Moving Picture News (Jul-Dec 1912)

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32 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS (Continued from page 29.) pictures and his disappointment at her treatment changes to mirth. He has an idea and whispers it to the old man, who howls and whispers it to his wife, who laughs as well. Tom leaves, carrying with him the scrap book of photographs. That night he and the fellows get together and dress themselves up to look like the college boys in the scrap book, exaggerating the types, of course. They cut their hats to be small, paint loud checks on old suits of clothes, cut themselves little canes from the bushes, and then, with cuffs on their trousers, big neckties and little hats, puffing cigarettes and enormous pipes, they all stand up and give a college yell. Tom leads the practice and is so successful in the rehearsal that the town constable comes to find out the cause of the noise. When they tell him, he enjoys the joke, too. There is a ball at the Lodge Hall, of the old town that night. So, the fellows start out to call for their sweethearts. Tom goes for Peggy, who has dressed in many frills and furbelows. She is disgusted at his costume and refuses to go. But her parents, who are delighted at the lesson to be taught her, make her go right along. At the dance hall the fellows all come in and get in the middle of the floor and give college cheers, etc., to the disgust of the girls, who cannot understand. They keep up this parody of college life until the girls are weeping with vexation and shame. Then they go on with their dancing. Tom shows Peggy home, and afterwards the boys give her a serenade in true college style, playing on mandolins, with barbershop harmonies, which are almost too much for them. Next day, Tom, with a more exaggerated costume, borrows an automobile and a chauffeur from a friend and comes to take Peggy for a ride. He has it filled with champagne bottles and pretends to be half-drunk already, assuring her that he is the village sport. He carries this on until at last she is disgusted, and begs him to be himself, whereupon he tells her the truth, and they end up with an engagement party, where all the girls are dressed in a sweet, simple manner, and the quiet fun and orderly behavior is substituted for the college type of it, in the "old town." SOLAX THE HATER OF "WOMEN (Dec. 11).— Bob Burton, a confirmed woman-hater, meets his chum Harry. On their way from New York Harry asks him to come to his home and introduces him to his sister. She teases the woman-hater, pins a rose in his buttonhole and gets him to sit down on a sofa beside her. Harry says joshingly, "You are not such a woman-hater after all." Harry arrives at the club and tells his friends what a joke he has played on Bob. Thinking of a scheme, he makes his friend still more uncomfortable. He writes a newspaper ad saying that Bob wants a wife. Harry inserts the ad in the newspaper and two of his chums go to Bob's house to watch this out to the end. The first arrival in answer to the ad is an old maid. Harry directs her to the house, while he and his friends arrange a board so that they can look into the window and watch the proceedings. Bob Burton is very much surprised when the old maid shows him the ad in the newspaper. She tries to make him marry her, but he protests. The old maid goes out and discovers the boys looking in the window, hits one of them with an umbrella, and they all fall over the bench. The second arrival is a tough girl, who gets into a wrangle with Bob, and he throws her out of the window and she falls on top of the boys, who are seated on the plank. She has her scraps with them and exits. The third arrival is a very buxom middleaged lady, who, on refusal of Bob to marry her, exits angrily, discovers Harry and chum outside, and gives Harry a thrashing. The fourth arrival is a young, eccentric girl, who has sworn that she will never marry a man unless she falls in love with him at sight. Bob Burton has read this eccentric remark in the paper, and has seen the picture, so, instead of refusing her he proposes and is accepted much to the chagrin of the boys outside. He exits from the house with the young lady and discovers the boys in the act of sneaking away. Finally he turns the tables on them. He sends Harry and Bob a note inviting them to his wedding. ' THE GIRL IN THE ARMCHAIR (Deo. 13). — Frank Watson was spending a month in New York, when one day he received a letter from his father requesting him to cpme home and also that a surprise awaited him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. On arriving home he went at once to the drawing-room, and there to his surprise, he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fireplace, seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him, but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend, who has just died, and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy, and has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears . what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are both introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew, who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked "Emergency Safe." He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has _ persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing-room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank, and later, in an impressive scene, Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to, love. ECLAIR THE BUSY BEE (Nov. 8).— This film most entertainingly depicts the picturesque industry of apiculture or bee cultivation. It shows men's ingenuity in furnishing and decoying the bee into a home of its own which is known as a hive or hive-house. The perfection of these hives is as essential as would be the building of a mansion for a multi-millionaire, for bees are workers and. like all real workers, they demand system and facility. So it is necessary to prepare the waxen foundation for the bee's home, or comb, to use the proper word, in a laboratory. All of which is shown in its various evolutions. Then are shown the bees at work in their hive, each striving in competition with the others in other separate cells. The Queen Bee is seen and described by careful subtitling. The artifice of bee swarming is carefully portrayed and then is shown the clever manipulations by which the honey is collected, still leaving the bee his house and structure, in which he will again faithfully perform the same labors in the season to come. On the same reel: FUNNICTIS' HUNTING EXPLOITS.— Fun nicus is hunting, w-hile at his home many of his friends await his return very impatiently. Suddenly he makes his appearance, his gamebag full — of newspapers. He tells his friends that he actually disdains small game, and to illustrate the story of his wondrous adventures turns the house topsy-turvy. His wife, alarmed, advises him to go to bed and calm his excited brain. Nightmares disturb his sleep. He finds himself in Africa, traveling on camel, accompanied by many guides. He arrives at an Arab's camp and jests with the Arabian maidens, who, for revenge, put out his fires in the forest the following night. The fires out, the wild beasts arrive, and he just has time to climb a tree, where he is out of reach of two big lions who wait for him at the foot of the tree. Our great hunter courageously risks his life by descending from the tree. He tries to strangle the lion but suddenly awakens and finds himself clutching at his wife's throat. THE BLACK SHEEP (Dec. 10).— Jim Brock, a reckless, self-indulgent but kindhearted youth, through the jealous machinations of his younger brother is driven from home by his father. The seriousness of the breach with ^ his parents — to whom he is really devoted — brings the young prodigal to his senses. His years of exile turn out to be his making. In the meantime, the younger brother, now absolute master of the situation at home, has thrown off all disguises and appears in his true character of the successful and undutiful son who is ashamed of his aged parents. At his hands, and at those of his equally domineering wife, the old folks learn, with all the bitterness of Lear himself, how sharper than a serpent's tooth is the ingratitude of a thankless child. Matters have approached their crisis when the black sheep returns unexpectedly. He has amassed immense wealth and with this potent weapon he resolves to fight his upstart brother and strike him where the blow may prove most effective. The two brothers meet on the floor of the Stock Exchange. ... It is a death grapple. . . . The ingrate, Henry, emerges from it crushed and ruined. . . _ . The very home where he has lorded it so insolently passes into the hands of the avenger. Jim loses no time in putting the house in order. THE POISONED POOL (Dec. 12).— Two young prospectors, finding that the old mine in which they had sunk their entire capital has long since yielded up its last handfull of pay-rock, set out together across the hills in search of new fields. One night in the flickering light of their campfire Rice discovers evidence in the pocket of his sleeping partner which convinces him that the latter has been successful in winning the love of a girl to whose hand he also had aspired. He masters his first passionate impulse to kill the man. By morning his jealousy has subsided into a dangerously smouldering hatred which is silent and bides its time. All unconscious of the events of the night and of the peril which now walks with him, Starret continues his quest for gold with the other. One day their supply of water fails them. In their search for a spring they wander far from their camp and are lost. When they finally come upon a sinister-looking pool in the wilderness, young Starret is on the point of collapse. From the incrustations about its rim Rice sees that the hole is reeking with arsenic. At first he struggles to keep the halfcrazed Starret away from it. The scene of the night beside the fire comes back to him. The man in him gives place to the demon — he flings his partner upon his face to drink of the noxious liquor. Providence, in the guise of a heavy downpour of rain, visits Starret. He had fortunately fainted before his lips could touch the poison. Reviving, he wanders back to the camp and, seeing that abandoned, he finds his way to Bess Austin's cabin. "There an encounter takes place, as a result of which Rice returns to the poisoned pool alone — to drink! RELIANCE JOE'S REWARD (Dec. 11). — Joe, a prisoner in the state penitentiary, is paroled with the proviso that he remain in his own state. Filled with joy he goes to the country, where he gets work as a farm hand. The farmer, a hard-headed old fellow, learning that Joe is an ex-convict, treats him cruelly. The boy's only comfort is Mary, the pretty eighteenyear-old doughter of the farmer. Her kindness wins Joe's heart and they are soon deeply in love. The farmer learning of this sends the boy away. But Mary refuses to let him go alone and they elope. They are married, and later Joe learns of some little homesteads to be had across the state border. So he breaks his parole to take his wife where she will have a home and some comfort. His monthly reports he sends to a friend in the other state and he mails them to the warden. The farmer learning what Joe has done, goes to the jail and tells. Joe is arrested and brought back. But when he tells the warden his story — how he tried to make a living and couldn't, how the farmer hounded him and tried to wreck his home and happiness, the warden hands him a life parole and sets him free to return home. And when he arrives there are two waiting to greet him, for a little baby has arrived while he was away. And as Joe gathers his wife and child into his arms he. shows them his parole and thanks God that he is at last a free man.