The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 11 ofifers Carter a position and Carter decides to stay without revealing his identity as owner of the mine just yet. Work on the mine progresses and as time goes on Carter falls in love with Mary. But all this while Murray has the mine watched and when he finds that they are about to strike it rich, he has the mine blown up so that the partners have to begin all over again. The two are very much d i s c 0 u raged, but they stick it out and begin the work anew. At this time Raymond receives a telegram from Georgette saying that she is coming visit him on her vacation and asking him to meet her at the station. The day of her arrival dawns and Carter and Raymond, fighting for his life, knocks out Murray. finally Helton go down to the station to meet Georgette. Murray, seeing the two in town, thinks that it is an ideal time to settle his score once for all. So he calls the partners into his office and there begins a battle royal. The odds are by no means even, as they are two to seven, but in the end Carter and old Helton succeed in fighting their way out. By this time Georgette has arrived and they all ride to the claim, where Mary is introduced to her rival. The days now pass very swiftly and work rapidly proceeds on the new shaft. At last the time comes for Georgette to leave and she begs Carter to go with her. He says that he cannot go, as he has no money. Then she tells him that his lawyer has found a part of the estate that was hitherto unknown, and that he is wealthy once more. At last he succumbs to the call of the white lights and agrees to go. But Broadway seems tame to Carter after living in the open, and he soon finds himself on his way back to the West. Reaching Desert, he is told tiiat Murray now has possession of the claim which he has bought from Helton for a song.. The latter is broken in mind and body and is living in a little hut, attended by Mary. Carter now decides that it is time to act, so he goes to the sheriff and presents his deed to the mine and then goes up to the claim to settle his private score with Murray. But he has not counted upon the latter's gunmen and when he gets there he is attacked by the whole crowd and forced to take shelter behind some rocks and fight for his life. In the meanwhile Mary has foimd out what is happening and has the presence of mind to telephone the authorities in the next county, as the sheriff in that county is being held up by Murray's men. After doing this she goes to Carter's aid with ammunition. She arrives just in time to save him and the two of them fight off the attacks of their opponents until aid arrives. As the story ends, Raymond makes Mary a partner in the mine, although it is really not necessary, as she is shortly to become his partner for life. RUTH ANN BALDWIN WILL BECOME A BIG U DIRECTOR. "The Black Box" serial for thescreen, and spent, more than six months there. In honor of Wyndham Gettens, the new Screen Editor of the Universal. Company, M i s & Baldwin, who. served in that cap a c i t y for the past year, gave a . luncheon at the Universal City cafe last week, at , which the members of the film,, department witk, which she has-: been closely as-sociated in heir work were guests: Those present werer Gilmore Walker, EiarJ Turner, RaJ^ Dickson, W. Pearson, L o Ui i & Ostrow, Del Ab-^ drews, Phillip, White and Eur-. gene B. Lewis^^ head of the sce^ nario d e p a r t~ luncheon Miss ment. During the Baldwin was presented by her colleagues with a beautiful silver mounted fountain pen. GIRLS FOLLOW KERRIGAN. JT is getting to be quite a fad withi the fair visitors at Universal City to bring cameras and wait for thehandsome figure of J. Warren Keni-gan to appear. One day this week he was seeni dodging between the scenery on the stage on his way to the dressing-^ room. When asked if he had lost something, replied: "Yes, I lost my goat." In the aisle were sixteen pretty girls standing in line with their cameras ready, waiting for him. Jack says one or two do not matter, but when it comes to an army, he. escapes. J^UTH ANN BALDWIN, who has been affiliated with the U^iiversal Film Maniifacturing Company for three years, shortly will join the ranks of women directors. Before coming to the Universal Company, Miss Baldwin was associated with the newspapers of San Diego, and for two years was connected with the scenario department of the Big U organization. Miss Baldwin was sent to London by President Laemmle to collaborate with E. Phillips Oppenheim in the preparation of JOKE (?) £DDIE LYONS and Lee Moran, wanted a young Steve Brodie to make a rather dangerous fall in one act of their comedy, "The Bugle's Reporter." Eugene Walsh of the Universtol Stock Company, poked his head into their office and said: "I hear you fellows want a Niagara.'*' "Want a what ? " echoed Lyons. "I hear you want an actor to inake> a fall." The next scene witnessed books, paperweights and fists going in the di~ rection of the open door.