Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1916)

1218 THE MOVIXG PICTURE WORLD November 25, 1916 General Film Company KALEM. THE MERRY MOTOR MENDERS (Oct. 31). —The cast: Ham (Lloyd V. Hamilton) ; Bud (Bud Duncan) ; Count De Nutte (Henry Murdoch) ; His bride (Ethel Teare). Ham and Bud are seen as the proprietors or a wayside garage. Business is slow in coming so they use all sorts of expedients from tacks to dynamite to force Opportunity to knock. The knock doesn't come but the phone bell rings and the Count De Xutte and his bride enter the action in their broken down car. Ham arouses the jealousy of the Count by bis attentions to the bride with results that bring on a whirlwind finish. THE SON OF CAIN (No. 13 of "The Girl from "Frisco" — Two Parts — Nov. 1). — The cast ■ Barbara Brent (Marin Sais) ; John Wallace <True Boardman) : Ace Brent (Frank Jonasson) : "The Son of Cain" (Ronald Bradbury) ; The hermit (Edward Clisbee) ; The Sheriff (Hart Hoxie). Directed by James W. Home. Barbara and John Wallace set out to solve the mystery surrounding the killing of the old hermit bee keeper. They discover that the hermit was possessed of large amounts of gold coin which he secreted by placing them ip the center of moulds of beeswax. They notice that slight traces of the wax remain on the edges of the coins even after much polishing, and warn the merchants of the frontier town to watch for a man spending gold coin with the tell-tale wax on it. That afternoon Wallace finds "the son of Cain" at the local saloon, but in the bitter fight that follows the guilty man escapes to the stagecoach outside, and sets out in flight. Barbara pursues on horseback and a gruelling chase is on. The stage coach plunges over a terrifying precipice, but the fugitive leaps to safety In the nick of time. Reaching the railroad tracks he captures a train, but Barbara by a daring leap from horseback gets aboard the last coach. > With the train tearing along at great speed there is a stirring revolver duel between the guilty man and Barbara, atop the train. Coming to a drawbridge the fugitive leaps to the water, with Barbara closely following. Before he can continue his flight after reaching land Barbara has the murderer covered with her revolver and be is soon brought to justice. THE PENCIL CLVE (No. 3 of "Grant, Police Reporter" — Nov. 3). — The cast: Tommy Grant. of The Chronicle (George Larkin) : Myrtle, the stenographer (OUie Kirkby) : John Goss (Robert Ellis) : Mansfield, city editor (William McKeyl ; Police Commissioner Brophy (G. Chira) ; Detective Cadogan (Arthur Albertson). Directed by Robert Ellis. Lawyer White, of the firm of ^STiite £ Goss, is the victim of a fiendish plan, dying as the result of a pencil so powerfully poisoned that when be moistened it In the course of bis ■writing the effeat was instantaneous. The mystery of his death is a baffling one, but Tommy Grant, with the aid of Myrtle, the stenographer in Lawyer Goss" office, succeeds in solving it and placing the blame on the shoulders of Goi^s. The latter suspects Myrtle and attacks her just as Grant and Detective Cadogan arrive to arrest him. Goss gains the upper hand and succeeds in escaping down the stairs, locking the door of bis office on his pursuers. Grant rushes to the window just in time to see Goss leaping into the auto that Cadogan and Grant had arrived in. Without hesitating Grant leaps to the window ledge and through the air landing in the auto as it whizzes by. There is a struggle between the two in the car. Grant finally emerging victorious. THE GATE OP DEATH (No. 1(M ot the •'Hazards of Helen" — Nov 4t. — The cast: The operator at Lone Point (Helen Gibson) : Paymaster Benton (P. S. Pembroke) : Superintendent Purdy (G. A. Williams) ; The crook (George Routh). Helen succeeds in frustrating an attempt to rob the construction camp paymaster, and escapes with the money-bag, the crooks in close pursuit. Apparently all is lost when Helen comes to the edge of the precipice, but a huge four hundred foot chute that has been built as a delivery short cut down the mountain side to the railroad tracks offers a hazardous chance. Leaping on the little truck Helen starts the perilous slide down the chute just as her pursuers overtake her. Half way down the slide she is startled by the sight ot the express speeding along the tracks below — and certain death under the wheels of the train stares at her. But she clings to the truck, and as the bottom of the slide is reached burls herself into the air. barely clearing the top of the freight train, and landing in a huddled heap on the far bank. A DESPERATE DUEL (Nov. 7).— The cast: Ham (Lloyd V. Hamilton) ; Bud (Bud Duncan) : Flossie (Ethel Teare). Ham and Bud are jealous rivals for the hand of Flossie and are having their own time squabbling when a foreign element Is introduced by the arrival of a Count on whom the fair Flossie looks with favor. One encounter after another leads to a duel between Ham and the Count that is a scream. Ham wins, but the fickle Flossie bestows her sympathy on the wounded Count. A broken heart sends Ham to the hospital for a whirlwind finish. THE WITCH OF THE DARK HOUSE (No. 14 of "The Girl from "Frisco" — Two Parts — Nov. 8). — The cast: Barbara Brent (Marin Sais) ; John Wallace (True Boardman) : Ace Brent (Frank Jonasson i ; Joyce (Donald Bradbury); Boyle (Hart Hoxie); Simpson. a rancher (Edward Clisbee). Directed by James W. Home. Joyce is leader of a band of counterfeiters who are working in the cellar of a shack on the mountain-side. "The Witch of the Dark House" is apparently the only occupant of the house, which the dwellers of the mountain declare is haunted. Boyle, a Secret Service operative, comes upon the gang, but in the battle that follows is severely wounded before he makes bis escape. He is found unconscious and taken to the home of Simpson, a rancher. There Barbara's curiosity is aroused over the identity of the wounded stranger and his mission in the mountains. She starts an investi gation of her own that brings on a stirring train of events when she finds herself In the hands of the counterfeiters and menaced by the dread "Witch of the Dark House." It is only after a thrilling series of scenes that Wallace is successful in effecting her rescue, and Joyce and his gang are brought to justice. THE MAX FROM YUKON (No. 4 of "Grant, Police Reporter" — Nov. 10).— The cast: Tommy Grant, of The Chronicle (George Larkin) ; Helen, "The Mouse" (Ollie Kirkby) ; Porcupine Peterson (William McKey); Paper-Collar Joe (Robert Ellis). Directed by Robert Ellis. Porcupine Peterson, of Dawson. Alaska, is in New York with a surplus of green-backs and anxious to "do the town." He falls into the clutches of Helen. "The Mouse," and her wire-tapping gang and refuses to heed the warnings of Tommy Grant, who had [previously earned his friendship. Tommy enlists the aid of his friend Detective Cadogan, and /bey set about the capture of the wire-tappers. Their plans are successful, but in the closing scenes It becomes necessary for Grant to slide down a painter's rope from a seventh story window to the ground In order to Intercept the fleeing conspirators. THE LONE POINT MYSTERY (No. 105 of "The Hazards of Helen" Nov. 11).— The cast: Operator at Lone Point (Helen Gibson) ; Arnold (George Routh) : Dick Benton (P. S. Pembroke) ; The railroad president (G. A. Williams). Arnold schemes to defraud the Insurance company by disappearing under circumstances that point to his death. He hides in a shack near Lone Point while awaiting the collecof bis SIOO.OOO policy by his brother. By shrewd deductions Helen succeeds in learning his identity and frustrating his plot. She prevents his escape finally by a daring lea^ from the pilot of a speeding engine to his auto when a turn in the road forces the fleeing man to cross the tracks directly In front of the locomotive. SELIG. SELIGTRIBUNE NO. SS (Nov. 2). New York, N. Y. — Miss Irene Kelynack, of Crestwood. New York, whose figure experts declare is an exact flesh and blood replica, two points excepted, of the Venus de Mllo. London. England. — While on a visit to England, the members of the famous French band of the Garde Republlque. inspect the remnants of the Zeppelin which was brought down at Potter's Bar. Chicago. 111.— "Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!" from ten thousand throats greeted ex-President Roosevelt when the whirlwind booster for Hughes arrives for the "big smash" ot the campaign. , Provlncetown, Mass. — The new submarine, Isaac Peral. constructed in the United States for the Spanish Government, has her official tests off this port. With the French. North of the River Somme. — These huge guns are being used effectively to clear the way for the infantry. Note the way the projectiles and powder are brought to the guns. Chicago. III.— John T. McCutcbeon. the famous cartoonist in front seat, makes a flight with Victor Carlstrom. who will attempt to carry mail from Chicago to New York by aeroplane without a stop, in ten hours. SELIG-TRIBUNE NO. 89 (Nov. 6). San Francisco. 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