Moving Picture News (Jan-Jun 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 27 is safe, but the bold bad kidnapper is secure in a cell. Followed by the ladies. May hurries to the station, where the baby is placed in her arms. The ladies demand to see the kidnapper. Poor Dick is dragged out of his cell and at once all the ladies angrily fall upon him tooth and nail. May, happening to look up a second from the baby, sees who it is, and rushes to his defence. This is my husband. Dick is released and the pair start off with their baby, while the captain rates the boop cop, and the ladies look at one another in disgust because there was no scandal in town after all. On the same reel. THAT CATCHY RAGTIME DANCE.— Jim brings a piece of popular ragtime music down home to the village, and while walking along the street with his sweetheart Sue, he teaches her the song, with the result that both are soon swaying to the syncopated melody. A group of old maids see them and recognize the much talked of "turkey trot." They rush to the sheriff and have the young pair arrested for dancing on the street. The case comes up for trial and Jim's lawyer, who has sent to the city for numerous copies of the song, distribute them to the judge and jury. Then he calls in a band of colored banjo players and they strum the popular melody so feelingly that judge, jury and spectators are all soon dancing to the strains. The jury "turkey trots" out and returns very soon in like fashion to render a verdict of "not guilty," and this verdict is echoed by all in the courtroom. MAJESTIC HARRY'S LESSON (Jan. 19).— Harry, a lazy, good-looking chap, is the idol of his mother's heart. She pets and pampers him until his father is disgusted. Harry works in his dad's office, that is to say, he spends a few hours there every day. When the girls are all wild about Harry and when a crowd of them arrive for tea, they insist that mother call up the office and have Harry sent home. Father is furious, but obeying the habit of years, he sends the boy home to be adored and fussed over by the ladies. And the greatest adorer of all is Harry's mother. Then, one day, Isabel comes to pay them a visit. She is full of life and energy, and Harry's languid ways amuses her. When he tries to flirt with her she chases him upstairs for her gloves and puts him very properly in his place. Finding her a great novelty, as she refuses to adore him, he falls in love with her and proposes. Realizing she can make something out of the insolent boy, she accepts him, providing that he earn a living for them both and remain no longer dependent upon his father. Harry promises and they are married. Then all is very different. Harry rises at seven and prepares the breakfast coffee for Isab.el. After breakfast he goes to the office in the cars, for taxis are now a thing unknown. At the office he works as hard as any clerk to please his father and to please Isabel. He cooks the meals and does all the work, but through it all he is happier than ever before. His mother moans a bit over her boy's fate, but is forced to see the improvement in him. After a talk with father, Isabel hires a maid. Then, for the first time, she attends a bit to her husband's comfort. For she knows he has learned his lesson and that things will all run smoothly. THE CABBY AND THE DEMON (Jan. 21). — Jack and his sweetheart Mabel receive invitations to a masque ball. Mabel decides to dress in Pierrott's costume. Jack, to surprise Mabel, decides upon a novel and unusual makeup— getting his idea from a hansom cabby whom he hails to take him home. The night of the ball Mabel is escorted by a friend masqued as Mephisto, for Jack has been detained at the office. Jack arrives made up exactly as the cabby, who arrives later with another Mephisto, who having imbibed freely, refuses to pay cabby his fare. Cabby follows the Mephisto into the ballroom, and various complications occur because of the fact that two cabbies and two Mephistos are present at the festivities. RELIANCE THE OPEN ROAD (Jan. 22).— Tom, the son of a millionaire, marries Gladys de Vere, a chorus girl. His father hearing of this, disowns the boy. Learning that her husband will be penniless, Gladys soon leaves him. Tom, cast off by father and wife, has nowhere to go and listens to the lure of the open road. Answering its call he becomes a tramp. Before long the constant walking in the bracing air makes a new man out of the dissipated youth. He gets a new lease on life and finds the open road productive of much that is good. He meets a traveling "Uncle Tom" show and they give him a job pasting billboards. He falls in love with Lmette, a pretty actress, thereby incurring the enmity of Joe Briggs, an actor. Joe and Tom come to blows, and in this fight Tom discovers the good that the open road worked in his heretofore feeble muscles, but he knocks the actor out with no difficulty at all, thus winning the right to pay court to Linette. But as Tom looks into the trusting face of the girl whom he knows returns his love, he remembers the other woman to whom he gave his name, and he knows he has no right to make love to this girl. A detective, hired by Tom's father, follows the show and tells the boy that his father wants him back. When Tom asks for Gladys he hears that she was never really his wife as she had a husband living when she married him. Tom, in delight at his freedom, rushes to Linette and wins her consent to their immediate marriage. But when his father learns that his son has again married an actress, he refuses to receive him. Tom and Linette come to the city hoping to get work, and while there, read in the papers that the old man is very ill and that only the transfusion of blood from some healthy man can save him. Tom volunteers and readily passes the doctor's examination. His father is saved, and when Tom is wheeled in and the old man hears the truth, he becomes reconciled to his son and to Linette. THE MASQUERADERS (Jan. 25).— Harry Parson, temporarily embarrassed by some bad stock speculations, loves rich Dolly Gray, and hates the sheriff and a bunch of subpoena servers who are on his trail. Dolly is made miserable by an impetuous French fortune hunter, Count Briebert, whose suit is favored by Dolly's mother. Mrs. Gray, to clinch the title, invites him to a dance that night, to which Harry is invited by Dolly's brother Dan. Harry is almost captured by the creditors and the sheriff, who surround the house where the party is given. To escape arrest, he conceives the idea of masquerading in some of Dolly's clothes. Dan, her brother, thinks it is a great lark, and helps him dress. Dolly, so annoyed by the attentions of the Count Briebert, asks her brother Dan for advice. He has just finished with Harry's toilet, and he suggests that the girl dress up in some clothes, which he can produce, as a boy, attend the dance at the Country Club that night, and play a trick on the count. Dolly agrees without telling Harry of the stunt. Dan takes his friend's dress suit and slips it to his sister. When they all leave the house for the dance that night, Mrs. Gray misses Dolly, but Dan tells her he will bring her. Dan takes Harry, dressed in girl's clothes, to the dance, where he is introduced as a visitor, and makes an immense impression with the other fellows. Dan returns for his sister and, as he is taking her down to the taxicab, she is arrested by the sheriff for debt, etc. Her pockets are searched and show the card case and some letters of Harry Parson's, and the sheriff thinks his proof is perfect. Before he can search further, Dan manages to get him into the auto, ties his hands, and they steal the sheriff, hurry to the dance and get on the inside. The sheriff is seen later working his way loose (in flash) and escaping from the stable where he has been imprisoned. He sneaks out for assistance. At the dance the pretended boy has great fun with the count, insults him, challenges him and fights a duel, proving that the count is a coward and a sneak. Meanwhile Harry_ is raising old nick with his pretended femininity and shocks the girls by dancing turkey trots and smoking cigarettes as he waltzes. The count tries to make love to him and he is "walloped" by Harry just as Dolly comes in and recognizes the supposed girl, and then tells about the_ adventure with the sheriff. While the dance is going on, and complications setting in, Harry's lawyer follows to the Country Club to bring him the settlement due him, to square his finances. He is happy now, but in order to have some fun, proposes that they elope then and there and surprise the old folks. Dolly agrees, and they climb into a racing car, whiz to the minister and are married in their costumes, to the minister's bewilderment. There they change clothes in a comic situation. Hurrying back to the dance they are surrounded by the sheriff and his men. Walking out on the dance floor, where the sheriff and a posse are holding every one up at the pistol point, Harry pays his debts, proves his identity, and tells the joke;_the sheriff calls off his posse and everyone is happy except the count, when the marriage is announced. GREAT NORTHERN JOHN STEALS A FURLOUGH.— John is an enlisted soldier and is such in name only. The dull routine of life in the barracks gets on his nerves and his thoughts revert to the old home life and the sweetheart that he had left behind when he was obliged to enter the service of his country. While he is brooding over his sad fate he receives a note from his lady love informing him that she has arrived in town and will meet him in a music hall and summer garden close to the barracks. John is elated to such an extent that he fails to communicate with the lieutenant, who is his immediate superior, and he proceeds to leave the barracks through a window after the other soldiers have retired to slumber. The lieutenant, however, is also an admirer of John's sweetheart and follows him to the place of meeting. The dear girl and John are having a most enjoyable time over their steins when the lieutenant is espied in the offing. John makes a hasty disappearance under the table at which he has been seated, and the lieutenant takes the chair that he had been occupying a few moments before. John is obliged to be an unwilling listener to the love-making of the lieutenant, and finally, in desperation, he decides to go back to the barracks The lieutenant again trails him and places him under arrest on a charge of desertion. John is placed in a cell and is having visions of life imprisonment when his sweetheart enters the office of the lieutenant and demands that John be released, otherwise she will inform the colonel of the former's visit to the summer garden. The latter is obliged, for self-protection, to release the valiant John, and the latter is granted a furlough for a few hours, instead of being obliged to steal it. PATHE'S WEEKLY, No. 4 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— Mayor Rolph, accompanied by his wife and the supervisors of San Francisco, rides the length of the line on the first municipal trolley operated in this city. NEW YORK, N, Y,— The body of the late Ambassador Reid is brought to America on H. M. S. Natal of the British Navy, and is buried from the Cathedral of St. John the Dvine. STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN The King and Queen attend the unveiling of the statue raised to the memory of Queen Christiania's bravery in the siege of Stockholm in 1520. HUNTINGTON, W. VA.— A. C. & O. freight plunges into the river, carrying away a span of the Wyandotte bridge and killing seven men. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.— The Rosarians, a society of rose culturists, plant the rose bushes which are destined to bloom during the exposition. GEORGETOWN, D. C— A shameful act! The home of Francis Scott Key . the author of the "Star Spangled Banner," is being destroyed because there was not sufficient public interest manifested to raise enough money to save it as a memorial. BEAUFORT, N. C. — The steamship Alcazar, from Trinidad, is driven aground in a ninety mile gale off Point Lookout Lighthouse. PASADENA, CAL, — The Rose festival is more elaborate this year than ever and thousands visit the city to witness the fete. ItalaQmepies -TWO ON EVERY REEL EVERY (WNI7AY NEW POSTERS THAT PULL (ASK ANY exchange) Itala FTlm Co. of"7\m erica COLUMBIA THEATRE., N .Y.