The Moving Picture Weekly (1918-1919)

38 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "THEIR SPORTING BLOOD." Nestor Comedy with Pat Rooney. CAST. Nifty Nick Pat Rooney Hazel Nutt ...Marcia Moore ^IFTY NICK and his mule drive into town and Nick meets Hazel Nutt, the village vampire, whom he finds very attractive. In order to make a favorable impression, Nick invites the fair young damosel to a joy ride. Hazel accepts but the mule gets tired and refuses to do his bit. Just then Percy Peanut, who is engaged to Hazel, arrives and finds Nick beating his time. Percy takes Hazel for a ride in his jitney bus, to Nick's discomfiture. The villian, a dashing devil with leather puttees and a riding crop, comes to town and makes a hit with Hazel by promising her automobile rides and silk stockings. Nick gets a flock of cucumber blossoms and Percy an imitation diamond to present to their queen. Hazel is visibly impressed and promises a kiss to the winner of a mile race. The race starts. Nick's mule, "Mothballs," quits about half way, Percy's flivver breaks down and the "villian" also experiences difficulties. Finally, everybody starts running. Nick scores on his rivals by taking Hazel into the house of a "squire" along the road and when the oth^r two finish the race, they find {lazel has become Mrs. Nick. / "THE FLAME OF THE WEST." . Two-6eel ' Western Drama. CAST. Jane Cleo Madison Her Father .. L. M. Wells Jeff Charles Gunn Lem William Y. Mong The Sheriff B. T. Henderson The Halfbreed Bertram Grassby JANE, a country girl, lives in the mountains with her father, a stage driver. She has two admirers, Jeff', a deputy sheriff, and Lem, a barber bytrade but gambler by profession. Lem loses heavily in a game and gets drunk. He goes to Jane's cabin and tries to force his attentions upon her. Jeff comes along and gives Lem a thrashing. Lem slinks away, sore in mind and body and vowing to be avenged. Jeff confesses his love for Jane. She reciprocates and they become engaged. Jeff agrees to return that night to see his sweetheart. That night Lem decides to rob the stage and make it appear that Jeff did it. He and his pal attack Jeff as he is leaving Jane's home and steal his clothes while Jeff is unconscious. They leave Jeff's hat near the scene of the robbery. The next morning the stage driver finds Jeff recovering from the effects of the attack. Believing the deputy guilty, the driver takes him to his home and leaves him in Jane's charge. Jane, believing her lover innocent, lets him go. Suspecting Lem, she hunts for him and finds him with the other robber dividing the stolen money. She goes after the sheriff but when the latter and Jane return both thieves are mortally wounded as a result of a fight over the money. Jane then goes to where Jeff is waiting for her and the two are happily united. HER WHIRLWIND WEDDING.' Two-Reel L-KO Komedy. CAST. The Old Farmer Bob Mackenzie His "Eddicated" Son Chester Ryckman Hector Hoot.: Porter Strong Mr, Su<;cotash Harry Loraine Sally Succotash Eva Novak OLD MAN JELLYFISH thought four years at college would transform his son Algernon into a veritable "white hope" and he is chagrined to find, when Algy returns to the old home burg, that the pride of his life hasn't much more "physique" than a table onion. Even, pretty Sally Succotash, who returns from college at the same time, can't see much to rave about in the "eddicated" Jellyfish boy until Algernon pulls some gewhilliker hero stuff and rescues her from Hector Hoot, a little "wilyun" "with lots of coin. Of course, a wedding is the only thing that could mean anything in the young lives of Algernon and Sally after that, so the proper arrangements are made. Just as the ceremony is about to begin. Hector Hoot walks in and reminds Father Succotash that the latter's bankroll isn't any more valuable than Swedish matches in war time, i'nd offers to help out the old man on SYNOPSES OF NESTOR, CENTURY, LYONS-MORAN STAR COMEDY, WESTERN DRAMA. condition that he get Sally. Bridegrooms are switched. Then comes a telegram informing Old Man Jellyfish that a relative has left him ten million dollars. Hector is told to evacuate the premises and Algernon again takes Sally into his arms. Just as the ceremony is about to start all over again a bomb, which the fiendish Hector had placed in the house, explodes. Amid the falling walls and flying timbers and clocks and such, the happy pair speak their marriage vows and agree to live happy ever after. SCREEN MAGAZINE. No. 87. ROSSES due to the decay of perishable fruit have been eliminated by 1,780 farmers growing berries in the Pacific Northwest through the establishment and operation of their own canning factory. They sell as called product all that is not markjBted as fresh. An official film of the United States Department of Agriculture, released through, the Screen Magazine, No. 87, shows this cannerj' in operation. A most entertaining, yet instructive feature of the Magazine is a film showing how the honey of wild bees is located and procured in the forests of Washington. The hatching of pheasants' eggs, which would cost about $5 each if obtsunable for eating purposes, also is shown in the Screen Magazine in a film which has more than usual educational value. The making of glassware and ingenuity of workers who blow the molten mass into beautiful ornaments has been filmed for the Screen Magazine. Another one of those interesting films showing Willie Hopkins, noted sculptor, fashioning caricatures of noted personages in mud and clay, ■ has been entitled, "Kaiser BiU."