Moving Picture World (Aug 1917)

August 18, 1917 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1117 daughter shields Jerry from their pummeling, but everwatchful poliee make things warm for him. Jerry's best tact is applied to getting father and the Count into a light with the police, then signals daughter to "beat it." They in an automobile .stolen from a parking station, but they are pursued by father, the Count and a force of policemen. The chase comes to an end when Jerry drives his "flivver" into an automobile service station. A gasoline explosion, caused by the entrance of Jerry blows him into jail. MUTUAL STAR PRODUCTION. BAB THE FIXER (Horkheimer— Five Parts— Aug. 13).— The cast: John Porter (Leslie T. Peacocke) ; Adelaide Porter (Mollie McConnell) • Bab, their daughter (Jackie Saunders) ; Mrs. Drexel (Ruth Lackaye) ; Leroy Scott (R. Henry Grey). John Porter, a wealthy broker of Wall street has failed in business. With his wife and daughter, Bab, he buys a small ranch in the West, hoping to recoup his fortune in the cattle business. Ten years go by and Bab has grown to young womanhood. Porter, however, finds himself still struggling for success. Bab is an expert with the rifle as well as a daring rider. Richard Sterling, formerly a New York broker's clerk has become rich through shrewd dealing. He is in love with Bab and she with him. Adelaide Porter, Bab's mother, frowns on the affair. She wishes Bab to marry into society. The water on Porter's place plays out. He drills for a flowing well. He strikes the flow but it is oil— not water. The Porter's become enormously wealthy by the lucky strike. Bab is sent to a finishing school. Mrs. Porter quarrels with her husband. They separate When Bab returns from school she finds her mother in society, but lier father is absent Bab seeks her father out, and learns the truth Bab lays her plans to bring about a reconciliation between her parents and succeeds. Then she and Sterling are married. LA SALLE. THE WIDOWS MIGHT (Aug. 14).— The widow tightfist lives in an apartment house and is enviously watched by her neighbors, Dr Vee Gates and wife, who hatch a scheme to marry her to Otto and go fifty-fifty with him on the money. Assisted by the widow's cook and the janitor all works out smoothly, but after the wedding the widow refuses to loosen up on the purse strings. The doctor decides to have the janitor drop a brick on Otto, which will cause a dangerous malady, curable only bv granting his every desire. Otto submits, but already sore at the bunch, takes advantage of the situation not only to extract money from his unsuspecting wife, but to make love to the doctor's wife, and before the doctor can figure out if Otto's 'condition is real or feigned the plotters are all given a run for their money. MUTUAL WEEKLY. ISSI'E NUMBER 136 (Aug. S). Paris. France.— The very latest stvles in Parisian chapeau from De Pauvr. Milwaukee, Wis.— Frank Clemejis attempts to drive Elk team from San Francisco to New lork. Los Angeles. Cal.— This city's Vacation Camp wins nation-wide favor. Civic enterprise gives two weeks' vacation for $8.50 per person San Francisco. Cal.— Twelve thousand soldiers at Presidio see battle between the "Seals" and "Oaks." Sammies scramble for .".00 baseballs Seattle, Wash. — Japanese picture Brides arrive here. Picture of husband is sent to Nippon and they are wedded hv proxy. Washington. D. C— Harry Chapman Gilbert has the honor of being the first man in the U. S National Army. He receives the congratulations of his parents and friends. Xew York City.— Pawnee Bill and Tndian braves aid recrultiae. Chief Bald Eagle and tribe visit U. S. S. "Recruit." Los Angeles. Cal.— Girl high school students practice food conservation. Thev are "putting up" five tons of fruit for winter' use. Alameda, Cal.— Records broken at swimming meet. Dorothy Burns and Xorman Ross win new laurels. Xew York City.— Latest Stvles in shoes. Courtesy of I. Miller, X. V. City. Subtitles: Posed for the Mutual Weekly bv Miss Mollie King Evening slipper— black satin, beaded in steel! Evening slipper— gold brocade cloth. Walking boot— Brown kid with ivory kid top and stitching. Washington. D. C— Cabinet members and department heads are taking daily exercise to keep in fighting trim. Somewhere-in-France.— A fistic battle entertains wounded Tommies at a convalescent camp Somewhere-in-Ameriea.— Uncle Sam's "rookie" sailors master difficult drills. 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For authoritative articles by leading British technical men. For brilliant and strictly impartial criticisms of all films, read THE BIOSCOPE The Leading British Trade Journal with an International Circulation 85 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W. Specimen on Application Miscellaneous Subjects PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP. THE SQUAW MAN'S SON il. ■Inly -'ii l I I. mil EfflngtOD Hal Calthrop ( Wallace; Heidi ; fington (Dorothy Davenport); Wah-na-gl (Anita King); John McCloud (Donald Bowles); David Ladd 1 1-. ii, Qelderl i ; Appah i Frank Lan Lord Kerhlll (Ernes! Joy) ; Lord Veatei (Luclen LI tt left eld) ; Lady Stuckley (Mabel Van Buren) . Storekeeper (Raymond Hatton). Lord Ellington, the little Hal ol '•TinMan." has grown to be a young man and has i^n hi estates and bis wife in England and is chiil of the Indian police on a western )■ t ion. He has i his wife b is addicted to the use ol morphine. S fallen in love with voting ' ter. Hal is Interested in tbi >n ot hi i" opli Wah-na-gl, a Carlisle graduate, who i teaching the agency school. David Ladd, the Indian agent and representative for the asphalt trust, has discovered asphalt on tin reservation. Hal made the survey and knows the asphalt belongs to the Indians. Ladd and the Indian medicine man. SB well as Hal. are in love with Wah-na-gl. Ladd gives Hal fifteen thousand dollars' worth ■ phalt stock, but Hal exposes the plan to the Indians and for a time the trusl is hall Hal is called back to England and have the stock with John .McCloud, the agency missionary, to b? turned over to the department of justice. McCloud is taken ill and is at the point of death when Appah comes in to steal Wah-na-gl. McCloud raises himself and kills the Indian. Hal is about to return when he discovers bis wife is a morphine fiend and be decides to remain and care for her. although he has agreed to divorce her so that she can marry Lord V The department of justice persuades him to return and assist in the prosecution of the a-phalt trust. He reaches the ranch on Xina< eve just in time to stop Ladd from stealing the stock from the dead missionary's effects. He telle Wah-na-gl of his lovi for her, hut that he must go back to England. She gee out into the snow to kill herself by the grave of Xat-u-rich. Hal's Indian mother, who killed herself for his father. Hal receives a message that his wife has taken an overdose of morphine, and he is free to marry the Indian girl. He rushes through the snow and finds Wah-na-gi just in time to prevent her plunging a knife into her breast -and tiny are at last made happy. THE CRYSTAL GAZER (Lasky— Five parts duly .'lit). — The cast: Rosi Jorgensen, Rose Keith and Norma Dugan (Fannie Ward i : I'alistro (Jack Dean) : Belle, Calisrro's wife (Winifred Greenwood) : Dick Aldcn i Harrison Ford); Phil Mannering (Raymond Hatton) ; Mi's. Mannering (Edythe Chapman) : Mrs. Dugan i Jane Wolff). Hose Jorgensen. living in a squalid tenement house, hears that her husband is to lie electrocuted for murder, and commits suicide, leaving two young daughters. One of the daughters, Rose. is adopted by Judge and Mrs. Keith and brought up in luxury. The other. Norma, is adopted by a neighbor and raised in the squalor of the tits until she is 'engaged by Calistro. a charlatan hypnotist, to act as an hypnotic subject. Phil Mannering, a young society man. is an associate of Calistro. and through his influence Calistro is made a society fad. Norma is known as the "White Orchid." Hose. Nornia's sister, has been raised in luxury and is in love with Dick Aldei), a young millionaire. Calistro, at a parlor exhibition, is astonished at the re .uiii' between Rose and Norma. II ir former home in the tenement and there finds the letter which shows that the two girls are the daughters of a murderer. He confronts with this letter and demands money. Rose. realizing that she cannot marry Hick with this stain on her name, renounces him and sails for Bermuda. Dick is taken with Nornia's resemblance to Rose and finally, out of pity, offers to marry her. Calistro has also fallen in love with Norma and one day makes advances to her which arouse the jealousy of his wife and she kills him. Norma is taken to the home of Mrs. Mannering. Phil Manncring's aunt, and there Rose tinds them when she returns from her voyage. Dick explains to Rose that he has always loved her and this is overheard by Norma. CLEAR, CLEAN AND BRILLIANT ON EASTMAN STOCK Wording Perfectly Balanced With or Wilheul Borders ROTHACKER FILM MANUFACTURING CO. 1339-51 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, U. S. A.