Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)

338 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD the forsaking of hoine and loved ones. Her intentions were good, however. In the end Sprague comforts his wife in a great sorrow — the loss of her father — and leads her from the room to a better and fuller realization of her wifply duties in the future. AN ENCHANTED VOICE (Jan. 25).— Mr. Higiitone, the famous singer, arrives at the village hotel. The proprietor and his maids fall over themselves in an effort to show him the best room in the house. After ushering him to his room thc.v listen outside the door while High-tone goes to the piano and proceeds to sing a lullaby. His listeners outside and the ensembled guests downstairs are enchanted. They listen spellbound. They commence to gently sway back and forth and indulge in the most weird dances. The song ends! Instantly the spell is broken and the entire lobby comes tumbling down about the ears of the guests and the t»roprietor. All Is excitement. They beg High-tone to sing once more. He proceeds downstairs, where he warbles once more. Instantly the pillars replace themselves, the ceiling becomes whole again, and the broken furniture is pieced together, and the entire room once more assumes its natural condition, under the spell of the enchanting voice. HE DOESN'T CARE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED (Jan. 25).^NewlyTved buys a camera and attempts to photograph the kid. He tries to pose him. jut darling refuses to stand for It. He chases him in the bedroom. Baby crawls under the bod. Papa follows him. but it is too dark to take a picture there. Chased by Newlywed. the kid runs under the table and from there around and in the back of the piano. Newlywed attempts to photograph him from the top of the piano and comes near breaking his neck. He gets him at last with a startling rear view and snaps the button. The neighbors call. They are shown the rear view (if baby, and are told it is a wonderful likeness. They leave disgusted, while the Newly weds admire the photograph of their darling. POWERS. TOO MANY COOKS (Jan. 19).— Carson, a happygo-lucky clubman, refuses the invitation of his friends to dine at the club, and goes honie In anticipation of a "real dinner." When he arrives home he finds his wife In the kitchen bemoaning the fact that the cook has left. Together they prepare the meal. The blunders he makes, the dishes he breaks and the swearing he does all tend to throw the household into a state of linabus. A messenger enters with a telegram telling that his mother-in-law is coming to spend a week. Carson leaves his wife weeping and goes to his club for sympathy. Carson, a little tipsy. Is assisted to his door by his friend. Through the keyhole he sees the motherin-law waiting for him. He thinks he would rather enter the house through the dining-room window; he Is mistaken for a burglar by a policeman and is rescued by the mother who pulls him In by the ear and lays down the law to him. This is che beginning of a line of complications which result *n victory for the clubman. The last cook accepts a bribe, frightens and annoys the mother until she flees in terror and disgust. THE DErCE AND TWO PAIR (Jan. 23).— The elopement plans of George Love and Hazel Sweet are intercepted by \2iss Freeze, spinster aunt of Helen. The aunt disguises In Helen's clothes, elopes with George, and the two are apparently married. They go to a nearby cafe for their wedding dinner, where Miss Freeze keeps her face judiciously veiled. In the (meantime, unconscious of what has transpired. Helen is waiting for her lover. Spike, a burglar, climbs the ladder which has been placed for Helen's elopement. Helyn thinks that It la George below. She throws lier grips out of the window. They strike Spike and knock him senseless. Helen goes for the police and discovers George and Miss Freeze in the cafe. She faints. When all have revived, George offers $500 to anyone who will extricate him from his embarrassment. Spike confesses that it was he who married George and the spinster. He had bound the minister in preparation to robbing his house, when the brldul couple arrived. To allay suspicion, he performed the marriage ceremony. George is delighted to learn that the marriage was illegal, and forthwith he takes Helen to the real minister, and they are married. NESTOR. COtTNTESS BETTY'S MINE (Jan. 21).— Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. Her brother, a dissolute fellow, is left out of the Inheritance, but at his solicitation and promise to reform, she takes him with her. At the mine they meet Wallace, a thoroughly independent American, who dislikes peerage on general principles. He has had entire charge of the mine subsequent lo the death of the uncle. The brother and Wallace instinctively dislike each other. The Countess likes Wallace, but resents his independence. Later, Wallace comes upon the brother at the cafe, and a fight ensues. The brother is beaten and Wallace promises not to tell his sister. Shortly following this incident. Wallace is alone in the office. With revenge foremost in his mind, the brother places a charge of dynamite under the house, lights the fuse, and retires to a safe distance to watch. When it is about time for the dynamite to explode, the Countess enters the office. Wallace and the Countess leave the oflBce by the rear door. The brother is caught in his own trap and killed. The Countess looks to Wallace for comfort — and finds it. SNOBBERY (Jan. 23). — The Gaiety Company goes broke when the manager skips with the proceeds. Ramona wires her aunt, Mrs. Van Horn, for money. This stately lady grows angry : she is giving a house party and is ashamed of the lively Ramona and her stage ways. However, she sends the money and in due time Ramona arrives and proceeds to inject liveliness into the party. This is viewed with disgust by her aunt, with annoyance to Dode, who Is trying to "catch" Ned Travis, a guest, and with pleasure by Ned himself, who, having made the mistake of taking Ramona ton cheaply, finds that she has both dignity and sense, and promptly falls in love with her. This affection is increased when he finds her snubbed. A guest loses a necklace, which has been taken by Dode. Ramona is accused and Is not allowed to leave the house. Ned sets to work to find the culprit, knowing that Ramona is not guilty. Ned meets Dode on the porch as she is returning from a pawn shop. She stumbles and her bag flies open. When she has gone to her room Ned sees a pawn ticket at bis feet. He seeks Ramona and they make Dode return the necklace to the guest's room and advise her to leave. Ramona is now cleared by the discovery of the necklace, and Ned decides to marry her forthwith, and "snobbery" takes a fall. BISON. FOR THE FREEDOM OF CITBA (2 parts — Jan. 24). — Felix, an American, is employed as a bookkeeper at a large hacienda In Cuba. Jaun, a halfbreed overseer of the estate, loves the planter's daughter. He makes brutal advances to her, and the girl is saved from his violence by Felix. Jaun IS .lep')sod as overseer and Felix is given the position. In a :-)<irit of revenge the peon steals Arabia, the daughter's, horse, rides to the headquarters of the Spanish ffeneral of the district and reports that the hacifndi^fo is recruiting a detachment of insurgents. r-iuiLg Jaun's absence the horse effects its own escape. The planter is arrested, taken to the Spanish headquarters and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. An insurgent leader in the vicinity Is notified of the proceeding and hurries with his detachment of rebels to aid In the rescue. The trusty horse carried a file to the prisoner and after the bars have been demolished be carries the planter to his friends. The Spanish soldiery gives chase and is caught in an ambuscade and captured. Jaun las returned to the hacienda to take the daughter away, but his evil purpose is interrupted by the arrival of a United States soldier with despatches to Felix. The insurgents arrive with their prisoners and Felix reads a despatch, which tells that Santiago has fallen and that his services as a military spy are ended. Jaun steals away in an attempt to escape, but Arabia chases him back into the patio, where the half-breed lands in a fountain. GOLD SEAL. THE UNSIGNED AGREEMENT (2 parts— Jan. 20). — The story opens when a labor agitator makes advances to Nell, an innocent girl whose life has been spent in the factory and whose love has been won by Harry, the profligate mill-owner's son. Pollowing the girl's repulse of the agitator, Harry warns him to keep away from her. Thus the agitator has personal reasons to force labor troubles upon the mill-owner. In a saloon brawl Harry strikes the agitator over the head with a chair and leaves him for dead. Believing that he would be arrested for murder, Harry joins the army and is sent to Cuba. Nell is left in a delicate condition. The father, grief-stricken on hearing of it, marries the girl himself. The agitator, recovered, uses his utmost efforts to effect a strike. By deception he leads the workmen to believe that the factory owner has refused their demands and they are aroused until they decide to destroy the factory. In the large factory ignite and there It a terrific is overturned and a fire begins. The militia Is called and with other citizens they fight the strikers. At the height of the battle Harry, the son, returns, but in the melee he is killed. Explosives in the larg factory ignite and there is a terrific explosion. Even after this the owner is willing to forgive his employees and he contemplates presenting each with two weeks' salary as a Christmas gift, until he learns of his son's death. All the sympathy in him freezes and he refuses to befriend all and any. Reducing the High Cost of Living, — 2,000 tons of chilled and frozen meats from the Argentine Republic arrive In New York, the largest ever received in the United States. Flying Over Los Angeles. — Glen Martin In a passenger-carrying biplane, makes spectacular fiight through the clouds. California. Atlantic Ocean Plays Havoc. — Driven by cyclonic winds, huge waves wash away the sea wall and cause much damage at Seabright, New Jersey. Army Rugby Cup. — In the hardest of England's gridiron battles, the Gordon Highlanders defeat the Scot Greys in the second round at Richmond. Fashions. — Simplicity is the keynote for smart cliildren's clothes. By courtesy of The Criterion of Fashion. With the Rebels in Mexico, — The Commander-inChief of the Mexican rebels, General Carranza, signing Important documents at HermosUlo, the provisional capital of the constitutionalists. Panoramic view of Hermosillo. Cigarette Causes Disastrous Fire.^Many firemen overcome and large oil warehouse completely destroyed through careless smoking of employee while repairing oil barrel. Exciting Cock Fight.-^One of the most interesting features of Washington Poultry Show is an exhibition of this ancient contest. Picturesque Military Review. — ^His Excellency, the Governor of Bermuda, Lieut. General Sir G'eorge Bullock, reviews the officers and men of the Queen's Regiment prior to their departure for South Africa. Cartoons hy the World-Famous Caricaturist — Hy Mayer. UNIVERSAL WEEKLY. ANIMATED WEEKLY, NO. 96 (Jan. 7).— King Momua Visits Quaker City. — With dazzling splendor, subjects of the gay old Monarch of Msrule dance and prance under his mystic spell to amuse thousands of Philadelphlans. MUTUAL FILM CORPORATION. AMERICAN. THE RETURN OF HELEN REDMOND (2 parts — Jan. 19). — Neil Forrester, clubman, marries Helen Redmond, a .chorus girl, against his clergyman brother's wishes. A girl is born to the couple. Helen tires of domestic life and after a quarrel with her husband returns to the stage and Bohemia, where she forgets all in Its whirl and gayety. Forrester dies and his brother assumes charge of the child, bringing her up to believe that her mother is dead and was a good woman. She is now ten years old. One night after the show Helen gives a supper to her friends in her flat, and one of the guests sends her regrets on account of her young daughter's illness. This awakens in Helen thoughts of her own daughter and she retires to her own room broken-hearted and resolved to see her the next day. She goes next day and finds the child resembles her and humors her by saying that she knew her mother and that she was a good woman. The minister returns, recognizes Helen and orders her out of the house. She first pleads for the child, then demands it, it is hers. The minister changes his tone and tells Helen that it would be wrong to disillusion the child, now that she thinks her dead and a good woman and a greater wrong to bring her up among her own kind. Helen sinks under these reproaches, but is persistent. While the girl is being brought in Helen lapses in a deep reverie. In this state she has visions of bringing the girl home. The inherited taint manifests itself and the girl grows up like her mother, with a weakness for paint, frills and smiles of men, and later Helen's friend elopes with the girl. When the minister returns with Marjorie, Helen's daughter, she tells him she realizes what he says is true and that it is better for her to continue to grow up under his care. She renounces the stage, gives music lessons as a means of livelihood and is soon reunited with her daughter in the enjoyment of a happy future. AT THE POTTER'S WHEEL (Jan. 24).— The picture opens with scenes at a pottery located at Suresne, a small town near Paris, France. The potters and decorators are seen at work and a vase is made on the potter's wheel. Among the girls employed in the decorating of the porcelain is Vera Nemours, a poor girl who is doing most artistic work. She is living with an old woman, Jeanne Eaton, who has become so feeble with age and infirmities that she is no longer useful, and the master of the works, Jean Montparnasse, finally discharges her. She returns to her poor lodgings in despair. Montparnasse has conceived a violent I)assion for Vera, which culminates when he attempts to seize her violently. Roual Nevers, a young artist who Is the chief designer for the pottery, sees the predicament In which Vera is placed and knocks down the villain. A beautiful vase which we see made on the wheel, put in the ovens and baked, is brought to Vera to be decorated. A girl who really loves Montparnasse is jealous of his attentions to Vera, and as Vera goes to the window to admire the beauty of the vase, the girl trips her. She falls and the vase is shattered to pieces. Vera returns to her squalid home hopeless, finding her aged companion in despair; they agree to die, as the future holds no hope. They turn on the gas and are to die in each other's arms. Montparnasse comes to ■ their room to obtain possession of the girl. He attempts to break in the door, but is admitted by the old lady temporarily dissuaded from her purpose, and he attacks the girl. The old woman, with