Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1915)

January 23, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 557 LUBIN. PATSY BOLIVAR (Series No. 5— "Patsy in Business" — Jan. 25). — Number 4 of the series left Patsy a runaway from home, and asleep in the waiting room of some village unknown to him. It was less than fifteen miles from his hpme town, but he had never been there. Awakening from his disturbed and cheerless sleep, he arose and sallied forth. Witnessing Storekeeper Grace, uncle of his ideal Tilly, discharging an idle clerk, he applies for the position and secures it. But his bad luck has followed him here, for in taking down the window shutters he smashes a pane in the store door and is "docked" $2. On the forenoon train. Jack, Mary, Tilly, Jane and his evil genius, Sykesy, come to Fairfield to attend a church bazaar to be given that night, all of them unconscious of Patsy's presence in the village. Tilly goes with Jane to visit her uncle, is delighted at finding Patsy, but promises not to reveal his whereabouts, both girls agree to permit him to shift for himself in his own way. Shortly after their departure a customer enters the store for a dose of bicarbonate of soda. Patsy furnishes caustic soda instead, nearly kills the man, and loses his first position in his first hour. The Breach between Sykesy and Tilly brought on by the escaped cows incident broadens when she sees Patsy hard at work, and her coldness further increases his thirst for revenge. Jack, who has two or three times found his jealousy stirred by Mary's evident fondness for Patsy, allows it to be fed by Sykesy's stories, and when he goes out for a walk from the hotel. Mary sees Patsy, grieving over his discharge and asks him to her room, where he tells her his hard luck story, ending by weeping on her shoulder. Jack goes to the room, unds Patsy and his wife in this compromising position and throws him down stairs and out of the hotel. Not knowing what to do next. Patsy secures a position in a barber shop and his first customer is Sykesy. After cutting him two or three times, Sykesy makes a vicious rush at him. The barber returns and discharges him. Meanwhile, Patsy's parents have discovered his whereabouts and after following him in the different places wTiere he has been, find him at the bazaar, where he has been taken by the faithful Jane. While he is having a good time at the bazaar Sykesy tells the minister that he is a bad character, having been in jail and also expelled from college. Leaving the hall with his parents he goes to the store for his suit case, touches off the burglar alarm, is pursued by the constable and hurries out of town on the trucks of a freight car. GREEN BACKS AND RED SKINS (Jan. 26). — Wilhelm Holehogg, Comancheville's biggest man, meets with terrible defeat, viz. ; the loss of one of his full cans. Frenchy, his comrade, finds a fortune, in a dime, and hastens to acquaint Wilhelm of his good fortune. The great one receives a communication informing him that he has inherited $1,000,000. Wilhelm and Frenchy rush madly to collect. They do so and give away thousands. Now Lord Cashin was a mighty hunter upon the field of battle — that is to hear him in the hotel tattle. Wilhelm and Frenchy listen to his methods of choking the rhinoceros. Their blood is fired and they hie themselves, hence into the dark forests where Chief Battleax becomes much peeved and orders them to be shot as spies, but Princess Right Wing envelopes their left wing and saves them and they marry into the tribe. Later Wilhelm and Frenchy imbibe deep and long — then the great one jumps to the center of the arena and challenges the whole tribe to deadly fisticuffs. After the battle they sink down upon the bank of doom, and dream what might have been. THE ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE (Three Parts — Jan. 27). — Frederic Stratton, a young lawyer, accepts the case of one Basset, charged with the murder of his employer, Mrs. Hamlin. Stratton knows that strong evidence points to Basset's guilt, but thinks that a victory in this case will greatly increase his reputation. Ruth Wingate, his fiancee, is a girl of high moral principles, who is horrified when she learns that Stratton has taken the case of the notorious murderer. Stratton leads her to believe that he knows the man to be innocent, and Ruth praises him for championin the cause of one unjustly accused. Stratton succeeds in winning Basset's acquittal on a technicality, and as a result is called to another city to assist in a similar case. iiis reputation is assured. Joe White, Ruth's chauffeur, meets with an accident, and Basset applies for the position. In pity and believing Stratton's statement that he was innocent, itnun engages him. When Stratton learns in a letter that Ruth has employed the murderer, he is filled with apprehension. Almost distracted, he starts for home. Basset has failed to divide the spoils of his crime with his two pals, and they plan to be revenged. While he is driving Ruth on a lonely road, the two crooks waylay him. Basset is shot and the uncontrolled car dashes over the edge of a bridge. Ruth and Basset, both badly injured, are found by the occupants of another car. Ruth is taken home, and Basset is conveyed to a hospital. When Stratton arrives in the city he finds Ruth at the point of death. He realizes that this is his punishment. It brings the truth home to him. He writes the attorneys whom he was to assist that he is through with the defense of murderers and withdraws from the case. Basset dies, confessing his part of the crime. Ruth, slowly recovering, learns of the confession and realizes the truth — that Stratton knew of the murderer's guilt. She sends for Stratton. He sees that she knows, and though hopeless of her forgiveness, tells her of his decision — that he is through with the defense of murderers. As he turns to go, Ruth holds out her hands to him. She realizes that he has seen the right — that Justice must come before ambition. Gladly Stratton turns back to her, happy in their love and mutual understanding. IN HER MOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS (Two Parts — Jan. 28). — Raymond Longstreth, a successful artist, has painted a Madonna, using his wife. Helen, as a subject. Raymond is jealous of Harold Winters, an art dealer, the former rival for Helen's hand. When an accident brings Helen and Harold together, and Raymond discovers them, he bursts forth in a tirade against his wife. His jealousy is further aroused when, after the exhibition of the finished picture, it is sold by the art gallery to Harold. Harold, however, has only bought the picture as an agent for Clayton Burroughs, a wealthy collector. Even the birth of a baby does not lessen the husband's jealousy, and when, soon after he finds Helen and Harold together, under absolutely innocent circumstances, he drives his wife from him. Then Raymond, tormented by doubts, resorts to drink. Years afterward, Helen, under the name of "Mrs. Raymond," is a housekeeper to Dr. Marriott, and her daughter, Naomi, is like a daughter to the doctor. Raymond has given up his art, and is a mere wanderer. Sterling Burroughs, the son of the art collector, is the cause of an automobile accident in which Naomi is injured. In his solicitude for her welfare after the accident, he soon finds himself in love with her, and she returns his affection. In the girl the elder Burroughs recognizes the face of his treasured picture, the Madonna. When fire destroys the picture ; he has search instituted for the missing artist, hoping to have him paint a duplicate. Harold succeeds in finding Raymond, but the latter says that it would be impossible to paint another Madonna, since the original model was his lost wife. Burroughs promises to obtain a model, thinking of his son's fiancee. When Sterling Burroughs asks Naomi to sit for a painting by the artist, Raymond Longstreth, she is overcome by emotion, and discloses to him that she is really Naomi Longstreth, the artist's daughter. At first she refuses to pose, but then, struck by a sudden hope, she consents. At the sitting Raymond is dazed by the resemblance of the girl to his wife, but does not guess that she is his daughter. While he is deep in reverie, Naomi steals from the studio, and Helen, the wife, takes her place. When Raymond turns once more to his subject he is met by the forgiving Helen. Life begins anew for them and in the happiness of Naomi and Sterling, THE LANGUAGE OF THE DUMB (Jan. 29).— Bob Owen, superintendent of a bread plant, is in love with Helen Page, an heiress, who returns his passion. Helen's favorite philanthropy is a school for deaf and dumb children, and in the course of her active work at the school she becomes proficient in lip-reading. Holt, a rascal, but maintaining a good social position, and who is on friendly terms with Helen, finding himself on the verge of ruin, determines to win the heiress. Upon finding Bob in his path, he determines to remove him, and plots with one of Bob's men to fix on Bob a crime which will send him to the penitentiary utterly disgraced. It happens that a motion picture is being made of the bread industry and Breen, Holt's tool, chances to stand In the foreground of a scene being taken when he confides to a needed confederate Holt's plot. Tne scheme decided upon works to perfection, and Bob is brought to trial on a charge of attempted murder and robbery, with evidence of guilt — though false — apparently conclusive. Heartbroken, Helen seeks diversion by activity at the school, where she has arranged for the showing of motion pictures to the children. When the bread industry picture is shown, Helen reads the words formed by Breen's lips on the screen,* and hastily communicates with Bob's attorney. The trial is just about concluded, and Bob's conviction is sure, when the attorney asks to be allowed to introduce a motion picture in evidence. The consequential portion of the industrial picture is shown in the courtroom, one of the mute children from the school writing upon a blackboard the words formed by Breen's lips. Bob is promptly acquitted, and Holt and his tools taken into custody. ANOTHER SHADE OF GREEN (Jan. 30).— Peter Green is henpecked, but for all that he is jealous of his wife, Samantha. She gets a chance to take a boarder and does so. Peter proceeds to get jealous and thinks that if she loves the other man. he will kill himself to let her have him ; but on second thoughts he decides to play a trick by leaving a note saying that he has jumped into the well. In the meantime Samantha has found out that Briggs. the new boarder, is wanted by the police and that a reward is offered. She decides to get it. Peter in a ghost makeup proceeds to frighten them and Samantha makes love to Briggs, the boarder. Samantha accidentally finds out that Peter is not dead and his being alive helps her in her scheme. She gets Briggs to go with her to the constable and there she tells the oflacer that Briggs is wanted in Chicago for wife desertion. Samantha gets the money. Just at this time Peter, having followed them and thinking that they are going to get married, bursts in upon them and finds out that his wife still loves him as she hands the money over to him. 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