The Billboard 1911-03-25: Vol 23 Iss 12 (1911-03-25)

cow saa oils die ae ps i ' : | | ' | | i ee 26 Tne Billboard MARCH 25, 1911. FILM SYNOPSES Brief Outlines of Stories Told in the Latest Productions of the Patents and Sales Companies—Release Dates and Lengths of Subjects Are Given om PATENTS CO. BIOGRAPH. THE LONEDALE OPERATOR | (Drama; released March 23; | length, 998 feet).—Lonedale was | the most isolated spot in the Western country. The principal | reason for its being on the| railroad map as a _ stopping | place was the fact that it is| the location of a ge ee mine. The station is in charge ef an old operator and his daughter, who take | turns at the keys. The young engineer who mskes the run between Lonedale and civilization is the sweetheart of the operator's daughter, and upon receiving his call upon this particular day he escorts her to the station, where, finding her father suffering from a nervous headache, @he takes his place at the key after bidding good-bye to her sweetheart as he mounts into the cabin of his engine and rolls away. As her father leaves he discovers that his revolver is out of order and takes it with him to fix it, mever dreaming that the girl might have occasion to use it. The old operator has forgotten, however, that it is the first of the) month, and the day on which a large sum of | money is expressed to the station from the city | Office of the Lonedale Mining Company for the | yroll. The girl is apprised of this shipment | by telegraph from the express messenger where the shipment is made. The train pulls in and @he receives the bag of money. Two tramps sec thie delivery and assuming that the girl is in charge, get off to take their chances of getting the money. The windows all being heavily barred they make for the back door, which the 1, hearing an unusual noise, hastens to lock. ey break through this door and two more fmner doors that she had locked, but in the meantime she has telegraphed for help and her lover is dispatched at once on his engine to rescue the girl. He gets there just as the tramps break in the last door and finds the girl holding them at bay with a nickle plated monkey wrench which the tramps, in the moonlight, mistake for a gun. TEACHING DAD TO LIKE HER (Comedy; released March 20; length, 995 feet.)—Harry fs in love with Dolly, the show girl, and knowing that he has to get Dad’s consent before he can get married, he proposes to Dolly with the understanding that he first gain the governor’s sanction. When approached on the subject his father stoutly refuses to hear of such an alliance, simply because she is a show girl. In desperation the boy hits upon a scheme to win this father’s consent which seems good to both lovers. The boy induces the governor to take a stroll around the grounds and they are to meet Dolly quite by accident. Then the introduction. The scheme works to perfection and the boy leaves Dolly with his father, using some subterfuge to take himself away. Dad at first refuses even to look at the girl, but her pleading at last brings him around to at least argue the matter. The upshot of the whole affair is that Dad himself becomes infatuated with the ty show girl, and when his son approaches on the subject the next day is informed, much to his astonishment, that the girl he ioved fs to become his mother in marriage. The ernor baving beat the young man to it. PRISCILLA’S APRIL FOOL JOKE (Comedy; Teleased March 27; length, 686 feet).—Priscilla and Paul, who are in love, attend a lawn party and several of their friends, in a spirit of fun, echeme to interfere with their tete-a-tete, which they indulge in shortly after they arrive. Panl | and his lady love are sitting on a bench in a secluded spot and he is reading to her; while he is reading she steals away to gather some ers with which to eurprise him. Alice and Henry are viewing this from afar and when Priscilla has gone Alice conceives the idea of taking her place. Priscilla returns to find Alice sitting with Paul and accuses him of flirting. Alice, seeing her joke has gone far enough, explains her little joke. Priscilla and Paul, wishing to turn the joke on them, go to the seashore close by and, writing some notes of farewell, place them with their discarded hats and coats on the shore. Their friends, missing them and finding the notes and clothes on the @hore, are horrified to think that they would do such a thing. When the jokers at last decide to show themselres the joy and surprise of their friends amply repay them for their embarrassment in the early part of the day. On the same reel with Cured. CURED (Comedy; length, 308 feet).—-This film shows how a man with the gont is cured. but the cure is almost too strenuous. The picture is a big laugh all the way through. KOSMIK. THE MONEY LENDER (Drama; released March 22; length, 688 feet).—The precarious nature of their calling places the fisher-folk at the mercy of a money-lender, and more than one family is dependent on a good haul to keep themselves out of his clutches, The fishing fleet departs and its return is anxiously awaited by the women folk on the quay. Alas! the harvest of the sea is seanty and the fisher-folk are seriously impoverished to meet the demands of the village shylock. One little honsehold—that of Jean end his wife and son—is broken up. but the money-lender in his house is counting bis gains, careless of the human suffering they have cost. Suddenly he sees a vision of Jean gazing at him with accusing face. He rushes from the house, turning his steps toward the cliffs. To his disordered imagination the villagers seem to be pursuing him with menaces. He steps back affrighted, falls over the cliffs and meets bis doom. CUPID'S CONQUEST (Comedy; released March 25; length, 595 feet).—Nicette, the daughter of an old colonel, loves Dorante. Her love is returned, and Dorante asks the colonel for his daughter's hand but ia rejected. Now & little statue of Cupid comes to life, and by bringing to the old soldier's memory numerous scenes from his own youthful days, persuades the officer to lightful allow scenes are the wedding. Many de shown from the later life In all Cupid reigns supreme. PATHE FRERES. THE KID FROM ARIZONA (Drama; released March 25; length, 1,000 feet).—The hero of this story arrives at a_ local saloon just in time to prevent a half drunken bully from teasing a pretty In dian maid. Of course, the bully resents his interference and blusters about the fact that the kid had a gun and he has none; 60 the kid promptly leads the man outside and handing his gun to a bystander promptly beats him to a pulp with his fists. The Indian girl in her of the two. anxiety to show her gratitude in some gift to her hero steals some money from the general store in the village and, wrapping it in her handkerchief, presents it to him This hand kerchief is one that the kid had given her some | time previous and when the officers of the law on a search for the stolen money, find it, suspicion naturaily faus on the kid. Rather than allow the girl to suffer he admits a guilt which is really not his and makes a wild dash for liberty, but is finally caught and about to be | swung up in real Western style, when the In| dian maid arrives and tells her story just time to save him from the noose. most thrilling and to finish. MAX IS STUCK (Comedy; released March 20; length, 460 feet).—Max is invited to a dinner party. On his way he stops at the baker's to secure a few choice confections, and while there steps on a piece of sticky fly paper. With great solicitude the baker asks Max to sit down while he removes the offending bit of paper. self upon a similar piece of paper which is on the chair. This, too, is removed by the now excited baker, but Max manages to carry off with him a nice large, sticky piece fastened on his sleeve. This he discovers at his sweetheart’s home and in endeavoring to remove it, he gets it feet. Nobody but a contortionist could ever get rid of those terrible pieces of paper, and to add to Max's misery, when he gets to the table he finds that having picked up his fork he cannot get loose of it. His glass, too, sticks to his hands and when his future father-in-law passes him a platter, Max cannot let loose and the entire party gets embroiled over who ehall have the platter. Any one who has seen Max can readily understand that this comedy film is a scream from start to finish. On the same reel with Tommy’s Wit Worked. HOW TOMMY’S WIT WORKED (Comedy; length,462 feet).—An exceptionally good comedy, showing how a ready wit is sometimes one’s best asset. THE CATTLE RUSTLERS (Drama; released March 22; length, 1.000 feet).—Bob Straters, foreman of Colonel Damby’s ranch, discharges a couple of cowpunchers, who swear to be avenged. These two rustle some of the cattle belonging to Mr. Morgan, the father of the girl Bob loves, and so arrange things that Bob is suspected of the crime. Although innocent, things look so bad for Bob that he decides to leave that section of the country and writes a letter to his sweetheart, asking that she elope with him. She consents to do this, but when she and Rob are ont talking things over, the real culprits enter his honse and steal the little money he has been able to save. They are seen and followed by Myrtle Morgan’s little sister, who discovers where the money is hidden by the two cattle rustlers. and securing it she rides for her life towards Bob’s house. She arrives just in time, and Bob, who has in the meantime discovered his loss, swings out of the door and drops one man in his tracks. The other succeeds in escaping, but the wounded man lives long enough to confess his crime and, of course, Bob and his sweetheart live happily ever afterward. LIEUTENANT’S LIEBE (Drama: released March 24; length, 1,000 feet).—A lieutenant in the German army is completely infatuated with the daughter of a noncommissioned officer and she reciprocates his tender feeling, though she is engaged to a young fellow who is away at school. She is greatly surprised and somewhat at a loss to know what course to pursue when she receives word from her fiance that he is about to return, having completed his course at the military academy, and she decides that a course of deception is the only way to shield both herself and the man she loves. This leads to great complications and finally in a duel which results in a court martial in which both of the men involved try to shield the name of the girl they love. The situation is tense and the court has reached the point where it has about decided to punish both men when a letter is received from the girl herself asking.to be heard. She tells her story and saves the young men from disgrace, but her reward is only to find that the man she loves can never marry her because of her father’s rank. | LUBIN. THE SPINSTER'S LEG ACY (Comedy; released March 2; length, 606 feet). —Priscilla was known as an old maid and the grocery store loafers made fun of her. But Si didn't. He was in love with Priscilla, | but was too bashful to say so. One day Priscilla re ceived a letter stating that she had been left $10,000 | by the will of an uncle. Then she had plenty of ad mirers. S. came too, was too bashful to produce much effect. When another letter arrived stating that a mistake , had been made and Priscilla would not get the This Max does, but unfortunately deposits him| legacy the feelings of Jed, Lem and Abe cooled Then Si proposed and was accepted just before a third letter came announcing that the legacy was Priscilla’s. On the same reel with Bridget and the Egg. BRIDGET AND THE EGG (Comedy; length, 400 feet).—Little Willie has lots of fun fooling the hired girl, but pays for it in the end by a much-deserved whipping. HER CHILD'S HONOR (Drama; March 27; length, 1,000 feet).—Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her husband, recovering from a epree, treated her disappearance as a joke and soon went with his company to the Philippines. Meantime a doctor at hospital had fallen in love with the young wife and, when news came that her husband had released BARGAINS IN FILMS AND SONG SLIDES—1™ | reela film, elegant condition, $7 per reel and up: 5O sets song slides, perfect condition, $1.75 per |} set, with music, Send postal for lists. Good | film service furnished at lowest prices in the | South. Supplies. Bargains in new and second | hand M. P. machines and gas-making outfits. j P. 0. BOX 305, New Orleans, La. 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