Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1915)

January 23, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 563 THE CLUBMAN'S WAGER (Jan. 15).— Four clubmen importune a tramp to change $1,000 bill to settle a wager. The experiences of the tramp in his efforts to get change makes a series of highly comic situations. PRODUCING A NATION'S PRIDE (Jan. 15) (On same reel as foregoing). — This is particularly timely as it shows in detail that branch of the steel industry which manufactures armor plate and cannon. The process is depicted from the handling of the ore to the finished product, and a vivid demonstration is given of how these monster machines of war are used. REFINING FIRES (Two Reels— Jan. 18).— John, a poor young man with prospects, falls in love with Mary who is penniless and socially beneath him. He dares not marry her for fear of losing his fortune. However, he persuades her to live with him, telling her that when his rich uncle dies they will marry. Mary has occasion to believe that John is tired of her, and leaves him. Weary and ill, she finds in Nina Alstrom, Judge Alstrom's daughter, a friend who takes her into her own home and gradually restores her to health and spirits. John's uncle dies and he comes into the money. As it happens, the young millionaire meets and loves Nina Alstrom, who loves him in return. But John, though he long since has ceased to care for Mary, is haunted by his past. He confesses to Nina that he is not worthy of her love, but that he has determined to lead a clean life in the future. Mary overhears. Leaving a note for Nina, she goes to a convent where she takes the veil. THE CRUCIFIXION OF ALi BRADY (Jan. 20). — Mr. Lee, a farmer, quarrels with a neighbor, Sam Jones, and finding Al Brady, a good but rather good-for-nothing fellow, talking with his daughter Stella, orders him away. Al, still smarting under the lash of Lee's words, takes his gun and goes into the woods. In running to pick up some game he finds Lee lying on the ground in the spot where his prey should have been. Believing that he has killed him, he rushes away in great anguish of mind — and so does not see Sam Jones step out of the bushes, a smoking revolver in his hands. Al confides his suffering to Stella and confesses that he has shot her father by accident. Sam Jones, meanwhile, is arrested by the sheriff, who has found Lee's body. Al supposes that Jones is innocent and paying the penalty for his crime. He goes to the sheriff to give himself up. The officer, however, tells him that the wound could not possibly have been made by his gun, and besides, Jones has confessed. Sobered by the experience, Al determining to make something of himself in the world. MUTUAL. MUTUAL WEEKLY NO. 1 ( Jan. 7) .—European War Illustrated. Latest Pictures From the Seat or War — French Boys Train for Service in the Ranks. Bread Baking at the Front. Kilters Leave for the Front. Tearing Away the Records of War. Training Raw Recruits. English Tommies Play Football in France Before Leaving for the Trenches. The French Army Buys American Horses. Captain Sweeney of the Metropolitan Police Instructs the East Side Juvenile Force. The Largest Dam in the World. Colorado's Governor Confers with President Wilson. Leginska. Famous Pianist, Poses Specially for the Mutual Weekly. 19th Battalion Leaves Toronto, Canada, for the Front. Winter Sports at Fashionable Country Clubs. Big Lumber Fire at Boston. Mass. U. S. Troops Quell Mexican Disturbance at Naco, Ariz. Largest Locomotive in the World Arrives at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. United Fruit Steamer "Limone" and the Sixmast Schooner "Dorothy Palmer" Are in Collision off Boston Lights. MUTUAL WEEKLY NO. 2 (Jan. 14).— European War Illustrated. Latest War Pictures. British Wounded in Hospital at Versailles. Royal Sussex Regiment. Canal Barges Are Used as Temporary Hospitals. 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W. agitators hold unemployed demonstration in Union Square, New York. Fun and frolic vie with beauty and splendor in Philadelphia's famous mummers' parade. Men who did gallant duty at Vera Cruz are decorated with medals of honor by Secretary Daniels at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Barney Oldfield and Bob Burman, speed kings, smash racing records. DOMINO. THE STILL ON SUNSET MOUNTAIN (Two Reels — Jan. 21). — Old man Jason Harper runs an Illicit still on Sunset Mountain He has a grown son. Bill, and a daughter, Rachel. Jack Baker, a revenue officer, posing as a moonshiner, has won the love of Rachel from her former lover, Dave Moore. Dave suspects Baker of being a revenue officer but can find no proofs. Baker wrongs Rachel and refuses to marry her. Having secured the necessary evidence. Baker sends information to the other revenue oflBcers by means of a carrier pigeon. They bring a posse into the mountains and destroy the still. During the raid Bill Harper is wounded and taken prisoner. Three years later Bill is In a dying condition in prison. Thirsting for revenge, Jason, Harper and Dave conspire to lure Baker into the mountainsRachel is sent to the prison to see her brother Bill and manages to smuggle a map to him with the details of the plan that is to lure Baker into the mountains. Bill sends for Baker to come to the prison to see him ; that he has a dying confession to make. Baker calls upon Bill who tells him that he is the only surviving member of a famous gang of neighborhood bandits that have terrorized the countryside several years previous and that he has $2,500 buried In a cave on Sunset Mountain. He gives Baker the map with instructions where to find the buried loot. Baker, his cupidity aroused, visits the mountains, disguised as a mountain evangelist. He is captured and exposed by Harper and Dave and dragged to the Harper cabin. Baker manages to communicate with Rachel, who still loves him, and promises to marry her If she will help him to escape. 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