The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 11 UNIVERSAL CURRENT EVENTS No, 13. Vermont's National Guard, Ready and Willing, Reviewed by Governor. — Anxious to get to France, men show fitness in parade and exercises. — Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. Sub-Title. — Governor Horace Graham (Civilian clothe.s) reviews the troops. Real Daughters of Democracies Serve Their Great Nations. — Girls of America and Russia — in uniform — aid their Republics. — New York City. Sxib Titles. — Count Lodyguine's daughters — Vera and Margaret — Russian Girl Scouts, who served with distinction as despatch bearers in Petrograd during the Revolution. Misses Margaret Hunt and Ruth McCoy, of Indianapolis, yeomen in Uncle Sam's Navy. National Forest Reserve a Play Ground for City's Thousands of Girls. —7,000 feet up, 1,800 lassies enjoy real life as guests of play ground association.— Los Angeles, Cal. Sub-Titles.— "Rotl Come on in!" Hikers resting. The end of a perfect day. Ajnerica's Women Aivaken To Need of Food Conservation. — Render national service by taking advantage of instructions in canning and preserving.— Throughout America. Sub-Titles. — Enlisting in women's food battalion. Trains carry practical lessons through farm sections. Experts SHOW their art. Food 7nay shape our national destiny — throughout America patriotic women are organizing for this work. Famous Exposition Grounds Soon To Be Huge Naval Base. — Great operating plant in Hampton Roads being rushed to rapid completion. — Jajuestown, Va. Sub-Titles. — Administrative heads will be quartered here. At work on hospital units. Preparations for housing 30,000 sailors in training. Military Athletic Carnival Shoivs Our Soldiers hi Fine Form. — In walking, running and equipment races, and hand grenade throwing, fighters prove they are THERE!— Trovers Island, Netv York. S}ib-Titles. — Races fit them for advances. The old "Heel and toe" gait. Speed in dressing. Hand grenade throwing. American Eagle's Newest Offspring. — Latest type of flying boat, the N-9, to be a powerful factor in aerial war. —Norfolk, Va. Sub-Titles. — Like a duck — it takes to water. From above huge liners appear as toy boats. The city beneath. Back home! Crack Engineers' Regiment, the 22nd N. Y., Leaves for Camp. — Under command of Col. Vanderbilt, they start on first leg of French trip. — New York City. 9th New York Takes a Day Off at Coney. — Ready for fighting, they spend the day flirting wnth pleasure. — Coney Island, New York. Recovered Allies' Territory Rapidly Prepared for Crops. — German prisoners clear lands and American tractors speed up plowing. — Somewhere in. France. — (Official French War Pictures) Sub-Titles. — Menaces are located and destroyed. Trench grenades that failed. Prisoners at work. Mechanical farmhands on the job. NEAL HART GETS SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AT BIG RODEO Aviator Leslie Irwin, Bluebird Player, thrills throng of beach visitors. and his company and take delight in seeing him in action before the camera. BLUEBIRD PLAYER THRILLS THRONG OF BEACH VISITORS THE throng of a hundred thousand people who spent last Sunday at Long Beach, a popular seaside resort near Los Angeles, were treated to an unexpected thrill, which proved the most sensational feature of the day's events — a parachute jump from a fast and powerful airplane. The feat was performed by Leslie Irwin, dare-devil Bluebird actor, as a part of a new feature production being produced by Director Elmer Clifton, called "Ski-High." A parachute of special construction — one that never before had had a practical tryout — was used. Bluebird cameramen were stationed at intervals along the shore to catch the descent of the glider. The pilot of the plane. Earl Daugherty, with Irwin beside him in the machine, rose from a nearby aviation field, spiraled to an altitude of 2,500 feet, and sailed out over the ocean. As the machine reached a point opposite the cameras Director Clifton fired a gun as a signal for the drop and Irwin dived from the plane. The new parachute failed to open at first and Irwin plunged rapidly downward. As the throng watcb.ed breathlessly it seemed that he certainly would be killed by the impact vdth the water. After' falling fully a thousand feet the wings of the glider caught the air and the fall was checked. The thousands of spectators broke into tumultuous applause. Irwin made a perfect descent and landed in the ocean a quarter of a mile off shore where he was picked up quickly by a fast boat chartered by Director Clifton for the purpose. ^EAL HART, who impersonates the true Western type of citizen in Universal photoplays, and who is playing now in "Squaring It," recently received a telegram from the secretary of the Frontier Days' Celebration— an annual event held at Cheyenne, Wyoming, extending to Neal and his company a hearty invitation to attend the meet and according him full privileges to make motion pictures of the affair, or to use it in any way he might see fit as a part of a photoplay. The Frontier Days' Celebration is the biggest event of the kind in the country, and its chief feature is a rodeo in which cowboys from all parts of the West match their skill at riding, roping, branding and other truly Western accomplishments. Neal is popular in Wyoming, having won numerous honors at the frontier meet in the past as well as having been a range foreman and at one time a deputy sheriff of Converse County. His many friends, according to the telegram, would welcome him