Moving Picture News (Jul-Dec 1912)

26 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Manufacturers' Synopses of Films and, giving it to the sheriff, she asks now, that the money is returned, they pursue her husband no longer. In the meantime the posse has overtaken the outlaw and on his refusal to surrender, they fire and he is dangerously wounded. They hurry him back to the hut where the sight of the sheriff and his wife infuriates him. Straining at his captors to release himself, he completes the work the bullet began and falls dying at their feet. The posse file away while the sheriff extends the hand of sympathy and succor to the bereaved woman. THE WOULD-BE HEIR (Nov. 21).— Alone in the world with the exception of her worthless cousin, who lived from her bounty and hoped some day to inherit her possessions, Ethel Rivers had learned to love her foreman, Jack Mason, and she was very happy. Her cousin determines to estrange the couple as Ethel's marriage would conflict with his plan to secure possession of her ranch. He confers with his servant and together they evolve a plot. He is to simulate an injury and the servant is to go to Ethel for succor. Then the servant is to entice the foreman to a convenient spot to witness his sweetheart's perfidy, the cousin endeavoring to make the scene as lover-like as possible, thus aYousing Jack's anger. When the servant arrives at the ranch with the washing she simulates great excitement and tells Ethel that her cousin has broken his leg. Ethel hurries to her cousin to help him and the servant seeks the foreman and tells him that his sweetheart is false. He becomes very angry, but when she offers proof he agrees to go with her. The scene she brings him to witness sends a pang of jealousy through him and, returning to his room, he secures his belongings and prepares to leave the ranch. He bids good-bye to the boys but ignores his sweetheart, who, at a loss to understand his changed attitude toward her, gives way to uncontrolled weeping. As he passes the hut of the servant he is startled by hearing his name mentioned and that of his sweetheart. The plotters are talking over the success of their plans, unconscious of the fact that they are being overheard. Jack rushes at them and assaulting the worthless cousin, refrains from striking the servant only because of her sex. He then returns to his sweetheart and, after explanations, joy again reigns supreme in the hearts of the lovers. PUNCH OH! YOU BABY (Nov. 21).— Tom Long and Billy Short are two friends in hard luck. Billy is so very small that Tom conceives the idea of dressing him in baby's clothes and leaving him on the doorstep of a handsome residence, so that he will be taken into the bosom of a wealthy family, where he will be in a position to at least get enough to eat to relieve their immediate healthy appetites. Billy is left upon llrs. Love's doorstep, where he is found and received with joy by the family. He has a hard time keeping from making love to the maid, and at night admits Tom to the house and entertains him in lavish style with the aid of ilr. Love's cigars and champagne. The maid takes Billy out for an airing in the baby carriage. She meets her sweetheart and Billy has a hard time controlling his jeolousy, especially Avhen the Frenchman takes a violent dislike to the baby (?). Finally Billy forgets himself and starts a fight which proves him to be the most remarkable baby on record. On the same reel: POOR FINNEY. — Finny is a boob who loves GAUMONT OLGA. THE ADVENTURESS (Nov. 21). — Baron De Tournay, a musician and composer, tetroths his daughter Delicia to the Chevalier De Jlaison. He then attends a party at which the celebrated singer, Olga Pavlova is to sign. The old man becomes infatuated with her and invites her to spend a few days at his country home. His daughter intuitively feels that the Countess is an adventuress and her misgivings are justified when the entrapped father asks the Countess to marry him. Delicia, in sorrow that her dead mother's nlace should be filled by such a creature, has her fiance instigate inquiry into the past of the diva. He obtains a report from the police which tells of the scandalous and criminal actions of the singer in Vienna, Moscow and Budapest and that she had several times been in prison for felonies. Using this letter as a club he tries to frighten the adventuress into abandoning her scheme of marrying the Baron and incidentally his money. The adventuress, by a ruse, gives the Baron the idea that the young man is infatuated with her and that he has tried to induce her to elope with him. _ She has told the young man that she will submit to his demands under penalty of disclosure. She meets the Chevalier at the rendezvous ostensibly confirming the story she told of his perfidy to the Baron. She gallops away with the Chevalier and later they enter a boat to row to the far side of the river from whence s'le was to leave the neighborhood forever. As they get out upon the stream, the Chevalier, after many pleadings, unwisely gives her the incriminating paper. With the document now in her hands, the Countess suddenly pushes the Chevalier overboard and as he tries to clamber into the boat strikes him upon the head with an oar. She then goes back to the shore, where the Baron awaits her, believing the Chevalier to have been drowned. She explains her actions to the Baron by saying that she was compelled to so act to defend her honor. The Chevalier, however, not to be so easily killed, reaches the shore, mounts his horse, still grazing on the bank, and pursues the attempted murderess and her dupe. He drags the woman from her horse and as she lays partlv stunned, he then has to combat the frenzied Baron. He persuades the latter, however, to allow him to draw from the bodice of the woman, where she had concealed it. the police report, which he shows to the astounded nobleman, who then, realizing that he had escaped a great peril, orders the adventuress from his sight. . A BURGLAR BALKED (Nov. 26).— Jiminie, in a restless mood, wants to accompany his mother on a journey, but the stern parent deems it best for him to serve a term in school on a diet of readin', writin' and 'rithmetic. Jimmie waxes orful naughty and insists on going along to chaperon mother. Accordingly he jumps into her trunk, which she has obligingly left open for him. The trunk is locked and sealed and goes on its baggage way. At the end of the day the trunk is trundled to a hotel and by an error is put into the room of a hotel thief, which is on the same floor with the room of his mother. When the trunk is opened Jimmie looks over the situation and decides that he will foil the villain. He becomes quite opinionated on the subject. When the thief goes on an expedition into Jimmie's mother's room and returns with the family jewels, in which Jimmie knows his mother has a stronc interest. The thief lays his revolver where Jimmy can jump quickly out and grasp it and the burglar turns about to find the diminutive apprehender pointing the sixshooter at the thief's liver. Jimmie, still cohering the thief w-ith the revolver, summons a'd and attendants rush in and heroically grappl" with the burglar. Jimmie's mother, attractel by the noise, enters the room and finding her son is about to administer corporal punishment, when she finds her jewels where the burglar had left them on the chair. Accord nMy she metaphorically kills the fatted calf ii Timmie's honor and falls (not jumps) on her young honeful's neck. On the same reel: A GALLOP AROUND GALVESTON.— This film shows interesting features of the purlieus of this gulf city with semi-tropical vegetation, the ancient Spanish architecture of some of its buildings and many other interesting features. RELIANCE THE BROTHER OF THE "BAT" (Nov. 30), — Marbray Lewis is a young millionaire clubman who has led a very selfish life. He falls in love with Alice Graham, but she refuses to marry him until he has done something for somebody else beside himself. She suggests he join the "Big Brother" movement and become brother to the "Bat," a small boy who that day was arrested for trying to steal her purse. Marbray agrees and the "Bat" is paroled in his care. The boy has no use for his new guardian and thinks he is a dude until he sees him box. Becoming interested he suggests a new training. The Bat, very much in earnest, is permitted to act as Marbray's trainer. ' LTnder his instructions the young lu.xury-loving millionaire is not permitted to eat anything he likes, he is deprived of cigarettes and made to take cold baths and run for miles. He gets no sympathy from .'Vlice, who approves of the training. Just when the "Bat" is becoming fond of his new brother, his real brother, a Bowery prize fighter, known as the "Slugger," finds him and drags him back to the old life. The "Slugger" and his pals decide to have the "Bat" admit them to Marbray's home so that they may rob it. Once inside the boy warns Marbray, who is giving a dinner party. The "Bat" pleads for his brother and the young millionaire tells him to go, but the "Slugger" announces he will take the "Bat" with him. Marbray suggests that they fight for the boy. The "Slugger" laughs at the idea, but agrees. Starting out confident of his ability to knock out the "dude." he soon finds he has a foeman worthy of his steel. Despite his best efforts Marbray gets the best of him and. true to his promise, the "Slugger" leaves the boy with Marbray. When Alice rushes in with the other guests, alarmed at the noise, she finds him there with a black eye, and learns the whole story. Satisfied that Marbray is at last the man she would have him, she accepts his heart and hand. AMERICAN THE THIEF'S WIFE (Nov. 18).— The call of nature amid primal surroundings has always been a theme for romancers to dwell upon as one of happiness, but sordidness can detract from even all of nature's beauties. Left alone, except for the occasions when her husband returns to maltreat and abuse her, Effie Neville's cup of bitterness w-as not full until one day he dashed into their rude hut and, hastily concealing something within the house, said to her with a curse, "If anyone asks for me. tell them I ain't *got back yet." He hurries away and is soon lost to view in the underbrush. After he has gone she enters the shack and finds what her husband has secreted — a bag of gold. The realization dawns upon her that her husband is a thief as well as a brute, and the discovery is a bitter one. Soon the sheriff's posse arrives, hut the loyal wife, obeying the injunction of her husband, tells them he has not yet returned. However, the sharp eyes of the sheriff have noted the track of a man, both coming and going from the house, and, leading his posse away, the man-hunt is on. Following the track they soon come into the vicinity of the outlaw, who, by a circuitous route, regains his house and locks himself within. The posse discover the ruse and attack the house until the sheriff orders them to cease firing from fear of injuring the woman. Leaving their horses they attempt to rush the house, when the outlaw, firing from an upner window, severely wounds the sheriff. Sliding down from the loft as the posse enter the door, the outlaw secures the sheriff's horse and hurries away. The Dosse follow him, while the outlaw's wife busies herself in binding up the sheriff's wounds. Something about the gentleness of her touches the heart of the rugged man and he determines to extend to her every protection. The poor wife secures the bag of gold H9RR9ROFSIN ONE I^EEL SPECIALLITHOS AND THREE SHEETS ASK FOR IT la wrltlnr to advertUers please mention "MOVING PICTURE NEWB"