Universal Weekly (1914-1915)

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Universal Weekly "THE PAPER WITH A PURPOSE" PUBLISHED BY THE THE MOTION PICTURE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING CO., In., Mecca Building, Broadway at 48th St., New York City, N. Y. PAUL GULICK, Editor. HARVEY H. GATES, Associate Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: All Over the World (Universally), $2.">0 a year; $1.25 six months. Single copies, 5 cents. Advertising Rates on Application. VOL.. V. No. 18. NEW YORK CITY, OCT. 31. 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TITLES in the ANIMATED WEEKLY, No. 138 You are making a costly mistake If yon do not show the Universal Animated Weekly and MAKE IT A FEATC RE of your show. Many big: time houses all over the country are just rinding out that IT PAYS THEM TO RUN THE UNIVERSAL ANIMATED WEEKLY in place of the trashy state right features that many of them used to fall for. SEE THE UNIVERSAL ANIMATED WEEKLY ANY WEEK at the nearest Universal exchanges and see how muob better it Is than any weekly you ever saw In your life! RELEASED OCT. «8, 1914. 1— BOTTLING THE BALTIC. England's powerful navy, which is now engaged blockading the enemy's fleet. 2— GLIMPSES FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR. Actual scenes taken in and around the battlefields of Europe. 1. Sub-Title. Retreat from Antwerp. -'. German gunfire destroys churches at Malines. Fording flooded streets of Malines. Armored car returning with war trophies. 5. " Motor scouts from firing line. Belgian Red Cross caring for wounded. Termonde Bridge after German bombardment. 3 — KITCHENER'S ARMY. King George and Queen Mary witness the departure of new recruits for army training quarters — Aldershot, England. 4— ENGLAND'S PRISONERS OF WAR. Surrounded by electrified barbed-wire fence, thousands of Germans are interned at Detention Camp, Camberley, near Aldershot, England. 1. Sub-Title: Prisoners gather wood for cooking, heating. etc. 2. " Lined up for rations. 5— CARING FOR THE WOUNDED. At all hours of day and night wounded soldiers can be seen arriving at West Ham Hospital, the greatest institution of its kind in London, England. 6— SHIPPING HORSES TO EUROPE. Thousands of selected Western steeds are bought by warring nations for use on battlefields — New Orleans, La. Sub-Title: Mattresses for Red Cross field hospitals. 7— LINERS COLLIDE IN FOG. With a huge hole rent in her bow by freighter "Iowan", S. S. "Matapan", with tourists from South American ports, is beached by her captain — Sandy Hook, N. J. Sub-Title: The "Iowan'', whose prow was slightly dented. 8— BUY A BALE OF COTTON. The Merchants' Association, at City Hall, welcome the messenger from Alabama — -New York City. 9— CARTOONS BY THE WORLD-FAMOUS CARICATURIST, HY. MAYER, OF PUCK. PUCK.