Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

372 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 10, 1915 BIOGRAPH. AS IT HAPPENED (July 12).— The new foreman falls in love with the ranchman's daughter, and notes with jealousy her joy over a letter which her father receives. An hour later, in town to purchase supplies, he sees the girl, who has driven to meet the train, bestow a warm welcome on a young "tenderfoot." The newcomer is the girl's brother, as her lover might have learned ; but in a fit of jealousy he rides back to the, ranch and draws his time. The ranchman, not wishing to lose a good man, inquires the reason, but gets no satisfactory answer. "I want to quit," is all the foreman will vouchsafe. He takes what is coming to him and rides away on a prospecting trip. The girl's brother, home after four years at college, has brought back with him some ill habits. He falls in with bad company and goes down the line. While he is gambling in a saloon with two card sharps, the ex-foreman, on a trip to town, enters and, recognizing the tenderfoot, watches the play. It is obvious that the young man is being cheated. Suddenly his suspicions are aroused, and he jumps to his feet, only to look down the barrel of a pistol. There is a shot, and the card sharp, wounded in the arm, drops his gun. It is the ex-foreman who has fired. A few moments later, outside the saloon, he hears the tenderfoot confess that the large sum of money thus miraculously saved was stolen from his father. "Your father?" exclaims the exforeman. "Then she is your sister!" Cautioning the young man to say nothing, he rides to the ranch house late at night, and effecting an entrance, replaces the money in the drawer from which it was taken. Hearing a sound, the rancher comes on the scene and, after denouncing the foreman as a thief, orders him out. On the road, he finds the tenderfoot a victim of the card sharps, who, not finding the money, have ridden on to break into the ranch house. Taking the boy back to the ranch, the ex-foreman is held up by the card sharps, but by means of the "twirling gun" trick gets the drop on them. His honor cleared, he wins the girl. COINCIDENCE, (Special— Two Parts— July 13). — Shakespeare George and Tom Evans, arbitrators of public opinion in Willow Creek, are present when the boys begin to ridicule the music of an old blind violinist set down by the stage coach that afternoon. They pronounce the music fine, and, to sustain their reputations as critics, clean out the saloon. They take the old man to their mine, where he is welcomed by their friend. Stinger Johnson, and his wife. Marietta. As the days pass, the old man endears himself to them all. Marietta treats him as a father. The partners make a big clean-up and insist that he share with them. One day Stinger Johnson reads aloud a news item to the effect that a notorious desperado is dying in jail at San Bernardino. The old man startles them by requesting to be taken to San Bernardino. Arrived there, he asks a question of the dying man : "What have you done with my daughter and her child?" The question dates back twenty years, when the old man, then a young musician, had forbidden his daughter to marry a worthless man. She had gone the way of her heart and bitterly regretted it. Discovering her whereabouts, the father persuaded her to come with him when her husband entered, the worse for drink, and, in a struggle, blinded his antagonist with pepper. Then the desperado took his wife and child away. Dying, he tells, how, after his wife's death, he placed the child In care of an old neighbor and never learned what became of her. Back to Willow Creek goes the old man, his question still unanswered. But coincidence — "the greatest mystery of human events," as Shakespeare George said — reveals his long-lost granddaughter in the person of Marietta. An old portrait of her mother, and some papers which the sheriff took from the desperado, serve to establish her identity — and the wanderer's quest comes to an end at last. THE ONE FORGOTTEN (July 15).— Grant Allen, off to the woods to recuperate, bidB good"by to his neighbor. Louise Sumner. In the woods he falls in with John Orten, a trapper, who has a lovely daughter, Marie. Falling in love with Marie, he marries her, and remains with the trapper. As time passes, he begins to long for the city life. Summoned home on important business, he bids farewell to his wife, and departs, never to return. In the city he becomes infatuated with Louise, who is not aware of his marriage. The following summer Louise, with a party of friends, goes on a camping, trip to the same locality. Separated from her friends, she comes across a newmade grave, with a young woman strewing flowers on it. It is Marie, who has recently buried her baby, named after its father. Louise reads the name, and, by skilful questions, confirms her suspicions. She persuades Marie to go home with her, and there brings Grant Allen unexpectedly f^ce to face with his wife. In an agony of s'lame he implores Marie's foregiveness, and tikes his wife to his arms. Though lured by the city into temporary forgetfulness, he has never really loved another woman. Highest Grade Developing Printing Film Titles At Lowest Prices We Guarantee All Work and Give Prompt Delivery Camera men furnished for all occasions on short notice. Standard Motion Picture Company 1620 Mailers Building 5 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Telephone Randolph 6692 BROKEN WAYS (July 16— Re-Issue No. 6).— Under false colors, the road agent wins the love of the young telegraph operator. She does not learn his true character until after the marriage, when he begins to entertain strange, uncouth visitors, with whom he goes out on mysterious night rides. At last she determines to live her life apart, and, leaving him, goes to another place, where she obtains a position as operator at the railroad station. The local sheriff meets her and presently asks her to marry him. She holds him off; but when he renews his suit she feels in honor bound to tell him of the barrier that exists between them. Hard pressed by the law, the road agent circulates a report of his own death, and, under cover of the security thus obtained, commits another outrage. The sheriff, taking the trail, follows it alone across the divide and enlists the aid of the local sheriff. The bandit has gone to the station, where he recognizes his wife and implores her to aid him. She hides him from the officers, but later refuses to go with him when he suggests a new start. Angered, he seizes her, and a struggle ensues. An express agent sees what is happening and runs after the officers. They return, and in the pistol battle that follows the road agent is killed. His wife is thus freed from the bond which has kept her from the arms of the man she really loves, and later, her faith in mankind renewed, she weds the sheriff, turning her back upon the tragic past, facing the future with confidence. THE LITTLE RUNAWAYS (July 17).— Daddy and mamma quarrel, and the little girl is very unhappy. She has a nurse who is more interested in popular novelists than in her charge. Not until the family reaches its summer home does the lonely child find a real companion — the son of the gardener. On the day when mamma's friends come to visit, daddy is shut up in his room after another tiff. The girl wanders through the house and, reaching for a flower on a table, smashes the vase. Mamma promptly scolds her, and daddy, taking her part, makes matters worse. She wanders into the garden, convinced that nobody loves her. The gardener's boy, of the same opinion, suggests that they go away together, in search of new parents. By the lake they find a boat moored and are about to embark in it when the boy decides that he will first go for provisions. He has just looted the larder when his father, entering, catches him red-handed. Explanations ensue, and the gardener rushes down to the lake, where, the boat having drifted away, he has a long swim before rescuing the girl. Meanwhile, daddy and mamma have missed her and are frantically searching the grounds. In joy over her safe return they become reconciled. , SELIG. HEARST-SELIG NEWS PICTORIAL, NO. 49 (June 21). — San Francisco. — Heavy wind spoils efforts to send twenty-five balloons away in race at Panama Fair. One gets started but big bole is torn in side and wttb aeronaut it drops into bay. New York. — Dr. Bernbard Dernberg, whose comments on the Lusitania brought a storm of criticism, sails for Germany. Forth Worth, Texas. — Floods from the Trinity river sweep lower part of Fort Worth, spread over wide section, inundate 600 homes and render 2,000 people homeless. Chicago. — Big car strike ties up transportation in Chicago for three days. Crowds treat whole matter as holiday affair and walk to work, ride in improvised jitney busses or fill railroad trains so full that some find places on the engines. New York. — Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, designs novel costume for Hearst-Selig News Pictorial to illustrate trend of summer styles. Gales Ferry, Conn. — Oarsmen of Yale crews gather for final practice before regatta with Harvard. Rome, Italy. — Monster crowds gather In the streets of Rome and march about shouting for the government's action in declaring war on Hungary. Pictures made bv Staff Photographer A. E. Wallace. Liverpool, England. — Steamer Nebraskan, American ship torpedoed by German submarine, goes into dry dock in Liverpool where big hole in her side is exposed to view. Richard City, Tenn. — Twenty-six tons of dynamite is fired in quarry at Richard City raising hundreds of tons of rock into the air. New York. — Children of public schools gather at soldiers' and sailors' monument in Flag Day celebration. HEARST-SELIG NEWS PICTORIAL, NO. 50 (June 24). — Troy, N. Y. — Students of Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute hold novel circus parade and circus. Roslyn, L. I. — Col. House, personal friend of President Wilson, who has been touring Europe arrives in America. New York. — Schooner yacht Margaret goes on rocks off Wards Island in East River. Brookline, Mass. — Brookline Country Club holds annual races. Society folk flock to event and see jockey thrown in dangerous jump in steeplechase.