Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)

1 146 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD Helen return home with father, while Algy is thrown into a cell to cure off. IN THE GAMBLER'S WEB (Special — 2 parts — March 5). — Anna Gerard and Gaston Reyo maintain an apartment which is in reality a gambling: den. Reyo meets John Dixon, a young business man. engaged to Edith Graham, and takes him to visit Anna, who poses as his sister. Cards are produced and John, of course, loses. As Anna, pretending sympathy, stands behind John, she manages to let Reyo know just what cards the stranger holds. John comes once more and then, tiring of the whole affair, vows never to visit Reyo again. Anna writes him a note, pleading that she wants to see him on a little affair of business. John calls, but when she clings to him, pleading her love, he grasps his overcoat and hastily rushes away. As he does so he drops his wallet. Anna picks it up and when Reyo comes in, he finds her counting the money. They plan to get away at once, but in the dividing of the spoils a quarrel arises, during whic-h Anna is killed. John misses his wallet and returns for it. He bends over the dead woman and tries vainly to awaken her. when her maid enters. The girl's screams bring all the people of the house into the room and John is taken into custody. Reyo. who pretends to have been asleep, is found in the next room. During his trial Edith alone stands by her lover. He is sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Edith still believes in his innocence and while John is in jail she plans and plots with his old servant, trying to find some way to aid his escape. John manages to escape from prison, and Edith waits for him at the edge of the woods with a motor far. In the limousine he effects a change of clothes. Then they go on toward the city, filled with hopes that they can find Reyo, whom they feel is guilty of Anna's murder. .Tohn, disguised, haunts all the cheaper cafes in the lower yart of town and finally runs across Reyo, now an absinthe fiend. He then rents Anna's old apartment and sets to work with Edith's help to make the place look as much as possible like it did in Anna's time. Reyo often sees the young stranger banging about the back rooms of the saloons. One day John invites Reyo to drink with him and suggests they have a game of cards. Reyo is an easy winner, just as John had intended. When the game is at its height. John must go, but suggests Reyo meet him at his apartment that night. Di-^on hands him a card and the well remembered address of Anna's old home startles Re.vo. John gives him a key and bids him to go right in if he happens to get there first. That night. Reyo. key in band, passes the honse. wondering if he dare go in. His need of money gets the best of him and with shaking fingers lie lets himself into the old house. As be staggers into the dimly lighted place, he pauses at the table to strike a match. He looks down to see the body of a woman dead, across the table. It is "Anna!" He shrinks away. As he lifts her arm it falls back heavily, but not before he has seen the wallet clasped tightly in her fingers. He cannot awaken her — -she is dead — just as he remembered her. with a bullet hole in her white forehead. Falling to his knees he shrieks out his guilt, protesting that he had not meant to kill her. At this two detectives come out from behind t'fe portieres and take him into custody. He is led away, screaming and shuddering in terror. The carefully thought out plot lias been successful. John is congratulated by and congratulates the actress he had hired to play "Anna." The nest day the papers are filled with Reyo's confession and John Dixon, his name cleared, is free to claim the girl he loves. HIS WITE (Special — 2 parts— March 4). — Young Dan Talfourd and I.ucy Winter are sweethearts. Old Talfourd and Dan quarrel over their stenographer. Anna, becau.'ie of the manner in which she seems to boss the elder man. The latter tells Dan that the matter must not be spoken of again. He is stricken and taken home mortally ill, Dan goes home and his father makes a dying confession. He tells Dan that Anna is his sister, an illegitimate daughter by another woman. Dan is compelled to promise his father that he will take care of Anna. Anna and Dan swear to keep the matter a secret. Lucy, suspicious of the intimacy that seems to exit, tells Dan be must discharge Anna. Dan cannot do this and the engagement is broken. Later at a masked ball, Dan goes as Faust, Lucy as Marguerite and Anna as Carmen. Nobody knows who any one else is, so that when some of the maskers think that it would be great fun to hold a carnival mock marriage, with Faust When You Buy Fans find out the following points: — How much current do they use? How much air do they move? How much noise do they make? How long will they last? Westinghouse Electric Fans are built with all these points in view. If your fans are Westinghouse you are assured that they are the most economical, quietest, and most durable fans you can buy. Divide the price by the years they last Westinghouse Electric & Mfg, Co. East» Pittsburgh, Pa. Sales Offices in 45 American Cities NO Motion Picture is the acme of perfection, or has the elimination of haze, and the softness so delightful to the eye which makes projection an Art but those that are shown upon a "Mirror Screen." Our New Prismized, SnowWhite Surface has the World beaten. We will give $500,00 to anyone who can produce a surface equal to it. Write for our new catalogue. 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Lucy at that moment also seeks Dan, having changed her mind.' but seeing Anna there in an attitude of familiar friendship, she cuts him completely and accepts the attention of an old admirer. Dave Bennett. The next day Mowbray, the man who had masked as the I^rd Chief Justice, comes to Dan and shows him that the ceremony was valid, as that day he had been ordained a minister, but not opening his mail, did not know about it until after he le turned home. Anna has overheard the conversation and is pleased at the double hold he now has over Dan. Dan tries to regain Lucy's affections, but finds Bennett always with her. Lucy, jealous and angry, sees Anna with an unscrupulous chap named Dawson, who is taking her into a cafe of ill repute, so when she meets Dan a short time after he tells him about it. thinking to break down his seeming infatuation. Dan leaves her and goes in search of Anna. He finds them in the cafe, where Dawson is trying to get her to drink. There is a fight when Dawson resents Dan's interference. Lucy reads of the brawl in the papers the next day and her anger toward Dan deepens to such an extent that she accepts Bennett. Dan is about to tell her about the validity of the marriage when he realizes that she must care more for Bennett than she does for him. She tells him she does and on the day set for the wedding Dan decides to shoot himself at the hour of the ceremony, so that the way will be clear for her to be happy. Anna with the paper Mowbray signed breaks in upon the ceremony and makes clear Lucy's position. Lucy, overjoyed, hastens with Anna to Dan's home, where they are just in time to save him from pulling the trigger. Anna now happy, leaves them in each other's arms. A ROMANCE OF THE NORTHWEST (March 6).— Jules LeFevre. a young French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Alice, the factor's daughter. Alice admires Jules, but does not give her consent to the marriage. At this point Dick Phillips, a i^orporal of the Northwest Mounted Police, is sent to Caribou to establish a barracks. He and Alice become interested in each other and this interest soon ripens into love. Jules is too much of a man to entertain animosity against iiis rival. Bob Green, Alice's father, has a passion for gambling. In a game of cards with Dan Marks, gambler and bad man. Green is fleeced of all his own money. Desperate, he takes a large sum of money belonging to the Hudson Bay Company and loses that also. Too late he discovers that he has been tricked. In the dispute that follows Marks uses his revolver, wounding Green in the arm, and then makes his escape to the river bank. There he shoves off all the canoes but the one he himself is using, thus checking pursuit. Alice, agonized over the plight of her father, appeals to Jules and Dick for aid, declaring she will marry the man who returns the money and saves her father from disgrace. Dick starts the chase on horseback. Jules goes for his canoe. Luckily, be finds the canoe which had been set adrift, lodged against the bank on the opposite side of the river. He swims the river and takes up the pursuit in his canoe. Jules overtakes the gambler and after an exciting battle in the water, overpowers him. Dick arrives to find his rival the victor. Jules, however, seeing that Alice loves only Dick, giveS up his claim on the girl, ■WHEN DOOLEY PASSED AWAY (March 7).— The widow Cassidy is vigorously courted by Patrick Dooley and Michael Casey. They both love her truly, but the widow really sets her cap for Dooley. At last Dooley proposes and is accepted. To celebrate the engagement the fortunate lover gets gloriously drunk and finally falls asleep. Casey conceives a scheme for revenge. He smears Dooley's face witli ice, applies a liberal layer of talcum powder and calls the undertaker in to lay out the supposed cadaver. 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