Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

May 25, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 997 Jack Livingston and Jack Abbe, the oriental actors, as they appear in the Triangle play, "Who Is to Blame.7" "Who Is to Blame?" Heads Triangle Bill "Old Hartwell's Cub" Is Second Feature of Week and Keystone Comedy Completes Program A DRAMA, "Who Is to Blame," featuring Jack Livingston and Maud Wayne, the former Keystone beauty, heads the Triangle program for May 19. This is a screen adaptation of the story by E. Magnus Ingleton. It was directed by Frank Borzage and photographed by Pliney Home. Jack Livingston has the part of a young American lawyer, Grant Barton, and Maud Wayne will interpret her first dramatic part as Marion Craig. Jack Abbe, the talented Japanese juvenile, who had an important part in "Her American Husband," will be seen as Taro Sam. According to the story, Grant Barton, visiting Japan, is attracted by the pleasing personality of Taro Sam, a "rickshaw" driver whom he employs and later takes to America. In this new land of promise many things happen to enhance the affections of his little brown friend, until Taro's love for Barton becomes the one big thing in his life. Then Barton meets beautiful Marion Craig, whom he marries. During her absence he becomes involved in an affair with Tonia Marsh (Lillian West), a paid spy of Japan, who long ago had sold both loyalty and patriotism to the highest bidder. It is then that Taro Sam's loyalty is tested and he sacrifices the love and admiration of his benefactor that he may save Barton from a life of sorrow and regret. He evolves a plan whereby Tonia Marsh is disposed of, while Marion and Grant are reunited in happiness. Then Taro, with a sad smile, returns to his native land, where he lives a life of the real happiness that comes as a reward of a sacrifice worth while. A Japanese tea room, oriental costumes, rickshaws and rickshaw costumes furnish settings and scenes of unusual beauty. "Old Hartwell's Cub," featuring William Desmond, is the second release of the week. Mabel Richards wrote the story, while the continuity is by George E. Jenks, formerly of the staff of the Saturday Evening Post. It relates the development of a young blacksmith, whose only objects in life are his love and admiration for his drunken father, from sodden indifference to the place of one of the foremost citizens of the town, through the love and inspiration of a good woman. The story relates how Bill Hartwell, the village blacksmith, young and handsome, but despised and reviled by the narrow-minded inhabitants of Matherville, defends his father, who through an inherited love for drink, has gained the reputation of a village drunkard. When old Hartwell is placed in jail, Bill takes his sledge, batters down the door and rescues the old man. The villagers, led by Deacon Grimes, attempt to drive the Hartwells from the town, but at the height of the. battle Rev. David Lane, who believes in practicing what he preaches, extends the hand of brotherhood to young Hartwell. Bill is stunned by this display of friendship and almost succumbs when the minister invites him home to supper. At the minister's home Bill meets Mary Lane and their love results. Edward Jones, at heart a crook but ostensibly a salesman of Bibles, attracts the attention of the Ladies' Aid Society. Caught in a compromising position, Mary accepts Jones' proposal of marriage without the knowledge that he has a wife in Chico, an Arizona town where vice flourishes. Jones flees from Matherville, but Mary follows him, only to find that he and his wife keep a disreputable saloon in Chico. She demands money she has loaned him to invest for her, and he in desperation pleads with her to accept a position as a waitress. She agrees in hopes that she can obtain the money and return to her native village without the brand of a thief. The climax is reached when Bill Hartwell, whose father has dropped dead, drifts into Chico. Here Bill is mistaken for a horse thief and is about to be lynched by a mob of enraged cowboys when Mary succeeds, after a desperate ride, in reaching the scene in time to save his life. She has no trouble in establishing his innocence by means of a letter which she has obtained from the wife of Jones identifying the actual thief. The men want Bill to remain in Chico. But finding that Mary has never' become the legal wife of Jones, he claims her and takes her back to Matherville as his bride. William Desmond is Bill Hartwell, while Mary Warren, who so successfully played opposite Desmond in "An Honest Man." will appear as Mary Lane. Thomas N. Heffron directed. The concluding release is a two-reel Keystone Comedy formerly announced for release under date of May 12. World Buys "The Unveiled Hand" World has just purchased a striking story, "The Unveiled Hand," by Izola Forrester and Mann Page, and the work of preparing the continuity for it is now under way.