The Billboard 1911-01-14: Vol 23 Iss 2 (1911-01-14)

ee we on — < gar nor gt : CRONE 6 RR LS Age 26 JANUARY 14, 1911. SEEN ON THE SCREEN Brief Outlines of Stories Told in the Latest Productions of the Patents and Sales Companies—Release Dates and Lengths of Subjects Are Given PATENTS CO. ESSANAY. THE SOPHOMORE’S ROMANCE (comedy drama; released Jan. 11; length 1,000 feet).— The show of which Lit tle Flora Wiggins is a member, arrives at a college town where catastrophe awaits them. A crowd of freshmen cause such a | disturbance that the curtain is rung down, which unfortunate incident, coupled with a streak of bad luck which has preced d it, leaves the company stranded. One of the freshmen, Curtis, seeing Little Flora, becomes fascinated with her. He makes apologies for his fellow students’ misbehavior, and offers to lend aid by having the college a performance. The offer is t That night the house is filled to overtlowing. After the curtain has descended Curtis seeks ont the company’s manager and then Flora. The girl expresses her thanks in a grateful handclasp and with shining eyes which hold for him something more than all the words she could utter. Flora decides to go home and tells Curtis so. Curtis volunteers to see her to her train, and when she is not looking, purchases a ticket for Flora’s town. He follows her to her home, where, to her great surprise, he makes his appearance, confesses his love, and wins the consent of mother and daughter. glee club give gladly accepted. KALEM. HER CHUM’S BROTHER (drama; release Jan. 18; length ——).—Elisie and her Cuban room-mate, Martica, are chums at a finishing school. Martica comes home from school, and sees a picture of Elsie and immediately proceeds to fall in love with it. Learning that Elsie’s father, who} operates an orange grove in Florida, needs a gaged. handsome Cuban, and not being aware that he is her chum’s brother, and seeing him as her | father’s foreman, she at arm’s length. Pascale, however, loses no) opportunity to show his love for Elsie, and not being repulsed, attempts to take her heart by storm. Realizing the situation, Elsie asks her father to send * away, suggesting that she visit her schoolmate, Martica, On her arrival, Martica at once that Elsie is there. prosecutes his suit to a successful ending. ROBBIE AND THE REDSKINS (drama; release Jan. 20; length ———).—Something has gone wrong with the works of the old Grand | father’s clock, and they are taken out by Robbie’s father, who attempts to get them in running | shape. The job not being completed that night, the next day Robbie crawls into the clock to play a joke on his sister. for the prank, during the absence of father and mother, a band of redskins makes a descent on the cabin. Robbie hearing their approach, hides in the clock. While the Indians are in one of the rooms of the cabin, Robbie steals out and fastens the door, then takes up his position in in Cuba. writes the clock to watch developments. In the meantime, Robbie’s sister, becoming aware of the situation, rides for help. Soon the neighbors reach the cabin, and a sharp battle ensues between the redskins and the white men, the whites winning. On looking for Robbie, he is found fast asleep in the old fashioned clock. PATHE FRERES. THE EVILS OF BETTING (drama; released Jan. 9; length ——).— Elsa Norton is engaged to Herbert Darrell, a man of excellent disposition, but with a fatal propensity to gamble. He receives a reliable tip to put all he has on a horse, Alma II, that runs that afternoon. He is tempted to enter Mrs. Norton’s house unseen, and to take a roll of bills from her desk, thinking that he can repay it after the race. Alma II is beaten, and the theft discovered. Darrell had dropped his pocketbook when entering the house, and confronted with it, he cannot but confess his guilt. Bitter, indeed, for be knows that henceforth he and Elsa must be strangers. IN THE LAND OF THE MONKEYS While getting ready | | leased Jan ‘and finally Pascale | | foreman, he applies for the position, and is en| Elsie is unconsciously attracted by the | is inclined to keep him | to her brother | Pascale quickly follows and | | Officer Smith, Jeanette's lover, taking it to the police station, puts it in his locker for safe keeping. Hardly has he done so when Officer Swat stows away another pretty slipper in his locker. The slipper in the possession of the last named officer was lost by an actress, and when she discovers the loss, things begin to happen, for, stowed away in the toe is all her jewelry. Detective is assigned to the case, but it is baffling until, upon going with Smith to call on Jeanette, what should he see but the missing slipper. Jeanette is arrested, the actress is summoned, Detective Reegan, Sergeant Doyle, Officers Smith and Swat all get mixed in a funny situation. DUSTY RHODES TAKES A FLIGHT (comedy; released Jan. 11; length ).—The newest thing in aeroplanes. Dusty flies with a pinwheel, a bicycle, a hat box, and two suit boxes, and he flies some. SO NEAR BUT NOT QUITE (comedy; released Jan. 13; length ——-).—A thief is wanted by the police. He seizes a bicycle and rides off. The cop does likewise. They are experts on the wheel. Pedestrians are knocked down and ridden over, and various other most wonderful tricks are performed. Finally the wliceman is knocked over by finds it, and he thief carries him to the station house and is rewarded for his services. MAX IS ALMOST MARRIED (comedy; re 13; length Max is about to marry an -heiress, who keeps several iarge dogs, who see in Max a rival to her affections. They have been locked up for the wedding, caping from their kennel, go for poor Max just as the ceremony is about to begin. He certainly has great trouble to get away from them, be devoured by her dogs. THE BATTLE AT REDWOOD (drama; released Jan. 14; length ——).—The Indian Agent at Redwood sells his entire commissary to a cavalcade of settlers driving across the plains It has been a hard year, and the Indians have been compelled to eat their very dogs for sustenance. Many are starving. Grey Elk, a Cheyenne, is saved from étarvation through the kindness of Prudence, the niece of Father Laurent, at the Mission House. When the Sioux find that they have been swindled, they scalp the agent and take the warpath. Across the prairies traiis the long line of settlers. The Indians pursue them, and the settlers make every effort to escape, but finally draw their prairie schooners up in a circle, and make a last stand. Hope is gone, when a detachment of cavalry, summoned by Grey Elk, are put to rout. EDISON. THE TEST OF FRIENDSHIP (drama; released Jan. 10; length 1,000 feet).—Tom | and Jim are in love with the | same lady. Tom believes that Jim is the successful one | and though hard hit, takes the blow like a man; but the supreme test of friendship comes when Jim, who bas a quarrel with a truck driver on the top of a huge sky structure, is knocked unconscious and is hung out over the sidewalk twenty-two stories below. Tom is called upon to save Jim’s life at the risk of his own. metal of the man. air, Tom and Jim, It is a test that proves the There they swing in mid clinging together at this dizzy height. The rescue and the winning of the girl by Tom gives a touch of human nature to the close of this melodramatic picture. THE HOME OF THE SEAL (descriptive; released Jan. 11; length 300 feet).—This is a series of views taken at close range of the harbor seals on the Palmonias Islands, off the coast of Peru. A short section of the film at the beginning shows some views of the fishermen of Ancon, Peru, sailing and racing in their little craft with the very curious lateen rig. THE GARDENER’S LADDER (comedy; leased Jan. 11; father, chancing to see a young man proposing to his daughter, he becomes infuriated, orders the young man away and locks his daughter in her room. The father, very much agitated over the distressing state of affairs, repairs to the garden for a walk and over a ladder which the gardener has placed | against the balcony adjoining his daughter's room. Seeing the position of the ladder, he immediately jumps to the conclusion § that daughter has eloped, and without investigation he rushes off in a most excited manner in search of her. He belabors a man whom he mistakes for his daughter's sweetheart, later to find it a case of mistaken identity and that his daughter did not elope but had remained in ber room. The young lover, taking advantage of the situation, threatens to have the old man arrested for assault and battery unless allowed to wed his daughter. The stern old father is Reegan | both | an automobile. | but es| prefers to give up his heiress than | arrives, | and the tide of battle changes, and the Indians | re| length 700 feet).—A stern old | almost stumbles | his | To please your MO FECT PICTURES. START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT by installing a perfect moving icture machine. patrons you must PROJECT PERThere is only one PERFECT TION PICTURE MACHINE. . Power’s No. 6 } In ONE year since the‘introduction of this wonderful machine it has become the favorite of exhibitors and operators. Its sales now exceed those of any ‘| WO other American moving picture machines—and we can prove it. 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