Moving Picture World (July-Dec 1910)

1306 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD BIOGRAPH. EFFECTING A CURE. Mis. Wiikins and her I ! tO light with 111. nils. ami will return some time nexl day. VI lie i Ime bo 'ed "Hurrah ! Bui for in i afforded no opportunity ol going i<i the (lull, Indulging freely, and returi i i any old time with possibly a i. ae there will be do feminine voice <-:■ 1 1 i ii^ Into the outer darkness "So tbere you are, you dri S i to climb siiiir> shoeless: I bumping againi i fui in black dark rooms. No, bis entrance Bhall be I b r Hghl . \\ ell, all I in anticipated. After the sessl i the club, during which ardenl devoirs were paid i" Great King < ;.i in 1.11 n us. wiikins is es 'ted borne bj a cabby. Sinking Into .-i mo ■■ Bleep In a Jiffy, in tbls condition wlfej and mother Bad him. !>.• they crj oul and attempt to arouse him? „\..i much. Wife} an. l mamma are wise ones, so wnli the aid of the friends of bnbby they devise a plan i" cure blm of his drinking. To tiii end tliry Invent "the other unman." pressing Into i lady friend, who writes a note i" Wiikins accepting an offer <>r i Tlage which Bhe pretends he mail. her while in bis cups. Of course, he is h londltlon i.> remember where he was or whal be 'li'l the night before, in truth, be wasn't outside iiis club. Tin' lady also accepts an Invi ■ !. n. is in. extended to take luncheon with blm ai two o'clock al his bouse. The r ptlon of this note affects him like a dynamite bomb. Hushing in 1. 1.' dull he asks his chums, who are of course in on the scheme, "Did I?" They reply. "Vnn certainly did." Even the girl, whom In' also Becks oni keeps up her end of the trick ami expresses her unalterable Intention of coming t<> luncheon. Rushing had; to the club, he exclaims: "Good heavens! I must get my wife out by two o'clock." A friend offers blm two tickets for the matinee. "Ah: tiie very thing." iio breathes easlei when Wiley ami mother consent to so, but, curse the link, just as they are about to get ready in come two visiting friends, "Great Scott! I must have two more." These are procured after a mad raie to and from the club. All the while the bands of the clock are pushing tantallzlngly towards 2 I'. M. The worst comes when the visitors decline to attend the matinee, so there promises to' he a warm luncheon thai afternoon at the Wilkin's domicile. Two o'clock arrives, and with it tlie luncheon party. Wifey meets "the other woman" with pretended injured dignity. Well. I he result is that Wiikins is thoroughly in earnest when he exclaims "Never again!" A PLAIN SONG.— Edith is a salesgirl in the department store and toils most arduously to eke the lives of her decrepit mother and blind father. Qnasi-poverty is their condition, as Edith's meager pittance is all there is to depend on for the existence. Sadly she compares her own loneliness with the condition of her storemates. as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy. Hence it is small wonder that she feels highly flattered and pleased at the attentions of a traveling repertoire manager who enters the store advertising his show, and presents Editli with two complimentary tickets for that evening's performance. The next day the manager appears again at the store and invites her to take a stroll with him. This is the first attention the poor girl has ever experienced, and when the manager tries to persuade iter to go away with him it is a supreme struggle with inclination that prevents her leaving her old folks. The manager leaves her with ill-concealed displeasure and the next time he visits the store he tries to win her through jealousy by flirting with one of the other girls. This has the effect, and she yields to the great temptation of meeting him after store hours. With renewed endeavor he persuades her and she at last consents to go away with him. leaving a letter for her parents to the effect that she is tired of the drudgery, and longing for pleasure, has gone away. Arriving at the railroad station, where she is to meet her tempter, she sees a party of old folks on their way to the almshouse. "Remember thy father and thy mother." And she does remember, seeing them most vividly in her mind's eye. This thought SO impels that Bhe at last realizes that she is playing with tire, anil turning on her heel, runs backhome to find that the letter she bad written is gone from the table where she left it. However, lier fears are allayed when she funis the letter in possession of her blind father, who. of course, cannot read it. Taking It and tearing it to bits, she folds Iter dear old papa in her anus as her mother enters to share in the embrace. Her eyes Opened to the falseness of the world, she is now more than ever determined to perform her sacrificial duty of caring for the old folks. EDISON MFG. CO. THE STOLEN CLAIM.— The story deals with the love of a young doctor and the daughter of an old Professor Of Mineralogy. A certain unclaimed !• ft to [lie young luuil by his in, \ falsi i n. mi succeeds |n bbi print tin i the mine, and pel old I'ro rlghllul owner out of his claim. Tbe facts are kept safely from the daughter, who is in love with the real owner of tbe mine, until somi P|] truth is then revi led to Iter w/lien her former ii. mii meets ber father and rlu "friend" in their new Western abode, am! them of i. in. But J a occurs in the mine ami tbe father is killid and the husband is badly injured. Medical aid is The girl In a wild ride reaches tin nearest village twenty miles away, and seeing I he sign "I a doctor on the door, she nervously lii opened the finds herself face to line Willi the mail whom she loves and whom husband has so cruelly wronged, she ba a lo save the lite of his worst enemy. Here the nobility of tbe man is revealed. She has asked i"i" medical aid: he is the doctor, if tbe man dies he may again regain Ihe woman of beart, but duly bef verything, ami be goes wiiii her, ami again, face to face, the two in. a i i. With the calm, quiet precision of ins profession he forces his enemy to do his bidding. lie si\es ins life am] linn turns to the wife. Silently the Iwo, this niai ami Ibis woman, look Into each Other's eyes long and earnestly —and part. She sinks into her chair with a sob, a moan, realizing what she has missed in life. For days slie watches beside Ihe bed of the man who lias deprived her of happiness. Weary with watching, one night abe falls asleep. lie is delirious. He rises from his COUCb and wanders back up to the deserted mine. A moment he pauses on tlie edge of the dizzy height — a cry from tlie woman startles him — a shriek — and he is dashed to pieces one thousand five hundred feet below. A pale, quiet little woman dressed In black Btops at the doctor's door one day and leaves a note asking for forgiveness and a mining claim upon tlie doctor's table, then sadly turns to leave; but a strong hand touches ber shoulder, and 6he looks Into the eyes of the man she loves, and as she stretches her arms to a great cluster of flowers on tbe table and holds them to her breast, we realize that something new and sweet and true has come into both their lives. THE TOYMAKER, THE DOLL AND THE DEVIL. — There is a maker of lay-figures, a gay old party who half falls in love with bis own creations of pretty women and gay sonbrettes. He has a son who follows in his father's footsteps. There is a young apprentice with ambitions for the stage, who is very much in love with an orphan ward of his employer. The ward is unwillingly betrothed to the good-for-nothing son. The old man has built a wonderful soubrette figure which it is his ambition to imbue with life. Then comes a fancy dress ball, which all the town people attend. The old man and his son dress themselves up and join the revelry. The little ward has nothing to wear and cannot go, until the apprentice suddenly conceives the brilliant idea of borrowing tlie clothes from the beautiful soubrette figure and dressing his sweetheart in them. When the old toy-maker sees her at tbe ball, accompanied by the young man dressed as Mephistopheles. lie is convinced that he sees his own creation and the Devil. Rushing frantically from tbe hall, he hastens home to see if it can be true. The young people, preceding him, have no time to resume their own clothes or restore the doll to its position, so the girl takes the doll's place while the young man hides himself up the chimney. The old man and his son come in and try to induce the doll to again assume life and motion. They perform all sorts of tricks with her and the girl plays the part of the doll well enough to fool them utterly. Disgusted with their failure, they build a fire ?nd decide to warm up a hot toddy to soothe their discouraged feelings. The young man above, smoked out by the fire, impersonates the Devil, and makes the doll live and dance for the old man on condition that be consent to the marriage of his ward to his apprentice. Tlie old man and bis son quarrel over this agreement, and aftrr tlie girl lias put the clothes back upon tbe doll the son returns and smashes it to atoms to get square with his father. In the evening the old man is called upon by bis apprentice, who demands the band of bis ward in marriage. When the old man refuses tbe document, signed by himself, is flashed before him. and then tbe young man confesses tbe trick that he bad played. lie tells tlie obi man t.iat he impersonated tbe Devil and (not knowing that the son is listening behind himl tells him that the girl, the ward, impersonated tbe doll. The son is horrified at the thought of having killed tbe girl he once loved, but the apprentice, understanding the situation more thoroughly, calls the girl from aer own room and the young man apparently sees a miracle — the doll-girl, which lie had smashed, restored to life! In his joy at bis escape from murder he gladly relinquishes all claim to tbe band of the ward, and insists upon his father making good bis written word. HIS MOTHER'S THANKSGIVING.— We are first Introduced to an old-fashioned New England kitchen and dlniiig-r.A.m combined, where a Sew simple country folks have gathered tO give their thanks to God l"i all the blessings that have been bestowed upon tbein. Our interest is centered mostly around tbe mother of the household and her son, who are plain, simple New England folks. Tbe son soon longs for a br Ier field for his ambition than the i ntry village ,-ali give, and so, one day, city. years glide by and the simple farm boy own to manhood, am: as reached blm from every side; while away back in .New England we see that the little mother i little older, a little grayer. A feverish anxiety is in ber movements as she takes a big. old fashion. I the oven. It Is for her boy. He is coming borne to spend Thanksgiving with her for the first time in ten years. A knock is heard at the door and the rural -i.r hands the dear old lady a letter. It is from ber son. She tears open the letter. The smile fades from her lips. A cheek drops from tee biter unheeded, for in that letter is a heartache her boy is not coining home on Thanksgiving Day. As she takes hi picture from tin worn old :i Ibnin and looks at it sadly part of the room .ml we see the boy and the other woman, iiu too. A moment of suspense — eyes 00k Into eyes a catcb of tin breath — and as he clasps his sweetheart in his arms and p ol hoe upon her lips, we see ear old mother sadly kissing the picture of boy. New England is a long way from tbe great city where her boy lives, but She decides to go to him on Thanksgiving Day and surprise him. enters his house she does not know that a Thanksgiving dinner party is to be held, that her boy's sweetheart will be there in all ber grandeur, that each guest will be dressed in tlie height of fashion oes ml realize that her old. worn-out clothes of the country will be out of place in these surroundings. She only knows that she is going to i boy; but the sad awakening comes when she finds herself upstairs in a neatly furnished room and the butler placing a tray of food before her. Her boy is ashamed of ber, and she Is to eat her Thanksgiving dinner alone. What would his sweetheart, a lady of fashion, think of ber, his mother, if she saw her in this old-fashioned attire? What? Wait and you shall see. A knock at the door — a fair young girl enters — a rustle of silk and satins. "Ah. I beg your pardon, but I thought this is where the butler said I was to remove my cloak." She sees a huge, old-fashioned pie on the dresser, a note beside it. and the words "my Ikiv" and "your mother" catch her eye. There is a cry of joy, and tlie dear old lady is locked close in soft young arms. That's what she thinks of his mother. She is bis mother: that's all she cares to know. Amid sobs and smiles the girl learns the truth, and one can imagine the shame upon the boy's face when he enters the room a few moments later and finds mother and sweetheart gaily eating their Thanksgiving dinner together. Soon all is forgiven and forgotten, and this sweet, simple story closes with tlie dear old lady saying thanksgiving at the bead of her son's table. ESSANAY FILM COMPANY. HANK AND LANK.— Hank and Lank have inside information that it's meal time, but it looks as if they would have to skip a meal or two until Hank's fertile brain maps out a royal road to a big feed. Into tbe "Ragont Restaurant" goes Hank, and soon returns wearing a pair of large signboards proclaiming the goodness of the bill of fare at the eating house. Hank is rewarded by a fine feed, for he has managed to steer a large crowd to tbe restaurant. Now it's Lank's turn. He has seen how easily Hank earned the big eats, and loses no time in applying to the "Apax" restaurant. They have seen that the rival house has increased its patronage by advertising, and Lank soon is at large upon the community with a pair of boards upon which the name "Apax" appears in large letters. But carrying the heavy sandwich is strenuous work, and Lank stops frequently to rest. While loafing on a corner two boys, intent upon mischief, fix upon him as a likely victim. A painter happens along at this moment, and they appropriate his paint and brushes. Stealing up behind tbe unsuspecting Lank, they quickly obliterate the letter "X" from bis sign. Lank innocently strolls away, followed by Hank, who has come upon the scene in time to see fhe fun. Lank's wanderings lead hiiu to an alley where a gang "f Irish laborers are eating their noonday lunch. Dank thinks that this is an auspicious place to display the restaurant ad, and walks boldly by. However, these loyal sons of Erin do not welcome an invitation to eat at tl 1'. A." restaurant. A box of newly mixed mortar is convenient for their purposes, and Lank is treated to a most "mort irfying" bath in the plastic material. THAT POPULAR TUNE— Blinks goes to the theater, where lie bears it first. Mile. Tinee sings it. is repeatedly encored and continues to sing it until Blinks leaves tbe theater in disgust. Itlinks enters a restaurant, orders a big meal and is about to eat heartily when the orchestra merrily strikes up the latest rag. "Twinkling