Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

394 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 10, 1915 MAJESTIC. THE HIRED GIRL, (Two Parts— July 6).— Sally Smith, a poor girl, hires out to the rich Widow Smith who is no relation of hers. Sally is forced to work very hard while Dora Smith, the widow's daughter, is always having a good time. Dora is invited to a party where Henry, tbe idol of the village, is to be present. Her mother orders that a beautiful frock which has just arrived in town, be sent to the house, as she intends to buy it for Dora to wear to the party, The package is delivered at the kitchen door. It is directed simply to Miss Smith. Sally receives it, thinking that some unknown fairy godmother has made it possible for her to go to the party. She is overcome with happiness. Because the dress does not arrive, Dora gives up attending the function. But Sally goes in the beautiful gown, and Henry immediately falls in love with her. The widow and daughter discover what has become of the dress. They go to the party to arrest Sally for stealing it. But Mr. Crocker, the store keeper, tells them that as the frock was not paid for, it is not their property, and that this makes the arrest illegal. He then gives the frock to Sally. Later, Henry marries his Cinderella. A TEN-CENT ADVENTURE (July 13).— Bill, the biggest boy in the school, abuses one of the smaller pupils and then puts the blame on Joe, the son of a poor widow. Joe is punished by the teacher. But after school he calls the bully to account and worsts him in a fistic encounter. He also protects Dorothea, the pretty little daughter of the bank president, from the unwelcome attentions of the bully, and she rewards, him by inviting him to her birthday party. But the poor boy has no money to buy Dorothea a present. He is a young man of advanced ideas, however, and so applies at the local bank for a loan of ten cents. The bank president issues the tiny loan with all formality, and the* poor boy buys the present and goes to the party. A week later, Joe's loan falls due. He earns the money and hurries away to repay the bank. Arriving after closing hours, he enters a store next door, and finds himself among crooks, who are absorbed in breaking into the bank. Joe hides. Following the bandits into the bank, he manages to make his way into a private office where he calls up the bank president on the phone. The police arrive. In the gun fight, Joe is accidentally wounded. The bank president gives the boy's mother a substantial sum of money as a reward of her son's bravery. Dorothea and Joe pledge to be friends all their lives. to save the girl loses his life. and her old father. Michael RELIANCE. THE FORTIFICATION PLANS (July 7).— Lieutenants Lydell and Selbert are members of Major Steever's staff in the department of fortification construction. The young men are good friends, though both love Marcia, the daughter of their chief. Not until Lieutenant Lydell saves Marcia's baby sister from drowning, does the girl realize that it is Lydell whom she really loves. Selbert. quick to see that she has made up her mind, casts about for means to win Marcia for himself. He overhears Lydell indignantly refusing to sell certain newly completed plans to Paul Zare, who offers him a handsome bribe. Selbert is greatly in need of funds to cover his gambling debts. He steals the plans, barters them to the spy, and then sets about to fasten the crime upon his rival. This is nearly accomplished when, to the astonishment of both Lydell and Selbert, the "spy," Zare, appears, salutes the Major, and returns into his keeping the stolen papers. Zare is an employee in the secret service. The guilty officer is brought to justice, and Lydell is rewarded with promotion and the girl he loves. THE HEADLINERS (Two Parts— July 10). — The manager of a vaudeville theater at Coney Island is advised that his headline act cannot go on the dates scheduled. In the emergency he engages Gabriel Castinara, the wonderful life guard swimmer, and advertises him in a sensational diving stunt. An Italian Strolling Players' troupe also is featured at the theater. It includes an old clown, Punelli, with his performing dog, and Punelli's beautiful daughter, Beatrice, who sings Sicilian songs to Michael Busoni's mandolin. When Gabriel and Beatrice meet, they discover in one another old sweethearts back in Italy. Suddenly Busoni flings himself upon the life-guard with murderous intent. The struggling men are separated: Then Gabriel tells the story of an ancient grudge which has to do with the killing of his father by the father of Busoni, and his own accidental killing of Busoni, the elder. He had promised Beatrice that he would not be avenged, but, meeting his father's murderer unexpectedly, they had been led to quarrel, and Busoni had dropped dead of heart failure. Gabriel bad escaped the police and made his way to America, whither he learned Beatrice had gone. Michael Busoni plots Gabriel's death. But through his own carelessness, the theater catches fire. Gabriel braves smoke and flame ROYAL. THEY RAN FOR MAYOR (July 10).— The Schultz family and the Duffy family live in a two-family house. Father Schultz and father Duffy are both running for mayor against Levi, the independent candidate. Schultz's son, Frantz, is in love with Duffy's daughter, Maggie. Their parents are so bitter that they will not allow the young folks to speak. Duffy even puts up a spite fence in the yard. On election day, Schultz attempts to draw the crowd with a German band, while Duffy uses a phonograph. Both lose their constituents to Levi, who furnishes sandwiches and beer. Schultz and Duffy unite against a common enemy. They rain bricks against the Levi platform. But, in the end, Levi is elected — and the defeated families are left upon a friendly basis. DOMINO. THE FAILURE (Two Parts— July 1).— Jim Ulake, a prospector, living near Bennett, a western mining town, is a failure. He works a worthless claim near his shack. At Lucky Strike Mine, a few miles away, everything is booming. Stine, the foreman, gets into trouble with the miners over the dismissal of one of their members, and the angry men send a delegation to the mine owner. They threaten to strike unless the drunken Stine is discharged. The foreman, questioned, becomes insulting to his employer, who discharges him. Jim Blake's six-year-old child is dangerously ill. The doctor has refused to make another call unless Blake pays at least a part of his bill. The grocer at Bennett also has cut off Blake's credit. Accidentally, the desperate prospector learns that the incoming Thursday night stage carries a big pay-roll for Lucky Strike Mine. He makes up his mind to rob the coach." Meanwhile, Stine has learned of the pay-roll and also plans to hold up the stage. The following night, Blake, shaven and disguised, arrives at the spot he has selected for the robbery, only to find that another desperado is before him. He watches the hold-up, . sees Stine wounded, sees him, despite this, make off with the treasure, and the stage drive away like mad for the sheriff. Blake finds Stine lying unconscious from his wound. He helps himself to ninety dollars of the pay-roll, leaving the rest in the thief's possession. Blake pays his bill at the store with three twenty-dollar gold pieces. The storekeeper's suspicions are aroused and he informs the sheriff. The rest of the money Blake gives to the doctor, who goes home with him to his sick child. The following morning the sheriff arrives at Blake's shack. The prospector sees him coming and makes his getaway, the officer and posse in hot pursuit. Blake's horse is wounded and he falls. Handcuffed and helpless, he confesses to the sheriff all the details of the stage robbery and substantiates his story by leading the officer to the dead body of Stine and the booty, still lying undiscovered in the woods. On the way back to town, passing his cabin, Blake begs permission to see his sick child. The sheriff removes the handcuffs and permits the miner to enter his cottage. Through the window the officer watches the child die in its anglished father's arms. Blake comes out and gives himself up. But the sheriff tells him that he has been punished enough and states that he will make up the ninety dollars out of his own pocket. Blake stumbles back into the shack to cumfort his heart-broken wife. THE BURGLAR'S BABY (Two Parts— July 15). — Bill Slade, an ironworker, with a wife and child, loses his job when the mills shut down and tries all kinds of ways to keep his family fed and clothed. At last he applies to the charities. Red tape and delay are the sole result, and the desperate man decides to burglarize the house of Dr. King. The doctor sees Bill helping himself to the silver, and gets a good look at him before Slade can make his escape. Shortly afterward, the mills reopen and Bill goes hack to his old job. The Slade baby is taken very ill. Unable to get the neighborhood physician, its anxious father begs the druggist to call a reliable doctor. Dr. King takes the case. On arriving at the home of the child, the physician recognizes in Slade the burglar, and Slade is overcome with terror at the idea of being given over to the police. He makes a confession to King, who is greatly moved by Slade's story. He promises to keep Bill's secret. Dr. King pulls the baby safely through, and he and Slade become fast friends. BRONCHO. THE RUSE (Two Parts— July 14).— "Bat" Peters, reformed gun fighter, receives a letter from a Chicago firm to whom he has written in reference to selling his mine, stating that they think they will have no trouble in disposing of his property if he will come to Chicago, bringing samples of the ore. Peters arrives in Chicago and goes at once to the office of the firm where he interviews John Folsom. president of the company. He meets there May Dawson, Folsom's stenographer, and rents a room In May's home. Folsom and his confederates plan to put up a job on Peters and fleece him out of his mine. May, returning to the office one evening for her handbag, which she has forgotten, overhears the plan, but she is discovered by Folsom, who forcibly places her in an attic chamber under the care of an old hag. Peters completes his deal with Folsom, and that night he is shown the "sights" by one of Folsom's confederates. After visiting a dance hall, they ask him to sit in a game of poker and take him to the same house in which May is a prisoner. There they try to put up a crooked game, but Peters is too wise for them and, drawing his guns, tells them that they can't shove any six-card draw on him. Covering the gang with his gun, he backs out of the room and locks the door on the astonished gangsters. He rushes up the stairs to the attic landing, putting up a good fight. He suddenly hears May scream and recognizes her voice. He sets a barrel of straw on Are and yells "Fire," which brings Folsom from May's room. Peters steps into the room and locks the door. It is battered in by the gangsters. The police, hearing the racket, come on and arrest the gangsters. Peters knocks Folsom out and all excepting Peters and May are taken away in the patrol wagon. Peters takes May home to her mother. MUTUAL WEEKLY. MUTUAL WEEKLY NO. 26 (July 1). Latest War Pictures — French expeditionary corps at Alexandria, Egypt. A new regiment of Alpine Chausseurs pass through Nice, France. The Danish colony at Paris donate a hospital ship, "La Danoise." Captured 75 m-m. cannon at the Invalides, Paris, France. Corporal Folcher, who took a German flag, Is decorated with the Legion of Honor. Famous rowing classic on Thames River between Yale and Harvard, at New London, Conn. New York City commemorates 250th anniversary of the installation of a Mayor and Board of Alderman. Subtitle — Mrs. Duane Cox, great-great-granddaughter of Jas. Duane, Mayor of the city in 1784, raises the new city flag. The sloop "Mah-Pe" wins Farallone race off San Francisco, capturing the Exposition Cup. Dr. Cook, of North Pole fame, leaves San Francisco to climb Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world. San Francisco, Cal. — All city departments take part in great civic parade. Largest railway girder in the world is placed in position. Broken levee on the Trinity River at Ft. Worth, Tex., renders several thousand people homeless and causes loss of half million dollars' worth of property. Governor Trammell of Florida drives golden spike completing the Palm Beach and Everglades Railroad. The "L'Avenir," Belgian schoolship, with only six cadets aboard, arrives in New York Harbor. Subtitle — Capt Audenaerde. New $1,000,000 Southern Pacific Railroad station is opened at Los Angeles, Cal. Oklahoma firemen fight water battle at Sapulpa during recent tournament. The greatest blast on record. After six months' preparation, 26 tons of dynamite loosen 300,000 tons of solid rock at Richard Citv Tenn. KAY-BEE. THE HAMMER (Two Parts— July 9).— Donald Barstow, an illustrator, lives in a rickety studio building and is interested in Mrs. Blakely, a married woman. She calls him up, inviting him to go to Philadelphia for the week end. He agrees. Old Simon Bassett is proprietor of the house and has a niece, Molly, whom he makes scrub the floors. Molly has come to love Donald, the illustrator. Simon comes in to collect his rents. Donald cannot pay him and a heated argument ensues. This is overheard by Gustave Schmitz. a chemist on the next floor who is preparing to examine a vial of blood.' His room is directly over that of Donald. Donald leaves the studio building and borrows one hundred dollars from a friend. He goes to his room to pack. Meanwhile, there has been a sign tacked up by a stenographer on the third floor, who casually lays a hammer on the banister. An explosion occurs in the chemist shop, which dislodges the vial of blood. Same breaks and leaks through on Donald's office coat which he has thrown down upon leaving. The explosion dislodges the hammer and it falls on the head of old Simon, who is leaning over the balcony on the next floor. His pocketbook, which he is carrying and also the hammer fall beside a garbage can on the well at the bottom of the studio building. During the time Donald was in the studio we have shown him kill a rat with a gas pipe, whieh leaves the stained gas pipe on the floor. He has gone and thrown the rat in the garbage can after chatting with Molly, who is outside scrubbing and who has seen this action. A web of evidence is thus built up around Donald. The hundred dollars is discovered on