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

MARCH 25, 1911. rhe Billboard 41 ith The Beautiful Valley of Wye, England, a sconie picture that is pleasing without being in any way sensational. BEAUTIFUL GORGES OF TARN. Scenic. Released March 11. The photography and coloring in this film are exclusive. It's one of the rare instances where the manufacturer of a motion picture fifa bas improved on nature. Looking at the pieture, one gets all the atmosphere of the real thing. The picture Is worthy of presentation in every motion pleture theatre that has any aesthetics at «ll among its clientele. HI8 FIRST SWEETHEART. Gaumont. Comedy. Released March 11. Length 560 feet. Gaumont, The youngest ncipal of the Gaumont comedy is used again in this film. He is a little genius, bis acting is clever, and his work is sure to please all classes and conditions of motion picture theatre patrons, The plot is too fimsy for analysis. This film is on the same reel with The Beautiful Gorges of Tarn. HOW BELLA WAS WON. Edison. Comedy. Released March 10. This is an excerpt from Chas. Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend. It embodies the germ of the story, and the Edison Co. has put it on with « preservation of atmosphere and a fidelity to the Dickens chiiracters that make the film worthy of a higher place than the Edison Mfg. Co. itself evidently gave it. It has not been advertised as a feature film at all, but it's worthy of feature consideration. All who are familiar with the plot of our mutual friend remember how the young man is not going to take the girl for man who has robbed him and placed bis purse in hie own pockets. Afterwards it {s washed ashore, while the thief having been drowned, ‘a identified as the man he has robbed. The «tory is further complicated by the young man's father baving will that he is to inherit his fortune only on condition that he shall marry | Bella Wilfer. Now, like other heroes of books, | the young man is noit going to take the girl for anted, so he takes advantage of his reported | death and goes to board with her people. Of course his own servants inherit the fortune, and he takes a position with them as secretary. Miss Rella is invited to share their luxury, and having heen translated into aMuence she spurns the man «he has erstwhile pretended to love After the eristocrat has been recognized by his personal | employers, his quondam servants, he arranges @ith them to have them pretend to distress him with reproaches and severe reprebension. Of course thie wing the girl over. She comes out in ber true colors, and all ends happily. It was Oleken's genius for depicting the inmost charecteristics of the middie classes so they would appeal universally that made Our Mutua) Friend possible at all. The Edison Co. has preserved all = and tbe Gim ¢etands forth in all its ae = RED EAGLE. Vitagraph. Drame Rel ; Beres il. e_ ® Indian superstitution, the a arance ced eagle betokens {11 omen ns — + this principal the Vitagraph Company has worked out the story that embraces the emment of thelr Indian wardrobe and proples. The story is a frail inconsequential | thing, and there is nothing tn the execution of | 't to warrant review. This is not to say that the film is not of inferior merit. neither is it wat of mediocity. There is a certain atmosphere about it, however, that appeals to the “ative American and the foreigner who {s in-| terested in Indian lore and Indian life. as it! Was lived to the early days of the white set SALES CO. CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEW BRUNSWICK. Solax. Scenic. Released March 10. 500 feet. Split reel. The moment that this picture is thrown on the screen one ts i with the grandeur of the winter season in Canada. All the beauty of the Canadian forests in the winter Is very clearly shown in this picture. The mode and manner of living of the woodsman and the huntsemen; their camp life; their method of procuring food for themselves in the winter; their ‘ong tramps through the deep snow on snow shoes and their manner of killing wild caribou and dressing it for food. The pieture jamps a little in places but this is due to the efforts of the camera man to follow e filght of the eartbou through the snow. is often bard “nough to get a look at wild caribou with a gun and much more so with a moving picture ma— is a pletane, however, an! an excellent idea of this winter “port of Canada. = ®UT OUT. Solax. Comedy. Released h 10. 450 feet. Split’ reel. This picture might more ap riately be called “thrown out."” Husband Punkle po to town as usual, on business, and handsome Harry immediately gets busy making love to his wife. complications that follow are many and some of them really funny. There is introduced & comedy plumber who has been called in to fix the plumbing in the kitchen but who at once commences making violent love to the cook, Funkle, who has returned to the house to get his keys, is met by Handsome Harry and thrown out of the second-story window on his neck, Some very good comedy is provided by the plumber and the cook. The second-story window In this ‘quiet’ little apartment works overtime, for Funkle is thrown out of here three times and Handsome Harry once f . cillation is reached, : Sees AN UNFORESEEN INTRODUCTION, Kelair, Released Mareh 3. reel, Comedy. 410 feet. Another case of a titled foreigner who wants to marry into a rich American family with olenty money. Accompanied by bis mother the baroness, they start for the home of easy money, but the baron, whe is a very fickleminded Individual, gets smitten on a pretty } ce which ts passing just as they are enter ng the automodile, and in a moment when the haroness is not looking he jumps from the auto and madly pursues her. Te follows her on a shopping tour and in order te get better ac quainted diaguises himself as ai porter and gees to her home to deliver the packages she a8 purchased, Not meeting with any encour agement he is kicked down in the cellar, where has an encounter with the servant and after being additionally beaten up by her ts at tacked by the other members of the family un2. Ls {le discovered that he ts the future son | A BTORMY DAY. Comedy. Eclair. Released March 13. 430 feet. Split reel. . There are are introduced into this picture many novel rain effects some of which are very well handled. The efforts of a weary traveler to keep dry on a rainy day form the plot for the comedy of this picture. And it is comedy pure and simple for some of the en counters that this poor fellow has are really amusing. There is also a couple of comedy gendarmes who add considerable to the laughing qualities of this film. The low comedy is a little over done at times but is quite allowable in a picture of this kind for it was intended for laughing purposes only, and in this respeci bas gained its point. WAS IT WORTH WHILE? Released March 18. Of course a women has always been con ceded the privilege of changing her mind as often as she cared to and no questions asked. but why Is it that a man bas never been allowed the same courtesy? And this film does not answer. Mr. Foster leaves bis home and his little country sweetheart and goes to the city, where he at once secures a position in a large real estate office. He soon ingratiates himself into the good graces of his employer to such an extent that he is invited to his home whereupon he soon falls in love with the eldest daughter. Father drops in and witness a very pretty little love ecene, after which Ned ask-= him for the hand of bis daughter in marriage Meanwhile Ned's letters to his little country sweetheart have grown fewer and fewer since his infatuation with the more fashionable city girl. The announcement is made in the papers that Miss Helen Eldridge is soon to marry Mr. Ned Foster. In the meeting between the two girls and Ned in the final scene there is some very good dramatic acting and good. clear photography. But the question still remains. was it worth while? Drama. Nestor. Length 1,000 feet. A COUNTRYMAN’S ADVENTURES IN TOWN. Comedy. Ambrosio. Released Mareb 15 About 500 feet. Split reel. There is nothing new or original in the stor) | which forms the basis of the excuse for this picture. It narrates the adventures of a coun tryman, who comes to town and has considerable trouble to keep on his feet on the slippery sidewalks In the city. The acrobatic comedian who does all the work in this picture, deserves e word of praise for the hard work that he does for the whole success of the picture depends on him. The burlesque aviation scene is a little far-fetched and the idea of falling through the roof of a house and dropping in on the dining table of a well-appointed family. all set | for dinner, is a little strained, but contains | low comedy enongh to make it interesting and | entertaining. | ' | A COWARD. Drama Am brosix Keleased | March 15. About 400 feet. Split reel Aside from the military interest this picture | has little in it to commend it. Military scenes | of any kind always have a certain fascination | about them and men of any nationality in| uniform are always interesting and will always | inspire a certain amount of enthusiasm in an | audience, for some there will be in every audience that will always recognize and ap| plaud their countrymen. The story is rather | Vague and hard to follow at times. } THE SACRIFICE OF SILVER CLOUD. Drama. Bison. } There is always something picturesque and | inspiring about an American Indian on horse| back, and pictures of this kind are always | sure to please, for they stir up a _ certain amount of patriotism within us that will held our attention and we will always find ourselves very much interested while we are watching a picture of this kind. Good horses and goo’ horseback riding satre aigo features that wil! interest any audien ho is there that doex not love a beautiful ™ and in this picture we have berses by en. There is action in abundance and af fifty people appearing © scene at the same | larly well acted. | throughont the action. <A | accounts, there are at least | | place will time and the most these on horseback Much on the wild w er: this picture should prove very popu © for it ts a corking | good film. oe STARLIGHT’S DEVOTION. Drama. Bison. This is another of those masterly Bison pic tures in which we find enough to action and adventure please the most critical of moving audiences. We have a regiment of American cavalry in action with many scenes, showing their life while in camp, drilling, skirmishing maneuvering. and a court martial scene whic! is very impressive. We have also a band of American Indians in their war paint and feathers. We have an abundance of good horseback riding and feats of horsemanship by the In dians, with scenes depicting their camp life on the plain, the burning of a deserting private at the stake and the Indian war dance, whicl always is a part of this heathen ceremony. THE HAREM SKIRT. Full length reel. It remained for the enterprising Amertean Film Company to make the first use that w: have seen of the now famous Harem Skirt fo moving picture purposes. And they certainly have produced a winner, and one that shoul! be popular long after the present fad has been laid away. A lady, who finds little enjoyment in reading magazines or books. suddenly di verts her attention te the morning newspaper and there reads that the Harem Skirt is creat Comedy. American. ing a sensation in Paris fashion. She at once starts for her dressmaker, and there is meas ured for this latest creation in lady's dress An extra force of dressmakers are put to work to rush this out as soon as possible, and it is completed in three days and found to be a porte fit. So enthusiastic is the lady to be he first In town to appear in the new Harem skirt that she wears it home from the dress maker's and has the old one sent home. She at once starts for the most ultra fashionable street, there to be admired and eriticized. She is soon followed by any number of street ur chins and newsboys and the crowd grows ip number and curiosity until she Is finally com pelled to make her escape in an automobile On reaching home she finds that she is now late for an engagement and will not have tim» te change her clothes. She keeps the appoint ment and displays the latest fad te a party of about ten young ladies, who are admiring her very much when a mouse fs seen to cross she stands boldly tn the middle of floor and laughs at them as the mouse cativdo her no the floor and while all the rest +: chairs. erm, © other advantages of t new skirt | Erin. are demonstrated in climbing down fire es capes, dancing and crossing legs, man-fashion. This is one Of the best pictures we have seen for many a day and the work of the leading woman was excellent. THE FIELD OF HONOR. L Comedy. American Film Company. Full length reel, While Dick is quietly seated in the parlor making love to his sweetheart, two old army officers enter and each in their turn try to engage the attention of the young lady. much to Dick’s disgust. He thereupon decides to have a little fun with his two old rivals. Accordingly, be goes to Colonel Cannonball and demands satisfaction for the sceme of the evening before. Dick writes a letter to Captain Blowbard that a duel has been arranged for to-morrow. This challenge is accepted. Dic: then enlists the services of several of his friends to help him carry out his practical joke. A brace of revolvers is secured and each is loaded with blank cartridges and tobasco pep per sauce. The contestants are then hustled to the field of honor. Here the duel is fought, and each thinking himself shot when he hears the report of the other’s revolver, falls to the greund in dying agony until they are informed by their seconds of the practical joke that has been played upon them. They then return to the house, where they find Dick and his sweet heart and all is forgiven and forgotten. COME BACK TO ERIN. Drama. leased March 14. This film is hardly up to the usual standard of excellence set by the Powers people. are, however, many clever things in this picture. The opening scene showing the barnyard of an Irish peasant family with its hens and chickens and hogs all reaming leisurely about the place, is very well worked out. and is all very typical of Irish peasant life. the richest lady in the land has become the mistress of Blarney Castle. The celebrating of this event affords ample scope for much demonstration om the part of the peasants and we see plenty of action while they are dancing Irish reels and jigs and having a good time generally. This is a picture that will please Powers. Re There | Molly Bawn, | vocating ‘‘free Ireland.”” Not daunted by this, however, he goes at once to Fra@mce and presente himself at the court of Napoleon and in as petition which he bears with him, solicits the aid of France to help bim free his native country. His mission here fails and he returns to Ireland, where he meets his sweetheart, who gives him new courage and presents him with a little hand-worked flag of his native soil. He immediately calls for volunteers and enlists an entire regiment under his leadership and leads an advance on Dublin Castle in which he is ignominiousty defeated, and forced to seek shelter in the woods. He is soon discovered here and captured and found guilty of high treason, and sentenced to death on the gallows. He marches to the scaffold, kissing the flax of old Ireland. ‘He had lived for his love— for his country he died.’’ The final scenes of this pieture require a large company of people, and the excellent way in which the groupings are arranged and the masterly way in which the mob is handled. make this a very impres sive picture. THE SECRET OF THE PALMS. Drama. Released March 13. Full length. Cuba, where the Imp stock company is now located, affords scenes for many interesting moving pictures. The quaint old building of Spanish architecture, the beautiful tropica! forests, the palm groves and the fishing scenes | along the water front, all help to make the | Imp pictures very interesting and entertaining. | Such a picture is The Secret of the Palms, for | in it is given a very good idea of the peasant life in Cuba and shown much of its beautiful | scenery and the customs of the natives. Don | Alverez, in order to cause the dismissal of the foreman of the plantation, who is his bit terest enemy, steals the mail bag which it is the foreman’s duty to carry, and hides it in the top of a palm tree, not knowing that it contained a valuable package for him, sent ‘from his dying mother. When Don is made the new foreman and it is his duty to carry the mails, he goes to the palm tree and returns the package he had originally hidden there, ani as his dying bequest gives it to the girl whose heart he tried to win. Imp. the great majority of moving picture audicuces. | A GAMBLE LOVE. Drama. WITH Powers. Released March 11. 950 feet. i This picture of a Western mining scene con tains many points of merit and many novelties. The running of the elevator in the mine is very clearly shown: also the blasting of rock and many of the scenes incidental to mining life of which the public know very little. This picture has an educationa) value which is worth many times the price of admission. The scene in the gambling room, showing the interior of a Western mining camp. is particuand the scenes and ensembles all show careful rehearsing and good stage direction. The acting in the final scene of this picture struggle between the two lovers is intensely dramatic and exceptionally well acted. photography of this film is also very clear. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER. [Prama. houser. Released March 14. A sister's self-sacrifice forms the basis of the story of this picture and is well handled trusted clerk in @ tisiness office is found to have a shortage in his and the books of the firm have been doctored to cover the deficit. but refuses to admit his guiit to his mother or sister and is about to leave home when ap officer comes with his employer and arrests him. His sister plans*to prove his innocence and accordingly disguises herselfas a boy in one of her brother's suits and applies for the position "made vacant by the arrest of her brother, that she may examine the books and learn the truth. At the trial his employer relents &nd does not prosecute him and when he confesses she betrays her identity, He is re-engaged and sent on a commission te Brazil and all ends happily for sister. whe is told that she will fill the bill and that her position in ber brother’s be permanent. Than ROBERT EMMET. Prama. Thanhouser. Re leased March 17 1.000 feet. This pictnre contains enough geod Irish patriotism toe gladden the heart of any son‘ of old We first find our hero. Robert Emmet. making a speech before the students of Trinity College, long before his graduation from this famous institution. So enthusiastic has he become that he is expelled from college for ad of the three characters | showing the, The | Full length. | He is discharged | , THE GIRL AND THE OATH. Drama. Cham pion. Released March 15. 900 feet. The story of this picture is at times rather vague and at times it is hard to follow the in tent of the author. It is Western in atmosphere and, like most Western pictures. is melo dramatic. It tells the story of two girls, one ef whom contracts a secret marriage in a little room upstairs, while the other and a party of cowpunechers occupy the attention of elderly father in the parior below. After the cere mony the boys leave for a six months’ trip to the plains. Great preparations are made for their return. The lawn is beautifully decorated with Japanese lanterns and festooned with garlands and the large ‘‘welcome home’’ sign is hung out. Right here the amber lighting effects in this picture are great. On the return of the boys from the round-up, maddened by jealousy at the attention to her sister, one of the girls goes into a tantrum of jealous rage and completely destroys everything. This scene seems to be somewhat over acted, but then yor. never know what a woman will do in a case of LOOK! LOOK!—Edison Ex. Model one-pin ms chine, complete, with are lamp, model ‘‘B” gas outfit, etc.; both brand new, never used. Wire quick. $15; balance, C. 0, D., for exam 'STELZER BROTHERS, McCook, Nebraska. ; FOR SALE—Iot of small Animals Cages, suit |able for store animal show, and jungle banners, almost new. Also monkeys, snakes, birds, etc. HOPE, 35 N. Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 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