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1844 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD <strong>Dec</strong>ember 22, <strong>1917</strong><br />

husband's Infatuation and blames Eyre for her<br />

husband's death. She determines to avenge his<br />

death and affiliates herself with a crowd of<br />

anarchists led by Professor Groesbeck. Mary<br />

secures work In Eyre's steel foundry and incites<br />

the workmen to strike. Eyre, however, hears of<br />

the proposed strike and arrives at the plant in<br />

tune to avert it.<br />

Mary then finds the returned check which her<br />

husband had received from Eyre and realizes the<br />

truth. Eyre comes to claim her and is not<br />

repulsed.<br />

THE LBARNIN' OF JIM DENTON— (Five<br />

Parts— <strong>Dec</strong>. 11).—The cast: Jim lienton (Roy<br />

Stewart); Evelyn Hastings (Fritzi Kidgeway);<br />

Joe (Walter Perry); Harry Knowles (Ed.<br />

Brady); Ed. Willis (William Billmgford) ; Sid<br />

Harvey (Thornton Edwards); Old Cattle Man<br />

{John P. Wild) ; Governor (Harry Rattenberry ).<br />

Jim Denton, owner of the biggest cattle ranch<br />

In South California, is unable to read or write.<br />

Jim meets Evelyn Hastings, who he learns is a<br />

sthoolmarm and persuades her to open school<br />

for his cowboys and himself. Jim proves a star<br />

pupil and aided by his affection for his teacher<br />

he make.^ rapid strides in scholarship.<br />

Then the sheep-men close the dam which<br />

waters Benton's herds and it is up to Jim to opan<br />

the dam at all costs. Before he and his punchers<br />

leave he premises Evelyn he will only use his<br />

guns in self-defense.<br />

Jim is called upon to protect himself and kills<br />

the deputy sheriff. He is arrested and the<br />

sheriff promises him a fair trial and a jury of<br />

cow-men. The judge, however, is bribed and he<br />

installs a jury of sheep-men, who return a death<br />

verdict.<br />

Just as Benton is led to the gallows Evelyn<br />

arrives with a pardon from the Governor and<br />

Benton wins in two ways.<br />

CHRISTIE FILM CORP.<br />

THEIR SEASIDE TANGLE (One Reel—<strong>Dec</strong>.<br />

3).— 'Ihe cast: Mrs. Newlywed (Betty Comp-<br />

son ' ; Mr. Newlywed (Jay Belasco) : Mrs.<br />

Smith (Lois Leslie) ; Mr. Smith (Billy Mason).<br />

Directed by Al E. Christie.<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed select Sea Breeze for<br />

their vacation at the beach and the same resort<br />

is decided upon by Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The<br />

women are jealous of their husbands and the<br />

bustands evince equal concern over the behavior<br />

of their respective wives. Betty and<br />

Jay set out for a day on the sands and the<br />

first point of interest appealing to Betty is<br />

Billy Smith. Mrs. Smith is no less interested<br />

in Jay.<br />

Trouble starts when Betty leaps Into the<br />

ocean for a swim, in which pastime she proves<br />

herself an adept. Unfortunately Jay is unable<br />

to swim a stroke. But Billy is a powerful<br />

swimmer and deserts his wife for the more<br />

sportive splash with the alluring Mrs. Newlywed.<br />

Mrs. Smith's attempts at swimming are<br />

quite as lutile as the efforts of Jay Newlywed.<br />

Betty and Billy are getting along "swim-<br />

mingly" when Jay develops a demonstrative<br />

peeve. . The affliction spreads to Mrs. Smith.<br />

Tortured by the deep sea spooning of Betty and<br />

Billy, Jay and Mrs. Smith vainly appeal to the<br />

Sea Breeze police force to separate them. Jay<br />

finally decides upon the ruse of faking suicide.<br />

He empties a bottle of Its contents of carbolic<br />

acid and substitutes water. This he swallows<br />

in plain view of Betty. She hastily summons<br />

• a hysician, who renders first aid by vigorously<br />

applying the stomach pump. The fake<br />

is discovered. The Smiths depart, leaving Jay<br />

and Betty "fussing." Betty taunts Jay by telling<br />

him she knew the "poison" was only water.<br />

ONE GOOD TURN (One Reel—<strong>Dec</strong> 10).—<br />

The cast: Mrs. Newlywed (Betty Browne);<br />

John, her husband (Harry Edwards) ; Billy<br />

(Billy Mason). Directed by Al. E. Christie.<br />

After a year of happy married life the anniversary<br />

of the Newlyweds' marriage dawns.<br />

Its importance in their lives dawns upon Betty,<br />

but not upon John, so, as a reminder, Betty<br />

ties a kewpie with ribbons and places it at her<br />

husband's place at the breakfast table. John<br />

c^'rnly T"ad« the paper, oblivious of the wifely<br />

hint. He evens leaves for the office without<br />

bestowing upon her a good-bye kiss.<br />

Betty is chagrined, but undaunted. She<br />

orders the cook to prepare a lavish dinner, far<br />

surpassing in delicacy the usual evening meal.<br />

Meanwhile she meets Bessie, her chum, who<br />

tells ter that Billy, her brother, and a former<br />

sweetheart of Betty's, has returned from college.<br />

John, unmindful of the anniversary dinner<br />

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friends to phone home that he will not be home<br />

for dinner. Betty determines the repast shall<br />

not be wasted, so she invites Billy to dine with<br />

her. Billy accepts, but is ill at ease during<br />

dinner and is deeply dismayed over the unexpected<br />

arrival of Uncle and Auntie, who are<br />

giving the Newlyweds a surprise.<br />

Betty introduces Billy as her husband. Grief<br />

then grows to frenzy when Uncle and Auntie<br />

insist that the old proverb of "early to bed,<br />

early to rise" must be regarded. In the midst<br />

of the confusion John comes home. He sees a<br />

strange hat. He investigates. He linds Billy<br />

vainly trying to escape from Betty's boudoir.<br />

He threaten? murder. He rages. Auntie and<br />

Uncle join in the turmoil. Betty explains. John<br />

is contrite and makes fitting amends for his<br />

thoughtlessness in overlooking their first anniversary<br />

of wedlock.<br />

GEORGE KLEINE SYSTEM.<br />

SADIE GOES TO HEAVEN— (Essanay Perfection<br />

<strong>Picture</strong>— Five Parts—<strong>Dec</strong>. 24).—The cast:<br />

Sadie O'Malley (Little Mary McAlister) ; Sadie's<br />

mother (Jenny St. George) ; Orval (Russel Mc-<br />

Dermott) ; Mrs. Welland Riche (Frankie Ray-<br />

mond); Coal heaver (Rodney LaRocque) ;<br />

Housekeeper (Kathryn Kennedy) ; Butler<br />

(Bobby Bolder).<br />

Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of<br />

the tenement district, has a vision of heaven<br />

awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement<br />

worker ; so when she sees a handsome<br />

limousine in front of the settlement laundry<br />

near her home she thinks it is a heavenly<br />

chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the<br />

interior of the car and is whisked away to the<br />

home of Mrs. Welland Riche.<br />

The latter has left earlier in the day on a trip,<br />

so when Sadie and. her dog, George Washington<br />

Square, who has been her companion in the<br />

hamper trip, are dumped down the clothes chute<br />

of the Riche home while concealed in the basket,<br />

they find easy access to the upper regions of the<br />

mansion and then, indeed, Sadie thinks she Is<br />

in heaven.<br />

Sadie soon is discovered by the servants, but<br />

they believe she is just another of Mrs. Riche's<br />

fads when she tells them she is there to stay.<br />

Believing Mrs. Riche as desiring that the best<br />

of care be given the child, Sadie is dressed In<br />

rich garments and is much at home until Mrs.<br />

Riche returns.<br />

While the servants' explanations have been<br />

made, Mrs. Riche, in the meantime having been<br />

won over by the child's beauty and sweet manners,<br />

decides Sadie may remain. But the tenement<br />

child's happiness is shortlived when George<br />

Washington Square appears upon the scene. Mrs.<br />

Riche orders that the pup be removed and tells<br />

Sadie that, instead, she can play with the Riche<br />

collection of Poms.<br />

Not so for Sadie. She informs the wealthy<br />

matron that she wouldn't give up George Washington<br />

Square for all the heavens and that If<br />

G. W. S. cannot remain she will go. So hugging<br />

her doggie close to her she returns to her worried<br />

mother with the explanation : "I have been to<br />

heaven, but they sent me home because they<br />

didn't like my dog." _.<br />

KING-BEE FILM CORP.<br />

THE SLAVE (Two Parts—<strong>Dec</strong>. 15).—The cast:<br />

The Slave (Billy West); The Sultan (Oliver<br />

Hardy) ; The Vizier (Leo White) ; The Collector<br />

(Budd Ross) ; His Daughter (Beatrice<br />

Joy) ; The Sultan's Favorite (Gladys Varden).<br />

Scenario written by Rex Taylor.<br />

Billy is a slave in the palace of the Sultan<br />

of Bacteria. Horatius Crabbe and his daughter,<br />

Susie, are sojourning in Bacteria in search of<br />

antiques. They arrive at the palace just as Ellly<br />

is about to be beheaded for an offense against<br />

the Sultan. Susie stops the execution and her<br />

smile softens the heart of the Sultan.<br />

During their visit the Sultan takes a great<br />

fancy to Susie and resolves to add her to his<br />

harem. He makes advances to her, but she repulses<br />

him. After Susie and her Dad have<br />

gone, the Sultan plans with his Vizier as to how<br />

they shall capture her. Knowing Dad's fondness<br />

for antiques, they get a mummy case and<br />

place in it one of their warriors. Billy overhears<br />

the plot and, resolving to save the girl,<br />

he scares the warrior away and takes his place.<br />

The Sultan has the mummy case taken to Dad's<br />

hotel, where he is about to put his plan into<br />

action when he discovers that Billy has taken<br />

the warrior's place and their plot will not work.<br />

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So he invites Dad and Susie over to the palace<br />

for lunch and leaves Billy heavily guarded.<br />

Arriving at the palace, he throws all pretense<br />

aside, and has Dad put in a dungeon and starts<br />

to take possession of the girl. She puts up a<br />

fight and he has her locked up in the tower to<br />

think it over.<br />

Billy escapes from his captors and rushes to<br />

the palace to save the girl. The Vizier shoots<br />

him through a trapdoor into the dungeon with<br />

Dad. Both escape from there and Billy fights<br />

his way to the tower while Dad is again captured.<br />

Billy and Susie try to escape and the<br />

entire army take after them. From a strategic<br />

position in one of the corridors Billy knocks<br />

out the entire army, including the Vizier and<br />

the Sultan, and saves the girl like a regular<br />

hero.<br />

SELECT PICTURES CORP.<br />

THE HONEYMOON (Five Parts).—The cast:<br />

Susan Lane (Constance Talmadge) ; Richard<br />

Greer (Earle Foxe) ; Mrs. Lane (Maude Turner<br />

Gordon) ; Uncle Jimmy Lane (Russell Bassett)<br />

; Philip Lane (Harris Gordon); Marion<br />

Starr (Lillian Cook) ; Maisie Middletown (Julia<br />

Bruns) ; Robert Moody (Sam Coit). Directed<br />

by Charles Giblyn.<br />

Susan Lane has an ungovernable streak of<br />

jealousy which infuriates her within fifteen<br />

minutes after the ceremony which makes her<br />

Mrs. Richard Greer ; for she sees her husband<br />

talking to Marion Starr, one of the bridesmaids.<br />

Susan's brother, Phil Lane, has fallen<br />

in love with Marion, but a previous entanglement<br />

in the shape of Maisie Middleton of the<br />

Jigfeld Rolics prevents the announcement of<br />

their engagement. Maisie, to whom Phil had<br />

become engaged after a wine supper, refuses to<br />

release him, and the sweethearts are in despair.<br />

Phil draws Dick aside and tells him the whole<br />

story, and also informs him that Maisie's<br />

troupe will be in Niagara Falls, whither the<br />

honeymooners are going, and that it's up to<br />

Dick to buy her off. Dick protests, but Phil<br />

declares that his and Marion's happiness Is at<br />

stake, and the young bridegroom consents.<br />

In Niagara, Susan and Dick pass the first<br />

day without a cloud in the sky. Dick, however,<br />

realizes that time is flitting and so, on a<br />

lame excuse, he tears himself away to interview<br />

the would-be vampire in her dresrin'<br />

room. A prying maid sees him there and reports<br />

the matter to Susan, who comes and sees<br />

for herself. Convinced of his perfidy, she<br />

dashes back to the hotel, demands a separate<br />

room from the clerk and locks herself in, refusing<br />

to listen to Dick's explanation. At the<br />

same time she wires her Uncle Jimmy to get<br />

her a divorce. The family also receives Dick's<br />

report on the Middleton affair and his anguished<br />

plea for help.<br />

To teach Susan a lesson, Uncle Jimmy telegraphs<br />

her to forward her depositions ; and<br />

she, still at white heat, sends them on. Before<br />

they arrive, however. Uncle Jimmy,<br />

Susan's mother and the engaged couple leave<br />

for Niagara to patch up the domestic break.<br />

When the depositions arrive. Uncle Jimmy's<br />

partner rushes things through to a divorce.<br />

Accordingly, when the rescuing family arrives,<br />

it finds Susan and Dick, now reconciled,<br />

in despair over the announcement of the divorce<br />

decree." Uncle Jimmy is aghast, but Dick cuts<br />

the Gordian knot by corraling a minister and<br />

getting himself married to Susan all over<br />

again. In a burst of good wishes they start on<br />

their second honeymoon.<br />

GREATER VITAGRAPH.<br />

THE MARRIAGE SPECULATION (Five<br />

Parts—<strong>Dec</strong>. 10).—The cast: Mr. Cliday<br />

Clara Wilton (Mildred Man-<br />

(Charles Kent) ;<br />

ning) : Billie Perkins (Wallace MacDonald).<br />

Directed by Ashley Miller.<br />

Cliday has worked twenty years In a pickle<br />

factory and saved $10,001), which he desires to<br />

invest so as to insure him a competence for<br />

the remainder of his life. He has an acquaintance<br />

with Clara Wilton, who works in a confectionery<br />

store and who is the sweetheart of<br />

a plodding grocery clerk.<br />

Cliday tells Clara he will Invest his $10,000<br />

in her education and introduction Into society—she.<br />

in return, to win ind wed a rich<br />

man who will see that he (Cliday) wants for<br />

nothing the remainder of his life. Clara accepts,<br />

although it wrenches her heart to give<br />

up Billie Perkins, her sweetheart.<br />

In two years Clara develops into a beautiful<br />

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