Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1912)

896 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD Independent Film Stories IMP. RHODA ROYALS TRAINED HORSES (March 9). — This picture depicts Tarious scenes which form part of the well-linowii Rhoda Royal Circus, in which the aoimals are put through a series of retnartably clever evolutions and performances. The picture shows the clever manner in which the horses, ponies, dogs and other animals can be trained to do amusing acts. THE HOME STRIKE-BREAKERS (March 9).— Mr. Michael McCarthy and his associates struck work. They were brick layers and building men by trade. They struck and gathered themselves together; formed a local: elected "Mickey" McCarthy president, and asserted their freedom. Mr. "Builder." whose work was stopped, offered a reward of $500 to anybody who would break the strike. Mrs. McCarthy got wind of the offer. She gathered the wives of the strike-breakers together. They went in a body to the builder and offered to do the work, leaving their husbands at home to do the domestic work; a job of which they soon tired. The result was, of coarse, inevitable; the men went back to work. Mr. "Builder" kept his promise and paid the reward to the chief strike-breaker. This was Mrs. McCarthy, who triumphantly pocketed the $500 check. A TIMELY REPENTANCE (Mar. 11) .—John Craxvford. an bonest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leistire, both love the same ^irl. She marries Crawford and a baby comes to cheer their home. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and. pending the expected pioney, does not provide liberally for his family. The wife is dissatisfied. Ir. Robinson notes this fact and lures away the wife of the mechanic. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. They plan to leave the city, but while walking about awaiting the departure of a train, they happen to pass the doors of a moving picture theater and Mrs. Crawford expresses a desire to go In. They enter and the story thrown on the screen is identical with the experience in which they are passing through. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse. Mrs. Crawford begs Robinson to take her out in the open. Then and there she repudiates him and. refusing to ride in an automobile, she hurries towards her hu^ible home, hoping she may return before the husband. She reaches the house, searches feverishly for the note, finds it and destroys every vestige of her attempted perfidy. She finds the child sleeping peacefully and takes it in her arms. The husband returns triumphant. He has disposed of his invention for a sum sufficient to make them rich. The wife takes him in her arms delirious with Joy and satisfaction. SHAMtJS O'BRIEN (Mar. 14).— Shamus O'Brien was a patriot and in fighting for his country places himself in tlie position of a rebel with a price on his head. He is hiding in the hills, but anxious to attend a dance, at which his friends and sweetheart will be present, sends word that he will be there. Arrangements are made for the dance, and Shamus surprises the guests by appearing in a surprising mannt^r. Michael O'Farrel, who has not met with sucess in his suit for the hand of Aileen Brennan. the sweetheart of Shamna. learns of his whereabouts and notifies the Redcoats. They reach the barn, where the dance is taking place, too late to capture the patriot, who escapes to the loft, only to return as the girl of his heart is being insulted by Captain McDonald. O'Brien fioors the officer and makes a thrilling escape, only to be again given up by O'Farrell, when he is visiting his mother. He Is then taken to prison and stands trial. He Is convicted and the day of the execution set. As this draws near, his mother makes a plea to the parish priest for help which is readily given and through a ruse Shamas is saved, and the picture oloses as the mother, son and sweetheart sail for America. DARING FEATS ON A CAVALRY HORSE (Mar. 16). — This film will be of interest to the general public as it depicts daring feats of horsemanship. The riders are seen scaling obstacles and performing other tactical cnvalry movements. PERCY LEARNS TO WALTZ (Mar. 16).— Percy and Edith are sweethearts and he escorts her to a ball under the t>retense of being a finished dancer. They arrive at the function and to Inspiring music they commenfe to waltz. Rut to Edith's dismay, she finds tliat she has been de<'elved. as Percy only succeeds in falling all over himself as well as the furniture, and lastly, to her mortification, he causes her to fall also. Edith then becomes Indignant, and leaves the room, accompanied by another admirer. Percy Is seized by the green-eyed monster and rushes home alone. Percy then decides he will learn to waltz, and makes life miserable for the boarders in the house, by making them dance with him. Finally the cook in the kitchen comes in for her share of the attention, and much against her will Percy tries a turn with her. in the end falling over the stove In his evolutions. After great perseverance Percy acquires the art to perfection and attends another dance. Edith is there also and he refuses to dance with her, devoting his time to the other girls present. Edith becomes very jealous, but after an amusing scene, Percy forgives her, and they spend the remainder of the evening enjoying the dances together, and this time she does not refuse to allow him to accompany her home. REX. MAKING HEROES (Mar. 7).— The city of Denver has the best equipped and the most efficient fire department In the world. We do not venture to state that this is because the men of Denver are more valorous or courageous than other humans, but we do imply that it might be dne to the effective training school connected with the department in which the firemen are once a month rehearsed in a sham battle with the flames, from the first stage to the last of the fire-fighter's arduous art. The Rex Company locomoted a camera down to Denver and photographed the stirring scenes depicted during one of these dress rehearsals. The engines rush to the scene of bogus peril, and the firemen set to work very earnestly to conquer the Imaginary flames. Thrilling rescues are effected, daring risks assumed, danger and death completely disregarded. So is heroism manufactured. BLOWING UP THE JOHN DAY RAPIDS (Mar. 7). — Tlie U. S. government recently blew up the John Day Rapids. Several hundred feet of interesting celluloid show how, the scientific feat was performed. A general view of the rapids and rocks to be blasted, loading the rolls with powder, drilling in water for blast, loading the sacks with dynamite, lowering the powder sacks into the water — and then — the rapids by mooalight. SONGS OF CHILDHOOD DAYS (Mar. 10) .— There was poverty in that little country home, but there was also its one redeeming corollary: Hope, which was represented In the girl's violin. The mother gave the girl their meagre surplus, and she came with her hope and her genius to the far-away city. Her music sang its way into the hearts of the metropolis, and she became famed and favored. Then she met him. and he loved her. He was the son of aristocratic and arrogant wealth. And In her love and its happiness and the ecstacy of her triumph she forgot the humble home and the tender, trusting mother. The short and seldom letters soon ceased entirely, and the anxious mother-heart hungered and yearned for news of the girl. So she came to the city. The girl made it evident that her presence displeased and embarrassed her, so she returned to the farm* A few weeks later the girl received the news that scattered and shattered her joys. Her mother had made her last earthly pilgrimage to her last earthly hope — had gone over the hills with her ills to the poor-house. With a sob she read the accusing words and heard her heart and its true message. Everything became desperately dark, her mind forgot, and for a moment the world was not. And in the darkness she saw the light. Love knows no caste — so she told him. told him all: and together they went to her. Outside the old mother's room she stood and played the songs of her childhood: and ghosts of the dreams of the past visited the desolate woman's mind, and phantom smiles lighted up her face with the old happiness and the old hope. Still the girl played, and the haunting, happy notes floated into the room and into the soul of the woman, and her heart responded. She moved toward whence the message of another day had come ; she opened the door that was the barrier between herself and the resurrection of a dead desire — and she w'as clasped to the redeemed heart of the girl. u REPUBLIC. TWO MEN (Mar. 12). — An officer of the Northwestern Mounted Police is sent out to capture a lawbreaker. After a dangerous journey through ice and snow, he succeeds in getting his man and bringing him to headquarters. The man escapes .ind the officer again sets forth to capture him. In climbing a steep mountain his horse throws him. and he sustains a fractured skull. For hours he lies in the freezing temperature, until his legs become frozen, and when he regains consciousness, he Is unable to walk. By a heroic effort, suffering untold agonies, he crawls to a deserted cabin and falls unconscious on the threshold. Tlie escaped convict, tired from his battle against the frightful storms and the cold, comes to the deserted cabin and Is startled to find his former captor lying there unconscious. He gloats over the fact that the man is helpless and plans a vengeance that can only come to a deranged mind. But when he goes to start his tortures, a long-forgotten manliness asserts itself, and Instead of seeking vengeance, he tries his utmost to save his enemy. He treats the frozen feet with snow, then wraps the, ^ in blankets aud clothes which he tears from b own person. He finally discovers that the nj; must have medical attention. He throws the 0 conscious body across his shoulders and begi the painful journey to a settlement. The mac life is saved and the lawbreaker is rewarded by full pardon, THE SCAR (Mar. 16). — A young doctor seekli to build up a practice, finds little time for b family and the wife, being a pleasure-loving woma decides to seek amusement in the company of otli ^ men. The doctor hears of her acquaintance wi -^ Mr. Tolane, a sporting man, and calls his wife account for it. This brings about a severe quarr in which the doctor. In a heat of passion, uni tentionally strikes his wife across the face with l, riding crop. Although the husband is sorry, the wife ts r: termined to leave him. She takes the child ai goes to a small country town, taking a positi. as school mistress. Mr. Tolane, who is a lai broker, gets a call to come to the same town wUe the wife is teaching school. He meets her u expectedly and continues his attentions. TL arouses the tongue of gossip, which becomes severe that the wife is forced to give up her po> tion. This gives Tolane the opportunity he b; sought, and he persuades the wife to go with hii They board a train for a distant city, but prov deuce wills otherwise. The train is wrecked wbi going through a tunnel — the tempter is killed, ai the erring wife becomes a cripple. A call for medical aid is answered by the hu band, who, arriving on the scene of the acciden finds Tolane dead and his wife injured. He lakt her back to his home and although she is compellt to go around the rest of her life on crutches, hi husband's love and devotion repays her for all tt suffering, and she realizes that a husband's devotii. " is worth far more than a life of pleasure. GAUMONT. WHAT'S IN A NAME? (March 12).— Jones, f.r vision dealer, is in search of a fittingly appetizi: name for a new delicacy he is about to put on t. market. The Italian word for butterfly "FarfaletT appeals to him much more than any other and . boundless enthusisasm over such a happy nan selection Jones invites the members of his club I attend a banquet on "Farfaletla." The wife liai pens to come upon one of these Invitations and hr mediately begins to suspect the worst, namely tlif* "Farfaletta" be the name of some Immoral actr-^^with whom her husband has become enamor* After agitating herself and her mother up ; the point of frenzy, slie learns that Farfaletta . after all, only a kind of macaroni. MATERNITY (March 16), — Joan, a peasantesa, : left in miserable poverty with a six-montbsVili child, the very heart of her life, upon an attacl of a lingering malady to her husband. Circtim stances compel her separation from the child eh so cherishes and idolizes. She becomes a nars to the young baby of a fashionable couple. Th>, comparison of her own child to the ward, pallj her more and more as time goes on. and caoseij her deepest melancholy. So indlEEerent is her mlsi tress, that she even uses an Intercepted letter oi Joan's as curling papers. Quite by accident. Joaii discovers the crimpled letter, advising her of bei own child's sinking health. With a heart over flowing with anguish, she upbraids her cruel mis tress for her heartlessness and hastens home t( tend to her own dear little babe. At the eod 01 the film a contrast of the two mothers is presentee in unique form, at opposite sides of the picture. J THANHOUSER. FLYING TO FORTUNE (March 12i,— A weal. old man. who has been a semi-invalid for years. Informed by his physician that his case Is hopeless. The invalid decides to put "his home In order."' Therefore it is a matter of gratification to bim when he sees that his only daughter and the yoftn? partner In whom he Implicitly relies seems to be mutually attracted. The partner is called to Europe just before the doctor gives his verdict, hut tbe invalid makes "everything all right" in his wUI. He provides that the bulk of his estate shall go to the girl, if she marries the partner within one year from the hoiir of her father's death. Sbonld she fail to comply, the property reverts to ber father's sister. This unique document pleases thegirl, and the partner is willing to carry the provisions Into effect, for he loves ber. In fact, had it not been for the aunt, the entire affair would have been commonplace. The elder wnmnri was jealous, howover. and aided WHO IS HI^.AUiIOSTBUTT