Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1910)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 141 CUPID, D.D.S. — Just because he has money is no reason why a man should not have the toothache as well, and Stockson has a tooth that seems to ache clear down to his toes. He paces the library like a newly caged lion, while an anxious valet dodges books and bric-a-brac and nrges a visit to the dentist. Argument at last prevails and Stockson starts for the dental office as cheerfully as a small boy on his way to the woodshed with father. Dr. Flip, the dental surgeon, boasts the D.D.S. that marks the expert, but he has a lot of trouble getting at the molar and has to tie his patient into the chair before he can even touch the aching tooth. The roots hold and Stockson makes a few comments on Flip's skill that brings Daisy, Flip's assistant and the girl he wants to marry, on the scene. She is shocked at the language, and to cut short the performance prevails upon Flip to let her have a trial. She gives one skillful twist and the deed is done; but Daisy has extracted more than a bi-cuspid from the rich client, for she drew his heart as well. He returns to see her again and prevails upon her to become Mrs. Stockson, while Flip advertises for an assistant and is particular to specify that it shall be a man. ADORING AN AD. — Jack Boyer starts for town from his suburban home and while waiting for the train buys a magazine to while away the time while he is getting his shoes shined. He idly turns over the advertising pages and is struck by the beauty of one of the models shown in a cut. He becomes so engrossed in her good looks that he is oblivious of the arrival and departure of the train. and when reminded of this fact can only reward his informant with a sight of the pretty face. There is no manufacturer's address on the advertisement, so Jack seeks the publisher of the magazine for information, and his persistence brings him the address of the advertising firm which placed the ad. They in turn send him to the photographer who took the picture, and who sells the address. But the address is incorrect, for the model has moved, and Jack is forced to give up the chase. At last, when he has abandoned hope, he encounters his divinity on the street, but his joy in the meeting is tempered by the fact that she is in charge of two small children. They are not her own. Her married sister comes out of the house to claim the kiddies and Jack persuades the little model to be married right away. MARBLE QUARRYING IN TENNESSEE.— Tennessee marble is famous the country over and there is a demand for it even in Europe, where the clean grained stone is much appreciated. This industrial tells, in remarkably clear photography, the processes used in quarrying the stone. Intelligent captions explain the processes without delaying the movement of the film and add greatly to the interest of the spectator. An industrial always serves as a welcome interruption in the succession of dramatic stories, particularly when, as in the present instance, the subject possesses the artistic value of a scenic release. THE FLIRTO-MANIAC— A wealthy man, whose peculiar mental kink leads him to make violent love to every woman he meets, is confined in a sanitarium, from which he manages to escape by locking his keepers into a wardrobe. He assumes the auto togs of the superintendent and fares forth upon the street, where he encounters many strange nuventures. His insanity leads him to perform the most ridiculous stunts, and finally he is pursued by a bevy of old maids, who have heard that he is hiding in the park and go in search of him. PATHE FRERES. TESTING THEIR LOVE.— Two chaps are in love witli the same woman, the Countess Charming, and both happen to call on her at the same identical hour, each armed with a huge bouquet. She receives both swains very graciously, but gives neither very much encouragement, as she puts little faith in their avowals of love. They sit one on eacfa Bide of tier, glaring at each other over her head, for each feels If the other were not present he would be successful in winning the lady. After a most uncomfortable half hour for all parties concerned the discouraged lovers decide to take their leave. Just ;is they reach the gate, however, the butler stops them, handing each a note from the countess, who lias decided to test their love in rather an unusual way, so bids them go with her the next day on their wheels to her Summer estate, where she will give them a chance to prove their devotion to her. The bicycle party starts oft" the following morning, and when they reach her chateau she tells them that she has decided to marry t lie one who will ride through the stone wall enclosing the place head first. The boldest appearing of the two bravely mounts his wheel and makes a dash for the trail, bnt when he reaches it he gets cold feet and stops si nek still. The other lover then tries and goes crashing through the stone enclosure without injuring a hair of his head, as the countess had an opening in the wall covered up with paper made to represent stone, in order to test the love of her admirers. The brave fellow gets his reward and is taken to the heart of bis adored one, on whom his bravery has made a great impression. A VISIT TO BOMBAY.— Seeing this wonderfully colored film Is the next best tiling to paying a visit to this fine Indian town. Views of both the old and new city are given, and while the former is the most picturesque, the latter, of course, Is better built, possessing really fine up-to-date buildings, such as the Anglican church and the big mar ket. Various mosques and pagodas are also seen. The street scenes are of course most unusual and therefore interesting to foreigners. The natives in their loose, gaily colored trousers walking about in their bare feet with up-to-date buildings on every side of them seems indeed incongruous. One of the most interesting things in the film are the wonderful Elephanta caves hewn out of the mountain and which are visited daily by crowds of tourists. THE BAREBACK RIDER.— With a smile of anticipation on his face Clown Toddie on coming from the circus hastens to his little home, where the two he loves best on earth are awaiting him — his beautiful wife, the well-known bareback rider, and his little daughter. But there is a peck of trouble in store for the clown, although he never suspects it, and the cloud bursts when he picks up a note left for him at his home, telling him to keep an eye on his wife and signed "A Friend" (this "friend" being the ringmaster, whose attentions Toddie's wife had refused to accept). This comes like a thunderbolt to poor Toddie, who thinks his wife an angel. They have always been like lovers together and their one thought is to save enough money to educate their little daughter and prepare her for a life very different from their own in the cirens ring. For a moment Toddie wrestles with himself. He can't believe evil of his wife and he won't believe it. But still after a while he decides to watch her to prove to himself and the unknown "friend" that she is without fault. A view is given of the triumph of the bareback rider in the ring, where her feats meet with storms of applause, and we see her greeted with warm hand clasps by the circus people as she comes behind the scenes after her turn. The next view is where the veil is lifted from Toddie's eyes, for, determined to carry out his plan regarding his wife, he visits their little home at an hour when he knows she thinks he is at the circus and sad to relate rinds her entertaining the man who has broken up their home. Stung to the quick, the clown orders the unfaithful woman from his house, and notwithstanding her pleading refuses to let her remain under his roof. Toddie is soon called to do his turn in the ring, and with his heart breaking he must needs leap into the sawdust and with his wonderful grimaces make everybody present laugh. One of his stunts is a trapeze act, but while on the rope at the tiptop of the building his fevered imagination calls up a picture of the wife he has lost, smiling and encouraging his rival. The audience sees that something is wrong with the clown, and in a twinkling he comes tumbling down in their midst, the thought of his troubles being more than lie could bear. He is carried out with tender care by the circus people while another scene is introduced that there may be no hitch in the show. One year later we see a crippled old man accompanied by a pinched and unhappy looking little girl begging outside of a fashionable restaurant. A richly dressed woman and her escort having just driven up. their automobile stops a moment while the woman gives the beggars a coin. Both father and daughter recognize the woman, although she does not seem to know them, sickness and poverty having wrought such a change in them since this very woman broke up their happy little home. The little girl pleads with the clown to let her go to her mother and beg her to come back to them, but he stubbornly refuses. The little one steals out, however, and hurries back to the restaurant, where she manages to sneak in to where her mother is dining with a rollicking party. The woman notices the little one as she enters and before long recognizes her as her own child and clasping her to her breast begs her to take her to her father. The film closes with the happiest of scenes showing the happy father, the repentant mother and brave little daughter united forever and a day. THE PAINTER'S SWEETHEART.— An artist while sketching In the woods one day is set upon by a band of brigands and taken prisoner. His little sweetheart wonders sorrowfully why her lover stays away from her so long until a youth comes to her and tells her the news of the artist's capture. The girl makes up her mind immediately to disguise herself as a hoy and join the cutthroat band. She bravely goes to their camp and offers her services. As a test of her courage she is blindfolded and handed a dagger and told to stab a man who is tied to a tree. They lead her to the tree and she makes the fatal thrust, thinking herself a murderer. She is greatly relieved, however, when the bandage is removed from her eyes to find that it was all a ruse to try her courage and that she had sunk the knife into the bark of the tree instead of into a human breast as she had thought. Complimenting her on her bravery, the brigands now look upon her as one of their own. Watching eagerly for an opportunity to speak a word in private with her lover in order to plan his escape, fortune favors the girl when one day she is told to keep an eye on their prisoner. They go off together, she pretending all the while to dog his footsteps while the Others are about. When her chance comes she lets him flee and then runs breathlessly back to the ramp to tell the men their bird has flown. She accompanies them as they hurry after him and manages to throw one of them over a precipice while she outwits the others and after an exciting chase she Joins her lover and they hasten away to safety. FICKLE FORTUNE. — Poor Muggs being penniless and hungry decides that he must find some way out of his difficulties or starve to death, so looking over the contents of a garbage can he finds a broken statue, which he uses to good advantage. Holding the broken head on his shoulders, he stations himself at a corner and awaits his chance. In a short time along comes a man intently reading his paper and not looking where he is going. Our friend goes back a few steps and manages to be turning the corner from the opposite direction just as the newspaper reader turns also. The consequence is that there is a collision and the head of the statue goes flying through the air. The owner of same moans and sighs that he will have to pay for the valuable article and so works upon the other man's sympathies that the latter finally gives him what he claims the statue is worth and hurries on. Muggs hugs the coins to his breast and as he passes a window he notices a maid cleaning a gentleman's coat. She leaves the window for a moment and our friend gently pulls the garment down and puts his own threadbare one in its place. He now decides to look for a hat. He soon finds one, as he notices a man with a very stunning top hat sauntering through the park and evidently looking for a seat. Muggs hovers near him and just as he is about to sit down on a bench he places his stovepipe under him and cries out when the unconscious stranger squashes it beyond recognition. Being a kindhearted fellow, the stranger offers his admirable headpiece to Muggs in exchange for the one be ruined. Decked out in his swell coat and hat, Muggs is now ready to present himself at a fashionable restaurant. The waiters fly to his call and he partakes of a most satisfying meal. When he has finished and the bill is presented he finds to his horror that he left the money he got for the statue (every cent he had in the world) in the pocket of his old coat he substituted for the one he is now wearing. He therefore becomes seized with terror and flies from the place. When the waiter discovers that he has gone without paying his bill he hurries with the news to the proprietor, who finds the guest's coat and hat still on the peg and going through his pockets finds a large sum of money. Accompanied by the waiter, the proprietor hurries after the absent-minded guest. The latter, on seeing them running in his direction, thinks, of course, that they are going to have him arrested and runs all the faster. They finally catch up with him, and he is just about to throw himself on his knees and beg for mercy when the proprietor hands him the coat and the banknotes, and Muggs. taking in the situation at a glance, haughtily thanks the proprietor, and after handing him the amount of his bill struts along thinking what an awfully lucky dog he is after all. SELIG POLYSCOPE CO. HIS VACATION. — A clerk in a large commercial business company is officially notified that he is at liberty to take his two weeks' vacation. Much elated, he informs his fellow-clerks of the good news. Upon reaching his home, his wife, having vacation ideas of her own, immediately sets him to work. Of course the back-yard fence needs whitewashing. This he does, and is almost happy in the task. Just done with this bit of muscular improvement, when she is aware of the fact that there is quite an amount of aprons and other material to be washed The clerk's vacation progresses accordingly, whereas he had dreams of fishing tackle, rod and running brooks. Scarcely through with this work when he. remonstrating, is placed at work with the lawn-mower, for assuredly the grass has grown a bit too high. Finally, after having taken up the carpets, cleansed and beaten them, the astonishing news is brought to him by his wife that the stove-pipe is smoking. Now, he has never known that pipe to smoke before, and he longed for a pipe of his own, but tobacco was a luxury that his vacation did not permit of, so to the kitchen lie goes, and in his endeavors, well meant but ill spent, he topples with stove-pipe and all to the floor. Absolutely exhausted, Mr. Clerk's wife assists him to bed. A physician is called, who administers drops none too palatable, and after :i day's rest the clerk, with hands and muscles sore, gladly returns to his place of employment, willing to remain there for the future, with pen and pencil and no vacation. THE RANCH KING'S DAUGHTER.— In the hurlyburly of American life people are apt to forget the history of their own country. The material progress and wealth that required so many decades to clear of obstruction has been so dazzlingly immense as to GALEHUFF A riember of the FILM SERVICE ASSOCIATION Headquarters for only tbe best oi latest FILMS and SONQ SLIDES. No junk. MACHINES, SUPPLIES, Etc. LATEST SONQ SLIDES $5.00 per set N. E. Cor. 4th & Green Streets, PHILADELPHIA. PA.