Moving Picture World (Apr-Jun 1913)

854 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD spy had overheard thfir plans, it i? deoidi-cl ta attack the left win? iustoail of the right, as originally outlined. The right wing of the Union army is strength-^ncd. niio at dawn the left wing is surprised by a sharp attack and half the Northern soldiers are killed in a terrible battle. Jack tjccures a leave of absence and goes home. Billy is taken sick, and writiis to his mother that his regiment is leavicg for his home town, and asking her to watch for him. Thf family are overjoyed to hear from Billy, and anxiously awaits the arrival of the regiment. Great preparations are made to receive the little hero, and mother cooks Billy's favorite cakes. Tlie regimeut arrives, and Billy is carried to his mother's hO'He by a ?;quad of soldiers, who reverently lay the casket in which the l>oy lies, and force hack the lumps in their throats at the grief of the mother — for Billy has died. EXCLUSIVE FILM CORPORATION GAUMONT. GAUMONT VTEEKLY, NO. 62 (May 14),— Motor Boats vs. Aeroplanes. — Exciting contest at Monte Carlo results in disaster to air machines. Secretary Bryan in San Francisco. — Famous American statesman breaks ground for Agricultural Building at Panama-Pacific Exposition. The Fall of Adriianople. — Turkish city, after months of siege, capitulates to Servians. International Bicycle Bace. — One hundred mile contest at Berlin is won by Belgian Vanderstuyft. A Duel in Chicago. — Windy City firemen have exciting fire hose contest. Hats from Paris. — Maison Royale sends us interesting pictures of the latest in headgear. New Cruiser Launched. — ^The latest addition to the French navy is a marvel of rapid construction. Civic Pride in the "West. — San Francisco holds enthusiastic meeting, and decided to beautify all her parks. What a Watermain Did.— Over pressure in San Francisco causes explosion which does great damage. Famous Eoumanian Dies. — Prince Cantacuzene, President of the Senate, Is buried at Bucarest. North Yakima Blossom Festival. — Washington fruit eity celebrates with its annual flower carnival. Carl Schurz. — Splendid bronze statue of famous German-American is unveiled. IN THE WAXE OF THE BRAIN STOKM (May 13). — The Marquis of Dartmouth, spending an idle hour in a motion picture treater. Is startled to see on the screen, walking with a man, a woman who amazingly resembles his wife. Their attitude is affectionate, to say the least. Wild with jealousy, he purchases a copy of the film to reassure himself that it cannot be she. The film, however, shows what he did not want to see. Returning to his country estate*, he watches his wife closely. There is nothing to confirm his suspicions. Obsessed with jealousy, the marquis waits for something to substantiate the evidence of the film. His wife one day happens to leave on her desk this note: "M.v dear Helen: — I have paid bitterly for the past. I beg you not to refuse to see the 'exile,' who is due to arrive at Bedda Station at 4:30. Ton know I love you. Roger." The marquis, infuriated, restrains himself with difficulty. The jealous man had heard his wife give the order for the carriage to be brought. Quickly the marquis goes outside, where the horses are standing impatiently. Under the harness of one animal he slips several matches, which he calculates at a later moment will explode and cause him to run amuck. After his wife bad gone, the marquis is stricken with remorse. As he Is trying to still his confidence, he is visited by the man whom he had seen with her on the film. It was her brother, who, because of some boyish indiscretion, had been reTiounced by his family, excepting only his sister, who had retained her kindness and affection for him. Realizing the enormit,v of his crime the distracted marquis dashes oCC on his horse in pursuit -of his wife. Meanwhile, the horse, frightened, had dashed off madly. Despite the efforts to control him and his mate, they plunge on toward a high precipice. The coachman is thrown out. The carriage overturns, "the marchioness thrown under the wheels. Here, with but a faint spark of life remaining, slie is foimd by her conscience-stricken husband. She recovers to forgive him for his act of iasanity. LUX. PLATING ■WITH THE FIRE (May 23),— Harry Rever, a young artist, searches in vain for a suitable model for a picture which he is painting. He meets Lady Wilson, and she consents to sit as a model. Two months pass happily, and the picture nears completion. Meanwhile a great love has been awakened in the hearts of the young artist and his fair young model. Hadji. Rever's Hindoo servant, has also conceived a wild passion tor the white woman — a passion tainted with all the lustfulness of the Oriental. It is part of Hadji's duties to take care of the lion which Rever uses in his picture. Eever and Lady Wilson are happy in the possession of each other's love, and finally Rever asks Lord Wilson's consent to bis marriage with bis daughter. The proud old nobleman refusRs his consent, and the lovers are parted. In the meantime Hadji becomes more and more jealous of his master. At last he decides to put into execution the wild plan that has frequently occurred to him. He lets the lion loose upon his master, and then listens with joy to the sounds of the dreadful struggle which follows. Having felled its prey, the lion is attracted by the slight noise which Hadji makes, and it turns upon him. Hadji has played with the fire, and Is now powerless to defend himself against the onslaughts of the infuriated beast. Thus he pays the penalty of his jealous crime with his life. In due course Revere's picture secures for bim great fame. He gradually recovers from his injuries, and now that he is a famous man, Lord Wilson consents to his marriage with his daughter. SOLAX. THE HENPECKED BURGLAR (May 28).— Henpecked, an undersized man, decides to take his big strong wife to the theater. So he buys two tickets from the pretty ticket seller and gets into an altercatiou with rhe burly manager. Brave everywhere except in his wife's presence, he easily vanquishes his opponent. As Mr. and Mrs, Henpecked are leaving the restaurant in the hotel that evening, Henpecked is possessed uf a sudden peremptory thirst. He makes au excuse to get away from his wife, telling her to wait 3 few minutes. The minutes lengthen into hours and at last the irate wife goes home to prepare a warm reception for her tardy spouse's arrival. Meanwhile Henpecked has had a hilarious time. While Jie is away, a burglar enters his home and ransacks the living-room. Henpecked is sneaking in on all fours at 4 a. m. and Is covered by a desperate liouse'oreaker. Seeing that his victim Is In a dn-ss suit, the burglar surmises that it is "Raffles, the gentleman burglar," and forces Henpecked to rob his own house. Finally Mrs. Henpecked hears the racket and is investigating, wben tlie burglar pounces upon her. Henpecked is forced to gag and bind his own wife — he is torn between delight at her silence and the gnawing fear of her release. The burglar decided tliat they have enough booty and calling on the man he thinks is "Kaffles" to follow, he exits. While he Is gone. Henpecked relenses his wife who pounces upon him just as a policeman enters with the burglar in his grip. The burglar has told him that his pal was "Raffles." Mrs. Henpecked interferes and drags her husband away from the bluecoat. Henpecked would rather take his chance on the clemency of the bench than with his maddened wife, so he declares that he Is Raffles and demands that he be arrested. So the officer drags him oft and saves him from Mrs. Henpecked's vengeance. "THE KING'S MESSENGER" (May 80),— Miss Priscilla Handy, an elderly maiden lady, sits reading her Bible In her room. She closes the book, removes her jeivelry and prepares for bed. She places the Bible upon the table at her bedside, blows out the candle and drops asleep. Bill Briggs, a burglar. "inters the room, finds the things upon the table, and wrapping them in a handkerchief, escapes with them. He takes them to a bench in the park near a stone wall and there proceeds to examine his loot. Finding the Bible, he opens It at a place marked the twentieth chapter of Exodus, and the first thing his eyes alight upon is the commandment. "Thoa shilt not steal." To him comes a vision of himself as a child at his mother's knee, and he drops the Bible on the bench. Hastily gathering up the jewelry, he returns it to the owner, closes down the window and vanishes. Tom Ralney, a workman, is being evicted by John Ferguson, his landlord, and swears vengeance. Arming hims'^lf be repairs to the park to lie In wait and with drawn revolver he hides near the bench. HtB eye falls on the Bible and he picks it up to read the Commandment, "Thou shalt not klU." Into his mind flashes a vision of a gallows with himself standing beneath It, and an Angel of the Lord pointing to the mark of Cain on his forehead, while th.? wife and child kneel weephig. Throwing away the gun, he flees from the spot, just as Ferguson comes by, unharmed. Ferguson sees the Rlhle and examines it out of curiosity. His eyes alight upon the passage, "Thon shalt have no other Gods before me." and be sees a vision of himself hoarding gold and feverishly counting It while the wan figures of women and children plead with him for bread. With a shudder, he drops the book and covering bis face with his hands, staggers away. Other telling Incidents Illustrate: "Thou Shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." "Thou shalt not commit adultery.'* "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land," etc. "Thou Shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.'' This morality play ends with: Miss Handy going by. prim and precise, but worried. She finds the book, recognizes It and clasping It in h^r hands, with delight, moves off. She comes to the steps of a church and there accosts au aciuaiutauce. As she stands there, with the Bible in her hands, there pass In, one at a time into the church. Bill Briggs, Tom Rainey, John Ferguson, Mary demons and her child, Charles Michael Brown, who pauses on the steps, then removes his helmet and enters. Miss Handy wishes her friend farewell and with a bright smile, follows them. MISCELLANEOUS KINEMACOLOR. THE BETTER SUCCESS. — A story dealing with the lives of two farmer boys. At the beginning, Wallace is tired of the drudgery of farm life and determines to go to the city. There he meets^with success and marries the cold, heartless daughter of a rich man. Meanwhile, John, the other brother, has married a sweet little country girl, and we see them in their happy home life with their children about them. No children have blessed the loveless union of Wallace, who has become a power in New York. Husband and wife drift apart, Wallace is finally caught in the whirlpool of Wall Street, and In order to save himself, uses funds intrusted to hl» care. In a panic on the Stock Excliange, Wallace is not only ruined himself, but brings rnin on others. He rushes home, tells his wife his story, and begs her help in replacing the funds he took. She refuses, and the desperate man goes to bis brother, whom he has long neglected, but he is followed, and shortly after he rushes into the QuIet country home, begging for protection, the officers of the law enter. Before they can arrest him his overtaxed heart gives out, and he falls dead at the feet of the brother who represents "The Better Success." TOO MANY MAIDS, — Father's fad Is fishing; so to ingratiate himself before asking for Victoria's hand, Dick takes dad on a fishing excursion, but by his awkwardness manages to spill the old man into rhe water. Thereafter he is forbidden the house, and in order to facilitate courtship, Victoria exchanges costumes with her maid and thus manages to meet Dick outside. While recovering from the cold, which is the only thing he caught on the fishing expedition, dad takes a stroll in the park, where he spies Dick making love to a lady's maid. With his kodak he takes a snapshot, but on showing it to Victoria as proof of Dick's perfidy all he gets is the laugh, A little later he sees apparently the same maid sweetheart with a chauffeur. The next moment be sees the maid and Dick in another direction. Convinced tliat the "halt" and water he swallowed on the fishing excursion, combined with the ' 'cold cure' ' have made him see double, dad returns home, where he sees a rapid succession of mysteriously appearing and disappearing "maids." He is so grateful for an explanation that he gives his blessing. -'"'^ ITALA. THE DREAD OF DOOM.— Doctor Guido, on the eve of marrying the woman be loves, discovers that into his body there has been introduced accldently the germs of a deadly disease. He cannot manfully go on with his marriage knowing the physical price of such a predestlnely woeful alliance. It is for him to disappear and wait for the death soon to come. His lot would be alleviated If he could but tell his fiance why he could not marry her. But there Is one reason why he must leave her unknowing that his reason for breaking off the match was because he loved her more than love itself. That reason is that hla sister Is betrothed to the brother of the doctor's bride-elect. If Doctor Guido lets it be known that he is consumptive, his sister's fianc& may suspect that she too has tubercular tendencies, which suspicion might separate them. It is, therefore, necessary for him to seal his lips and go away under a cloud, leaving it to be thought that he had backed out of his pre-nuptial agreement. WARNER'S FEATURES. HIS LIFE FOR THE CAUSE (Feature Release, 3 parts). — Representatives of the big European nations meet and draw up a secret treaty affecting the Far Eastern countries. In order to safeguard the document, the Minister of Foreign Affairs places it in a safe guarded by ten automatic pistols, so arranged that anyone tampering with the combination vrtll receive the full discharge of the pistols. If this secret treaty Is adopted it will seriously Interfere with the careers of the Mongolian residents of the capital city. Accor<Hngly, Prince Frederick poses as a nobleman In order to steal the treaty and destroy It. At a reception, the spy meets Banker Newell's daughter, whom he learns is engaged to Minister Carr, the custodian of the treaty. While at the card table, Banker Newell receives a letter of blackmail, which he drops In his excitement. The spy secures this letter and finds evidence of a crime committed by Banker Newell years before. With this proof, he forces the banker's daughter to pledge her aid to his cause, and arranges with her to enter Minister Can's home and Inveigle him Into