The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 'S STORIES OF THE ONE REEL PHOTOPLAYS I "SCRAPPILY MARRIED." Joker Comedy in One Reel. Written by Harry Wulze. Produced by W. W. Beaudine. CAST. Dr. Keen. _ William jPraney His Wife. Gale Henry Maid Lillian Peacock Her Lover, Bill Charles Conklin Cop Milbum Moranti It is all a bad mistake because Bill calls to see the maid. The maid is the servant in the home of the terrible doctor, and Bill is just naturally afraid of the doctor. So he leaves a note to the maid to that effect, and it is found by the master of the house. This makes the old man angry, as he thinks that it is his wife whom Bill has come to see. Bill escapes, but is hurt in getting away. So they take him to the hospital and there he is operated upon by the doctor himself. With fiendish glee he goes to it. But Bill manages to escape from this delicate situation and at last the whole affair is cleared when the old man finds that Bill is attentive to the maid and not to his wife. "A DESIGNING WOMAN.' Laemmle Drama. CAST. Pastor Jones William Shay Freda Leary Jane Femley Margaret ; Vivian Prescott Freda is a nurse in a hospital at tiie front when Margaret is brought in. She is said to be dead, so Freda, who has a past, takes her place and goes to America. But Margaret recovers and goes to expose Freda. There are many complications, but at last Freda finds happiness in the love of Pastor Jones. Alice Howell in "TATTLE-TALE ALICE.' L-Ko Komedy in One Reel. Alice is the tattle-tale of the whole village. So when a real opera singer comes to town she has a great deal to do. There are two of the men in the town who are smitten with the opera singer and first one and then the other gets into a compromising Bituation with her. Alice tells on both of them and in the end she gets the proper deserts for such conduct. There is a motor boat race and then a ducking. Finis. 'SAMMIE JOHNSIN'S LOVE AF FAIR" and 'ANCIENT INDIA AS SEEN BY DR. DORSEY." Powers Split Reel. In the first part of this reel Sammie has a terrible time. He is in love with a beautifkil little pickaninny, but she does not return his sentiments. He buys her all sorts of candy and other goodies, but in the end, after taking all these things, she turns him down in favor of the other fellow. So Sammie vows that never again will he fall for the fair sex. The last half of this film is devoted to the beauties of old India as seen by Doctor Dorsey, the famous Universal travel photographer. He shows some of the niins that prove what a wonderful civilization they had in those days. Some of the structures that are shown could not be constructed today with all the wonderful engineering contrivances that we have at our command. "THE WALL OF FLAME.' Imp Drama. Wallace is a fire inspector who is in love with the daughter of a wealthy factory owner. The latter says that the match is impossible, as Wallace is incorruptible — and insists that he make his factory fireproof. Then the building catches fire with the daughter in it. Wallace rescues her and then her father consents to the match. "THE CIRCLE OF DEATH. Big U in One Reel. Mona is a little Indian girl who is very friendly to the settlers. When some of the white men infringe on the Indians' reservation rights they go on the war path, but Mona warns the whites in time so that they can escape. "EAT AND GROW HUNGRY." L-Ko Comedy in One Reel. This is the sad tale of a poor husband who is the janitor in a boarding house. His wife runs the house and gives the star boarder all the good things to eat so that all he can get is a little pea soup. In sheer desperation he plans a scheme. He rigs up a string so that he can pull things off the dumb-waiter as they go up to his rival. In this way he is at last satisfied. RUTH STONEHOUSE ADOPTS BOY. j^UTH STONEHOUSE, star of the Red Feather Production "Kinkaid, Gambler," has adopted a boy. His name is Raymond. The youngster is just six years old — a pudgy little fellow with lightblue eyes and light hair, and he it the joy of this Universal actress* home — a pretty bungalow in Hollywood. Rajrmond's mother passed away when he came into the world and hit father died in Los Angeles only a short time ago. It long had been Miss Stonehouse's desire to adopt a boy, and when she heard of this orphan child she made arrangements with the people who were caring for him to take the youngster off their hands. Raymond is a good little fellow, bright as the proverbial silver dollar, and although he has been with his foster mother only a few weeks already has become greatly attached to her. In the daytime while Miss Stonehouse is engaged in picture making at Universal City, Raymond is under the watchful eye of Sally, a Southern colored woman who is the star's housekeeper and who has been in her employ for a number of years. Sally and Raymond are very good friends, and she says he is quite helpful to her in her work about the house. SEES PICTURES FOR FIRST TIME DIRECTOR RUTH ANN BALDWIN while making a number of exteriors with her company for a onereel Universal photoplay, "Bred in the Purple," near the town of Van Nuys, met Mrs. Samuel Johnson, who, although sixty years old, had not been to a place of amusement for thirty years and consequently never had seen a motion picture play. Miss Baldwin invited Mrs. Johnson to visit Universal City one day last week and the old lady drove over in her buggy and spent the entire day at the motion picture plant as the guest of Director Baldwin. Mrs. Johnson enjoyed herself to the full and declared it was the greatest day of her life since the wedding bells joyously pealed for her more than thirty-five years ago.