Moving Picture News (Jul-Dec 1912)

26 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Manufacturers* Synopses of Films Maguire to go in search of him and he arrives just as Billy is being led away by a policeman to jail, where he is later sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment. Not forgetting her kindness to him and wanting to spare the mother knowledge of Billy's arrest, "Red" Maguire sends her a message in Billy's name. "Got a job for four weeks. Had to go darn quick." When Billy is released "Red" puts money in his hand saying, "Bill your mother is a good kid. She thinks you've been working. Here's your wages for the time you've been away. Cut out the booze and get to work." Two years find Billy and little mother back on the farm for Billy did "cut out the booze," he went to work and earned the old home back again, to say nothing of a dear little wife and baby, all due to the great gratitude of "Red" Maguire, the Samaritan of "Coogan's Tenement.'' SATIN AND GINGHAM (Nov. 28).— May Prescott, daughter of wealthy parents, is somewhat of a coquette. Her brother meets a friend whom he knew at college. The friend is a clergyman. The sister is much impressed with him, and he falls in love. As his mother^ is out of the city, he takes advantage of their invitation and stays at their home for a short time. The favored suitor of the girl is a man of wealth; she does not love him, but thinks of his social standing. The clergyman is going to open their cottage for the return of his mother, and goes to the house, gets a woman to clean and arrange everything. He then asks May if she will go with him and see if the house is in order. She consents. When they reach the little home, they are both thirsty, and begin to prepare a little tea party. She has on a white dress, and fearing that she will get it soiled, Tom takes from a closet a long gingham apron and tells her to put it on. She does not like the idea much, but puts it on. The tea is served in the cozy living room, and after it is over, she tells him to unfasten the apron, calling it a badge of servitude. He is a little hurt, but takes it off. Later she goes with him in her machine, to meet his mother, a sweet old lady, who falls in love with the girl at once. They leave iVL'ay at her home, and her man drives the mother and son to the cottage. Later her engagement to the middle-aged man is announced, and at the supper that evening, she reads in the clergyman's eyes a greater promise for happiness than she sees in the wealth of the other. At the young man's home he tells his mother of his love, she is all tenderness to him, and tells him of the power of prayer, and sitting before the open fire he lays his head on the arm of her chair, and she sends a prayer for her son's happiness. At her home, the girl, attired in a lovely white satin gown, is at the table, the center of a merry party. Suddenly she rises from the table, pleads a headache, and leaves the room. In her own room, she takes ofE the engagement ring, writes a note saying that she cannot marry a man she does not love. At the home of the young man, his mother tells him to go and light the fire for tea; he does so and returns. May steals into the house, into the kitchen, sees the tea boiling, goes to the closet for the apron and puts it on. She takes the tray, and it is a very demure little person who serves the tea to the mother and son. i^ater the mother leaves tlie room; the girl standing before the fire in the apron makes a very lovely picture to the young man; but he remembers her dislike for the apron, goes to her and tries to unfasten it; she shakes her head and tells him that she wants to wear it all the time. She half turns, as he takes her in his arms. ECLAIR DICK'S WIFE.— W hat would you do if on returning from a six months' trip abroad you discovered that in order to save a fortune you had to be married within three days? Look up some of your old sweethearts and try to get one of them to marry you, wouldn't you? Well, that is just what Dick Graham did in the Eclair picture called "Dick's Wife,'' but, unfortunately, he found that all his old sweethearts were married and their husbands objected to being shoved to one side. As a last resort, he advertised, and, as luck would have it, his "ad" was read by pretty Grace Leno.x, whose mother was very ill; in fact, so ill that the doctor had said that only a change of climate would save her life. Dick's "ad" offered five hundred dollars to any young lady who would marry him, with the further stipulation that they separate immediately after the ceremony. Grace answered this "ad" under the name of Mary Smith, and in due time the marriage took place. Grace got the five hundred dollars, was enabled to take her mother away, and Dick saved his fortune. At their wedding, however, Grace wore a heavy veil, and Dick had a six months' growth of hair on his face, so that when they met some time afterward they failed to recognize each other, and it was not until they had fallen in love and were in despair over the fact that they were married that they discovered they were married to each other. How did they make this discovery? Why, it was very simple. The ring used at the marriage had been Dick's mother's, and when Grace lost it Dick found it, and by the inscription in it he understood. Now, the fact that the Eclair's Big Four — Miss Stewart, Miss Tennant, Mr. Francis and Mr. Johnstone — play the principal roles in this delightful little story, is a further guarantee of its success. A STUDY OF THE FLY (Dec, 8).— The last few years have aroused men of mighty^ ability to combat this seemingly innocent little pest. Scientific and medical researches made the horrible discovery that the house fly is a more deadly enemy to humanity at large than all wars, fatalities and plagues other than those which the fly itself carries. This film discovers the dangerous little insects swarming about the dead and decomposing body of a hog which has succumbed to cholera. There it is seen feasting on foul flesh and then crawling under this carrion body to lay its eggs. We are shown the generation of its larvs into life and the peculiar phenomenon which it has of liquefying the decaying flesh that it may obtain its nourishment. Under highly microscopic conditions, its dangerous physical parts, such as the hooks about the mouth and the respiratory cord at the other end, are clearly depicted. Then, as maggots, which is their common term, they are shown crawling into the decayed recesses of the flesh, there to remain till they break their shell and issue forth as flies. After all this repugnant filth, we see them fly and feast upon a cookie which a dear little child afterwards most innocently picks up and eats. On the same reel: THE MENDER, THE PIPE AND THE VASE. — Gontran has a model vrife. His wishes are hers and her wishes are his. "Ah! If I only had a good pipe." Oh! If I only had a pretty vase." She loves flowers and he liked to smoke a good pipe. _ The following day Mr. Gontran surprises his wife by giving her a vase, while she gives him a pipe. Later Mrs. Gontran complains that he is trying to smoke her out and she throws the pipe out of the window. Mr. Gontran finds that his wife is trying to crowd him out with her flower mania and throws the vase put of the window. Pipe and vase come crashing at the feet of a porcelain mender, who is passing on the street. He mends the broken articles. Mr. and Mrs. Gontran regret, however, their hasty action. The mender brings the mended pipe and vase up and be comes a medium for reconciliation. Mr. Gontran presents his wife with the vase and Mrs. Gontran offers her husband the pipe, and the mender has mended their shattered joys. GAUMONT THE DESTRUCTIVE DUELISTS (Nov. 26), — Calino, getting doughty in his young age, struts into his club and over a trifle, quarrels with a fellow member. A duel is inevitable. They arrive at the dueling grounds, armed to the hands and to the teeth with revolvers. The spirit is willing, but the aim is weak. Both duelists perforate everything in the neighborhood but each other. Their idea of a duel is of the "catch-as-catch-can kind, and they proceed to duel all over the immediate neighborhood. Calino, considering it advantageous to be at the head of the procession, takes the lead with the assistance of his two very good legs. In the characteristic French fashion they bungle into all sorts of places, and, like the bull in the china shop, overturn crockery, people and card tables, table d'hote meals and their own reputations for courage. Calino's opponent is a good marathon racer and keeps right on after him, and no livelier game of "follow my master" was ever played. Their course takes them into the river and finally ends with both very much battered and bruised, but with their honors satisfied to the hilt. In jail they proceed to smile and make up. FOUR HEARTS THAT BEAT AS TWO (Nov. 28). — Pearl, on the way home from school for a holiday, discovers that the young man in the railroad car is quite to her fancy. To their profound joy, they both discover that they are bound for the same station. They agree that they shall meet again and agree to it so manifestly that Pearl's man-servant is most highly shocked at the unconventionality. Pearl, like other well-regulated girls, has a father. Much to the joy of all concerned, the young man of her railroad acquaintance pops on the scene with his mother, who seems to be an inamorita of Pearl's father. The young couple quickly find that they are not alone in their billings and cooings and that their elders are conducting a little courtship of their own. Due to an unfortunate collision of the two fond couples there is a halt in the passion program of the elder couple and Pearl's father writes to Fred's mother saying that all is over between them because he thinks it his duty to give attention to his daughter and not go entering into double harness again. The younger generation of this conjugal quartette disbelieve in this pre-nuptial divorce idea of their parents, and, with diplomacy worthy of the foreign corps, they reunite their elders, and Pearl gallantly proposes for her bashful father. Whereupon all retire to a jeweler's shop and get a wholesale price on wedding rings. LUBIN THE SAMARITAN OF COOGAN'S TENEMENT (Nov. 26). — The little house so dear to Billy and his mother is lost to them through foreclosure. With a manly heart he cheers her by telling her to come with him to the city, where he will "make his fortune" and buy her another and better home. Their straitened circumstances force them to take quarters in a tenement section inhabited by gangsters. During one of Billy's trips from home in search of employment, the mother hears sounds of someone falling, and, rushing into the dingy hallway, arrives just in time to see two gangsters beating up another. Red Maguire. With the assistance of a young girl of the tenements, the little mother helps the injured man to her own apartments, where she bathes the blood from his face and bandages his wounds. The heart of the gangster is touched by the mother's kindness to him and he vows never to forget her. Returning home one evening Billy falls in with the gangsters and goes to the docks, where drinking and gambling are indulged in. Through intimidation Billy is led to drink, and before he knows is helpless. 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