Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1916)

1220 THE iMOVIXG PICTURE WORLD November 25, 1916 GOOD AND PROPER (Nov. 17). — The cast: Pokes (Robert Burns) ; Jabbs (Walt-er StuII). Pokes and Jabbs. two rare sports, become euamored of Mile. Zee-Bra, the dashing comedienne appearing at one of the local theaters, and invite her out to supper after the show. When Mile. Zee-Bra appears at the stage entrance, the two sports are there with flowers and candy, but Jabbs, with fiendish skill, double crosses his pal. and after getting in solid with the actress himself leaves Pokes to pay for the taxi wbile he enters the cafe with the girl. Pokes, however, disguises himself as the waiter, enters the private room where Jabbs and the Mile, are dining, and proceeds to wreak vengeance upon his false friend. While Pokes and Jabbs are trying to arrange a plan whereby one of them can be eliminated. leaving the field open to the other, the husband of the actress appears at the cafe and demands an explanation. Mile, tearfully begs her husband to spare the two cringing sports, but the husband is obdurate and refuses to show them mercy. However, at length he consents to spare one of them, but they themselves must decide who will be the unfortunate one. Pouring a vial (which all think contains poison) into the coffee, the husband orders Pokes and Jabbs to cboose between the cups. Pokes loses, and, in a frenzy of fear, after drinking the fatal dose, implores Jabbs to save him from death. This Jabbs tries to do to the best of his ability, and the punching which Jabbs hands to Pokes according to his ideas of resuscitation makes Pokes regret that any such person as Mile. Zee-Bra ever crossed his path. MOTHER'S CHILD ( Xov. 23). — The cast: Babe {Babe Hardy) ; his mother (Kate Price) ; Tom (Joe .Cohan) ; Florence (Florence McLoQgblin). Babe, the pride of Cheestown and his mother's darling, arrives at Tidewater College at the opening of the school term. Babe's idea of a good time is a volume of the Iliad and a bag of peanuts. But after he has laid eyes on Florence, the prize peach of the Co-Eds, he desert.s his book long enough to start a mild flirtation with her. This is directly in violation of tho rules issued by the upper classmen to govern the conduct of the freshmen. Babe pays no heed to the rules, and thereby incurs the hostility of Tom, the Sophomore leader, who orders Babe to be subjected to the hardest of initiation and hazing stunts. However, after Babe has bad a few rough stunts pulled off on him, his mother comes to visit her darling boy and, seeing the way he has been treated, decides to take a hand in the hazing game herself. Disguising herself, she lays in wait for the sophomores, and when they visit Babe's room for the purpose of bazing him, they receive the .surprise of their lives. MOXEY MAID MEX (Xov. 24).— Both Pokes and Jabbs, clerks in Grabem's counting rooms, are in love with Ethel, the stenographer. Grabem. himself, becomes enamored of the pretty stenographer, much to the disgust of his two clerks, who realize the difference between their lowly wages and the great wealth of their employer. Jabbs determines that if it is money and ability to buy expensive gifts that prevents him from winning Ethel's love, then he will, in some manner, secure the necessary riches. Late one night, while Ethel is out to dinner with Grabeni, Pokes is working over his books in the counting room. Suddenly he is startled by a sound from the private office. Rushing inside he is confronted with a masked burglar, who, at the point of a gun. orders Pokes to help him open the vault. Against his will Pokes is forced to assist the crook, hut once the vault is opened. Pokes pushes the burglar inside the vault and locks the door. Pokes calls for help, and Grabem. Ethel and thewatchman rush into the office. At first they think that Pokes is the crook, and are about to arrest him. when he begs them to listen to his explanations. Telling Grabem to open the vault. Pokes drags the almost suffocated crook into the office, where, upon unmasking him, the group is shocked to see that the masked burglar is Jabbs. Overjoyed at Pokes' honesty and bravery. Grabem thrusts a huge sum of money upon his bewildered clerk, and Ethel, not to be outdone in generosity, coyly tells Pokes that now she is willing to be bis forever, but. after a few seconds of thought Pokes chooses which — ah ! that is the question. VIM FEATURE COMEDY. HIS WEPDIXG PROMISE fXov. 15).— Harriet married Sidney only on the condition that he promised never to smoke. Sidney remains faithful to his pledge for many months. Harry's struggle to refrain from smoking is watched by his stenographer and clerk. A messenger boy smoking a cigarette delivers a telegram and Sidney orders him from the office before he is tempted to snatch the cigarette from him. Dick, a friend of Sidney's and one-time model for their class, is invited to the house for dinner. He. however, is not the model he once was; he is now a real sporty traveling salesman for a cigarette company. Finally. Sidney solves the difficulty. He is still the perfect husband, but does not mean to allow Harriet to rule him in all things. He has rented a room where he spends an hour each day transacting bis business and incidentally smoking to his heart's content, but his happiness is shortlived, for Jesse Walsh has traced him and tells the wife what he suspects. Here the real trouble begins hut Sidney is not deprived of his cigarette. Harriet also is a little inclined to take a "puff " to satisfy her husband. THE GOOD STEXOGRAPHER (Nov. 22).— Mrs. Love is jealous of Mr. Love's stenographer and insists upon taking her place. Hubby does not like to refuse his wife's request and decides, after she is installed as his stenographer, to get rid of her some way, as the discharged stenographer is a great help to him in business. A friend of Love's schemes to help him. Ho telephones to Love's office and starts a flirtation with the stenographer (Love's wife). Wifey is indignant and tells Love of the incident upon his return. He informs her that he lost a good customer on account of her impertinence. She goes to explain to the customer, who tells her that he never phoned. She then realizes she was tricked and decides hubby shall pay the penalty. She quits the job when she is assured of a lot of pretty things. KNICKERBOCKER STAR FEATURE. TARGET OF DREAMS (Three PartsXov. IT). — The poet, a genius who would have been proclaimed a marvel had be lived in ISOO, finds lftl.~> civilization cold and unappreciative. The publishers will not even look at his work. Behind in his room rent, the poet's landlady speaks her mind. "Scribbling verses won't feed you or pay rent," she declares. "Go out and got work." Knowing that he must live and despairing of recognition as a "scribbler of verse." the poet becomes a hook agent. One hour is sufficient to demonstrate to his gentle, kindly nature that a book agent is not a welcome visitor. Discouraged, the poet throws his prospectus away and gets a job as a laborer on an excavation work. One of the laborers is hurt. The poet helps carry the injured man to bis poverty-stricken home. Pay day comes. With his salary in his pocket the poet's first act is to visit (he injured man's shack. Finding hunger and misery tliere, the poet gives his week's wages to the laborer's wife. ''rtTien the poet returns to his room and has no money to pay his rent, the landlady turns him out. keeping his small possessions as securitv. He manages, however, to rescue the manuscript of bis epic drama. "Helen of Troy." That night he sleeps in the park. Next day he loses his job because he became lost in his manuscript when he should have been at work. Sitting on a park bencli, the poet makes friends with Helen Hayes, little daughter of John Hayes, a publisher. Helen's nurse was busy flirting with the park policeman and the little girl wanderer! away. The poet shows Helen the title of bis drama, "Helen of Troy," and the child remembers it because that is her name. The nurse drags Helen away from the seedy-looking poet. Later, the poet is arrested by the park policeman on a charge of vagrancy. While talking to Helen the poet had left his precious manuscript on the park bench. He is asronized when he discovers his loss at the station house. "Ten days on the chain gang," says the magistrate. Jean Day. attractive Vassar College graduate, who is visiting Helen's mother, finds the manuscript on the park bench and becomes enthused over the worth of the drama, Tbe, author's name, however, is not on the script. Jean makes Hayes read the drama, and he. too, hecomes enthused. Helen sees the script in her fathet^'s hand. "Why that belongs to the poor man," says Helen. A week passes. Hayes has advertised in vain for the author of the drama. Then Helen sees and recognizes the poet in a chain gang working on the streets. Jean tries her influence with the magistrate and the poet is released. At Hayes' office tbe poet is treated to a surprise, "We don't usually fool with verse" says Hayes, "but this is so good that we will publish it." Tbe poet tries to thank the publisher, but the latter turns to .Tean and says. "Thank her. she is responsible for your good luck." In the course of time the poet, now prosperous, does thank Jean to such good purpose that she becomes Mrs. Poet. Athalie Manners believes in reincarnation and Twin Souls. Woodford Harding, the Beau Brummcl of the town. Bad Lonie, a gunman, and Abdul Hamit all look identically alike. She runs into Bad Lonie while doing settlement work and is carried, a prisoner, to a vacant house. Later, Harding rescues her from a fire in the house. Inasmuch as she has recognized Bad Louie's type as tbe Twin Soul, she is quite confused but later marries Harding. Later, in Cairo, she meets Abdul Ham id and is convinced he is the man. She runs away with him, but when she regrets th(* act and tries to return to her husband, he forcibly abducts her. Later she escapes. Of course there is the fight between Hamid and her husband and she returns to Harding quite cured. Universal FilmMlg. Co. JOKER. A JAXITOR'S VEXDETTA I Xov. 25).— The cast: Bill (William Franeyi : Gale (Gale Henry): Lilly (Lillian Peacock): Wop (Charles Conklint; Guy (Milburn Moranti). Written by Harry Wulz. Produced by W. W. Eeaudine. Bill hires a pretty stenographer, but Mrs. Bill comes in and finds that the "steno" is not doing just what she is paid for. She demands that the poor girl be fired and a man hired. But Lilly plans to get even and dresses up as a man to get the job. Then in her male attire she carries on a flirtation with Gale until Bill gets jealous. But when he finds that the young man is none other than his old stenographer he decides to elope. But Gale is on the lookout and follows on a wheel. She catches up to the auto that is carrying the lovers away and when Lilly sees ber she jumps out. Then Bill gets a glimpse and he is so perturbed that he wrecks the car. UNIVERSAL. rXIVERSAL SCREEN MAGAZINE (No. 1— X*ov. 24t. — Tbe first "article" in the first issue of the Universal Screen Magazine shows a new machine for tunneling through solid rock without any kind of a blast. The contrivance consists of a surface of hammers that deliver 14.(KiO seven-ton blows per minute at the rock and so eats it away. Next the campaign the government is conducting against the ticks that each year kill .$i;UKH).(X)0 worth of cattle. The cattle are ginb baths in an antiseptic solution. Beauty hints are next on the bill of fare. In this case they ought to be valuable as they are posed for by one of the beauties of the stage. Catherine Calvert. The proper way to use cold cream, powder, etc.. are all shown. Next some wonderful views of a beetle that is causing great damage in the vineyards of the country are shown. This is the bug that ' is eating up the grape crop every year. And then something entirely new is shown — animated sculpture, which closes the picture. TWIN SOULS (Three Parts— Nov, 241.— The cast : Woodford Harding, Bad Lonie and \hdul Hamil (R. Henr5' Grey) : Athalie Manners (Lillian West) ; Mrs. Manners (Mollie McConnell) ; Horace Xaddison (Chas. Dudlev). UNIVERSAL. AXIMATED WEEKLY, XO. 45 (Xov. S). Girl Athletes Clash. — Society folk show skill with sticks in annual field hockey game — Haverford, Pa. Subtitle : Tbe teams. IIU Bishops in Procession. — Church Dignitaries march to Moolah Temple at convention of Episcopalians — St. Louis, Mo. Subtitle: Where they met. Back from the Border. — Crack troopers of 1st Cavalry return from service on Mexican line — Chicago. 111. Subtitles: Sth Infantry (colored) returns. Judge K. M. Landts welcomes soldiers. Joy for Autoists. — State opens new S-mile section of William Penn Highway^ — Easton, Pa. eubtitles : Governor Brumbaugh (left) and Mayor Kneller cut barrier. Governor wields shovel. Girl christens highway. Here's an Easy Job ! — Hanging by neck, six stories in air, handcuff King frees himself of manacles — New York City. Subtitle: Going up. State Seizes His Home.— Under law that Japanese may not own real estate. California seeks to confiscate Harada's house— Los Angeles. Cal. Subtitles : Harada's restaurant. "The law will not let us become Americans." Starting Air Race. — Balloons that fought for honors in big International Race — Muskogee, Okla. Subtitle : John Berry, oldest air pilot, and Miss June Davis. Football Giants Meet. — Crimson crushes Cornell in first big battle of season, 2.3-0 — Stadium, Cambridge, Mass. Subtitle: The kick-off. Western Battalions off to War.—Throngs cbeer Canadians from Coast, reviewed on way to front — Ottawa. Canada. Subtitle: Sir Sam Hughes" farewell address. Fight Where Pyramids Stand. — Australians guarding Suez Canal reviewed in sbadow of monuments built 6,(XHt years ago — Desert near Cairo, Egypt. Subtitles : Camp in an Oasis. Bugle call for inspection. Marching in sani. Bred in Old Kentucky.— Piff, Jr., Blue Grass horse, wins Latonia Cup in closing race season— Latonia, Ky. Subtitles: Leaving the pad