walked a step in twenty years. Pep decides to show her some real speed. The chair gets away from him and he is worried, but reassured when he finds she has not even wakened. He leaves her in the path of an auto, but her chair is unharmed. The chair runs into the sewer and mother-in-law finds that she can walk after all and chases Fuller to his home. It Makes a Difference — Rex — March 11. — With Dorothy Davenport and Ed Hearn. Genevieve, a salesladv, is admired by the manager, Jerry Holden. She treasures in her heart her love for Will, who is married to Martha, a timid little woman. One day Martha visits the store and Genevieve waits on her, but is unaware who she is. Martha says she will come again and bring her husband with her. Genevieve meets Will and goes to dinner with him. He tells her that his wife henpecks and nags him from morning until night. She has the sincerest sympathy for him. The next day Martha enters the store with Will. Genevieve is horrified to think that this timid woman is Will's wife. She insists that Martha buy an expensive gown and Will is afraid to refuse. Genevieve suggests to Jerry that he rent a large store and that they go into business together and for life. Feature Programs company, but mistake he makes and the poor wife leaves off boasting forever on the prowess of her husband in this direction. Blue Bird Hell Morgan's Girl — Bluebird — (Five Reels) — March 10. — Featuring Dorothy Phillips. About the time of the San Francisco earthquake, Roger Curwell is disowned by his father and sinks gradually down along the path of a drunkard until he is lost in Barabary Coast, that famous slumming district of San Francisco. He has been a painter of some ability and when he sees a picture over the bar in Hell Morgan's cafe he is led to criticize. The result is a beating for him, such as only may be had in the Sailor's Rest. He is rescued by Lola Morgan, Hell's girl. Friendship turns into love between them after he has painted a picture of her. Sleter Noble, ward politician and ward heeler, looks upon Lola with eyes of envy and resents the attentions of Curwell. Into the cafe on a slumming expedition comes Olga, an acquaintance of Roger's in his artist days. She becomes interested in him again, knowing that his father has died and that he has inherited the money. There is some jealousy on the part of Lola and in desperation she resigns herself to Noble, but later rebels. Hell Morgan, hearing the scuffle interiors and receives a bullet from the gun of Sleter. Lola just drags her father to the street when the rumbles of the earthquake are heard. Then follows the real quake and that awful night of terror. Lola drags her father to the hills of the presidio, and Roger, after going to the cafe to look for her, finally meets her by accident in the presidio, where the lovers are reunited. Hell Morgan, real Westerner, dies with his boots on. Mutual Star Production The Girl From Rector's — (Five Reels) — March 5. — Features Ruth McTammany. Reviewed in this issue. Red Feather The Gates of Doom — Red Feather — March 5. — With Claire McDowell, L. C. Shumway, Jack Conolly and Lena Baskette. Captain Unger relates the story of his love for the Hindoo woman, Indore, to his friend Captain Duane. He begs Duane to care for their little girl, if anything should happen to him. Indore escapes from the Hindoo husband and returns to Unger. Unger is poisoned by a Hindoo. Indore is about to die with him, but is hindered by the native, who takes her back to his prince. She is reduced to slavery as punishment. Duane fulfills his promise and Agatha is brought up as his father's niece. The years pass. Agatha has developed into a beautiful woman. Duane has married Florence. En route to India they meet the Grand Duke Alexis. He finally convinces Florence that her husband loves Agatha. She leaves with Alexis. Meanwhile, Agatha goes to the palace where she sees her mother, whom she thought dead. She is made a prisoner by the prince and is taken to the Walled City of the desert. After many attempts, Duane finds out where the girl is imprisoned and arrives just in time to snatch her from the funeral pyre. Duane and Agatha are supremely happy at seeing each other again. Christie Comedies As Luck Would Have It — Christie Comedy — (One Reel) — March 5. — Mrs. Newlywed has all the money, so Mr. Newlywed cannot be as firm as he would like to he in discouraging her fads. She goes in for Red Cross nursing and practices bandaging on Hubby for hours at a time. When she reads that an auto-racing driver has gotten immediate promotion in the aero-corps, she decides that Harry is cut out for just that sort of thing. She buys him a car and enters Harry in the forthcoming race. He confides in his friend Eddie, who sends him Cbantelot. the racing driver. Cbantelot is not entered, but drives in Eddie's nlace. Number 13, Eddie's car goes into the ditch and Harry is rushed to the hospital where Eddie bribes the doctor to bandage him up. Friend Wife, remorseful, goes to the hospital and insists on renewing the bandage herself. She discovers his deception and makes a nice fuss, when Eddie has an inspiration, takes her to see ■Cbantelot. who has been slightly injured in the race, and says, "this might have been your husband." She sees her folly and asks Harry's forgiveness. K.E. S. E. Max Comes Across — Essanay — (Thirty Minutes)— February 26. — Featuring Max Linder. Theme deals with the supposed adventures of Max on a trip across the Atlantic to work in Essanay pictures. Before they embark, a report of the sinking of a liner by a submarine gives Max and his friend, Ernest Maunin, an idea for a practical ioke on each other. Max persuades the captain of the vessel to make Maupin believe a U-boat has torpedoed the Espagne ; simultaneously Maupin persuades the captain to make Max believe the same thing. A few moments later a freight steamer rams the Espagne. The passengers rush to the decks _in_ terror. _ Max and Maupin, however, believe it is their ioke. They discover, though, the truth and both fight for the only remaining life preserver. Maupain gets it and rushes on deck. Max finds himself locked in the salon. He is terror-stricken. Meantime in the hold of "the boat the sailors are battling with the onrushinsr water. They stop up the leak and all is safe. Max hears the captain reassuring the passengers. His terror passes. He seats himself at the piano and is playing a lively tune when they find him. Max is proclaimed the hero of the moment. All the girls aboard kiss Max. Burning the Candle — Essanay — (One Hour, Twetve Minutes) — March 5. — Features Henry B. Walthall, supported by Mary Charleson. Reviewed in this issue. Metro Reliable Henry — Metro-Drew — February 26. — Featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew. Henry has always proven a most efficient Inner of household goods, from pins to lawn mowers. He. never makes a mistake. But the trusting wife trusts just once too often. It is too bad that Henrv should make such a denlorable mistake, especially when he ought to he showing off before Pathe Program March 1 1 Pathe's program for the week of March 11 includes in a list of great variety, the last episode of "Pearl of the Army" and the second of the recently announced series of Pathe-Max Linder comedies. The Gold Rooster feature for the week is "The Empress," produced by the U. S. Amusement Corporation under the direction of Madame Blache, featuring Holbrook Blynn and Doris Kenyon, supported by William Force and Lyne Donaldson. "The Empress" is a fast moving melodrama of an artist and his model, the Man and the Woman in the Dark. • The fifteenth episode of "Pearl of the Army" is entitled "The Colonel's Orderly." "Cat's Paw and Scape Goat" is the title of "Patria" No. 9. It contains an attempt on the part of Donald Parr's rival to blacken his reputation in the eyes of Patria and also the spectacular death of De Lima in a terrific explosion. "Max in a Difficult Position" is the title of the second of the Pathe-Max Linder comedies. The story tells how Max's trousers tear in an inconvenient spot and how he does his best to hide the fact. He is forced to admit that a social gathering is no place for a shrinking violet like himself. On the same reel is "Skinny Routs a Robber," produced by the Rolin Film Company. A one-reel Mittenthal Comedy called "Hooey's Heroes" is a story about Weeping Winnie, the Willain's Wife. Heinie and Louis and the Wild Willain. ' The twenty-second number of the Florence Rose Fashions, entitled "As the Day Wanes" shows some of the most beautiful girls in New York having tea in the famous Cocoanut Grove, at Palm Beach. On the same reel with the Fashion Picture is "Birds of Gay Plumage." A split-reel International cartoon and scenic is made up of "Thorns and Roses," drawn by George Herriman, and "Artificial Flowers in the Making." The program also contains Hearst-Pathe News No. 22 and No. 23, released March 14 and 17 respectively.