Motography (Jul-Dec 1917)

324 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. X\ III. So. 6. Stories of the New Film Releases READY TO CLIP AND USE IN YOUR PROGRAM OR ADVERTISING Mutual Pictures The Widow's Might — (One Reel) — La SalleMutuax — August 14. — The widow Tightfist lives in an apartment house and is enviously watched by her neighbors, Mr. Yee Gates and wife, who hatch a scheme to marry her to Otto and go fifty-fifty with him on the money. Assisted by the widow's cook and the janitor, all works out smoothly, but after the wedding the widow refuses to loosen up on the purse strings. The doctor finally decides to have the janitor drop a brick on Otto, which will cause a dangerous malady, curable only by granting his every desire. Otto submits, but already sore at the bunch, takes advantage of the situation, not only to extract money from the unsuspecting wife, but to make love to the doctor's wife, and before the doctor can figure out if Otto's condition is real or feigned, the plotters are all given a run for their money. Beach Nuts — (One Reel) — Horsleey-Mutual — August 16. — Featuring George Ovey. Jerry admires the girl he sees entering a park. He follows her but a policeman interrupts his flirtation. Father and Count arrive in time to see him "shooed" away and they take daughter to the beach. Jerry is on the sands when they arrive, having a fine time with a bevy of lovely girls. When they discover him in the dressing room daughter shields him from their pummelling. Terrv gets dad and a Count into a fight with the police and then he and daughter beat it in a stolen automobile. Jerry drives his "flivver" into an automobile service station and a terrific explosion drives him into jail. money to pay oil the mortgage. He promises to dresses. Hy Mayer then suggests in a cartoon. marry her if she will get the money. She has that this more picturesque neadgear should be just robbed the gambling den, when the sheriff adopted on Broadway. The foliage of Ceylon is arrives. Little Butterfly then learns that her wonderful and the variety of trees immense. We trusted stranger is Slick Stevens, wanted in a see the elephants' bath-room, and then Hv Mayer suggests the use of an elephant as a shower bath. Native dancing to the sound of the tom-tom is the suggestion for other cirtoons. The Untamed — (Two Reels)— Mary Filler Feature— August 9.— With Mary Fuller, William dozen places as a worker of a confidence game. He has already flown. O-My the Tent Mover — Joker — August 9. — With William Franey and Lillian Peacock. Launcelot Briggs is lost in the desert. He is , found bv the Sheik who dooms him to a life of welsh, Johnnie \\ alker and Helen Slosson. The drudgerv unless he can make him laugh. He avenue on^cers attack the moonshiners, and Cas does so and the old man gives him his daughter, ga s S?tneJ, IS shot. She continues to run the still Saharah Sarah. Launcelot loves the younger herselr. Howard p,ke, a revenue officer, admires daughter, Paprika. Plans for the wedding with >;asSa s wild beamy. His fiancee, Rose, takes the awful Sarah are in progress. If he marries JrasSa *° her home. She confides in Casga that her. Skootch will kill him, if he does not, the her fatner wants her to marry Howard, but that she loves some one else. Clem, because Casga Sheik will. At last he has a brilliant idea, to hide in the tent and running away inside of it will not have anything to do with him, determines The last they see of him, the tent is careering °° a .coward s revenge He intorms Pike that madlv over the desert. The natives think it a £"ere 's an. ".""t still on the place, and shows manifestation from their gods. him where it is. Pike goes to investigate, and is The Love Slacker— Nestor— August 7.— With bitten by a rattlesnake. Casga hears his cry for Eddie Lvons, Lee Moran, Edith Roberts and h.elP a£d goes to his assistance. In the meanFred Gamble. Eddie decides to become a woman *Jme. Rose has eloped with the man she loves, hater because he is not popular. He goes to the Lasga tended y nurses Howard back to health, country and all the girls fall for him. so he has and the hrst thing that they do when he is well, a hard time avoiding them. Lee, the only young ls to break up the still. man in town, resents Eddie's arrival. Lee and the Universal Screen Magazine— Issue No. 31— girls are out motoring Edith seeing Eddie climbs August 10.— Rose breeding is the first subject of out of the back ot the car to go to him She this issue Then a demonstration is shown of a complains of a sprained ankle. It begins to rain new motor for an airpiane which is so con. and Edith forgets all about her ankle. They take structed that the propellers perform the double refuge under the awning of the drugstore They function of driving the machine at top speed and become so interested in each other that they do at ^ same tirne cooimg the motor. "Going to not notice when the revengeful Lee pulls up the sea in an arm0ry" is the next studv, and show u mversa iin ogram The Little Fat Rascal — (Two Reels) — L-Ko — August S. — With Phil Dunham and Merta Sterling. Pop Snodgress disapproves of Phil for a son-in-law, so Phil and Mert decide to elope. Pop catches them as they are coming down the ladder. He sends Mert to school. Then exciting incidents take place. Mert is kidnaped by Melba and Ted. Phil goes to rescue her, but she is carried off in an auto. A policeman chases Phil and at last they are both caught in the safety catchers of the street-car. The Soul Herder — (Three Reels) — Bisox — August 7. — With Harry Carey. The new parson, while on his way to Buckhorn, is killed by some Indians. Cheyenne Harry finds the parson's little daughter sobbing for her father. Harry tells her he is to be her new father and to please her puts on the clerical w-aistcoat. When they arrive at Buckhorn, Harry is received by Jane Brown as her brother-in-law. He enters her nome seeing no way out of the predicament. When she finds out the deception, she orders him out of the place. Later Harry is forgiven by Jane and they are happy together. the preliminary training of sailors on land, before they ever see a battleship. These pictures were taken in the armory of the Second Battalion of Xaval Militia at Brooklyn. New York. Physical culture for women is more important than ever now that women have to take the place of men. Fine exercises are illustrated by experts for the Screen Magazine. The last subject is a "miracle in mud" by Willie Hopkins, called "The Darwin Theory Upset." * Feature Programs awning and lets them get soaked. Like Babes in the Woods — (Two Reels) — Victor— August 10. — With Violet MacMillan,_ Gordon Griffin, Fred Woodward, and Jack Xelson. A fortune-teller gives Violet and Billie a ring, which she says is a wishing ring. Seeing Hank, the mule, in the yard, Violet wishes that he had a bag of oats, and immediately it appears. Then they wish that the bear rug would come to life. It does and chases them. They rush outto Hank and the three run into the woods. Violet becomes tired and wishes that the bear would go away. The children think of the story book and wish they were the real Babes in the Woods. Their clothes change into rags and they become bare-footed. Violet and Billie are awakened from their deep sleep by the braying of Hank. They realize that it was all a dream. Caught in the Web — Episode Xo. 7 of The Washburn and Hazel Daly. The head bookGray Ghost — August 6. — With Harry Carter and keeper in Skinner's office becomes a proud father Priscilla Dean. Hildreth tries to escape from the and as Skinner sees his joy he marvels, realizing mysterious house, but is overpowered by several that he is missing one of life's greatest pleasmen. Hildreth and Jack Olmstead become very ures. All the way home the realization deepens friendly. The crooks are forced to tell the Ghost as he sees other people with their babies. He that they have missed the necklace. Jerry and talks the matter over with Honey. Sometime Marco go to the hospital to see Jacques. The later Honey confides a wonderful secret to him doctor has taken notes of what Jacques has said and elaborate plans are made for him, for of and Marco reads, "Morn Light — Ted Daly — at course it will be a boy. The day of the great Morn Light's apartment — save them. In his event Skinner gets the news by telephone and apartment the Gray Ghost murmurs, as he looks proudly announces the arrival of William Manat the picture of Morn Light, that he would kill ning Skinner, Jr. Everybody rushes out to buy her if he did not love her. When Jerry, Marco presents and go to the house loaded with toys. and two detectives enter Morn Light's apartment hobbyhorses and everything for the young man. they are surprised to see the Ghost. Many shots Alas, though, it is a baby girl. But Honey and K. E. S. E. Skinner's Baby — Essakay special — (Screen Time 65 Minutes) — August 6. — Starring Bryant The Vamp of the Camp — Joker — August 11. — With Gale Henry, Charles Haefli and Milton Sims. Little Butterfly is the vamp of the camp. She becomes interested in a stranger, and tries her best to win him, but her charms have no effect on him. At last she persuades him to tell her the _ cause of his sadness. He says that the old home tumes of the natives suit it. We see a Buddhist Mary McAllister. Gyp, an orphaned child, wins stead is to be sold because he has not enough procession with its dancers in their strange head '* are fired. Seeing Ceylon with Hy Mayer — (One Reel) — Powers Travelaugh — August 11. — The climate of Solombo, in Ceylon, is very hot, and the cos Skinner happily decide that a girl should be the first born, anyway. RevLve'l in this issue. The Little White Girl — (Screen Time 25 Minutes) — Essanay — August S. — Featuring little ned child, wins a crustv old recluse. New Essanays. From the left, "Seventy and Seven," and "Vernon, the Bountiful," a couple of Black Cats, and "The Uneven Road," one Childem Count?" series.