Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)

8i8 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD Licensed Film Stories. VITAGRAPH. ONE FLAG AT LAST (Sept. 18),— Tlie war between Hie North and South raged Just as bitterly* In the lieart of the civilian as it did in the soldier ' (.n the battlefield. Judge Stark, a typical Southern .an. whose son Rohert is a captain in the Confederate Army, entertains the strongest hatred against the Federals. When he hears of the capture of his sou Boh, he is inconsolable and swears eternal enmity against his captors. Hetty, his daughter, trjf>s to pacify him until she leaves him alone in his meditations. She wanders through the glen near her home and there meets Captain Jack Meyers, of the Northern Army, wounded and almost helpless. Betty has pity upon him and leads him to a cave nearby, where she shelters and assists him, binding up his wounds, sending him bedding by her old servant Mose and visiting him with food. A few days later, the newspapers announce that General Sherman will march through that section of the country with 50,000 men. Judge Stark sees this article, and trembles with rage, calling down maledictions upon the incursion. He throws the paper down in disgust. Betty secures it and sends it to Captain Meyers. Jack writes a note and instructs Mose to give it to General Sherman when lie reaches the vicinity. Mose is afraid to do this and Betty carries it herself: Jack Is soon rescued and on his way to Washington. After regaining his health, Jack calls on President Lincoln and asks for a pardon for Betty's brother. President Lincoln grants the pardon. Captain Jack delivers it in person, telling Robert of his love for his sister, at the same time requesting Bob to give Betty the miniature which she had given liim in the cave as an evidence of his profession and promises. Bob reaches home, to the surprise and delight of his father and Betty, tells of the pardon secured by Captain Meyers, and of the Captain's love for his sister. Judge Stark is beside himself and refuses to listen to the pleas of his son and daughter in behalf of Jack. Peace between the North and the South Is declared. Jack returns to visit the cave where he first met Betty. While he goes inside, Betty takes a notion to visit the did trysting place, and there she meets Jack, whom she takes to her home and introduces to her father. He denies him a friendly greeting until old Mose goes Into the house and returns with the American Flag. As Bob points to it and says, "We all stand united under the one flag at last," the old judge, taking the hand of his daughter, places it in that of Captain Meyers, blessing them and surrendering his prejudices to the "Union." HOW MILLIE BECAME AN ACTRESS (Sept. 19). — Millie Becker, a struggling young actress, gets a letter of introduction from her friend, DieC Graham, for an interview with the leading theatrical manager, Howell Conn. She calls at his office, is treated with impertinence by the office boy, and is kept waiting until he gets ready to call his boss, who at last grants Millie an interview, ,if his contemptuous treatment of her can be called such. She perseveres in procuring a promise from him to attend one of her performances to see her work. He does so and after witnessing her performance, writes her a letter, telling her that she is not an actress and never will be. At first she is discouraged and then she makes up her mind that she will prove him wrong. She learns that he has gone away for the summer and goes to the hotel where he is stopping. makes up, and secures a position as a chambermaid in the hotel. She has to wait on Conn and takes every opportunity to make his life miserable, by upsetting his ink. spilling his coffee, sweeping dust on him and making herself a general nuisance. He never suspects who she is, but complains to the landlady about Millie, who takes the proprietress into her confidence, and at last, when Conn is in a furious rage, he seeks quiet in the garden. Millie gives him a shower bath from the sprinkling pot with which she is watering the Bowers, and lie is now quick to make overtures to her. She then reveals her identity and asks him if he does not think now that she is a good actress. He is indignant at first, but confesses that she is. and the humor of the situation strikes him so forcibly he gives Millie his card, making an appointment with her at his office in the city, where he gives her a contract at a large salary and acknowledges that she has the ability to make a name for herself and a fortune for him. BEYOND THE LAW (Sept. 20) Anse Langdon, whom Jennie Williams accepts, incurs the hatred and enmity of Lee Hayes, another suitor for Jennie's hand, Anse and Jennie are married. Lee waits his opportunity and tries to inveigle Anse into a light with him. Anse resents his aggressiveness. Lee draws his gun, but Anse is too quick for him. takes his gun away from him and gives him a severe thrashing. Lee has another gun concealed, follows Anse and from a point of vantage and mortally wounds him. Anse drags himself to the door of his cabin, where he falls dead. His wife finds his body and a note which Anse has written on a piece of birch bark, stating that Lee Haines shot him. The sheriff Is notified of the shooting and is on the track of the guilty man. Filled with that primitive and inborn idea of justice, Jennie determines to interpret the law according to her own judgment, and if possible, bring the slayer of her husband to a full reckoning of Ills deed. She follows his trail, and with the unerring aim of a skilled mountaineer's daughter in the use of firearms, site gets a line on ber i.iisi, :i mi's slayer; he receives the full penalty of Jennie's self-imposed sentence. The sheriff of the county meets Jennie as she is returning to her home with her rille in her hand. He inquires of her for news of Lee Hayes. In reply, she takes the sheriff to the silent form of the fugitive, nodding her head in answer to his questions. He Understands. He discharges the cartridges from the dead man's gun, places the weapon in the cold hand and tells, Jennie to go to her home, that he will answer for the man's death; necessary in the discharge of his duty as sheriff, being sworn to capture his man dead or alive. FORGOTTEN (Sept. 22).— Mrs. Earle dies at the birth of her child. Max, her husband, is so overcome with grief that he cannot bear to look at the child, foolishly attributing his wife's death to Re innocent little one. He determines to get away from the scene of his sorrow and leaves his little daughter Helen in charge of his sister, Mrs. Strong, who has two children of her own. Mr. Earle goes to Paris and throws himself into the gayety of the French capital. During his absence, his little daughter, now six years old, learns about her father; his photograph, which stands on her aunt's table, is the shrine at which she pours forth her childish prayers that her father will come back to her again. She seems to be like an odd sheep with her little cousings, who have the attention and kind caresses of loving parents, while she is without either. She feels alone and forgotten, and longs for parental sympathetic love. She has overheard her aunt speak about her father, and her little heart a,*hes and pines the more for him to come home to his lonely little Helen. Mrs. Strong gives a party for the children. They all seem happy but Helen, who is possessed with that self-consciousness and shyness which is born of the thought inspired by her father's evident neglect. She goes into another room alone, meditative and sad, and Is soon forgotten by everybody. When the prizes from the umbrella are chosen, Helen is not remembered. After the little guests have gone home, bidding a fond good-night to all but little Helen, and Mrs. Strong has put her two children to bed. Mr. Earle, who has received Helen's letter, comes back, is ushered Into his sister's presence, and asks her where Helen is. Mrs. Strong cannot tell him and has to admit that she has entirely forgotten her. Helen is soon found and brought to her father, who clasps his child to his bosom again and again, and promises that he will never leave her any more, and judging from the many gifts he brings her and the kindnesses which he showers upon her, we are convinced that she is now his one thought and his greatest joy in life. OVER THE CHAFING DISH (Sept. 23).— This is an extraordinary novelty, telling the story of love, courtship and marriage, simply through the actions of the hands and feet, without displaying the features. Just imagine, if you can, the actions of the hands and feet alone thoroughly and perfectly telling the story of a young couple making love, becoming engaged, going through the "lovey-dovey" period of courtship, getting married, keeping house, and the demonstration of that ecstatic bliss of their first born to bless the little home and fill their lives with the wellspring of future hope and ambition. THE TIRED, ABSENT-MINDED MAN (Sept. 23). — "The Tired. Absent-Minded Man" makes up his mind to get married, forgets to propose to the girl he had in mind, and who is already engaged to another, very much to the surprise of the absent-minded man. who goes to sleep and forgets all about her. He proposes to another young lady, buys an engagement ring, forgets what he has bought it for, gives it as a tip to a messenger boy, and then wonders what he has done with it. Suddenly waking, he gets down to business, and on the night of the wedding, he is overcome by that "tired feeling," goes to sleep and suddenly wakes up, happens to remember that he is to be wedded, arrives at the church at the last moment, is married, and after the wedding, starts on liis honeymoon trip with his bride so preoccupied in other thoughts that he gets on the railroad train without her. She is lost in the crowd of embarking passengers, and all oblivious of his obligations as a husband, he makes his way to the smoker, where lie goes soundly to sleep and is lost to the world, while his newly wedded wife is left weeping alone on the station platform to retrace her steps to home and mother. sees a hand stealthily putting the fire out. Terrified, she manages to get out of the room and lock the burglar In. The police come, but cannot find the intruder. After they have gone, the actress bearing cries for help looks out of the window, sees the burglar hanging on a leader and drags him In from bis perilous position with one of the window curtains. In return for his rescue the burglar leaves Hie Jewels he has stolen and departs. AN UP-TO-DATE SQUAW (Sept. 20).— A party of tourists visiting a? Indian reservation turn one poor squaw's head with the beauty of their wearing apparel. This Indian woman steals away from camp and decks herself out In the most remarkable finery. She Is followed by her husband through the streets of the town, causipg consternation everywhere. Ultimately she is followed by an English dandy, who mistakes her for a beautiful white woman, but they are caught In each other's company by the brave and the Eng'Jshman Is scalped. The fact that his head is covered with a wig makes the scalping painless. STARLIGHT'S NECKLACE (Sept. 21).— An Indian leaves his squaw to hunt and meets a beautiful Indian maid, who fascinates him. When they part she gives him a necklace, which is subsequently discovered by the brave's squaw, and this leads to unpleasantness and trouble. The squav follows her brave the next day and sees him leave his new love. She follows the girl and in a tragic fight is almost killed. She is rescued by her husband, who seeing her in this condition, finds his old love returns. ELECTRIC BOOTS (Sept. 22).— A shoe store dispenses shoes which are electrically charged and which enable people to do their work In double. The action resulting from this Is funny In the extreme. GYPSY MAIDS (Sept. 23).— Two gypsy girls playing for money in the streets are seen by a susceptible fellow, who follows them and finally engages one in conversation. He takes her out on the lake for a row and is discovered by the girl's father on their return to shore. The father In his terrible rage drags the girl to the bridge and picking her up bodily throws her into the waters beneath. The lover sees the deed, calls the police and has the gypsy arrested, and plunging into the stream from the bridge rescues the girl of his dreams. PATHE. THE FRIGHT (Sept. 18).— An actress returning from the theater finds that during her absence a burglar has gained entrance to her room and is hiding under her bed. Before retiring for the night, she throws herself upon the bed and lights a cigarette. The match sets fire to the carpet, and seeing the smoke she leans over the bed to find out whence It comes. From beneath the bed she ESSANAY. SAVED FROM THE TORRENTS (Sept. 19).— Young Jack Carrington has fallen into bad company and one day he runs away from home to a neighboring town, where he gets Into trouble. His sister is loved by Arthur Chester, the station agent, and through him Katie receives word from her brother that he Is eluding the police and will endeavor to take the through express back to his home town. The girl goes to the station, where Arthur is handed a message by the sheriff to the police officials in the other town to arrest young Garrington at the station, and the girl, in order to save her brother, persuades Arthur to leave the telegraph office for a moment after which she bolts the door and prevents him from entering. It Is just a moment or two before the express Is scheduled to leave the other town when Arthur receives word that the railroad trestle over the Chippewa River is in danger from the torrents and to stop the express at the other station. Despite his mad entreaties to the girl to let him in she refuses to do so until the train has left, after which she learns to her horror that she has only sent her brother to his death. There follows a race on a hand-car by the girl and Arthur, between the fast approaching express train, which ends successfully In the two passing over the trestle and stopping the train just as the structure collapses. ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THE PORTER (Sept. 21). — An amusing comedy showing how fate took a hand in bringing the right young man and young lady together in spite of parental plans. Two old friends, one having a son and the other a daughter, plan to pair them off. On the sleeping car another young man, a salesman, gets on leaving instructions to be up in time to leave the train at Rockwell City, while the young Lochinvar asks to be left off at Villa Rosa, the home of the girl. The porter puts them off at the wrong stations and consequen'ly the salesman spends a pleasant day, during which he wooes and wins the daughter, she and her father thinking him to be the old friend's son. This latter arrived too late to persuade the young lady to change her mind, as she is perfectly satisfied with her choice. EVERYBODY'S TROUBLES (Sept. 21).— This delightful little comic is a novel production. It shows ;he troubles of dwellers in flats and Is overflowing with laughable situations from the first floor to the top. LIVE. LOVE AND BELIEVE (Sept. 22).— Harry Ainsworth. a young man who has fallen through drink and is drifting about In the slums of the city, is Influenced to mend his ways by the Influence of Dorothy Chalmers, a mission worker. Through her good influence he becomes a man, but finding that he has fallen in love with her and knowing he can never be her equal, socially, he leaves the settlement, after penning her a line, thanking her for the good she has done for him and informing her of his intentions of joining the army. After several years of service in the army.