Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

390 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 10. 1915 that night, and goes out of his way to offer the King liquor, which he furtively pours out of the glass, when Frederick is not looking, having faith in the message from Kitty. About eleven o'clock. Kitty sees in a window across the way, her old friend and helper, Rolleau. who has been watching Frederick's windows for sometime. Rolleau, seeing Kitty's plight, hangs from the fire escape by his knees and telling Kitty to jump, catches her in his hands and pulls her into his room safely. Quickly telling him that they must be at the palace at "twelve, they hurry to the hotel for her gown. In the meantime. Frederick has, as he believes, gotten Michael intoxicated and, taken to a room asleep, just as the message arrives with the package Kitty sent, to be delivered to herself or King Michael, at twelve o'clock sharp. Frederick, gloating over his easy victory with the King and Kitty, is just about to take the package when a commotion is heard in the rear of the ball room and, turning. Frederick and the guests are surprised to see Kitty Gray, the American girl, walking cooly down the marble stairs on the arm of the strictly sober King Michael. Kitty smiles at the King and, with a little different smile at Frederick, takes the package from the waiting courier. it, goes through a mountain of granite, falls down a precipice through the roof of a house, but Ski-hi is finally captured and dragged about by his pigtail. LAEMMLE. DEAR LITTLE OLD TIME GIRL (July 15). — Kitty Bruce has grown up like a wild mountain flower in Virginia hills. She has a rich aunt, old-fashioned and who knows about as little of modern life as Kitty. She sends Kitty to her wealthy sister in Xew York City, a Mrs. Van Trump. James K. Lee, a wealthy Southerner, visiting in Xew York, is sought after by Mrs. Van Trump, who desires to capture him for her daughter, Dorothy. Lee has grown skeptical of the value of modern beauties and dreams of an old-time heroine. In a vision Lee's mother shows him what modern society is really like and it proves that Dorothy is not worthy. Kitty comes to the Van Trumps and gets a Cinderella treatment. She is not permitted to attend the big ball at the Van Trumps, but steals down, dressed in one of her aunty's old hoop skirt gowns and Lee sees her. He takes her to a balcony. Mrs. Van Trump and Dorothy miss Lee and search for him. Finally in the hall they meet Lee and Kitty as Kitty is about to tiptoe upstairs. Mrs. Van Trump, noting the affection in Lee's eyes for Kitty, orders her to her room. Guests from the ballroom enter and laugh at the costume Kitty is wearing. Lee, taking Kitty's hand, kisses it before all and says : "Good-night, Dear Little Old Time Girl, until tomorrow." FOR HIS SUPERIOR'S HONOR (July 18).— Ruby is the daughter of Colonel Granden of the "Twenty-first" and is the pride of the regiment. Jim Austin, the Colonel's orderly and she are great chums. Mrs. GYanden thinks that it is a slight to the dignity of the household for her daughter to be on familiar terms with the soldiers and especially with the orderly. Jack Raymond, old flame of Mrs. Granden, arrives, and is installed as one of the household. His admiration for the Colonel's wife breaks out anew. The orderly, being in the house a great deal, one day comes upon the pair in an almost compromising attitude. Ruby is suddenly taken sick and the nurse sends Jim for her mother. Jim comes upon Mrs. Granden and Raymond as they are about to embrace. He tells her of the child's illness. She leaves hurriedly. Raymond realizes that the child is the only bond that keeps Mrs. Granden from leaving with him. The child recovers, but Mrs. Granden and Raymond decide to elope but the nurse finds the note telling Mrs Granden where to meet him. She shows it to Jim who finds Raymond and thrashes him and makes him leave alone. Then the woman realizes what she has been saved from. She and the Colonel make up and Jim is now thought worthy to be the guardian of an officer's little daughter. JOKER. SKI-HI. THE CARTOOX CHIXAMAX fO^i the same reel with "At the Bingville Barbecue." synopsis of which can be found on page 1846 issue June 12— Released June 19).— Ski-hi has an auto. He loads it up with nitroglvcerine and takes a trip through the clouds. A mule kicks two of his enemies on him as he is repairing the car. Ski-hi jumps in and starts off with the two on the radiator. The car goes through a fence and knocks off a fat person sitting on Mutual Film Corp. THANHOUSER. THE CROSSED WIRES (Special— Two parts — June 29). — Avarice and envy are two of the worst vices with which a person can be possessed, but they dominated the feelings of the housekeeper of a wealthy woman. The mistress was very kind to her servant and thought highly of her, but the realization that she was poor and the other woman rich nearly drove the housekeeper frantic. The rich woman had a niece and nephew of whom she was very fond, and made a will bequeathing the most of her property to the youth, although she provided liberally for his sister, and did not forget to make a substantial bequest to her housekeeper. The nephew accidentally discovered how the servant hated the aunt, and he warned his relative. To even suggest that her servant was not loyal was sufficient to rouse the old lady's anger, and a quarrel ensued, which was overheard by the servants. After nephew and niece had gone the housekeeper craftily tried to induce her mistress to change her will and disinherit her nephew. The schemer was unsuccessful, however, but was determined to secure her part of the inheritance without delay. In the evening the nephew called, apologized to the aunt and was readily forgiven, but, after he had gone the old woman was taken violently ill and when she summoned her housekeeper she discovered that her supposedly faithful servant had caused her illness and was waiting for her to die. The dying woman, in her endeavor to outwit the treacherous woman servant, dragged herself to the telephone and called up police headquarters. She started to tell the police officer that her nephew had warned her against the servant when central disconnected the two lines, and all that the policeman heard was the words. "I am dying — poisoned — Will Drake." The call was then accidentally switched on to the wire of a young civil engineer who was on the point of leaving town. The words "Will Drake warned me. Susan is guilty" meant nothing to him, for he considered it to be nothing more than a family quarrel, and left the city at once. But when the police got to the home and found the wealthy woman dead, the evidence they secured made it look very bad for the nephew. The servants had witnessed the quarrel, the officer on the beat saw the nephew leave the house shortly after, before his aunt was discovered dead, and then there was the incriminating fact that he was the chief heir and the voice at the telephone, mentioning his name. Of course the civil engineer could have done much to clear the accused man. but he was in the west and for many weeks worked in the wilds far from newspaper and other adjuncts of civilization. The nephew was brought to trial for the murder of his aunt, quickly convicted and sentenced to death. He would probably have paid the penalty had it not been for his sister. His sister, worn out by anxiety, was sent to the country to rest. There she accidentally met the only man who could prove her brother's innocence. The engineer recalled the mysterious conversation over the phone and when the evidence was laid before the police a plan was made to trap the guilty housekeeper. The plan was a very unusual one, but it worked upon the conscience of the murderer so powerfully that she broke down and confessed her guilt, and the innocent man was freed. The civil engineer who received the mysterious call, the grateful girl asked him to name any reward he desired, whereupon he told her that he wanted her, and as she had grown to care for him very much, she was glad to make him happy. HIS TWO PATIEXTS (July 4).— The village blacksmith's one sorrow was due to the fact that his daughter was a hopeless invalid. She suffered from the affliction of the spine and the local practitioners could afford no relief. One day there came a ray of hope : a wonderful specialist from the great city came to the town. He had been summoned to attend the wife of a wealthy man. who owned a vast estate where he resided in summer. Perhaps he might be able to help; so the blacksmith went to the great house, and was lucky enough to find the doctor, just as he was departing. The great practitioner was in an unpleasant mood. His wealthy patient was one of those women who delight in thinking they are sick, and after a brief examination he had gruffly told her so. The doctor was wealthy and the fee was a matter of unimportance. What he resented was losing his time, and he was anxious to get back to the city, so he hardly listened to the blacksmith, told him he had just time to get the train, and hurried off down a country lane. A few minutes later, while passing through a lonely part of the road, the doctor was attacked. At first he thought he had fallen into the hands of robbers, but his assailant said he was the man who accosted him at the "great house" and unless he came and treated his "little gal'' be. the doctor, would never get back to the city alive. The doctor was impressed with the blacksmith's anxiety, and consented to accompany him. When he met his patient-to-be. he was struck with her beauty and sweetness, and readily agreed to give her the best of care. Interested in both his patieut and her case, he worked hard to bring about a cure, and one day, while they were seated at the water front he told her she had fully recovered. She could not believe him, he then walked for a few paces away, told her he loved her and wanted to marry her. He knew that she loved him by the way she listened to the words he said, so he tried his final experiment. Holding out his arms to her he said "Throw away your crutch and come to me." With love in her heart she obeyed him, and the doctor's patient was well and happy again. THE PICTURE OF DORIAX GRAY (Two Parts — July 20). — Basil Hallward. a celebrated artist, had completed a portrait which he privately declared was his masterpiece. It wTas a picture of Dorian Gray, a wealthy and handsome young man. who was a great favorite in London society. Basil and Dorian were looking at the painting in the artist's studio when Lord Henry Wotton. a mutual friend, came in. He complimented Dorian upon the picture, and remarked that in years to come it would be something to look back upon, for it would remind him of what he had been in the days of his youth. Dorian was deeply in love with an obscure actress who played Shakesperian roles in a minor theater. For a time he wooed her from afar, finally scraped up courage and secured an introduction, and speedily won the love of the simple-hearted girl. One evening he. told her of his love, and she gladly consented to marry. The next evening Dorian was again in the theater, this time accompanied by Basil and Lord Henry. Dorian had told them of the actress they came prepared to admire, but remained to laugh, for her work was woefully medicore. in fact so bad that the audience hissed her from the stage. Angered, Dorian abruptly left his friends and went back upon the stage. He reproached his charmer, and she told him she never again would act well, for his love had taught her "the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant" in which she had always played. She looked to him for consolation ; he threw her from him with reproaches and angrily told her she killed his love, and that he would never see her agajn. Then he left, and heard in the morning that she killed herself. It only stirred him vaguely. A little later he idly looked at his picture, it was not the same picture ; there was a touch of cruelty about the lips. The picture he secretly hid in the attic of his home. As the years roiled on he became more evil, but those who heard the stories about him could not believe them, for he always had the look of one who kept himself unspotted from the world. But there were moments of anguish of which no one knew, the times when he slinked up to his attic, drew aside the draperies that concealed a portrait, and saw for himself how his wickedness was indelibly stamped upon his picture. He would examine it with minute interest, and sometimes he would laugh when he realized that to the world he was still young and pure in appearance. One day he determined to get rid of this hateful reminder of his vices. He smiled as he picked up a knife, and smiled again as he sunk the knife into the breast of the horrible painting. 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