Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1916)

1222 THE MOVING PICTUkE WORLD November 25, 1916 Dexter (Gretcben Lederer) ; Alvin Randolph (Charles Pearley) ; Rose (Louise Owen) : Roses Cousin ( Myrtle Gillette) . Scenario by Maie Havey. Produced by Burton George. Kitty lives with her grandmother. One day a Mrs. Dexter, who belongs to the smart set. invites Kitty to a bridge party. EJre the party is over, however, the grandmother arrives and takes a rather rebellious Kitty home, and then she tells the story of her own life. Long ago, when grandmother was a young girl she had a sweetheart, Alvin, and he finally asked her to become his wife. Kathleen was happy and confided the news to her best friend. Rose, who was herself in love with Alvin. Her jealousy caused her to plot. Alvin requests Kathleen not to gamble ; Rose learns of this and invites Kathleen to a party, where she has secured the aid of her cousin to make Kathleen play. At first Kathleen wins, but later she loses all the time and in order to pay her gambling debts borrows money from Rose until the sum mounts. Then Alvin presents Kathleen with a beautiful emerald pin. Rose tells Kathleen that unless she pays the sum borrowed immediately that she will go to Alvin fur the money. This alarms Kathleen and at the suggestion of Rose she pawns the pin. Then Rose suggests that they go to Kathleen's home to view the presents—and the wonderful emerald pin. Kathleen with a quivering heart accompanies them. But meantime the maid, who was an accomplice of a band of crooks, had admitted one of the gang and taken all the presents. This foils Rose's plan, but never so long as AlvIn lived did Kathleen dare to wear the emerald pin which she later secured from the pawnshop. Kitty promises never to gamble, and the grandmother feels that she has accomplished some good by disclosing her secret. HER MESSAGE TO HEAVEN (Special Release— Nov. 25). — This is the story of a little girl who has been told by the pastor that heaven Is a real place and she so firmly believes this that she calls up and asks to speak to heaven. But by accident she overhears a dire plot, which, by her efforts, is frustrated. IMP. WHEN HE CAME BACK (Nov. 22).— The cast: "Spike" Dugan (Malcolm Blevlns) ; Dan Moran (Charles Cummings) ; Nellie Moran (Betty Schade). Written by Joseph Le Brandt. Produced by John McDermott. "Spike" has been sent to prison by the evidence of Dan and has sworn to have revenge. One day Dan reads that he has been released and is terrified. At the time he Is sick and Nellie goes to the druggist's for some medicine. The medicine Is poisonous, so that when he hears "Spike" coming Dan pours some of It Into a glass of whisiiey to cheat "Spike" of his revenge. But when "Spike" arrives he sees the whiskey and, thinking to drink to the other's health, he take^ the draught and is killed before the officers, whom Nellie has brought, can arrest him. CIRCUMSTANTIAL GUILT (Two Parts— Nov. 24).— The cast: Fillmore (Jack Nelson): Antonio (Burton Law) ; Mary (Grace Bonyng) ; Hartman (Charles Cummings): Evans (Fred Montague) ; Casey (Dan DuflfyV Scenario by Maie Havey. Produced by George Cochrane. Antonio, a poor Italian fruit peddler, is on trial for the murder of Hartman. In spite of his protestations of innocence and his story of the finding of the gun hurled into hJs fruit stand, tbe consensus of opinion is that he is guilty. The jury retires, and after being out for a considerable time all but one. Fillmore, are in favor of conviction. He stoutly adheres to his opinion and seems to be laboring under some strain. One of the jurors pleads with him to give In. as he Is very anxious to get home to his wife, who is seriously ill, and still Fillmore holds out. At last he can seem to stand the strain no longer and calling for attention tells bis stor?' r Hla sister, Mary, a sweet. Innocent girl, had been betrayed by Hartman and had drowned herself. Over her dead body Fillmore had vowed vengeance. He had followed Hartman to the city, and then one evening saw him entering a cafe. Knowing that he would return home some time, he waited for him outside until midnight, and then, as Hartman emerged and started walking down the street, he shot him and hurled the gun into the wagon of Antonio. The confession made, Fillmore falls dead and Antonio Is cleared of the accusation. John Stepton, owner of a once prosperous mine, finds himself on the verge of bankruptcy and is on the point of selling out to Graham, a chap who is picking up all the mines in the district. Edgar Collins, a young mining engineer, whom Stepton has engaged to trace a lost iode of the mine, tells him that he thinks be has discovered the lode which leads under Gloria mountain. This spoils the sale. Tom Higgins has been Stepton's assistant and is In love with Stepton's daughter, Gloria, who does not favor his suit, as her heart already belongs to Collins. One of the drillers has discovered a new vein and disclosed the place to Higgins. who tells him to keep his knowledge to himself and they will buy the mine from Stepton and then work it themselves. Collins forms the plan of blasting the mountain and makes all preparations. Higgins and the driller decide to frustrate this by cutting the wires just as Collins is ready to press the button and then when he goes to Investigate tbe wires will be put in contact and he will lose his life. One of the men who is working for Collins is assaulted by one of Higgins' men, who rolls what he thinks Is the dead body down tbe mountain-side, but the man revives and manages to phone Gloria what has happened. She Is away, but returns on her yacht and swims ashore. Higgins and his men tamper with the wires and pull the lever, causing the explosion, but Collins is not Injured. The picture ends happily as the lost lode has been found. Mutual Film Corporation MUTUAL-CHAPLIN. BEHIND THE SCREEN (Two Parts— Nov. 13) . — Set down in the midst of a thoroughly equipped motion picture studio, with the real director tearing his hair and shouting through his megaphone, with dramas and comedies under way, pretty actresses being picked, settings being put up and torn down — there Is unlimited opportunity for the wild destruction that follows in Charlie's wake. As an under stage carpenter, he goes about his work of knocking over cameras, setting up columns, getting in bad with the director, and doing everj-thing that he shouldn't do with the pathetic seriousness that makes his work so peculiarly human. Every one picks on him. Big Campbell, the laxy head carpenter, makes him wait on him like a slave; the director catches him every time he sits down to draw a breath after his vigorous labors and thinks that be is loafing : even the stage properties that he Is handling fall on him. However. Edna, an awkward country girl, the butt of ridicule of the other applicants for work, who manages to disguise herself In the overalls and cap cast off by a striking carpenter, understands him and Is kind. AMERICAN. THE FIGHT ON THE DAM (Nov. 9).— Ed Newton, a young engineer, encounters many diflBcultles in the construction of the new dam. Bill Dolan, one of the wealthiest cattle men in the district. Is especially against the building of the dam and does all in his power to prevent the engineer from completing it. Dolan's daughter meets Newton and they fall in love with each other. Later the surveying Is completed and the dam is built. The cattlemen attack the engineer and his party but find that violence is to no avail. Ed and his sweetheart go over the dam and one of the cattlemen, who is In love with the girl, attacks the engineer in the tower. There a struggle ensues and Newton finally grasps his assailant around the waist and hurls him over the railing. Turning to the girl he clasps her in his arms. BISON. THE LOST LODE (Two Parts — Nov. 25>. — The cast: John Stepton (E. N. Wallack) ; Gloria (Edith Johnson) ; Tom Higgins (Edward A. Heam) ; Edgar Collins (L. C. Shumway). Scenario by William Parker. Produced by Henry McRae. ECLAIR. THE ETERNAL CHALLENGE fTwo parts — Nov. 4), — The cast: Madam Danfers (Helen Aubrey) ; Radford, her son (Norbert Myles) : a society butterfly (Rea Martin) ; the actress (Edna Payne). Madam Danfers discovers that her overindulged son, Radford, is in love with a dancer. The girl is really a good girl who is struggling against poverty and temptation and is deeply In love with Radford. Madam Danfers invites Llla, the actress and some society girls to the house in order to show Radford the difference between "ladies and LADIES." At the luncheon Radford introduces Lila as his wife and Madam orders them to leave the house and they set up housekeeping in a tenement. Later a child is born to Lila, but even this does not soften her mother-in-law. Radford takes his son to his mother and the babe is dressed In the baptism robes of Radford. Madam comes to her best and takes Radford, his wife and son Into her house. SIGNAL FILM CORP. A LASS OF THE LUMBERLANDS (Episode No. 3 — Two Parts"First Blood" — Nov. 6).— Chapter II of this serial closes with Helen and Little Bear, the Indian fireman on "Dollar" Holmes' logging railroad, paddling down stream in a canoe to the recorder's office to beat Holmes* agents (who are racing them In an automobile, but have met with a spectacular accident) in filing on the homestead lands of Dawson, whom Holmes' men have murdered In his cabin. The two canoers guide the frail craft by dextrous strokes through the rapids of a boulder-strewn river in tbe famed Yosemite Valley of Northern California. They make a safe landing, and strike out afoot for the recorder's office. In the meantime Holmes' men escape death when their automobile crashes through the rail of a bridge and falls sixty feet Into a river by swimming to the bank. They arrive at the recorder's ofllce a few minutes after Helen has filed on the coveted land. Coveted particularly by both sides because its title carries with it the exclusive right to float logs to mill from a timber area owned in part by Holmes corporation and in part by small holders, among whom are Helen and a number of her friends. Through the taking up of a friendly subscription to buy Helen a birthday present It Is discovered by Holmes' men that she was a few days under eighteen years old — the legal age — when she filed on the lands of the murdered homesteader, and Holmes and his son Stephen (Helen's half-brother, but though neither knows it) on the strength of that fact procure a nullification of her filing and record a new filing in Holmes' name. To offset the loss of their log-floating right Helen and her friends decide to use Holmes' railroad to transport their logs to mill. The logs are loaded. Holmes arrives upon the scene and announces that his road is not a common carrier and will not transport a rival's business. He orders the engine uncoupled from the log train, and departs. The uncoupled and loaded flat-cars are shoved onto a down-grade and sent whirling of their own momentum to the mill. Meantime Holmes' wife has taken a train to meet her husband, at his direction — and there is a wild race with a locomotive with Helen at the throttle to overtake and pass the runaway cars and throw a switch to prevent a fatal collision between the passenger and the freight. The race succeeds, there is a wild flst-flght between the small timber holders and employes of Holmes, tbe log train eventually reaches the mill, and the logs are unloaded. Helen wires Holmes tauntingly: "Logs at mill. First blood." A LASS OF THE LUMBERLANDS (No. 4— Two Parts— Nov. 13). — In . order to force the only railroad in their district to transport logs of small-holder rivals of "Dollar" Holmes' timber trust to mill, the small holders and Helen Holmes as railroad station agent frame a conspiracy to have the road declared by the Interstate Commerce Commission a common carrier. This chapter tells the story of Helen's efforts to carry out this conspiracy. An agent of the road not familiar with Holmes' announcement that it is not a common carrier and will not handle rivals' business, accepts a package billed beyond the California state tine — into Utah. Its delivery at destination will constitute the road a common carrier. Holmes' men find out about tbls conspiracy immediately after the package has been accepted by the agent, and Holmes Is furious. He orders his men to see that the consignment is held up. Helen learns of this plan and undertakes to frustrate it. She leaps on the platform of a flying train, tries the door, finds It locked, and in one of the most spectacular scenes ever shown on the screen climbs by hand-holds from window ledge to window ledge until she reaches the platform of tbe expres car where the package Is — and gains entrance to tbe car just as one of Holmes' men holds up the express agent and tosses the package into a Holmes automobile that is racing alongside the train. Helen doesn't hesitate a moment. She leapB after the precious parcel — and lands in the auto. The men driving it overpower her and throw ber out Into the road. She Is stunned senseles by the fall, but recovers consciousnees in time to start the package once more on Its out-of-the-state journey. Holmes's son Stephen — Helen's half-brother by her father's second and illegal marriage, though none of the persons involved knows that relationship exists between any of them — acta as his father's agent in trying to stop the shipment of the package, and he does not scruple to resort to pistol-point argument, but without success.