Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1912)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 43 the real estate firm, or his agent, the widow was sure to lose. He hurries to her with his information and asks her to allow him to engineer the deal. When the agent comes to her with his proposition she refers him to Jack, stating that he had already secured an option on the property. Seeing that his chance for profit has fallen through the agent tells Jack to do business direct with the firm. Jack calls at the real estate office and, knowing that the property is necessary to the firm to further other plans, forces his old employer to pay him full value for the property. The disgruntled manager makes out a check and Jack hurries back to the w.dow with the good news. And the old sweetheart learns the full value of the man that loves her and their differences are settled. FOE HOME AND HONOR Champion Release, March 18 An appealing story of a trusting girl who is lured from home by a blase man of the world, with the wrong righted in the end, there being a lesson in each situation. Edw-ard Stanton, an Englishman, lives unhappily with his wiie. They having nothing in common he casts about for diversion. Out hunting one day he meets Margaret King, a beautiful and pure young country maiden and marks her for his own. His hunting trips become more frequent and he finally approaches her at the spring, where she comes for water. He wins her confidence and persuades her to elope. The wife is deserted and the couple go to Liverpool, where Stanton weds the girl, despite his previous marriage. An accident to his first wife, however, prevents the crime of bigamy, she being thrown from a carriage and instantly killed. This accident occurs but four hours before the second nuptials. Stanton soon tires of the girl and begins a flirtation with another woman. Margaret becomes indignant and takes him to task. They quarrel ; she threatens to leave him; he informs her quite coolly that she is not his legal wife. Stunned by this disclosure, Margaret leaves him and comes to America, where she becomes the wife of an estimable man whom she truly loves. While stopping at a Washington hotel, she again meets Stanton, who is a guest of the hostelry. Again a desire to possess her is aroused within him, but Margaret, goaded to desperation at the thought of leaving her present loving husband, climbs the fire escape to the room occupied by Stanton and there demands of him to cease his persecutions under pain of death. He refuses and she shoots him. Her arrest and trial soon follow. Stanton is not dangerously wounded, and when he regains his better nature he makes a clean breast of the true facts to the court and completely exonerates Margaret. He discloses a divorce document obtained prior to Margaret's second marriage, .^gain the life of happiness is renewed. IRELAND AND ISRAEL Champion Release, March 20 .\bie Wedertzky arrives in America and is an object of ridicule by the hangers on around the Battery in New York. Immediately he is surrounded by a gang of toughs, who treat him roughly until Pat Riley, a champion pugilist, providentially appears on the scene and comes to his aid. dispersing his tormentors. Abie is profuse in his thanks and there is a bond of sympathy established between the strangely assorted pair. Pat gives .\h\e his card and invites him to his home, where the immigrant is royally received. Abie joins a gymnasium and becomes a boxer, visits the Battery and gets revenge on his tormentors. Later there is a boxing entertainment at the Manhattan .\thletic Club, the wind-up to be a 2.5-round go between Riley and another for championship honors. Tom Sharkey is the referee and master of ceremonies and it is the first appearance of the celebrated pugilist in moving pictures. -\bie goes on in a preliminary and is bested in a ludicrous scene. Pat is whipped at the end of four rounds and his friends all desert him, save -Abie. The years go by and Pat is reduced to povert}-. while Abie prospers as a real estate dealer, having slightly changed his name. Pat is ill in bed and iiis family in reduced circumstances, and to make matters worse the wife is served with a writ of ejectment, the rent being in arrears. She is desperate and takes the paper to the real estate dealer and is recognized by Ahie as his friend's wife. Abie accompanies her home and proves to be a ministering angel — bringing to them a basket of provisions and other necessaries. He awakens Pat and they clasp hands in a happy reunion. Abie has become the bene factor and Pat is uplifted to a happier plane. COUNT HENRI, THE HUNTER Solax Release, March 20 Count Henri leaves his moldering castle near the outskirts of Paris and decides to emigrate, temporarily, at least, to the land of money and heiresses. On his arrival the count is well received in .\merican society. Had the count limited his boastful conversation to the mere recital ol his family connections he would, perhaps, have been successful in getting an heiress. But the count had an imagination, and so he told his host and his new acquaintances that he was a wonderful hunter and a remarkable shot. Some of his host's friends got wise to Henri and trumped up a plan by which he is exposed. They invite him to a hunting party so that he may have an opportunity to show his skill with the rifle. They go out to the chase and before long one of the men. who is the rival of the count, gets one of his friends to masquerade inside a bearskin. In the course of the chase, the count meets this bear, and, of course, the first impulse of the count is to retreat to pleasanter surroundings. But the bear is not to be so easily outwitted. He pursues the flying count unt'l in desperation the count shoots in the air. To his surprise, the count sees the bear do a somersault and then lie perfectly still. The count laboriously drags back his trophy of the hunt — and then the fun first begins. TiHE CHILD OF THE TENEMENTS Solax Release, March 22 Lvdie Martin has trouble with her ailing child. Dr. iMann, the visiting settlement doctor and the friend of the East Side poor, does all he can to help Lydie and her sick child. Tom Martin, Lydie's husband, is out of a job and things look pretty black. The child has no chance in the atmosphere of filth and dirt. Lydie plans to take her child and her husband to the country — a place m California where a neighbor has relations — a place the neighbor speaks of very often. But there is no prospect of going; her hus band is out of work and three hundred dollars are needed. One day Dr. iXIann, while making his rounds of the tenement, stops in to see the iNIartins, for he always makes their rooms his headquarters while in the district, because they are the cleanest. He leaves his coat and bag on a cha.r. Mrs. Martin is wretched. She sees visions of herself and family comfortably settled out in California, but she cannot go there. Her child will not be able to grow up strong and healthy — it will be a w-eakling all its life. Mrs. Martin moves about the room with unsteady and sinking spirits. When her eyes light on the wealthy doctor's coat a sudden impulse impels her to go through the doctor's pockets. She finds his w-allet, from which she tremoves just enough that would take her and hers to California. Just as she takes the money an ev:lminded and jealous neighbor sees the act and immediately goes off to report to the police. In the meanwhile, Lydie iMartin makes hasty preparations for a departure to California, explaining to her husband that the doctor had loaned her the money. Just as she is about to go, the police break in and she is accused of theft. The doctor is brought in and he tells the police that he loaned the money to iMrs. Martin. iMrs. Martin thanks him with grateful eyes and the little family start for fresh air and happiness. THE BETTER INFLUENCE Majestic Release, March 17 Henry Marion, broken-hearted upon the death of his wife shortly after the birth of a baby boy, places the cliild with li i s wife's mother and mad for an entire change of existence that may help him to forget the pain and regret that the sight of every familiar place brings, moves to New York. There for five years he loses sight of his baby boy, but finds that careless living and the society of careless men and women have not brought joy nor even contentment. He becomes pract.cally entangled by a wily widow named Mrs. Bennet Allan, and without realizing it his finer instincts are being coarsened and lost sight of during the Bohemian parties he enjoys in her company. .\ scofiing visit to a Salvation Army hall bv Marion and Mrs. Allan and a gay party almost hr-.ngs him to his senses, for the sight of a sweet young girl in the uniform of the .\rmy, praying for a blessing upon the scoffers before her. makes him quiet the noisy interruptions of the party and he leads them away to finish the evening in his apartment where a telegram awaits him that his late wife's mother has suddenly died of heart disease and that he must make immediate arrangements for the care o£ his little son, now five years old. He fetches the boy to New York and there Mrs. Allan finds a worthy rival in an innocent child. The' boy's little fingers reach out and the Salvation ' --Army girl is also arrayed against the forces that are disintegrating the ciiaracter of the child's father, and the babe that cost the father so much at his birth is the means of preserving the finer instincts of his father and leading him into paths bathed in the pure sunshine of tender love. LEAP YEAR Majestic Release March 19 Any man loved by two girls is apt to find himself in an embarrassing position, but in Richard Lee's case the situation was rendered the more susceptible of trouble in that the girls were sisters and that he was in love whole-heartedly with but one of them. .\fter a long period of attentions which, truth to tell, had been shared by both girls, he at last mustered up courage to buy an engagement ring and prepared to ask Mabel B'enton the fateful question. Mabel, who was ready enough to make him the happiest man in the world, was sidetracked by her sister Grace, who was laboring under the erroneous impression that she was the real object of Dick's attentions, and Dick innocently, seized with chills that ever affect true lovers, neglected to state that Mabel was the girl the ring was intended for. Grace, misunderstanding the silence, determined to help him along and bethought her of the Leap Year privilege and calmly proposed to the astounded and abashed Dick. iNIabel's heart was broken and Dick, engaged to the w-rong girl, is ready to commit stiicide. Now Dick s father, exiled for business reasons ten years in Australia and unknown to the Benton family, was on his way home and Dick, thrown into contact with a tramp,, of habits alcoholic, unclean and unethical, determined on a desperate expedient to force Grace to release him from his engagement. His plan of passing off the disreputable and thieving old bum as his father caused a series of complications that, while distinctly humorous, nearly landed Dick in jail, but the opportune arrival of his real parent saved the situation after Grace had repudiated her engagement and tender-hearted little ilabel had flown to Dick's rescue, no matter how terrible his father appeared. TENDER-HEARTED MIKE Powers Release. March 19 Billy and Ethel, happily married, are about to go to the theatre when a telegram arrives for Ethel, stating that her mother is coming for a long visit. Ethel is delighted, but poor Billy is downhearted and refuses to go out. This makes Ethel angry and a quarrel ensues, after which Billy rushes from the room using some hard words, leaving her in despair. Ethel then decides that life is not worth living and she writes a letter of farewell to Billy, turns on tlie gas and awaits the end. Meanwhile Billy, in another room, is doing the same thing only he selects the revolver route. It is while tliey are both writing that a burglar enters and finds his way to Billy's room, sneaks up behind him and reads the letter. He turns away disgusted and soon finds his way into the room w'nere Ethel is seated, and the same scene greets him. Instantly it dawns on him that there has been a quarrel and it is then that "Tender-Hearted Mike" decides to bring them together. Going into Billy's room and holding up the wouldl e suicide with a gun. he backs him into the room where Ethel is seated, carrying with