Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1912)

46 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS the wife. The signal is flashed and he enters the house, which is in darkness, and gropes around to find the mistress. Dr. Russell unexpectedly arrives home with a violently insane patient. Marius hears him and seeks safety in concealment, hiding in a cell in the strong ward. The madman is locked in the strong room with him and the gay Lothario is palsied with fear. He attempts to escape, only to attract^ the attention of the maniac, who grapples with him and a fierce struggle ensues. Dr. Russell has gone to his wife, and they hear the sounds of the battle in the cell. The wife divines the truth and is horror stricken. Dr. Russell extricates Marius, who has been made insane from fright and exhaustion, and brings him into the office. He is surprised to find his casual friend of the hotel in bis house in the night, and turns to the wife. She is thoroughly frightened and cannot speak. Marius relieves the tension by producing the letter written him, having only a momentary remembrance of events. The doctor takes the missive, reads it, and learns of the duplicity of his wife, ^ whom he renounces in scathing tones. It is a harsh, but fitting finale to the story — the lover insane, a home wrecked, and the faith of a man in woman destroyed. WHEN THE HEART CALLS Reliance Release, April 10 Enid Lang is living happily with her husband and little child. Faith. Steve Lyman, an impetuous youth, is madly infatuated with Enid. Enid, however, laughs at his pretensions of love for her and finally in mad desperation at being treated as a boy by the older woman he vows to go away into the woods and live the life of a hermit. He writes a farewell letter to Enid to this effect which Enid shows to her husband. He, heartily sorry for the youth, goes to him and tries to make him see his error. Steve, deeply hurt at this renewed fatherly attitude toward him by the husband of the woman he loves, shows him the door. Soon after he leaves for the mountains and takes up his lonely abode. Years afterward we find him still living his hermit existence and Enid and her husband promising their daughter Faith to take her up into the woods for a prolonged vacation. Up in the woods Faith, following the call of the woods, starts out on a little walk but soon loses her way. She gets further and further away from her family and in the growing darkness stumbles over a cliff where she is found later in an unconscious condition by Steve as he is returning from a hunting trip. Steve carries her to his bungalow, while the family far off are searching for her. When Faith regains consciousness Steve discovers that her mind is a total blank and she can give him no information regarding herself. He nurses her back to health. In the meantime Enid and her husband have become convinced that Faith has been drowned, for they find her hat at the edge of the water and there all signs of her end. Later, when Faith is able to go about in the woods, she meets Walter Farley, a young hunter from the city. Struck with her beauty and childishness he talks with her and she invites him to the house. There he meets Steve and learns that he is not her father but her temporary guardian. He suggests that Faith should be taken back to the city and then Steve tells him that he thinks she is the daughter of Enid as he found a locket around her neck containing Enid's picture. Walter sends a telegram to Enid and shortly follows with Faith, leaving Steve alone in his misery fully awake to the fact that he has fallen deeply in ^ love with the girl. An operation brings Faith back to her normal self and Walter is rejected when he presses his suit. She asks her parents to take her back up into the mountains where she can thank the man that saved her life and they finally agree. When they reach Steve's home he is not there and Faith leaves them in the house and goes in search of him. She finds h'm on the cliffs looking out over the water and there it is that they waken to the call of their hearts and hand in hand return to the bungalow and her family learns that the hermit has at last found his mate. AN OPPORTUNE BURGLAR Reliance Release, April 13 Smithson. an elderly stock broker, marries his stenographer. A little later Smithson's nephew, of whom he is guardian, arr'ves home from college and is introduced to h-'s unc'e's wife. The nephew p'omptlv f'lls 'n love with his unc'e's young w fe nnd she in turn takes quite a fancy to him, having only married Smithson because she wanted a home and money. The attachment between the two begins to assume serious proportions when the uncle notices it and forbids the nephew the house. The nephew, seizing that evening as a last chance to say good-bye to the girl returns and happily finds the uncle out. While she is at the door admitting hira a burglar enters, and as they enter the room hides behind the curtains. The uncle is heard returning and the boy jumps back of the curtains in front of a rather spacious alcove. The two remain hidden, both fearing to make a noise, especially the nephew, for he is 'n danger now from two different sources. The uncle discovers the boy's smouldering cigarette and accuses his wife of hiding the boy somewhere. Not satisfied with her silence he starts for the alcove when the burglar jumps out. .Smithson grapples with the burglar and is shot in the arm, the burglar escaping. The girl in that moment realizes all that her husband is to her and supporting him in her arms takes him out of the room. After tenderly attending him she returns to the room where the boy attempts to take her in his arms. She repulses him and in a fury of anger at his presuming to think she could ever be the same to him after his showing such a yellow streak tells him to get out. The uncle meanwhile has entered from the rear^ his arm bound heavily in linen, and hears the whole conversation. After the boy is gone the girl sinks down in a chair, sobbing, but her husband comes over to her and tells her he knows all and that there is nothing to forgive and with his free arm draws her to him. THE STAR OF THE SIDE SHO^W Thanliouser Release, April 2 Her parents were humble peasants, and were fond of her when she was a baby, for they believed she would grow up to be a beautiful woman and make a good match. The trouble was she didn't grow up. When she was nineteen shu was no bigger than a child of six, and the parents bitterly lamented the fact. Naturally they were overjoyed when an offer for their daughter's hand was made by another midget who lived in the same little village. To their astonishment and anger, the girl refused to entertain it, declaring the husband she chose would have to be a raan of whom she could be proud. Her home life was most unhappy after that, and the entire family lejoiced when a showman from the United States arrived and offered what seemed big money if she would join his "Congress of Freaks," which was quite an institution in America. And the girl went gladly. In her strange new life, she found many things to wonder at^ and one object to admire, to wit, the loveliest, biggest, joUiest giant she had ever dreamed of. Naturally she fell deeply in love with him, but he never even suspected it. The reason was that his giantly affections were all expended on the glorious snake charmer, whom he hoped to make his bride some day. The midget, who thought her affections were returned, was disillusioned, and her romance shattered. Then the little man from across the sea crossed to America, and renewed his suit. She was won by his devotion, and accepted him, realizing that they would be happy, far happier than she would have been with the giant. It is hard enough for a woman to manage an ordinary man, but how can she hope to control a big hulking husband, when one snort of disapproval by him will blow her and her orders to the four winds of Heaven? THE GIRL OF THE GROVE Thanhouser Release, April 5 The girl was young, pretty, and also a good business woman. When her father died, she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results. Her mother, who lived with her was proud of the self-reliant girl, and their life was peaceful and happy. Her capable hands were so busy, making a modest fortune, that she had no time to think of love. One day, however, "the prince" appeared. He was a tourist from the North, goodlooking, well dressed, and of gentlemanly manners. It was love at first sight on both sides, and the girl dreamed of a happy home with the man she loved. Then the awakening came. She learned that the man had a wife, an invalid and a cripple. The man did not tell her; the news was broken to her by accident. Self-reliant people suffer the most when sorrow comes, it is said, and the girl was no exception to the rule. Life had become bitter to her, and m a moment of weakness she decided to end it all, and wandered down to the sea. Looking around to note if she was observed, she was just in time to see another woman leap overboard. The girl forgot her own troubles, jumped into the water, and saved the unfortunate. After she had brought her ashore and revived her, she recognized the unhappy one as the wife who was the barrier between herself and the man. The wife did not know her rescuer, but in gratitude told her story, of physical suffering, of neglect and coldness that had made her determined to seek rest in the grave. The girl listened, and breathed a silent prayer of thankfulness for her romance was blasted, and she could see clearly that the man was not worth any sacrifice. So the thought of selfdestruction passed away, never again to return. The self-reliant girl pitied the poor weak woman, and induced her to make her home with her. There later the girl received a letter from the man, telling of the death of "a rich relative" which, he explained, made their marriage possible. He added that he would call that afternoon to discuss the date of their marriage. The man was promptly on hand. The girl met him, and led him through the grove to the house. Then she stepped aside and pointed to a woman asleep in an invalid's chair. The man looked and recognized the wife he thought dead. "I saved her life," the girl whispered, "your iieglect and brutality drove her to attempt suicide. My intention is to see that her remaining days are happy. You have no part in the life of either of us. Go, and never return." The man, touched for once, made no comment, but departed. The wife awoke and sleepily asked the girl if they had had a visitor. "No one that either of us knows or ever will know," was the reply. "Go to sleep again, dear, and awake to a happier future. You are living in an Adamless Eden now," and the wife, with a half-sleepy smile of comprehension, dozed off again, while the girl watched her with a look of love and pity. For even if you are capable and selfreliant, it is hard to realize that your idol has feet of clay and that the days of romance are over for you forever. KID CANFIELD, THE REFORMED GAMBLER Champion Release, April 1 The history of this man is as remarkable in many ways as that of the most notable men of the century. This would seem a large assertion to make, but the brief depiction of his life, as here set forth, will bear us out, that our statement is most justifiable. The filming of the story is most graphically done, and is entirely in keeping with the deep gravity of the subject. Its educational value is unquestioned; and the moral influence which it is bound to e.xert on the youth of our land, makes it preeminently, in this respect, the film story par excellence of the season. Learning the gambler's art as a boy, he practiced it on his younger brother and sister. This aroused his father to a righteous indignation, the culmination of which was the driving of the boy out into the world. He started his career in a Western town, using his art with such adeptness as to make his reputation, as a card shark and Monteman, notorious throughout that section. Ten years later, he bloomed forth as the keeper of one of the most widely known gambling dens in the country. In this hell of infamy every device of the damnable profession was used. The paraphernalia in evidence in this haunt of vice exerted its fascination on the youth and_ the adult alike, drawing them, with devilish certitude, to the consuming flame of their own destruction! Into this mad vortex of the human passions came a youth. He was clever, and luck was with him; then the Kid marked him as a victim, to be fleeced and shorn, to be plucked and scorched! We behold the hellish apparatus secretly prepared, and we see the fiendish operations carried out to their horrible conclusion. Black despair) overtakes the miserable youth, and self-destruction is the penalty he pays for his folly. Clutched in the hand of the lifeless victim was a photograph. Canfield, bold and callous, loosened the fingers of the dead youth; but his