Moving Picture World (April-June 1915)

132-1 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD May 22, 1915 witch. Ib her cell she is sentenced to death as a witch. John and Margaret visit her and say good-bye. Later the old governor comes in. He says good-bye and taunts her. Finally he offers her freedom if she will yield to his love. She laughs in his face. Later she is led out to execution. John comforts Margaret, but he thinks of the other girl, who goes to her martyrdom in that hour. And, as the flames creep about her, Desire bows her head in prayer. THE NIGHTMARE OF A MOVIE FAN (May 2S). — Beatrice and Joe, a happy young married couple, disagree on but one thing. Beatrice is a picture fan and cherishes the photographs of all the picture stars. Her own particular favorite, however, is Charles Le Monde, and she insists on seeing him in pictures whenever possible. Joe is ordered west on a business trip, and his wife accompanies him. Arriving in Calit'ornia. Beatrice in invited by some lady friends to go to the studios and see how pictures are made. There she spies the idol of her dreams. However, it suddenly begins to dawn upon her, that he is not quite as popular £t the studio as he is on the screen. The director bawls at him, the assistant director raves at him, and he is held in haughty contempt by the cameraman. Suddenly, in a heated row with the director, he flatly resigns and goes to his dressing room. The heartbroken Beatrice follows. Presently he emerges from the dressingroom with dusty, unkept clothes and a slouchy hat. However, the culmination of her disappointment arrives when, at the gat3, the romantic Charles is met by a most unromantic female person, who has in tow several illy-dressed children. The unhappy Beatrice goes home and contrasts the photograph of Charles with that of ter husband. They mutually plead their cases, and at the finish, the picture of Charles, torn in little squares, reposes in the bottom of the w asteoastet. BIG "U." THE MASTER ROGUES OF EUROPE (Three Parts — May 9). — Olga, an auventuress. receives a doped cigarette from her accomplice, Peter, to be given to the Count Von Rade, a wealthy nobleman whom they are trying to entrap. Olga has previously written a letter to the Count naming a rendezvous where she has agreed to meet him. A few moments later the Count arrives and picks up Olga in his automobile. Olga gives the Count a cigarette, the only one left in her case, and soon the latter falls unconscious. Olga takes the wheel from him and brings the auto back to where Peter is waiting. Unknown to either of the two conspirators, James Langtry, an English chemist, is watching them as they remove the Count from the car and rob him of all he has upon him, including a large sum of money and a pearl necklace. In her hurry Olga drops her fur cap. Langtry picks the cap up, hastens to the Count's assistance and takes the stupefied nobleman to a hospital. There he tells his story and the police are notified. The latter inspect the neighborhood of the Alexis bridge where the robbery occurred. The fur cap serves as a clue to the owner and from the maker of the cap the police soon learn that only three of the caps have been sold. The owners of all three fur caps are watched and suspicion finally falls on Olga. The police throw a cordon around her home and Peter and Olga. looking from a window, see the officers waiting to seize them when they leave. The police finally enter the house, prepared for a fight, and seize Olga. Peter climbs out of a window and clings to a window shutter while the officers are searching the apartment. After a search the police find the jewels in a cabinet and an incriminating letter causes them to take Olga with them to prison. Peter, after their departure, swings back into the deserted room. The police continue to watch the house and Peter intercepts an old woman on the stairs, induces her to change clothes with him for a purse of gold, and then hurries from the house unrecognized. Notices have been posted offering 500 roubles reward for Peter's apprehension. The criminal goes to a restaurant connected with a dive where he meets another friend from the underworld. The two read in a newspaper of Olga Sopolska's arrest and of her sentence to penal servitude for life in Siberia. Peter's friend agrees to dress as a peasant and to assist Peter in rescuing Olga. Olga is taken along a country road together with other political offenders guarded by a platoon of soldiers. Peter writes a note reading as follows ; "Pretend that you cannot walk and I will do the rest." The note is rolled into a cigarette. Soon after Peter hires an automobile and drives it himself to a point in the road where the soldiers and their prisoners must pass. He pretends to have a blowout and when the soldiers pass along, Peter engages an oficer accompanying Olga in conversation. He offers the soldier a cigarette and accidentally drops it. •When the soldier stoops to pick it up Peter slips the note he has written to Olga. Olga BRASS & COPPER CO. STAR yL BRAND Brass and Bronze Railings Grilles, Kick and Push Plates Theater Equipment a Specially Prompt Service RIGHT PRICES SUPERIOR QUALITY HUNGERFORO BUILDING Lafayette, White and Franklin Sts. NEW YORK PHIUIDELPHIt, BOSTON, iALTIMORE, S«N FtANCItCO DEAGAN Electric Unaphone Kills Competition One Exhibitor writes of "Chickasha, Okla., May 7. 1915. "When I bought my Unaphone there were four other shows here. Now there's just one little store show left to compete. I play to capacity all the time. The Unaphone did it. "Prop. Sugg Theatre." (Seating capacity 900} Deagan Electric Unaphone No. 2308 Size 34 X 26 X 12 in. Weight 100 lbs. For STREET. LOBBY and PIT -Advertising. 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Dr. Langtry. the nephew of Count Feauchon, notifies the police and the latter return to Count Feauchons home and catth Olga and Peter as they are about to rifle the Counts cabinet containing his jewels and valuables. Langtry remembers the pair is the ones who robbed Count Von Rade and obtains their conviction. -A BURIED CITY (-May l.^) .—Starling on a trip with the professor to see how archaelogical explorations are made. Homer Croy sees the remains of the "kings' feet," done in stone many thousands of years ago. The professor shows Mr. Croy where the digging goes. They walk through the streets of Cairo showing where mummies have been found. T'hen they come to a former tomb. Later, a miniature railway is shown which is used in making the excavations, and the workmen discover a mummy 4,000 years old. The dust has to be carefully blown aside in order rot to disturb the crumbling bones which are shown in a close-up of the picture. The prolessor shows a bust of a former king of Egypt The relic is 3.00> years old. A scene follows showing the finds sent to America and our flag floating a few feet from the Great Pyramid over the professor's house. THE MEMORY TREE (May 27).— The play begins with preparations for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the closing of the Civil War, in a Southern town. The committee chooses the veterans of the highest rank to lead the parade. The honors fall to Colonel Fitzhugh who fought with the blue. As Fitzhugh leaves his house he meets old McCormick, a Confederate veteran, and Fitzhugh shows the bitter hatred he cherishes for the kind old fellow That night Fitzhugh's memory goes back to the past. Just before the war, both Fitzhugh and .McCormick were rivals for the hand of Moilie Crane, a village belle, and in the bark of the tree beneath which Fitzhugh had wooed Moilie he has carved her initials and his own. Moilie, however, has secretly given her heart to -McCormick. When the war begins and the men are called to the colors, Fitzhugh remains loyal to the Lnion, but McCormick joins the rebels ., ,,^''° ^McCormick calls to bid good-bve to Moilie. he surprises Fitzhugh and Molfie in the garden. Fitzhugh is proposing to Moilie vno promises to give her answer after the war Their backs are turned toward him and their attitude leads him to believe that Fitzhugh is the favored suitor. During the war. Captain Fitzhugh IS captured and led before Captain McCormick a prisoner. McCormick assists him to escape for Mollie's sake. The war is over Fitzhugh finds that in the design he has carved m the tree McCormick's initials have been substituted for his own. When McCormick arrives, Moilie leads him to the tree He discovers his error and they are married in the village chapel. But the same night his hatred changes to remorse He breaks down and tells his daughter the whole story, that McCormick is the worthier man. and that the honors of the coming celebration should go to him. She consoles him and suggests that he and his comrades call on McCormick and confer the honor upon him. This Fitzhugh brings about. The veterans call at the old shack in which McCormick lives and find him seated at a table, dead. The picture diaphragms out with McCormick being buried with military honors. A MODER.Y E.N-OCH ARDEN (Three parts— ^?ir •^'^'■— Janet Fotheringay. to save her father from financial ruin, marries a millionaire suitor. John Arnold, a power in the street Janet is in love with Dickv Bannister but sacrifices all for her father's honor. Arnold of course, turns out a brute and Janet, for this reason, keeps up her friendship with Bannister the rising young playwright. One evening Mr' Courtney Fortheringay calls and attempts to interfere in Arnold's brutal treatment of Janet for which he receives a blow at the hands of .Arn-ild. which causes him to fall to the floor striking his head add killing him. Arnold becomes a fugitive and makes his wav out West Before departing he cleverly simulates suicide and Janet, believing she is now free, marries Dicky Bannister, whom she has always loved Bannister becomes a great success in his line and he and his wife are very happy with the child who has blessed their home. In the