Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

April 20, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 779 to the 'nth degree and literally pump her blood out of her veins and his own into them. He asks Farlow to help and in the end succumbs himself, but with his last breath asks Farlow to care for Lora and the child that is to carry on the "Honor of His House." His Majesty, Bunker Bean — (Five Reels) — April 8. — Features Jack Pickford. Directed by William D. Taylor. Bunker Bean (Jack Pickford), an insignificant little stenographer in a stock broker's office, becomes a successful financier because of something he believes. Bunker Bean is convinced, from his evening work for a certain theosophist, that he has lived before in some other form or incarnation and he seeks out a fortune teller, who assures him he was formerly Napoleon. Bunker decides that he does not care to claim the relationship, and he returns to the fortune teller, who this time assures him that he is the reincarnation of Rameses the Great, a famous king of Egypt whose mummy lies in state in an old tomb. Bunker is much impressed and an opportunely inherited fortune from a forgotten relation allows him to buy the mummy. From the acquisition of the mummy to its untimely finish at the hands — or the paws — of Bunker's inquisitive puppy, Bunker lives and has his being in a world apart. He fancies himself at heart a king — and acts in a way that is as strange and startling to himself as to his friends. He not only becomes acquainted with his awesome boss' family, especially the youngest member, the Flapper whom he later marries, but he also meets the greatest pitcher, a baseball star he has long worshipped from afar. Also, he makes a tremendous "killing" in Wall street and eventually marries "The Flapper." All this, however, before the inquisitive puppy investigates the mummy's filling. Paramount-Mack Sennett Comedies Friend Husband — (Two Reels) — April 8. — When a rich uncle announces that he will give $10,000 to see a baby in his family, the nephew, who is childless, makes up his mind to win the money even if he has to kidnap an infant. The uncle arrives unexpectedly and there is great commotion in the nephew's household. He goes out, finds a babe, an old bachelor friend also kidnaps an infant, while Pep, the family dog, follows suit, but without paying attention to race, creed or color in his selection. The complications arising from this situation are laughable. Charles Murray, Wayland Trask, Mary Thurman, Gene Rogers, Harry Gribbon, Earl Kenton appear. Triangle The Love Brokers — (Five Reels) — April 7. — Features Alma Rubens as a young song writer. E. Mason Hopper directed. Cast includes Texas Guinan, Joe Bennett, Lee Hill, Betty Pearce and George Pearce. Charlotte Carter is a struggling song writer and the innocent tool of Olga Grey and Madge l'Estrange, feminine sycophants, and Peter Ladislaw, a weakling of the opposite sex. Peter forges several checks and makes Charlotte believe it was to supply her with flowers and candy. Gerard Townsend, a millionaire, and also interested in song writing, is injured in an automobile accident, and not expected to recover. Olga, playing on his sympathetic interest in Charlotte, engineers their marriage, persuading Charlotte that she must do it for money to save Peter from prison. Naturally, Townsend, being the hero, recovers. Then Olga schemes to arrange a divorce for Charlotte and a handsome settlement. But Charlotte confesses to her husband. The shock and excitement miraculously restore to him his ability to walk, it having been previously suggested that he would be a cripple for life. Thus "love" defeats not only the "brokers," but also the doctors. Universal Special The Risky Road — (Five Reels) — April 8. — Features Dorothy Phillips. In the cast are William Stowell, George Cheseboro, Edward Cecil, Joseph Girard, Juanita Hansen, Claire DuBrey, Sally Starr. In the city where she has gone to earn her living as a stenographer, Marjorie Helmer makes the acquaintance of Melville Kingston. Poverty forces her to accept a proposition from Kingston which provides that she is to be set up in a luxurious apartment, and that at the end of a specified period she is to come to his way of thinking or he to hers. She is constantly depressed over the idea, and when she sees that Kingston has a wife she sends for her country sweetheart, Robert Grant, who, seeing the elegance of her home, becomes convinced, notwithstanding her protestations of innocence, that she is not an honest working girl. Kingston, however, sees "her way of thinking," and, after explaining that the woman Marjorie believes to be his wife is his sister-in-law, proposes to her, and is accepted. Vitagraph Little Miss No-Account — (Five Reels) — April 1. — Features Gladys Leslie. Directed by W. P. S. Earle. Cast includes Frank O'Connor, William Calhoun, Eulalie Jenson, West Jenkins, Stephen Carr and others. Patty Baring is practically a prisoner in her own home, held by her stepfather, who, with his sister, plans to force the girl on her eighteenth birthday to sign certain papers conveying to them her large estate. Her best friend is Stebbins, the negro servant of her own father, who gives her an idea of the fortune which belongs to her. Rebelling at last against the cruelties of her guardian, Patty runs away, and is rescued by Bobby, her little newsboy friend. He takes her to his grandfather, who runs a little store, and who adopts her for the time being. Here she meets two men, a gambler and an assist Scene from "Lend Me Your Name," a new Harold Lockwood starring vehicle now being produced at Metro's west coast studios. ant district attorney, both of whom are impressed by her beauty. Both pay her attention and the young prosecutor falls in love with her. There is a gambling house near where Pat is staying, and to which she is lured, supposedly to do some sewing. This, however, proves to be a last attempt of her stepfather to gain her property. The house is raided, and Pat is locked up with the other occupants. The young gambler who had been attentive to Pat, hoping to discredit her with the prosecutor, tells him of her arrest and also that she owns the property occupied by the gamblers. His charges are all explained in the end and Pat is taken care of by the prosecutor's mother, her property is restored, and the audience is given reason to suspect future nuptials with Edwin Sayer, the prosecutor. The Business of Life — (Five Reels) — April 8. — Features Alice Joyce. Story by Robert W. Chambers. Tom Terriss directed. Cast includes Walter McGrail, Percy Standing, Betty Blythe. Templar Saxe and Nellie Spaulding. Jacqueline Nevers, when the story opens, is carrying on the work of her father, who had been a dealer in antiques, when she meets James Desboro, bachelor and man-about-town, who calls to consult her about the sale of the Desboro collection of ancient armor, he being in need of funds, especially to buy a necklace for "The Girl in Blue. Jacqueline goes daily to Silverwood, the Desboro country home, to catalog the armor, and the business acquaintance is soon a love affair, the "real one" with her and the usual kind at first with him. Elena Clydesdale, wife of one of Desboro's friends, is in love with him, and she leaves her husband and comes at night to the Desboro home, but her husband's unexpected arrival puts an end to that adventure. However, she has heard of the "pretty shop girl," and is determined that Desboro shall not marry her. Desboro, for devilment, gives a big house party, to which Jacqueline and Elena both are invited. There is a game of hide-andseek and a girl is hidden, the penalty being she shall marry the man who finds her. Jacqueline's name is chosen and she hides in the armor of Joan of Arc astride a horse in the armory. Elena, fearful and suspicious, manages to hold Desboro in the library until the time limit of the hunt is almost expired. The scene she creates so disgusts Pesboro that he determines to end it all by finding Jacqueline and marrying her at once. He finds her and she agrees to the wedding the next day, refusing to listen to any explanations and trusting entirely to him. On the evening of the wedding day they are in the library in Silverwood when Elena arrives, pretending to keep an appointment she had previously made and not knowing Jacqueline and Desboro were married. Jacqueline believes her husband insincere and leaves him. Elena's illness the next day reconciles her to her husband and she sends him to Jacqueline, returned to her store, to tell her that what she had acted and implied the night before was an untruth. Jacqueline hurries to Silverwood and there, with a kiss, seals her faith in Desboro. World The Witch Woman — (Five Reels) — April 8. — Features Ethel Clayton. Story by Willard Mack. Directed by Travers Vale. Frank Mayo, John Ardizoni, Jack Drumier, Louise Vale and Robert Tansey in the cast. Marie Beaupre, a very attractive Alsatian girl, falls in love with Louis La Farge. a French artist, when she meets him in the mountains where he has come to paint. Louis is a waster, however, and when he deserts the girl her mind becomes deranged. Her relatives and friends discovering her secret, Marie is turned out of her home, forced to live as best she can in a cavern in the mountains, and comes to be known as "The Witch Woman." Finally Marie is taken to Paris by Dr. Cochefort, who is interested in her case, and gradually her mentality is restored. She is then adopted by Monsieur Delaunay, a wealthy Frenchman, whose lawyer hapnens to be Maurice La Farge, a twin brother of Louis, who looks exactly like him, although his character is fortunately different. In her new home Marie comes face to face one day with Maurice and, believing him to be Louis, she collapses, but recovers within an hour or two. Meantime Louis is continuing his riotous living in Paris, where his domicile is governed by a ntorious woman, Andrea Montignac. Maurice has found his efforts to save his brother futile, and is devoting himself more zealously to his own hopes and political ambitions. Incidentally he finds new interest in the youthful charm of „ Marie, who. believing him to be the man who had destroyed her happiness, puzzles over desires for revenge. Andrea gives a masked ball one night, at which Marie, disguised as an Alsatian shepherdess, attracts Louis's troubled attention. At the end of the evening of revelry, Louis, having acquired a little too much wine, attempts to seize Marie in his arms, whereat Andrea shoots and kills him. Andrea then drains a bottle of poison and dies as the police are leading her from the scene of the tragedy. Maurice arrives, and Marie, realizing the mistake she has made, asks him to take her home, which he does, and there she gives him the answer for which he has been waiting for some time.