The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1918)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY PRESS SHEET FOR BLUEBIRD Frank Keenan in "THE LONG CHANCE" THE STORY. (Copyright 1918, Bluebird Photoplays, Inc.) UARLEY F. HEXNAGE was a gambler by profession, and owing to the mar\-elous celerity with wlaich his concealed batteries could come into action, was known as the worst man in Gila Jiinction. But though few knew it, Harley had a heart, and romance, in the person of Marie, the belle of tlie Junction, had touched it deeply. It was not until a stranger, an eastern prospector, arrived in the Junction, that he realized that something was wi-ong with his romance. The depth of his affection may De judged through the fact that he consented to Marie's marriage to Corblav. Leaving his bride of but a few months. Corblay went into the desert with Morgan Carey, a financier from Boston, and he never came back. He left a map, however, of his claim, and on her death-bed Marie gave this to Harley. with the injunction to take care of her daughter, and see that she came into the inheritance, if one develop from the mine. Harley laid away his former sweetheart with this vow" in his heart, while Donna, the daughter, took her mother's place in due time as waitress in Eatinghouse Oscar's emporium. Her mother's romance was strangely repeated in the case of Donna. Harry McGraw was locating water rights when he fell in love with Donna. A strange fatality brought the same ^Morgan Carey to the scene of his former adventures, also to buv up water rights. As fortune would have it. a hat bearing McGraw's name had been found near a Story by Peter B. Kyne. Scenario by Harvey Gates. Directed by E. J. LeSaint. CAST. Harley P. Hennage Frank Keenan Marie Beryl Boughton Indian Sam _ Clyde Benson Oliver Corblay _...Fred Church Doima Stella Razeto Morgan Carey Harrv Blaesing Harry McGraw Jack Nelson Eatinghouse Oscar Jack Curtis stage robbery, and Carey used this as a whip to drive a sharp bargain with McGraw. Again Hennage took up the cudgel, but this time he had something on Carey, and before he was through with him he extracted a check for two hundred thousand dollars, and a confession that he had deserted Oliver 'Corblay in the desert, after having located his claim, and had since worked it with great profit to himself. Then Hennage went after the stage driver who had accused McGraw of the holdup. "I'll meet you at four o'clock in the street" said Hennage, "and may the best man arrive." The stage driver wasn't taking any chances, so all of him that appeared in the street was his right arm crooked around the comer of a building. Desperately wounded. Hennage yet demanded that they give the stage driver a gun. With fast ebbing strength his unerring aim brought down the fear-struck stage driver, and the second confession that day brought peace to the d\nng soul of the worst man in Gila Junction. "The Long Chance," in which Frank Keenan is starred, is a thrilling story of the unvarnished West in its beginnings, when the sheriff stood for all there was of law and order, a reputation as a bad man or a good shot was the best assurance of peace and prosperity to the individual, the saloon was the centre of social life and prospecting and gambling were tne main industries. Bluebird shows it at the Theatre on . '•'*', ... Frank Keenan, who plays the pnncipal role in the Bluebird Photoplay, "The Long Chance," is one of the most commanding figures on the stage today. It is no wonder that the films, which are claiming the world's best talent from Pavlowa down, should have made a bid for Mr. Keenan. They had to make a strong one, too. Blue'^ird will show this western masterpiece at the Theater on ' ■ ^ HERALD FOR •THE LONG CHANCE." TWO duties confronted Harley P. Heimage, gambler and professionally known as >vorst man in Gila Junction. This «-as an honor. First he had to prove that Morgan Carey was the "Boston" prospector, who had cheated his only romantic attachment out of a fortune. At the point of a gun he forced this acknowledgement and also check for $200,000. The other task was the clearing of the name of Harrj McGraw, who was accused by this same "Boston" and a burly stage driver of ha\-ing held up the mail coach. Leaving Boston in the gentle hands of the man he had left twenty years previous to die of thirst in the desert, Harley walked with steady step to meet the stage driver by appointment "in the middle of the street" at four o'clock This was the most approved Western duel challenge. Harley was there on the stroke, so was the stage driver, but only his gun barrel was in sight. Few men would have survived the treacherous shot. But Harlev Bluebird thought so weU of "The Long Chance," a photoplay now three years old, that it decided to cut it down to five reels, and reissue it as an honored member of its classic series. Frank Keenan in the meantime has occupied even a more commanding position than heretofore on the screen, but in spite of this fact he has never been shown in a photoplay which anywhere near touched the completeness of "The Long Chance," which will be seen at the Theatre "The Long Chance." the Bluebird photoplay which comes to the "Theatre on stars Frank Keenan. one of the best-known actors both on the screen and on the stage. The storj" itself was written by Peter B. Kyne. and originally appeared in the form of a novel. It was directed by E. J. LeSaint. with a strong cast of character people.