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Ont in the Terduga Canyon of Cali
fornia, an Indian battle, as realistic as
any that occurred during the early fron
tier days, has been staged by the Kalem
Company, for use in the motion picture
adaptation of Frederick Paulding's
famous drama, "Trooper Billy."
According to the story, Kate Graham
and her twin brother, called "Trooper
Billy," are the guests of Colonel Blake,
commandant of a Western army post
The two soon become prime favorites.
Colonel Blake's son is a lieutenant in
his command, and he and Kate are
hopelessly in loye with each other.
"Trooper BiHy"- is slain ontside tbe
post by Sunrise Beek, a half-breed, and
some of Jus tribe.
SteOow, a scout, is sent out to find
him. Coming np to the spot where the
boy had been ambushed, Stetlotv finds
Jus hat, and turning his horses bead
lbout, returns to the post. Kate breaks
down when she bears Stetlow's story.
3tetlow is madly in love with Kate
ind realizes he has no chance to win
her. But the sight of her tears causes
his passion to flare up and he seizes her
in his arms, pretending to comfort her.
She is struggling to free herself when
Blake rushes in and drives him before
aim at the point of his sword. The
humiliation he has suffered causes the
scout to drink heavily and he is- an easy
victim for Beek, who secures his con
sent to a plot to massacre the garrison
at the post.
Lieutenant Blake, with a detachment
of men, goes on a hunt for Trooper
Billy. By a. clever piece of strategy,
Beek splits the party in two, one-half
returning towards the direction of the
post. With the parties weakened, lie
5gures that it will be an easy matter
to kill them both off. Kate, disguising
herself in her brother's clothes fojlows,
and so great is her resemblance to her
twin brother, that Lieutenant 3lake con
cludes he has fonnd tbe object of his
search. That night JSse overhears
Beek an Steflfow Hiscussing plans involving-
the massacre of Lieutenant
Blake's men and the entire post. Rid
ing into the night she pursues the men
who have been sent back, and returning
with them beats off the Indians who
have attacked Blake's force.
Meanwhile the post is attacked. The
soldiers stationed on top of tbe stockade
pick off tbe Indians as they advance,
but as fast as one falls another takes
his place. Mounting on -each other's
shoulders the red men climb to the top
of the stockade, where they fight hand
to hand with the soldiers. A few leap
inside the gate, and withdrawing the
bars, throw the gate wide open. The
Indians swarm into the post and close
in hand-to-hand conflict with the sol
diers. The garrison is making a last
stand when Lieutenant Blake gallops
up with his men. and turns defeat into
victory. Beek, believing Stetlow has
betrayed Mm, mortally wounds him and
is inmseii slam.
"A Man in the 'World of Men" (Pow
ers two-reel drama, with Edwin August
in leading role.). Edwin and David are
twins. Edwin is afflicted with a fatal
malady, but is not aware of it. His
father and David arrange to get Edwin,
who is aa artist, to the mountains to
prolong his life. David counsels telling
Edwin of his condition, but tbe father
begs that this be not done. Edwin and
David arrive in tbe mountains and Ed
win gets engrossed in his painting.
Alice, the daughter of their landlady,
poses for him and they fall in love with
each other", to David's sorrow, for he
knows the inevitable ending, and, more
over, loves the girl himself. One day
as Edwin is painting a sportsman comes
along with his wife. She offends him
and he is brutal with her. The artist
teaches the bully a lesson and, in a fit
of rage, he deserts his wife. Edwin
proposes to Alice and is accepted. He
writes and tells his father of his engage
ment, and tbe father is distracted. He
persuades the family doctor to write to
the artist and tell him his condition.
Edwin reads, with a heart turning to
ice, that he has about a year to live.
He cannot tell Alice. He does not
know what to do. He asks and gets
the aid of the woman he protected, and
they deliberately make love in the sight
of the heartbroken Alice. Believing
him fickle and cowardly, she gets in
terested in David, and one day the un
selfish Edwin sees them kiss' and knows
that he its forgotten. He is overcome
and falls and dies.
A. D. Hotatling, with a special com
edy eompaiiy, has been installed at the
Lubin Studio, at Jacksonville. Fla., and
it is announced he has started work on J
a series of comedy pictures of a class
never before attempted.
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On a day when Lake Michigan was
at its worst a troop of Essanay players
enacted a scene of rescuing a ship
wrecked girl from a raft which had been
set adrift and tossed about at the mercy
of the wares. The girl displayed re
markable courage and pluck while cling
ing to the wreckage, as the waves
dashed about her with terrific force,
twice being on the point of exhaustion,
but with great courage insisted on fin
ishing the scene. The hero and his two
brave companions showing great skill
and courage by rowing their boat
through the heavy surf, which repeat
edly drove them back, finally reached
the wreck on the point of exhaustion,
after almost superhuman effort.
The hero, with great difficulty and
showing-great strength, at last succeeds
in luting the girl irom the wreckage to
the boat just as a huge wave smashes;
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hero by Francis X. Bushman and the
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Placek.
Mr. P. Kimberley, managing director
in London of the Imp Film Company,
and who has held, a prominent place in
the motion picture business in England
for the past ten years, has been paving
a short visit to this country. Before
coming here, Mr. Kimberley, established
a world's record in placing "Ivanhoe,"
the big Imp feature, in motion picture
booses throughout Great Britain and
Ireland.
Photo-play patrons will shortly be sur
prised to see that popular favorite, Irv
ing Cummings, formerly star of the Re
liance Company, appear in Pathe Freres
features. Mr. Cummings is not only
one of the handsomest, but also one of
the most gifted, actors in pictures, and
frankly acknowledges much of hs suc
cess to the artistic training of Director
Oscar C. Apfel, whose brilliancy as a
director is acknowledged. Mr. Apfel(
raxes a scenario and develops it with a
rare delicacy of understandfng and bril
liance of interpretation.
The Imp European Stock Company
have moved on to Berlin, and have be
gun work on the third of the interna
tional series of pictures under Universal
auspices. Joe Brandt is with the com
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Billy Quirk, the best-known and high
est priced juvenile comedian in pictures,
is about to make a brief excursion into
the realms of vaudeville. Mr. Quirk,
whose appearance on the screen is al
ways the signal for appreciative merri
ment, will receive a salary commensur
ate with his popularity, and therefore
his salary will be the largest ever paid
a movie star for a vaudeville engage
ment, with the possible exception of
that other popular .and older comedian,
John Bunny.
Adolph Zukor. president Of the Fa
mous Plffyers Film Company, who has
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Europe in the- interest of his company,
reports from abroad thats foreign con
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and his sound theories and advanced
ideas have met with flattering endorse
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in an incrediaWy short time has brought
the Famous Players to a commanding
position in the industry, has made itself
evident to the observant members of the
foreign trade, who extended Mr. Zukor
a cordial official and personal, welcome.
Mr. Zukor has established offices in
London, Paris and Berlin.
Edward O'Connor, of the Edison
Company, is one of the best-known char
acter actors of the photo-play forces
named after the famous inventor. Fori
many years Mr. O'Connor was well
and favorably known on the speaking
stage and his work in pictures has been
so favorably received that as soon as the
audience recognizes him a ripple of ap
plause sweeps through the house. He
is no"w engaged in a feature photo-play
which is expected to be one of the best
yet turned out in the Edison studio.
Mrs. Agnes Egan Cobb, who has been
handling Union Features, the multiple
reel products of the French Eclair Com
pany for several mouths, will soon han
dle, under the brand Ideal Features, the
Savoia, -and Film d'Art pictures. These
are subjects varying in length from three
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in handling, as selling agent, the films of
the Gaumont, Solax, Great Northern,
Itala, Great Events, Scientific Studies,
Hecla and other companies. Mr. Miles
has made another record with all who
have business dealings with him. This
is for absolute reliability. It is a ques
tion .however, whether he deserves any
credit for this. Those, who .know him
best say his "franEness aid integrity
are- so ingrained that he- couldn't be
other than what he is if he tried.
Arthur M. Smallwood, general mana
ger of the United States Film Company,
has done as much as any other man
in this country to promote the production
and exhibition of industrial motion pic
tures. He has brought home to "boost
ers" of towis and agricultural develop
ments, manufacturers and all enterprises
appealing to the public, in a large way
realization of the effective aid they can
obtain from the motion picture.
Features Ideal is about to produce in
this country a strong dramatic photo
play, staged in its Paris studio, in which
Mile. Polaire is the leading character.
Mile. Polaire, who is now in this coun
try, enjoys "enjoys" is written advis
edly the reputation of being the ugli
est actress in the world. In her nose
she wears a pearl ring. "It is a fad I
started two months ago in Paris," she
says, "and wiien the American women
see it they, too, will wear them."
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the Famous Players features in western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and
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"The Special Officer" (Lubin, two
reels, by Edwin Barbour. Produced by
L. B. Carleton) Daddy Bownc has been
janitor and special othcer ot the Boon
ville Bank for thirty years. Enoch
Gage, the president, and Daddy have
been friends from boyhood. Daddy, with
his wife and his son Tom, who has
worked his way up from office boy to
paying teller, live over the bank. Tom
and Grace, the president's daughter,
have become sweethearts. Duncan Ross
appears on the scene for the purpose of
selling stock in a get-rich-quick scheme
under the name of "The Wireless
Power Company." He secures the good
opinion of Mr. Gage, who rents him an
office in the building and introduces him
to his daughter and to patrons of his
bank. Ross creates a furor and the
citizens fall over each other to buy
Wireless stock. Gtt.ce is infatuated.
Tom is neglected. Tom suspects Ross
scheme is a fraud, and is supported by
his father. To give color to the lamesty
of his purpose, Ross deposits daily bis
receipts from the sale of the stock with
the Boonville bonk.
Tbe stock is all sold and Ross, f eat
ing to prolong his stay, announces that
he will banquet the citizens before nis
departure, whkh is to occur in two
days. Tom finds Grace coming from
Ross' office" one evening and followed
by Rqss. A fight takes place. Paddy
separates the young men, drags Tom
into his own room and tries to quiet
him. Tom declares he will leave, and
logins packing his bag. Cautioning his
father to prevent Ross from drawing
his money from the bank for two days
if possible, Tom takes his loave. Tom
has left a note for Mr. Gage, telling of
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his intended departure. Penciling the
combination to the safe on the back of
tne. note, Mr. Cage gives it to his son
Bob, who has just returned from col
lege, and tells him he will have to take
Tom's place. Bob, after copying the
combination, crumples the note and
flings it in the waste basket. Hera
Mother Bowne sees her boy's writing
and takes it to her husband. That night
in looking it over Ire discovers the com
bination penciled on the back. A way
to prevent the money from bein paid
to Boss on the following morning sug
gests itself. While Ross banquet is go
ing on he rifles the snfe and conceals
the money in the cashier's desk. The
next morning Ross calls for his money.
He sees the empty safe and gives the
alarm. Tom, in the meantime, has re
turned with the postoffice inspectors.
He -finds a mob battling at the bank
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door. Daddy has also, from the npper
windows, seen the mob gathering. The
sheriff and inspectors break through the
mob as Daddy discloses the Aiding place
of the money. Ross is arretted for
swindling and taken away as Daddy is
being congratulated on saving the bank
from a real robbery.
"Arizona," which has been produced
as a photo-drama by the All-Star Fea
ture Corporation under the personal di
rection of its author, Augustas Thomas,
in six parts, containing .MO scenes, has
won on its initial presentations a suc
cess even greater than was predicted for
it. Moe Streimer. of the Theatre Film
Company, New York City, which is
handling "Arizona," and will handle
all future All-Star releases, is kept
busy booking engagements for it in all
the important motion picture houses of
the Empire State.
Leon J. Rubinstein, head of the Ruby
Feature Film Company, is about to fol
low his sensational and successful "Gun
men of New York" with "The Hounds
of tbe Under-world." This is announced
to be the forerunner of a series of real
istic releases giving authentic exposition
of existing evils in the handling of
crime and criminals.
Harold McGrath, the well-known nov
elist, is about to write a series of sce
narios for the Selig Polyscope Company.
They will bear the title of "The Ad
ventures of Kathlyn," and in them will
appear prominently the fearless Miss
Williams and the wild animals at the
company's Chicago plant.
"When the Debt Was Paid" (Ma
jestic). Dr. Merton is known as the
poor man's doctor and is blessed for his
kindness. In addition he Is the head of
a gang of counterfeiters. Betrayed by
one of its members, the police, with
Sergeant Casey at their head, raid the
counterfeiters' den, situated in a row
of houses in which he himself lives.
Dr. Merton escapes through the roof
and takes refuge in the Sergeant's own
home. Casey follows and is about to
arrest him when Mrs. Casey- tells him
that the man he would semTto prison is
the doctor who saved their little girl's
life. The Sergeant relents and the doc
tor goes West, where he settles down
and abandons counterfeiting as a side
line.
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ners Features, Inc., three parts)
Marion Leonard is one of the biggest
favorites of the American screen stars.
In this dramatic feature she has won
derful opportunities to display her re
markable talent and the result is three
reels of dramatic action that holds yon
enthralled through every scene. The
story of this" feature deals with the
heroic efforts of a young actress who
has married a scion of an old family to
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and then committed suicide. The young
man's father bitterly" opposed the mar
riage of his son to "aa actress," con
sidering it a disgrace to the family name
and when his boy refused to listen, to
his protests he ordered htm from, his
home. The union was a happy one,
however, and a charming youngster
came to bless the home. But a crisis
came, and young Stockton needed money.
He was weak enough to use some of the
firm's money to carry some of his per
gonal Wall Street speculations. The re
sults were disastrous. Then when he
went to his old father to teB him he was
a thief, the elder Stockton refused to
believe him and insisted that he was
1 only trying to get money to spend on
nnat woman Tfle Doy, brofeen vo.
spirit, shot himself. The manner ia
which his wife (Miss Leonard) arose to
the1 occasion, and covered np all traces
of the theft and suicide, to save the
family name from disgrace, was dra
matic in the extreme. This will be
another Addition to Miae Leonard's tri-
umphs dtf the screen. Her work in this
powerful drama will make many new
j friends for this popular photo-play star.
"Heart of Kathleen" (Three-part
Domino reel) This strong Irish drama
was staged by Thomas H. Ince, the di
rector who put on "The Battle of Get
tysburg.'' Dennis Conner, a bold Irish
lad of Killady Kee, and Kathleen, his
sweetheart, are the hero and herome.
Dennis and Kathleen stand oh the beach
watching the wreck of the ship bring
ing her father home. His body is
washed ashore and also the seemingly
lifeless Robert Strathcone. The latter
is resuscitated and while convalescing
makes love to Kathleen. Dennis grows
jealous, quarrels with Kathleen and they
part. Kathleen is mined" and dtserted
by Strathcone. Dennis finds her dead
on the beach, where she has wandered
in her despair.
There is a rebellion in Ireland. Lord
Stratbc ne and his son head the English
forces, while Dennis leads a strong body
of Irish. Young Strathcone, thinking to
capture Dennis, leads a detachment into
a trap the Irish leader has prepared
for him. Most of the English are killed
and Strathcone is captured. Dennis
gives him a chance for his life and they
fight a duel with blackthorn shillelahs,
in which Strathcone is slain. Later
Dennis is captured and stands on the
gallows, about to be hanged, when a
body of his adherents rescue him and
he- escapes from Ireland in a small sail
boat
The Yonth Photo Play Co.. which
W. W. Young is manager, fe- perform
ing an important educational work in
producting films possessing strong dra
matic interest, but written and s-taged
with the one view of affecting the moral
uplift of the youth of the country.
The latest of these photo-plays, the
state rights of which are now on the
market, is "A Boy and the Law," a
five-reel picture portraying the true life
story of William Eckstein, and ifc.
scenes show' the details of his progress
.through a series of hitter persecutions
in Russia, his native land, his escape
and flight to this cotmtry, his career
here as leader of a law-defying gang.
his redemption through tbe influence of
Jndge Willis Brown, and, his emergence
into honorable citizenship, holding; at
the age of twenty-three, a 'position of
trust and responsibility. The play 13
acted throughout all its thriHiog scenes
by young Eckstein himself.
In this life drama appears also Judge
Willis Brown, founder of the Utah Ju
venile Court, the Parental Court of
Gary, Indiana, and of Boy City, and
author of the Federal Parental and Ed
ucational. Court Bill. The scenes in
which he appears show in detail the
work he is performing ' in reforming
wayward boys, and the effects that work
is producing.
Dorothy Davenport is back in the
"Universal" fold again, after an en
gagement with the Selig and Kalem as
leading woman. She Mill play opposite
Wallace Reid. who has commenced to
produce and act his own plays. In Miss
Davenport he has a delightful little
leading woman, a great favorite with
the public. Her work is always con
scientious. HEATBE FILM 00.
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