Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1913)

78o THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD taken to the place of the supposed murder, to be shot for his criine. Arriving at the spot, Dorothy explains all and they learn the truth. The Nelsons are so oTerjoyed at the recovery of their son that they hold forth the hand of friendship to Fred and depart, taking Andy with them. Then Dorothy turns gratefully to her real hero. RUNA PLAYS CTJPID (August 13).— Runa's mother, a pretty widow, and handsome Dr. Hale know each other by sight only. They meet at a garden party and become good friends through the medium of the child, who takes quite a fancy to the doctor. Rnna is taken sick and all through the terrifying hours of her illness. Dr. Hale and the frightened mother watch at the little bedside. The night of the crisis is a long wearying siege, ibat the dawn brings restful sleep and surcease of fever to the child. In her joy at the baby's recovery, the mother sobs out her relief in Hale's arms and it is then that they realize their love. Happy days follow with Rnnn, a cheerful convalescent. Bnt Mrs. Adams' lawyer comes from the city to see her on business. She introduces Hale and knowing he is a trifle jealons. she pretends a great interest in the other man. After his departure, he angrily accuses her of flirting. Proudly she resents his attitude, angry words follow, and the doctor returns home with his ring in his pocket. The days that follow are lonely. When Runa asks why the doctor doesn't come an.v more. Mrs. Adams has to admit that he will never come again, Runa then takes matters into her own hands. She decides that she will be sick again, so the doctor will have to come to her. When he arrives Runa explains her deception to him and he, ashamed of his foolishness, goes to the mother and their quarrel Is soon a thing of the past. OF SUCH IS THE KENGDOM (August 16).^ Par.'ion Morton Is writing a sermon and Is using for the text Christ's words regarding children— '"Of such is the kingdom of Heaven," While he is writing his little daughter. Runa. invites two little waifs, Rosanna and Billy, to play with her in lier father's garden. The parson and bis wife are very shocked when tbe.v find their daughter in the company of the two waifs. Runa is scolded and told that she must not associate with that kind of children. The waifs are driven from the garden and Runa taken into the house. Later the parson and his wife visit some friends and while they are away. Rnna, being neglected by her nurse, takes 'the opportunity to play with the two waifs again. While tliey are playing. Rnna accidentally falls into a well, bnt is rescued by Billy, who manages to get hold of her dress, and sends Rosanna for help. After a few complications showing alternately the danger of Rnna and the difficulty of Rosanna in getting help and the heroism of Billy who holds on to Runa until he is utterly exhausted, Rosanna finds the iiarson who comes to the rescue. He then recognizes the fact that children are no respectors of persons— that all are akin, and "Of such is the kingdom of Heaven." BRONCHO. THE HERITAGE OF EVE (2 ports— August 20), — Nat Boyd, a telegraph operator, dei'ply moumS the death of his father, recently shot in the Civil War. He makes application for a position in the XT. S. Secret Service and is accepted. He remem. berg a college chum, .Tohn Stilton, who is now a captain in the Confederate army, and whose father is a retired colonel. He manages to secure an Invitation to visit the Stiltons, claiming that his health is afCected by the northern climate, and he goes to work as a spy. General r>ee makes his headquarters at the Stilton home, and Nat taps the telegraph wires, bnt is unable to discover the secret code until one day General Lee. suspicious of a click in the wires, has the code changed and it is blown out of the window. Nat copies it before the telegraph operator misses it and looks for it. Nat has feigned snch ill health that the Stiltons invite his mother down to nurse him. She is a handsome woman and Col. Stilton falls in love with her and propo.^fs marriage. She has become fond of the Colonel and accepts him, and she tries to dissuade her son from the contemptible work he is doing. John Stilton discovers the duplicit.v of his friend, and does not wish to expose him. as it would ruin his father's life and of Mrs. Stilton. for whom he has a deep affection, so he arranges false messages, which Nat Intercepts and sends to the enemy. Ulrs. Stilton learns of this and commands him to stop John Stilton, who has started for the front, threatening to expose her son if lie does not comply, Nat goes after John, and is stopped by Southern sentries. In attempting to gallop past tliem he is mqrtally wounded, A terrible battle takes place, the T'nion army acting on the false information and being badly defeated. John Stilton conceals the actions of Nat, and tells his father that Nat died carrying false messages for John to the enemy. KAY-BEE. AN ORPHAN OF "WAR (2 parts— August 22),— John Waldron. a giant mountaineer In West Virginia, Is a Northern sympathizer at the outbreak of the Civil War and Is hated by his nelghbora. His son, Tom, a bright little lad, has been brought up by his father to have a deep regard for righteousness and to always perform the duty his conscience tells him is right. One day Waldron is attacked by his neighbors and a fierce struggle ensues, in which Waldron's great strength is taxed to the utmost, but he finally escapes, covering the mob with his rifle. The Southern army reaches the locality and a captain is informed of the actions of the fighting Northerner, and a squad is sent to arrest Waldron, who puts up a desperate defense before he is overpowered by force of numbers. The prisoner is about to be strung up when little Tom, who has been hiding in the cellar where his father sent him, follows the soldiers with his rifle and as the rope is being adjusted about his father's neck he opens fire and kills a couple of soldiers. Tho captain, mortally wounded, sees W"aldron escaping and staggering to his feet shoots and kills him. Tom is chased by the soldiers, and escapes by donning the clothes of a scarecrow and standing still. ■ After the soldiers are gone he hides in the thicket for a few days, and finally emerges, ravenously hungry. He meets Betty, the little daughter of Col. Johnstone, a Southern officer, and the child gives him her sandwiches. The two quickly become fast friends, but Betty is taken away by her colored nurse, who had taken Betty out for an outing in the woods, Betty loses her locket, with the picture of her father In it, which Tom picks up and keeps. General Freemont, hemmed in by Stonewall Jackson, tries to get a message to General McClellan. The messenger is pursued by Confederate soldiers and is badly wounded. Realizing that he Is dying, he secretes the me^isage under a stone, and when his dead body is searched by the soldiers they find nothing. Tom, hiding In the tliicket. has seen the packet hidden, and discovers the nature of the message. He manages to deliver the note, after many hardships, and McClellan attacks Jackson. During the battle which follows. Tom, who is an expert shot, climbs in a tree and picks off officers, burning with hate for the Southern soldiers who have caused the death of his father. During a charge by the I'nion soldiers he shoots Colonel Johnstone. Climbing down, he goes to taunt the ■wounded man and Is amazed to find the original of the picture in the locket, and remembering the kindly little girl he goes for aid in the Confederate camp, Johnstone's life is saved, but he is compelled to go home on sick leave, and he takes Tom, who has been held as an honored prisoner, with him. Tom and Betty renew their acquaintance, and It is plain to he seen that the little orphan of war has at last found a real home. MUTUAL WEEKLY. MUTUAL WEEKLY NO. 32 (August 6).— Seattle, Wash. — Secretary of the Navy Josepbus Daniels and Rear Admiral .Vlfred Reynolds review the military parade of Potlath, Riotous scenes occur the following day. Paris, France. — ^Funeral of Henri Rochefort, the most famous journalist of France. Yosemite, Cal, — A family of bears make a call upon visitors' camp, Paris, France. — Tlie two big races of the year are run at Auteull and Longchamp. Portland, Ore.— Hex Oregonus VII. enters the town as record crowds attend opening of Rose festival. Fashion in New York. — Leipzig, Germany. — The King of Saxony on board of Count Zeppelin's new dirigible. Annapolis, Md. — Strange birds that have never been seen before -are found in the clay banks of the shores of the Severn River. Palermo, Italy. — All classes of the town join In a huge procession. Garden City, L, I, — Aviation is the crowning feature of the "Navy Day." Andre Houpert, the French aviator, fell with his machine. Miss Prevost took her first ride in an aero car. EXCLUSIVE FILM CORPORATION GREAT NORTHERN. A SHOT IN THE DARK (August 2).— Johnson is a young solicitor and with his wife Eva and their baby girl Dorothy occupy a town house. The wife and baby take a short vacation and during their absence, Johnson meets Lizzie, a former sweetheart. There is a visit to a cafe and the old love days are discussed. Upon the return of his wife, Johnson gives every outward evidence of being guilty of transgressing . and finally makes a confession to his wife. She leaves him and with her child and Jane, an old servant, takes np her abode elsewhere. When little Dorothy is stricken with illness, Jane Informs her fatber and the latter makes an appointment to visit his former home at 11 o'clock at night. While kneeling at the bedside of the little one, the wife,, who had been slumbering in an adjoining room is aroused, and thinking that a burglar has entered the house grasps a revolver and enters the sick chamber. There is a shot In the dark and Johnson is slightly wounded In the arm. But the shot brings about a ceconciliatlon between husband and wife at the bedside of their child. THE FIVE COPIES (August 9). — In this comedy the storv discloses that Clara, a stenographer is "in love with Lionel, one of the clerks in the office in which she is employed. While absent from the office to attend to certain duties in the works. Clara takes possession of Lionel's typewriting machine and finding paper already adjusted, writes him a message to the effect that she lovps him and will meet him In the parli at S o'clock on the same evening. While passing the desk each of the four clerks in the office pick up one of the sheets, for it has so happened that Lionel was about to make five copies of a letter when he was summoned to the works. Whefl (luitting time arrives the clerks make inroads upon the prtty cash box and prepare themselves to meet Clara in the park. The boss also gets one of the copies and hastens to keep the appointment. When he arrives, Lionel and Clara are making love' and the clerks are standing in the background filled with envy and jealousy. The boss decides that, he Is not the chosen one and beats a hasty retreat and the disappointed clerks soon follow his example. Fatty, one of the clerks, hires a carriage with the intention of asking Clara out for a ride, but at the crucial moment Clara and Lionel take possession of the carriage and all ends merrily. LUX. THE POISONED DAGGER (August 161. — Returning troxa a voyage to the Rast. a sailor distributes presents among his friends. To his fiancee he gives a gaudily colored shawl, and to her father he makes a present of a quaint knife of Oriental manufacture. The arrival of the sailor entirely ruins the hopes of Olaude Baker, a village lad who aspires to the hand of Dolly, the daughter of au old miner, Dolly prefers the sailor and Claude is greatly enraged. When the old miner descends the rnine, the rope attached to the cage Is cut, and he Is hurled several feet into the depths tielow. The affair is a mystery until Claude Baker comes forward with a knife he found near the scene of the outrage. Tlie knife is identlfled, and suspicion falls immediately upon the sailor, wl'o is arrested. Just as the Ttolice are about to remove their prisoner, Claude Baker is seized by dreadful pains and expires. He confes.ses his guilt. and it is then found that he has cut himself with the dagger." which he used to cut the rope. Thus the biter Is bit, for the dagger had been dipped in a deadly poison, the existence of which is only known to the denizens of the mysterious Far East. OVER. THE GARDEN^ WALL (August 22).— The amusing adventures of a 'young gentleman who lived next door to 'a ladles' boarding-school. He falls in love with one of the mistresses and Incurs trouble thereby. It is a very funny episode, and much laughter will be caused when the bulldog of the seminary chases the young gentleman over the garden wall. THE REGISTERED LETTER (August 22).— An exciting drama of an attempt to rob a village postoffice, of the post mi. stress's ronrago in telegraphing for assistance and of the thrilling rescue. GAUMONT. GAUMONT WEEKLY NO, 74 (August 6} .— A French Review, — National troops are luspected at Versailles garrison. Youthful Farmers' Exhibit. — Oregon pupils give a garden and pet live stock show in Portland. Launcliing a Dock. — Government structure at Copenhagen, Denmark, Is sent Into commission. Marking the TransContinental Highway. — Crosscontinent tourists arrive at Lake Tohoe after record drive from San Francisco. Zeppelin Entertains Royalty, — King Frederick of Saxony takes trip on the Count's latest airship. Cossacks Capture Pirates. — Kongbouses gang Is routed out of its rendezvous at Kharbine, Siberia. Coney Island in the Summer Time. — New York's greatest seaside resort draws thousands of merrymaTiers. Emperor Wilhelm Visits the "Iraperator." — Gaumont Company of Berlin organizes fete in honor of German ruler, Carnegie Visits Paris. — Great iron master poses in French metropolis with American minister and former president Loubet. Across Seven Countries by Aeroplane. — Brindejonc De Moullnals travels at an elevation of three miles from Copenhagen to Paris. Outdoing William Tell. — Mr. and Mrs. Ad, Topperweln give fancy shooting exhibition at South Shore Gun Club, Chicago. New Sports at Worceater.^Brltlsh naval schoolboys originate some new athletic feats.