The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -41 STORIES of the ONE REEL PHOTOPLAYS -- Continued A KNIGHT OF THE NIGHT,' Laemmle One-Reel Drama Written and Produced by Robert F. Hill. CAST. Jim Corey Hobart Henley Dr. Randall—?. Sydney Bracey Myra, his wife Sydell Dowling Norton Craig Anthony Merlo Dr. Randall and his wife, Myra, leave for a reception with Norton Craig, a friend. At the pai-ty the doctor is called away on an important case to the hospital. But before he goes he asks Norton to take Myra home. In the meanwhile Jim Corey, who has been a failure in life, is desperate that night. He decides to steal to keep alive and happens to select the Randall home for the job. He enters the house and makes his way about the upper stories looking for valuables. By accident he gets into the nursery and seeing the Randalls' little child sleeping, says to himself that he would be a dog to take the child's trinkets. As Jim is about to leave Myra and Norton come home. The thief hastily hides and the sight he sees makes his blood boil within him. Norton tries to force his attentions upon Myra and at last Jim can restrain himself no longer. Just as he is downing Norton the doctor comes in. When Myra tells him how she has been saved by Jim the doctor offers to reward him, but Jim says that he is more than paid by the incentive he received to go straight. The picture ends as Jim Corey is striding out into the night. BEN, THE SAILOR." Powers Manikin Comedy. Story by Olga Printzlau. Produced by R. F. Taylor and W. W. Wheatley. Old Captain Jpnah's stories of the sea make such an impression on Little Ben that he wants to be a sailor. He dreams that Captain Jonah is in command of a battleship, and that the captain accepts him as one of the crew. Ben is taken aboard and fitted out with a uniform. The ship puts out to* sea and — things commence to happen to Ben. The rocking motion of the ship makes it hard for Ben to walk on the deck and he even becomes sea sick, but he is compelled to scrub the deck with the other sailors. He falls over with his bucket of water. The water runs do\vn through an open skylight on the deck and falls on the captain, who is reading in his cabin below. The captain rushes up on deck to find the careless sailor who has splashed him and slips on the wet deck, falling at Ben's feet. Ben apologizes and is excused. The captain shows him an "enemy" ship through his telescope about to launch a "bomb" at their vessel. Ben climbs down over the side of the ship and, hanging by a rope, awaits the approach of the missile. And when the bomb is about to blow up Ben's ship he hits it with a capstan bar used as a billiard cue and it returns to the "enemy" ship, which is destroyed by its own explosive. He goes to bed, but again falls out of his hammock and finds himself — on the floor of his owm room, having tumbled out of bed in his troubled dream. WHAT DARWIN MISSED." Victor Comedy Scenario by Frank Wiltermood. Produced by Beverly Griffith. CAST. Prof. Alonzo Bozzle Victor Potel This Missing Link, A Wise Oran-Outang Joe Martin Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by Darwin and is pondering especially on the idea that there is a "missing link." One night he dreams that he is an explorer, and that he has just landed upon a foreign shore; he secures the aid of a mahout and an elephant to move his tent and belongings to the jungle, where he will take up the study of trying to find the "missing link." He builds his tent and establishes himself as comfortably as may be, and then with his trusty rifle starts out to explore the jungle. Then it is that he encounters the wise orang-outang, Joe Martin; the two are attracted mutually and the professor takes Joe to his tent and there commences his education along the lines of table etiquette. That night while the two are in bed a couple of lions come prowling about the tent. This stai-tles the two and Bozzle takes his gun and with the help of Joe fires upon the lions. At this juncture Bozzle awakens to find the papers on his desk burning and in extinguishing the flames his own clothing starts burning, so that he is compelled to rush from the house and immerse his bady in a barrel of water and iniefully he gazes upon his uncomfortable self. . "THE SILENT STRANGER." Big U One-Reel Drama Written by Frank Smith. Directed by King Baggot. The Silent Man King Baggot The Dance Hall Girl Irene Hunt The Doctor Frank Smith The man is a m.ystery in the little town. He lives alone in his cabin and will not meet the advances of his neighbors. One night he talks and tells the story of his life. He had been a prosperous lawyer in an eastern town and was engaged to be marired to the sweetest of girls. The night before the wedding day she died and in his anguish he called in the devil. The devil said that he would bring back the departed life, but that if the man laughed he would lose his love again. And in the man's joy at his sweetheart's recovery he forgot and laughed and straight the girl died. "Here is Satan, now," said the man, as he fell over dead. " BY CONSCIENCE'S EYE." Rex One-Reel Drama. Scenario by Fred Myton. Produced by George Cochrane. John Spencer Rex De Rosselli Maud, his wife Majorie Ellison "Cooter" Virginia Carlin Jimmie Franklyn Maxfield Stanley John is busy all day and tired at night. Maud seeks diversion with Jimmie, a "man about town." "Cooter" has a doll which she calls "Conscience" because the eyes will keep away harm. She has one eye and her father the other. Maud at last decides to run off with Jimmie. She leaves a note for her husband, but when she gets to the station she finds the eye of "Conscience" in her veil. This brings her to her senses and she goes back. At home she finds that "Cooter" has put the letter in the box outside the door, so that her husband has not received it. She destroys the letter and the family are happily reunited. "HER MOTHER'S SWEETHEART. ' (Continued from preceding page.) has been deceived into marrying a woman who is involved in another love affair. A man arrives and Delta sees him enter the parlor and fondly kiss her stepmother. No longer able to restrain her anger, the girl denounces her step-mother's scandalous conduct and is about to leave the room in great anger when Mrs. Maitland stops her, and, introducing Barton, says: "This is my son."