Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1912)

46 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD ANOTHER MYSTERY SENSATION FROM THANHOUSER. A young man, son of a retired merchant, enters his father's study and asks him for a loan. The father oflers him some small change and the young man rejects the tithe with scorn. The father rages at the son, and a butler hears, or, at least, he claims he has heard, when examined by detectives who come when the father is found stark and suddenly dead on the floor of the study, and he tells the officers that the son has packed his suitcase and gone to the railroad station. Sure enough, the officers find the son there and "nab" him before he can board the train. Scene from "The Twelfth Juror" (Thanhouser). And searching him later, they find a large roll of bills, known to be missing from his dead parent's wallet. Still, as a matter of fact, he did not take his parent's life. But the butler did — you guess. No; he, too. was guiltless. Then who, you puzzle, WAS the murderer? As it came out in court, there was no murderer. There was no murder. There was merely an odd combination of circumstances that made things look black for a cleanhanded young man until "The Twelfth Juror," in the picture of that name, told a simple enough story that cleared him. Thanhouser issues the picture Friday, Jan. u. HER NOTION OF BLISS. New Rochelle. Dec. 22. Editor Moving Picture World, New York City: Dear Editor — This is in reply to your letter asking for a photo. I send you herewith a photo which gives my idea of perfect bliss. It was snapped while I was rehearsing in a picture called "Just a Bad Kid," and while I don't like a lot of rehearsals usually, I wouldn't have cared if they had a DOZEN rehearsals of THIS scene! The jam was "Just a Bad Kid" (Thanhouser). the jammiest, peachiest jam I ever tasted. No picture can picture how I enjoyed it! M. Thanhouser is going to give me a French poodle dog for Christmas and I know a lot of others will try to "surprise" me. But I'm "on" to most of them. But Mr. Adler bets me a dime that I don't know what his present will be. A Mr. J. T. Mann, of Dallas, Tex., is sending me a Texas prairie dog. These are very little dogs — no larger than a big rat. I will certainly have a merry "dog" Christmas. Very truly. The Thanhouser Kid. "THE DESERT TRAIL" (Kalem). Kalem will offer among its forthcoming releases a picture entitled "The Desert Trail," done by the No. 2 California company, in which is shown a particularly bleak and dismal bit of the Mojave Desert. What is meant by descriptive writers when they talk about the "waste of sand" is made clearer to us by the glimpses that are given in this picture of this region. Another feature of the picture is the fact that the actors who impersonate miners make use of the long-handled shovel and the miner's pan instead of the "D" handled shovel and a seive, as has been seen in the hands of some of the "Jersey" miners. Miss Ruth Boland. Kalem's new "pretty girl." is also a prominent figure in this picture, and it is around her that a love story has been written upon which the picture is based. Scene from "The Desert Trail" (Kalem). Two young fellows are in love with her and, as usually happens, one is turned down. He doesn't seem to take it very hard at the time and, a little later, we see him and his successful rival start off for the mines. The prospectorsare successful and fill their pokes with quite a store of nuggets and dust and then decide to return home. On the way they stop in the desert over night. Here ttie fellow who got turned down wakes up in the night, steals his partner's gold and provisions and horses and leaves him marooned, while he hastens on to report that the other fellow is lost and probably dead in the desert. This story is a great shock to the sweetheart of the lost miner, but she has a dream that night that reveals him staggering over the sand. Next day she tells her story to a girl chum and that girl sends her lover after the lost man. Of course he finds the wanderer at the critical moment and brings him in, whereat there is a happy reunion of the four young folks before the camera. Kalem has done this lostin-the-desert idea much better in previous pictures. NEW FEATURE FILM COMPANY. Under the trade name of Theater Film Company, Moe Streimer, formerly with the Empire and the Great Eastern film exchanges, has started a business of his own to handle feature pictures, and all kinds of supplies and accessories for picture people. He has the only set of Langford-McVey 20 round fight pictures, taken in Paris, and a version of Dante's Inferno. THE GAUMONT WEEKLY. The Gaumont Weekly with events of interest happening in America as well as in Europe will be a feature of value to the Independent exhibitor, and will be released in the very near future. In an interview with Mr. Herbert Blache, a Moving Picture World representative was informed as to the future release intentions of the Gaumont Co., which proposes to release early in January three reels of hand-colored subjects every week, and also the Gaumont Weekly. The Gaumont product will be sold direct to the Independent exchanges. On account nf not being affiliated with the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Co., its pictures will not be handled through the regular channels with the other Independent manufacturers.