The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY <*Tlie Way of the World'' RED FEATHER Production. From the play of the same name by Clyde Fitch. Produced by L. B. Carleton. Scenario by F. M. McG. Willis. Society man, estranged from wife, makes desperate love to wife of another, lengths too hazardous to win her for his own. |ETER STURTON, a politician and head of the machine, decides to support Walter Croydon, a rising young attorney, for the position of Governor of the State. Croyden is in love with Beatrice Farley, a young society belle, but they have not been formally engaged. Croyden, on the evening that he is to take Beaturice to a society affair, meets Sturton at the club and becomes slightly intoxicated. He is in this condition when he calls upon Beatrice, and she refuses to accompany him. The next morning Croydoy comes back and apologizes for his condition of the night before, and begs Beatrice to forgive him and promise to marry him. She tells him that she is leaving for Europe with Mr. and Mrs. Lake, her close friends, and that she will give him an answer when she returns. John Nevill, a man about town, of fast life, is a warm personal friend of Sturton's. Nevill is unhappily married, but he and his wife still continue to live together, although there is very little, if any, love between them. Nevill decides to go abroad, and tells his wife she can go to Newport, or wherever she wishes to spend the summer. As the boat is ready to sail, Nevill sees Bea CAST. John Nevill Hobart Bosworth Beatrice Farley.. ..Dorothy Davenport Walter Croyden Emory Johnston Mrs. Nevill Gretchen Lederer Peter Sturton Jack Curtis Mr. Lake C. Norman Hammond Mrs. Lake Adele Farrington Mr. Van Norman..Herbert Barrington trice bid Croydon goodby and come on board. At once he is attracted by her beauty, and manages to make her acquaintance on the ship, and becomes madly infatuated with her. He decides to win her love and begins paying her attention without telling her that he is married. Beatrice and the Lakes come to Monte Carlo where Nevill is staying, and Nevill, renewing the acquaintance, begins making love to her. Beatrice finds that she loves him in return. Finally, Nevill proposes that they go to Paris to be married, and Beatrice consents; but, as they return to the hotel to pack, friends of Nevill's, who have arrived from the States, betray the fact that he is already married. Beatrice, heartbroken, begins packing to return home. Nevill pleads with her to no avail, and finally, in anger, tells her that he will not give No Nevill calls attention to the day he saved Beatrice at the beach. her up, and that at some future time he will force her to declare again her love for him. After Beatrice leaves, Nevill takes to drink, and word of this reaching Mrs. Neville, she comes to him and persuades him to return home with her. In the meantime, Croyden has married Beatrice, and has become Governor. Sturton calls upon the Nevills and asks them to attend the inaugural ball to meet the Governor and his bride. Nevill finds, of course, that the Governor's wife is no other than Beatrice. His love for her is again aroused and he becomes crafty in an attempt to win her away from Croyden. Beatrice sees the ravages of dissipation in Nevill, and Listening to his plea, promises to become his friend. After this, they are seen much together, but Croyden is of an unsuspicious nature, and Beatrice herself believes that there is nothing wrong in her friendship for Nevill. Time elapses and Croyden is running for re-election. Sturton has a falling-out with the Governor and is opposing him with every weapon in his command. The Croydens now have a child — a boy a few months old, of whom Croyden is especially fond. Lake goes to Croyden and tells him that the people are beginning to talk of Nevill's being seen so much with Mrs. Croyden, but the Governor refuses to beUeve it is more than idle gossip. To turn the people against Croyden, Sturton causes an article to be published saying that