The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

32 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY STORIES OF THE ONE REEL PHOTOPLAYS A BARE LIVING.' Victor Comedy. Written by W. Warren Schoene. Produced by Allen Curtis. r CAST. Ralph Ralph McComas Eileen Eileen Sedgwick Tramp No. 1 Milton Sims Tramp No. 2 Jack Conolly Ralph is disgusted and discouraged when he adds up the bills for the month. Eileen is also disgusted and thinks Ralph a miserly sort of husband. Ralph reads about the South Sea Islanders and their economical living. He tells Eileen he is going to copy them and she finally consents to try the plan. The next day the two are located in a tent. He goes to catch some fish and falls into the cold water. He comes back to the tent, half -frozen, and finds Eileen trying to light the fire. She says she is sick and he makes his wife adorn herself in grass clothes, while he goes out to hunt. Seeing a turkey, he shoots an arrow at it, but is chased by a farmer, who is feeding a flock of the same kind of birds. They have a fight and Ralph finally is forced to pay the man for the bird. Two tramps have seen the roll of bills displayed by Ralph; they slug him and take the money. Eileen invites them into the tent, and urges them to clothe themselves in the grass. Ralph comes home. The sheriff arrives and is Shocked to see people in such an attire. Eileen informs her husband that the book says the women of the South Sea Islands were privileged to have as many husbands as they desired. The sheriff takes the tramps prisoners. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOG." Powers Animated Cartoon Split Reel. Sam^nie Johnsin is reading a book about dogs. He goes to sleep and dreams that he is one. Many adventures happen to him, ending with a fight with a cat in which the feline has the best of it. Sammie wakes and decides that he does hot care about being a dftg after aH. LOST IN THE STREETS OF PARIS." Rex Drama. King, an American, is separated from his wife. Later a child is born unknown to him. Years pass. We find him a successful stock manipulator on the Paris stock exchange. The wife, with her child, is visiting in France. The child is lost in one of the public parks. She is kidnapped by a child-stealer, who, in turn, sells her to an unscrupulous Fagin, who forces the child into the streets as a beggar. She is found by her father, who, unaware of her identity, gives her a home and becomes greatly attached to her. Later, the mother finds her child playing in the gardens of her husband. She attempts to take the child away with her immediately, but the child insists that her mother first see her benefactor. The man and wife come face to face, and are reconciled. THE FIRExMAN'S BRIDE." Victor Comedy. With Jane Gail and Matt Moore. Jane is terribly stage-struck, and her ambition causes her to scorn Moore, an honest young fireman, who has been appointed to duty in a vaudeville theatre. He secures her an opportunity on amateur night, and grimly watches her reception by a hooting, yelling gallery. Jane's Ophelia causes the gallery to pelt her with vegetables, so Moore dashes to the stage, and by beating one young rowdy and throwing the stageman with the "hook" into the alley, he gives Jane an opportunity to proceed. Jane leaves and hides in her dressing-room in tears. Fire breaks out on the stage, and a panic is averted by the fireman. He finds Jane when all means of escape are cut off. Wrapping the girl up, he manages to reach the roof. Cured by a double lesson, Jane renounces the stage to be the fireman's bride. Expressive and timely cartoon by Hy. Mayer, dravm for the Universal Animated Weekly. When shown at the Rialto Theatre, New York, it was the signal for a remarkable burst of applause. The ^cture is an evolution from Uncle Sam's face.