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- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
- Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
- "Company F, 1st Ohio Volunteers, initiating a new man. Nineteen times he bounces in the blanket, and each toss is funnier than the last one."
- Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
- A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His Enemies," and "finis" at the end. This is the oldest known film of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Also, it depicts the oldest known film of the San Diego coast.
- The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.
- I.M. Mann, millionaire president of a large corporation, is known as "the man with the iron heart." James Boyd, cashier for Mann's corporation, is delayed one morning because of a dying mother, and is discharged. Then Boyd goes to Union headquarters with his story. The thousands of workmen employed by Mann finally reach the limit of endurance, and at a union meeting, resolve to demand increased wages, a cessation of child labor and other benefits, or strike. He refuses to hear a committee of workmen and says, "I'll close up the factories and let you starve." Boyd resolves to plead with Mrs. Mann for the workmen. He tells the wife, "Your husband holds the destiny of 50,000 people in his hands." Mann arrives at his palatial home at this moment. He is infuriated at the sight of Boyd. He strikes him and orders him thrown from the house. And then it is that Conscience appears to "the man with the iron heart." "Out of my heart forever, Conscience," exclaims Mann, but he is unable to stifle Conscience. Mrs. Mann leaves her stone-hearted husband, telling him that she will return when he resolves to grant the favors asked for by his workmen. Mann orders a strike breaker to fill his factories with non-union men by noon of tomorrow. At noon the following day, the union men march from the factories. They encounter the mob of strike breakers and a terrible conflict ensues in which the police are summoned, who with difficulty quell the rioters. Mann returns to his home and as he enters the threshold, he is shot by one of the rioters. Placed in his bed, Conscience appears before him in his delirium and also Death. He overcomes Death, but is unable to repulse Conscience. Conscience shows "the man with the iron heart" the scenes of suffering which he has caused, of his discharged cashier caring for the dying mother, the death of a little child, and of his wife pleading for leniency to the workmen. Overcome by Conscience, Mann is no longer known as "the man with the iron heart." He summons his wife to his bedside. He grants the request of his workmen and his reformation is complete.
- Lost film that adapted L. Frank Baum's books "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz" and "John Dough and the Cherub". Only the narration script, read by L. Frank Baum himself, and production stills survive.
- Two staid judges, Hay and Holt, are close friends. They have but one child each, an attractive daughter. These old fellows are very dignified and old-fashioned in their ideas, and they guard their girls with jealous care. Two young men of the town are enamored of those pretty girls and pay court to them. They are both surprised in their love-making, by the judges, who angrily order them from their houses, thereby humiliating the young men in the eyes of their sweethearts. The boys swear to get even. They determine to humiliate the judges. So they enlist the services of two gentlemen of shady reputation. The old codgers are enticed from their houses, carried off to a lonely shack in the woods, their beards are shaven off and they are dressed in the garb of children. Frightened half to death by their experience, the old fellows are turned loose to make their way back home as best they can. Their experiences are most amusing. The matter gets into the papers next day, but the names are withheld pending further investigation. Now the boys have them on their hips and threaten to reveal their names unless they give their consent to their daughters' marriage. Of course, the boys win, much to the gratification of the girls and the chagrin of the two crusty old jurists.
- A burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
- Tom and Jerry join a traveling circus as rough riders. After a few months of circus life Tom becomes dissatisfied and longs for the west At this juncture the circus is unable to meet expenses and is attached by the sheriff. Tom and Jerry, out of employment, sell their saddles and plan to leave at once for the west. A chance acquaintance springs up m the town between Tom, Jerry and two girls. Jerry carries his own and Tom's money from the sale of the saddles, and one of the girls unsuspectingly gets the money from Jerry's pocket. Tom and Jerry are unable to pay when the waiter of the café presents the bill. An argument results, and Tom shoots up the place. They are arrested and sentenced to fifteen days in jail. Upon their release Tom and Jerry join the U.S. Army and are sent with a detachment of recruits to do duty at Fort Apache, Ariz. Jessie, the wife of Lieut. Manning, arrives from the east simultaneously with the appearance of Torn and Jerry. Captain Shiers, the commanding officer, drills Tom and Jerry with other recruits. Captain Shiers becomes infatuated with Lieutenant Manning's wife, but the lieutenant overhears it all and encounters the captain, who leaves the house. Captain Shiers is informed that the paymaster will arrive at the depot, several miles away with money for the troops. The captain plots to get rid of the lieutenant and win his wife. He sends Lieutenant Manning with a small escort of troops to meet the paymaster. The captain then sends a half-breed Indian to notify some hostile Indians, whom Lieutenant Manning has kept subdued in the past, that they can avenge themselves on the lieutenant by attacking the stage. The half breed delivers the message to the Indians, who open fire on the stagecoach and surround it. The Indians also surround the station which has been fortified by the troopers. Captain Shiers at the fort has been trying to force his attentions again on Lieutenant Manning's wife, but with no success. The fight between the soldiers and Indians continues unabated. Tom and Jerry volunteer to go to the fort for help. There is another running fight, in which Tom falls from his horse, his foot catches in the stirrup and he is dragged. The horse falls; Tom gets free as Jerry rides up, and Tom jumps up behind Jerry, and they make another effort to reach the fort. Jerry is shot from his horse by pursuing Indians, and Tom, after seeing Jerry is lifeless, shoots and kills one of the Indians and rides onward. Tom arrives at Fort Apache and a detachment of troopers is dispatched immediately to the station. The Indians decide to burn up the station by another method. They take the wheels from the overturned stagecoach, tie rags on them and roll them downhill. This method is successful and the station soon becomes a mass of flames. The troopers still hold out. Mrs. Manning, at the fort, cares for Tom in the hospital. She goes to her home for medicine when she is again accosted by Captain Shiers. She repulses his actions; he becomes angry and tells her of his plan for revenge. He embraces her and she screams and there is a struggle. Tom, lying in the hospital, hears Mrs. Manning's screams. He slowly rises, takes his six-shooter and staggers to the home of Lieutenant Manning. He sees the struggle inside and shoots and kills Captain Shiers. The troopers sent from the fort now arrive and the Indians are defeated. The troopers in the burning station are rescued. Upon entering his home on arrival at the fort, Lieutenant Manning finds his wife nursing Tom. Mrs. Manning explains all to her husband, who shows his gratitude to Tom. Jerry is laid to rest with honors due a brave soldier.
- Two suitors for the hand of Betty and the accepting of the wrong one, as is many times the case, forms the nucleus for the story conveyed in the picture story of "Buddy." After a rather unhappy life of seven years, during which time the couple is blessed with a boy, the tie that often binds, "Buddy" was the light and joy of the home, yet in his tender years he shuddered at the father's drinking and often seeks him out at late hours and pleads for his return home. The wife can no longer bear with the husband's actions and leaves home and becomes a nurse, the father, realizing at last the responsibility of caring for the boy and the unhappiness his actions have caused, decides to begin life anew, secures work in a broker's office. Buddy, anxious to help daddy, answers a want ad for an office boy and is engaged by a downtown manager as a messenger boy. His employer sends him on an errand, his long absence worries him and he calls at the station and finds Buddy has met with an accident, being run down by an automobile and taken to the hospital. The office manager at once leaves to visit the boy. Upon his arrival, to his surprise, he recognizes the voice of the nurse, who proves to be none other than his former sweetheart in years gone by, and the mother of the patient. The father, being prevailed upon to enjoy a social glass with some friends, finds his old love for liquor has returned and in his stupor falls and injures himself. An ambulance conveys him to the hospital in a critical condition. Before realizing his situation and discovering that both wife and child were in the same room, he expires. Completing a story of human impulse replete with delicate touches of nature.
- Nigel Drayton thinks himself rich, but unknown to him his cousin, Gwendolin, with whom he is in love, supplies the funds. Finding himself loser both at cards and on the Derby, he continues his requests for money. Sir Reginald having become enamored with the fair Gwendolin, makes it possible for Drayton to learn the secret source of the funds he thought were his and upon realizing this, his manhood asserts itself. He seeks work, but is unsuccessful. Being an expert whip and good rider, he applies to the academy for the position of instructor. His suave and discreet actions make him at once a favorite of the master of the stables, whose daughter's admiration for Drayton asserts itself plainly, but is rejected by the debonair instructor, causing the ill feeling of the master, who in a short time discharges him. Finding an outgoing ship, Nigel takes passage in the steerage and landing in America, he meets Blodsoe, an old prospector, in time to save him from ill treatment at the hands of the miners and cowboys. They set out to seek their fortune in the gold field, the old prospector finds a rich pocket and Nigel is rewarded for his manly protection in time of need, given half interest. In the final, things go well and the former riding master becomes comfortable and sets sail for England as a first cabin passenger, not the steerage, as was his trip to America. He arrives just in time to intercept the proposed wedding of Gwendolin to Sir Reginald. He returns to America with his bride and meets with a hearty welcome from his cowboy and miner associates.
- In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her and she is in trouble. When he gets there, he finds her dead. He sets out to track down the husband.
- A wealthy heiress marries "a spendthrift and a man of loose morals." After the honeymoon a creditor begins demanding payment, the husband insists that his wife pays the bills because the law states that a woman's possessions are controlled by her husband. She attempts to leave her husband with the children and is tried in the courts for abduction.
- Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the other children with her stories of goblins and elves until her uncle comes to claim her. He and her aunt force Annie into a life of drudgery, treating her so cruelly that Big Dave, a neighboring farmer, takes her from them and places her in the charge of the kindly Squire Goode and his wife. Big Dave, who intends to marry Annie, is called away to fight in World War I. When Annie hears the news that he has been killed, she pretends to be gravely ill but wakes up to learn that it has all been a dream.
- The common, but perplexing problem is, what should be the plan for a woman, who, marrying a widower, finds that her husband's love for his first wife is eclipsing his love for her? This is the uncomfortable situation in which Betty finds herself a short time after her marriage to Tom, a jeweler, whose particular jewel is his daughter, Gladys. The young wife grows very fond of the child, and yet, at first, she meets antagonism in this direction, and this begins the primary trial with the husband, who sides with his little daughter. It was this incident that revealed to her that Tom idolized the memory of his first wife still as a living power. Fate seemed to be piling up humiliations for Betty, yet she turned the tide by winning the love of the child and through this means the greater love of her husband. A valuable package has been entrusted to Betty by her husband, but in the absorbing preparations for Gladys' appearance in a masquerade as a fairy, this package becomes mixed with discarded finery. When its loss is discovered, Tom bitterly reproaches Betty for her carelessness, but Gladys, arriving from the party and finding Betty in tears, rallies instantly to her support. Through Gladys, however, the chain of events that carry the package to the furnace room to be burned, is traced, and Betty, at the cost of severe burns to herself, rescues the packet. When Tom learns the true circumstances, he is deeply repentant, and at the end finds that Betty is truly worthy of all of his love and respect.
- Tom, a cowpuncher, is engaged to marry Vicky Williams, a ranch girl. Vicky has a girl chum who owns a pet bear, and she tells Tom that the must get her a bear. With his friend, Sid Jones, Tom soon discovers bear signs. Tom enters a bear hole; the bear also enters, and Tom makes his escape just in time. Finally the bear is treed. The limb on which bruin is hanging is sawed off, and the bear falls to the ground, where it is lassoed by Tom and Sid. Vicky, in the meantime, has been playing with her girl friend's pet bear and it bites her finger. When she sees Tom and Sid approaching with the bear, which they finally captured at the risk of their lives, she tells them she don't like bears, doesn't want one, and leaves. With an expression of "Can you beat it?" Tom and Sid fall to the ground in a faint.
- Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and carouse, until he is drugged during a drunken victory party and put aboard a steamer bound for Panama by an embezzler who switches clothes with him. During the trip, Mrs. Edith Cortlandt, who has married her diplomat husband for convenience, falls in love with Kirk. In Panama, Kirk and Allan Allan, a Jamaican friend, are arrested when Kirk's efforts to use American firefighting methods cause a riot. After Mrs. Cortlandt's influence gets Kirk out of jail and into a job, he falls in love with Chiquita Garavel, the daughter of a Spanish grandee. When Mrs. Cortlandt warns Kirk not to marry Chiquita, her husband overhears. He insults Kirk in public, and Kirk vows revenge. After Cortlandt commits suicide, and Kirk, who has secretly married Chiquita, is arrested, Mrs. Cortlandt withholds Cortlandt's suicide note, but Kirk's father arrives and convinces her to help arrange Kirk's release.
- Aunt Ray Innes leases Sunnyside House, the country home of Paul Armstrong, and invites her nephew and niece, Halsey and Gertrude Innes. En route, the young people stop at the Greenwood Club to take Jack Bailey, the intended husband of Gertrude and cashier of the Armstrong Bank. Halsey appears in time to prevent a fight between Jack and Arnold Armstrong, son of the banker. At three o'clock in the morning a pistol shot awakens Aunt Ray, who summons her servant, Liddy. They are joined by Gertrude, and the women discover that Halsey and Jack are missing. Investigations disclose the lifeless body of Arnold Armstrong lying at the foot of the circular staircase. Mr. Jarvis, who had been summoned from the club, recalls that Jack and Arnold were bitter enemies because of banking affairs. The next morning Mrs. Watson, the housekeeper, appears suffering from an injured arm, which she explains she sustained in falling down the circular staircase. Frank Jamieson, the detective, on the case cannot trace Jack, and when Halsey Innes returns he refuses to say why he left. Then the newspapers announce that the Armstrong bank has failed; that the cashier has been released under bond; that Dr. Walker, who has accompanied Paul Armstrong to the west, has wired that the banker is too ill to travel, and that securities aggregating a million and a quarter are missing. Aunt Ray searching for Tom, the butler, comes upon Louise Armstrong, daughter of the banker, who was supposed to be out west with her father, at the Lodge. Dr. Stewart, the family physician, attends to her. Dr. Walker wires that the banker has died, and that his summer home must be vacated as the body will arrive soon. But Aunt Ray refuses to leave on such short notice. Louise is not apprised of her father's death, and as she leaves for her mother's home she tells Aunt Ray to leave Sunnyside House, as she has forebodings for its future. Mrs. Watson's injuries develop into blood poisoning, and she is taken to a hospital. As Tom, the butler, sits in the Lodge one night, he sees an apparition and drops dead of fright. Dr. Walker warns Aunt Ray to leave the house before she regrets it. Again she refuses. Several nights later as Halsey and Alex, the new gardener, are keeping watch over the circular staircase, the stable catches fire, and the men rush to give assistance. Meanwhile the women are terrorized by the movements of a strange object outside. Halsey disappears and a tramp with the missing man's watch on him is caught by Detective Jamieson. Upon being questioned, he says that he found the watch under the freight car into which had been thrown Halsey, bound and gagged. Mr. Watson, who is dying, tells Aunt Ray that when she was carried to the lodge by Tom, the butler, she found Louise Armstrong ill and that she (Mrs. Watson) was struck on the arm by a golf club by Arnold because she refused to give him the key to Sunnyside House. Mrs. Watson returned to the house and when she was ascending the circular staircase found that Arnold was creeping up behind her and shot him. Gertrude learns from Halsey, who is in a neighboring hospital, that Paul Armstrong, aided by Dr. Walker, looted his own bank, and that is why Louise left her father. Meanwhile the casket containing Paul Armstrong's body is exhumed and when opened it is found that the corpse is not that of the banker. Aunt Ray discovers a secret room and upon investigating she is locked in by the door automatically closing upon her. Here she is found by Paul Armstrong that night. The sight of him frightens her and her cries bring the detective and Alex, the new gardener, who break open the door as Armstrong escapes by another secret passage. He slips down the circular staircase and is killed, and Dr. Walker is taken into custody. Alex removes his disguise and reveals himself as Jack Baily. A cash box containing the stolen securities is found in the secret room by Jack, and as Aunt Ray comes into Sunnyside House she finds Louise and Halsey in a loving embrace, and Jack and Gertrude in a like attitude at the bottom of the circular staircase.
- Princess Elyata of Tirzah (Juanita Hansen) comes to the rescue of Stanley Morton (George Chesebro) and his sidekick Mike Donovan (Frank Clark), a couple of Americans who foolishly wander into a village ruled by slave trader Gagga (Hector Dion).
- While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a lion and a stowaway named Broot. After Broot commits suicide, Bankinton and the lion are cast adrift upon the shores of Africa where they exist in a primitive state for several months. One day, when Nakhia, the daughter of the Bedouin chief Ali-Es Hadji is out riding, she is beset by danger. Bankinton comes to her rescue and gradually he and the girl fall in love. Ben Saada, the bandit chief, desires Nakhia, and tries to kidnap her. The lion and Bankinton once again come to her defense, and in the ensuing fight, Bankinton is struck on the head and his memory is restored. He then proposes to Nakhia, and the couple set sail to America where they are reunited with Bankinton's family.
- A story laid in the Great Yosemite Valley during the eighties. Col. Westley has an only daughter who is the one softening influence in his rugged nature. She is fond of taking morning rides over the trails, and is usually accompanied by Robt. Adams, a sergeant at the post, and who is detailed by the father to look after her safety. The companionship of these young people soon ripens into love, and despite the disparity of the rank of Adams and his sweetheart's father, they plight their troth. At the opening of the story we see them riding away from the post. Upon arriving at Nevada Falls, a favorite spot, they leave their horses and proceed on foot in order that they may ascend to a more advantageous height from which to view the gorgeous scenery that surrounds the grand historical Yosemite Valley. While engaged in this pastime, an Indian renegade steals their horses, leaving them afoot many miles from the post. The evening is stealing upon them when they discover their loss and in their effort to follow the footprints of their horses they lose their way and are compelled to spend the night in the wilderness. The Colonel becoming alarmed, sends out a searching party that finally succeeds in finding the missing couple. Upon returning to the post the sergeant is placed under arrest, despite the pleading of his unhappy sweetheart. Now a lapse of n month occurs and we see a thrilling battle with the Indians, in which the Colonel, accompanied by his daughter, is cut off from the men and about to be taken by the redskins. It is at this time that Adams, only a private, shows his heroism by making a desperate dash through the lines of the enemy, rescuing the Colonel and his daughter from the murderous savages, though wounded almost to death. His recovery and promotion to 1st Lieutenant soon follow, and with the consent of the Colonel to his marriage with the lady of his choice, ends a pretty story of love, heroism and devotion to duty.
- Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in his suit for her hand, but outside of a seemingly cordial friendship the lady apparently does not return his affections. There is a reason for this. Osman Bey, a Turkish nobleman, desires the hand of this charming girl. He has expressed his love for her to her father, who is an ambitious, worldly man and who aspires to obtain that social recognition which is so dear to the average man of wealth. Mons. Dupont is well aware that he is selling his daughter, and so cleverly does he arrange matters by pretending that he is facing financial ruin, that he persuades Flora into giving her consent to the marriage in order to save his credit. Several months later, whilst sightseeing in Constantinople, Jack by accident meets Flora, who is driving in a closed vehicle. He is startled at the change in her appearance and indignant over the revelation of her misery and ill-treatment. Almost a prisoner in the house of Osman Bey, she is denied friends and relatives. Her one great desire now is to get away from her tyrannical and brutal husband. Jack determines to aid her, and tells her that he will gain admittance to the grounds of the palace after sundown, where he may talk with her and if possible formulate a plan whereby she may gain her freedom. True to his word Jack is on hand at the appointed time, but is unable to pass the guards at the gate. Nothing daunted, this daring American determines to scale the massive walls, which he does after a great deal of difficulty. Making his way through the beautiful gardens, he manages to see through a lighted window Flora's face and form, Gently tapping on the pane of glass her attention is attracted, but a female spy, ordered by Osman Bey to keep an eye on his wife, observes the signal from the window and immediately acquaints her master with the knowledge of his wife's indiscretion. Burning with rage, the infuriated husband summons his slaves and orders them to take the American prisoner. Jack has just greeted Flora, when he is startled by a sharp word of command, and turning suddenly he is seized by the stalwart slaves of the palace and dragged away. Flora appeals to her enraged husband for Jack's release, taking all the blame on herself, but to no avail. The prisoner is carried to an underground dungeon, where he is left to ponder over the perplexing situation in which he now finds himself. Maddened by grief, the poor girl determines in her desperation to go to the Sultan and beg his clemency. Escaping from her chamber window she makes her way to the Sultan's palace, and gaining admittance is granted an audience by his majesty. Struck by her beauty and fired by the crafty thought that he might gain this helpless woman for his harem, he promises her the pardon, but instead of letting her take it he dispatches one of his officers with the papers, at the same time commanding the bewildered Flora to remain at his palace. How Jack is led out to execution and how the pardon arrives just in time to save his life, much to the chagrin of Osman Bey, is all vividly shown. Jack has learned of Flora's detention in the Sultan's palace, and so embittered is he at this outrage that he joins the cause of the revolutionists. The last scenes of the picture show the attack on the Sultan's palace, and the meeting of Osman Bey and Jack in a hand to hand conflict in which the Turk is bested, which is followed by the rescue of Flora and the capture of the despised Sultan.
- Tom Martin had for some time been out of employment, and, although he had repeatedly applied for his old position as telegraph operator, the fact that he had taken part in a recent labor strike was held as a bar against his re-employment by the company. Now, Tom was a willing worker and only too anxious to do anything to earn a living for himself and his young wife. But the fates seemed against him, and, outside of a few odd jobs he was unsuccessful. To add to his burden and worry, his wife fell ill and was obliged to take to her bed. The few dollars he bad been able to save rapidly disappeared, and, as she was too ill to be left alone, Tom found it almost impossible to absent himself long enough to seek for work. The opening scene of the picture shows a plain but neat bedroom in a cheap lodging house. Tom is sitting by the bedside of his sick wife, waiting anxiously for the arrival of the doctor, who had promised to come and minister to his loved one's needs. A knock is heard at the door, but on opening it, instead of seeing the doctor, the sour face of his landlady greets his eye. Brushing past him into the room, she demands in a loud voice to know whether or not he was in a position to make her an immediate payment on his rent. Telling her that he had not a cent at present, he turns to pacify her with the promise to raise some money as soon as his wife is well enough to be left alone. That does not satisfy the irresistible landlady, and she gives him twenty-four hours to vacate the premises, and the same time placing a "To Rent" sign in the bedroom window while she is venting her anger in loud terms. The doctor arrives, and, taking in the situation at a glance, tells Tom to get rid of her, as her presence was trying to the invalid's nerves. She is finally ejected from the room, and the doctor, after examining the sick wife, writers out a prescription and tells Tom to have it filled immediately. Fearing to confess his inability to pay for the medicine the poor fellow rushes out, determined to find sonic way in which he might make the necessary raise. Meeting a neighbor (Miss Maggie Clancy) on his way out, he asks her to remain with his wife until he can return. The goodhearted girl promises not to leave her alone, and so Tom starts out on his mission. We next see him at a drug store, where he accosts the druggist in the hopes of obtaining credit for a few days. But that gentleman is hardened by many similar requests, and so turns a deaf ear to the anxious husband. From one to another the poor fellow goes, and always the same answer, "nothing doing." At last, worn out and discouraged, we see him enter the city park, where with a heart-broken sob he flings himself down on a garden bench and gives way to his grief. Coming through the park with rapid strides, whistling the last popular air, is Tim Bradley, a race tout. Tim also has been unfortunate lately in picking winners at the track, consequently is, as he expresses it, "on the blink" himself. Now, Tim had known Tom in his prosperous days, and the operator had staked him to many a meal when he was in sore need. The tout never forgot a favor, and seeing his old friend in seeming distress, asks what the trouble is, and Tom is not long in informing him. Diving into his pockets, he finds them empty. But Tim is nothing if not optimistic, and telling Tom to come with him, starts out determined to raise the money. He is not long in forming a plan, which his fertile brain rapidly conceives. He will work a stunt that is risky, but apt to succeed, and, being a chance his gaming instincts make it relishable. Hastening down an alley the two soon come to a back yard. A large washing is hanging out. Over the fence goes Tim, procures one of the clothes lines, and, returning, began to fashion a hangmans noose on one end of it. Then back to the park, where a suitable tree is found, a bench is procured and placed beneath an overhanging limb. With instructions for Tom to make a round-about detour of the park, and at a certain signal attract attention to him, the tout proceeds to arrange for a fake attempt at suicide. The plan works beautifully. People walking along enjoying the flowers and sunshine are suddenly startled by a cry of, "Look, there is a man hanging himself!" In an instant a great commotion arises. Men rush wildly toward the tree where the tout is preparing to spring into space with the end of a rope about his neck. Tom is in the lead and arrives just in time to catch Tim in his arms as he leaves the bench. The rope is cut and the struggling tout finally subdued. "Why did you do this?" blurts out an excitable old gentleman who has just rushed up out of breath. Then Tim, with tears in his eyes and a broken voice, relates a tale of woe about a sick wife and starving children that melts the hearts of the bystanders and causes a sudden diving for handkerchiefs and pocketbooks. Tom is dumbfounded at the acting of the clever tout and can hardly keep a straight face as he sees its effect on the crowd. "There, my poor man, take that," says the blubbering old gentleman as he drops a dollar into his hat and passes it around for further contributions. Many of the bystanders follow the old gentleman's example with the result that a goodly sum is turned over to Tim. and he is sent away stammering out his thanks to the kind hearts that have helped him so generously. Yon are a brick, Tim," cries the grateful Tom as the tout hands him a handful of money when they are nut of sight of the still excited crowd. That's all right, old fellow, you have helped me many a time when I needed it. Take it home, give it to the little woman, then come with me to the track and we will see if we can't pick up some more." The medicine is quickly procured, and, kissing his fond wife good-bye for a few hours, leaves her in charge of the good hearted-neighbor and accompanies Tim out to the race track. After paying their admission the two boys have very little left as most of the money was turned over to the sick wife. But the tout was resourceful, as most men who live by their wits are, and not easily discouraged. So he sets out to see what he can learn about the horses and peddle his information to whoever he could. He was not long in spotting John McGee, the owner of a string of thoroughbreds and a clever plunger. Unknown to him, Tim follows him about the stables till finally be sees him stop, and pulling a telegraph blank from his pocket, begins to write a message. It doesn't suit him, so tearing it up he walks away. Tim watches him out of sight, then procures the torn pieces of the dispatch and, putting them together reads it. "Lady Fay, a 50-to-l shot, looks good to me," signed Jack. That was enough for Tim. Now, then, to raise some money. A farmer standing nearby looking at some of the racing stock attracts the tout's attention, and straightway for Ruben makes the irrepressible Tim. At first the farmer is suspicious of being done, but so convincing is Tim's argument, and so tempting is the chance to make a winning, that the bucolic gentleman loosens up for a twenty, and away goes the tout for the betting ring, where the bill is placed on "Lady Fay" with odds of 50 to 1. At last the eventful race is run, and the little mare gallops home a winner by a length. "Jumping beeswax!" shouts the excited farmer as Tim thrusts $500.00 into his hands (being one-half of the amount the clever tout drew from the chagrined bookmaker). "Never knew there was so much money in the world." Dividing his share with Tom, the two boys hasten back to the sick wife to bear her the cheering news of their good fortune. The landlady receives her rent. Maggie Clancy decides she needs a husband and picks Tim as the favorite, and the characters of our drama are left rejoicing over their unexpected turn of luck, which all goes to show that much good may he found "In the Heart of a Race Tout." - The Moving Picture World, July 24, 1909
- It is the early days of California. Father Sebastian, trudging his way on foot from the Mission, his attention is attracted to the wall of an infant coming from the crest of a ridge. He finds the body of a Spanish woman. Sitting beside its dead mother, a tiny baby greets the Padre's gaze. Lifting the infant tenderly in his arms, the Father resumes his journey, accompanied by an Indian woman, to whom he has entrusted the care of the orphaned child. Years pass by and we see the infant grown to manhood strong, handsome and a true worshiper; the bright eyes of a pretty Spanish maiden turn the head of our Jose, causing him to forget his duty. How, after the Padre has warned him of the danger, he disregards the advice of the Father and leaves in the night with his inamorata; how, in their ignorance of the trails, they wander out into the terrible desert and almost die from thirst and the burning heat; how they are found by some American prospectors and nursed back to life; how Jose lays in a delirium of fever and Papinta returns to another, and the long search of the patient Padre for his adopted son, which is rewarded at last by finding him. The settings are real and beautiful, the locations being chosen from in and about San Gabriel Mission, the sea coast, the Sierra Madre Mountains and the great desert of southern California.
- Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
- Urged on by his wife and daughter and against his better judgment, Texas cattle-baron Maverick Brander, finds himself in Washington D. C. as an elected congressman. However, when the Brander family arrives in Washington, they are met at every junction by snobbery and ridicule. Then an investigative committee arrives from Texas to check up on how Maverick is representing their interests.
- Sammy, a good-natured, lazy, whimsical wandering minstrel has only one object in life, and that is to please himself with playing his flute. It gets him into manifold difficulties and it also extricates him from them, so that he is content to drift through life to the easy music of his own making. He becomes a stowaway in a ship, but escapes hard labor through his music. He joins an exploring expedition and captures the fancy of the queen of the jungle. His escape from her attentions is thrilling and amusing.
- A picture dramatization from Sir Ed Burne-Jones' famous painting, with suggestions from that world famous poem by Rudyard Kipling, each conceded a peer in the literary and world of art. This great subject handles deftly the realms of the imaginary inner circle of society. (Even as you and I) A fool there was and he made his prayer, To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool called her his lady fair (Even as you and I). Guy Temple, as "the fool there was" marries his brother's ward, his boyhood sweetheart, Emily. The young husband becomes ensnared in the toils of the Vampire (a destroyer of souls). Clandestine meetings are arranged and the cunning, unscrupulous, satanic actions of the Vampire compels the poor weakling, Temple, to falter and fall before her charms. John Temple, the other brother, determines to save the young husband when he discovers his perfidy, and to recover the jewels given the Vampire by Guy. In a dream he remembers where he had seen Loie before. She it was who had ruined the life of Emily's father and rendered the then slip of a girl an orphan. Seeking out the brother, John Temple told him Loie was a Vampire, that she had ruined his own wife's father and to quit her under threat of his life. He offers Loie a large sum of money to leave America. But her promise is soon forgotten; her direful work continues, the tightening strands on wrecking souls of mortals. The fool was stripped to his foolish hide (Even as you and I). Which she might have seen when she threw him aside (But it isn't on record the lady tried) So some of him lived but the most of him died (Even as you and I). The young husband's mind is rent; his honor gone and the yawning abyss of the great beyond seeks its own.
- Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
- To the town of Tombstone, in which Goodrich Mudd is known as the "Blacksheep," comes a burlesque company headed by Lida, a captivating woman. Mudd, the sheriff and Underdog, who works a mining claim in Tombstone and who is the boon companion of Mudd, compete to win the charmer, and in order to raise money with which to entertain Lida, Mudd, whose daily occupation is that of lolling in a hammock, plays a game of cards with the sheriff. During the game the manager of the theatrical company also takes a hand, but loses considerably. The money the manager takes from the company's cash box which is fastened to the treasurer of the company, who is handcuffed to the bedstead. Mudd takes Lida to dinner, and when he is far under the influence of wine, the burlesque queen hoists the $19 worth of fried chicken and other delicacies in a basket to the girls in the room above who have not eaten a thing for several days. But Tombstone's omnipresent bad man is always on the job, and when he sees the basket full of eats going up, he empties the contents into the cash box, which he had previously discovered and from which he had abstracted the balance of the company's receipts, lowers the box into its original place and "beats it." The theatrical manager cannot pay the hotel bill, so the proprietor attaches the wardrobe of the players, leaving them nothing but their stage costumes. Subsequently a lawyer arrives from Chicago, who tells Mudd that he has been left $2,000,000 by his aunt who recently died, and that he may obtain the fortune if he complies with the provisions in the will which are: (1) he must live in the Mudd mansion in Chicago; (2) must acquire culture; (3) must place a wreath on his grandfather's grave; (4) must get married to his cousin, Ada Steele, within 99 days; (5) if Ada refuses to marry him, he must marry someone else in 99 days; (6) to decline the terms the money will revert to his other cousin, Percy Vere. Great is the consternation of all present at the reading of the will when Mudd refuses to abide by the terms, and it is only when the crowd threatens to kill him that he finally agrees. He goes to the Mudd mansion in Chicago and takes all his friends with him. The lawyer informs Percy and Ada of the terms of the will, and as these two young people are engaged to be married, Ada contrives to get the fortune by "stringing" Mudd along until the last day when she will flatly refuse to marry him. It will then be too late for Mudd to get a wife, and the millions will go to Percy. Then he and Ada will get married. Percy and Ada go to the Mudd mansion, and Mudd tries to make love to Ada. She blows a whistle, which is the cue for Percy to come to her assistance, but he does not appear, for he has been captured by two female burglars who find upon him an incriminating letter from Ada Steele. The burglars offer to return the letter for $100,000. Some time later Ada and Percy are walking in Lincoln Park when they observe Mudd trying to put a wreath upon the spot in the lake where his grandfather met death by rocking a boat. He also recognizes the female burglars nearby, and tells them to kidnap Mudd until a certain time has passed when he (Percy) agrees to reward the burglars. They comply and Mudd mysteriously disappears. The time for Mudd's marriage is near at hand. Fearing that Percy may not live up to his word, the female burglars decide to watch him, and their suspicions are confirmed when they hear him say to Ada that the millions will soon be his and "The Spiders," whom the female burglars are called, can go hang. In revenge "The Spiders" give orders to release Mudd, who arrives at his mansion at 11:53. "The Spiders" are there, too, and they flaunt the letter found in Percy's pocket, revealing its import, and adding that Ada's absence proves that she has turned Mudd down. Mudd doesn't become alarmed, for he, at the last minute, marries Lida, who has always loved him.
- Mazeppa, the infant son of a Tartar chief, was captured by the Poles and grew into manhood in the Polish land, never knowing his true parentage. Through his bravery and gallantry, he became the favorite page of Olinska, daughter of Castellan, a Polish noble. Mazeppa was the favorite of all women and the envy of all men. He loved Olinska and his love was returned, but this was against the plan of Castellan, who had made preparations to marry her to Count Prenislas. Mazeppa forced a duel with his rival, in which the latter was seriously wounded and the enraged Castellan, as a punishment to Mazeppa, had him tied to the back of a wild and desperate horse, in spite of the pitiful entreaties of Olinska. The helpless Mazeppa was driven through forests and rivers, attacked by wolves, drenched by the rain, then scorched by the sun, with the ropes that bound him buried deep into his flesh, longing for death. He reached the Tartar camp, where the exhausted horse at last dropped. Mazeppa was discovered and relieved from his tortures by kind hands, and by means of a mark on his breast was recognized by the Tartar chief as his son. Mazeppa was proclaimed the successor to his father, as chief of the Tartars. However, his greatest hope, that of making Olinska his wife, was worth more to him than all else. Disguised as peasants, he, with several of his followers, entered the house of Castellan, where they were engaged to dance at the festivities of Olinska's marriage which was about to take place at her father's command. At the opportune moment the Tartars overpowered the house of Castellan and released Olinska, once more reunited, now for all time, with her Tartar lover, Mazeppa.
- Charley Wise with a Waldorf appetite on a beany salary finds himself growing unpopular with his landlord as well as other creditors. In fact the sighing breezes seem to whisper "Charley it's your move." So together with Pete, his valet, they decide upon a visit to the country to spend a few days with the rich old uncle. Upon their arrival they find Uncle Jim and Sarah are just planning a trip to Europe and the timely arrival of Charley renders it unnecessary to close up the home as he is placed in full charge with faithful Pete as his assistant and Jim and Sarah are off for the other side. Charles repairs to the race track and donates the remaining fragments of his bank roll, to the other man's better judgment. Pete hits upon a plan to open the palatial home of the uncle as a sanitarium and thus collect a few of the shining shekels that health seekers are always anxious to let loose of. Accordingly an ad is inserted in the daily papers, a sign put over the door, and the rooms are all numbered in regular order, per city hotel fashion. The patients begin to flock in like children to a nickel show. All sorts, ages, sizes, suffering from every known and unknown malady from Reno-it is to raving maniac. Pete was collecting in advance and the place in a few short hours looked more like a castle garden of Blackville Island than a country home. The money was rolling in so fast that Chas. and Pete almost went into hysteria. Just then a telegram arrives from 'Frisco from Uncle Jim saying that Aunt Sarah had lost her necklace and was returning home that night to find it. To clear the house for her coming was no small job and they encounter all kinds of trouble, compelled to return their money, which has a telling effect on Charles' ambitions. No sooner than this part of the program was completed a second message arrives saying the necklace had been found and they were off for Europe. Charles had no time to rejoice over the finding of the pearls; he was too busy thinking about the money he had found necessary to return to his sanitarium patients.
- Dave Martin, who has lately become a motorcycle enthusiast, leaves his Denver home on his machine for a visit with his uncle and cousin who live in the Rockies. His uncle, William Martin, leaves his daughter, Lillian, at the mountain cabin, while he goes to bait his bear trap. While tramping through the woods he accidentally falls into an old abandoned mine and is unable to get out again. A half-breed, in the meantime has stopped at the cabin door, and after begging a drink of water from Lillian, he insults her. She slams the door in his face. Out of fear for her father, who he expects to return at any moment, the half-breed postpones his revenge until later. He finds the bat and gun of Martin and discovers his accident. With the knowledge that the old man is safely out of the way, he returns to the cabin and induces Lillian to go with him up into the mountains, on the explanation that she will see her father. After he has her in his possession be again attempts his assaults, but his career as a bad man is short-lived. The unexpected entrance of Dave at the cabin and his failure to find his relatives there, starts that young man upon a tour of investigation. After a most thrilling ride on his motorcycle along the sky-line drive and an exchange of bullets he manages to recover his cousin without injury to her. Soon afterward he discovers his uncle, and the little family are once more reunited.
- Moya Lantry, a belle of Cattleland. has captured the hearts of two bold cowboys, Bob Davis and Frank Scott. They arrange, a contest to decide which shall marry her and Scott wins out by a trick. Old man Lantry is suspicious of Scott, and tells him to earn a thousand dollars before he can marry Moya. Scott rides away and encounters Manuel Baca, a disreputable Mexican, who plans to hold up the stage. Scott joins him in the venture, which proves successful, but. while escaping with his share of the plunder, Moya and Davis discover him. With Scott eliminated from the field through his own crooked acts, Bob and Moya obtain her father's consent to their marriage.
- Captain Spragot, blown out of his course, sights an uncharted island. He goes ashore and the island is so beautiful that he marks it on his chart. The Captain has promised his wife that this is to be his last voyage, but on his return the ship owners make him such a tempting offer that he signs a contract to make just one more trip. He so informs bis wife and his little daughter Jane, aged five years, and there is a stormy scene between husband and wife. As the Captain leaves the house, John Western, a friend, enters. He is secretly in love with the Captain's wife and she tells him that she will give her answer to his plea the day the Captain sails. On the day of sailing Captain Spragot's wife pleads with him to remain home. He refuses. Then it is that the wife agrees to leave with Western. Remorse overtakes the Captain on the deck of his ship and he returns home. Just as he arrives he meets his wife leaving with Western. Seizing his little daughter. Captain Spragot drives Western and the woman away. With his little daughter the Captain sets sail for his island. There he sends the boat on to her destination and decides to remain on the island forever. Jane, in the years that pass, becomes a beautiful girl. She discovers some diamonds buried in blue clay, but her father orders her to destroy them telling her they will bring her nothing but unhappiness. Ralph Ashton, a young society man, loses his inheritance and ships on a vessel as steward. He is a victim of shipwreck and is washed ashore on the island of Content. Jane, whose father has died, discovers the body and drags it ashore. They live alone on the island for a year and learn to love each other. One day in looking for an old coat, Ralph discovers the bag of diamonds. Until this time he has been contented, but from now on his one desire is to escape with the wealth. He spends hours watching for ships, and trying to polish the diamonds. Too late, Jane realizes that her father's words were partly true. Ralph neglects Jane. Then one day Ralph's signal is seen and they are rescued by a passing ship. While Ralph is overjoyed and mingles with the officers. Jane, unobserved, steals from the cabin and leaning over the stern, watches her beloved island disappear from view. The diamonds bring a small fortune to Jane and Ralph, who are now married. Jane cannot adjust herself to changed circumstances, and Ralph seeks for more congenial company. He becomes fascinated with Rosett Van Nott. Jane overhears the woman and her husband planning to elope. Jane is urged to secure a divorce, but refuses. Jane plots with a sea captain in an endeavor to save her husband. One night Ralph is overcome by assailants and chloroformed. He is taken aboard ship where Jane is anticipating his arrival. Ralph is kept drugged until the old Island is reached when he is carried ashore and placed in the old hut. When Ralph recovers consciousness he finds himself again on the Island of Content. He seeks Jane; his face softens and he holds out his arms to her.
- In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.
- The escapades of a young woman who has unfortunately directed her great abilities to a course of criminal theft. Starting with a carefully mapped out robbery of the various guests at a party to which she has been invited, she successfully makes away with her friends' valuables and pocketbooks. This is followed by her planning a diamond robbery, which could only emanate from a fertile brain. She enters a jewelry store and asks to see some diamonds that are in the window. The clerk takes the precaution of counting them, and then hands the tray for inspection. Unseen she withdraws from her mouth some gum which she has purchased for the purpose and, taking a diamond, secretes it on the underside of the counter by using the gum for the purpose. On her preparing to go the clerk finds a diamond missing and has her searched, but without avail. She is next seen to enter the jewelry store in man's attire, and under the pretense of wanting to buy a watch, awaits her chance and removes the diamond, which has remained unmolested. She next holds up a bank messenger, with the contents of whose valise she has already been cunning enough to become acquainted. Once more in male attire, she produces her gun and relieves the messenger of the valuables his precious valise contains, and on a policeman entering the scene she turns her gun on him and holds them both at bay, while she makes her escape. The final scene is then enacted. The female highwayman, thinking she has successfully eluded her pursuers, proceeds to enter her room and dispose of the valuables she has on her person. While doing so she hears noises of her pursuers, who break into her room and capture her at last.
- "Showing them in a game called 'cock fight,' in which they hop around on one foot with their arms folded. The whole affair is very laughable and sure to provoke a great outburst of mirth."
- An entire evening of magical entertainment is included in the 100 feet which composes the film. Hermann himself would have been proud of the result obtained. Our friend, the magician, first steps forward and produces an ivory billiard ball from space. With a wave of his hand he changes it into a full sized bowling ball, and in order to show that there is no limit to his ability makes one more change and holds in his hand a large cloth, known in magician circles as a "foulard." From this he produces a sleek and prosperous-looking rabbit, and then, apparently from nowhere, the stage is graced by the appearance of a charming lady in fancy costume. Holding the foulard in front of the lady, but allowing her head and shoulders to appear, he gradually raises the lower part of the cloth when it is seen that her "visible means of support" have entirely disappeared, leaving only the head and shoulder pendant in the atmosphere. These in turn disappear and the stage is empty until a large hoop covered with paper is seen to swing from side to side and, upon a pistol being fired, the lady makes her final appearance by jumping through the hoop as it swings and the film closes with her final bow to the audience. This also is a new film and one which in itself is an entire evening's entertainment. Don't overlook it.
- Never before have the Utes permitted a photographer around their teepees when they gave their snake dance. This weird rite is performed every fall after the harvest has been good and its meaning is a tribute to the snakes who are supposed to bring plenty of rain next season. To omit paying homage to the reptiles is to invite a season of shortage of water and crop failures and famine for the Utes. Our photographer in Colorado has known Quin-Chuck-A-Chaw, Sub-Chief of the Southern Utes, for many years. Buckskin Charlie, the main chief, never permitted the photographing of any of the Ute dances so when "Quin" was alone with the dancers at the last dance he gave permission for just two minutes of picture work. The camera was placed where the entire dance could be seen. The light was perfect and the film is one of the clearest and brightest ever made anywhere. It is a most wonderful specimen of photography aside from its interesting subject. When the dance opened the Indians had their snakes in their hands, waving them aloft and turning them with certain dexterity that always enabled them to dodge the fangs of the enraged reptiles. After dancing around once or twice the chief put his snake in his mouth. Just as the slimy head darted to sink the fangs into cheek the Indian reached up and grabbed the snake behind the head and avoided danger. Some of the Indians dropped their reptiles on the ground and teased them with feathers to get them to strike. Others twisted them up in the air and in other ways tried to annoy the reptiles. Every movement of snakes and Indians can plainly be seen and all the horrible details of the dance are shown in full and wonderful precision. From an ethnological standpoint alone the film is one that will pass into scientific circles immediately and last there for many years. As long as researches are made into Indian lore and customs, this film will stand as an authority on its subject. Its accuracy can never be questioned. To-day it forms a great addition to a motion picture show that will create more comment than any other of its class ever made.
- Frank Gotch defends the World's Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Stanislaus Zbyszko.
- A fisherman discovers a young woman on what should be an uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man's Isle do not have long to live. This silent film features an original, scene-specific piano score compiled from period appropriate photoplay music.
- The Taking of the Moonstone. This scene for artistic realism has never been surpassed. It transports the audience from the commonplace of this workaday world into the mystic pagan symbolism of India. Six Months Later. We travel with our characters to the great city of history and tradition, London, where we see the pleasure loving fiancée of Herncastle with a party of friends at a game of baccarat. Next we see the party of Hindoos at their suite of apartments in the Hotel Cecil. A daughter of one of the faithful is put into a hypnotic sleep and while in this condition describes the present location of the Moonstone. Herncastle is seen in the act of transferring the diamond to his fiancée in a vision. Interest now centers on Herncastle's sweetheart, who places the diamond under her pillow when she retires for the night. She is a somnambulist, and the weighty responsibility of the "Moonstone's" care makes her restless; she rises in her sleep, takes the "Moonstone" from beneath her pillow and seeks a more secure hiding place. She mounts the stairs leading to the roof and there secretes the treasure beneath a loose brick in the chimney. Her maid, hearing a noise, follows her. On reaching the head of the stairs and seeing her mistress in a perilous position near the edge of the roof, she screams, waking her suddenly and causing her to stagger and fall, this tragedy depicting clearly, the curse of the "Moonstone." In a room at Herncastle the master hears the awful fate of his fiancée from a club friend. His next feeling is one of anxiety, fear for the loss of the stone. He goes to her apartment and remembering her fall from the roof he feels certain it is there that she secreted the stone. The Hindoo, with the same idea, is there before him and discovers the jewel just as Herncastle reaches the roof. A struggle follows and Herncastle recovers possession of the stone. He has recognized his antagonist and rushes from the scene in a mad endeavor to escape. The scene shifts to Hampton Roads, where a balloon ascension is in preparation. The owner of one of the balloons is a friend of Herncastle's, who comes into the scene closely followed by the Hindoo. Herncastle, maddened by pursuit, jumps into the balloon, cuts the rope and rises into space; believing himself free at last, he feverishly throws out ballast to make the balloon rise more rapidly. In his excitement he has not seen the Hindoo grasp the rope and commence a daring hand-over-hand climb in midair. He turns, still laughing exultantly over his effectual escape, to face his fate in the form of the Hindoo just stepping into the basket. For a second of time they look into each other's eyes, realizing it means life and freedom for only one of them; then, maddened by the desperation of their perilous position, they clinch. The occult power of justice prevails. Herncastle is overcome, the Hindoo secures the Moonstone and Herncastle falls from the balloon, a victim of his own cupidity. Six Months Later. In front of the Moon-God's sacred temple the prince assists a beautiful girl from the houdah of a magnificently caparisoned elephant. On the steps of the temple, awaiting the prince and his party, we recognize the faithful followers who accompanied him in his search for the recovery of the jewel. From the Moon-God's forehead blazes the great white diamond men call the Moonstone, and our story picture closes with a pagan ceremony of marriage, for it is thus the prince rewards the maiden through whose occult powers the stone was first traced.
- A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.
- Short actuality film which documents the passage of a Ringling Brothers circus parade through a prosperous Black community in Indianapolis.