Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1915)

558 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD January 23, 1915 INDEPENDENT FILM STORIES UNIVERSAL He bids farewell to his olti mother and is led away to what is apparently a life sentence. He sits on the stone bench in his cell, the warden enters and roughly shakes him by the arm. He wakes to find his mother bending over him. The effect of the dream is still on him when Paula and her brother arrive. Paula explains her relationship with Frank. Winton takes her in his arms and declares he is now cured, of his jealousy. STERLING. TREASURE SEEKERS (Jan. 28).— Heinze and Meyer are neighbors, a delicatessen owner and a grocer, respectively, and one day Meyer visits Heinze's grocery store where the old cronies sit and drink hard cider, while they discuss the probabilities of a treasure chart, one of them has accidentally discovered. As they sit sipping the cider they fall asleep and dream. They find themselves on board of a ship bound for the cannibal islands to hunt for the treasure. After a series of mishaps they land upon the island and are captured by the cannibals. Meyer is at once selected to fill the cannibal menu, and is immediately made ready for the feast. The cannibal queen falls in love with him, however, and saves him for the time being. The cannibals thereupon grab Heinze and place him in the pot. Meyer cannot desert his old friend, however, and prevails upon the queen to help him rescue his friend. One of the cannibals seeking driftwood for the fire, unconsciously picks up some dynamite that has drifted ashore and dried on the beach and when it is placed under the pot an explosion occurs which shatters Meyer's contemplated rescue and hurls the two adventurers from the land of dreams to the floor of the grocery store where a fire started from Heinze's cigar and which adds heated realism to their sudden awakening and causes them both to forswear hard cider in the future. JOKER. THE MAGIC MIRROR (Jan. 25).— Ernie and his wife have a quarrel, the result of which is that Ernie leaves and proceeds to take in a quantity of liquor. On his way home in an intoxicated condition, he meets a girl and after a short conversation with her, promises to see her later. Returning home his wife greets him angrily and another quarrel follows. Hubby goes outWifey is suspicious and follows Ernie to the park, where he keeps the date with the other woman. She then returns home without interfering and cries herself to sleep. Satan appears to her through a large mirror at her bed side and informs her of all the terrible things her husband is doing. Meanwhile, it turns out that the married woman with whom Ernie is disporting himself, has a husband, who appears and proceeds to create a disturbance. Sore of head and limbs, Ernie returns home and finds his wife asleep on the sofa. Waking her he tells his troubles and vows never again to distress his little wifey. Wifey herself is repentant and a reconciliation follows. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIS MOTHERIN-LAW (Jan. 30). — How dreadfully our sentiments change after the honeymoon ! But Jack remained consistent. It was Jill who changed. And what a change! While she eased herself on cushions of luxury, poor Jack tackled the kitchen and wash tub. And did Jill appreciate this? Jack's final rebellion only proved to Jill that she was the abused one. So she sends for mamma to come and straighten out the household. Mamma comes. She is of a terrifying size. Jack is flabbergasted at sight of her. But her subsequent actions amuse him more. He then indeed falls in love with his mother-in-law. For she has a keen eye as well as strength. Jill learns in a startling, straight-forward, manner wherein her faults lie. It sinks in deep. And with this realization she gladly promises to he good. When mamma returns home she leaves the broken ends of Jack and Jill's honeymoon securely knitted together. POWERS. THE CRIME OF THOUGHT (Jan. 30).— John Winton, extremely jealous, Is engaged to Paula Nolan. Frank Nolan, Paula's brother, returns home after a lengthy absence and is seen by Winton embracing Paula. Paula teases Winton about Frank, concealing the latter's identity. Winton leaves the house. He reads a newspaper account of a recent hanging and dozing off to sleep, he, In a realistic dream, passes through a series of thrilling adventures, among which is the murder of his sweetheart by him, his arrest, and condemnation to death. He mounts the scaffold and Is about to be executed when word is received that the hanging law of the state has been abolished. REX. THE MEASURE OF A MAN (Two Parts— Jan. 2S). — Helen Mac Dermott, daughter of the Factor at Bear Lake, has been carefully and religiously brought up by her widowed father. Bob Brandt, a dashing young gambler and adventurer, stops at Bear Lake in his wanderings, and having occasion to visit the post to buy supplies, he becomes acquainted with Helen. She quickly surrenders to his charms and he, taking advantage of her innocence, persuades her to elope with him in the face of her father's opposition. Six months later, happily married to her, (as she thinks) good and honest young husband, Helen is rudely awakened by a delegation of the Vigilant Committee, who roughly give her husband orders to move his operations to some other locality. Helen then learns that her hero is nothing more nor less than a gambler and swindler. Having a deep loathing for divorce, and too proud to return to her father, Helen continues as Bob's wife. A month later after the Vigilante episode, while wandering about the country, Bob accidentally shoots himself in the shoulder. Jim Stuart, a lieutenant in the Northwest Mounted Police, finds Bob and Helen and takes them to his quarters, where he cares for the injured man until he is well again. A warm friendship develops among the three and Jim secures a place on the force for Bob. Soon Jim discovers he is slowly falling in love with his friend's wife, and, try as he will, he cannot still the cravings of his heart. Seeing the disgrace he is sure to bring upon himself by some day losing his self-control and declaring his love, he resigns from the service and goes away without saying good-hye to Helen. A few days later, Helen who has been keeping a diary which Bob has never seen, is suddenly called from the house, and leaves the diary lying open on the table. Entering a few minutes later, Bob sees the diary and reads in it a confession of Helen's love for Jim. Bob realizes that his wife's love is lost to him, and he determines to bring Jim hack so that she may gather a few scattered fragments of happiness. Acting upon his resolution, Bob tracks Jim down and forces him to return to the post with him. There he explains the situation and wishing them all happiness, rushes down to the river. Brought face to face with the cold proposition and realizing the great sacrifice Bob has made for her, Helen is swept from her feet by the return of her old love, and the decision that he is after all, the better man. She rushes from the house, just in time to save Bob's life from a would-be Indian murderer and throwing herself into his arms, asks and receives forgiveness. A SMALL TOWN GIRL (Three Reels— Jan. 17), — Pauline's uncle is the proprietor of the only hotel Maplehurst boasts of. The girl is an orphan and has been adopted by her relative Dick, the young hotel clerk, is one of those "best hearted fellows in the world." His only fault, in the girl's eyes, is his rusticity. He is a country boy. Pauline is a country girl, but with a love of romance and pleasure implanted deep in her impressionable nature. A stylish young snob from the East arrives at Maplehurst. Pauline sets her cap for him, and it is one of the greatest moments of her life when she strolls down the village street with the dandy. The little hotel clerk is hurt to the quick when Pauline disregards his homely love. Woman-like, Pauline makes tbe most of the Snob's visit to the village. At the little town's social gatherings she appears in a beautiful pink gown, while The Snob scorns the village beaux when they show up at the country dance hall in their "store clothes." The Snob wears evening clothes, and while the girls of the village are impressed by his appearance in contrast with their brothers and sweethearts, the boys themselves despise him for his attempt to lord it over them. The Snob cares little for local opinion, however, nor makes any attempt to accommodate himself to villacp customs. The town boys are able only to hire a "rig" on Sundays to take their "girls" out for a ride in the country. The Snob, however, once he has won the heart of the prettiest girl in town, orders his high horsepower racing car and takes Pauline out for perilous drives for long distances. On one of these long tours The Snob, with cruel cunning, takes Pauline to a wayside inn. Outside the inn is a terraced garden with grape arbors hiding the diners from the view of passersby. Suspecting nothing, Pauline is induced to partake of a heavy dinner, and then, when The Snob sneers at her "countrified temperance," she sips slowly at a stinging drink he orders. Pauhne takes the drink merely to please her companion and little suspects the sinister ulterior purpose he has in view. One drink follows another, and soon Pauline has passed beyond the point where good judgment rules her actions. Late that night they return to Pauline's home town. The chill air brushes away the fumes of the liquor from Pauline's brain and the deceived girl weeps bitterly in a rear seat of the big racing car. The Snob, at the steering wheel ahead, sneers to himself as he helps her alight at her humble home. The inevitable happens. The Snob goes East, leaving an invitation for Pauline to visit him at bis home. The moth flies into the flame. She runs away from home. A year afterward Pauline is cast aside by The Snob. In a big city boarding house, where the good, the bad and the indifferent live, she gives birth to a child. She is penniless, and The Snob's people will not recognize her. The Snob himself is sent away West. Here he begins life anew. Pauline's predicament is seemingly hopeless. A procurer of women who lives in the house, Is touched, and he advises her to make a living on the street. Another neighbor calls and advises her to commit suicide. Either of these things might have happened had not an elderly childless couple taken an interest in the case. They told her it was the greatest thing in the world to be a mother. Pauline writes her uncle for help, pick, the hotel clerk, reads the letter and sends her money. About this time the uncle dies. When Dick becomes the proprietor of the hotel his first act is to go after Pauline. In the meantime life in the West has made a man of The Snob. He returns East to Pauline, but she scorns him and refuses to let him see his child This time the man "paid.'* ECLAIR. CANCELED (Two Parts— Jan. 27).— In a little Eastern village, Clayton Emrick is the butt of his boy companions and is looked upon as a puny weakling. He is saved from a severe beating one day by the interference of Ed Dunlap, the bully of the town. A strong friendship springs up between the two which is broken by their removal to different towns. Years later, Emrick now a successful lawyer decides to take an automobile tour with his family through the West in order to recuperate. A well known desperado, with his headquarters in a small western camp, receives word that a rich New York lawyer with his family will leave by a little used trail that night. Coincident with this the sheriff of the county receives word that the depredations of the outlaw band which is terrorizing the country must cease at once. The leader of the outlaw band sends one of his men to intercept the automobile party and direct them to what they believe to be a road house. The ruse works and Emrick with his family find themselves trapped in "The Devil's Hole." Emrick is forced to draw an order on his banker for $50,000 with instructions that it be delivered to Jim Garcia. The letter is sent and the inquisitive postmistress at Redwood, finding it unsealed opens it and reads the message intended for the New York banker. Scenting something wrong, she decides to hold the letter for investigation and directs her assistant to have Jim Garcia followed when he calls for the money. Meanwhile, the Governor, incensed at the delay in rounding up of the outlaws, sends a detachment of cavalry to the scene. The desperadoes wound one of the sheriff's deputies but he escapes. Hearing of this, the leader resolves to get the money and to leave at once. The wounded deputy meets the detachment of soldiers and directs them to the Devil's Hole. Meanwhile Emrick and his family succeed in making a dash for liberty in their automobile pursued by the chief outlaw. They elude him. The outlaw arrives at the postofflce and upon asking for mail is caught by the sheriff and brought face to face with Emrick who recognizes his boyhood protector. After a touching scene, Dunlap is taken to jail while Emrick promises to see that the outlaw's family back East shall never want. THE THIEF AND THE CHIEF (Jan 31).— A thief has been alarming the residents by burglarizing houses in broad daylight. The boys at the club cannot understand how this thief manages to escape detection, but Jimmie Weston, son of the Chief of Police, declares that It is the easiest thing in the world. The hoys dare him to try it. He leaves the boys to select a house and they immediately set out in search of one. The house the boys choose is not far from the home of Mr. Henderson and his daughter, Clara. On this day Mr. Henderson goes down to the station to meet Professor Blinkhom. Mr. Henderson has never met the professor. He waits at the station ; the professor does not come. When Jimmie enters the house the boys have chosen for him the master of the house seizes a gun and shouts for the police. Jimmie beats