The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

40 ■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY STORIES OF THE ONE REEL PHOTOPLAYS "SHE WROTE A PLAY AND PLAYED IT." "THE HENANPUP." "HER MOTHER'S SWEETHEART." Joker Comedy. Powers Juvenile Comedy Laemmie Drama in One Reel. Scenario by Ben Cohn. Produced by Allen Curtis. CAST. Miss Scribbles Gale Henry Bill, her lover William Franey Romeo Ham, actor... .Milburn Morante Hero Charles Conklin Heroine Lillian Peacock Bill Bones, the village undertaker, sheriff, judge and a holder of a few minor offices, is the sworn, avowed lover of Exeter, who has the writing fever. His suit has met with little success, owing to her interest in her new profession and Bill is stumpped. Romeo Ham, from the legit' stage — and a long ways from it at that — has had a streak of hard luck and arrives in the village. His capital amounts to the sum of one "jitney" and he calls on the village merchant to buy some refreshment. Romeo learns that Exeter is writing a play and at once his professional instincts are aroused. He introduces himself and he and Exeter at once find a common interest. Romeo suggests that she produce the play and act the leading part in it. He agrees to look after the production. This just suits Exeter and plans are put under way for the effort. Ham has learned that Exeter has a large bank account and his zeal is influenced mostly by the sight of her ample bank book. The rehearsal proves quite a task and time after time Romeo is on the verge of quitting, but each time the vision of the bank roll comes to bolster up his courage. At last the play is produced and proves a "frost." The audience start out in disgust and then Exeter discovers that her manager has eloped with the cash, so she marries Bill and leaves the stage. SALMON FROM THE EGG TO THE TABLE. Powers Educational (Split Reel). Salmon are shown just a few hours old, with their translucent bodies and globular heads. They grow and after grubbing for several years in mountain brooks, make their way to the sea. After a few more years they return to spawn and are killed as they jump up the waterfalls, and then friend Salmon finds his grave in the "turamie" of some hungry human. It was a strange coincidence that Frank's dog and Mabel's rooster should have died at the same time. • But it happened that way, and so the two were given a common funeral and buried in the same coffin. A few months later Prof. I. M. Wise notices in the paper that there was a new bone exposition at the museum, and, being much in love with the widow, the mother of the two children, he decided to take her to the exhibit. Seeing the bones at the exhibit, suggests to the children that their pets must be bones by that time, so they tell the professor that they know where some old bones are. The professor is delighted with the bones, as he thinks that he has discovered the remains of an animal that was the cross between a hen and a dog. From the bones he draws a picture of the way the creature must have looked and calls it the "Henanpup." He publishes his discovery in the paper and thinks that he will be famous. At last he finds that the bones are nothing more than the remains of an ordinary dog and chicken and is, to say the least, chagrined. The children sell the bones for two cents and with the proceeds invest in a stock of candy. And so ended the famous "Henanpup." Written by Catherine Carr. Produced by George Ridgwell. CAST. George Maitland, a widower, Harry Benham Delta Maitland, His daughter, Edith Roberts Delta, the only daughter of George Maitland, a widower, goes off to a boarding school. Her father bids her good-by« at the railroad station, and, chancing to meet a widow at the station, he takes her home in his automobile. In the course of time they become very much attracted to each other, and after a brief wooing decide to get married. At the end of the session Delta returns from the boarding school, and considers her stepmother in the light of an intruder, stubbornly resisting all attempts on the part of her stepmother to win her affection. Shortly afterwards Maitland is called to town to attend a board meeting. After his departure. Delta sees her stepmother kissing a photograph, and draws the conclusion that she has a secret lover. Thereupon, she goes to her bedroom and writes a letter to her father, in which she asserts that he (Continued on next page.) V^/|TH ^EMAR'KAPLt ATTeNTiOinJ To DETAIL WHY PONT PEOPLE HAVE" TMEit? O^AllfS To MATCH Hy. Mayer xvill Jiave his little joke. This one is perpetrated hi the Animated Weekly, and was probably engendered by the short skirt craze.