Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

June 29, 1918 MOTOGRAPHY 1231 Synopses for the Program Artcraft Hit-the-Trail Holliday — (Five Reels) — June 16. — Starring George M. Cohan, supported by Marguerite Clayton, Robert Broderick, Pat O'Malley, Russell Bassett, Richard Barthelmess and William Walcott. Billy Holliday, a bartender, comes to a small town and, attracted by the daughter of the leader of the prohibition element, becomes a temperance lecturer. His success is astounding. Wurst, a brewer, sets out to stop him, but Billy's eloquence wins all the employes of the brewery, converts all the townspeople, and wins the heart of the girl. 4. 4. 4. Fox We Should Worry— (Five Reels)— June 16.— Starring Jane and Katherine Lee, supported by Ruby de Remer, William Pike, Henry Clive, Edward Sturgis and Tammany Young. Jane and Katherine live with their young aunt. Jack Fenton and Percival Gilpatrick are suitors for her hand and the youngsters favor Jack. Percival is a crook. He persuades his pals to kidnap the children and he will return them, thus winning the favor of the aunt. But the youngsters learn something of Percival's activities and give the police sufficient clues to trace his crimes and convict him. 4. 4. 4, General Slippery Slim and the Claim Agent — (One Reel) — Essanay — June 29. — With Victor Potel, Margaret Joslin and Harry Todd. Slim hears of Silas Sloe collecting $50,000 from the railroad. Slim has an idea. He rigs up a dummy and places it in front of a train. He then makes believe that it was he that was injured and brings suit against the railroad. A claim agent agrees to settle the affair for $5, but Slim refuses. During his absence. Mustang Pete, who has called on Sophie, poses as Slim when another claim agent appears. Pete releases the railroad of all responsibility for $9. When Slim returns Sophie tells him what has happened and they proceed to handle poor Pete most roughly. 4. 4. 4. PREPARED IN CONCISE FORM Danfield, without telling him of the early affair. West marries Danfield's young daughter, and neglects her. He threatens to expose Lola if she interferes. In the end she exposes the villain and keeps her own happiness, too. 4. 4, 4. Patriotism — (Six Reels) — June 10. — Starring Bessie Barriscale, supported by Charles Gunn, Herschel Mayall, Arthur Allardt, Mary Jane Irving and Joseph J. Dowling. Robin Cameron is caring for wounded soldiers at her home in Ireland. A ship is torpedoed off the coast and among the survivors is a young American who falls in love with Robin. Later a signalling station for submarines is discovered near Robin's home and the young American is believed to be a spy. Dr. Hyde and his assistant, Garson, stationed at Robin's home, state that the} have procf against him. Robin turns detective and proves her lover innocent and the doctor and his aid the real spies. 4. 4. 4. Mutual Up Romance Road — (Five Reels) — June 24. — Starring William Russell, with Charlotte Burton, John Burton, Joseph Belmont, Emma Kluge, Carl Stockdale and Claire De Brey. Gregory Thorne and Marta Milbanks are married and much disappointed that their parents approve instead of opposing the match. Gregory tries to start trouble between the families, but instead gets mixed up in a German spy plot. He has mamadventures and saves his sweetheart from death. This provides sufficient thrill and romance to suit all concerned. 4, 4, 4, Her Spooney Affair — (One Reel) — Strand — June 25. — Starring Billie Rhodes. Jack falls in love with Mary at first sight. She invites him to her home, then pretends she is the maid. He courts her as the maid, but comes unexpectedly one day and the real maid gets a surprise. Then he learns the truth, but he has proved to Mary that he loves her for herself alone and he is accepted. 4. 4, 4. Goldwyn The Venus Model — (Five Reels) — June 16.— Starring Mabel Xormand, supported by Rodrique LaRocque, Alec B. Francis, Alfred Hickman, Edward Boulden, Edward Elkas, Albert Hackett. L~na Trevelyn and Nadia Gary. Kitty O'Brien is an employe of a firm which makes bathing suits. She designs a model which creates a sensation and puts the firm back on its feet financial!}'. Braddock, the president, worried over his son's extravagance, goes to the country to recuperate. A young man applies for a position and becomes Kitty's assistant. The two make a wonderful success of the business and incidentally fall in love with each other. Later Kitty learns that the young man is her employer's son, who had determined to make good. 4. 4. 4. Metro Social Quicksands — (Five Reels) — June 10.— Featuring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, supported by Mabel Frenyear, Leslie Stowe, William Dunn, Lila Blow and Rolinda Bainbridge. Phyllis Lane determines to win the love of Warren Dexter, a young man who has refused to meet her. She poses as a reformed crook and gets a position as maid in his home. Mollie. a lady burglar, and her pals try to burglarize the place. Phyllis aids Dexter, who has really fallen in love with her. They became engaged. When Dexter learns who his bride-to-be is, he is angry at her deception, but afterwards forgives her. 4, 4. 4, The House of Gold — Five Reels) — Tune IT. — Starring Emmy Wehlen. supported by Joseph Kilgour, Hugh Thompson, Helen Lindroth and Maude Hill. Pamela Cartwright is led to believe her lover. Frank Steele, dishonest, and she marries Douglas Martin, wealthy and dissipated. Steele returns and Pamela learns the truth. Martin is supposedlj killed and Pamela and Steele are about to be married when Martin returns, announcing that it was his twin brother who was killed. Things are much mixed up, then straightened out so that Pamela and Steele are happy. 4, 4, 4, Paralta Paramount A Desert Wooing — (Five Reels) — June 23. — Starring Enid Bennett, supported by Jack Holt. David Macdonald, John P. Locknev, Charles Spere and Elinor Hancock. Avice Bereton marries Barton Masters, a millionaire westerner, for his money, but later learns to love him. Van Fleet, a young physician who had wished to marry Avice, tries to break up the romance and Masters thrashes him. In revenge. Van Fleet shoots Mas ters and wounds him severely. Avice, taking a revolver, forces Van Fleet to give her husband his professional attention. Masters recovers and Van Fleet goes away. 4. 4. 4. Select Cecilia of the Pink Roses — (Six Reels) — June 15. — Starring Marion Davies, supported by Edward O'Connor, Willette Kershawe, Charles Jackson, George Le Guere, Harry Benham, Daniel J. Sullivan, John Charles, Eva Campbell and Joseph Burke. Cecilia is the daughter of a poor man who becomes rich through an invention. She asissts in bringing up the family, helps her brother out of scrapes, is sent to school to become a lady and later marries a rich youth whom she loves. 4. 4. 4. Triangle The Last Rebel — (Five Reels) — June 9 — Featuring Belle Bennett, with Walt Whitman. Joe King, Lillian Langdon, Joe Bennett, Jack Curtis, Lucretia Harris and Anna Dodge. Floribel, daughter of an old southern family, has lost her entire fortune. She is loved by Jim Apperson, a northerner, whose grandfather had loved her grandmother at the time of the Civil War. Too proud to accept charity, Floribel decides to commit suicide. She is saved by Jim and persuaded to live for his sake. 4. 4, 4. Station Content — (Five Reels) — June 16. — With Gloria Swanson, Lee Hill, Arthur Millett, Nellie Allen, Ward Canfield, May Walters and Diana Carrillo. The wife of a station master leaves him and goes on the stage. A rich man becomes interested in her, but cannot marry her. She offers to go away with him, but before that time fate brings her to a little station like the one she left and she begins to think of her early home. She prevents the wreck of a train on which are her rich friend and her husband. She and her husband realize that they still love each other and are reunited. The rich man obtains a high appointment for the husband. 4. 4. 4. His Enemy, the Law — (Five Reels) — June 16. — With Jack Richardson. Irene Hunt, Graham Pette, Dorothy Hagar, Walt Whitman and May Giraci. Captain Jack had been disappointed in love and became an outlaw. His son inherited something of his bitter temper. Years later he fell in love with the daughter of the woman his father loved, but his romance is a happy one. 27. — Starring Lawson Butt. Shackled — (Six Reels)— May Louise Glaum, supported by W Charles West, Roberta Wilson, Jack Gilbert and Roy Laidlaw. Lola Dexter, when very young, is led astray by Charles West. Later she marries Theda Bara, Fox star, at her home in Los Angeles.