The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1918)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "MUM'S THE WORD." Lyons-Moran Star Comedy. Written by Capt. Leslie T. Peacocke. Produced by Lyons-Moran. CAST. aI'' ^i^'^K Lee Moran Mrs. Black Gertrude Aster Mr. White Eddie Lyons Mrs. White Edith Roberts Miss Gray Margaret Whistler ^EITHER Mr. and Mrs. Black nor Mr. and Mrs. White were suited to each others temperamental tastes. It was not long, therefoie, before both couples found themselves divorced and each one of the four, while anxious to re-marry, maintained publicly vociferous antipathy toward divorce and divorcees. For that reason, when Mr. Black married Mrs. White, and Mr. White married Mrs. Black, the last thing anv one of the four would have admitted was that he or she had been previouslv married. Now Mr. White and his new wife took a house at the seaside. They were very happy, except that the new Mrs. White was lonesome, and they decided to adverti.se for a congenial couple to .share the big house with them. The new Mrs. Black answered the advertisement. She called upon Mrs. White while Mr. White was away, and everything was arranged to the satisfaction of the two ladies, who of course did not know each other. But when the Blacks came there to live there was a drum fire of lies which would have driven Ananias back into the 411th support trench. Things were not straightened out until a mutual friend, Miss Grey, came to subdue the color riot which "threatened to inject a superabundance of blue into the symphony of color. FATHERS. SONS AND CHORUS GIRLS." Two-Reel L-Ko Komedv. CAST. Proprietor Rube Miller First Son Dave Morris Second Son "Frenchy" Bianchi Father Bob McKenzie First .Saleswoman Eva Novak Second Saleswoman ..Carolyn Wright (Copyright 1918. L-Ko Motion Picture Konipany) ^.A.VE and "Frenchy" are dispossessed college chaps, their Fathers having disowned them because of their aflfection for every chorus girl in town. The best thing the boys can do is to dine and wine the girls. They are thrown into prison over night and the Judge phones their fathers in the morning, telling them to keep their sons out of the court, as they annoy the other prisoners. The fathers bail the sons and the girls out and gives the boys a chance to sell their merchandise, which is in the dry-goods lines. The chorus girls are all fired, and the two leading women apply to the boys' fathers for work. They are made traveling saleswomen and in direct competition to the boys. They pose as their own models and take all the business away from the boys. The other girls are stranded at the same hotel and the proprietor has locked them in because they owe a large bill. The boys get the girls out and dress them up in their merchandise. The buyers all flock back to the boys and they make a big sale. Fathers come over to see how boys are making out, and the proprietor calls the police because he can't get his money, and it all ends happily in court. "THE LION'S CLAWS" Episode 5. "THE SECRET DOCUMENT.' CA.ST. Beth Johnson Marie Walcamp Capt. Johnson Thos. Lingham Col. Leighton Alfred Allen Lady Mary Gertrude Aster Buck Masterson Ray Hanford Musa Frank Lanning Capt. Bogart Harry Von Meter Rej Hari Rex de Roselli gETH is captured by one of Rej Hari's men. The three Moon Men fire and kill Beth's captor. The rest of Hari's men try to reach her, but she holds them at bay with the dead man's revolver. Reaching Buck's horse, she escapes. Buck persuades Rej Hari to leave the wounded Capt. Johnson at the missionary's house under guard. Ragus sends a messenger to Bogart, who is waiting the deliverance of certain papers at the palace of Rej Hari in Bonda. Bogart starts. Beth reaches the oasis where Buck has ordered her to wait for him, and hides in the well, so that Ragus will not see her. She hears the discussion of the proclamation declaring Holy War. She jumps out of the well, grabs the proclamation, and runs for her horse. Ragus seizes her. The Moon Men who have been watching then come to her rescue and finally overpower Ragus and Bogart, binding them to a tree. But as they are bringing Beth back to consciousness. Buck and Musa arrive at the oasis and the Moon Men are forced to surrender. Rej Hari and his men, having heard of Beth's beauty, approach the oasis and Buck accepts the offer of the Moon Men to guide them into paths where Rej Hari cannot follow. At the oasis, Hari and his men are engaged in a struggle SYNOPSES OF L-KO, NESTOR, FINLEY, LYONS MORAN STAR COMEDY with armed British soldiers. Bogart and Ragus fight furiously for their freedom, but Ragus is killed and Bogart as well as Rej Hari captured. Meanwhile Beth, Buck and Musa, led by the Moon Men, pass along a jungle trail above a cave where a stream of water is flowing. Beth slips and falls into the cave, landing in the water. In the cave are several ferocious lions. Buck starts making a rope, so that he can descend into the cave to rescue Beth. The lions start toward her. 'BOY .SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE. Episode 3. "THE GREAT MINE DISASTER. gLAKE'S assistant in the mines meets with an accident, and Jack, the Gypsy's companion, is given the job. Mr. Gray suggests to his daughter Joan that she organize a junior Wolf's Cub's club of boys too young to be scouts, and she does so. Buster and Skinnay are made full-fledged scouts, and with their scout troop members play games and execute exercises. Skinnay runs home to tell his mother, and then goes to the mines to meet his father. Jack decides he will not accept the invitation extended by Skinnay's father to go home with him to dinner, being fearful that Skinnay will have him arrested again. When Jack leaves the Blake yard he encounters the Gypsy, who has served his sentence and who endeavors to make him return to him, but Jack refuses, as he is determined to lead an honest life. The Gypsy threatens to tell that Jack has escaped from jail, but the boy steadfastly refuses to go with him. Skinnay and Buster are practising signalling with their troop when the explosion at the mine, from fire-damp, is heard by the boys of the troop and they immediately rush to be of assistance. The Boy Scouts hold back th« crowds so the miners can be rescued, and with pulmotors aid in reviving the victims of the accident. Jack is rescued and recognized by Buster as the Gypsy's companion, and one of the stealer's of his sister's horse, but he takes him to his hom« and asks his father to give him a chance to lead a different life, as he has never had a chance. Jack be^ comes a member of the household,