Motography (Jul-Dec 1917)

September 8, 1917. MOTOGRAPHY 537 Stories of the New Film Releases READY TO CLIP AND USE IN YOUR PROGRAM OR ADVERTISING Universal Program The Curse of a Flirting Heart Vli rOH I Fwo Reels) September 7. Because Max flirts all the time with strange women Mrs. Max thinks she may flirt with strange men. She goes into the park and tlirts Eroxn behind her parasol, but the man, who is Max, discovers that he is flirting with his own wile ami leaves. Then he flirts with a neighbor who is hanging out clothes, ami Mrs. Max becomes friendly with the neighbor's husband. In onler to avoid their wife and husband, each couple go to the picture show, where local scenes taken that day about town are shown. To the amazement of the quartette they see pictures of themselves in all the scenes of the different flirtations. "Never again for ours!" vow Max and his wife. A Gale of Verse — -Joker — (One Reel) — Sept. 8. — Lizzie Loose is something of a poet and leaves the farm to prove it. When she presents her verse to the editor a letter comes to him at the same time offering $100 to anyone that can get Lizzie back to the farm. A reporter is attracted by the offer and frames it up with the editor to send Lizzie to an empty house, where he will scare her out by a series of make-ups. Lizzie overhears them, and when she finds a gang of counterfeiters in the cellar of the house she think": it is a fixed up affair, and cleans out the whole bunch. She gets the reward for the capture of the band, and then returns to free the reporter, held prisoner by the gang. "But you'll have to marry me if I let you out of here," she says, but the reporter is desperate and consents. Officer, Call a Coo — Joker — (One Reel) — September 6. — Evelyn Dale bows to the police officer as she enters Chinatown to distribute literature for the Celestial's uplifting. Before she is out of sight Sweeney sees her kidnapped by a gang of Chinamen and though his spirit is willing his feet are weak until he bolsters them up with a glass in a familiar saloon. Then he goes in search of Evelvn. but lands in an opium den where he goes to sleep, persuaded by a pipe and pill. When the police raid the joint and rescue the fair Evelyn, Officer Sweeney is about to claim the credit when the pipe drops from his uniform and he is pinched with the rest. A Dream of Egvpt — (Two Reels) — Lena Basnette Feature — September 6. — Dorothv was a little girl whose passion was dancing. She loves to look at a big book in the library, called Mysterious Egypt. One day she gets a big shawl from the attic and dances Egyptian dances for her mother and that very day her father brings home the statuette of a little Egyptian dancing girl, which they place on a pedestal at the foot of the stairs. That night Dorothy dreams that she is a dancing girl, her mother is her sister and her father her sister's sweetheart. Her sister sells flowers in the markets where she is seen by a nrince who takes her by force to his harem. Dorothy goes to plead with him and dances for him. He lets the sister go, but compels Dorothy to dance for him until she falls exhausted at the foot of the dias. Then she hears her mother's voice. "Wake up, Dorothy, you have fallen out of bed and pulled the covers with you." The Empty Gun — Gold Seal — (Three Reels) — September 4. — In the midst of a raging storm Frank goes to the station to give the $10,000 worth of gold he has taken from the mine into safe keeping. At home his wife is reading that he has lied against her former lover in order to win her from him. The agent at the station will not take the money because two suspicious looking tramps are about. Frank returns home, leaves the monev and returns to find out about the train. While he is gone a stranger seeks shelter in the shack and Mary discovers it is her old time sweetheart. She is playing with an empty gun, and he fills it for her. While Frank is on the road home one of the tramps attacks him but he overpowers him, exchanges clothes with him and goes on to the shack. The wind blows out the light in the shack just before he gets there, and Marv, thinking him a .stranger shoots him. When the mask is removed she discovers that a higher court has freed her. Looking 'Em Over — Xestor — (One Reel) — September 4. — Eddie coaxes Lee out for an evening at the cafe, leaving their wives at home. While they are enjoying themselves Lee's wife's brother and a friend arrive from the West and take the girls to a cafe for something to eat. Th» boys see them, become jealous and don waiters' uniforms mi tiny can watch then wives, When the Kills dame with the nun theii angei knows Unds 'lid I In \ CI "» u tin "i i\ 1 1 1 1 I .lies of sod food. Peace is restored when the nan of them get together and explain. The Lure of the Circus BlSON (Two Kim i -mim mum; 8. Bud wants to In an animal trainer, and bis sweetheart think she would like to be a bareback rider, so when tin cjreus eoiues to town, both n! them join it. Lily is soon left li\ her horse in the ring hanging on to tin end of a pole, and the boy-, make fun of her riding out lit. Hud is put at work training the baby lions, but the mother makes him uncomfortable and at the end of the first day Hud and l.ily return to the blacksmith shop, wiser and happier. — — — . L Mutual Pictures Outcast — tSix Reels) — 'Empire All Star — September 10. — Starring Ann Murdock. Miriam, a young and beautiful girl without near relatives, meets, loves and is betrayed by a handsome young adventurer who later abandons her to marry an old woman with money. When the child is born, Miriam finds herself without friends or funds. Compelled to take to the street for funds to save her child from starvation the girl sells herself for naught, because the child dies. Miriam buries her hopes with the baby and despairing of any future for herself adopts the life of a courtesan. Taken up by Geoffrey Sherwood, a London barrister who has been jilted by his fiancee, Miriam becomes Sherwood's mistress. She hopes that he may marry her but as time goes on and the influence of his former fiancee is re-established, this hope lessens. Valentine is married to a man of great wealth, but remains unhappy. Sherwood convinces her that all must be over between them. He then offers marriage to Miriam and after being wed in a little Scottish kirk they start for Buenos Aires. Jerry's Whirlwind Finish — (One Reel) — Horsley — September 13. — Susceptible Jerry becomes affected by the wiles of a park flirt who has also been lavishing attention upon a large and enthusiastic collection of bench-warmers, to say nothing of several park policemen. Jerry presses his suit with the fickle maiden, but when discovered by one of her policemen friends, is temporarily routed. Jerry is fortunate in finding a telephone wagon nearby where he procures a coil of rope and with the prowess of a sharp shooter, succeeds in lassoing the cop and the girl and pulling them backwards into a nice deep pool. A whirlwind chase ensues. Jerry drops from the second-story window of a house into the vacant saddle ordinarily occupied by a mounted policeman and dashes away. The cops in their flivver run out of gasoline, but make the grade by hoisting a sail and continue the chase. Jerry rides headlong into the arms of shoot-em-up-Bill, a heavyweight bad man who exhibits a $5,000 sack of gold. Shoot-em-up commissions Jerry and his horse for escape and together they ride into town. Shootem-up nuts the gold in a safe, during which operation Jerry runs to a room overhead. Safecrackers blow up the safe, the force of which shoots the gold up through the floor of Jerry's room into his arms. The mast on the flivver waiting below provides the means of Jerry's escape from yet another difficulty. Butterfly has made an iiiijii . mil on the beautiful American although neither have spoken, as yet. While Schumann is figuring how he can arrange to be introduced, a young business man -evidently a countryman • >! Miss Washburn— walks up to rcg i tei al the desk where Schumann is leaning. The secrel agent is amazed to note that the newcomer bears a perfect likeness u> himself, lie leaves the hotel, meditating upon the strange coincidence. The American signs the name "James Walbert" to the register. lie also is wondering where in the world his double sprang from, when a small, dark man walks up to him and hands him a message. While In is opening the envelope, the messenger disappears. He has been mistaken for Schumann and is entrusted with a mission in the United Slates. These instructions bring him into an exciting series of adventures, during which he has time to fall in love with Marion and to defend his country. Fox Betrayed — (Five Reels) — September 2. — Starring Miriam Cooper. The story of "Betrayed" centers about Carmelita Carrito, whose worldly condition is that of a peon, but who remains an aristocrat and a coquette at heart, despite Carpi, her fat, filthy father. Carmelita has a lover, Pepo, but her affection for him goes a-glimmering when the great bandit, Leopoldo Juares, raids the larder of her home. Leopoldo's commanding personality impresses her in a never-to-be-forgotten way. After Leopoldo departs, Carmelita sits by the window looking silently at the soft Mexican moonlight. Gradually she falls asleep and dreams. An American armv officer, William Jerome, is searching the neighborhood for Juares. Carmelita. fickle ever, is fascinated by the Gringo, and tells him that Leopoldo is to meet her at the brook. Jerome could creep upon the man and pick him off with a single shot. Leopoldo, however, intercepts the note and arranges a counter plan. He is enraged bv the girl's duplicity. When he talks with her bv the brook, he expresses fear lest she catch cold in the evening breeze and forces her to don his coat and put on his hat. An instant later, Jerome, seeing the pair through: the bushes thinks Carmelita is Leopoldo and shoots the woman he loves. The American goes to_ his death before the firing squad. Then, with fainting breath, the heartless Carmelita whispers to Pepo, her first lover who has returned, that he must get the Americans at once. Carmelita awakes, — just in time. United States troopers, aided by Pepo himself, are closing in on her house. There the bandit, Leopoldo, has taken refuge. So Pepo captures the famous Juares and receives the reward; and he and Carmelita live in peace and happiness ever after. K. S. E. E. A Midnight Bell — Selig — (Two Reels). — Lemuel Tidd, chief of police and Ezekiel Slover, chief of the fire department are bitter rivals for the hand of Amy Grey. The two resort to all manner of tricks and deceptions in order to gain an advantage in sparking the village belle. When fire breaks out in Punktown, the fire department saves the chief of police in a marvelous manner and saves Amy Grey by a still more wonderful feat, by sliding down a stream of water from the fire hose. After bo<"h the chiefs have extended themselves to the limit, thev drag themselves away from the noise and confusion to resume their listless lives and to give their future strictly to the duties of their respective offices, namely caring for the safety and happiness of Punktown. Mutual Star Productions Charity Castle— (Five Reels) — American — September _ 3. — Starring Mary Miles Minter. Reviewed in next issue. Who Was the Other Man — (Five Reels) — September 3. — Marion Washburn, the beautiful daughter of a United States Senator, while on a visit to Paris becomes engaged to Herbert Cornell, a Washington social favorite. Marion's father has but one objection to Cornell. He thinks the young man may have trifled away so many years of his life that the sterner essentials of manhood may have been neglected. In order to test out the young man, he entrusts him with the plans of an international canal for safe delivery in Washington. Cornell accepts the mission, de'termined to show his real mettle. Meanwhile Ludwig Schumann, secret agent of a powerful European government, is awaiting instructions from his government at the same hotel which shelters Cornell and the Washburns. Marion attracts the attention of Schumann, and the latter believes that he World The Guardian — (Five Reels) — World-P'eerli'SS — August 27. — With Montagu Love and June Elvidge. Marie is the ward of Rokeby, a man who, though now honest and respected, was an expert cracksman in days gone by. She loves Harvey, who really is a very worthless character. Rokeby knows more about Harvey than Marie and forbids her to have anything more to do with the man. To get even Harvey, finding clues to Rokeby's past, exposes the latter, who is forced to go into hiding from the authorities. After trials on the part of both Marie and Rokebv things come to a happy conclusion, for the governor pardons Rokeby. Harvev is defeated all around, as Marie is more than willing, on learning his real worth, to give herself up to Rokeby, not as a ward, but as a wife. Reviewed in this issue.