Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

July 17, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD that the boy he has befriended is his younger brother, and the message on the back of the card tells what he has done. The kid is captured and locked up to await trial In prison uniform, he is sent out under guard to clean up the barrack grounds. Jim, realizing how the boy longs to be away from the hated armv life, and having seen letters from his mother' saying how she longs for "her baby" gives the kid a suit of civilian clothes, which he has hidden under a bush, compels him to change his attire, supplies him with money, and hands him a sealed note, tells him to return to his mother at once, and then to get out of the country. Back home, the kid is told what he has never guessed before, that his own brother has saved him. Bidding his mother a fond farewell, he hurriedly leaves to get out of the country, promising to send for his mother "when he has made a man of himself." And at the army post, Jim, returning without his prisoner, pavs the penalty of his sacrifice by facing a term of "imprisonment to be followed by a dishonorable discharge from the service. But he is happy, notwithstanding ; he has done it "For His Mother." A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER (July i-'l.J — Mrs. Hobson. a widow with two eligible daughters, and Mr. Beck, a widower with two sons of the ■Damageable age, both decide to seek new apartments. Both families finally decide upon houses that suit their respective wants. The drivers of the two wagons meet outside a saloon, ani are there accosted hy two vagrants, who ask them to stand treat. The moving men send the vagrants about their business, and to get even, the two hoboes change the horses on the vans — which are exactly alike, being from the same company — and also turn the vans about so that when the drivers come out — not quite so clear-headed as when they went in — each drives off in the direction he was heading for but with the wrong van. Mrs. Hobson's maid is waiting to superintend the unloading of the vans, but when the men start to unload Mr. Beck's belongings on Mrs. Hobson's new front porch, the maid objects. Her objection is overruled by the moving men. This same performance is repeated at the new home of the Becks. Objections on the part of Mr. Beck's cook have no weight with the moving men. Meantime, both families have started for their new homes. Mrs. Hobson slips on the sidewalk and sprains her ankle, and while her two daughters are assisting her. Beck comes along in his auto., with his boys. Seeing Mrs. Hobson's predicament, he invites her to enter his car, offering to drive her to her home. She thanks him. but says she prefers to walk the short distance remaining. She gives him her card, on' which she pencils the new address, and invites him to call with his two sons. Arriving at their respective homes, the two families find a general mixup. It is too late to make any change that night — the furniture moving company has closed" for the day — and finally the ladies are compelled to retire, wearing the Becks' sleeping apparel. At the Beck home, father and sons go to their more or less restful beds wearing the ladies' nightgowns. Mrs. Hobson's maidr one of the thinnest of the thin, retires in the nightie belonging to Mr. Beck's cook, who is "built like a battleship." In the morning, however, everything is straightened out when Mr. Beck finds out who the things really belonged to. There is another moving and another meeting of the parties concerned, as a result of which a third moving is soon brought about, when Mrs. Hobson becomes the second Mrs. Beck and after the girls and boys make it plain to papa and mama that they, too, are anxious to enter the matrimonial state. OX DAXGEROUS PATHS (Special — Four Parts — July 23.)— Eleanor Thurston, of Sterrettsville, and Roger Sterrett. son of the wealthiest resident, are in love. Strangely enough, Eleanor has not imbibed the philosophy of her father, a minister, who believes always that the Lord will provide. Consequently, when Joan, her businesslike sister, arrives from the city for a stay, Eleanor sees no reason why she shouldn't take advantage of an offer made by an uncle in the city to help her all he could if she decided to become a business woman. When Roger calls with a perfect blue-white solitaire, that evening, he is almost knocked speechless by Eleanor's statement that she is going to the city. The advice of Eleanor's family and Roger is not heeded and she leaves for the city. Although chagrined at Eleanor's refusal, Roger still remembers that faint heart never won fair lady and determines to go to the city and bring her back to the country. Eleanor becomes a nurse and while doing night duty is attacked by an insane patient. She is rescued by Dr. Sinclair, whose fatal good looks have been the cause of many an imbroglio. They are infatuated hy each other, the doctor winning another point when he transfers Eleanor to day duty. The doctor is neither an angel nor a bad sort, his chief fault being in knowing women too well and oftentimes encouraging them beyond propriety. JAMES AUBREY EXHIBITORS Remember! All PAT HE EXCHANGES Are releasing the great laughing HEINIE and LOUIE COMEDIES Made by the Mittenthal Film Co. NEW YORK CITY WALTER KENDIG as"louie"inthe "HEINIE &L0UIE"C0MEDIES Roger arrives in the city to investigate some -difficulties in the New York office of his father. His arrival is celebrated by him and other gay young rounders with the result that early in the morning he is picked up intoxicated by Dr. Sinclair and taken to a hospital. In the morning Eleanor, now doing day duty, recognizes him. Roger earnestly pleads with her to go back to the country, but Eleanor is practically in Dr. Sinclair's power and refuses. When Roger learns of her love for the doctor, he leaves in a rage and in full view of Eleanor flirts with -a stranger and leaves with her in an automobile. Eleanor has a dinner engagement with Dr. Sinclair. They arrive at a wayside inn and are seen by Roger, who is there with Miss Montgomery, the flirt. Eleanor and the doctor get a private dining room, much to Roger's discomfort. They have" been inside some time, during which the doctor has, by cajolery and insincere promises, practically won Eleanor over, when a note is handed to the physician. Soon he is on the veranda arguing with Roger, who finally convinces the doctor of his sincere love for the girl. The doctor leaves and Roger greets Eleanor, telling her what has transpired. Miss Montgomery, deserted, enters the private room and at once starts a tirade against the man who "passed her up." for another. A bill curtails her volubility. Eleanor and Roger are ba«k in Sterrettsville -the following Sunday, the . happiest persons in the world had seats in the front row in the little church. THE SECRET OF THE CELLAR (July 24).— In the West, Mr. James Travers is known by quite a different name, and many cities west of Chicago have his rather handsome features in their local "Rogue's Gallery." His wife is as notorious as he, and Fogarty, his companion, is well known at headquarters in New York City. After arriving at a fashionable hostelry in the latter city, they receive a visit from a wellknown jeweler, who has come to them after being requested to bring with him a valuable necklace. Once in their apartment, a blackjack in the hands of Fogarty drops him unconscious into a chair, and the crooks' make their escape from the hotel with the stolen jewels. But in the struggle following the first blow on the head, the jeweler has torn Fogarty's collar from his neck, and Revelle. from headquarters, who has been assigned to the case, eventually finds the laundry, where the Xew York crook has been haying his laundry done, and in that way traces the nefarious trio to Fogarty's house. Coming there in the evening, after he has seen the three crooks leave together he lets himself in with a skeleton key. He is surprised by the crooks, who return unexpectedly, and is made a prisoner. He is left tied up in the cellar. Revelle's daughter, Bessie, is on her way home from the telegraph office where she is employed. She meets Tom Merriwell, her sweetheart, and stops to speak to him. While they are chattering, Bessie hears some tapping on the stand-pipe which rises from the ground and passes the outer wall of a nearby house. Listening, she discovers that someone is tapping out a message in the telegraph code, on'the pipe. "Help I Help! Help! The cellar," it calls repeatedly. Tom caHs another policeman, and the party bursts into the house. In the cellar, they find Bessie's father bound and gagged. Acquainted with the telegraph code, he had senf the message of distresss, with the lucky result shown. Examining some old letters in the room above, Revelle finds a signature that gives him a new clue. He finally discovers the house in which the three xrooks are hiding, and makes his way into the cellar. Here, hiding in a barrel, he sees them ■ come down and take the corks from a couple of wine bottles standing on the shelves against the wall. Out of these bottles they take two or three splendid necklaces, the proceeds of former robberies, and they indicate that other bottles also contain stolen jewels. They are about to slip their latest haul into a bottle when the detective springs up and covers them with a revolver, firing one shot to attract the attention of the young policeman, Tom, who is waiting outside. The three crooks are made prisoners, and taken to the station house. Bessie, come to inquire as to her father's whereabouts, finds him there, and after the jewel robbers have been safely locked up, Revelle, his daughter, and his future sonin-law, their day's work done, stroll home together. Universal Film Mfg. Co. L-KO. THE CURSE OF A XAME (July 21.)— Mr Rawsberry had no particular talent except pure, unadulterated nerve. He was a janitor, but from his clothes he could have passed for Lord Chesterfield. He eloped with some kopecks from the boss' safe and went to the swellest hotel in town. There he met a pretty girl, and in order to impress her with his importance, he hires a page to bawl his name through the lobby and corridors. As luck would have it, his boss w^as stopping (Continued on page 553.)