Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1912)

42 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Oiriiciiiteiitcil ■ TKecttpes PLASTER RELIEF DECORATIONS Theatres Designed Everjrwhere Write for Illustrated Theatre Catalog. Send us Sizes of Theatre for Special Designs U/>e Decorators Supply Co 2549 Archer Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL The old proverb that the way to a man"s heart is through his stomach was put into practice by the adroit young cook. She made excellent pies and Steve liked pies, and liked the maker so much that he decided to marry her. Steve, in his good heartedness, makes a very handsome present to the man in love with his cousin, whom he regards somewhat critically as a clotheshorse and not a woman. This story is of the domestic kind which strikes a widely acceptable note. It proves tliat after all, the heart is the predisposing factor in marriage, even amongst men of the primitive type of Cousin Steve, who are supposed to fall for mere externals. King Baggot has the part of Cousin Steve; ^'ivian Prescott is the cook; William Shay and Violet Horner play the young couple w-ho are united by Steve's generosity. BETTER THAN GOLD Imp Release, March 21 A good-natured miner, Jim Stafford, harbored in his house a young couple, who had not met with the best of luck. They had a child. Harry Cireen, the husband, drank somewhat and gambled and lost. Matters came to that point when both he and his wife were penniless. So, in Jim's absence, they steal his money and by way of payment they leave something "far better than gold," their baby. Jim accepts tlie child. He reared the child until she was of an age to be educated. So when she was rising seven, she was put into a convent. Jim and his associates took leave of her, and the former is left lamenting the loss of his little foster child. Meanwhile, things have gone from bad to worse with Harry Green and his wife. He has become a degenerate and she has to get their bread by washing. Years pass. The child finishes her term in school and is to go home, and home she goes. But the instincts of a mother are strong upon Myrtle Green and she makes her way to Parson Jim's house and before the girl arrives confesses to Jim that it was she who left the little baby in his house so many years ago. The struggle is too much for the woman; she dies. When the girl arrives home it is to learn of her mother's death. In company with Parson Jim she visits the grave of the dead woman. The schoolgirl has become a woman, and it is obvious that when both learn the truth, lonely Parson Jim finds a future wife in the little waif that years before was intrusted to him as "better than gold." CLASSICAL DANCES BY COUNTESS DE S'WIRSKY Imp Release, March 23 Pictures of dancing subjects are apparently rare. The dance, however, as a theme for motion picture rendering has great possib.lities and this particular Imp release avails itself of them in an admirable degree. The series is given by the Countess Thaniara de Swirsky, who first of all offers a humorous dance and then one entitled "Spirit of Music." A series of j^lastic poses form part of the offering. The dancer seeks to interpret mvisical effects by the poetry of motion. The dances, therefore, besides having mere aesthetic value are also scientifically esteemed because of the suggested possibilities of correlating movement to sound or even light. In other words, the dances as illustrated by Mile, de Swirsky may be regarded as a composition which appeals as strongly to the eye as music may be understood to appeal to the ear. These dances, therefore, should have considerable educational value. On the same reel THE TANKVILLE CONSTABLE Eben Green, the Tankville constable, was a deadly enemy of the overspeeder. The local limit was ten miles an hour and Eben, brave man, held all and sundry to the strict limit of the law. The result was that he was constantly getting himself in "Dutch" with his good friends. Eben seeks repose from his labors by the wayside and falls asleep and he dreams a dream. He and his help endeavor to stop an automobile driven by a local judge, but the judge evades the obstacle placed across the road, and in evading it meets with an accident. On recovery from this accideiit he has poor Eben arrested for attempted murder, and he is condemned to thirty years hard labor. His troubles as a convict are terrible to follow, but finally he escapes from his prison by scaling its walls, after the guards have unsuccessfully attempted to electrocute him. The convict constable, of course, coalesces with the real constable in the picture, and when Eben awakes and comes to his senses he changes the Tankville sign from ten miles an hour to 100 miles an hour. By this means he relieves himself of further trouble by "overspeeders." THE FULL VALUE American Release March 18 Jack Raymond, pretty stenographer in the office and his attentions were not unpleasing to the lady. But the manager also admired her and determined to show her attentions. Flattered, the thoughtless girl accepted his attentions and allowed him to escort her home. They are observed by Jack aiid in a jealous rage he accosts her employer when he is returning, and demands that his attentions to his sweetheart cease. He then hurries to the home of the girl and demands that she choose between him and his employer. She answers him in kind words and then leaves him abruptly and he finds that instead of helping matters he has widened the breach. When he reports for duty the next morning he is discharged for impertinence. And in the weeks that follow he finds work impossible to secure and is soon reduced to poverty. In the meantime the employer has made more and more advances to the girl until one morning in the office, believing her acquiescent, he attempts to insult her. Freeing herself from his arms the outraged girl takes her hat and leaves his employ. She hurries home to her mother and tells her the whole story. That he should be repulsed, rankles in the breast of the manager and he determines to humble the girl. Her mother's property is listed with the firm and he determines to defraud her out of it. He tells his new stenographer to call the young man employed to take Jack's old position and outlines his plans to him. Now this new employee is something of a grafter himself and he sees a way to make some money himself out of the deal. He hurries from the oflSce and seeking an equally unscrupulous crony, tells him that the widow's property can be bought for so much money. They can buy it and then force the real estate firm to pay them a decent profit. It happened that Jack was seated on the bench when the proposition was broached and gathered that no matter who made the profit