Motography (Jul-Dec 1917)

July 7, 1917. MOTOGRAPHY 51 play. The girl doesn't fall for Harry's rush, but calls an officer. Harry gets away, losing the girl. At the boss' house he sees a picture, with inscription leading him to believe it is the jealous employer's wife, and it is — the girl of Harry's dreams. Harry begins to say his prayers as the girl comes in and sees him. Taking him for a burglar or worse, she screams for a policeman. The boss comes rushing in and Harry falls at his feet as the girl denounces the masher. Harry thinks each moment is his last as he says, "Honestly, boss, I didn't know she was your wife." "She isn't my wife, but my cousin," says the boss. "Here comes my wife." So it turns out that Bernice Hardfacts gave the right advice. Fox Some Boy — (Five Reels) — William Fox — June 17.— Featuring George Walsh. A breezy comedy telling about the escapades of a press agent who gets into trouble through his unique methods of getting publicity into print. He wrongs a girl by stealing her jewelry for publicity purposes, but finally makes good by protecting her lands from the unprincipled attempts of business pirates to steal her water rights. The main pirate proves to be the young press agent's father. A storm is about to precipitate at the climax, but the father has to relent in admiration of the boy who has proved he can win something, besides "walking papers" from college. Reviewed in this issue. K. E. S. E. The Range Boss — Essanay — (Screen Time 67 MZNS.) — July 16. — Out of the effete and civilized East into the rough and primitive West there comes a little party which judged the desert must be larger than all New York and their trail a little longer than the Great White Way. Ruth Harkness, who has inherited the Flying W Ranch from a deceased relative, heads the timid little band. A prim and conventional aunt and uncle and Willard Hasten, her fiance, all dolled up according to his Fifth avenue tailor's ideas of the West, accompany her. Headlong the little party plunges into the meshes of a conspiracy of two cowboys to mulct the girl of her holdings. Rex Randerson, a happy-go-lucky ranger with a clear gray eye, steps in to frustrate the plot, and , incidentally falls in love -with Ruth. This en-' rages Hasten, who joins the conspirators and extends their plot to include Randerson's death. The girl and the ranger are caught in their "death trap." and count themselves lost, but the fearlessness of Rex. in a single-handed battle with the villains, saves the day. Ruth thanks him by consenting to become his bride, and an old-fashioned cowboy wedding culminates the dark adventure. Master Drama Features Who's Your Neighbor? — (Five Reels) — Master Drama Features, Inc. — With Christine Mayo. This is a propaganda film. It deals with the women who refuse to live clean, honest lives. The theory has been advanced that these women are naturally bad and should be allowed to live in certain districts. Hattie Fenshaw, a woman of questionable character, mixes with society. Her pathetic face wins the respect of her neighbors, who are delighted that such nice people are living in the same apartment house. But when things reach a climax and the real identity of the women is known, it is proven that it would be hopeless to try to do anything for such women. Reviewed in this issue. Paramount At First Sight — {Five Reels) — Famous Players Paramount — Released July 2. — Featuring Mae Murray. A pleasant, romantic story, replete with human and comedy touches, telling about a novelist who, on the search for some new ideas for the completion of a series of stories he has started, runs into a romance, but. in his zeal to "bat his stuff off" on the typewriter, loses sight of the fact that his real life romance needs at THEATRE PLANS FOR SALE We have a set of Plans, drawn by an expert Architect, for a theatre 50 x 100 ft. Bids averaged $30,000. Will sell at a reasonable price. TWIN STAR THEATRE AMES, IOWA tendon. 1 he girl awakens him speedily enou h when she sees that he is not taking her seriou i She springs a real thrill for his I I md thl picture ends with the completion ol o suci novel and the culmination of an amusing ship. Reviewed in this issue. "Oh, Pop"— (Two Reels) — July 2.— Featui mg Victor Moore. Vic's wife receives a telegram stating that her mother is ill and to coin, at om Vic insists that she go, and she consents he promises to take good care of the children. Vic begins to look after the children and the house, and when Rudolph Carey, his next door neighbor, and his wife bring theirs over for him to watch while they go shopping lie has his hands full. He orders three dozen meat balls and a couple of dozen cream puffs, which the children use in playing war. Vic is in the middle of the tight when the neighbors get back and ask "Where are my children?" "Pick them out yourself," says Vic. "I don't know my own." Triangle A Dog Catcher's Love— Triangle Keystone — One of the incomparable mixtures of laughs and thrills that can be expected only from the Mack Sennett-Keystone studio. The participants in the action go through air, fire and water ill their ludicrous experiences.. The thrills include nearly .everything on the calendar, some exceptional effects being secured through' trick photography. Among the players are Slim Summerville, Glen Cavender, Peggy Pearce, Hal Cooley, Jack Henderson, Harry Breen, and last, but by no means least, "Keystone Teddy,"" a canine whose intelligence is rare indeed. Edward Cline, the director, took a good many of his scenes aboard a U. S. battleship, giving a note of timeliness to the offering. The Clodhopper — (Five Reels) — Triangle — June 17. — Featuring Charles Ray. The very best thing that this distinguished actor has done recently. The story is a comedy-drama telling about the phenomenal rise to success of an awkward, inexperienced country lad, who, driven from his home by a cruel and intolerant father, comes to the city to seek his fortune. After the "clodhopper" is on an enormous salary for a specialty countrified • dance -which he stumblingly originated, the father's bank, at home, begins to totter. The successful boy returns to his home town just in time" to save his father's business from crashing to the ground, and it is a matter of heaping coals of shame on the head of the narrow-minded, cruel father, who sees the error of his way and the worth of his son. Reviewed in this issue. Vitagraph-V. L. S. E. A Son of the Hills — (Six Reels) — Vitagraph — June 25. — With Antiono Moreno. Unable to stand the tyranny of a cruel step-mother, Sandy Morley runs away from home. He says good-by to his playmate, Cynthia Starr, and starts out to work for an education. Through the help of John Markham he is enabled to go to college. After graduating with high honors, Sandy is sent back to his home town to superintend the building of a modern factory. Lansing Hartford, a nephew of Markham's, also returns to the South. Cynthia is impressed by the polished Lansing who, during his college days, had a secret affair with a woman. One day he takes Cynthia for a drive. They are forced to spend the night in an abandoned ca'bin as a shelter from a storm. Lansing convinces Cynthia that she will be the victim of unjustified scandal, and so she marries him. However, the woman with whom Lansing had an affair appears on the scene with her child. Cvnthia obtains a divorce and returns to Sandy, whom she realizes she really loves. Reviewed in this issue. World The Price of Pride — (Five Reels) — Peerless — Wori-d — July 2. — Featuring Carlyle Blackwell. This story hinges on a misunderstanding between husband and wife, a separation being caused at the outset by pride and overbearance. Later on the story takes a skip in time and the experiences of the son, David, and his half-brother (son of the woman with whom the father had eloned) are brought in. The two brothers are doubles. This offers a chance for some good situations when the worthy son is arrested for a robbery committed by the black sheep second son of the runaway husband. Finally matters are cleared un, a reconciliation between husband and wife is effected and the real robber dies of a wound. Reviewed in this issue. will li.iv. n. .in .,i John mini he wakes up to the tact thai "might is no) right." She tells him the itorj "I a father and i irown out of work by the closing .if the mills. The girl man crook to get mone: in feed her parents, bul thej disown her. A former sweetheart returns, and whin found by the husband both the girl and the sweetheart iump in their death through the window. John resolves, when lie has heard this story, to install the safety device in his mill and reopen them. A Ride for Life — Jaxon Film— (One Reel) — likes and Jabs work in a grocery store, Jabs being the delivery system. When he is m tunate in love he leaves town and comes back a year later with a traveling street fair. lie i known as "Daredevil Jabs" and docs trick ridiig: on a bicycle. Pokes and the belle of the town, Ethel, take in the fair. Ethel recognizes her old suitor and soon Pokes is jealous of the hen.. II. offers to duplicate any trick of Jabs', and whilehe shows his skill Ethel spoons with Jabs. When he mounts the wheel and starts down the runway he plunges far over the tank of set to receive him and his bicycle commences to act like an aeroplane, skimming over hills and woods and towns. The last seen of him is only a shadow, pedaling zealously into the horizon. Selig World Library No. 6 — June 20. — Washington's Boyhood. George Washington at thcage of 16 surveyed the town of Alexandria. Va. This is King street, main thoroughfare, showing Christ Church. The Historic Hotel, at Alexandria. Va., was Washington's headquarters. The Father of His Country made his farewell address to the Continental Army from the steps of this old church. Carlyle House — built at Alexandria in 1745, where Washington received his commission as major in the British army. Human Figures on a Chess Board. Where Uncle Sam Mints His Money. Home of the Seal. In the Talons of an Eagle — June 23 — Selig. — Carl Venger, employed on the country place of Tames Steel, a rich bachelor, loves Hinda, the blacksmith's daughter, but she marries Steel. Venger becomes half-crazed with the shock and becomes a hermit. Hilda and Steel are living apparently happy with their little son. One day the child is left alone in the garden and an eagle swoops down, lifts it from the baby carriage and carries it away to its nest. Veng.er rescues it, and recognizes it as Steel's. He plans to raise the child in ignorance of its parentage, like an animal, and at the age of 25 disclose it to the parents. Venger wakes to discover that his villainy isonly a bad dream. State Rights Whither Thou Goest — (Five Reels) — Klotz & Streimer. — Featuring Orrin Johnson and Rhea Mitchell. A state rights feature of dependable quality. The story tells about Don Van Wye, who marries an actress his proud family believes to be far below his station. He does this merely to save his brother, who was in love with her first, from an unfortunate future. Don had every reason to believe that he was only to live a few months, but with the awakening of a love for his wife comes the news that the doctors estimated wrongly. The mother tries cruel means to cause a separation between the two, for the sake of taking her son back among folk of his station, but true love prevails ultimately and false social standards are not enough to prove to Don that his wife is not worthy. Sessue Havakawa, the noted LaskyParamount Japanese star, is now at work under the direction of William C. De Mille. Raymond Hatton, Tom Forman, Walter Long. Mabel Van Buren and Lehua W'aipahuMargaret Loomis are in the cast. Lehua Waipahu will be remembered as the charming Hawaiian girl who nlayed opposite Mr. Hayakawa in "The Bottle Imp" and who changed her name to Margaret Loomis in order to permit the American people to discuss her more freely without imperilling their tongues. IPI . General rrogram The Right of Might — Selig — June IS.— John Willis, the owner of large mills, refuses to spend 'he money for safety devices for his machines. The plants are closed on this account and are not opened again until John is brought a new vision through Mary Smith, whom he loves. Mary Produced by Arizona Film Co. A gripping drama of love that points out the perils of Easv Divorces and Poisoned Marriages. For State Rights Address RENOWNED PICTURES CORP. AKIBA WEINBERG, President 1600 Broadway, New York City