The Billboard 1909-12-18: Vol 21 Iss 51 (1909-12-18)

DECEMBER 18, 1909. The Billboard 17 New Films Reviewed i } An Interesting Christmas Story is Told in a Gift from Santa } Claus—A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year is Timely. Jinks the Grouch Grouches Himself Out of a Job—-The Law of the Mountaineers is Full of Action. VITAGRAPH., | FAUST.—Faust, an aged philosopher and ma THE PROFESSOR AND THE THOMAS CATS | riers “night's, long vigil, to sia ete then gg _ hls bedroom. Hardly has he| the realms of darkness the evil one to aid him. got into bed when he hears unearthly howls Mejhistopt eles appears and offers him his wee which make him start up and look out of the | ices in returo for Faust’s soul. The aged phi leSepher refuses to accept u itil the devil shows him a vision of Marguerite in all her maiden simplicity and beauty. Faust TI aged window. He sees a big Thomas cat on the roof of the adjoining house and immediately begins a bombardment with shoes and whatever be can ay nands ov, but without budging the epemy. | agrees. he i ’ ler. ! » attie. » will get him from there, | #le , ; ; 2 an bay 4 by > = te FE in bis night dress, | Faust mects Marguerite coming from ehureh an " sic king 4 some loose bricks ‘from the | #nd offers to escort her home, but with maidatt Mi or he opens the scuttle leading to the enly modesty she declines. The devil offers a oe ’ me . : » re Stealing into ber garde roof and again opens fire on his enemies. Mean plan to win her love. Stealing into ber garden, while the servant girl a jewel casket is left filled with pearls, rubies sile erva , feeling the draught, dis — ain and diamonds | right. | excitement | their prisoners in jail. |at Wes’ | Wes had man is changed into a dashing young cav| rare. Marguerite finds the cas covers the open scuttle, which she closes and | ° £ f ie : locks from the inside. ‘The shivering professor | ket and can not forbear to adorn hers¢ a with is in a sud predicament, but be clambers down | the Jewels. Shortly after Faust and gs water pipe and almost into the arms of a topheles appear and succeed in winning Mar| : lice Ma es whe is making love to the cook next guerite’s love. | policeman, : aking k ’ dais a wid Tie: : Teen. There us a lively chase after poor Squills, fs * _ ~~ nine ro sig mg who manages to evade his pursuers by hiding in | %¢Ttet alentine, ; ape sb meee. re a barrel. Using this as a protection he reachte o— = 2 arns of egg ont aa es his home, where the pursuers discover that it | \'"**)e and Faust engage in a ¢ : J Mephistopheles’ help, Marguerite’s reason and sorrow. prison. Valentine is stabbed has been shaken by grief She kills her child and is cast jiote Mephistopheles brings Faust there in order that he may fiy with Marguerite, but she (s not q burglar after all, and the luckless professor is glad to get into bed. + MERR¢ CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.—Tom Constant is a hard-working | (eS not comprehend. She understands only and under-pald bookkeeper in the employ of 0. — great love for him. F ane anny > td ', Meehan, a close fisted old broker. The day | "** for forgiveness. Her dying reply is Forbefore Christmas Tom is surprised to find a giveness! Faust, I love thee." She then sinks package on his desk with a letter from Mehan, | ‘nto eternity. |= Mephistopheles pronounces her reading that the package contains a Christmas damned, but the angels of heaven appear and proclaim her saved; while Faust siaks into eter present as a token of appreciation for Tom's | apap coed Rey twenty-five years of faithful service. Tom, the stenographer and the office boy, hasten to open the mysterious package, and which contains a émall chicken that had all the appearances of having died of starvation. Tom brings home the chicken. On Christmas morning as Tom and bis family are getting ready for dinner they are thrown in LUBIN. WHEN COURAGE FLED.—Little Mrs. Chal mers is afraid of nothing. When the men push past the line of waiting women at the rallroad station, she throws them back into their proper Wes money for information. At first Wes denies all knowledge but finally yields. The revenue man hurries on and Wes hastens to the doctor’s office. When the bills are displayed | the doctor immediately agrees to make the | | call. Wes proceeds to town to buy provisions. Mountaineers loafing around the store can not understand where wes got the money. Their suspicion are aroused. When Wes reaches home, Emily questions bim, but he, forcing a smile, says it is all The mountain over the them, town is thrown in a the capture of revenue officers. the officers state of two of their After attempts succeed in landing number by to rescue 4 few days later a friendly neighbor stops cabin and informs Emily that the monntaineers are accusing Wes of havirg in formed on the moonshiners Emily denies it. Then, where did he get the money? Finally Emily weakens. The neighbor warns her that better take their baby and go away, then Wes enters. He glances sus the neighbor, then at Emily, and is the matter Emily looks silently and he drops his eyes. The neighbor lewves Emily is weeping while Wes stands with howed head. Along the path leading to Wes, a bucket on his arm. or Just piciously at asks wiat at him the spring comes He carries a cocked rifle and looks cautiously around. From be hind the fence surrounding his little garden patch a figure rises cautiously. <A shot rings out Wes clutches at the rifle, staggers and fall?. A shudder passes over his form is lying with upturned staring at the blue sky made. He has paid the inexcrable law face and sightless eyes, above. The sacrifice is the penalty for breaking of the mountalns. % THE CARD BOARD lessons BABY.—Elsie neglects her and has her dollie taken away. Elsie’s dream—The fairy gives Elsie tue elixir of life. Elsie’s playmates are frightened. Fun with Mike, the gurdner. The Card Board Baby meets with an accident Elsie loses her tem per, and the fairy punishers her. Elsie awak | ens and resolves never to lose her temper again, { , ‘ place, and holds them there until the women Soothe py gon J ™ Speas Toure tt = have been w aited upon. A masher follows her | been fifteen years since I have beard from you. through the park and persists in om og Found your addrass in the directory. Am bring| “it _ wich ge ,bhe —— Bey SS _ jog my wife and daughter to take christmas him, throwing him into tae river. She m. 4 dinner with you. Your Brother. Bill.”’ jan attempted hold-up and captures a ac While they are discussing bow they will Hand abdnetor with scarcely an effort but she is | make the small chicken go around, Brother Bill —_ ee = bg — Be a and his family enter, followed by a chef from ou or ana aa _ pera “ae elope, the neighboring hotel bearing a huge tray laden ieee oy Bing though sh 4 as she scemmuliahot with turkey and side dishes. Bill is a_ prosoe an ot ig = eens great feats of bravery. Her feelings may well perous miner, and quick to see the signs of pov|), imagined when it is found that the mouse erty, he presses upon his brother as a_ gift chee a generons roll of bills. He engages Tom for Is only . mechanical or sees by om ee a handsome salary to go West with him and | J°bnoy in revenge for her refusal to let i take up an important position in the mines, The | 2° out end play. To cry over a real mouse wouk a 4 ' have been humiliating, but a clock-work af — Se Se Pe = ann _ fair—! Johnny is very, very sorry that he did Mr. Mehan. Ten o'clock and Mr. Mehan rages. Va wolhy} be Fe to mourn. The illusion Tom saunters in, taking great satisfaction in| ™ . discharging his employer. Brother Bill, in the background, enjoys the scene, and making hand JINKS, THE GROUCH.—Jinks Isa grouch some presents to the surpfised stenographer and | of the grouchiest sort. In the office he ts ofice, they leave the greedy Mehan speechless chy because his work keeps him after the with anger. rular hour, and on the way home he has sevaltercations with passers-by. As he comes up to his own house he finds that the gate, long EDISON | needing attention, has fallen from its hinges, ’ . and a loose board in the piazza floor flies up and A GIFT FROM SANTA CLAUS.—Capt. Lovell, | | ove beard in the plassa Geer G8 s @ young officer of the merchant marine, bids | (... wa gy Be tom Rg Bn the oer. ager g aA = ——. — Cape | Mad clear through, he enters to find that dinner aé wie scie 0 _ 8. ° 4 : ; —t. is not yet ready and Mrs. Jinks explains that ell 8 ship goes on the rocks. The school — she has had trouble with the stove because the aon noes —— = ae = | chimney needs to be repaired. Jinks storms and pes. jo cae to prone & *| stamps, bringing down a part of the ceiling. girl is compelled to do hard work about school. To "aiised his F seatiaae x. kicks at tha eat In the midst of her troubles Christmas season ith such violence taat he <ustains another tum arrives. The scene shifts to Santa Claus’ home, | ,). oo ; = The girl sends <@ ake te Sante Chaen. onnie | ble. The next morning he is advised that he is . heir to his uncle's fortune and gives up his po for ‘‘just some one to love her.’’ Santa Claus yg . . ~ es p ! him | | sition. He bnys an automobile, and telegraphs | reade the note. His powerful telescope is fo-| yi. wite to burn down the house when she sees | cused on a deserted island. It is the girl ®/ him coming in the car. as he will build a new father. When the girl wakes up Santa Claus | one. A telegram announces that a new will has vanishes, but her delight is great when she ob e |} been found, cutting him off, and Jinks, who serves her father in the room, and they are | has spent all his money celebrating, starts home happily reunited. | afoot. He is run down by an antomobile and + teken home. His wife follows instructions ico ters § > Ss grouc e A HAPPY ACCIDENT.—A wealthy young | |terally, nis old sob a es fady is traveling across the country on Christ. | a mas Eve, en route to her sister's home with a trunk full of presents. The engine of the KALEM. auto refuses to work when the journey is half rHE LAW OF THE MOUNTAINS.—A story completed. The chauffeur goes to a small cOt| ,¢ Ponnessee monntaineers. Wes Clayborne is tage nearby and inquires for the man of the love with Emily Harden, The first scene house. No one at home but two children. a girl chows him at the path leading to her home. of twelve and her little lame sister. The lady | yey meet. West finally musters up enough enters and finds a home in which poverty is tn | courage to aske her to become his wife. The evidence, The lady concludes to remain for | girl accepts. the night, and instructing the chauffeur to Five vears later. They still love each other bring In the trunk, helps the children prepare | dearly, but fortune has not been kind to them. supper, during the course of which she tells | pye baby fs sick, and Wes has fust recovered them of Santa Claus, She has the chauffeur cut}! trom a long fllness, so their little amount of a tree and decorates it with the presents Intend money is exhausted. Emily wants to still ed for her nieces. The mother returns at this | criss of the baby, pleks up the medicine bottle juncture, and being informed of the IntePtons | woe tt is empty. of the lady enters into the Christmas spirit with | credit Is gone, Wes resolves to go to the doca will. tor and appeal for aid. + On his way he meets two moonshiners riding in a dilapidated wagon. Both | are under the THE MISCHIEVOUS ELF.—An elf on mis| Influence of moonshine whisky, which forms chief pent enters a room in which a young man} part of the wagon's contents. Wes tells them is making love to his sweetheart. The elf | hix story. They offer him a drink. He takes transfers the couple, still seated on the bench, | fr. They invite him over to their still, across the room in front of the door just as the 3 inform ing him of Its location. the | They have no money and thelr | The men drive on and | girl's father enters He stumbles. The young |) Wes proceeds to the doctor's office. He makes man fs accused and ordered away. When the | a desperate appeal, but Is refused becanse pre father and the girl are alone they see the elf. | vious hills are unpald. Dejectedly be turns his They rush out of the house and overtake the | steps homeward young man. The father offers his daughter's | A revenue agent named Jim Weston has been hand to the young man If he can get the elf | watehing his acts and has overhead part of his | out of the house. The young man invokes the} conversation with the doctor. He questions | ald of a friendly witch. She gives him a bag | Wes. Reticent at first he finally tells the whole of magic, and Instructs him to lay a trail into story. The revenue man asks Wes if he would @ large box. When the elf followed the trafl| like to make any money. At the sight of moninto this box, the young man was to nail him ev Wes involuntarily reaches forward. Weston a and throw him overboard. Her directions ate | shows his badge. Wes recoils. The revenne followed, and the elf disposed of to the satis-| men confidentially tells him that he Is trying faction of the father. to locate a still In the neighborhood and offers } little BIOGRAPH. A CORNER IN WHEAT.—From the barn they start and with the grain sack bung from | their shoulders, two bent and knotted forms ure seen trudging wearily over the plowed ground their arms swinging in perfect cbhronometry with a slight gush of wheat grain pouring forth at each advance of the arm. In this scene we find the genesis of one of the mammoth imiustries of the earth. The foundation of life, for it is the foundation of the bread of life. What a contrast is shown in the office of the Wheat King surrounded by his lieutenants, waiting for the word as he engineers the great corner, whereby he will obtain absojute control of the entire product, net only of the present, but the future toiling of the poor sowers Into the wheat pit on the ‘‘charge’’ we go, and there find a struggling mob of brokers with their all slowly but surely melting under the blast of the King’s determination. At length the battle is won, and the King stands majestically amid the wrecked fortunes. Here is the gold of the wheat. He is lauded for his acumen, wined and dined and regarded as a man among men, little thinking of the misery and suffering his sv celled senius has induced. Ali! that is the chaff of the wheat. The baker is obliged to pay twice as much as formerly for ; his flour and #0 minst charge twice as much for the loaf. Consequently, many a poor scul must go hungry. Furthermore the bread fund for the poor is cut down. and many a shivering wretch stands in the line only to be denied bread when his tura comes There is no vengeance possible here but the band of God, and God’s vengeance when wreaked is terrible and unconditional, and one of the sins that cries to heaven for vengeance is denying food to the hungry. ‘This ery is heard and as the King is showing his | friends through the evelators into the bins of | whieh are flowing the steady stream of his | golden grain, he trips and falls into one of the hins and is buried. He has been cailed before his God to answer. + IN TH® HEMPEN BAG —Here is one oceasien in whig ptting of the ‘‘eat out of the bag’’ almost ted in an awful calamity. The honse ext has become such a nuisance that the mistress decides It shall be drowned. To this end she secures 4a bag, ties the feline pest in it and dispatches the maid for the old deaf cordener to take it to the river and throw it in. Meanwhile the mistress has discovered the nurse drunk, and discharges her. The children, finding their pet tied up in the bag, let it out und carry ft away to hide. The nurse, perturbed at her dismissal, to get even conceives the idea tu hide the baby, and seeing the empty pag. heing ignorant of Its destination, pnts the in fant in it and ties it up. The deaf gardener enters and carries the bag off. making his way to the river. On the way he meets a couple of hors with a rifle who upon learning the con tents of the bac. heg the old man to let them have a shot at ft. To this he consents, but the xun jams and won't work. so thy men proceels en mis way. At the nouse there fs a panic in the endeavor to find the bahy until the presence of the cat tells them the Impending danger Ty this time the bag ts bronght to the river, bunt the bers run up just »s the old man ifs ahont to throw it over. They have adjusted the rifle and bee for another chance, The ata man tells them he will open the bag and they mey shoot as the eantive inmps ont. You nay imogine their surprise when instead of 2 eat they find a babr. tnst es the distracted terror-stricken mother rushes up. *% THE TEST.—This snbfect presents episode in the Wright family. bed for a time, another bnt he wriggles ont. Harry ts starting on a business trip and Resste fs sad, | | bnt he makes the big promise, showing her a photo of herself In his Dill ease, which shall ever be before him. As he trrns to frsten his grip wifer extracts the photo. handing him the closed ease, with the expression. “‘We shall see,”” Prtting the ease In his pocket, he de ports. Next we find him at the hotel of an other town enforing with convivial soclety, a game of draw. Ah. he mnst not ferget » letter to wifey. fool., that her picture fs now before him. When ~Pesste reads this. she storms. ‘‘What a filk: IT thon¢eht so.” She writes him of trap she set, and when he looks at the ense now for the first time. he ts flabbergasted. “Now I'm in for ft. Ah, an idea.” He tele (Continued on page 32.) and he | Wheat | debris of | Herry gets fn} He tells her how lonesome he | the | THERE’ REASON (With Apologies to Postum) Why the Exchange Man who buys our COMPLETE Program don’t have to He has no trouble in getting customers. The WIDE-AWAKE exhibitor DEMANDS it and will patronize the Exchange worry. which can supply it. Program Week of December 13 THE BEGGAR'S GRATITUDE (Drama by Ambrosio) MR. LYVENEMUP’S ELIXIR (Comedy by Raleigh & Robert) COMRADES UKDER GRANT (Drama by Carson) DOTTYNOB'S DOUBLE (Comedy by Duskes) BEETHOVEN (Drama by Eclair) SURPRISE OF PROF. SHORT SIGHT (Comedy by Raleigh & Robert) A TRIP TO THE ARCTIC (Scenic by Raleigh & Robert) THE SMUGGLER’S SWEETHEART (Drama by Comerio) THE RAGMAN Buys what stuff is no longer fit for the use it was intended. THE’ JUNK EXCHANGE is the ragman of the picture business—he buys up old films that have been worn out and discarded by the dealer in New Goods. MR. EXHIBITOR Do you take service from the ragman? Or do you patronize the exchange that can supply new pictures—our pictures—our complete program? If you are not making money it’s your own fault. Quit the ragman—that’s the secret. Patronize the exchange that will give you our complete program. | DOES RIP VAN WINKLE LIVE NEAR YOU? FILM IMPORT AND TRADING COMPANY 127 E. 23rd Street, New York | | j | '