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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mary had a little Sam, who was always following her about, but was too bashful to propose. Accordingly, in order to encourage him by examples of marital happiness, Mary takes him calling on several wedded friends, to whom she has previously written as follows: "Sam hasn't proposed yet, and I want you to help me out. Will you and your husband please be extra affectionate when I bring Sam to call this evening? With love, Mary." The tour is at first successful. Such a circuit of matrimonial dove-cotes, with couples billing and cooing in each, cannot fail to encourage a bashful bachelor, even though he is a little embarrassed by the elaborate displays of conjugal felicity he finds in every home. However, by the time he takes Mary home, he has made up his mind to "pop the question," when she discovers that she has left her handbag at some of the homes they have visited. Gallant Sam volunteers to recover it, if she will wait at the gate for his return. But he comes back "a sadder if wiser man." For, on his return tour of the domestic circuit, he finds that a change has come o'er the spirit of their dreams. Instead of billing and cooing, as in the first act, every couple is quarreling and bickering over some domestic difficulty. As a climax, Mary's brother-in-law, who is so mad that he must fight somebody, throws the handbag at Sam. "There was Mary, waiting at the church," but all she gets is the handbag, and "So long, Mary." Sam beats it back to his bachelor den.
- 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.
- 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.
- A pilgrimage is on its way across the desert; among those going to the shrine are Jaquita, a young girl, and a rich woman, who is crippled and who has vowed to give the wonderful pearls about her neck to the Madonna, should she be healed. Jaquita covets these pearls. At the shrine the miracle takes place, and the lame woman walks. The pearls are hung about the neck of the statue. Jaquita tries to steal them, but is not successful. At home the girl thinks of nothing but the pearls and vows to marry the man who gets them for her. Horrified, all but one of her lovers leave her. Jose, however, struggles with his love for the girl and his religion. Love conquers, and he starts across the desert to the shrine. He gets the pearls. Later the theft is discovered, and the guilty pair are stoned out into the desert. Out on the desert the desperate pair determine to commit suicide, but in the sky a vision of the Madonna appears, they kneel in prayer and journey to the shrine, replacing the pearls on the neck of the statue. So they repent. Jaquita as a nun praying at the shrine, and Jose as a monk working in the gardens of the cloister, make a very beautiful finish to a notable picture.
- 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.
- At the opening of the film Pennsylvania Avenue is shown, nearly blocked by a motley mob of sightseers looking at the marching Suffragettes. The big banner demanding a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights to American women makes a pathway along which the Suffragettes are seen marching steadily and persistently, although still hemmed in by the mob. Then mounted troopers clear the way, and a close view is given of the various allegorical groups on the handsomely decorated floats, and the various marching organizations in characteristic colors. Among these are the Canadian delegates in costume; the International representatives in the colors of their respective countries; a beautiful float, representing the famous "Women of the Bible," and the Mothers' Association, in marching order. Among the mounted Amazons are shown splendid personal pictures of Mrs. Gus Ruhlin, wife of the famous athlete, and Miss Florence Lawrence. Kinemacolor shows their sisters and sympathizers at home exactly how the Suffragettes "fought," if not actually "bled" in the Battle of Washington, and even their "antis" are forced to admire the manner in which the American Amazons win the "right of way" through a throng that might easily throw into confusion a St. Patrick's Day parade.
- Beginning with the start of the President-elect for the Capitol, escorted by the dashing Essex Troop of New Jersey. Kinemacolor shows a splendid panorama of the thronged Plaza in front of the U.S. Capitol, together with a vertical view of that historic building and its brilliant decorations, from the Goddess of Liberty on top, down to the inauguration stand at the base of the east steps. The full ceremony of taking the oath at the hands of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the presence of the Congress and high officials of government, is shown; together with President Wilson delivering his inaugural address, and being congratulated by ex-President Taft. Afterwards the two are shown at close view, riding together in the state carriage back to the White House, while Secretary of State William J. Bryan following in a taxicab, and other famous statesmen are pictured true to life and color.
- Hale is discovered teaching school when he hears of the battle of Lexington and the call to arms. He enlists and is next seen in the camp of the Revolutionists. At school he made an enemy of the town bully, Seth Brown, which later is his undoing. Gen. Washington desiring information as to the number and condition of the British troops, calls for a spy. Hale offers to go, dressed as a country school teacher, inside the British lines. He secures the desired facts for Washington, but is seen and betrayed by Seth Brown, who has joined the British. He is captured, the papers found on him, and is condemned to be hung without trial. The picture ends with a view of Nathan Hale's statue in City Hall Park, New York, and the subtitles: "137 Years Later, Lest We Forget."
- 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.
- At a metropolitan theater there is billed, as the opening attraction, a new play entitled "The Ebb Tide." The young actress, who is engaged for the leading role, goes to the seashore to live in a little fishing village in order that she may absorb the "local color." She dwells among the fisher folk and dresses like them, so as to "live the part." To the same section, in search of atmosphere and recreation, comes the author of the play; and when one day he rescues a pretty but plainly dressed girl from a rock where she has been marooned by the rising tide, he mistakes her for a simple fishermaiden. Shortly afterward he himself is mistaken for a revenue officer, and but for the cleverness of the "fishermaid," who helps him to escape by a ruse, he would have been mobbed. An impending romance is interrupted by the call to rehearsals, and at the theater the author is annoyed by the manager's announcement that the leading lady insists on his play being changed in certain particulars, which, she insists, are not true to nature. The author is defiant, until he meets and recognizes his "Fishermaiden," when a truce is declared, and the romance of the summer is resumed, with every prospect of that "happy ending" so much desired in plays, footlight and photo.
- The man of the East leaves wife and baby for the gold fields. Later he strikes gold, writes for wife and baby, the mail bag falls off the stage coach, floats down and catches on the rocks, while the husband and wife wait for news of each other. The wife starts to find her husband, but arrives too late for the weekly stage to the camp. A boy takes her in a wagon across the desert. At a "waterhole" the woman alights to fill the canteen and some drunken Indians frighten the boy, who drives off. The mother wanders till her strength gives out, leaving the baby under some bushes, she climbs a near-by hill, hoping to see some signs of life. She falls exhausted and is found by some Indians, taken to their camp and nursed back to life. The baby is discovered by some cowboys, taken to camp, and Jim being the only man who knows about babies, adopts it. The baby must be fed, there is no milk; the Chinaman solves the difficulty by buying up "The Only Female in Camp" - a goat. An itinerant priest visits Jim's shack and sees the baby. He next visits the camp of the Indians, hears the white woman's story and by his efforts the little family are united.
- A confirmed bachelor driven to distraction by the neighbor's children, receives the news that his brother has left for Europe, and is sending his twins and their governess to him on a visit, during his absence. Upon arrival, the governess proves to be his ideal, but oh, the twins. His patience is tried beyond endurance. Their pranks lead them to a home quarantined for scarlet fever, and soon after they, too, take the fever. During the quarantine he and the governess learn to love one another through their anxiety for the welfare of the children. After the recovery, the twins, while playing church, marry their uncle and governess, thus breaking the ice, and relieving the bashful bachelor.
- Contrasting the style of fashions in the olden days with those of the modern times.