Moving Picture World (Jan-Jun 1910)

THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 48 v An interview with the commanding officer secures them no satisfaction, as this stern individual declares that Smith will have an opportunitv to clear himself at the court martial to be held that afternoon. Almost overcome with grief and anxietv. Mrs. Smith and her sister hurry to the office of the President of the Republic. He grants them a short interview, is suave, cool and polite, but offers them no assurance of the liberation of the American. As a last and final hope Mrs Smith appeals to Robert Evans, the United States consul. Evans is sympathetic and assures them that they need have no fear, that he will adjust matters imme diately. After the ladies have gone, Evans calls on the President, demanding the immediate release of the American. The President shakes his head "If Mr. Smith is found guilty of conspiracy against the government," he says candidly, "he will have to pay the penalty." Court martial follows later in the afternoon and Smith is found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced to be shot at sunrise the following morning. As the sentence is delivered Evans runs on the scene flourishing a cablegram. It is an answer from the Secretary of War of the United States, and reads to the effect that the 'execution of Smith must be prevented; that a Unltd States torpedo boat destroyer has left the port of San Salvador to enforce this order and to liberate the Amer Jean citizen, and that the United States govern ment will accept no explanation from the Republic of if the sentence is carried out Evans then orders the release of Smith. This is refused and Smith is dragged to his cell again to await the coming of morning. Next is shown the United States torpedo boat destroyer, under full steam, coming down on the camera. Morning dawns, rosy and clear: there is a tramp of feet in the prison yard and the American is led forth and placed at twenty paces from the little squad of soldiers. The scene changes to the destroyer at anchor. A boat containing a dozen sailors pushes off from her side and heads for shore. A slight interruption in the prison yard saves the American's life. A moment later the com mandlng officer, followed by a squad of Yankee sailors, enters and orders the prisoner released. His Innocence is established when the native clerk Is dragged In and the incriminating docn ments taken from his person. The picture closes with Smith in the arms of his wife and Old Glory waving above them. THE AIRSHIP GAZE.— An aviator, is seen start lng his machine for a flight through the heavens A twist or two at the propeller and the buoyant bird-machine goes speeding off into the sky. Higher and higher he flies until he becomes n mere speck against the azure sky. Then, gracefully, he fl < » n ( ^ down and performs a few gyroscopic stunts to interest the observers. We return now to the crowd who are gazing up at the airship. A man carrying a ladder upsets another ladder. with its burden of painter, paint can, el al. A farmer witli a pitchfork, watching the heavenly visitor, runs into an open-mouthed Chinaman, who is also consumed with curiosity. A chap with a high hat bumps accidentally Into a lady. The hat is smashed and compilestlons follow. A negro scrub woman Is upset by a "gawr," who overturns her tub. He gets not nnly a soaking but a vigorous drubbing from the exasperated colored lady. A policeman, who is watching to see if the aviator Is breaking the speed limit, is the prey of a clever pickpocket. A milkman becomes so absorbed in watching the aeroplane that a tramp steals his milk can. A chimney sweep bumps into a miller and tin result is a fight in which considerable soot and breadstuff is scattered over the pavement. And the aviator continues to cut didos in the air, utterly unaware of the terrible accidents which lie is causing on earth below. But finally be tires of his sport and gently soars toward the ground When he alights an enthusiastic crowd gather about him. hoist him on their shoulders and carry him out of view. A RANCHMAN'S WOOING.— Jed Perkins, an old ranchman, has four handsome daughters, of whom he is very proud, but whom lie guards with jealous care. The opening scene shows a Western barn dance with the four daughters and Ibeir four admirers dancing before the camera to the tune of "The Arkansas Traveler." or some other old time jig tune, played on the squeaky violin of Pete Patterson. The scene closes with .Ted and Widow Wiggs dancing the old Virginia Reel. Thi« is the beginning of the ranchman's love affair. After the festivities Perkins ratlins mi his offspring, the handsome four daughters, and cor rals them into the backboard. Then cracking his whin he starts on the long ride home. Old Perkins has taken a sudden fancy to tlif Widow Wiggs and decides to propose marriare. A few days later he calls on the widow and find« her chopping wood. The old lady is having a hard time of it since Wiggs died and when I * • r I . i ■ ■ proposes she agrees to marry him on one condltoln. that he get rid of Ids four daughters. The old gentleman is very deaf and the widow writes n note explaining the conditions to him. "I will never marry you while you have four single daughters. When they are all married I am yers." Old Jed nods his head and asks the widow how he can get them married off quick. The widow writes again: "You say they have suitors and the dern fools won't propose. Well you just kick the fellers off the place and then they'll elope." The old woman's philosophy listens well and Jed promises that he will do all in his power to bring a quick finish to his four daughters' romances. His opportunity soon comes, because no sooner does he reach the house when he finds Daisy and Will under the old oak tree making violent love. Perkins kicks Will off the premises and threatens him with violent death if he ever again tries to make love to his daughter. Rose, Hyacinth and Violet, the other three daughters, are found with their beaux and old Perkins tries the same tactics with them. The next day, while the old gentleman is taking his after dinner snooze out on the lawn the boys call and the girls, all ready for the trip, come out to meet them. They steal past the old man and hurry away after leaving the following note in the old man's lap: "Dear Dad — As you won't allow our beaux on the place we've all eloped. Daisy, Rose, Hyacinth, Violet." When they are gone the wily old man jumps from his chair and makes haste to communcate to the widow. "Well, Widdy. I've done it," lie says, when he jumps out of the buckboard. And true to her promise the Widdy allows him to press a kiss to her lips, vowing to be his until "death do them part. KALEM MFG. CO. RED HAWK'S EAST RAID.— Scene I.— The Forray of the Braves. Scene II. — The Brother and Sister Go for Won.]. Scene III. — A Cowardly Attack. The Sister Ones for Aid. The Brother to Protect His Mother. Scene IV.— The Attack on the Cabin. A Boy's Brave Defense. Scene V. — Red Hawk Decides to Enter by Way of the Chimney. Scene VI. — The Death of Red Hawk. Scene VII. — The Girl Brings Aid and the Indians are Driven Off. LO! THE POOR INDIAN.— Scene I.— The Wooing. Scene II. — The Race. Scene III. — The Cruel Winter (Five Years Later). Scene IV. — The Stolen Horse. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE GIRL SPY.— Scene I. — The "Peddler" Brings a Call for Nan, the Girl Spy. Scene II. — Nan Receives Her Orders. "I'll Get It, General, or Never Return." Scene III. — Nan Arrives at the Enemy's Secret Meeting Place. Scene IV. — Nan Learns the Enemy's Plans. Scene V. — The Pursuit. A Daring Ruse. Scene VI. — Nan. Disguised as a Boy, is Carried Through the Lines. Scene VII. — Nan's Audacious Trick. Scene VIII. — "General, I Have Succeeded." LUBIN MFG. CO. A MOTHER'S HEART. — A jealous wife visits the husband in his office and finds him consulting with the typewriter. Her display of temper amuses the gild, who writes a loving note and slips it in the husband's pocket. The wife finds the note and determines to leave home, though the leaving involves the desertion of her two children. But the sense of wrongdoing deadens for the moment the mother love and pride later prevents her from making an appeal to her husband. She has oh tained employment as a nursery rovernoss in the home of a sympathetic woman who guesses the cause of her suffering and when a photograph of the children gives her a clue to the address, her own little boy writes to the son of the governess. The lad's reply makes plain the misunderstanding and the repentant and heart-hungry mother hurries to the children site loves and husband whose big heart finds it easy to forgive and forget as well TWO GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD.— Two small hoys lay in a stock of half-dime novels and pro ceed to an old mill to read them. They amuse themselves by writing a note In imitation of one in the book and this they place in a niche in the wall to be later discovered when their play reproduces the scenes of their reading. Two tramps discover the hiding place and take the letter to be the note of some thief to his pals and then start out to locate the hidden loot to which the note makes reference. The directions are vague but the tramps are persistent and they ar not disheartened by a few disappointments. They continue their search for the cellar to which the note refers and tumble into the basement nf a building which houses a physical culture school. The janitor sees them enter through the window and with a policeman gives chase, but the tranins hear them coming and hide themselves in barrels whence they emerge when the pursuit lias passed to th far end of the cellar. They are stenlinr up the stairs when they are rediscovered and a chase ensues in which the tramps penetrate the class room of the physical cnltnrist where a number of young women are enhancing their graces with Delsarte movements. Here their pursuers find them and they are taken off to jail still in darkness as to the whereabouts of the treasure and still convinced that they could have found the hidden loot had they been left alone. HIS SPANISH WIFE,— Robert Harrison is partner with Ted Mason in a plantation in one of those South American republics where they have a revolution every three weeks or feel lonesome. Harrison has the plantation end and Mason does the selling, but Harrison is needed in New York to put a deal through and Mason comes to look after the plantation in his absence. Mason falls in love with Harrison's sister-in-law but he has earned the enmity of Mrs. Harrison because she feels that he is responsible for Harrison's trip away. She frustrates Mason's love making while indulging in a lively flirtation of her own with an old admirer. Ted tries an elopement but it only lands the lady of his love in a convent. Then Mrs. Harrison, bored by ennui and piqued because she was not taken on the New York trip, decides to elope with Signor Estrada. Mason blanks this plan and in so doing wins his wife, for Mrs. Harrison realizes the gratitude she owes him. THE DAUGHTER'S CHOICE.— A young wife. hurt by her husband's absorption in his business interests, fights in vain against the insidious advances of his supposed friend, a broker. Neglect at last induces her to elope with the broker in the hope that she will find in his tender love forgetfulness of the past. But the price must be paid by those who play. The broker loses his fortune and they are reduced to dire poverty. The broker pawns his small belongings for the money to buy food and medicine, but the sacrifice is in vain, privation and grief have done their work and the woman dies. In his despair the broker seeks to follow her out into the unknown, but the touch of tiny hands rouses him to a sense of new responsibility. He throws down the pistol and decides to live for the little daughter who shared her mother's flight. Fortune smiles again, the girl grows to a beautiful woman, believing the man to be her father, but the heart speaks strongly and when by chance the real father encounters her In her step-father's office, she elects to go with him. abandoning wealth for her father's love. The broker commits suicide, leaving his wealth to the girl, and she marries the man of her choice. PATHE FRERES. UNCLE'S MONEY.— Poor old Uncle is about to shuttle off this mortal coil. His niece is heartbroken— the more so as the old chap has not yet made his will and he is well heeled with worldly roods. She. poor thing, is alone in the house with the dying relative (except for the man servant) and something must be done to turn (lie antique's money into its proper channel — to wit. the pockets of her brother and herself. In dire need she sends for her brother, and that gentleman in wild and exuberant haste hies him hence from the wiles of the city to attend like a dutiful nephew the anguished couch of his avuncular relative. Fate is against this paragon of virtue, however, and he arrives at the house without his breath or his uncle, because the inconsiderate old man had, almost at the moment of his nephew's arrival, curled up his toes and departed this life. Much anguish, gnashing of teeth, and copious tears! "Uncle" failed to leave his wealth to anyone and where will it go? There is a hurried consultation nad a final suggestion which is adopted unanimously by the self-appointed committee of two The nephew decides to impersonate "dear Uncle" and in a most foxy manner loosen up the dead man's clutch. He assumes a fatal-illness expression— a thing of small effort, as the poor boy is sick enough over his ill luck; he crawls into the bed and sends word to the local law shark to come and take his last will and testament. Enter the law shark. The sick man makes his will, leaving all to his nephew and niece. Clever work! All is now well, the will signed and the representative of the law is about to take his fee and Ills departure, when lo! and behold, like Lazarus, the old fossil — the inconsiderate Uncle — arises front the dead, so to speak, and after assuring himself that be lias only been unconscious for a little while, routes the loving relatives out of the house and taking the astonished lawyer by the arm leads him to a desk, where lie dictates a will leaving his entire fortune to "The Society for the Propagation of Wild Turkeys." TOBACCO CULTURE. — The island of Sumatra is famous fur its tobacco, as all lovers of the weed know. Its preparation, its growth and the various stages through which the fragrant leaves must pass, before they are ready for the smoker, form the interesting theme of this beautiful colored picture. The first scene slums the young plants growing close together, and the transplanting as they increase in size. The soil is poor for anything but tobacco, and one wonders how a rood crop may l,e obtained in snob poor land. We are shown, successively, the natives picking the largest leaves the inspection of the picking, and the natives carrying bundles of green tobacco to the tallying room. Here the leaves are again inspected and sorted, and put in great piles to be cured. The temperature in these piles runs up very high, and Is watched with great care by inspectors, who record the degree of bent taken witli thermometers fastened on long bamboo polos. After the curing