The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -38 STORIES OF THE ONE REEL PHOTOPLAYS "GOOD MORNING, NURSE." Victor Comedy. Story by Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke. Scenario by Male B. Havey. Produced by Allen Curtis. CAST. Nurse Eileen Sedgwick Fred Eugene Walsh Dr. Hurts Ralph McComas Doctor's wife Margaret Whistler Eileen Little, the prettiest nurse in Dr. Hurts' sanitarium, is seen coming from the hospital one day, by Fred Biggers, a rich young man. Smitten with love at first sight, Fred immediately goes to the hospital, but the door is slammed in his face. He hires the driver of a jitney bus to run over him. He is carried into the hospital, where Eileen is ordered to attend him. Dr. Hurts is in love with Eileen himself, and soon becomes jealous of Fred. Fred commences to groan and the doctor orders an immediate operation. A specialist is summoned and Eileen and Fred are locked in the sick-room to prevent their escape. Fred is rolled on a wheeled table, into the operating-room. Dr. Hurts enters with a most satisfied expression. Fred then places the doctor on the operating table and pours all the different anesthetics within reach over him. Fred informs the specialist that the patient is prepared for the operation, while he and Eileen jump into a taxi. "A BUNDLE OF TROUBLE." Nestor Comedy. Written by Karl R. Coolidge. Produced by Louis Chaudet. CAST. Detective Potts Lee Moran Eddie Eddie Lyons Olga Edith Roberts Russian Ambassador Harry Nolan The Russian Ambassador receives a message of warning that there will be an attempt on his life. His daughter Olga advises him to consult the famous Detective Potts. He sends for Potts, who is about to bestow a diploma on his pupil Eddie. They both go to the Ambassador's house. On the way they see a suspicious package dropped into a barrel, and take it for a bomb. The Ambassador has disguised himsdf. Eddie puts on a Russian disguise and Potts takes him for the anarchist. He follows him. Olga Is terrified by the appearance of three He enters in his disguise and she does not know him. He snatches it off, just as Eddie and Potts enter, too. They recognize each other, and, peeping through the curtains, see the Ambassador about to raise a bottle to his lips. They rush in, only to learn that the three men have called to get the Ambassador's opinion of a substitute for Russian vodka. In Eddie's bundle is found a pair of woman's stockings. 'THE BEAUTY DOCTOR." UNIVERSAL SCREEN MAGAZINE. Issue No. 9. Issue No. 9 of the Universal Screen Magazine begins with views of Doctor Edward F. Bigelow, the noted bee culturist who instructs Boy Scout Masters in the art of handling bees with security. The doctor has never been stung, though he has handled millions of bees. Cutting ice on the upper reaches of the Hudson River for storage is the next subject. The third shows the making of frankfurters and sausages, under the rules of inspection of the New York Board of Health. Casting the death mask of Admiral Dewey is then shown. The sculptor Ulric S. J. Dunbar, who made the masks of McKinley, Garfield and Grant, and many other famous men, ik seen working on the mold, filling the cast with plaster of paris, and breaking the mold when it has hardened. A few minutes with Willie Hopkins and his animated sculpture close the reel. 'MR. FULLER PEP— HIS DAY OF REST." Powers Animated Comedy Cartoon Split Reel. Mrs. Fuller Pep asks her husband to take mother-in-law for a ride in her wheeled chair. She has not walked a step in twenty years. Fuller decides to show her some real speed. The chair gets away from him and he is worried, but reassured when he finds she has not even wakened. He leaves her in the path of a Fierce Sparrow of eight cylinders, but the car leaves her chair unharmed. The chair runs into a sewer, and motherin-law discovers that she can walk after all and chases Fuller to his home. "THE GIRL WHO LOST" "BORDER WOLVES" Red Feather Double Bill A WONDERFUL SHOW Victor Comedy. Written by James Dayton> Produced by John Steppling. CAST. His wife Sylvia Ashton Mr. Mason Billy Mason Mr. Hope...^ William Musgrove Mrs. Hope Betty Hatton Got Rox Henry F. Crane His daughter Elise Mason Prince Wadsworth Harris Billy and the wife, stranded in Thinville, decide to open a beauty parlor for thin women. He poses Sylvia as a wonderful example of before and after taking. He learns through a beauty column in the newspaper that watermelon seeds are a great fattener. He buys a large supply of melons and tacks up his beauty doctor sign. A husband and wife in Thinville get notice that an eccentric uncle in his will has left orders to give the couple the wife's weight in gold. She decides to take the treatment of Billy. A young girl is engaged to a Turkish Prince, but when he sees how thin she is he refuses. She also takes the treatment. After a few weeks both the thin women are thinner and poor Sylvia is fatter than ever. The husband of the thin woman, the father of the thin girl and the Turkish Prince all go to bring vengeance on Billy. A battle with the watermelons ensues and results in Billy and Sylvia taking passage for other parts. "IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE," Rex Drama* Story by Ida M. Evans. Scenario by Charles J. Wilson, Jr. Produced by Ruth Ann Baldwin. CAST. Genevieve Dorothy Davenport Will Hardy Ed Hearn Martha Irene Hunt Jerry Holden J. Morris Foster Genevieve, the head saleslady of the Elite Cloak Store, is admired by the manager, Jerry Holden. But she treasures in her heart her love for Will, who had several years before married Martha, a timid little woman. A bargain sale is in progress at the store and Martha is timidly examining the dresses, which are reduced to twelve dollars. Genevieve, not knowing who Martha really is, hastens to men who insist upon seeing her father. (Continued on page 34)