The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

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MOVING PICTURE STORIES 47,"* BLUEBIRD STAR The flashing brilliance of Dorothy Phillips as the "Queen of the Barbary Coast," in **Hen Morgan's GirV* grips the fan* with a trrmendoas hold and carries them through grene Hftt-r >rene of wonderful action and Intenwe interest. "Hell Morsan's (iirl" <l<ie» a itecked btiHlnexs every day it i» shown. There is splendid acting in every role. You never saw a photoplay with a l>etter selected cast. It oiitdrew all the popular actors and actresses in Los AnKcles. Book It Repeat-It Holds Many Dollars For Every Exhibitor No matter where your theatre may be located "Hell Morgan's Girl" will pull the crowds. !»o popular Is it that patrons will turn out rain or fair. Play it repeat on our advice. You won't feel sorry. Book It TO-DAY through any BLUEBIRD Exchange, or BLUEBIRD Photoplays, Inc., 1600 B'way, New Yark "THE VAMP OF THE CAMP." Joker Comedy. Written by Tom Gibson. Produced by Allen Curtis. CAST. Little Butterfly Gale Henry Prop Charles Haefli Stranger Milton Sims (Copyright 1917, Unive^xal Film Manufacturing Co.) Little Butterfly i.s the vamp of the camp, and her fickle heart is attracted by a stranger, who is about to commit suicide after losing his only dollar. She makes the proprietor give Gale Henry in "The Vamp of the Camp." him a job as general cleaner of the place. She tries her best to win the stranger, but her charms have absolutely no effect upon him. Her professional pride is hurt and she makes a bet with the proprietor that she can win the man in three days. However, she only loses her own heart, while he remains plunged in grief. At last she persuades him to tell her the cause of his sadness, and he says that the old homestead is to be sold, because he has not money enough to pay the mortgage. He promises to marry her if she will get the money. Little Butterfly tries to vamp the money out of the men, but fails. Then she robs the gambling game, and is backing out of the hall with her loot, covering the men with a gun, when the sheriff arrives, and she learns that her trusted stranger is Slick Stevens, wanted in a dozen places as a worker of a confidence game. However, he has already flown. UNIVERSAL SCREEN MAGAZINE Issue No. 3L Rose breeding is the subject of the first part of the Screen Magazine, Issue No. 30. The second sub.iect is a demonstration of a new motor for an airplane, which is so constructed that the propellers perform the double function of driving the machine at top speed and at the same time cooling the motor. Screen oddities are represented by the tricks of some bears, which have been trained to be pets. "Going to sea in an armory" is the next study, and shows the preliminary training of sailors on land, before they ever see a battleship. These pictures were taken in the armory of the Second Battalion of Naval Militia at Brooklyn, New York. Physical culture for women is more important than ever now that women have to take the place of men. Fine exercises are illustrated by experts for the Screen Magazine. The last subject is a "miracle in mud" by the Screen Magazine's sculptor, Willie Hopkins, called "The Darwin Theory Upset." I