Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 25 seekers and is invited to ride with them. Attracted by the beauty of the daughter of the old colonist, Harbison accepts their kind invitation and joins them. When evening comes they stop to camp. In tiie morning the gypsies have overtaken them and the daughter seeing Harbison among the homeseekers and attentive to the young girl, her jealousy is aroused and the mother and daughter plan to cause them trouble. Knowing the hiding place of a number of outlaws in this vicinity, the gypsies plan to seek them and obtain their assistance in the carrying out of their revenge. The outlaws have planned a daring hold-up of the stage and while the gypsies are hurrying to locate them the robbery is committed. The stage goes on its way and along the road meets the homeseekers wagon. They tell of the incident, and the gypsies overhear the conversation. They have lingered nearby but now hurry to find the outlaws. They find them and tell them if they will take the trouble to rob the wagon the colonists will find many treasures contained therein. The outlaws advance on the travelers' wagon and fire upon the persons riding in same, one of the first shots wounding the old father. The young daughter and the prospector are left to fight the outlaws but they are worsted in the fight. The two escape with one of the horses of the outlaws and in the running fight win against the outlaw who gave pursuit. The stage returns with a load of miners who give battle to the remaining outlaws and succeed in overcoming them.. The young prospector and his new found friend reach the town of Success almost exhausted but nearer to each other because of their experience as travelers of the road. RELIANCE TWICKENHAM FERRY (Sept. 15).— Madame Albany, a beautiful and petted opera singer, contracts to sing the old ballad "Twickenham Ferry" for Phonograph Company for $1,000. The old song awakens memories of her youth and she decides to run away from the city and speiid a few peaceful weeks in the country. She arrives at a little wayside station, and as she stands irresolute, not knowing which way to turn, a handsome country lad passes. She asks him if he can tell her where to board. He offers to take her across the river in his boat. She accepts his offer. In the drifting boat she sings a verse from "Twickenham Ferry" and the beauty of her voice as well as her lovely face, causes the boy to fall in love with her. He deserts his pretty country sweetheart and spends most of his time rowing with the singer. She thinks him different from the other men she has known, and before long she returns his love. His little sweetheart learns who the singer is, and going to her pleads with her to give her back the boy. Madame laughs until she notices a little ring the girl wears. Then her heart softens and she promises to do what is right. She returns to the city leaving only a card of good-bye to the boy. He is heartbroken. One day he hears "Twickenham Ferry" on a phonograph, and recognizes his beloved's voice. He learns that she is Madame Albany. He hurries to the city to find her in her dressing room. When he professes his love for her, she realizes that to love her will be his ruin. She pretends to love her manager; smokes a cigarette, and so disgusts the boy that he leaves her to return to the girl who is waiting for him. THE DISGUISE (Sept. 17).— The house next to the Darrows' is rented to a crippled gentleman, Jim Craven, his daughter, Doris Leath, and his attendant, Corless. (graven is entirely helpless, never leaving his wheel-chair. Nancy Darrow and her new neighbors become friends. Nancy falls in love with pretty Doris Leath. The girls become inseparable. Nancy has two brothers, one, Dick, a mere boy, the other John, connected with the banking business. Nancy gives a party in honor of Doris. Several valuables are taken during the dance from the dressing room. The mystery regard ing the theft is not solved. The Darrows are embarrassed and chagrined, but helpless. John Darrow comes home from the city, meets Doris, and the two fall deeply in love. John asks her hand in marriage. The two are betrothed. Some time later, after John has returned to the city, Doris is spending the evening with Nancy. The girls are on the porch with Dick. Doris asks to go in for a drink. Dick offers to get the drink, but Doris, who is like one of the family, insists upon waiting upon herself. She remains so long indoors that the brother and sister remark upon it. Finally she returns to the veranda. 'The next morning, Nancy finds her jewels missing. Nancy had been displaying the jewels to Doris, and so cannot help suspecting her. She takes occasion to refer pointedly to the jewels. Doris, bitterly hurt and humiliated, goes home and the friendship ends. John stops over night on his way to New York — has a large sum of money to transfer to another bank. Stopping in Doris' house on his way home, she explains the trouble between herself and Nancy. John is very angry that his sweetheart is suspected of theft. Craven and Corless see John enter and also notice that he carefully guards the satchel he carries. The satchel contains the money. That same night, Doris unable to sleep, kneels by her open window and hears stealthy steps below in the shrubbery. Throwing a black wrap over her dressing gown, she steals out. A burglar is placing a ladder below the second story window, next door, where John sleeps. John is still up, a light shines through the wide open window. The burglar moves off to wait until John retires. Doris, never hesitating a minute, thinking only of John's impending danger, mounts the ladder and enters his room. John, stunned, sees her enter. Half fainting she tells him all. Hiding her behind a screen and getting his revolver he puts out the light and waits. The burglar returns, finds the house in darkness, and concludes that John has retired, climbs the ladder and enters. His flash may be seen darting about, before he locates the satchel on the table. At the same moment the lights are turned on. John shoots the fellow, who staggers toward the window, turns and his mask falls off. The burglar is Craven, Doris' stepfather, a very clever criminal. He is captured and by the note found upon him, Corless is also caught in the nick of time and the various jewels are recovered. Doris is cleared of all blame. All ends happily. PATHE RATHE 'S WEEKLY (Sept. 15). MRS. MORTON'S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 16). — The party in celebration of the birthday of Mrs. Morton brought the leading lights of the social world to the Mortons mansion and the young matron enjoyed the day immensely, little knowing the grief that was to follow. Her husband lost his fortune when the bottom fell out of the cotton market, but he said nothing to her? That night he planned to recuperate his loss with a robbery ingeniously devised, but the hand of fate intervened and he paid the penalty for his crime. THE MERRIL MURDER MYSTERY (Sept. 17). — The evidence pointed clearly to Dan Merrill as the murderer of his uncle; at least the circumstantial evidence did. But Dan's personal friend. Detective Byrnes, could not believe him guilty. Byrnes set to work to clear the boy and, starting with the finding of a tiny diamond chip, succeeded in fastening the crime where it belonged, after some strikingly novel adventures. It's a real detective story. TOAD TRAITS (Sept. 18).— A comprehensive study of the toad family is conducted in this film, which was made under the direction of Dr. Ditmars, the curator of reptiles in the New York Zoo. The film shows and explains the characteristics of the entire species, the spacefoot toad, poisonous toads, the Afri can water toad and others too numerous to catalogue but of surprising interest to everyone. On the same reel: HOT SPRINGS AND GEYSERS OF NEW ZEALAND. — New Zealand is noted, among other things, for the number of its geysers and hot springs. Many of them are now inactive. The film shows boilimg hot springs within three feet of streams of cold water. Other interesting views are those of Pigeon Rock geyser, which shoots every twelve minutes with absolute regularity, and numerous other geysers in eruption. PATHE'S WEEKLY (Sept. 18). DR. TURNER TURNS THE TABLES (Sept. 19). — When Dr. Turner went away for his annual month's vacation, he left Dr. Williamson in charge of his practice. Now Dr. Williamson got a hurry call from his sweetheart, an actress, that she and her fellowthespians were stranded. He promptly went to the rescue of his girl and her friends and brought them back to Dr. Turner's home, where they made themselves comfortable. Dr. Turner was not comfortable at his vacation resort, so he came home before his time had expired and caught the merrymakers unawares. Dr. Williamson, to avoid discovery, made patients of them all. Dr. Turner soon found out that the occupants of his house were not ill at all and, believe us, he got square. On the same reel: THE HARNESSED FALLS OF THE NORTHWEST. — An interesting study, beautiful to behold, of the waterfalls of the Northwest, which are used to develop electric power sufficient to supply the needs of the surrounding country. HER BRAVE RESCUER (Sept. 20).— Senor Luis Soto loved Juanita Acosta ardently until he met Mabel Berry, a young American girl, whose life he saved when her horse ran away. Straightway Luis forgot Juanita. But Juanita was not so easily to be put aside. Her heart raged and her temper rose at the insult and she determined to be avenged. One day she found her brave lover assisting the beautiful Mabel across a wooden bridge. Juanita demanded of Mabel the reason for the theft of her lover. Luis interposed an objection to the question and Juanita promptly pushed him overboard. That was quite enough for Mabel and she left the scene never to return. Juanita kept Luis in the water and would not let him land until he promised never to offend her again. GAUMONT THE FAITHFUL SERVITOR (Sept. 15).— . Photographed amidst the majestic mountains and the fertile valleys of lovely Southern California, with the very quintessence of local color so thoroughly intermingled with the story that the spectator holds his breath and can only gasp, "How realistic!" This romance of life in the regions of California's golden strands holds us enthralled from the time the narrative commences until the very last inches of film are unwound in showing the apotheosis of self sacrifice. Machuda is an Indian, a servitor, almost slave, who toils day and night in the garden of his master, the proud Senor Gabora, a specimen of the Spanish noble often to be met with in beauteous Lower California. Machuda, in his poor, slow method of thinking, reckons he belongs body and soul to the Gabora family. Did not the Senor and his lovely daughter, Esmeralda, discover his bruised and naked body at the bottom of the cliff whence he had been thrown by his tribe as a pimishment for warning some American emigrants of the tribe's intention to attack them? Did they not tend his wounds, feed his body, and exhibit the first signs of tenderness he had ever known? Henceforth the Indian's life is theirs, and theirs alone. "Oh, let poor Machuda have FREE SLIDES! 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