Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1912)

68 are followed by a relentless nemesis until the spirit of Christmas, with its joyousness and good cheer spreading over God's world, brings happiness into her home. The widow seeks work, but luck being against ■ her, she does not secure a position. During her ■wanderings she is falsely accused of theft by an Irascible and insistent old miser, but with the aid of a good-natured sergeant, she escapes the indignity of false imprisonment. Her little daughter, like more little girls, wanders off to see the big Christmas displays in the shop windows. While gazing with hungry and envious eyes upon dolls and bouses and toys, she makes the acquaintance of a benevolent woman of wealth. This woman is moved by the child's longing glances, and so buys for her a big French doll. The plot is complicated by a dull-headed policeman who arrests the child, but it all turns out happily at the widow's humble home on Christmas Eve, for Santa Clans Is the harbinger of hope and love, besides material gifts. HIS MUSICAL SOUL (Jan. 3).— In "His Musical Soul," a fat man loves a slim little girl, who weighs about one hundred and ninety pounds less than he does. The fat man has a rival in the shape of a handsome and gallant violinist. The fat man soon gets an inspiration! He decides that be could perhaps charm the sweet damsel with the entrancing ( ?) strains of a trombone. When he tries, he finds that the silver-throat Instrument is not only vibrant and raucous, but a disturber of peace and quiet. Hie courtship is a rather Inharmonious one. Indeed, so inharmonious that neighbors decide to interfere. The poor fat man gets the worst of it all, but he is finally rewarded for his efforts. He is the happy recipient of the hand of his sweetheart's spinster sister. OVn POOR RET.ftTIONS (Jan. 5).— The son of a poor widow leaves his mother, and goes out Into the "world" to "make his mark." The boy succeeds rapidly. Before long he marries liito a family of wealth. The boy in the meanwhile forgets all about the narrow straits In which he has left his mother. He also forgets that she needs money regularly with which to live. Only periodically does he send her a measly $5. To his new friends and his wife he poses as an orphan without friends or relations. His mother suffers keenly her son's neglect. At last, when her son had neglected to send her a remittance for a good many months, the mother decides to go to the city and look him up. Worn out with privation and hunger this poor widow reaches the city. Having no place to go, she wends her way to a house of God. Here she sinks Into a faint, while the services are In progress. A wealthy woman and her little daughter have ■compassion on the poor woman. Answering the pleadings of her little girl and her own humane instincts, she orders that the widow be taken to her borne. The wealthy woman's husband turns out to be the widow's son. Fate brought together mother and son. The son, seeing his mother's condition, soon realizes how snobbish, how undutlable and how mean he has been. And while with bowed head and shamed face he asks her forgiveness, his wife and child clasp their new-found relation to their hearts. The mother forgive* her erring son and takes him to her heaving breast. THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD NESTOR. AN UNLUCKY PRESENT (Jan. 1).— Young Frank Hope is a lawyer at last. The holidays are approaching, and the present for his sweetheart worries him considerably, as his cash account is low. He is hoping for a client to help him out of his predicament. One comes unexpectedly. A rich w^oman is accosted by two highwaymen, who meet their Waterloo, by coming in contact with the athletic young lawyer. She becomes his first client and gives him a retainer. Frank is desirous of giving Bess a diamond ring, but even the money he received from the lady does not come up to the price of the ring, so lie pawns several of his personal effects. Placing the ring in a box of candy, he forthwith sends It to his sweetheart. Bess opens the package hastily and not noticing the box contains the ring, but thinking that it is all candy, casts it into the fire, for she had lioped that Frank would have given her something better. However, Frank, through the kind help of the society lady, manages to clear up the misunderstanding. THE TENDERFOOT'S SACRIFICE (Jan. 3).— Through the intervention of a tenderfoot named Eric Newton, Mrs. Andrews' son, Donald and Marie Lewis would have been married ere this time. But it happened that Marie took great pleasure in teaching the tenderfoot to ride, and incidentally indulging in the pastime herself. One day Marie's horse, "Beauty," was frightened by the blasting of rocks and dashed away with her. Eric, who tried to go to her rescue, was thrown from his liorse and wounded. One of the men who was not blasting soon got his horse and darting after the frightened "Beauty," succeeded in bringing her to a stop. At the hotel Marie's tender solicitude for Eric's injuries enhanced Donald's determination to leave the place entirely. Directly to the hotel went Mrs. Andrews to learn how siucere were Eric's affections toward Marie, but after being told by his doctor that he had only a few months to live, the tenderfoot Indulged freely in alcoholically-inclined liquor. Marie, still cognizant of the fate of her father, could not tolerate a drunkard, turned to her erstwhile lover, while the tenderfoot rode away. DESPERATE DESMOND FAILS (Jan. 6).— Catching butterflies out in the country on a summer day is a pleasant occupation; Rosamond and Claude Eclaire find it so. An elusive butterfly lures Claude away from his girl. Desmond appears In an auto, captures Rosamond and honk -honks past the butterfly chaser. Realizing his sweetheart's peril, Claude calls the United States troops to the rescue. Uncle Sam's boys enthusiastically answer the call. Half -burnt cigarettes bearing Desperate Desmond's initials, and which the villain had carelessly thrown away, give his pursuers the only clues to work on, and Desmond is trailed at last. Cornered, he leads Claude and the soldiers to the wigwam wherein Rosamond was hidden. Leaving * the boys on guard, the villain enters the tent and — before Claude and the troops can gather their wits, the wigwam moves rapidly away. Another mad chase follows, but Desmond in his auto-tent makes good time and keeps the hunters at a safe distance. They dare not shoot for fear of hitting Rosamond, and the villain goes merrily on. What the boys cannot do. Desmond's own harmless cigarettes unwittingly accomplish. The villain soon finds himself in a trap. Flames to the front of him and soldiers to the rear of him. He cannot escape this time and, like the coward tliat he is, he does not care to die. Surrender Is the only alternative left him. He surrenders — curse the luck! he had lost. Hurrying to his borne the boy te| his mother and sweetheart the joyful news, wl the old gambler looks in the window once mo| upon the face of the woman he loves and the passes out of her life forever. AMERICAN. THE WINNING OF LA MESA (Jan. 8).— The little cowtown of LaMesa was controlled by old Tex Garvin, proprietor of the Garvin gambling place. He kept Pretty Peggy about the saloon to jolly up the "boys" when the Goddess of Fortune frowned. Then came a handsome young minister with his mother and sister and when one of the cowpunchers Insulted the sister Peggy's reformation occurred. She went to live with the minister's family and the ' 'boys' ' all promised to join the church. But Garvin, loving Peggy, drank himself into a murderous fury and determined to revenge himself upon the minister. A catastrophe was averted by the timely work of Peggy. THE LOCKET (Jan. 11).— George Hughes gave the widow of his old classmate a cottage because he loves her, but she is indisposed to return his affections on account of his strong desire to gamble. Tlie widow's son has a locket containing a photograpli of his (Hughes) mother, which the gambler wishes to have, but as the boy Is unwilling to sell it to him Hughes leaves and writes a proposal to the widow. Her refusal incites him to indulge in drink more freely, until he is soon reduced to a derelict. Ten years later., wliile walking up a street in a western town, he asks the widow's son (whom he does not recognize) for a few pennies. In pulling out the money from his pockets the locket drops and a mutual recognition follows. Hughes steers the boy inti* a saloon, where he loses the money with which he was to pay the ranch help. The boy tells his motlier and sweetheart of his wrong doing and leaves the hou.se, determined to shoot himself. Just as lie is leveling the pistol to his temple Hughes, who has won hack the boy's money, stays his hand and gives him the amount GREAT NORTHERN. THE TEMPTRESS (Jan. 6). — An unempluye secretary, reduced to starvation, with his wife a death's door, sees an advertisement for a privat secretary to Mr. Multon. He applies for and si cures the position, mainly by the assistance o Mrs. Uulton, who thinks she sees in him an eas; victim to her wiles. Installed in his new position Mrs. Multon takes advantage of the absence of he husband to practice the blandishments upon be unsuspecting prey. Time after time does thi cunning Eve endeavor to make the new secretat; bring dishonor upon his family, but without avail At last, goaded to desperation by her charm having no effect, she employs cunning as an aid t deceit, and creates a scene, in the midst of whlc' her husband rushes into the room and finds hi wife in a disheveled and agitated condition, whlc makes him only too ready to give credence to he story. The employee is sent about his buslnesi and the woman, to make her revenge more con) plete, writes a letter, which falls into the hand of the secretary's wife, giving the reason of hi dismissal. The shock brings about the woman' death, and on the husband's return home he vow vengeance. Armed with a revolver, he returns t his late employer's mansion, and there accuse the woman of her perfidy. Vixen that she Is, sb simply laughs in his face. But her idle jest and gibes have been overheard by her husband, wb thereby discovers that It Is she who has playe him false, and the story closes with her Ignomin ous dismissal from the house. COMET. MR. WHOOPS, THE DETECTIVE (Jan. 8).Mr. "Whoops is a milliner detective, and for long time has little to do in the sleuth line. H is a personal friend of the great Sherlock Holme and invariably follows his methods In unravelln crime. Mr. Holmes receives a case. It Is to ra to earth a band of kidnappers which has stole "the darling" of a Duke and Duchess who via! a fashionable summer resort. The little one hi been placed In the care of a negligent maid an the disappearance of the little one raises a ci all over the place. Mr. Holmes tries his utmof to find the missing one, but is unsuccessful; f he suggests to the Duke and Duchess to empio Mr. Whoops, which they readily do. Whoops ha his own Idea of how the kidnappers should t captured. It Is needless to say that they ai most absurd and rather impossible. He undergo* a lot of deductions entailing humorous adventu« and mishaps. But in the end he reaches a clD and eventually restores the "darling" to the dli tracted Duke and Duchess. The "darling" tun out to be a plain, but educated monkey. THE WIDOW (Jan. 12).— The hand and heart Mrs. Hasthecoin, a rich widow with two childrei is sought by Col. Pepper and Col. Carsons, Kei tuckians. The pair are chums and inseparablj One afternoon Pepper calls on his lady love at Is received rather coldly, due to the fact that 1 has been gently imbibing. The widow's daughti asks him to leave, which he does. The followii day Mrs. Hasthecoin writes him a curt note. S reproaches him for his conduct and adds that t first of the two colonels to quit drinking will wi her. Pepper at once shows the note to Carso who reads It in a perfunctory manner. Pepp at once takes the pledge and visits the wido again. He succeeds In impressing her with b air of reform and temperance and waits for If answer. Then she tells him that she has doted < his friend all the time. Pepper confides this 1 Carson. The latter tries to abandon the bott> but finds the task a futile one. Not wishing stand In the way of his chum's happiness Pep] hits upon a scheme. He decides to pretend sulc and carries out his plan by leaving behind his c< and hat at the river front and atso writes a let of his intention to destroy himself. To make appear that he has really killed himself Pepi leaves town and no more is hea rd of him. course, the widow upbraids herself for what ( has done, but all wounds heal In time and f consoles herself with Carson. The latter wi again and without the proviso of becoming a t totaler, wins the widow. i THE CINCINNATI-BUCKEYE FILM CO. America's Largest Film Renting Concern. Entire Building 236 W. 4th Street, Cincinnati, O. Private Exchange connecting all Departments. 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