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- An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- 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.
- Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
- Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
- 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.
- "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."
- As two couples enjoy their evening promenade in a nice but rickety open motor car, without notice, an explosion blows the vehicle to smithereens.
- Who stole "The Millionaire Baby?" Did the plotting Doctor Pool finally accomplish his bold determination? Did Valerie Carew, former Burlesque Queen conquered by Mother-Love seize an advantageous opportunity and steal away her loved one? Did Marion Ocumpaugh have knowledge of Gwendolyn's disappearance? Did Justin Carew, finally recognizing his wife and desiring a reconciliation, see the light and kidnap his own child?
- Jim Draper and burglar Broadway Jim look very much alike. When Broadway Jim discovers this, he attacks Jim Draper and steals his invitation to a reception where jewels will be exhibited. His plot is discovered and he is captured.
- 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.
- Doris Payne, a wealthy orphan, has an income of more than a million dollars a year. She is courted and flattered by a host of admirers. An accident to her automobile brings her to the home of a young farmer, Tom Clark, and his wife, Helen. Their beautiful home life and happiness impresses Doris so, that she determines to seek happiness herself by going among strangers. She secures a position in a department store and thereby meets Dan Hunter, a young farmer who purchases some merchandise from her. Dan is smitten with Doris' charms, and she immediately conceives an intense admiration for the stalwart young farmer. Dan invites her to take a vacation on his farm, where his mother lives. Doris accepts and finds true enjoyment there. The lesson of love is quickly learned and Doris rejects her wealthy friends for happiness in a real home.
- Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on her father's farm, is her only pet and in the first part of our story we see her befriend him from a cruel keeper. Hans, a neighboring Boer farmer calls and asks for Meta's hand in marriage. The girl is ordered by her father to accept Hans' attentions. She has been taught to obey and when Hans gives her a love offering, a huge necklace of beads, she meekly offers her cheek for the betrothal kiss. Sir John's nephew, Hirshal, comes for a visit from England and Sir John brings him for a friendly call on the Krugas. Meta's heart awakens at the sight of the handsome, young Englishman, and she returns Hans's necklace. The father, however, orders her to marry Hans, or never darken his door again. Meta refuses, and is driven away by the heartless, old man. She starts for Sir John's house on foot, is lost in the jungle, and attacked by a leopard. She defends herself with a large hunting knife and though badly lacerated gets away. In this condition she is found by her pet, Toddles, who has taken French leave of the farm after a severe beating. How the half-dead girl is carried back to her home by the elephant, the father's change of heart, and Hans' dismissal we prefer to leave untold.
- Bruce Wilton has amassed a fortune which he lavishes on his wife Vera. But a note of menace creeps into their happy home. No one hears it at first, except Father Kelly, a priest and Bruce's former tutor. The priest goes quietly to work with his sharpened mental sense to find the person who is causing the adverse influence in the house-hold. When he is on the verge of discovering the cause, calamity sweeps in on Bruce; his fortune is swept away and in a manner that he believe his wife was the cause of his ruin.Husband and wife are separated, divorced and their home is destroyed, and yet the cause remains unknown. But Father Kelly, with his faith that moves mountains, goes on quietly, serenely and confident with but one purpose in mind - the happiness of those he loves.
- After the daring and cunning of the American engineer blew up the Amphitheatre with his land mines, saving Kathlyn from the hungry lions, he dragged her from the wreckage to a secluded spot close by, where Ramadai and Pundita were waiting with elephants. So they all are elevated into the howdahs; the mahouts prod the big beasts and then follows a flight through the jungle. Finally in the dawn of the morning, they stop for water. A baboon runs close to the trail, frightening Kathlyn's elephant mount, which runs away. The mahout tries to stop the terrified beast, but he is thrown against a tree, and the elephant continues its frantic pace with Kathlyn, alone. The other members of the entourage pursue her, but the runaway gains so fast that Kathlyn is soon lost to their view in the recesses of the forest. Finally the weary elephant halts at the gates of a city, and Kathlyn again finds herself a stranger captive. She happens along about the time the funeral ceremony of a Parsee is being celebrated. The scene transfers to the Burning Gat, where a cremation is in process, after the primitive fashion of the Parsee. The widow is led to the pyre to be sacrificed with her husband for suttee. She shrieks with fear, declaring she will never give herself to the rite. The head man then shouts to them that a victim is providentially at hand to be sacrificed upon the pyre to propitiate the gods. Thereupon he leads in Kathlyn, the white captive. She is bound and place upon the smoking pile. The preparations are made for her final resignation, but she does not resign. As the fire is started, the natives start to decorously retire, their flight being accelerated by the appearance of a mad elephant. It happens to be Kathlyn's erratic mount. It recognizes its mistress and, reaching up to the top of the pyre, takes her from the flames that are now biting her garments. As the big beast rescues the fair one and rushes away, the scene dims. The day is far spent; likewise the elephant, and as night comes on, they approach the portico of a ruined temple. The animal kneels and Kathlyn descends, weary from the long journey. Across the pillared portico strolls a prowling lion. Other parts of the structure show that the carnivore are chiefly its habitants. Kathlyn alights and stands close to the sarcophagus. She observes the lion and leaps into the carved cavity. So she passes the night in terror, frequently seeking safety in the recesses of the sacred tomb as the black-maned lion passes and re-passes in search of prey. As morning comes, a priest ventures into the temple, and observing Kathlyn miraculously rising from the sarcophagus after her terrible rest, he views her as an apparition, and falls at her feet in worship. He calls his associates; they bring their food and drink and elect her to be high priestess in their temple; and henceforth she must keep alive by night and day the fire that will ward off evil spirits from that region. The unhappy young queen again finds not only a priestess, but a prisoner. One night in fleeing from the prowling lion she stumbles against an idol. It falls and is broken into a thousand pieces. The following morning the natives, discovering the destruction, are enraged beyond endurance, rushing at Kathlyn as if to slay her. She wards them off, reminding them that as high priestess her person is sacred. Then fortunately recurs to her the accomplishment of her girlhood days with clay modeling in her far away California studio. She plans to save herself from the fury of the fanatics by telling them that she has the power to recreate their idol. She orders clay and water and at once begins modeling a reproduction of the idol from memory. When the natives behold this completed work of art, they fall to the ground in abject obeisance, and she stands entrenched more strongly than ever in their reverence. Thus she again saves her life by her ready wit and her facility of accomplishment. The marauding lion has grown bolder and hungrier now makes his rounds on the portico in broad daylight. Having escaped the fury of the mob, Kathlyn now is about to become the prey of a savage beast. She flies for her life from the temple to the river. It would appear that only a miracle could save her now.
- A burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
- Dare Devil Tom Wallace, so called because of his seeming lack of fear, is held up while riding in the stage and robbed by a masked desperado named Morgan. Wallace finds the trail of the robber and follows it to the face of a cliff. After some reconnoitering he discovers that the bandit has been hoisted to the top of the cliff by his two confederates, Manuel and Dolores. He returns to town only to find that other depredations have been committed during his short absence. Sheriff "Bill" Andrews is much vexed over the turn of affairs and implores the further aid of Wallace. By a series of exciting and successful ruses, the foxy Morgan is finally captured. When unmasked, the bandit proves to be a combination of marshal and road agent, a daring double.
- Colonel William Ryan, a ranch owner, in the Lone Star State, has named his only daughter Texas. Jack Parker, a devil-may-care cowpuncher, loves only two things, one is his horse and the other a photograph of Texas Ryan, whom he has never seen. He has named his horse "Dream Girl" after the girl of the photograph. After several years in an eastern college, Texas return home. Her father is happy and she is idolized by the cowboys of the ranch. Antonio Moreno is the head of a band of cattle rustlers. His lieutenant, "Dice" McAllister, a former road agent, uses his office as marshal as a cloak for unlawful deeds. Moreno and McAllister have long plotted to secure Ryan's wealth, and Moreno resolves to pay court to the girl. In the "Last Chance" saloon and dance hall a shooting scrape occurs. Jack Parker, enemy of McAllister, is charged as being an accessory. Harsh words are exchanged and Parker overcomes McAllister in a desperate conflict, and then crosses the border until the disturbance blows over. He returns on the Fourth of July and proceeds to celebrate. Colonel Ryan and Texas meet him and Parker learns she is the girl of the photograph. Moreno and his gang, under pretense of friendship, visit the Ryan ranch during the round-up, and when Texas spurns the Mexican's offer of marriage, he threatens her, and is driven from the ranch. When Texas and her girlfriend, Marion Smith, are riding in the hills, they are seen by Moreno's men. Texas is pursued and made prisoner. Marion brings the news to Colonel Ryan. Jack Parker resolves to free the girl. By an offer of money, he persuades the bandits to free her. Moreno and McAllister rustle the Ryan cattle and are discovered by Parker. During a night of rain and wind he slips into the camp of the outlaws, takes Moreno a prisoner, and leaves a note telling McAllister of what he has done. When McAllister finds the note in the morning, he decides to leave the country. Moreno later makes his escape. Parker decides to go on the trail. He bids Texas farewell, telling her he is not worthy of her. As time passes Texas comes to understand that she loves the cowpuncher. Moreno continues his lawlessness. After a desperate conflict Parker is taken prisoner. Word is brought to Texas Ryan that he is to be shot that evening. The girl tells her father she believes the cattle thieves will spare Jack's life for money and starts in an automobile on her race with death. Moreno gloats over the revenge. The executioner awaits the order to fire. Just as Moreno is about to give the order, Texas arrives. The cupidity of the Mexican bandits is aroused by the gold, and the cowpuncher is freed and takes Texas into his arms.
- 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.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- 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.
- With the exception of this film there are absolutely no genuine moving picture films representing genuine prize fights on the market. The prize fight films, so-called, are either taken by the fight promoters and retained by them for exhibition, not on sale and cannot be procured, or else they are the boldest fake reproductions put up the day following the fight by cheap, so-called fighters, who endeavor, to the best of their ability and under the direction of the enterprising photographer, to represent or reproduce as nearly as possible the scrap which occured the evening before between the genuine principles. It is easy to see how very little real value films produced in these ways possess for the average public, which quick to see that the so-called priniples in the fight are not the men they are advertised to be, and the fight is not the real thing. This is not only a genuine picture taken while the fight was in actual progress, but the only picture of the kind which can be procured, and the only film which represented the Brooklyn Terror, Terrence McGovern, actually engaged in one of his most famous fights. All of our patrons do not approve of prize fights, but all must admit that no subject shows such wonderful spirit, motion, life and action as a genuine prize fight, and the enormous popularity which these films have enjoyed justifies our patrons in investing in a set of them. The Gans-McGovern fight took place in Chicago in the month of November, 1900. The enormous arena was brilliantly lighted by over 600 electric arcs, making the scene as bright as day, and every detail from figures to the remotest corner of the auditorium, as well as the prize ring itself, is accurately and truthfully depicted in this wonderful film. The complete set embraces 600 feet of film, shows all the preliminaries of the fight, the care of the principals by their seconds and two rounds of as fast and furious fighting as was ever seen in the prize ring. McGovern pursued his usual tactics, went in to knock out his opponent without delay, and as Gans was clever on his part, one of the most brilliant and wonderful exhibitions of sparring ever witnesses was caught by our camera and is here reproduced for the benefit of our patrons.
- The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.
- Hilda was the bakery girl, with a sweetheart who was not altogether welcome on account of Hilda's employer, who objected to his visits. In order to secrete her lover from the baker, who was coming, she hides him in the cold oven, but forgets to hide the tin pail that the beer came in, and a mouse is scented and poor Hilda lost the job and the boss baker hires Hans to take her place; also orders a fire built under the cold furnace. The boy helper, remonstrating, finally tells him there is a man hidden there. The boss at once sees the situation and goes for material for the fire. The sweetheart, overhearing this, makes his escape to the flour bin. The fire is built, but upon examination he finds the bird has flown. Determined not to be outdone, a few old bones are gotten from the cast-off scraps and placed in the oven and Hilda sent for. The boss having had a good laugh at her expense, is just preparing to go fishing over Sunday and accordingly locks the flour bin and repairs to the country to angle for the finny tribe. Upon his return Monday, he finds the new baker on the job and prepares to fill up the bin. In a moment of their absence the lover escapes back to the oven, only to be compelled to confront his executioners, who are amazed and exit pell mell to the street. An excited chase ensues,
- The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.
- Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. A water pipe bursts in the Householder kitchen and consternation reigns supreme. Mrs. Householder 'phones in a hurry call for a plumber, and then hurries back to the burst pipe, where she attempts to lessen the flood of water by holding her, hand over the break. The plumber arrives at last, but discovers that he has forgotten his tools. He goes leisurely back to get them. He meets some friends and joins them in a wee drippie. They become so enthralled in a discussion of politics that many drinks are consumed before the plumber remembers his mission and starts again shopward. He has only proceeded a short distance when he notices two boys fighting. He stops to show them some new kinks in the manly act and then goes on. When he reaches his shop it is noon, so he eats his lunch. In the meantime the Householder domicile is rapidly becoming a swimming tank. The plumber starts out again with his tools over his shoulder and proceeds some blocks without interruption, but finally meets a young lady with whom he flirts. Later, his attention is switched to a group of boys playing ball. He joins in the game. By this time Mr. Householder has arrived at home and is acquainted with the situation. Donning a bathing suit he attempts to repair the damage, but the water is too deep. At last the plumber arrives and needless to say his reception is a hot one.
- 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).
- Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck. A bright baby girl was Molly's only comfort and gave her courage to endure the hardships which otherwise must have crushed her. The opening scene of the story shows a street in Wolf Hollow. Buck is on one of his usual rampages, and running into an athletic cowpuncher who is in town to spend his money, he makes an insulting remark and is soundly drubbed by the younger Hercules of the plains. Buck is proud of his fistic ability, and his defeat by a stranger before the denizens of the camp is more than he can stand, so he determines to pull up stakes and migrate to other parts. Stumbling along home to his cabin, he bursts into the one little room where his patient wife is rocking the little child to sleep, and with an angry growl informs her that he is going to "pull his freight" out of Wolf Hollow forever, and that she must accompany him, but leave the baby behind. Molly clasps the child wildly to her breast and begs piteously to be allowed to take her little one, but Buck is obdurate and gains his point by threatening to kill the infant unless she consents to leave it. Scrawling a note which he intends to leave, offering the child to anyone who may find it, he makes preparations for his immediate departure. Clinging wildly to her little one, the distracted mother is soon dragged from the house and told to mount one of the horses waiting without. Thus we see them riding away toward the setting sun, an inhuman father rejoicing in the prospects of shaking the dust of the hater camp from off his boots, a broken-hearted mother choking with sobs, thinking only of the helpless baby alone and deserted in the little cabin on the hill. Slippery Ann, a half-witted girl of the camp, meets Buck and his wife while on her return from a journey into the foothills, and is entrusted with the note Buck has written regarding the child. Hurrying on to Wolf Hollow. Ann turns the note over to Judge Honk, the father of the camp and dispenser of law and justice. The Judge is greatly exercised over the heartlessness of Buck, and calling the inhabitants of the camp about him, soon organizes a rescue party to repair to the deserted cabin of the Minors' and ascertains what truth there was in the strange letter. No time is lost in reaching the shack on the hill, and there, sure enough, lying on the bed is the infant. Taking it up rather gingerly in his arms, as though he were afraid of breaking it. Judge Honk heads the procession out the door and down the hill to the camp where a mass meeting is at once held to discuss ways and means of taking care of the kid. Cherokee Jim, the bartender of the "thirst emporium," suggests that they raffle off the youngster and whoever draws the winning card shall be the kid's adopted daddy. The raffle is quickly pulled off, and Ben Brooks, a good-natured, big-hearted cowpuncher, draws the lucky number. Ben almost reneges when he realizes what he has on his hands, but the cheers of good wishes of the rest of the bunch brace him up and they all retire to the "thirst parlor" to have one on the new daddy. After that "Ben's Kid" (as the baby is christened) becomes the one absorbing topic of conversation. Around the camp that night in the bunk house, a half-dozen sleepy punchers are trying to get some rest, while Ben in his bare feet is prancing around the room, jolting the baby up and down, while the youngster, terrified at its new surroundings, is making the welkin ring with its screams. "Fatty Carter," the heaviest weight on the range, does an Indian war dance, but to no avail. At last they all agree that the kid is sick, and a puncher is at once dispatched on the fastest bronco on the ranch to bring Judge Honk to the scene of battle at once (every one, of course, having absolute faith in the ability and knowledge of the Judge in all matters) to bring them out of the difficulty. The Judge soon arrives loaded down with mustard, and old-fashioned remedies of all kinds, and at once starts in to bring order out of chaos. Now, to return to Buck and his heartbroken wife. All afternoon they have traveled until near nightfall. The horses are unsaddled, the pack removed from the lead animal, and preparations are made to camp till morning. Now Molly has been turning over in her mind a plan, although a desperate one, it seems, the only loophole out of her present misery. Waiting until Buck has fallen into a sound slumber, she cautiously steals away from the camp fire and makes for a clump of trees in which are fettered the horses. Releasing her pony, she springs on his back and dashes away in the black night over the homeward trail. Aroused by the sound of her horses' hoofs. Buck awakes, and with a terrible oath upon realizing that Molly has outwitted him, goes crashing through the brush to his horse, and quickly saddling him, gallops away in pursuit of the fleeing woman, determined to overtake and kill her rather than let her escape from him for good. But he does not reckon on the swiftness of Molly's mount, and though he plies both whip and spur, his jaded horse is unable to gain a foot on the game little sorrel. On over rocks, through the stream, now down the slope of the mountain and across the gulch speeds the desperate woman, every nerve pounding on her brain, and every muscle strained to its utmost tension, her lips moving in silent prayer that she might outstrip the dread pursuer and regain the child fur whom her mother's heart cries out in bitter anguish. At last, brave girl, the goal is reached. Her way leads past the ranch on which Ben Brooks and the U.X. outfit are quartered, and seeing a light in the bunk house, the terrified woman heads her horse toward the beacon ray of hope. She barely reaches the door when the infuriated husband dashes up, bursting into the room. Molly startles the boys and the Judge into action. Buck, losing his head beyond control, follows her. "Save me," shrieks the terrified Molly. In an instant Buck finds himself in the grasp of a dozen willing hands. With a strength born of frenzy, he dashes them aside and draws his gun to shoot the cowering girl, when his aim is spoiled by quick action on Ben's part, and the Judge gets the bullet in his arm. Howling with pain, he yells to the punchers to hang the "varmint." But Buck is too quick for them, and knocking down a couple of the buys, he rushes his way out the door, and throwing himself into the saddle, plunges away into the night. No time is lost in going after him. Twenty swift riders are in the saddle before ten minutes have elapsed and they are off after the hated Buck, whose horse, already worn out from the other chase, is soon overtaken. A lariat hurls through the air and settles down about his neck, thus ending all hopes of escape for the fugitive. A letter written a year later to the Judge tells us what they did to Buck, while Molly, the pretty widow, is persuaded to let Ben retain his title to the kid by allowing Judge Honk to tie the knot, and Mr. and Mrs. Brooks start out on life's journey together, taking with them the good will and well wishes of the entire camp. -- The Moving Picture World, June 26, 1909
- Two caravans meet on the desert, one headed by Howell and Clancy, two New York men, who are gathering animals for circus purposes, the other is led by an old animal tamer named Desmond and his beautiful daughter, whom the natives have nicknamed Capt. Kate. After exchanging cards, the caravans go their separate ways. Desmond is stricken and dies, leaving Kate alone. She assumes her father's perilous business, leading her party of native hunters after big game. Later, one of the hunters is stricken and the superstitious followers of Capt. Kate, recognizing the nature of the disease, abandon the hunt and their leader, one servant alone remaining faithful to his mistress. Kate, realizing that she can go no further without assistance, calls a halt and they erect a crude hut in which she is to live, while the servant goes in search of Clancy. Scene of Kate's isolated life and her dangers follow. She is besieged by wild animals, who make her life a long nightmare of peril. Her only companions during this period are a pair of pet leopards. One scene shows an attack on the heroine's home by a lioness and the leopards are liberated to give the intruder combat. The leopards finally overcome the lioness, after a thrilling battle. Meantime, the servant, who was dispatched with Kate's message, meets death on the desert. His body is found long afterwards by Clancy and with it, the message. Of course, the hunter makes all haste to rescue the isolated girl and succeeds. The rescue introduces the packing of animals for shipment, their handling in the forest and the wharf. There is a happy ending; Clancy being too busy courting Miss Desmond to heed his partner's admonition to help with the crated captives.
- Jim Rogers, a clerk in a real estate office, has been sent to the bank to make the daily deposit. On his way he overhears a quarrel between a man and his wife and goes into their back yard to act as mediator. During his rather strenuous labor, he hangs his coat on the fence and Smooth Dan Tracy happens along, who abstracts the bank book and money. Rogers merely gets a beating for his interference and then finds he has lost the money. His employer promptly discharges him. His efforts to obtain work are unavailing and he is on the verge of starvation when Dan Tracy happens along and suggest that he assist him in wrecking the pay train. Rogers is so weak and hungry, that he assents to the scheme. The protestations of his wife against his associations with Tracy have so much weight that when that desperado attacks the station operator, Rogers interferes and again gets the worst of it, being knocked into a state of unconsciousness by the maddened Tracy. The latter gets the switch-key and rushes sway to wreck the oncoming pay train. The faithful wife escapes from her room, rushes to the station, revives her husband and the operator and they all rush to the switch that has opened. They overpower Tracy and close the switch as the pay train thunders by to safety.
- Sidney Smith, the artist, incurs the displeasure of the Sunday Editor by his oft-repeated failure to report at the art room on time. A moving picture producer one morning applies for, and obtains, permission from the newspaper to reproduce in animated form their comic supplement character, "Old Doc Yak," The producer's requirements call for one thousand separate, carefully prepared original drawings from the pen of Artist Smith before noon of that day. The Sunday Editor rushes to the art room, but Smith has not shown up that morning. Along about noon the artist comes sauntering in very leisurely. The Sunday Editor, peeved at Smith's seeming indifference to newspaper office discipline, tells him of the work before him and that one thousand drawings must be absolutely finished inside of an hour. Smith offers to bet $50 that he can accomplish the task. The Editor bets him that he can't and the stakes are placed in the hands of another artist. Then we see a close-up view of Smith's hand as it rapidly draws and inks in a face of the ever laughable goat. This face then comes to life and its contortions are wonderfully amusing, Next he draws a scene showing "Doc" standing in a room looking intently at a bee. The drawing suddenly comes to life and the antics of the pair are truly funny. Another scene shows an enlarged view of "Doc's" face after it has been stung by the bee. This and many other amusing and novel scenes are climaxed by the unique illusion which is secured in the finis piece. Needless to say, Smith wins his bet and the art room takes a vacation for the afternoon, while the money is spent.
- Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo Watson. Ruth, the daughter of the ranch owner, one day sees Dakota's display of horsemanship, and the admiration thus aroused soon ripens into love, much against the protest of the family. Ruth's love for Dakota is increased by his heroic deed when he rescues her from the malignant attentions of a rushing steer whose anger is aroused by the flowing red handkerchief about her neck. Dakota, who is riding ahead of the cowboys on a round-up expedition, catches sight of the steer heading for Ruth, and, spurring his broncho into a break-neck speed, reaches the side of the steer, leaps upon its hack, and, fastening his muscular arms on the frenzied beast's horns, brings him to the ground. In the midst of the ovation given him by the cowboys, Dakota is nabbed by Sheriff Mathers, who begins to march him back to the Deer Lodge Penitentiary. As the sheriff, his deputies and his captive are riding along a narrow mountain roadway, Dakota makes a daring leap down the precipitous incline, rolling down until he reaches the bottom, where he hides behind a projecting rock. The sheriff, in the meantime, has taken the long way down and follows for a distance, until he discovers the still form of Dakota behind the sheltering rock, and, thinking him dead, rides away. Though free, Dakota is handicapped by the manacles. He manages to steal the gun and horse belonging to a sleeping shepherd, and by holding the gun between his knees, and placing the connecting chain of the manacles in front of the gun, he pulls with his teeth the strap which he has fastened to the trigger of the gun, thereby severing the connecting links. As he starts to ride away he is observed by a distant rifleman, who, by the aid of binoculars, sees the dangling steel wristlets, proving that he is an outlaw. He fires and Dakota tails from his horse with a head wound. But his left foot gets caught in the stirrup and he is dragged for a long distance with bullets flying around him. His foot eventually gets loose and he is left unconscious on the ground. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself again in the hands of the law, and just before he is about to be incarcerated he marries Ruth Watson, who bravely sobs as he is led away: "Good bye, my man, when you come back, I'll be waiting."
- "Col. John Roberts, C.S.A., returning to his Virginia home to assume command of the critical situation in that neighborhood, finds that, during his absence, the Yankees have appropriated for their own uses, everhthing eatable on the plantation and that his wife, baby girl, and colored maid, are facing starvation. Mrs. Roberts, weak from hunger, becomes ill and the Colonel sends for a doctor, who prescribes "good, wholesome food, to be taken three times a day." Roberts is called away at this moment, and the prescription falls to the ground unnoticed by all except "Baby Betty." The child, with intuitive understanding of the situation, picks up the paper, and, with a Confederate flag over her shoulder, starts for the Yankee's headquarters, which is near at hand. Unknown to her mother and "Aunt Cleo," the baby makes her way through the northern lines and finds her way into Colonel Howard's camp. That gentleman, big-hearted Yankee that he is, reads the prescription, and, with thoughts of his own dear ones at home, orders one of his men to carry a large basket of provisions through the lines to Betty's home. The following day both armies line up opposite each other at the edge of a nearby clearing to engage in battle. They are about to open fire when suddenly the attention of everyone is arrested by a little figure in white sleeping peacefully in the center of the battlefield. A truce is called and the two commanders ride out to investigate the embarrassing situation. They find that the sleeping child is "Baby Betty," who has unconsciously halted the impending conflict. Realizing that there can be no fighting that day, the commanders agree upon an armistice and each army retires amid cheers for "Baby Betty," the little rebel." Moving Picture World Apr-June 1912 p.1258
- Nina Brooks and her associate, Joe Brooks, are caught in a badger game, convicted and sentenced to a term of years in the state penitentiary. Nina serves her term and on her release is taken in charge at the prison gate by Mary Moore, who presides over a mission for the reclamation of unfortunate women. Nina finds herself in this new field, and becomes an ardent worker in the cause. In the course of her labors, she meets Henry Lewis, a humanitarian. Lewis is the prosecuting attorney that was responsible, in the line of his duty, for her conviction and sentence. He becomes more than interested in Nina, and would marry her, assuring her, in spite of her objections and fear that her past is her own. They are married and happy. Meantime Brooks has escaped from prison. He meets and recognizes his old pal and calls to blackmail and persecute her. Driven into a frenzy Nina shoots Brooks. Lewis recognizes Brooks and associates him with Nina's past. The police arrive; Lewis shows his true and manly love by assuming the responsibility for the tragedy, giving himself over to the authorities without a murmur.
- John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the same ship and is to act as her escort. At the same time telling her he will meet them at Cape Town. After a hurried preparation for the departure the long journey is begun. Lord Thurlow is attentive to his charge that he may fulfill the wishes of his friend and confidant, John Wilton. Will Carson, a fellow passenger aboard, much admires the young and handsome Helen and seeks an introduction through the ship officer. The admiration becomes mutual and they are seen on the promenade deck enjoying fresh sea air. Their action causes much uneasiness on the part of Lord Thurlow, who interferes in the discharge of his duty, and is in turn insulted by Will, much to the disgust of Helen, who regrets the publicity of the incident. The approaching storm rivets the attention of all on board and for a time the unfortunate affair is forgotten. When 500 miles off Cape Town the vessel is wrecked and all are struggling in the treacherous waters of the sea. After two days' time famine and starvation made the occupants of the improvised raft almost welcome death as relief. On the third day they are washed ashore and when sufficiently revived wend their way to the jungle in search of civilization. A deserted hut furnished them shelter, but must be guarded night and day, for the country round swarms with wild beasts and life in these parts is all but pleasant. Helen, secure on the top of the thatched hut, is startled to see lions and leopards prowl around almost within hand reach. Thurlow is at their mercy and meets his fate stoically. Two years elapse and the brother who had mourned his sister as dead, has his attention called to an article in the press referring to the wreck and suggesting that it was possibly the China. An expedition by elephant train was organized and John, trusting in kind providence, sets out to find the party. After many vigilant days and nights the signal flag and the remains of the fire is found, their hopes were soon realized and amid the greatest rejoicing brother and sister are reunited over the dead body of a savage African lion that the party were compelled to kill in the rescue.
- Wamba, a half-breed woman, and her Portuguese husband, Pete, live near a jungle in British East Africa. One day Wamba's child falls sick and she asks her inebriated husband to get Dr. Rice, the surgeon at the British Trading Post, some miles distant. Pete turns a deaf ear to his wife's pleadings and finally when he is in a drunken stupor the sympathetic mother love of Wamba asserts itself and she deserts him. She reaches the doctor's home where she is kindly received, and after hearing of the brutality inflicted upon her by her husband. Dr. and Mrs. Rice decide to protect her by retaining her in their household. The doctor is unable to save Wamba's child and it passes away. Pete, in the meantime, discovers that his wife and child have disappeared and tracks them through the jungle to the doctor's home. He attempts to drag Wamba away, but the doctor intercedes, thus incurring the everlasting enmity of the treacherous drunkard. Pete leaves the house, vowing vengeance, but lingers in its vicinity and one day when Dr. and Mrs. Rice visit a neighboring settlement he crawls behind the unsuspecting Wamba, hits her on the head, knocking her unconscious, and abducts the doctor's child, Lillian. But the little girl manages to escape through the jungles, followed closely by Pete. After escaping many tortuous deaths by the ferocious lions, she arrives at the edge of a high precipice. She turns and sees Pete close behind with a lion following him. The next moment she throws herself over the precipice into the waters below and swims to the other shore. Pete follows, but instead of swimming to the other side, hides himself under an overhanging rock. Meanwhile Wamba has regained consciousness and takes the trail of the missing Lillian, whom she finds about to take refuge in a hollow log from the carnivorous lions. Wamba seizes her rifle and begins shooting and soon the little girl is clutched to, the bosom of the mulatto woman. The Rices return, and discovering that their daughter and Wamba are missing, form a posse and start in pursuit, Lillian and Wamba are found and the posse then takes the trail to Pete's shack, where they find all that remains of him after a conflict with the lions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Elias Simpkins, an energetic farmer, wishes to marry his daughter, Letty, to Notso Short, son of Judge Short, a banker. However, Letty and Hank Higgins, the industrious farm hand, have resolved to marry at the first opportunity, when Judge Short brings his son, Notso, to see Letty. Hank Higgins is instrumental in causing a riot which results in Judge Short leaving the old farm in anger. After a series of unfortunate circumstances, Elias Simpkins resolves to have revenge on his farm hand and orders Letty to remain indoors, while papa sees the bird men fly. Hank and Letty seize the opportunity to elope. Simpkins follows the train in an airship. He overtakes the fugitives but does not foil their purpose because he is thrown off the train by the irate commercial travelers.
- Through a dream a young man reveals the early family history of his grandfather, who in October, 1810, while gambling with some friends, became involved, ending with the sinking of his body in the river, just outside the Royal George Inn.
- 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.
- A magician has a picture frame set up. He then proceeds to make a second version of himself appear inside it.
- The quaint old colonial atmosphere of the south with rapturous environments of chivalry. "Shadows of the Past" is the old, old story of love, but told from a new angle. A little classic, void of sentimentality and romanticism. To attempt to describe, in this announcement, the tender, delicate feeling which runs through the story and the deft and dainty touches given it by the company of excellent players appearing in the characters of the production would be altogether inadequate.
- A Federal and Confederate veteran, in view of a prospective marriage uniting their families, become fast friends. One plays the fiddle, the other the flute, but they cannot harmonize on tunes, as one demands "Yankee Doodle" and the other insists upon "Dixie." This trouble grows so acute that the innocent young people become involved in the controversy and their engagement is broken. Love finds a way, and they arrange for a secret marriage. The good parson plans it even more wisely, asking the fathers to come and make music for a wedding, not naming the contracting parties. When the ancient enemies find themselves face to face they are mad, but unwilling to retreat; they turn back to back and make music with a vengeance, utilizing the favorite tunes while the ceremony is in progress. When they face the bride and groom and see who is there, they are vastly provoked, but the diplomatic parson, having them both under his spell, patches up peace.
- Those memorable words had just died upon the lips of the grand old general, as he gave Lieutenant Allen orders to reach Thomas. In order to do this, Allen had to pass through the heart of the enemy's country. Both men realized the excessive danger, and the younger officer salutes and leaves upon his mission. The message delivered, returning, the Lieutenant finds himself in close quarters. He feigns illness and is cared for at the home of Virginia Johnson, the sister of Robert E. Johnson, who is at the front. She unexpectedly receives a message from her brother, saying he will visit them that night. Allen, fearful of recognition even though he is disguised in Confederate uniform, plans his escape, only to be followed and captured. Later in battle Johnson and Allen are wounded and Johnson, feeling the end was near, places a little miniature in the hands of the Union soldier and asks him to find her. He recognizes it as that of Virginia, and the, "the heart of the rebel gray beats close to the stronger one of Union blue."
- Tom Miller, a cowpuncher, is in love with Florence Manton. Howard Dunn and his wife Betty visit Tom and his pals, who are in camp. A bear frightens the horse Betty is driving, she loses control of the animal, which runs away. Tom, seeing Betty's danger, rescues her. Florence, riding along, sees Tom stooping over Betty and thinks he is kissing her. She will have nothing more to do with the cowpuncher. Tom and his pal spy a bear, which Tom shoots and kills. He then writes a note to Florence to the effect that he has been clawed by the bruin. Florence and her friends then start for the scene where it is believed Tom has been clawed up. As Florence takes Tom in her arms he smiles and tells her it was only a joke. Florence is again angered, but Betty's husband comes upon the scene and thanks Tom for saving his wife's life. Then it is that Florence realizes that Tom is loyal to her and they are reunited.