Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

June 1, 1918 MOTOGRAPHY 1065 in the workmen's union. Mr. Walton, failing in his attempt to get Talbot to sell his plant, schemes with his daughter to get Doran to call a strike. Seeing a chance to get a large sum of money thereby, Doran agrees, and just as he is about to call the strike he awakens to the perfidy of Beatrice and refuses to call the men out. The day is saved for Talbot, and Doran reclaims himself in the eyes of Laura, who has become much attracted to him. Baree, Son of Kazan— (Five Reels) — May 27.— Featuring Nell Shipman. The story introduces at the beginning Henry Carvel, owner of a newspaper in a Western city, and his son Jim (Alfred Whitman), who is its city editor. The father is shot and killed by a political boss following an expose of a big steal by the gang in power. An intimidated jury frees the boss of Ihe murder charge, whereupon Jim Carvel kills his father's slayer in the courtroom and escapes. Jim, with a price on his head, flees the city and makes his way to a fur trading post in the Far Northwest, and in a brush with the Canadian Mounted Police another man, resembling Jim, is killed. Thus Jim is freed from the man-hunters. The trading post is ruled by the factor, Bush McTaggart (Al Garcia), big, brutal and feared by all. McTaggart has tired of Indian women and is seeking a new victim in Marie (Nell Shipman), daughter of Pierre, a trapper, when Jim reaches Lac Bain, where he decides to trap the winter out and takes a cabin. Hostility that cannot be explained exists from the start between the factor and the American stranger, the only person at the post not afraid of the great hulk of a man. Marie's only companion is the puppy, Baree, the wolf dog, which already fears and hates McTaggart for his brutalities. Jim senses the designs of the factor on the girl but keeps hands off, ready, however, at any time to accept an open challenge to battle. McTaggart lets it be known he is going to a distant post and gets Marie's unsuspecting father to tend his store, thus leaving the girl alone and at his mercy in her cabin home. His confederate is a half-breed, De Bar, who owes Jim a debt of gratitude for saving his life from the rage of McTaggart. The breed's reward is to be a squaw McTaggart has discarded. McTaggart goes to Pierre's cabin and attacks and is overpowering Marie when her father, fearful always for his daughter's safety, returns and is slain. Meanwhile, Marie, fleeing, is found by Jim and Baree, but she cannot explain and a crowd of Indians driven by McTaggart, who has told them Jim killed Pierre, seize and are about to kill him, when De Bar interferes and demands that the girl decide. Fleeing across a lake broken by rifts of open water, is McTaggart carrying Marie. The men now realizing the truth, cannot overtake them, but Baree, the puppy, now a full grown dog, is the avenger. From behind, he leaps oh the murderer and they are borne beneath the ice, while Jim draws the girl to safety and she realizes she has a happiness to live for that she had not realized before. World Vengeance — (Six Reels) — May 20. — Featuring Montagu Love and Barbara Castleton. Andrew Cuddlestone is falsely accused of cheating at cards at his club for which he is obliged to leave England and seek refuge in obscurity in India. He marries a native woman and leaves to their baby son a heritage of hate and vengeance toward the real culprit, who happens to be his own brother. The boy's mother takes him to the temple, where, in time, he becomes a priest. When he learns of his father's disgrace he journeys to England, determined to avenge his name. He is accompanied by a young girl who has been his constant companion since childhood and is devoted to him. Before leaving India she takes the precaution of stealing Buddha's one organ of sight, so that should fortune prove unkind she can raise money for living expenses for them both. Once in England at the manor the priest decides to unmask the guilty man, which is not difficult, inasmuch as he has never lost his swindling propensities. At the same time he prevents the daughter of his father's best friend from losing her fortune, but he does not marry her, as was to be expected, inasmuch as Barbara Castleton was supposed to be the co-star. Instead he refuses to desert the girl who remained faithful to him for so many years, and who willingly incurred the displeasure of the Buddhists to keep him in pocket money. Paramount Believe Me, Xantippe — (Five Reels) — May 27. — Featuring Wallace Reid. George MacFarland, a man about town and wealthy, returns home one night to find that his apartment had been ransacked by burglars. He discusses the matter with two friends, Brown and Sole, and MacFarland bets $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for one year. In accordance with the wager, MacFarland forges the name of Brown to a check for $100 and this is to be deposited in bank the next day when search for the supposed forger is to be commenced. The two men decide to win the wager by trickery, and they make up their mind to watch MacFarland when he leaves his house and to have him arrested at eleven o'clock, the hour agreed upon. They have him photographed by the aid of a flashlight, but when the lights are turned on again, lo! MacFarland had vanished, taking Brown's hat with him. The men take the check to the bank and MacFarland is a fugitive from justice. The police are provided with a description of him, and the country is flooded with his photographs, on which is MacFarland's favorite expression used at all times, "Believe Me, Xantippe." MacFarland spends eleven months in retirement in a secluded farm house in the West. While hunting one day he meets Dolly, daughter of Sheriff Kamman, who asks him if he is hungry. When he replies, "Believe Me, Xantippe," she remembers the police circulars sent to her father, and she makes him her prisoner after covering him with a gun. MacFarland tells her the story of his wager and wires to his two friends in the East that he has been captured. Word is received that both friends had been lost at sea, but a few days later they turn up to claim their wager. It then develops that Dolly, who had made the capture, was not an officer of the law according to the terms of the wager and that MacFarland actually and technically had won his bet. Brown and Sole are forced to admit that the joke is on them and MacFarland makes Dolly his willing matrimonial prisoner for life. Prunella — (Five Reels) — May 27. — Featuring Marguerite Clark. Prunella, the child-heroine in this picture, is primly learning her lessons in the garden surrounded on the north, south and west by her queer spinster aunts, Prim, Privacy and Prude. A troupe of vagabond players come to town and the aunts desperately fear their innocent Prunella may chance to catch a glimpse of the merry tribe. As the sounds of music and revelry approach the aunts bid Prunella h-isten to the house with them and they close all its shutters. Unfortunately for their plans, Privacy drops the key to the garden gate and sends Prunella to fetch it. In so doing, the child takes just one peep over the garden hedge, standing on her little stool on tip toes. The Pierrot swinging along the road at the head of the laughing mummers, sees her and gayly leaps the hedge to make violent love to the pretty child. That night he comes with a ladder and steals her away while the aunts slumber peacefully. Margery Wilson and Darrell Foss in the Triangle play, "Old Loves for New."