Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

February 2, 1918. M O T O G R A P H Y 241 Synopses of the Latest Film Releases FOR EXHIBITORS WHO WOULD KNOW THE STORY OF THE PICTURE mk Feature Programs Bluebird The Fighting Grin — (Five Reels) — January 28 — Featuring Franklyn Farnum. A comedy-drama full of adventure and amusing situations. The hero and heroine are in love with each other, but their parents are enemies. They try to elope and the trouble they encounter furnish five reels of ludicrous situations. Reviewed at length in this issue. Fox Cheating the Public — (Eight Reels) — January 20 — Released as a Standard Picture. Ralph Lewis, Wanda Petic, Enid Markey and Edward Piel are in the cast. John Dowling is a food manipulator. He owns the factory and he is the one who has the power of raising food prices. Conditions have become so bad that his employees demand an increase in wages. This is refused and they strike. They gradually starve to death. Mary Garvin goes to Dowling in their behalf. He learns then that she is the daughter of the girl who once jilted him. Dowling demands that she will pay the price. A scuffle occurs and Mary shoots the man. She is arrested, tried and convicted of the crime. Chester Dowling realizes the manner in which his father had conducted his business and sets about to right things. Bull Thompson, former foreman of the elder Dowling, demands a job from the son and it is refused. The son then learns that it was Thompson who killed his father. With a signed confession young Dowling hurries after the Governor and saves Marv from the electric chair in the nick _ of time. Mary is made foreman and later marries the son. Goldwyn Fields of Honor — (Five Reels) — January 13— Featuring Mae Marsh. The story is by Irvin S. Cobb and was originally published in the Saturday Evening Post. It concerns a young French girl in America whom the great war touches and ■ who is ready to sacrifice everything for her country. The picture is reviewed in this issue. Mutual Star Production Beauty and the Rogue — (Five Reels) — American—January 28 — Featuring Mary Miles Minter. As a society girl, interested in prison reform, she worries her father until he sends her into the country to keep her out of mischief. One of her model prisoners had stolen her jewels and run away and when she finds some of her jewelry in the possession of a young man in the country, she thinks she has found the thief. She learns differently later. The story is reviewed in this issue. Paramount Rimrock Jones — (Five Reels) — Lasky — January 14 — Featuring Wallace Reid. Anna Little plays opposite. A western play dealing with the mining country. Reid plays the young miner, who is also a gambler. The heroine, a stenographer, puts her savings into his mine and to save her money he fights furiously to save the mine from eastern capitalists. In the end he wins and marries the girl. Picture reviewed in this issue. The Spirit of '17 — (Five Reels) — Lasky — January 14 — Starring Jack Pickford. The story, written by Judge Willis Brown of the Chicago Juvtnile Court, deals with boy scouts and war veterans. The young hero is a very patriotic lad, made more so by his association with the veterans in the Old Soldiers' Home, of which his father is superintendent. He has a chance to do his bit for the country by aiding in foiling a German spy plot. The picture is reviewed in this issue. Petrova Pictures The Light Within — (Five Reels) — Featuring Madame Petrova as Laurel Carlisle. The heroine gives up Richard Leslie, whom she loves, to marry Durand, a millionaire, whose money will aid her in her medical research work. After the birth of her child, she divides her interest between her work and her boy. During an epidemic of scarlet fever, Laurel stays in the city to aid the poor children, sending her own boy into the country. The child catches pneumonia jrid dies,.Tr Durand, holding bis wife guilty of neglecting their son, goes away and is reported killed in a wreck. Laurel and Richard Leslie meet again and are engaged to be married when Durand returns. He plans revenge and believes he has it' when, after Leslie has been inoculated with poison in a test, he steals the serum which will cure him. But Leslie survives and Durand, who accidentally had poisoned himself, dies. Select Pictures By Right of Purchase — (Five Reels)— Starring Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien opposite. Margot Hughes, society butterfly, wishes to marry for money. Chadwick Himes, a wealthy man, loves her and wishes to marry her, although he knows she loves Dick Derwent. Himes begs Margot to marry him and spend three years as his wife in name only, promising to release her then if she does not love him. After the marriage, she falls in love with her husband but is led to believe that he no longer cares. He in turn mistrusts her and after a series of misunderstandings, Margot goes away. After a vain attempt to find her, for he has learned that she loves him, Himes enlists in the army and goes abroad. There he finds Margot as' a Red Cross nurse. Triangle The Gun Woman — (Five Reels)— January 27 — Features Texas Guinan in the title role. Although apparently hard-hearted, she falls in love with a bandit but when he is not true to her, she exacts revenge. Reviewed in this issue. Her American Husband — (Five Reels) — January 27 — Teddy Sampson is featured as a Japanese girl. Reviewed in this issue. Vitagraph The Menace — (Five Reels) — Starring Corine Griffith and Evart Overton. The hero, who had been an adopted child, believes that his father was a thief. In spite of heredity, he works out his salvation. Reviewed in this issue. World Gates of Gladness — (Five Reels) — January 28 — Starring Madge Evans. A child again softens the hearts of its elders and leads to a reconciliation between two families. Reviewed in this issue. Mutual Pictures Burglars — -(One Reel) — Strand — January IS — Starring Billie Rhodes. Billie receives an invitation to visit her uncle, and at the same time uncle's wife invites her nephew to spend a few days with them. Neither niece nor nephew have seen each other _ since they were babies. Uncle and Aunt motoring to meet their train, the machine breaks down. When Billie arrives at the house there's nobody home, but the door being unlocked she enters, to find a young chap wandering around whom she mistakes for a burglar, and notifies the pol'ce. The young fellow, who is in reality her cousin, makes the same mistake, and two squads of police arrive on the scene. At the height of the general melee which ensues, uncle and aunt come in, explanations are in order, and the police retire disgusted while the family celebrate the occasion in a fitting manner. Their Little Kid — (One Reel) — January 22 — Starring Billie Rhodes. Billie and Jack have been married for two years, and are happy in their married life and also in the expectation that Jack's rich Uncle, who lives in the west, will leave them a nice bunch of money some day. Uncle wires that he's coming on the next train, and is anxious to "See the kid." Jack thinks he means a baby, which has not yet been added to their establishment. Fearful of disappointing uncle, they make frantic efforts to borrow, beg or steal a baby to pass off to uncle as their own. A book-agent happens in and Jack mistakes him for his uncle, _ whom he hasn't _ seen for many years. Billie in the meantime is out trying to round up an infant, finally succeeding in borrowing one from a nurse in the park, which is handed to the supposed uncle as his niece. As they treat the book-agent royally, he decides to carry out the part imposed on him. Enter the father and mother of the baby who create an awful scene, during which the real uncle arrives. Billie and Jack are dumbfounded, until uncle explains that be meant Jack's wife, and.'aU is serene, .--.... .. j v The Soup and Fish Ball— (One Reel) — Essanay — January 27 — Comedy. Pat and Mike are sworn enemies. Their daily meeting in the street is acknowledged by the fling of a brick. And when ahobo steals their dress suits off the clothes line and sells them each believes the other has stolen his suit. At the grand ball they meet in rented suits and continue their fight. And for a time the ballroom floor is a melee of flashing arms and fists, pretty girls, portly matrons and hotheaded hod-carriers. The alarm is sent in to. the police, who come roaring down the street in a jitney bus. Straight through the wall they tear and .onto the ballroom floor. At this juncture Pat and Mike have discovered their suits on each other and rip the trousers off. As they run> trouserless out on to the floor the auto tears into the room. But peace and harmony finally comes to the group when a pretty girl dances to the contagious music of a ukelele. Pat and Mike shake hands. The Grand Canyon of Arizona and Canyon de Chelly — (One Reel) — Essanay — February 2 — Scenic. This Essanay scenic reveals the wonderful beauties of two of America's most picturesque spots. The motion picture camera has caught the most beautiful points of the Grand Canyon and follows the trail of a group of tourists, showing them in camp and exploring. The Canyon de Chelly, which lies 100 miles north of Gallup, New Mexico, occupies the latter half of this scenic. You will see the cliff ruins in this canyon, the Navajo Indians at their blanket making and their cliff homes that often rise to the height of from 400 to 1,000 feet in the air. The Fifth Wheel — (Two Reels) — Broadway Star Feature — February 2. Thomas McQuade, the Van Smuythe's coachman, having been discharged for drunkenness, has joined the Bread Liners. Standing beside him is a young man, shabby but neat. Thomas learns that the young man has just been discharged from a hospital without a penny, his wife and child having been obliged to return to her mother. He had married against the wishes of his unforgiving relatives. Just then a splendid automobile dashes up and when opposite them drops an extra tire. Thomas catches it and returns it to the owner, who asks him if he knows the Van Smuythes. Thomas is forthwith taken to a palatal house. Two women are mysteriously ushered into a side room, where his host, Prof. Cherubusco, the great clairvoyant, tells them that the Chaldean Chiroscope has been successful, for had it not said "By the fifth wheel of the chariot he shall come?" But the professor learning instead that Thomas is the Van Smuythe's ex-coachman, throws him into the street. So back goes Thomas with his new friend. Suddenly a girl rushes up to him. It is Annie, his sweetheart and maid at the Van Smuythes, whom he has not seen for a month. She says his old position is waiting for him, but suddenly catching sight of the other man she screams, "Mr. Walter!" And then it appears that she had accompanied her mistress to the great clairvoyant and he had told her where she would find her sweetheart, and she had also found "Mr. Walter." After paying the carfares home she vows to give her remaining $11.85 to Professor Cherubusco, "the greatest man in the world." Fashion Treat in "Our Little Wife Whatever else may be said of "Our Little Wife," who, by the way, is the sort of a person that sets tongues wagging, she wears beautiful clothes. For the picturization of Avery Hopwood's play of thrills and laughter (released February 10) Madge Kennedy, the charming Goldwyn star, placed herself in the hands of Goldwyn couturiers, who furnished her with two evening gowns, a wrap, a negligee, a street costume and &■'. rnotorcoa.t