Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

June 1, 1918 MOTOGRAPHY 1063 The Story of the Picture SYNOPSIS OF CURRENT RELEASES Fox CONFESSION— (Five Reels)— May 19.— Featuring Jewel Carmen. L. C. Shumway, Fred Warren, Charles Gorman and others in cast. A story of an unjust conviction on circumstantial evidence. Bob and Mary are on their honeymoon and are staving at a hotel. A woman is murdered and circum /. Barney Sherry in the Triangle play "High Stakes.' stances throw suspicion on Bob. He is tried and convicted, but Mary and her father find the real murderer and save Bob. The Firebrand — (Five Reels) — May 26. — Featuring Virginia Pearson. She plays Princess Natalya, the niece of Prince Andrei Rostoff, who wants her to marry his son, Boris. The Princess is in love with Julian Ross, an American novelist of Russian family, one of the leaders of the revolution. He is captured and placed in prison. While visiting the prison camp the life of the Princess is endangered by a falling rock. Ross saves her, and she promises to help him make his escape. She gives him a passport made out in the name of a servant in her uncle's household. Ross goes to Petrograd, where he continues his work for the revolution. Treachery on the part of the Royalists, in league with the Kaiser, causes the slaughter of a regiment of Russian troops. Among the dead is the brother of the Princess. Ross learns that Prince Andrei and his son, Boris, are the traitors. Using the servant's passport which the Princess gave him, Ross returns and kills Andrei. This arouses the ire of the Princess, who threatens to kill Ross. She shoots him, causing only a slight injur}-. While recovering Ross convinces the Princess that her uncle is really responsible for the death of her brother. She forgives him and nurses him back to health and happiness. True Blue — (Seven Reels) — May 5. — Fox Standard — Featuring William Farnum. Gilbert Brockhurst is what is commonly known as a "remittance man." — a person who at stated intervals receives a sum of money, usually sent on condition that he remain away from England. Brockhurst has married an American woman and has a son, Robert, six years old. Brockhurst feels that he has "married beneath" him. Mrs. Brockhurst receives a letter announcing that a relative has died leaving her a ranch in Arizona worth $20,000. Shortly thereafter an English solicitor arrives and informs Brockhurst that his cousin is dead and that he is the Earl of Somerfield. The husband determines to go to England alone. The deserted woman dies on her ranch and the Earl of Somerfield, hearing of it, marries again and has a son, Stanley, who is regarded as the heir to the Earldom. He is a spendthrift. When the Earl is sent to America on a secret diplomatic mission, he brings Stanley with him and tells him that unless he reforms he will not take him back to England. The Earl's eldest son has taken the name of Robert McKeever because of resentment at his father's desertion of his mother. The coming of the district school teacher, a pretty young woman, Ruth Stone, sets the countryside aflame. Because of the nearness of the "Little Z" ranch-house to the school, she lives there. McKeever returns home and later finds Stanley Brockhurst in a gambling house near the "Little Z" ranch. He is in debt for $150. McKeever pays the debt, puts his halfbrother in a wagon, and takes him to his ranch. In this wholesome atmosphere Stanley gradually wins the respect of all who know him. McKeever is fearful, too, that his halfbrother is winning the love of Ruth Stone. Stanley, after working out his debt, is inveigled into a crooked cattle deal byr a Mexican, who, upon being denounced by the young Englishman, tries to murder him, but is himself killed by Bob McKeever. Believing that he has lost the love of Ruth, McKeever tells her she may go to Stanley, and is surprised when she tells him that she really loves him. Life brightens again for McKeever, and when the Earl returns and offers to make him his heir, Bob refuses and sends Stanley back to England — a man. Goldwyn Social Ambition. — (Six Reels) — Goldwyn Special. — Featuring Howard Hickman. The opening scene of the play shows Vincent Manton (Howard Hickman), a New York financier, at his desk mapping out the dayr's work to a dozen or more employes. At night, much against his wishes, he is the debonnaire society man mainly because his young wife cares more about the social whirl than sitting around the hearth to hear her husband detail some financial coup that has added to his wealth. Not long afterward, Manton, caught in a net during a series of wild speculations, loses the greater part of his fortune. The wife, who tolerates a husband only because his wealth will further her social ambitions, now. balks at the thought of living with a man who is on the verge of financial ruin. Instead of sympathizing with him, she makes life extremely miserable for Manton, so much so that he agrees to her obtaining a divorce. With no ties to keep him in the metropolis, Manton makes his way to Alaska, where, with the little money he has left, he buys an abandoned claim. For months he labors mightily in the shaft, but to no avail. Discouraged, Manton finds solace in drink at a camp dive. Before long he becomes a derelict, paying very little attention to his claim and incurring the enmity of the miners around him because of his sullenness, the result of his troubles. One night he is severely thrashed by a gang of miners for insulting a cabaret girl at the resort. Realizing drink had made him irresponsible, she saves him from being killed and takes him to her home to nurse him. That strange acquaintanceship soon ripens into love and brings riches to both, for she finds gold ore in a doormat of his shack. He weds her, and, due mainlyr to her influence, the derelict of a month before becomes one of the wealthiest men in the Yukon region. More than that, her love is strong enough to make him forever forget his past in New York. Kleine Broncho Billy's Fatal Joke — (One Reel) — Essanay — May 31. — Broncho Billy, Carl Stockdale and Marguerite Clayton are in the cast. Broncho Billy, a prospector, receives an offer of $100,000 for his claim. The offer is overheard by Rundell, another prospector, and he proposes to sell his claim also. Broncho Billy, hearing of this, plans a joke. He places gold in the blasting hole at Rundell's claim, and when the old prospector blasts he is so delighted at his good fortune that he falls dead from heart failure. Broncho Billy sends a note to Marguerite, Rundell's daughter, telling her the sad fate of her father, and realizing that he was the cause of all the sadness, changes the signs on the claims, she thinking that Broncho