Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 583 place indicated in the letter by the jealous woman. There, instead of his friends, he meets the directors of the hostile trust who proceed to "truss" him up and throw him into a room in an abandoned building after getting the "papers." The young woman, who has aroused the female detective's jealousy and who is in love with the man, is alarmed to find him absent from his hotel and, after a long and thorough search in which she climbs over various buildings, she discovers his place of imprisonment. She smuggles a note to him through the bars of the prison, telling him to break into the floor below and assuring him that she will come to his rescue. The young man complies with this direction and the heroic woman makes fast a rope, one end of which she throws to her lover, who makes it fast to his window sill. The Scene from "Saved in Mid-Air" ^Warner's Features). rope is now drawn very tightly, and the young woman walks on the rope at a height of probably a thousand feet from her station to the room of her lover. She returns with him and supports him on the dizzy height as they together walk on the rope towards safety. The female detective^ however, has discovered what is going on and with the aid of the henchmen of the hostile trust she burns the rope just as the lover and Ihe heroine are about to reach safety. The rope breaks and the lover and the heroine still holding fast, fall from a height of several hundred feet. Happily neither of them sustains any fatal injury and. while the members of the hostile trust are on the spot getting ready to overcome the young woman and her lover, the friends of the latter rush in in automobiles and efifect a happy rescue. A ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION IN CHINA (Eclair). There will soon be released by the Eclair Company one of those educational films depicting foreign types, which kind of films are coming into popular favor once more. "A Roman Catholic Mission in China" is a hand-colored Eclair subject of great interest. The Mission offers a reward for all fondling babies that are delivered to it. These infants are raised at the Mission and educated to the Roman Catholic faith. There are scenes in which dozens of these shock-headed, squint-eyed babies furnish considerable amusement by the simplicity of their childish movements, especially when they eat with their long chop sticks, which they handle very deftly. There are scenes showing children of more advanced years at their studies, learning the Chinese language from native teachers and English from the Nuns. One scene shows the advanced girl pupils making lace, and another shows the boys making mats from rice straw. The children are also to be seen at religious devotion, singing hymns, saying "rayers, etc. Oriental children are very cute and sometimes very funny. The picture is one reel in length and will be a sure fire hit with women and children anywhere. The Love Chase. A Sugar-Coated Scenic in Two Parts, by the Eclair Company, Covering Various Points of Interest. ONE good way to make a scenic is to write an interesting story which brings in the geographical points of interest in a logical way. It has been done on a number of occasions before, and we hope it will be done many times again. "The Love Chase" is a scenic picture with a plot, similar in nature to the one Edison did some years ago entitled, "A Honeymoon at Niagara." Pictures like this seldom fail to please, because they have a double interest. Miss Barbara Teiinant and Mr. Lamar Johnson have a pair of good parts to play in this comedy, and they do them extremely well. Miss Tennant never looked prettier than she does in this film; it is quite noticeable that a year in pictures has done wonders for her. The stage settings for all the interiors are exceptionally good. The groupings are cleverly handled, and at no time does the stage appear crowded, an item that deserves mention in these days of crowding, where ensemble scenes bear close resemblance to the interior of an elevator at noon hour. FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN IN TOWN. Francis X. Bushman, formerly leading man of the Essanay company, and an unusually successful and popular photoplayer, is in New York. He visited the Screen Club on Sunday and on Monday and was given a hearty greeting by the members present. Scene from "The Love Chase" (Eclair). The story is all about a blase young man whom the world has ceased to interest. He, having tasted all the joys of life, is finally surfeited with them. His mother is anxious to get him married ofT to a delightful young lady who arrives on a visit as the picture opens. The son refuses to meet the girl and it becomes necessary for those in the secret to set a trap for him. His would-be fiancee gets a position as stenographer in this young man's office, and when he sees her he becomes smitten with her charms immediately. The girl pretends to have been insulted by his attentions and leaves a note that she is going away to Niagara Falls. He follows her there, and there are scenes around the Falls whicli are doubly interesting. She hastens back to his office in the Singer Building, New York City. With a friend she watches for his automobile by looking out the window to the street below. In this manner some excellent panoramas of New York City are shown, one in particular, showing the recently completed Woolworth Building, is particularly interesting. The Woolworth Building is the highest building in the world and, as the picture affords a definite idea of the immense size of this structure, it will be something long to be remembered, especially by those who do not reside around New York City. There are other points of interest which are introduced in plausible ways, and the picture ends by the young couple meeting at last and becoming engaged. Incidental to the picture there is an adventure with a tiger in which the blase young man rescues the pretty damsel from the clutches of this ferocious beast, who is as tame as any cat and who has been borrowed from an animal trainer. The picture throughout is a lively one and distinctly a comedy, one that will probably set the pace for any bill upon which it is placed.