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December 22, 1917 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1847
marriage. The son and daughter are aristocratic
and high and mighty like their father,
and Jack fails to fit in well in the family.
Finally it comes to the point where Jack is
accused of the theft of a necklace belonging to
a friend of the daughter. Jack goes to a farm
and there he is happy and contented until he
finds that his stepbrother is a rather bad egg.
Then Jack sets himself the task of making his
stepbrother do the right thing. The manner in
which Jack succeeds in this laudable effort
and the reward which comes to him constitutes
a mighty entertaining drama.
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TREASURE ISLAND (Six Parts—Nov. 18—
Fox Standard Picture).—The cast: In the prologue:
Jim Hawkins (Francis Carpenter) ; His
Mother (Eleanor Washington) ; Louise Trelawney
(Virginia Corbin) ; Bill Bones (Herschel
Mayall) ; Long John Silver (Elmo Lincoln) ;
Black Dog (C. Gorman) ; Blind Pew (Ed Har-
ley). In the story: Jim Hawkins (Francis
Carpenter); Louise Trelawney (Virginia Cor-
bin) ; Long John Silver (Violet Radcliffe) ;
Black Dog (Lloyd Perl) ; Ben Gunn (Lew
Sargent) ; Captain Smollett (Buddie Messinger).
Scenario by Bernard McConville. Directed by C.
M. and S. A. Franklin.
The story begins in the "Admiral Benbow
Inn," Black Hill Cove, on the coast of England.
Bill Bones, a mysterious seaman, puts up at
this inn, which is run by Mrs. Hawkins, mother
of Jim Hawkins. He has scarcely arrived when
he is attacked by a number of other mysterious
seamen who turn out to be pirates in search of
a chart which Bill possesses. In the scuffle
which follows Jim gets possession of the chart
and flees with it to the home of Squire Tr»lawney,
father of Louise Trelawney. While the
squire and Dr. Livesey ponder over the strange
map, which is known among the pirates as
"Flint's Fist," Jim is sent upstairs to sleep and
to dream.
Jim and Louise go to Bristol. They charter
the "Hispaniola," with a crew of what they consider
carefully selected men. They start for
the mysterious island outlined on "Flint's Fist,"
for a little red cross on the chart had beside it
the luring words, "Bulk of treasure here."
On the way the two children learn that most
of the crew they have hired had formerly sailed
with the notorious Flint, one of the boldest
pirates who ever lived. He had given this map
to Bill Bones, his first mate, on his deathbed in
Savannah, Ga.
Then begins a series of exciting adventures.
After a Jong voyage, they reach the Treasure
Island and Jim goes ashore with several pirates,
headed by Long John Silver, while Louise stays
aboard with Captain Smollett. Jim finds Ben
Gunn, a marooned former shipmate of Flint's,
and makes a friend of him.
The captain and Louise, fearing an attack on
board, make for the shore and take refuge in
the stockade which had been built on the island
by Flint. Jim joins them there only to find
that he has left the coveted chart on shipboard,
and he is forced to make the hazardous trip
back.
After many fights between the pirates and the
honest members of the crew, Louise and Jim
are finally reunited. They find the treasure
«afely piled away in Ben Gunn's cave. And they
once more climb aboard the "Hispaniola," homeward
bound.
THE BABES IN THE WOODS (Five Parts-
Dec. 2—Fox Special Feature).—The cast: Roland
and Hansel (Francis Carpenter) ; Rose and
Crethel (Virginia Lee Corbin) ; The Bad Prince
(Violet Radcliffe); The Good Fairy (Carmen de
Rue) ; John Hamilton (Herschel Mayall) ; Mrs.
Hamilton (Rosita Marstini) ; Mason Hamilton
(Robert Lawler) ; The Butler (Scotty McKee) ;
The Witch (Teddy Billings). Adapted by Bernard
McConville. Directed by C. M. and S. A.
Franklin).
John Hamilton has two children. He marries
a second time and his second wife does not
tike the children. She does, however, like Mason
Hamilton, her husband's brother. John
Hamilton suspects the pair and goes away on
* trip, ostensibly. He draws up a will before
lie goes, leaving the major portion of his money
lo the two children ; but in the event of their
death the money is to go to the brother. The
father sets a manservant to watch the pair. Soon
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after he causes to be circulated the report of
his death.
In a short time the manservant comes to him
at a nearby hotel with the report that his
second wife and his brother are plotting to destroy
the children so that they can get the
money immediately. Suddenly the husband returns.
The wife and brother are astonished.
The brother leaves the house. The father gathers
around him his wife and the two children
and asks the children as they sit on his knees
if they would like to hear his story of the Babes
in the Woods. Of course they want to hear it.
So with his wife listening he begins the recital.
The picture fades from the pleasant room and
the fairy story is shown on the screen. Hansel
and Grethel are given into the bands of ruifians
by their cruel stepmother. They are to be
killed 1n the forest. The beauty and innocence
of the two children softens somewhat the hearts
of the murderers, who decide they cannot kill the
children, so they leave them in the forest to die.
The children wander In the wood for some
time and they lie down near a big tree and fall
asleep. The Good Fairy, who watches over the
children in the wood, brings forth her fairies
to dance around the lost ones to make their
dreams pleasant.
The next morning the children are found by
the Bad Prince, but Hansel and Grethel flee and
are assisted by the Good Fairy, who, when the
children reach a stream in their flight, calls
two swans and on the backs of these Hansel and
Grethel escape across the water.
The Bad Prince then goes to an old Witch
and promises her wealth if she captures Hansel
and Grethel for him. The Witch sends her raven
into the wood to guide the children to her
house, a structure built of gingerbread. The
children see the raven. They marvel at it, and
as the Witch intended, follow it to her home.
While the children are nibbling at the gingerbread
house, the Witch comes out and invites
them inside. She makes prisoners of both, intending
to fatten Hansel so that she can eat him.
When the roasting day comes, the Witch tells
Grethel to crawl into the oven to see if it is hot
enough. Grethel, guided by the Good Fairy, declares
the oven is not large enough. Whereupon
the Witch, to show the children it is, crawls in
herself. Grethel slams the oven door and she
and Hansel escape.
Then follow many adventures, in which the
children get into the hands of the Bad Prince,
but the Good fairy still aids them and they
escape. They finally return home, tell their
story, and the entire village turns out and visits
deserved punishment on the bad stepmother and
the uncle.
The picture then returns to John Hamilton's
home. The children are still on his knees. The
little girl is crying softly and the boy looks
angry. For a time the wife and stepmother
looks at her husband, then as the full effect of
the story sinks into her heart, she bows her
head, then smiles and takes the children to her
bosom. She loves the children now and by her
act regains the affection of her husband.
THE PRIDE OF NEW YORK (Five Parts-
Dec. 9).—The cast: The Son (George Walsh) ;
The Father (James A. Marcus) ; The Fop
(William Bailey) ; The
Girl (Regina Quinn).
Staged and written by R. A. Walsh.
The story opens with George, the son of a
building contractor at work on a 20-story structure.
He's hard working and happy. In New
York there is another type, one often found
a rich man's son who is an idler, who loves the
night life and the spending of his father's
money. He's a typical snob. To this son is
attracted, probably because of their stations in
life, the daughter of a millionaire. But one day
when she watches George standing smiling on
the end of an iron beam, being drawn up twenty
stories, with nothing below him but the hard
street pavement, she takes an interest in him.
Soon George and the rich man's son are
called in the draft. She judges the worth of
the two in their soldier's uniforms, and despite
George's comparative poverty she comes to believe
he is the better man.
Then the soldiers go to Europe, and she
follows as a Red Cross nurse. George, genial,
smiling, continues to improve in her estimation,
while the rich man's son, still a snob and
disliked by his fellow soldiers, fades from her
i When George, battling for all he is
worth, fearing nothing in his fight to uphold
the honor of his country, saves this girl from
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