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COMEDY.
R. D. 109. A SOLDIER MUST OBEY ORDERS. Price, $62.04.
Approximate Length, 517 feet.
Comically portrays a simple-minded recruit. Soldiers' barracks are shown; a corporal's guard is being drilled, one of whom is very awkward and slovenly, for which he is reprimanded and sent off to clean up and report to the commanding officer's quarters.
There he is ordered to gather all the luggage and convey it to the train on which the officer and wife are to depart.
What follows . can better be imagined than described. His awkwardness and seeming lack of knowledge as to the value of the different wearing apparel he displays, in packing the luggage, is excrutiatingly funny. At last all is packed and, loading the numerous bundles upon different parts of his anatomy, he starts off for the depot. Dropping, breaking and spoiling his charges, he arrives at the train shed just as the train pulls out.
The soldier has orders, which he has learned to obey, so he starts off in a hot chase after the train. The next series of views depicts the soldier's adventures in tramping fifty-five miles through the country. Each ridiculous adventure lightens his load, and finally he reaches the quarters of his superior, who, with his wife, is anxiously awaiting the arrival of their baggage. Their dismay and disappointment is very keen indeed upon beholding the faithful orderly appear on the scene with the remains of the baggage — a tiny fruit basket. As a balm for their wounded feelings they "take it out" of our faithful hero.
R. D. 125. WHEN CHERRIES ARE RIFE. Price, $24.48.
Approximate Length, 204 feet.
Coloring, Extra, $1.50.
A farmyard scene in which a pretty maiden, basket on arm, heads for the woods to pick fruit. Finally reaching the objective spot, she leaves her basket on the ground and, with the aid of a ladder, climbs up to the branches of the tree, from which she plucks the fruit. A young man happens on the scene and gallantly lends his services in passing the basket up to her, after which act he removes the ladder and playfully threatens to leave her up there unless she will permit him to "pick a cherry" from her lips. She finally prevails upon him to permit ner to descend — but she refuses the reward that he claims. Acceding to her request, he climbs up the tree to pick more fruit, and to punish him for his former bold advances she removes the ladder and struts away, leaving him up in the air, wildly gesticulating for relief. The last scene is a colored and close view of the buxom maiden munching cherries and mischievously winking and smiling at the audience as she decorates her ears and neck with ripe cherries.
SENSATIONAL.
R. D. 22. A WHITE CRIME. Price, $42.84.
Approximate Length, 357 feet.
This story very pathetically depicts the sincere and deep love of a son toward his mother, for whose sake he succumbed to temptation, but his superior grants him full pardon and offers him sincerest sympathy in his bereavement.
Views illustrated:
Sleeping chamber — mother is brought in from a stroll — physician appears and ruefully shakes his head. The son appears and very affectionately greets his mother. The physician's remarks and demeanor, however, fill his heart with consternation, and after
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