Universal Weekly (1914-1915)

THE UNIVERSAL. WEEKLY 21 Girl Steals Baby To Sell For Fifty Cents "TRAFFIC IN BABES". Kex Comedy-Drama — Released • Nov. 22. The Bachelor Herbert Bawlinsuii The Valet Frank Lloyd The Girl Beatrice Van The Widow Helen Wright Jack Hardy, wealthy young bachelor, loves Ann Farris, daughter of a banker, lie is proposing to her when a note arrives from her father saying that he is to be arrested for embezzling and is ■committing suicide rather than face the ■disgrace. Ann sends Jack away and takes a position as nurse in a family going to Europe, rather than have her lover burdened with the shadow of her father's act. Two years elapse. Fate picks Katie O'Brien to bring the lovers together. Katie, whose mother is a washwoman, tends the baby in the street. It is'"while she is in the residential section that she meets a pretty but weary-looking nurse girl tending a baby boy. The nursegirl admits that she doesn't like caring for the baby. Katie remembers. Later, Katie's charge is saved from drowning in a sewer ditch by a strange young man. Thie young man playfully offers to buy the baby for fifty cents. Katie refuses, but says she knows where she can get a baby for him. The young man gives her fifty cents. Katie, watching her chance, manages to carry off the baby which Ann has charge of. She deposits the infant in the young man's apartment and departs to buy a kewpie doll. Jack, for he is the strange young man. returns from his walk and is much amused to find the baby there. The valet has awakened and is much disturbed. After a romp with it. Jack reports the affair to the police. It is when Ann comes to identify the lost baby that she meets her former sweetheart. Incidentally. Ann decides that she doesn't want to hide any longer — that she is quite willing tn hponrne .Tack's wife. Force Wins Girl Where Kindness Failed 'HIS NIGHT OUT". •loker Comedy — Released Nov. 18. The Young Lover Ernest Shields His Sweetheart Betty Schade Her Father Phil Dunham His Friend Eddie Boland Ernie, who is in love with Betty, has trouble in seeing her, owing to her father, who objects strenuously. Father, catching them in an embrace, tells the ardent wooer that he is not the man for his daughter : that he is a weakling ; that he wants a man of force for his daughter. Ernie seeks consolation at the club and becomes intoxicated. In this condition Ernie is interested in the pre-historic decorations on the wall. Leaving the club he falls asleep on some stone steps, where he dreams of being in the primeval period where he is in love with Betty. Another leader of the primitive men is trying to steal his intended bride. A war ensues, in which he displays skill and recovers her. In the embrace he is awakened by a policeman. The dream has given Ernie added courage. He goes to his sweetheart's house that evening, intent on kidnapping her. He gets in the wrong room and carries father out, only discovering his mistake in the lower hall. He shoves father out the window. Another attempt at kidnapping ends in the discovery that he has brought the negro maid to the minister's house. He then decides to take the minister to Betty, which he does. They are married in due form. Unbounded Laughter In Nestor Comedy " WHEN THELR BRIDES GET MIXED". Nestor Comedy — Released Nov. 20. First Bride Victoria Forde First Bridegroom Eddie Lyons Second Bride Bess Meredyth Second Bridegroom Lee Moran Lee and Bess elope and are secretly married. Eddie and Vic do the same. Both couples stop at the same hotel and are assigned to adjoining rooms Lee goes out to attend to the baggage, leaving Bess in her room. Eddie leaves Vic to go out and get a smoke. Bess looks for Lee and meets Eddie in the hall. They are brother and sister who have not seen each other for a year. Both are afraid to tell of their marriage. Bess takes Eddie into her room for a chat. Lee, returning, sees them enter the room. He is about to break in when Vic comes from her room and recognizes Lee as an old school-friend. He, thereupon goes into Vic's room and is seen by Eddie, who has just come out of his sister's room. Eddie then tries to peep through the keyhole The house detective comes upon him and orders him downstairs. Lee comes out of Vic's room and rushes to his own room and is in the act of listening at the door, when the house detective orders him away. Both girls then go in search of their husbands. Eddie returns and finds his wife gone. Bess, returning, meets her brother and they again go into the room, just as Eddie's wife comes around the corner of the hall and sees her husband enter a room with another girl. New complications arise between the two bridal couples and the house detective. Both brides and bridegrooms are arrested. The police judge becomes so muddled in trying to understand the relationship of the quartette that he lets them all go. Explanations and a reconciliation follow. Captured Bandit in Order To Marry •THE SCHOOL TEACHER AT ANGEL CAMP". Frontier Drama — Released Nov. 14. The School Teacher. . . . Frederick Church Edythe Edythe Sterling Her Brother Jay Morley The Bandit Jos. J. Franz Fred, the school teacher at Angel Camp, has fallen in love with Edythe, one of his pupils. On account of his small salary, however, he has never dared to propose. A reward has been offered for the capture of a bandit. Through finding a note, Fred learns that a robbery has been planned. The day following, when he calls upon Edythe to recite, she tells him she can't, showing him her book with a piece torn from the page. Fred discovers that the note he found matches with the torn page. School over, Fred tells Edythe to send her brother to him. This she does. The teacher accuses Jay, the brother. He finally confesses that and another party had planned to hold up the Angel Camp Saloon. Fred ties Jay up and then proceeds to the saloon. He first fixes his arm in a sling, however, concealing in his hand a gun. Joe enters the saloon, orders a drink and then, whipping out a gun, commands hands up. Through his bandage Fred fires, wounding Joe in the arm. Joe is overpowered. Edythe, who has followed her brother to the school, releases him. Jay hurries to the saloon. There he shows Fred a deputy sheriff badge, telling him that he had arranged the affair to catch Joe, of whom he was suspicious, in the act. A little later Fred tells Edythe that Jay is going to divide the reward "With Us." Refuses To Arrest Girl At Mother's Deathbed "A FRIEND IN NEED". Eclair Drama — Released Nov. 22. Josie Clara Horton The Policeman Stanley Walpole Josie, a girl brought up in poverty and want, is the sole comfort of her widowed mother. When the latter is suddenly stricken ill, the child is almost frantic She renders her all the aid possible, but the doctor says that she must have a certain kind of medicine and a little wine or she will die. The heart-broken Josie races to the drug store with the prescription, but is roughly turned away by the druggist when he finds she has no money. She goes out on the street and narrowly escapes being knocked down by the hurrying crowd. Pausing in front of a fruit stand, she is moved on by the Italian peddler, who turns to wait on a messenger boy (C ontinurd on Pagr 24.1