Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

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384 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 10, 1915 case while Virginia is suffering the agonies and tortures of the damned. The first mate of the sailing vessel, who has always been a loyal friend of Mr. Mendon, discovers that Virginia is aboard and declares mutiny aboard ship. With a gang of men he tries to save her from the clutches of the captain. A contraband cargo for European disposal is ignited during the battle which ensues between the captain and the mate's crew and the ship is blown to atoms. Virginia is the only ,one aboard the ship whose life has been spared, and the salvage pirates, seeing the ship wrecked, determine to get whatever gear and equipment can be saved. Arriving at the burning vessel, they find Virginia almost drowned. A battle between the two salvage crews takes place on the high seas, and another battle between the winning crew and the secret service boat, make the story intensely interesting and highly sensational. Virginia, who has been taken ashore to the salvage pirate's camp, is later discovered by Randall, who has finally found the men he is looking for. The men are brought to justice and Virginia is returned to her home, where she again declares her love for the secret service officer. UNIVERSAL. ANIMATED WEEKLY, NO. 173 (June SO}. — Shriners at Drill. — Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets holds national convention at Buffalo, N. Y. „„ x , Lipton Cup Winner. — Sloop "Westward takes trophy in her first race.— San Francisco Bay, Cal. New York's "Finest."— Crowds thrilled by daring stunts of mounted police to raise money for Hero Fund. — Gravesend Track, L. I. Atlantic City Pageant. — Naval celebration of elaborate character is feature of carnival at famous summer resort. — Atlantic City, N. J. Busy Bees. — Swarm of honey producers so tame they can be handled fearlessly by child.— Los Angeles, Cal. First Race on Speedway. — Noted auto drivers In thrilling 500-mile race. — Chicago, 111. Looping-the-Loop. — World-famous aviator Niles performs dangerous tactics in clouds. — Columbus, Ohio. Battle of the Hose. — Rival firemen bombard each other with harmless volleys at State Fire Tournament. — Sapulpa, Okla. 250th Birthday Celebration. — Thousands cheer as city's new official flag, presented by Amsterdam, Holland, is unfurled at City Hall, New York City. Sub-titles — A. Van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Consul-General of the Netherlands, presents flag to Mayor Mitchel. Governor Whitman. Yale-Harvard Regatta. — Tale's powerful crew wins great victory over Harvard in annual 4mile " contest on the Thames. — New London, Conn. Daring Air Raid. — Enemy's powerful bombs cause much damage in streets of Paris,. France. Great Italian Demonstration.— Tremendous ovations are given ambassador by Italian enthusiasts upon news of their country's entrance into the war. — London, England. Cartoons by the world-famous carcicaturist Hy Mayer of Puck. POWERS. THE WIZARDS OF THE ANIMALS (June 17) . — On the same reel with "The Panzer Troupe," Synopsis on Page 1832, issue of June 12. Scenes from the daily life of Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of the New York Zoological Park, showing Dr. Ditmars and a baby orangoutang; several giant Siberian tigers, the famous 'Gunda," weighing 9,000 pounds, which was shot because of his vicious mankilling propensities on June 22, and "Dinah," a gorilla, in a baby carriage. girl's father. But they fled the city and the house is for sale. She goes to the country and changes her name. She refuses to touch a cent of the gambler's money. She has never loved Alfred and has never encouraged him. Henry, the elder brother, hates this girl with a dumb unreasoning hatred and hires a clever detective to trail her. In the country where he goes for a fishing and hunting trip and to forget the death of the foolish young brother whom he loved he meets her under her assumed name. She does not connect him with the dead youth for the latter also used an assumed name. They love and become engaged. The old bachelor, brimming over with love for Henry and cheerfulness at the thought of his wedding, arrives and is horrified to see that his fiancee is the gambler's daughter. He reproaches her, but is won over by her mental prostration and appeal and finally believes that she was not guilty, but begs her to tell Henry all. She refuses because she fears the consequences. The old man is won by her and keeps the secret. They are married and as soon as the ceremony is over the hired detective appears and tells Henry that his wife is the vampire woman they have been seeking. Enraged at what he considers either the man's lie or stupidity, Henry casts him aside, but soon learns the truth and is about to seek her out and denounce her when she appears and denounces herself. Henry is heart-broken and would drive her from him, but he is won by her emotional appeal and takes her to his heart. of regaining her reason. A man must appear at her bedside posing as her husband. Mallory, a lover of adventure, and a daredevil, is selected for the role of the bogus Prince. Mallory is presented to the Princess. She falls in love with him at sight and he with her. She believes that he is, as she has been told, the Prince, her husband. The real Prince returns unexpectedly and finds his wife in the arms of Mallory. Von Steinberck wishes to rid the Prince of his morganatic wife and abducts her. Prince Carl's father had died and Carl is now King. Mallory sees the abduction and follows. Prince Carl learns of it, too, and pursues with Dr. McKenzie and Von Aldorz. The Princess is carried by Steinberck to a deserted castle. Mallory gets into the castle, followed by the Prince and his group. There is a battle with pistols, during which Steinberck wounds Mallory and kills Prince Carl. Eleanor is freed. Her love for Mallory turns to resentment when she hears of the deception. But Mallory is now hovering between life and death. In his delirium he calls for Eleanor just as she did for a dimly remembered husband. Dr. McKenzie tells her that her presence at Mallory's bedside alone can save Mallory's life. As she kneels beside the Irish adventurer and calls him by name, he smiles in recognition. The picture fades out with them in each other's arms. THE STRANGER (July 17).— Dayton Lee and his wife, Dorothy, live a dual life. Lee, a prominent business man, finds his chief pleasures in the bright lights of the cafes, while his trusting little wife makes a home of refined elegance for her unfaithful husband. The brutal nature of Dayton Lee is brought forth when planning his evening pleasures with his secretary, Nan Clark. He purchases a peace offering for his wife in the form of a diamond lavalliere, to keep her contented and satisfied during his supposed absence at business downtown. In a fashionable jeweler's the purchase of the lavalliere is witnessed by one Sydney Strange, one of the cleverest thieves in the city's history, a man refined, quiet and observing, whose character has never been suspected by the police. On the night of Dayton Lee's social engagement with his stenographer, Nan Clark, at a local cafe, Lee's home is entered by Strange, and the jewel taken from its deposit in Lee's private safe. Unnerved by her husband's brutality before his departure for town that night, Dorothy finds her way to the library and would bury herself in a good book, and so try and forget, when her intention is interrupted by her noticing the blowing of the curtains over the French window leading from the library to the garden beyond. She also discovers the door of the safe open. In the cafe, Lee, disgusted by the flirtatious actions of Nan Clark with another man, leaves in anger and returns home to find his wife with a strange man. Lee's brutality again takes hold of him and he would strike his wife, but the timely aid of the stranger saves her. Lee finds he has been robbed of the lavalliere purchased for his wife and, disregarding her appeal, he telephones for the police. Just before their arrival to arrest Strange, Dorothy faces her husband and tells him that if he will give the man up in spite of her, the man who saved her from her husband's brutality, she will swear the stranger was her lover. The police are told that "it was all a mistake." Strange takes from his pocket the stolen lavalliere, places it on the table before Dorothy, before whom the husband kneels and asks forgiveness. WAS SHE A VAMPIRE? (July 10).— Henry Desmond is a self-constituted guardian of his younger brother, Alfred. Alfred goes to the city to carry on his legal studies. He is put under the care of a wealthy old bacholer, Spencer. Enid returns from a convent and is surprised to observe the occupation of her father : that of a gambler. Old Spencer, seeing the hoy remain out late, follows him and sees he is a gambler. He misses him in the gambling rooms and searches for him. Then he hears his voice and, pulling the curtain of an ante-room aside, he sees Alfred speaking fondly to a young woman. He sees she is Enid, the "daughter of the proprietor. Old Spencer thinks Enid is a handsome siren who is bent on leading the boy to his ruin. He tears the curtain aside and denounces her. She indignantly denies his charge. The girl's pride is aroused and she refuses to see Alfred again. He is a great deal shaken by his losses, the girl's announcement that she will never see him again and the cutting off of his money, for old Spencer refuses to give him another penny, and the foolish boy disappears. He is found dead and on him a letter saying he has ended all because the gambler's daughter refused to marry him. This is read in the paper by the elder brother and the bachelor and they go to the gambling house to upbraid the girl. Also the elder brother, Henry, has determined to punish the BROADWAY UNIVERSAL FEATURE. THE GARDEN OF LIES (Five Parts — July 12), — Eleanor Mannering, an American girl, living abroad at the home of her cousin, Jessica Mannering, chooses Prince Carl of Noyodna from among her titled suitors and marries him. As they start on their wedding trip they meet with an automobile accident and Eleanor is injured. Baron Von Steinberck, prime minister of Noyodna, arrives at Jessica Mannering's house shortly after the Prince and Princess have left it. He has a message for Prince Carl calling on him to return at once to his capital as his father, the King, is at the point of death. He learns that .the Prince has just started on his wedding journey. Accompanied by Dr. McKenzie and one of the Prince's advisors, Von Aldorz, the prime minister, follows Prince Carl and Eleanor. They arrive on the scene of the auto wreck. The Prince leaves at once for Noyodna, after placing his wife in the hands of Dr. McKenzie and Von Aldorz. Princess Eleanor, back at the home of Jessica, develops aphasia and does not remember anything that has happened prior to the accident. In delirium her memory partially returns. She calls for her husband piteously, though it is evident that she has forgotten his appearance and personality. Dr. McKenzie and Von Aldorz decide that she has one chance GOLD SEAL. THE PEOPLE OF THE PIT (Two PartsJuly 13). — Robert Fuller is a grain broker with a beautiful daughter, Hilda. The old broker discovers that his confidential man, John Sherwin, is in love with his daughter and that this love is returned. He objects to the union, informing Sherwin that he aspires higher than a clerk as a son-in-law. The two men have an argument. Sherwin remarks that with modern business methods he can go out on the market and whip Fuller. Fuller challenges him to do it and discharges Sherwin. Sherwin goes into business for himself as an operator and corners the wheat market, ruining the old man. Hilda is angry, as she thinks that Sherwin has ruined her father merely through vindictiveness. She cleverly tricks him, causing a fall in the wheat market, and buys in all his holdings while her father is sick in bed from shock. She later learns through a letter from Sherwin that his action has only been perpetrated to convince the father that he (Sherwin) could make good, and with the hope of finally winning the hand of Hilda. The girl is sorry for what she has done. She is appalled to learn later that Sherwin had been shot by a crank who heard of the operator's amassing a million dollars in one day and who had demanded ten thousand dollars. Hilda had cleverly bought in all of Sherwin's holdings when the market fell. She has an interview with her father and tells him of Sherwin's intentions. Both go to the hospital to see Sherwin. where Hilda makes a clean confession of her act. Sherwin takes the matter good naturedly, congratulating her on her cleverness. The story ends happily by old man Fuller remarking that no harm has been done as the money still remains in the family. He gives his consent to his daughter's marriage, telling Sherwin that the firm will now be Fuller & Sherwin UNDER THE CRESCETNT SERIES NO. 4, "For the Honor of a Woman" (Two parts — June 22). — The caravan of the prince, on its long trip across the desert, pauses at an oasis for the hour of prayer. A rising sand storm sweeps up from the desert and threatens to obliterate the kneeling Arabs. All hasten to shelter, but in the meantime Tousson has taken advantage of the storm and Zohra's absence (she having gone to procure water from the well in the oasis), to rid herself of w^hat might be an unwelcome heir. He causes her child, his own illegal son, to be hidden beneath a rock and. after the storm has passed, the caravan goes on its way, leaving the little one deserted. The child is found by a band of Bedouins. Their leader, Rasaid, recognizes an amulet about its neck as that belonging to his daughter, Zohra, who, months before, ran away with the prince and dishonored her father. The Moslem idea of honor is to wreak vengeance on the woman, and Rasaid sets forth to trace and kill his daughter. He finds her in the prince's palace, gone mad from the loss of her infant. Madness is sacred to the Mohammedans and Zohra is saved from his wrath. He casts about for a means of vengeance upon the man who wronged her and accidentlly discovers a secret door and passageway in the palace leading from a leopard cage to the bath, of the harem. This leopard the prince calls his "Little Executioner." In its cage is a trap door, leading to a cell below, where Stanley Clyde is confined. The princess defies and loathes Tousson. In determination to break her spirit, he causes the trap door to be opened and the leopard is face to face with its prey. The prince hurries back to the harem baths to inform the princess of what he has done, but reckons without Rasaid who, creeping up to the