The Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1913)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 613 ■" 1IH1 LICENSED FILM STORIES iiiiiiimiiiiipiiJi KALEM. THE ABVENTTTRE OF AN HEIRESS (May 12).— Florence, the daughter of H. Benjamin Baker, a millionaire, chafes at the restrictions which her parents exercise over her. Some girl friends call, explaining that it is "Tag Day." and ask Florence to join them in selling tags to raise funds for a benevolent organization. The parents of the heiress are horrified and will not listen to the proposition. Baker is not inclined to favor his secretary, Dick, as a son-in-law, and when the young man attempts to intercede for Florence, he is dismissed from the millionaire's service. Later, Florence's father relents somewhat, and brings the girl a handsome necklace as a peace offering. She places the pearls in her jewel box, and, putting the key in her purse, she quietly \eaves the bouse to join the girls. An enterprising reporter learns of the gift and writes an article for his paper, stating that the young heiress will no doubt wear tbe necklace at her forthcoming debut. The item comes to the notice of Prentiss, a society crook, who manages to steal Florence's purse while purchasing a tag from ber. Having secured tbe key to ibe jewel case, Prentiss enters the residence in the guise of an employe of a vacuum cleaning corn-era. While in search of another position, Dick, the former secretary, becomes suspicious of Prentiss' actions and is tbe means of securing the necklace and bringing the crook to justice. HAN'S GREED FOR GOLD (May 14).— The old miser, living in a tenement, keeps his savings in an earthen idol. The janitor of the building suspects that the old man has concealed wealth, but is unable to locate it. Finally the miser dies and the janitor disposes of the idol to a dealer in antiques. Carter, a bank clerk, is given to speculation, and in response to his wife's earnest appeal, he promises to give up the precarious practices, which are jeopardizing his position and happiness. However, the young man is weak and breaks his promise. While shopping the wife buys the Idol and brings it home. Carter is called upon for margins and takes his wife's jewels to meet the demand. Later in the day he receives a second telegram in the wife's presence, and the sacrificing woman brings out tbe jewel box, only to discover that she has been robbed by her husband. Fearing that Carter will become desperate, his wife removes tbe cartridges from the revolver which he keeps In a drawer. That night a burglar visits the house. Carter goes after the Intruder with the revolver, but the crook discovers that the weapon is unloaded and attacks the bank clerk. Mrs. Carter rushes to the scene and fells tbe burglar with the idol which she grasps from the mantel. The earthen image is shattered and a fortune lies at the feet of the young couple. As the bnrgler is led to prison, tbe clerk assures his wife that he will profit by his experience and they happily make their plans for the futnre. PAT, THE COWBOY (May 16).— Pat bids farewell to the ould sod and sets sail for America, where he secures work on a ranch. His eccentricities furnish a great deal of amusement for the cowboys, and Betty, the' ranchman's daughter, misses no opportunity to ridicule the stranger. When the men leave for tbe round-up, Pat. determined to demonstrate his efficiency, mounts his pet male and proceeds to corrall all the pigs. This is the last straw and he is banished from the ranch. Betty has given her promise to tbe foreman, and goes to the church to await the ceremony. But the bride-groom has a thrilling experience with some desperate bandits and falls to keep the appointment. Betty becomes tired of waiting and when Pat appears on tbe scene with the captured outlaws, the girl decides that her first choice was a mistake. FOOD INSPECTION (May 16).— From cold statistics the average person is unable to comprehend the immense amount of work accomplished by the Health Department of America's metropolis. Through this interesting topical production we learn that four and one-half billion pounds of food are received in New York annually. In 1912, 26,000,000 pounds of impure food were destroyed by the inspectors. A cargo of 34,000 boxes of lemons from Italy is examined, together with other commodities. Tbe five million quarts of milk rereived each day in New York; the bacteriological tests and the examination of eggs, present an interesting sight. THE POET AND THE SOLDIER (May 17).— Adapted from Trench's "Apollo and the Seaman," by permission of Henry Holt & Company, Publishers, New York. "I heard a soldier sing some trifle Out in the sun-dried veldt, alone; He lay and cleaned his grimy rifle Idly behind a stone. What grief of love had he to stifle Basking so Idly by his stone. That grimy soldier with his rifle, Out in the veldt alone?" The poet finds an answer to his question when, later, he meets the soldier, mortally hurt in the army hospital, and hears his story. He learns of the soldier's courtship and happy married life in an English village: his transfer to a hill garrison in India, where tribesmen have been making trouble; the attempt made by a native rebel to assassinate him as he and his wife sit together in the moonlight; the sacrifice of her own life to save his. Happy in knowing that the period of waiting for his loved one is almost over, tbe soldier takes the hand of the poet. "If after death, love, comes a waking, And in their camp so dark and still, The men of dust hear bugles breaking Their halt upon the hill, To me the slow and silver pealing That then the last high trumphet pours Shall softer than the dawn come stealing For, with its call, comes yours!" THE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM (2 parts— May 17). — An illustration of the perils of crossing the South African veldt. The Willis family at Cape Town suffers reverses and starts with a party across tbe arid plain for Kimberly to recoup their fortunes, leaving behind the son Charles, aged 20. and the old grandfather. The entire party perishes on the wav for lack of water, except the little Willis girl, Ellen, whose father steals enough water from the general supply to keep her alive. She Is found by a party of Boers, and Is adopted by a Boer family named Joubert. Charles and his grandfather at Cape Town bear of the calamity and never expect to see any of their family again. Twenty years later Ellen is the belle of Jacobsdal. Charles, her brother, is a captain in the British army. The Boer war is on and the Joubert farm becomes a battlefield. A great battle takes place and the Boers are defeated. Charles takes charge of the prisoners. A locket Ellen wears discloses to him her identity. LUBIN. THE PAYMASTER (May 10) , — Shorty Kennedy and Bill Watson, two notorious ex-convicts, applied for work at the Great Western Mining Company. The superintendent, not knowing of their record, gave them employment. In less than a week the two men were discharged for drinking, and when they saw Carson go to town for money, they decided to hold him up. Carson was delayed at the bank until too late to pay the men that day, and there being no safe at, the superintendent's office, he took the money home and secreted it In his bedroom. The ex-convicts concocted a plan to get Carson away from the house, and, by securing one of the Mining Company's letter heads, sent Carson a note purporting to be from the superintendent's wife, stating that her husband was taken suddenly 111 and asking his assistance. His suspicions were not aroused until on his arrival at tbe superintendent's house, he PHOTOGRAPHS FOR LOBBY DISPLAY sixe 8x10 of all 2 and 3-reel FEATURES of the following: KAI.EM. VITAGRAPH, THANHOUSER. LUBIN, RRONCHO, MELIES, KAY-BEE, RELIANCE, PILOT, MAJESTIC, AMERICAN. SET of 12, $2.00, SET of 6, $1.00. KRAUS MFG. CO.. 14 E.I 7th St., NY. DISTRIBUTORS WANTED IN CANADA, FAR WEST and SOUTH for our PHOTO PLAYERS POST CARDS, Assoclatln and Independent. 200 different players. found him in perfect health and his wife declared the note a forgery. During Carson's absence, the ex-convicts entered his home, bound his wife and endeavored, through intimidation, to make her disclose where the money was hidden. When she refused, they made a careful searcb, during which Kennedy found a box of "Rough on Rats," and with fiendish Ingenuity, the two desperadoes decided on a plan to force Carson's wife to tell where the money was bidden. Taking a piece of bread, they mixed the rat poison with butter and sugar, and before the helpless mother, they offered it to her child. As the baby reached out its hand for the poisoned bread, the mother could stand the strain no longer, and told the men where the money was hidden. In the meantime, Carson tried to reach his borne by telephone, but tbe crooks had broken the receiving cord, leaving the wire open. Carson beard the struggle his wife was having with tbe robbers, and calling on the miners for assistance, arrived at bis home in time to save the money. LUCKY COHEN (May 12) Sol Cohen, a Jewpeddler, has tbe whole village of Pikeville buying the cheap jewelry that he has for sale. He tells them that it is solid gold, and they fall for the "stall" and many of the men and women make purchases. Sol leaves them well satisfied, and he is also satisfied, for he has made a fine profit. Not long after one of the jays, while washing his bands, makes the discovery that the ring that he has bought is nothing more than brass, and wild with excitement, he informs the constable and townspeople, who have also been stung. They immediately get clubs and other weapons and start In pursuit of the Jew. In the meantime, he has wandered along and a tramp, who is hiding behind a tree, holds him up with his empty hand covered with a handkerchief, takes his pack and clothes away from him and leaves him bewailing his fate. The crowd catch sight of tbe tramp, now dressed up in the Jew's clothes, and give chase. They catch him after he has dropped the pack and tray, right at the foot of the tree behind which tbe JewIs hiding. They beat the tramp up thinking that he is the Jew. while lucky Sol recovers his goods and goes on his way rejoicing. A TEN-ACRE GOLD BRICK (May 12).^Jed Bascom and his wife, who live in the Middle Atlantic States, where the winters are noted for their severity, are about tired of the cold and snow. One evening, after Jed has put In a hard day's work on the farm, and has arrived home with an armful of wood, he receives a prospectus and reading matter concerning Tropical Farms. He answers the letter and tells the real estate men that he will come on as a prospective purchaser. Skin & Dolle, tbe real estate men. who are land sharks, upon receiving Jed's reply decide to fix up a fake fruit farm on one of the worthless pieces of land that they have. Accordingly they buy a quantity of grape fruit, oranges, bananas and pine apples. These they give their men instructions to tie upon the trees with twine, so that when the unsuspecting buyer arrives they can show him the wonderful bargain they are going to sell him. Jed arrives and falls into tbe trap. He buys the farm, but he pays the bill with a check. The next day he takes a survey of his purchase, and finds out the deception. Instead of raising a row, he and his wife borrow a hundred dollars from the land sharks. Then he wires the bank to stop payment on the check. He then sends Skin & Dolle a letter, telling them what he has found out. When they receive the letter they faint. THE PADRE'S STRATEGY (May 13).— Ramona Martinez, a beautiful Mexican flower girl, is the support of her widowed mother. One day. "while out gathering flowers for her basket, she meets a young Mexican youth and they are mutually attracted with each other. In time the acquaintance ripens into love. Manuel Vasquez, the leader of a band of Mexican guerillas, comes to the city one night and enters a cafe where many of the army officers and better class of Mexicans are enjoying themselves. Daring the evening. Ramona enters the cafe to sell her flowers. She passes from table to table and finally comes to where Vasquez is seated. He speaks to her but she repulses him. He leaves the cafe and calls his lieutenant and one of his band, and tells them that tbey shall get the girl and bring her to him. They go to the cafe, and as the girl leaves she is overpowered and carried away by the bandits. Jose, who is coming to meet her and take her home, sees tbe abduction, but is too late to be of any service. He enters the cafe and tells of Ramon's trouble. The habitues of the place are not interested in the flower girl and his appeal for aid is unheeded. He then decides to go to the priest and ask for aid. 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