Moving Picture News (Jul-Oct 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS 25 to clean up the streets. Nell and Bessie are tiiosen to carry the message. The Mayor and the Chief of Police are deeply engrossed in a discussion of politics when the girls arrive. The Mayor refuses to do arything to the streets and denounces the Club as a lot of busybodies. The Chief of Police intercedes in behalf of the Club, which gives rise to a quarrel, the Chief resigns and vows to get even. The Club is so indignant at the treatment given their activities that they resolve to put a candidate in the field against the Mayor at the coming election. Mrs. Carter, the mother of Nell and Bessie, is named for the place. She launches her campaign in glorious style and all looks promising when the Mayor expresses a change of policy and enters into the campaign with such a zest as to cause his supporters to rally to his aid. The outlook for the election of Mrs. Carter is very bleak and dreary to all, including Mrs. Carter. Not so the girls. They send their engagement rings to Tom and Dick, the two young men to whom they are engaged, and who are employed in the Mayor's office, with a letter saying that they will not wear them again until mother is elected mayor. The boys get busy, solicit votes, canvass, and spend money, but the opposition is too strong, and they are at their wits' end when the lex-Chief of Police, anxious to be revenged on the Mayor, shows them how they can win. Acting under his instructions they offer to bet two dollars to one that Mrs. Carter will be elected. They have no trouble in placing bets with almost every voter on the other side. Election day comes, and every maii that made a bet finds his vote challenged and himself disfranchised for violation of the law against betting on elections. Mrs. Carter wins in a walk. THE FLIET AND THE BANDIT (Sept. 29), — ^lone, a Spanish girl, is deemed and recognized among her circle of friends a heartless flirt. One afternoon, while seated at the edge of a pond in her father's garden, she is startled by the reflection of a face in the water. It is the face of "Bandit Bob," a law-breaking, fearless fellow, who holds the whole community in suspense as to what his next move will be. She cannot resist the temptation to try her powers in this new conquest, and proceeds to flirt with him. She next encounters "Bandit Bob" in the woods, in what is known as his hills, where she has just experienced the satisfaction of crushing another heart thrown at her feet. He displays the primitive instinct by carrying her off to his home on the hill and there making her his wife, while she is still bewildered at having found a personality which expected submission instead of submitting. Later a love-making scene follows and the story closes with the sheriff and "Bandit Bob" at peace and the little cabin blessed with the soul of the flirt come to light in her baby. SELIG THE POLICEMAN AND THE BABY (Sept. 26). — Patrolman Jim Mulvihill, large of frame and mighty of heart, has a four months' old baby that rules him with the weapon of a cry. He simply hates to leave her cradle, but the clock points to the time he should he reporting, and he finally makes his escape by crawling out of the door. He reports at the station and goes on his "beat," which is in the suburban districts. Here he is approached by a mounted policeman, who gives him other orders, transferring him at once to the downtown district. The scene shifts to a department store with two trained nurses in attendance at the department where babies are checked free of charge. There appears to be an odd baby that someone has deserted, which sleeps on peacefully, thus causing much excitement in the department. Patrolman Mulvihill is summoned and ordered to wheel the baby through the streets to the station house. He, however. prefers to carry the infant. As he turns the corner he observes Brown, a flashily-dressed old gentleman, and "Dipper," the notorious pickpocket, together with IS'ugent, commissioner of police whom he does not know, as he is dressed in civilian attire. The latter pats the big policeman on the back as hepasses into the car. The pickpocket immediately begins to work on the man of wealth and Mulvihill observes it. He asks Nugent to take the child while he goes after the pair. Brown, who has been robbed, also follows the "dip" into the street. Mulvihill turns the thief over to a policeman, gets the baby back that was confided to his care, and starts on his way toward the station. He is interrupted by a row in a tough saloon and, burdened by the baby, he puts it in a taxicab in front while he goes in to arrest the malcontents who are shooting up the place. "Wabash Dave," the chief offender, rushes by Mulvihill, jumps in the taxicab and orders the driver at the point of his pistol "to get a move on." The officer comes back, finds the taxicab and baby gone, commandeers another touring car and starts on the chase. He eventually captures the criminal, handcufTs him, gets him back to the taxicab, recovers the baby, and then, as a result of a rather strenuous afternoon receives a letter from the Police Commissioner, who had held the baby for him incognito, for promotion to sergeant for brave and efficient service and a large reward for bringing in "Wabash Dave." Eventually he finds out that he has rescued his own baby. So he has much to be thankful for. ESSANAY FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE (Sept. 23).— Tess Lawson breaks her engagement to Will when she finds he is dishonest, and afterwards marries Charles Pine. One night, a few years after her marriage, the girl, alone in the house, surprises a burglar in the midst of his operations. As she calls the police the man unmasks and she recognizes Will. He begs her for old times' sake to let him go, but before he can get away a policeman arrives, and as the girl is explaining to him that it is all a mistake and that the gentleman is a visitor, her husband enters. He overhears the statement and, recognizing his wife's former fiance, misunderstands the situation. Some latent spark of manhood arises in Will and, rather than escape at the expense of the sacrifice Tess is making for him, he calls back the police officer and gives himself up as a burglar. When he shows his tools and bag of loot, even the husband is satisfied and begs forgiveness of his wife for his suspicion. EDISON SAVED BY THE ENEMY (Sept. 19).— ■John Hartley and Edward Kincaid had loved Belle Varney ever since they had been schoolmates together. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Kincaid ' resigned from West Point and came home to offer his services to the Southern cause. The day after he arrived he discovered that Hartley and Belle were engaged. It is doubtful if there was ever a woman who was not attracted by the gold lace of a soldier. When Belle saw Kincaid, tall and handsome in his new uniform of captain in the army of the Confederate states, she found a place in her heart for regret, and two or three days later broke her engagement with Hartley. It is a woman's privilege to change her mind as often as she likes. As soon as she had broken the engagemewt Belle was sorry, and met the infatuated Kincaid with a coldness that astonished him and filled him with bitter resentment against his rival. Actuated partially by patriotism and part-ally by pique, Plartley enlisted as a private in the Southern army. Kincaid, in pretended friendship, had him assigned to his own company. One night, on the eve of battle, Kincaid taunted Hartley with his ill luck in love. From veiled innuendo he proceeded to active insults. Hartley stood it as long as he could and then knocked the other down. Belle read in the papers that Hartley had been condemned to death for striking his superior officer and instantly set out for the Confederate camp. She told General Gordon the entire story of the bad feeling between the two men, and begged him not to punish Hartley for an action which had been committed solely in defense of a woman's honor. The General was sympathetic but powerless to act. At his advice Belle rode to Richmond and interviewed Jefferson Davis. On the way she was captured by Union scouts, who, when they learned the purpose of her mission, released her and hastened her on her way. President Davis granted Hartley a reprieve of one week in order that he might make a thorough investigation of the case before giving a final judgment. During the week that followed, the Union scouts cut the wires between Richmond and General Gordon's division, and twisted to their own advantage all messages sent in either direction. The scouts were captured by Kincaid at the very moment the message from Davis ordering Hartley's pardon had reached them. Kincaid refused absolutely to allow them to carry out their generous plan of transmitting it to Gordon. At the risk of his life the Union operator sent the message. Plartley was freed in the nick of time and Kincaid was stripped of the uniform he had disgraced. VICTOR THE CLOSED DOOR (Oct. 3).— Florence Ashleigh, the daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, immensely proud but greatly impoverished, is urged by her family to marry George Neill, a very wealthy stockbroker, who is a self made man and v/ho is madly in love with her. From conversations overheard in her home she is given to understand that George wants to marry her to attain social position and not because he is in love with her, and her pride is naturally hurt to the quick. However, to aid her financially embarrassed family she agrees to marry him, but stipulates with him that he must never violate her privacy and insists that she must be allowed a key to her private apartments, and that he must promise never to* ask for that key or cross the threshold of her door. He reluctantly agrees. After marriage he tries to show her by every means in his power that he loves her, but she will not lower the barrier between them. He makes a big monetary sacrifice to her, whereby her father is raised to affiuence and almost ruins himself financially by doing so, but she merely attributes it to the varying luck of business ventures and still holds him at arms' length. George Neill is now financially embarrassed. Florence does not know of his affairs, as he keeps all things from her that may be likely to distress her, and he suffers alone. He has to start afresh to make his fortune. Things are coming his way again when he discovers that if he swings a certain deal that will make him wealthy again that it will ruin the man who is engaged to his wife's sister — so he lets the chance slip by and, seeing no prospect of winning his wife's love, decides to leave for good and take the management of a mine in which he has an interest. Florence learns of his self-sacrifice, and love at last dawns in her heart. He prepares to leave and she then realizes that she loves him and wants him. She places the key to her apartment in his jewel case. He leaves. On arrival at the hotel at the Western town, he finds the keyl Hoping, ardently, yet still in doubt, he returns and wins his long-wished-for reward. ECLAIR JACaUES, THE -WOLF (Oct. 1).— Jacques, known through the great Northwest as "The Wolf," possesses a complex nature unfamiliar to modern civilization, but, according to authority, it is not an uncommon character in the land where Indian has mixed with French and English, and certainly it is one of the most interesting characters that could be imagined. "The Wolf" has little respect for law or the Royal Mounted Police. It pleases him to FREE SLIDES! Send in this advertisement together with four cents to cover postage and we will send you free a feature dUyer slide of the Mutual, General or Universal Co. Takt FREE SLIDES! te advantage of this opportunity as this advertisement may not appear again. BRASS AND GLASS SLIDES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AT LOWEST PRICES OBEATSR NEW YORK CO. 136 Third Avenue, ]¥EW YORK CITY In writing to advertisers please mention "MOVING PICTURE NEWS"