Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1913)

570 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD The schoolmaster seods all the children to the "leach to bathe or paddle, as their wishes dictate. He strolls around the torni and finally wanders to :he beach, where .he is trapped by the watching Buddy, and the result is that his scholastic costume s soaked. He goes to a bathing house, but can :>nly get a woman's bathing dress of ample pro;)Ortions. There is nothing else to do, so he dons ;t and again joins the pupils. He bathes and then ;eeks a nice quiet spot in which to snooze. He wants to forget the indignity thrust upon him by Buddy, who has dived under water and made him rhink that a crab has bis toe. He sleeps and the boys fly a kite until the cord ^ives out — happy thought ! Buddy ties a strand from the master's sweater and the kite sails higher rind the sweater gradually disappears before the ■inravelling process. He wakes and goes and changes his clothes. The boys have sports, and a tug of «-ar is suggested by the master. He is caught in the rope and again ;ets a good soaking, and decides that it is time to go home — the fun is too exciting for an everylay schoolmaster. THE TOY (July 29) .^im Sloan has been out if work for some time; his wife is ill in bed. One lay he takes his child to the park, and there they iee the children of rich fanailiea playing. Baby Sloan spies a little toy dog on the bench which 'he and her father occupy. She picks it up and legins playing with it. The father is reading a ;)iece of newspaper and doesn't notice. Presently jne of the little girls sees Baby Sloan with her toy. runs over and snatches it from her hand. Baby ^loan cries, the nurse runs up and takes away the rich child, looking scornfully back, Sloan tries to lacjfy the baby hut it's no use and they go home, .\irriving home the mother sees the baby has been -Tying and asks the reason. The father explains. The next day sees tlie father, mother and child In the room. The child is trying to fashion a doll from some old rags, finally despairs, throws the rag doll away and cries. The father, desperate, goes out; he is determined to get a toy of some kind for his child. Walking along the street he lasses a toy shop. He goes in, and when no one is looking, takes a doll from the counter and goes >ut, but one of the customers, who saw him take the doll, tells the proprietor, who rushes out, calls a policeman, and follows Sloan. He is arrested ;ind sentenced to ninety days in the work-house. >wing to his 111 health he is put to work in the garden, which is surrounded by a high fence. His wife and child visit him and he hands them vegetables. A keeper sees him and reports him ;o the warden, before whom he is summoned. The «-arden is harsh at first, bat when Sloan tells liim that he did it to save his little family from :itarvation, he softens, secretly determining to 'iring the matter before the judge. He does so, ■ind amid great rejoicing, Sloan is set free and the court attaches contribute liberally. TZMPESTA (August 2). — Tempesta is an Italian, rin agitator and reformer. He preaches liberty, fraternity and equality — down with monarchy! He ■8 arrested and thrown into prison. He knows the American Consul, who comes to him, and Tempesta jives his wife and child into his keeping. The ■onsul loves the child and freely agrees. Aided by a friendly guard, Tempesta escapes and stows (.way on a vessel bound for America. His wife dies and the consul adopts the child and oves her dearly. Eighteen years pass and Angele "s grown to womanhood. The consul has retired 'rom public life and lives in New York. Angela hinks he is her father, and she is engaged to a promising artist. One day while walking in the 'Jhetto, Hooper sees Tempesta and persuades him to come to the studio and pose as a brigand for him. Angela and the consul visit the studio and Tempesta recognizes his daughter from her likeness to ber sainted mother, and also from his easy recognition of the consul. Angela and the artist stroll to the garden and Tempesta makes himself known to the consul, who is shocked at again meeting the man he thought dead, Tempesta desires to make himself known to his daughter, but the consul alternately pleads and reasons with him, and finally persuades him that be has nothing to give her— nothing to oflfer — neither position, place nor money. AVhy disillusion her? Why crumble her dreams and ambitions, why interfere with the perfect love existing between the girl and her supposed father, Tempesta is touched; be agrees not to make hlm:elf known, and refosing financial assistance, he •rushes away the tears that scorch hts cheeks md goes sadly away. THANHOUSER. WILLIE THE WILD MAN (July 27).— He was the son of a prominent financier, but was a bad ■K)ker player. His repeated requests for funds exisperated bis fathor, and the latter finally cut off Ills allowance. The young man found himself itranded at a summer hotel without money and threatened with eviction by the bard-hearted landlord. The chief attraction of the hotel was a wonderful wild man, who lived in a cave in the nearby mountains. People flocked from distant points to see the wonderful being, and, incidentally, stopped ■■it the hotel. The wild man tired of hig lonely life and resigned his position. The question of a successor was a perplexing one to the hotel owner, until he thought of his delinquent guest. The idea of prancing around the mountains in scant attire did not appeal to the young man. but the hotel owner finally induced him to take the post. He was a very satisfactory wild man, and far excelled his predecessor. A millionaire came to the hotel with his pretty daughter. The girl took a walk through the mountains and there encountered the wild man. Unlike many others, she did not flee, but faced him fearlessly. The wild man was so anxious to gain her good opinion that he told her who he really was, and she found that her brother was his intimate friend. On his day off. the wild man, once more handsome and well dressed, called at the hotel. Acquaintanceship soon ripened into love, but the girl's fatlier refused his consent. However, a few days later, when passing through the mountains, be was captured by the terrible ^vlld man, who bound him to a trec^nd then disappeared. A few minutes later the /ounjr man whom he had refused to consider as a son-in-law appeared, released him from his perilous plight and escorted him td safety. The millionaire often tells how his son-in-law rescued him at the risk of his own life. "The boy was Inclined to be extravagant," be says, "and that was why his father stopped bis allowance, bu-t as soon as he heard how be saved roe from that ferocious wild man, he realized that there was something to the boy after all. Tliat's why my son-in-law is partner in his father's banking house. LITTLE DOESIT (July 29).— Little Dorrit was born in the Marshalsea prison in London, where debtors were confined years ago. Her father had numerous creditors whose claims had to he satisfied before he could leave the prison's gloomy walls. Her mother died when the child was eight years old. and the girl lived In the Marshalsea with her brother and sister. She was devoted to her family and helped them In many ways. Through her efforts, a dancing master, temporarily imprisoned in the Marshalsea, instructed her sister, Fanny, in the art of dancing. A seamstress taught Little Dorrit how to sew, and the girl, in her new occupation, earned money to buy luxuries for her helpless family. Little Dorrit frequently did sewing for Mrs. Clenman, an elderly widow, and at her home met ■ her son, Arthur, who had Just returned from a trip abroad. The voung man was strongly attracted by the quiet, self-sacrificing girl, and a strong attachment sprung up between them, but Little Dorrit was loyal to her family, whom she felt was dependent upon ber. .\rthur Clonnam Ix'ht ■ every effort to secure the release of Dorrit from the Marshalsea. and succeeded in proving the latter'3 right to a fortune left by a distant relative. The Dorrits. now rich. Ignored Arthur, to whom they owed everything, that is. all except Little Dorrit, but her family forced her to go with them to Italy, and become a society personage like themselves. Wealth did not bring happiness to the Dorrits. Little Dorrit was as unaffected as ever, but her family was pursebound and arrogant. The father was stricken at a banquet and died soon after, believing that he was once more a prisoner in the Marshalsea. Little Dorrit, how free, received word that Arthur Clennam bad lost his fortune and was a prisoner himself in the Marshalsea. She went to him and comforted biro in his hour of trial. Fortune smiled upon them, and Arthur soon was able to pay his debts and leave the Marshalsea forever, with bis bride. Little Dorrit, the child of the Marshalsea, IN THE NICK OF TIME (August 1).— It often happens that very loving wives are also very jealous of the objects of their affections. A young salesman in a dry goods house often heard this statement made, but laughed it to scorn. His wife was devoted to him and to their little daughter, and as far as jealousy was concerned, why, she was Incapable of so base an impulse. His opinion was put to the test. The head of his firm detailed him to entertain a lady buyer from an out-of-town concern. He took the customer to the theater, and to dinner at a high-priced restaurant. His wife happened to see him with the woman, at once arrived at the wrong conclusion, and was jealons. When the salesman arrived home there was a quarrel. The wife would listen to no explanations, the husband was hotheaded, and the result was that he took hi=i belongings and left his home at once. The wife was well provided for, and she had the companionship of her child. The husband bad a comfortable boarding place. But they were both unbapT>y. for they really cared for each other, and pride alone prevented them from making up their differences. Then fate took a hand In the problem. The wife called upon a neighbor in an adjoining flat, and during ber absence her little daughter turned the valve in the gas log. The door leading to the flat snapped shut when the mother crossed the hall and she had forgotten her key. When she discovered her child's peril she called frantically for help, and the appeal was answered by her husband. EJxerting all his strength he smashed the donr from its hinges and rushed into the flat just in time to save his child's life. The child's peril proved to be a blessing in disguise for it was the means of bringing the little family together again. EXCLUSIVE FILM CORPORATION GAUMONT. "PALMISTRY" (July 22),-^rhis film is a distinct novelty, and, in a manner which is interesting throughout, the pictures give the story of Palmistry from its earliest beginnings, showing: how it originated In India, when certain priesti tried to Interpret Fate from the markings on thepalm. Later these Palmist Priests were driven from their temples and took refuge in Egypt' where they formed wandering tribes afterwards^ called Gypsies (from 'Egyptians") who read handsand predicted the future. A very ingenious arrangement Is shomi by which' hands may be read, a model being exhimited iu conjunction with a photographed hand, lines tracing themselves out on the former which indicatethe various stages in a man's life. Different types of hands are Included — hands with s<iuare fingers^ indicate method, discipline, common -sense: certain types of pointed fingers Indicate imagination, poetry, frivolty; and several other types are given* together with full explanation In each case. All thethe lines of the hand are examined In turn, and' the film ends with a representation, of a lucky hand. "WHEN THE CARDS WERE SHUFFLED"' (July 24). — Young Baron Beljambe drops into a' Paris restaurant for a light lunch, and meets; John Dupont, his old friend. Dupont, a newlywed, vriU not stay with him as he Is in a hurry to get home, but leaves his card so that the Baron may call upon him at a future date. Enter a wealthy American, Cornelius K. Dowd, accompanied by his charming daughter, Amelia, and Beljambe's disapijointment at Dupont' s desertion vanishes In a second. It does not take so skilled a boulevardler long to exchange glances with Amelia, and he passes her Dupont's card upon' which he has written a request for an appointment. Papa Is, however, not so blind as he seems, and before his daughter can reach the card Papa has seized It. A hot altecration follows, and PapaDowd flings his glove in the Baron's face. Next day two strange gentlemen call upon Mr. Dupont — ^Mr. Dowd's seconds have come to arrange the duel. Dupont loses his temper over thelr persistency, finally decorating one with a black eye and allowing the other to escape with an upper-cut. The noise draws Mrs. Dupont tothe scene; she learns the alleged reason, believesthe story, and promptly rushes off to mother. Dupont dashing after her meets the Baron on the doorstep, explains where he is going, and engages another taxi. Beljnmhe, knowiug what is wrong, charters yet a third taxi, and joins in' the chase. Further down the street Sir. Dowd" sees the Baron In his taxi, and believing he 1.'* attempting a get-away, the American makes a fourth in the swiftly gliding fleet of taxi's. Theprocession eventually reaches the house of Dupont's mother-in-law, _ the young wife commences to sob' out her story of infidelity, when the crowd of followers rushes in pell-mell. Tlie Baron sees that he must explain matters or there will he a riot, so be makes a clean breast of it, whereupon Dowd' tickled by the humor of the situation, laughingly relents upon hearing the true facts of the case. "THROUGH MOUNTAINS MAJESTIC" July 24). — This is yet another of the masterpieces of scenic subjects turned out by the house of Gaumont, giving us a magnificent panorama of some of the most beautiful mountainous districts of Europe, in what might be termed a "personally conducted" manner, WITH HONOR AT STAKE (2 parts— July 15).— Mrs. D'Arcy W. Martin's adoring husband learni that his wife is suffering from heart trouble and the doctor advises that she avoid all excitement. At the Horton's reception in Paris, Mrs. Martin UDe.xpectedly meets George Molyneaux, a sweetheart of youthful days, for whom She yet retains a lingering affection, Molyneaux is the possessor of a packet of Mrs. Martin's early love-letters, and she asks him to return them. He writes her a note expressing his willingness to hand her back thesf compromising missives, hut asks that she will, just for the final good-bye, come In person to receive them. Mrs. Martin, knowing his honorable nature, agrees to do this, and we see her in George's house. He goes to fetch the letters from a box. but hearing a sharp cry of pain, rushes back to her, only to find Mrs. Martin quite prostrate. Molyneaux Is terrified, he thinks Madeliue Is dead, and his only thought Is now to find some means whereby the honor of the woman be loves can be sustained. The hours drag on, Molyneaux 's only recourse ia to lovingly and tenderly Inter the hod.v in a leafy sepulchre in the nearby woods. He .slaves for hours at the making of a grave. Meanwhile Mrs. Martin's husband has become alarmed at her long absence, and when he hears frem the Police Commissioner that his wife's liandbag has been discovered on the person of a thief, he jumps to the worst conclusion, and aci-iisnst the alleged thief of killing his wife for purposes of robbery. When Molyneaux gets hack to the house, he is overjoyed to find the woman whom he thought dead has returned to life, and had suffened nothing hut a sudden heart attack. Mrs. Martin examines her watch and finding liow late the hour Is. hurries off home to her distracted husband and much