Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1912)

30 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS HIS WEDDING DAY Majestic Release, May 5 On the night before the wedding the groom kisses the bride, and goes to a bachelor supper. He makes merry with his men friends, who present him with babies' shoes, a rattle, a toothing ring and so on, ending with a baby carriage, which is rolled on the table, among the many wine bottles. When the party breaks up, the groom generously empties his purse, for the benefit of the waiters, and unsteadily seeks his homeward way. The bride, meanwhile, has been receiving her girl friends, displaying her presents, and indulging in all the sweet sentimentality that a woman feels at such a time. She finally retires, kissing the groom's picture, and putting it under her pillow. Contrast the wobbly groom, who cannot find the keyhole, and has recourse to a window to enter his house. His careful placing of his shoes under his pillow. His hanging his hat and coat on the chandelier, and depositing his collar in the water pitcher. The next morning his alarm clock does its duty, but he smothers its sounds, sleeps again, and when he does awake he is three hours late. Added embarassment, he has forgotten the wedding ring. Hurriedly dressing he rushes to a jeweler's. He has forgotten his purse, "no credit" is the jeweler's motto, and out goes the distracted groom. He enters a cafe, where two of his friends are drinking, and his appeals for cash bring him nothing but an invitation to drink, and roars of laughter from his friends, at his predicament. The highly indignant groom goes to a pawnshop. But his watch is in his evening clothes, he has forgotten his pin, and the pawnbroker is not a humanitarian. He rushes back to his room,^ and there his empty purse reminds him of his ill-advised generosity of the night before. He gets his watch, and again seeks the pawnbroker. The bride has arisen promptly. Arrayed in her wedding finery, the minister and guests assembled, she awaits the groom, who is rushing out of the pawnshop, the price of the ring in his grasp. Again to the jeweler's. He secures the preciovis token, hurries out, and hales an automobile. After the occasional manner of automobiles, this one breaks down. An ash cart carries out the "any port in a storm" idea. The ash man is willing, and he and the groom belabor the surprised and indignant old horse, which draws them speedily to the bride's house. But further disaster awaits. There is no money to satisfy the ash cart driver's demands, he decides to take it out on the groom and a fight ensues. Wonder, impatience, fear and despair have succeeded one another in the bride's mind. Hysterics are about to follow, as the guests are preparing to leave. Sounds of conflict are heard outside, the bride's father investigates, and advances money to pay the belligerent driver. The groom joins the wedding party, and explains. He starts to produce the troublemaking ring, but cannot find it. A frantic search, however, reveals it in an unexpected pocket, and his troubles are over, for the day. REDEEMED Majestic Release, May 7 Jeanne is the young wife of a French fisherman. He goes to sea, with his comrades, leaving her watching from the shore, her baby in her arms. The sea claims the husband, illness and death take the baby, and Jeanne is heartsick and hopeless. Attracted by her beauty a visiting artist has asked her to pose for him, and, thinking to escape her memories, Jeanne goes to his studio, in Paris. She finds herself overwhelmed with attention, and soon falls into the easy-going, lax life of the Latin Quarter. Her hitter memories are gone, replaced by a reckless coldness and cynicism that see nothing of beauty or idealism in the life about her. She becomes hardened, and indifferent to the gentler emotions. Raoul, a poor artist, is painting a picture of 'a mother with her child in her arms. His model becomes ill, and cannot pose longer. Raoul sees in Jeanne's beauty the ideal of the Madonna and child. He asks her to pose for him. She laughingly consents, the idea appealing to her satirical sense of humor. But when the baby is given to her, and its arms tighten around her neck, a vision comes to her of herself, in her home by the sea, with lier own child. Half hysterical she relinquishes the child, dashes out, and once more with her companions, tries to forget the vision in dissipation. But the memory will not down. Again she seeks Raoul's studio, and poses with the baby until the picture is finished, and the softening influence grows stronger and stronger. The child's mother dies, intrusting her baby to Jeanne, and this touch of confidence, and the iove for the child, complete Jeanne's redemption. Her friends go to her room, to get her to join their carousals, but she sends them away. With the baby in her arms, Jeanne has found an old and a new life. THE VOICE OF THE PAST Eclair Release May 5 Grandmother, watchful of her servants, surprises her valet talking with her granddaughter Jeannette. To punish the obstinate young girl, she locks her in the garret. Jeannette inspects her prison and notices a large trunk. She opens it, and finds the wedding garments of her grandparents. A few minutes later the girls employed on the farm, rush into the garret, Jeannette and Lucien are donning their grandparents wedding garments, and they all descend with great precaution, preceded by a violinist in imitation of a real wedding procession. Grandmother, asleep near the firejilace is dreaming of her younger days, she sees again her marriage, the procession passing in front of the church, while the wedding bells are ringing. She awakens, rubs her eyes, Iiears the music of the violin, which is playing in a low tone; she follows the movements of the music, with her head, all absorbed by the feeling of the past. Is it really a dream? She turns to find her children kneeling at her feet! Jeanette's tricks have succeeded, and grandmother consents to a union, which is the desire of everyone present. On the same reel: ■The Alhambra Granada, an educational subject. TWO FOOLS THERE WERE Gaumont Release, May 26 . Two brothers live peaceably together wrCvi 1 jlK-i^ until a motor accident ^^Z^-m happens to bring to ^TV^ house a woman ^ with whom they at once fall in love. She — . 4 is a flirt, and en ^''^ .ir^\" courages their atten «L^;i^^ ^.^^^r-* tions, with the re^L/IT^WkJ^ suit that they are soon at enmity with one ' ^ ~ another. As a matter of fact she is already engaged and her lover and father call and fetch her away whilst the brothers are out. The father leaves a letter stating that they have all gone to America, and the brothers, realizing that the girl has been duping them, resume their friendly relations and pursue the even tenor of their way, at peace with themselves and the world in general. ZAMETTO'S MARRIAGE Gaumont Release May 30 The Duke's Discomfiture. This is a beautiful colored film, which tells us a love history of bygone times, wherein the gorgeous costumes, artistic setting, and superb acting combine together to give us one of the finest productions yet put before the public. -A handsome young Minstrel has passed the night, wrapped in his mantle, beneath the twinkling stars. Awaking with the dawn, the youth looks to his guitar with fond affection, and prepares to leave his erstwhile resting place. But suddenly the musician's attention is arrested by an equipage standing some little distance away. Two attendants are observed dosing on either side of a magnificent sedan chair, and so sound is their sleep t'^at an idea suggests itself to the adventurer. Approaching quietly, he opens the door and quidkly conceals himself within its luxurious embrace. The valets are awakened, and thinking their master has given the order, they hurriedly take iin the chair and start on their iourney. Shortly after the little party has left the mansion, several waiting m,en emerge from the entrance, one of whom calls for the Duke's chair. The rheumaticy old dandy appears at the door, and his rage may be imagined on finding that his equipage has disappeared. Impatient to fulfil his appointment, he starts away on foot to see the pretty Phyllis to whom he is paying his court. Meanwhile the carriers have transported Zametto to Phyllis's beautiful residence. The beauty who is impatiently awaiting the Duke's visit, is stupefied at the unexpected apparition _ which alights from the sedan — an apparition so handsome and gallant that he soon gains favor with the charming lady. Poet and musician, Zametto wins the heart of his pretty hostess, and a delicious love scene takes place in the embowered garden, fragrant with flowers and foliage. Whilst thus agreeably engaged, the fiery old Duke surprises them, and seeks to run the musician through with his rapier; but Zametto disarms the enraged nobleman with his guitar, and the old coxcomb collapses on his seat. However, he will not yet acknowledge defeat, and writes laying his title and fortune at the feet of the fair Phyllis, who replies, "What matters fortune, when one has ■""uth and love. I love and shall marry my Minstrel."