The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

38 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "The Grip of the Law" Two Reel Western Drama CAST Cal Newton Jack Perrin Dr. Amos Morton C. W. Herzinger Ginger Morton Dorothy Wood Mark Heckle Jim Corey Sheriff Leonard Trainor QAL NEWTON, a cowboy in search of a job, meTets Mart Heckle, who is being pursued by the Sheriff and his posse, for horse stealing. Mart asks Cal to change horses with him, as he is riding to attend his sick wife and his horse is winded. Cal makes the change, and the posse recognizing the horse, open fire on him. They are about to string him up for a horse thief when Ginger, the daughter of the old doctor, Morton, rides up and pleads for his life. The sheriff agrees to give him another chance, and Cal is free on parole, his sentence being that he is not to ride a horse for six months. Ma'rt is thrown from his horse and badly injured. He is found by a prospector who takes him to the home of Dr. Morton. In the meantime Cal and Ginger become good friends. Ginger is the telephone operator of the little town and lives a short distance out, and rides back and forth on her pony. Mart tries to make advances to Ginger, but is repulsed. He is determined to have her, and one day compels old Morton at the point of a gun, to call her on the phone and tell her to come right home. Then they struggle, and Cal, who has offered to run the switchboard for Ginger, hears a shot and realizes that something is wrong. On her way home Ginger is attacked by Mart, but throws him off her horse. He shoots her and she falls across the track. Cal mounts a horse and is off and the sheriff, thinking he has broken his parole, gives chase. Part of the posse catch Mart, Cal rescues Ginger, and Dr. Morton proves who is the real horse thief. "His Fearful Finish" Two Reel Century Comedy CAST The Stranger Charles Dorety The Village Loan Shark.. ..Bud Jamison The Daughter Bartine Burkette The Father Loyal Underwood 'J'HE Father owns a house and nothing else. And besides that, it is heavily mortgaged. The big fat village loan shark holds the mortgage and comes to collect payment. Father is a lazy sort of a fellow who never works and he hasn't got the payment. Whereupon the Shark threatens to put them out unless the pretty daughter will have him. Daughter, however, has ideas of her own in the person of The Stranger, whom she begins to love madly and whom she wants to marry. However, she is dutiful and will sadly marry The Shark if she must. But Stranger is no slow one and he gets into all sorts of terrible fights with The Shark and Pa. He plans to elope with daughter and is climbing up the house when he is observed by Pa and The Cruel Shark. He goes up to the roof and kicks all the chimney bricks down at the two and finally falls through. But that was some lucky flop, for in a brick in the chimney was hidden a regular roll of bills which he appropriates immediately. He hands them over to The Shark and kicks him out. The Shark, however, plans a revenge. Father has a youngster whom he steals and puts him on a big horse truck. The horses and truck run away with the child. The lover with the daughter pursue and the child is saved. The romance of Daughter and Stranger can go happily on without interruption. "THE DIAMOND QUEEN" Episode Three "Perils of the Jungle" CAST Doris ■ Eileen Sedgwick Bruce George Cheseboro Zimba Al Smith Martin Harvey Alfred Fisher Zeidt Frank Clarke Aline Josephine Scott D ORIS falls srtaight into the water pit, unscathed by the spears, and the water extinguishes her flaming raiment. Overawed, the Zulus fall down before her worshipping. The medicine man's legend has come true. Doris is proclaimed "White Queen." Meantime Zeidt, the diamond king, is at his mines abusing his workers, who are underpaid. On one of the men lined up to receive pay is found an uncut stone taken from the compound. Although this black stole the stone to feed his starving family, his pleas^ are in vain. Zeidt sends him to prison. Back in the cannibal camp great festivities are under way in honor of the "white queen," when a native half-cast who has been a government runner, known as Zimba, strays off the beaten way and is captured by the head-hunters. They are about to behead him when Doris intervenes. When Zimba starts to address her in English, Doris sees a possible chance of escape with his aid and silences him. That night, Doris steals to the tent of Zimba, explains her predicament, saves the black's life again in a fight with guards and enables him to escape with a message to the Kaffir police asking aid. She flees with him. Meantime Bruce Weston, on his yacht, is engrossed with the vision of Doris, the girl he can't forget — the girl he is searching for. Zimba and Doris find themselves not only pursued by the head-hunters, but beset by the wild beasts of the jungle. Zimba, bringing up the rear so as to be better able to protect Doris, guards her from attack from both blacks and animals, using as his weapon a rifle procured from the camp. But Zimba runs out of amunition just as a wild elephant attacks Doris. She is apparently doomed. International News No. 3 New York City. — Lord Mayor of Cork "refugee' from Ireland, gets great welcome. Pasadena, Cal. — Ohio's star eleven meets its Waterloo. Strain of long journey proves too great and California wins rather easily — 28 to 0. Neiv York City. — Jobless men parade. "Shorn Lambs of Labor" march in "silent protest" to hear special sermon in old Trinity. Kerit, Washington. — First winter flood. Tough days for the flivvers as western rivers overflow. (Omit New York City and New York State.) St. Gallen, Switzerland. — Alpine avalanche partly buries town. Heavy snows keep Swiss villagers busy digging themselves out. Pasadena, Cal. — Tournament of roses is gorgeous pageant. Dazzling display of nature's beauties in Sunshine Land's annual flower revel. (Omit Los Angeles prints.) Denver, Colorado. — Winter drives deer to the haunts of man. Shy beauties overcome their natural timidity in hunt for food. Roehampton, England. — C o r n e 1 1 runners lose International Race. Beanten after a game struggle by Oxford and Cambridge team. San Pedro, Cal. — Famous German U-Boat sent to the bottom in Pacific battel practice. (The U-88 being towed to sea.) Prague, Czechoslovakia. — New Republic builds national spirit with amazing mass drills. 1. 10,000 men drilling as one. 2. Perfect co-ordination — an inspiring example of national team work. 3. Czecho-Slovakia is an ardent admirer of Uncle Sam. 4. Building up the spirit of unity. 5. The most complicated evolutions performed with perfect precision. Tad Cartoon.