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- A film about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'Free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the American Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters, and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'Savages' - exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.
- A young American doctor and his brother are involved in an auto accident in a foreign country. The doctor happens to catch a glance of a beautiful princess and falls immediately in love. Meanwhile, in a neighboring country, the princess' husband--a spoiled wastrel who happens to look just like the doctor--is in pursuit of a courtesan. The doctor overhears a group of army officers plotting to kill the king and put the prince on the throne. Unfortunately for the doctor, the plotters mistake him for the prince. Complications ensue.
- A U.S. Cavalryman realizes that the young American Indian woman he loves is his long-lost sister, born to their mother after she was abducted while the family was making the trek westward.
- We are given very interesting views of snakes found in Asia Minor, mountainous Asia, and Europe. Chameleons, lizards and tortoises are included. Colors come out remarkably well.
- A story dealing with the lives of two farmer boys. At the beginning, Wallace is tired of the drudgery of farm life and determines to go to the city. There he meets with success and marries the cold, heartless daughter of a rich man. Meanwhile, John, the other brother, has married a sweet little country girl, and we see them in their happy home life with their children about them. No children have blessed the loveless union of Wallace, who has become a power in New York. Husband and wife drift apart, Wallace is finally caught in the whirlpool of Wall Street, and in order to save himself, uses funds entrusted to his care. In a panic on the Stock Exchange, Wallace is not only ruined himself, but brings ruin on others. He rushes home, tells his wife his story, and begs her help in replacing the funds he took. She refuses, and the desperate man goes to bis brother, whom he has long neglected, but he is followed, and shortly after he rushes into the quiet country home, begging for protection, the officers of the law enter. Before they can arrest him his overtaxed heart gives out, and he falls dead at the feet of the brother who represents "The Better Success."
- A society drama, laid in France, requiring gorgeous costumes, beautiful settings and fine acting. Jealousy and pride nearly ruin four lives, but to tell how would spoil the play for the audience.
- Two brothers love the same girl, she marries the elder, the younger takes to dissipation. Financially wrecked by gambling, he comes to his sister-in-law, and she helps him. In gratitude, he kisses her. Her husband returns in time to see this, and rushes away without waiting for an explanation. The husband writes a message to his wife stating that he knows her love for his brother and that he has committed suicide. This note, together with his hat, overcoat and pocketbook, he leaves upon the rocks, where it Is found by some fishermen, who take it to the wife, The shock of her husband's supposed death unseats his wife's reason. The demented woman seeing visions of her husband seated In his accustomed chair. As she tries to embrace him her arms pass through his phantom, she sinks back desperate. The husband reads of his wife's sad condition and hurries home. The family physician determines to try a desperate remedy. The husband is placed in the chair the vision has so long occupied. Once more the woman tries to embrace the vision and finds it flesh and blood. With a joyous cry of "He lives, he lives" she sinks limp into the arms of her husband.
- The King finds Simple, a drunken peasant by the wayside, takes him to the castle, and dresses him in royal robes. The fool is disguised as a woman and passed off as the Queen. The King is treated as a lackey, and until weary of the jest the court have a merry time. At home Mrs. Simple, a shrew, waits for her husband, then goes to the village inn and learns that the King has taken Simple to the castle. She rushes there, overthrows the guards and enters the throne room in time to see the fool seated on her husband's knee. She causes much trouble and is finally pushed outside the castle gates. The King wearies of this jest and Simple in his old clothes, his pockets full of gold, is taken to the roadside where the King found him. When he awakens from his drunken slumbers and sees his old clothes, he thinks it all a dream, but the gold in his pockets reassures him and he goes to the Inn. There he assumes kingly airs much to the amusement of the loiterers who humor him but his dream of glory is soon over. Mrs. Simple comes to the Inn and leads her royal husband off by the ear. At home poor Simple is forced to build the fire, and in the rising smoke he sees a vision of his few hours of kingly greatness.
- Mr. Strong finds the following letter, in his wife's handwriting on a carbon pad upon his desk: "Dear Billy: So glad to hear that you are back. Have missed you so. Meet me at Carlo's at 12:30. Am feeling 'blue' and want you to cheer me up. Lovingly, FLO." Naturally he has strong suspicions, not knowing who "Billy" is. Neither do you, by the way and the best method of satisfying your curiosity is to see this Kinemacolor comedy the first chance you have.
- An old woman sits by a trunk in the attic, beside her on the table stands a lighted candle. She takes from the trunk a child's dress and bonnet, a young girl's dress, a wedding veil and gown, a canteen, baby's clothes, an army belt and sword, and last of all a widow's dress and veil. As she tenderly takes up each treasure from the trunk the attic dissolves to the scene recalled by the article she holds in her hand, we see her a child with the boy lover, a young girl when the lover grows to manhood, her wedding; the journey across the plains in a wagon, when the last drop of water is drained from the canteen; her happiness in her cabin home with husband and baby; her grief as she fastens belt and sword upon her beloved husband and sends him forth to fight for their country; and finally, comforted by her child, she stands beside the grave of the husband who gave his life to his country's cause. Back to the attic, the old woman lies back in her chair, eyes closed. Surrounded by her treasures, her spirit has flown as the candle burns to its end.
- To save the life of his granddaughter the old violinist pawns his beloved instrument. When the girl recovers, both bend every effort to retrieve the violin. The girl goes out to work, the old man copies music, almost starving in his effort to save the pennies he earns. To the rich home comes a famous violinist. The account of his playing is read in a newspaper by the pawnbroker, and the old man's violin is sold to the rich musician. When the poor people have saved the ten dollars necessary to redeem the violin, they hasten to the pawn shop only to find that, the interest not having been paid, the violin has been sold. The rich and celebrated violinist is the guest of the people for whom the girl works. There she sees her grandfather's violin. She cannot resist the temptation to play upon it. The professor hears her and hastens into the music room. When he learns her story, he takes the girl and violin back to the old man, who hugs his lost treasure to his breast and, oblivious to all his surroundings, pours out his soul upon the violin.
- Suppose you were a young man about to "commit" matrimony. In fact, the hour for the ceremony is near at hand, when suddenly you find that your wedding garments are creased and need pressing. You send the obliging janitress around the comer to the tailor's, and volunteer to take care of the baby until her return. And she does not return. Such is the situation in which Bob finds himself. Meanwhile, the bride is "waiting at the church" until the impatient wedding party decide to go in search of the missing groom. Naturally, when they find him in bathrobe and pajamas, trying to pacify a squalling infant, pertinent questions as to its parentage arises. Neither party knows that the janitress has met with an accident while crossing the street, and has been taken to the hospital, so Bob is having a very hard time to explain "Whose Baby," when the bona fide father fortunately returns from work and settles this important question. "Wedding bells" for Bob and his bride, and a warm bottle of milk for the baby complete the happy climax to this merry mix-up.
- The launching of the U.S.S. New York, which took place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, October 30th, 1912, created an unusual amount of interest as this is the largest war vessel now afloat. The New York is 565 feet in length and 95 feet in width.
- Ned Patterson, who has been devoting his energies to increasing the importation of wine, is brought home by his pals in spectacular style. His head is wreathed with grape leaves, and he is draped with a white tablecloth, on which is painted the legend, "I am Bacchus, God of Wine." Father finds him in this state, and considers that the joke has gone far enough. So the next morning Ned finds the following note, "Inasmuch as you seem wedded to Bacchus, you had better use enclosed check in taking a reformatory honeymoon. Stay until I tell you to return Your Father." Ned is banished to a fishing beach in a "dry" county, and in throwing away his last flask, he encloses the following farewell note, "I am sinking with a schooner on the bar. To the finder of this I bequeath the fortune I have left with Bacchus, Ned Patterson." The flask floats out to sea, where it is caught in a fisher's net. The unsophisticated old fisherman goes to the city to find Mr. Bacchus and claim the fortune, leaving his daughter to tend the nets, in which Ned is speedily entangled. That she is a good fisher of men is proved by the telegram Ned sends to his father, "I have divorced Bacchus and married the daughter of a fisherman. What shall I do?" To which father replies, "Bring her home and make a living for her."
- The Kinemacolor Company of America has arranged with Gimbel Brothers to photograph in natural colors "La Parisienne Elegance in Her Boudoir," the demonstration, for ladies only, of the correct manner of wearing the latest styles of French lingerie. For this fashion display Paris has sent her loveliest and most novel specimens of under-apparel. Naturally such intimate displays are not for the general public, but these pictures will be supplied to theaters having the Kinemacolor fashion service with the understanding that they are to be shown only at special morning matinée performances for ladies only. The popularity of the "Fashion Parade" in Kinemacolor proved to exhibitors that style shows are something new in filmdom, and such a decided innovation has already resulted in renewed demand for the Kinemacolor Fashion Service.
- Contrasting the style of fashions in the olden days with those of the modern times.
- John Graham and his wife live in a small village, content with their modest home and the love of their little girl. A rich uncle dies and leaves the entire estate to John. The scene changes to gorgeous rooms, fashionable people, card playing and reckless spending and speculation. The fever of money making attacks John, and while he hangs over the ticker studying stock, the wife drifts into a flirtation with a man about town. Just at the most exciting point of the story John becomes a bankrupt, their child's life is despaired of, the wife's flirtation has reached the danger line. There is a nervous tension to this film which never relaxes until the child recovers, and then husband and wife leave for their village home.
- After the day's labor, the San Juan Capistrano Mission Fathers, returning from the fields, find a mother and a young child lying on the ground. The mother is dead, but the child lives. Francisco, taking the child in his arms, accompanied by Louis, returns to the Mission, while the other fathers bury the mother and offer prayers for the repose of her child. The baby grows up, and we see him eighteen years later ready for the holy orders to which Father Louis argues that he is destined, but Francisco advises the boy to go into the world and then make his choice. It was well suggested, for the boy had never seen the outside world, and fate leads him another way. After a series of romantic adventures in the semi-Spanish society of the period, Pedro returns to the only parents he has ever known to ask their permission to marry Senorita Isobel.
- The girl's brother goes to the bad and steals; he escapes the men who saw him steal and runs to his sister, who hides him in an old well. The sheriff and his men come to search the house, but find no one. The sheriff is in love with the girl and begs her forgiveness; this she does on on condition that he bring their friends and have a dance that night at her house. She hopes during the dance to let her brother make his escape. She succeeds in hiding him in her bed room. When the cowboys and girls come for the dance the girl will not allow any man to dance who carries a gun. They laughingly give them up to her. There is a rival to the girl, Ruth, who loves the sheriff also, but whom he does not love. Ruth finds out that the brother is in the house and tells the sheriff, but the men have no guns and the boy escapes. Before leaving the boy pins a note in his sister's sunbonnet, telling her to bring him a horse. The next day the sister finds the note, tears it up, but one piece, with the name of the cave, falls and Ruth gets it and takes it to the sheriff. He, with his men, starts after the boy. The sister arrives at the cave before the sheriff, where she changes clothes with her brother. When the sheriff and his men arrive, they see a girl riding down one road and a boy the other. They ride after the supposed boy. Unable to make the rider halt, they shoot, only to find they have shot the girl. In the end the girl forgives the sheriff and promises to marry him. The brother writes that he got away safely and promises to reform.
- It was not a foreign army which invaded this Kingdom of Sustanla but a beautiful American girl, with her mother, her maid and a supply of American flags. Into this musty law bound kingdom she brought the breath of youth and freedom. The heir to the throne has grown tired of the musty castle and is leading the simple life in a cottage in the woods. His constant companion is a small book, no more nor less than the Declaration of Independence of America. The American girl wanders into this wild wood, and is followed by the villain, by name General Wornser. A stone in her slipper causes this fair American girl much pain, and she removes the offender, only to see the general at her side. Frightened, she runs away, bumping into the Prince. It is a case of love at first sight and together they read that Declaration of Independence, the Prince accepting a beautiful flag of the land of the free. The villain sees this and hastens to the pompous King with his news. Furious, the ruler of Sustanla signs orders for the arrest of the Prince and the expulsion of the Americans from his Kingdom. The Prince escapes, is stowed away in a trunk and put Into the stateroom de luxe of the Americans, and there, while the General fumes at his inability to find his royal charge, the ships' chaplain marries the fair invader to the heir to a throne, and the ship bears away these young lovers, while the old king has to seek another heir for his Kingdom.
- When Parson Jim invaded Hoot Owl, Ariz. he found the saloon and dance hall the principal industries. Starting a revival in the latter place, he rouses a spark of religion lying dormant in the breast of Molly Brandon, wife of the "bad man" of the camp. When he is driven out and Molly follows him like a dutiful wife; she leaves her little daughter in the care of one good Parson Jim. With the little girl, the Parson starts proselyting until finally, after fifteen years, he has driven out his bitterest rival, the rum-seller, and converted the dance hall into a church. There the whole reclaimed community of Hoot Owls gathers for worship, not noting the worn and weary woman who slips into a rear pew. But after benediction, while Parson Jim is bidding "goodnight" to his happy parishioners, the organ in the supposedly empty church begins playing "Lead, Kindly Light." Recalling that only one person in camp knew that hymn when he started his revival fifteen years before, Parson Jim returns to find that his "lost sheep has returned to the fold." Judge of the rejoicing when the long-lost mother clasps "Parson Jim's Baby" in her arms, and the concluding picture shows her final resting place in the "God's Acre" which has replaced the "Bad Man's burying ground."
- Weary of match-making mothers, His Lordship changes places with his valet. Matters are complicated by a beautiful girl, The valet at first reluctant, finally determines to win the girl for her money. The Lord falls in love with the girl, but his false position renders any chance hopeless. The valet steals some jewels belonging to the girl. He tries to fasten the blame upon the real Lord, who is given in charge of butler and groom until the arrival of the police. He overcomes his captors, but not until he has received severe handling. The girl arrives, binds up his wounds, believes his story and they elope. On the arrival of the police the jewels are found upon the valet, who confesses his real position. Father and mother are crestfallen, until a note from daughter tells of the elopement, and His Lordship's jest, which for a time looked like a tragedy, is a merry one after all.
- The Hammonds get a letter from their son that his wife will arrive on the 1:10 train. "Meet her, the blonde lady in a red coat." Mrs. Mason gets a telegram from an employment agency to meet their new cook at the 1:10 train. "A blonde lady in a red coat." Now the mix-up begins, and the fun follows fast and furious. The cook goes to Hammonds' and is treated as the son's wife, the wife is sent into Mason's kitchen. Complication follows complication until the climax is reached when the son returns and wants his wife. He rushes upstairs only to find the cook. In the meantime, matters have been cleared up at the Mason's and they rush the wife over to Hammonds'. Explanations follow fast and all the complications are straightened out.
- Father's fad is fishing; so to ingratiate himself before asking for Victoria's hand, Dick takes dad on a fishing excursion, but by his awkwardness manages to spill the old man into the water. Thereafter he is forbidden the house, and in order to facilitate courtship, Victoria exchanges costumes with her maid and thus manages to meet Dick outside. While recovering from the cold, which is the only thing he caught on the fishing expedition, dad takes a stroll in the park, where he spies Dick making love to a lady's maid. With his Kodak he takes a snapshot, but on showing it to Victoria as proof of Dick's perfidy all he gets is the laugh, A little later he sees apparently the same maid sweetheart with a chauffeur. The next moment be sees the maid and Dick in another direction. Convinced that the "halt" and water he swallowed on the fishing excursion, combined with the "cold cure" have made him see double, dad returns home, where he sees a rapid succession of mysteriously appearing and disappearing "maids." He is so grateful for an explanation that he gives his blessing.
- Showing a number of smiling girls displaying themselves, and also latest styles in millinery.
- The heroine is deprived of sight by a peculiar accident, a premature blast just as she is passing a big excavation, and she is saved from worse injury by the young engineer in charge. During her convalescence the young engineer is very devoted, and although she has never really seen him, Bertha consents to become his wife when she recovers her sight Before this occurs the engineer is called away on another contract, but leaves his photograph where Bertha can see it as soon as the doctor will permit the bandages to he removed from her eyes. Another admirer, whom she has never seen, substitutes bis photograph tor that of the absent engineer, and endeavors to hoodwink the heroine into the idea that he is her fiancé. By intercepting letters from the engineer, the schemer almost persuades her to fulfill her promise of marriage, when the real fiancé returns to confront his wily rival. Face to face with two suitors, neither of whom she has ever seen, the girl is puzzled to pick her real sweetheart, when she has an inspiration to blindfold herself, and make her choice literally in the dark." That sixth sense which the blind seem to develop, guides her aright, and the young engineer is made happy, while the wily rival is hoist with his own petard.
- Billy is ordered out of the house by the parents of the girl he loves. Her family expect a Count to visit them and advertise for a butler. Billy reads the advertisement and by means of a disguise is engaged. He makes desperate efforts to wait on the table, but the attentions of the Count to the girl Billy loves cause him to make many sad mistakes. The girl has penetrated the disguise and enjoys the situation. Billy hears a noise in the night and leaves his bed room in the servant's quarters to investigate, descending to the dining-room. Here Billy encounters a burglar, a fierce fight ensuing. The family hear the commotion and come down stairs, all in a semi-dressed condition. During the fight Billy's disguise has become disarranged and he stands revealed to the irate father. His wrath is dispelled when by tearing away the mask from the burglar, the Count is discovered. Billy is forgiven and gets the girl.
- John Benton, an artist, living in New York, has overworked himself to such an extent that his pictures have lost the natural quality that has made him famous. He resolves to seek inspiration in a country where the conventionalities of city life have not penetrated and forthwith sets out for the northern part of Canada, to dwell for a time among the French Canadians. Established there in a modest inn, he devotes his days to close commune with unmolested nature. One day while looking for a new subject to reproduce upon his canvas, he chances upon a young Canadian girl filling her water jar from a mountain stream. A pleasant acquaintance follows, and he persuades her to pose for him. The intimacy of artist and model soon ripens into love, but the girl's father misconstrues the situation, and forbids any further friendship between the two, while Pierre, a native admirer of the girl, is thrown into a jealous rage. Pierre secretly nurses his hatred of the artist until murder takes root in his primitive mind. On one occasion the girl saves the life of the artist and sends Pierre upon his way unavenged. Not daunted by his first failure, Pierre breaks into the artist's room at night with intent to kill, but chance again robs him of his victim, and in escaping from the house Pierre is seriously wounded by one who supposed him to be a thief. Suffering from his wound, but still persisting in his murderous desire, Pierre nearly accomplishes his deadly designs upon his rival, but again the girl intervenes at the crucial moment and saves her sweetheart's life. How Pierre eventually repents and by death pays the penalty of his wickedness, how the stern father is persuaded by the village priest to forgive his daughter, and how the young lovers are finally united, is all shown in this Kinemacolor drama.
- This is a series of one reel subjects featuring well known stage personalities in their real-life environment, AKA Famous Footlight Favorites Off the Stage.
- In this reel of the Kinemacolor Weekly Fashions are shown close views of some of the new styles of corsets, exhibited on living models. The waists show many novelties in advance styles.
- The younger son of a great English house is down and out in America, and tosses a coin to see if he shall steal or commit suicide. The coin falls at the feet of a young girl, who proves to be his salvation. They are engaged to be married when an illness leaves the girl blind. The man learns that he has unexpectedly become head of one of the greatest houses in England. The family lawyer shows him the impossibility of taking this girl to England as his wife, and deludes her into a marriage with a tramp, as substitute for the now great Lord. When the tramp sees his happy, helpless wife seated by their fire, the man in him awakens, and he is ashamed, but it is too late. The Lord pines for his humble sweetheart, and goes to Africa to hunt big game. There in the wilderness he dies, leaving all his unentailed wealth to his lost love. The wife suddenly finds that she can detect light. An operation is performed, and the wife insists that the face of her husband is the first she will look upon. The doctor removes the bandages; surprise is followed by horror as the woman shrinks, terrified explanations are of no avail, and the heartbroken husband wanders forth again. When the wife has come to a realization of his love and tenderness, a personal is inserted in the papers. A poor, shivering newsboy gives the tramp a paper, which is used to kindle a fire. As the tramp sits looking into the fire, a piece of the paper catches his eye. He starts, snatches it from the flames and reads there the wife's desire for his return. Love and shame fight a battle; love wins, and a happy ending rounds out a great story.
- Two kings desire that their children marry, thereby combining the kingdoms. One is a prince, a little too young to consider marriage seriously, while the other is a sweet girl, who is not disposed to give up her toys and dolls just yet. The king of Joyland dispatches his son, the prince, with a letter, to the king of Youthland: "We desire the hand of the Princess Carita for our heir, Prince Donatella. We will consider this marriage as a treaty of peace between our kingdoms. Alverido, King of Joyland." In the meantime the king of Youthland has ordered that the princess shall marry, and to the queen's plea, "Let her stay a child a little longer," the king answers: "She shall he wed within the year." Consequently the arrival of the young prince at Youthland is agreeable to the king, and he at once dispatches the queen and the ladies in waiting to bring the princess before him. The princess is playing with her dolls attended by the nurse when the queen enters. Sending the nurse away she gently takes the doll from the child and exclaims, "Playtime is over Darling," so they proceed to dress her in court costume. She is then hurried into the throne room and presented to the prince, her husband to be. Timidly she recoils and at last rushes into her mother's arms. The prince in pity exclaims, "I cannot wed a frightened child. I will stay and he her playmate until her heart grows up." The queen pleads so the king consents, consequently they at once become playmates, indulging in games such as "Blindman's Buff," etc. The prince even goes so far as to join in her play with her dolls and toys, and throughout the following month the two are inseparable, but as the month has passed the prince despairs for he has learned to love her devotedly and exclaims, "Will nothing awake her?" How he succeeds is best told by the pictures.
- Beginning with the parade, in which we see some wonderful drilling and marching of the Shriners, we proceed to the field where the sports were held. A beautiful view of Broadway, Los Angeles, with all the fluttering flags and bunting flying in the breeze, is shown. Some interesting scenes include the big barbecue at Eddie Maier's El Rancho Selecto. Here are shown the barbecue pits in which were roasted whole oxen in Mexican style. Races and sporting competitions of every kind are next shown, concluding with a very funny snake march, with the host, Mr. Maier, at the head.
- "Dollar Bill" was a desperate outlaw, according to the posters which advertised many times his face value as a reward for his capture, "dead or alive," which were displayed on posts and trees in Prickly Pear Canyon. Every cowboy was professedly looking for the said "Dollar Bill," with the hope of winning that reward, and the pretty schoolmarm. "Dollar Bill," who is a clever counterfeit, is none other than Gentleman Jack, the classiest cowpuncher of the bunch, and chairman of the Board of Education. In the latter capacity it was his duty to welcome the new school teacher and install her in the new school house, which speedily became the Mecca of all the marriageable men in the camp. Such a universal thirst for learning had never before been known in Prickly Pear Canyon, even the Indians becoming inoculated so that Chief Pete tried to interfere. The Dominie seems to be Jack's principal rival, so he conceives the idea of disguising himself as "Dollar Bill," terrorizing the camp, and compelling the minister to perform a marriage ceremony with the schoolmarm. How well he succeeds can only be learned by seeing the picture.
- Biggs is a clerk; his wages are small, his wife has a queer cheap servant and is tired to death with her various household duties. Biggs reads of a wonderful book, cost $2.00. This book teaches anyone how to write a photoplay and make money easily. The wife grudges the $2.00, but Biggs sends off the money for the book. At his desk Biggs neglects his work; he is thinking up a grand idea for a picture play. His boss is furious, his fellow clerks amused. The book arrives. Biggs studies it and writes and writes. He compels his wife and the cook to act out scenes for him, then he dashes off reams of writing. The play is finally finished and sent to the Scenario Editor of a great picture company. Biggs falls asleep and dreams his story brought $100 and an offer of a position of $300 a week on the editorial staff of the picture company. He falls out of the chair and wakes with a start. What really happened: In her office the Scenario Editor and her stenographer are working like mad, the postman enters with the morning mail and, horror stricken, they examine Biggs' great play. Amusement follows their disgust, and after much fun the scenario is returned as "Useless." The morning mail brings to the Luckless Biggs his returned manuscript. Furious, he tears it to pieces, throwing it all about. The servant is called and the great work of his brain is swept into the dust pan. Biggs returns to his bookkeeping, a sadder, but wiser, man.
- The opening, with Hester condemned to wear the blazing scarlet A, is back in England. It shows Hester in the garden of her home, with her father; and then the introduction of the old medico Roger Chillingworth, who asks for and receives from the father the hand of Hester. There is realism when the Indians rescue the shipwrecked Chillingsworth. He is washed ashore lashed to a mast, the waves driving over him. Again where Hester tells Dimmesdale "Fear not, I'll not betray thee;" where the old man confronts Hester, with babe in arms, and in the secrecy of a cell warns her to tell no one she had ever called him husband; where the minister appeals to Hester, "Give us the man's name and thou shalt go free;" where the minister, conscience-stricken, stands in the pillory and bares his seared breast, not knowing that old Roger is looking on; and where the minister, after Hester had made all plans for their escape, plans which the old man had upset, falls by the pillory and dies in Hester's arms. There are some beautiful scenes in these three short reels.. One that stands out is of Hester, her troubles behind her, standing by the rail of a ship outward bound. Little Pearl is by her side. The photography throughout is excellent. There are two scenes that particularly will stir the emotions. These are where the pastor, attracted to the young wife on sight, reproaches her for avoiding him, '"when thou knowest thy husband was lost at sea;" and Hester, hesitating, responds to the desire of her heart and flies to his arms. Again, years later, when Hester sees the minister dying slowly under the torturing of his conscience and the evil influence of old Chillingworth, she entreats him to go with her and begin life over again, away from the scarlet letter, away from Chillingworth, away from the shame and suffering of the past seven years; as Dimmesdale takes Hester in his arms after all the penance they have undergone one feels that this couple have been more sinned against than sinning, that they have earned the right to have peace, to be by themselves.
- Kinemacolor proves that it is not necessary to take a long sea voyage in order to see "A City of the Sea," for there is a veritable Venice on the southern coast of our own California. Although not so old, of course, and constructed on a smaller, more modern scale, the American Venice has plenty of room to grow without encroaching on the sea, and in its miniature way is just as picturesque, if not as dirty, as the ancient city on the Adriatic. Neither is it necessary to sail to the Hawaiian Islands in order to see the celebrated sport of surf board riding, for Venice boasts a number of natives and visitors who are expert as the original Kanakas. It is an impressive sight to see these bold swimmers riding the Pacific rollers while standing upright on a board, but it is a ticklish trick as well, and Old Neptune's untamed seahorses frequently give their riders a spill, which adds to the comedy effect. This film concludes with the remarkable performance of a cowgirl lasso expert, who dons a brown velveteen coat while keeping the riata constantly circling in a ring around her.
- It starts when George writes two letters, one to his sweetheart, calling for an answer to a very important question when he calls later, the other to his laundress, who has been casting sheep's-eyes at George while she ironed his shirts, calling her down for neglecting her duty. By mistake of the messenger the letters get mixed and are delivered to the wrong parties. Not hearing from either, George decides to call on Bridget while on his way to get his sweetheart's answer. Bridget assumes that he is on altogether a different errand, and when he insists on talking about the shirt, she casts it aside, saying there are more important matters to take up. With this she throws her arms above his neck. George demands an explanation, when she flashes the miscarried letter. George tries to explain that it was not intended for her, but she will not release him. Bolting out with Bridget still hanging above his neck, the two run into a policeman, who is appealed to by both. He has been casting sheep-eyes at Bridget, and of course, decides in George's favor, so George is allowed to go his way, a little worse for the conflict. Enter George in the presence of Mazie. Here more explanations are needed. However, George convinces Mazie that it was all an error, and is about to take her in his arms, when she pushes him back, saying, "Oh, no, I may soil your white shirt front," but George says, "I don't care." As you may imagine there is but one finish.
- At the opening the President and party are seen taking their places in the Presidential box. Then comes the celebrated "Black Horse Troop" of the Culver Military Academy, escort of honor to Vice President Marshall. The West Point Cadets, the pets of every Inaugural, march past. The U.S. Marine Band, with red-lined capes thrown back and brass instruments glistening in the sun; the Annapolis Midshipmen, in marching regalia, and the U.S. Regulars.
- An alchemist has brewed a powerful poison; he has also experimented on an antidote. A prince and courtier come to the house to learn of their future, see the alchemist's daughter, and both fall in love with her. The girl, dreaming of the handsome strangers, forgets her pet dog; he drinks from the bowl of poison and is dying. Her screams bring the father. Eagerly he tries his antidote; it works; the dog is saved; the scientist is triumphant. In the castle the prince longs for the girl. With the aid of his friend he steals her, and places her under a lady-in-waiting in a room in his castle. There he tries to woo her without success. His friend enters the girl's room and attempts to take her in his arms. Frightened she flies to the prince for protection. He tells her his love is honest, and that on the morrow he will ask her father for her hand in marriage. With a heart full of hate the false friend goes to the alchemist and gets poison, telling the poor heart-broken father it is for the prince. The courtier puts the poison in water; the girl is dying. In this condition she is discovered by her lady-in-waiting. The prince is told and heart-broken falls beside his dead love. Meanwhile the father consults the stars. In them he sees his daughter's peril. Taking the antidote he climbs through a window in the castle and saves his child. When the priests and courtiers come with the prince and his friend to bury the girl, she rises and denounces her would-be murderer. The priests, who came to bury the girl, marry her to the prince.