Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1909)

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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 889 Saunders' protestations are laughed at by tlio bluoeoats. who unceremoniously clip on the handcuffs and drag 1 1 i in out of tbe room. Then Miss Flip settles herself at the dining table, takes one her notebook and pencil and begins writing a glowing description of her midnight adventure. THE SPANISH GIRL.— The story concerns Lola Gonzales, a Spanish dancing girl, who falls in love with Tom Wilson, better known by the sobriquet "Bud," foreman of the Circle "A" ranch, and opens With a scene near the ranch house with Lola dancing the old fandango to the entertainment of a half-dozen Mexican vaqueros. Wilson comes on the scene and sending the Mexicans off to work, goes on his way attending to Ills duties. Lola follows and endeavors to make love to him. Wilson shows that he is not at all affected and tells her that lie is engaged to marry Martha Allison, the daughter of his employer. Lola turns away in a jealous rage and vows to break up the affair. A few days go by and Lola again encounters young Wilson. This time Martha is with him. Lola steals away, and is soon joined by Pedro Mayos, her Mexican admirer. I'edro bates t lie young foreman and they propose a scheme to put Wilson at outs with his sweetheart. I'edro contrives to meet Martha and induces her to go with him for a walk in the orchard. At tbe same time Lola hunts up Wilson and begs him to go with her for just a little walk. Wilson refuses at first, but hurries away with her when Lola offers to prove that Martha is untrue to him. Lola and lie go into the orchard and find Pedro and Martha together. Wilson, fully convinced that Martha is untrue to him, cruelly denounces her and leaves. Martha turns on Pedro indignantly. Lola joins Wilson in another part of the orchard and makes love to him. lie is about to take her in his arms when a rider comes upon them and delivers a message. The note informs Wilson that he has been appointed deputy sheriff in place of Hank Smith, lately deceased. Wilson hurries away and Lola is left alone. Pedro comes on the scene and demands recompense for the part he played in spoiling Wilson's love affair. The girl is convinced she has won the foreman and turns coldly away from her Mexican admirer. Pedro, in a rage, strikes her in tbe face and tells her to be off. Lola, stung by the insult, hurries away to tell her friends of Pedro's brutality. When her story is told to the Mexicans they resolve to lynch Pedro, and ride off to Pedro's shack. Pedro hears that the Mexicans are after him and endeavors to elude them. On the way lie meets another Mexican, whom he begs to go in search of the sheriff, then continues his flight. Tlie pursuers soon strike Pedro's trail and track him to a deserted cabin. A lively fight ensues between the Mexicans and Pedro, but the incensed Mexicans soon overpower him. and are about to lynch him when Deputy Wilson rides up. The new deputy's timely arrival saves Pedro's life, the Mexicans are disarmed and sent about their business, and Pedro is handcuffed and started to the jail. On the way Pedro confesses his part of tbe conspiracy With Lola and thus gains his freedom. Wilson makes all haste to return to Martha and to ask her forgiveness for having misjudged her. The scene ends with the two in each other's arms. GAUMONT. (George Kleine.) NOTHING IS EVER LOST.— Mr. Oblivion has an unfortunate habit of forgetting things and mislays bis set of false teeth in a restaurant. Fortunately, the waiter finds it and brings it to him. While taking an after-dinner promenade, the wind blows his wig off. but a sailor brings it back to him. Next, he drops a compromising letter, which is found and returned to him by a boy, but unluckily for Mr. Oblivion, it is restored to him in his wife's presence. Then, when strolling along tbe river hank his wife falls into tbe water, but is rescued and placed in bis arms just when be was beginning to forget her. Finally, he loses his purse, but somehow that does not come back to him. THE LIFE BUOY, — A poor fisherman finds a baby floating in a life-buoy on the sea, evidently surviving a recent shipwreck. He adopts the child in spite of the desperate poverty of his own family. His creditors sell his furniture to satisfy their debts, but when they are about to sell the lifebuoy, the fisherman seizes it, it breaks in two and is found to contain a roll of money, which brings comfort and happiness to the poor family for the rest of their lives. THE SHEPHERD'S FLUTE.— Jack is a poor shepherd boy. employed by an avaricious old farmer. While tiie sheep are browsing Jack goes to sleep. His master finds him thus and beats him mercilessly. Poor Jack, when alone, kneels down and Invokes the gods to belp him. A beautiful fairy comes out of a bush and orders Jack to cut a reef] and make a flute of it. Then she explains to him that when anybody wants to hurt him, all he has to do is to blow tbe flute and his enemies will immediatelv begin to dance as long as he will blow, Jack returns to the farm, and when his master Is about to beat him for his tardiness, lie comments to play his flute. The stick falls from his master's hands and he begins to dance. As soon as the music stops, the farmer calls all his farm hands to beat Jack, but Jack plays his flute again and makes them all dance. Then the fanner sends lor soldiers to arrest Jack, hut when they arrive they also are made to dance. Then the shepherd escapes. This angers the soldiers, who turn upon the peasants and heat them for calling them out for so trivial a reason. CAMBYSES, KING OF PERSIA.— About 550 B. C. Hide reigned in Persia and Egypt, Cambyses, a very cruel and passionate king. He fell in love with Amestris, the beautiful wife of his favorite courtier, Prexaspe. It happened one day that young Masyos, son of Prexaspe and Amestris, was learning how to throw the javelin or spear. Cambyses comes upon the scene and plays with Masyos. Unhappily, as King Cambyses threw the javelin, Masyos ran in front of him so that the javelin pierced him through the heart. Amestris, the boy's mother, did not understand that it was accidental and she swore to avenge Masyos' death. Accordingly, she feigned to yield to Cambyses' passion in order to attract him into her home. There, before the corpse of her dead son, which she tragically displayed to Cambyses, she stabbed the king to the heart with the same javelin with which he bad killed Masyos. for her near her stockings and she soon forgets the dream. The last scene shows her with Santa Clans, who Is saying farewell to all and giving them toys, candies, etc. Polly also sends kisses to everybodj KALEM MFG. CO. THE LAW OF THE MOUNTAINS.— This is a story of the moonshiners of Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. Wes Clayborne, a young mountaineer, and Emily Harden, daughter of another mountaineer, are in love with each other and decide to get married. Tilings go very well with them for a time until Wes has a long spell of sickness. Their scant savings -.ire gone and credit is denied them at the village store. Wes. returning one day after a heartbreaking tramp for work, finds his child at the point of death. He rushes for the doctor and begs him to see the child, but he refuses unless his fee is paid. Heartbroken, Wes turns homeward, but is overtaken by a revenue officer, who tells him how he can make some money by informing on a certain band of moonshiners for whom he has been long searching. Wes at first indignantly denies all knowledge of the band, but at sight of a roll of bills and thinking of his sick child gives the revenue officer the information he wants. Next we see him on his way to the doctor, who on receiving his fee visits tbe child, while Wes makes some necessary purchases at the store. A group of mountaineers loafing around the store become suspicious of Wes when they see him with the money, and demand to know where lie got it. Wes returns home with bis purchases and his wife in surprise eagerly asks him how he came by them, but be answers evasively and inquires about the child. A few days later a kindly neighbor tells Mrs. Clayborne that her husband is suspected of inforrriing on some moonshiners who have been arrested by the revenue officers, and warns them to flee. She begs her husband to deny the accusation, but he only shakes his head and tries to hide his face. But the inexorable law of the mountains has been broken and Wes is shot from behind and dies, having sacrificed his own life for the sake of bis child. GEORGE MELIES. THE LIVING DOLL. — Christmas Eve, Polly, a little girl, is in great excitement. She wishes to get so many toys from Santa Clans! She hangs her stockings on the mantelpiece, says her prayer, bids her mother good-night, and goes to bed. As soon as she is sleeping, two kidnappers come Into her bedroom, take her and bring her into a miserable cellar. The man quarrels with the woman and reproaches her for having taken the little girl. Polly cries very much from fright. The kidnappers, fearing the police, take her away from the cellar. While she is out with them, she runs away and gets lost in a forest. The snow falls. She remembers the tale of Tom Thumb and she climbs a big tree and sees in the distance a church illuminated for the midnight mass. She goes there directly. The beadle will not let her in. but a kind woman sends her to the gallery. She notices a beautiful colored window and admires it. Suddenly the window turns like a wheel and disappears and in its place Santa Clans is there loaded with toys. He smiles at her, calls her and then invites her to visit his palace. He then vanishes. Again she sees a vision of children finding their Christmas presents, and sees the angels blessing her. She leaves tbe church and goes to Santa Claus' palace. Everything was beautiful. Polly is delighted to see such wonders. She finds a big box which contains a doll as large as herself. She undresses the doll, takes her clothes, puts them on and goes into the box herself. Santa Claus appears and is very busy getting ready to distribute the toys in his aeroplane loaded by angels. They take the box containing Polly and put it with the other presents. The aeroplane loaded with toys goes over the city. stops at the different chimneys and leaves the toys. The box containing Polly is put down a chimney and placed with the other presents. Polly is so glad to find herself at home, she leaves her box and dances about the room. At this moment the nurse awakens Polly and the child finds it was only a dream. She runs downstairs and finds her parents waiting PATHE FRERES. LA GRANDE BRETECHE.— In 181C there appeared In the office of tbe Sub-prefect or Vondomo a Spanish prisoner of war, the Count de Feredia. The Spanish nobleman was a handsome man who carried himself with the hauteur proverbial among the Spaniards of noble birth. Before the slern, forbidding Sub-prefect, the Count de Merret, Feredia slamls awaiting the result of a note from the Prefect to his subordinate, ordering the latter to find suitable quarters for the prisoner and to obtain his parole. Having given his word of honor no! lo attempt to escape, the Spaniard seeks to beguile the hours among the gay throngs along the avenues where he sees and meets the Countess de Merret, the beautiful wife of the Sub-prefect. Condemned to a monotonous and uneventful life in the quiet province and married to a man in whose stern character she finds nothing to respond to the joyousness of her own nature, the Countess discovers in the person of Feredia a congenial companion; while in tile society of one so beautiful and sympathetic, the courtly Spaniard finds palliation of his melancholy and forgets the ii'ksomeness of his parole. Between two such souls a friendship such as this could scarce do less than ripen into love, and soon the fleeting moments in each other's company in the presence of others seem not so sweet as stolen hours beneath the fragrant rose bower in the old formal garden. Even here, however, they are not alone, as two masons soon intrude their rudely material selves upon the spiritual loveliness enveloping these two throbbing souls. The Sub-prefect, though scarcely one to whom his wife's fair charms appeal, guards jealously the honor of his ancient name and. his suspicions having been aroused, he lays the trap in which he hopes to snare the fluttering wings of Cupid-goneastray. The Count de Merret announces his departure on some business of a pressing kind and drives away from La Orande Breteche only to return within the hour. In the meantime the Countess, thinking that her husband has now left for several days, has summoned her Spanish loyer to her side and now within the dainty boudoir Feredia pours forth in a torrent of words the passionate story of his love. Seeing a crucifix suspended on a thread of gold around his sweetheart's neck, lie swears upon it fidelity through all eternity and then thrusting it next his heart, he gives his own ebony crucifix to her in return. Fatal gift. He little knows how in this emblem of the greatest tragedy and love earth ever witnessed his own doom is sealed. When the Sub-prefect returns and hurries to his wife's apartments, he finds Rosalie, tbe maid, on guard. Thrusting her aside, he rains thunderous blows upon the door. Within terror blanches the face of the pretty wife. Ruin stalks before her eyes. Disgrace cries out in every blow her furious husband delivers on the panel. In desperation she forces Feredia into her closet, and mustering all her self-control, she opens the door. As the Count enters he is surprised to find his wife alone, but his glance falling on the closet, he accuses her of having hidden her lover there. This she denies and when her husband, doubting, advances toward the door, springs before him. "If you find no one," she cries, "reflect that all will he over between us." Apparently convinced by his wife's declaration, lie turns to leave. On the table lies the ebony crucifix. Seeing it. the Count makes his now terrified wife swear that no one is concealed within her closet. For the sake of her lover she consents to the perjury. "I know." exclaims the Count, "your purity of soul, and since it would mean separation either way. I prefer not to examine the closet." With that stands by and sees it all. Tears start to his eyes as he realizes that there is no joy or happiness for him. Love seems to have passed him by. No one cares for him. he has no home, he's alone and poor; while everybody else this glorious day seems to be bubbling over with the joy of living, with plenty of friends to love and be kind to them. After leaving the happy scene in the meadow, the tramp wends his way to the home of his benefactress, a beautiful, kind young lady who. gives him a little change and a kind word whenever he stops at her window. Her charity has so touched the friendless one that he looks upon her as a sort of goddess and trembles with joy when he sees her sweet kind face. To-day after thanking her not only with words but also with his poor eyes, lie tramps along until he comes to a quiet spot by the brook, where lying down he he summons the two masons working on the grounds and orders them to seal up the door which so nearly wrecked their home. Baffled, the frenzied girl stands watching tbe hideous work go on. Once, when the Count is called away, she makes a vain effort to rescue her imprisoned lover, but her implacable husband returns after only a momentary absence, and the attempt has only been rewarded by a fleeting glimpse of two sombre eyes which burn their reproach into the wretched woman's soul. For twenty days thereafter the Sub-prefect sits at the bedside of his wife, who has succumbed to the frightful ordeal. The end is near. The Count is feigning sleep in his arm chair. Slowly, with