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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.
- 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.
- Two staid judges, Hay and Holt, are close friends. They have but one child each, an attractive daughter. These old fellows are very dignified and old-fashioned in their ideas, and they guard their girls with jealous care. Two young men of the town are enamored of those pretty girls and pay court to them. They are both surprised in their love-making, by the judges, who angrily order them from their houses, thereby humiliating the young men in the eyes of their sweethearts. The boys swear to get even. They determine to humiliate the judges. So they enlist the services of two gentlemen of shady reputation. The old codgers are enticed from their houses, carried off to a lonely shack in the woods, their beards are shaven off and they are dressed in the garb of children. Frightened half to death by their experience, the old fellows are turned loose to make their way back home as best they can. Their experiences are most amusing. The matter gets into the papers next day, but the names are withheld pending further investigation. Now the boys have them on their hips and threaten to reveal their names unless they give their consent to their daughters' marriage. Of course, the boys win, much to the gratification of the girls and the chagrin of the two crusty old jurists.
- A burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
- 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.
- Hiram Brown and his family decide to emigrate to the west and cast their lot in the then-almost uninhabited country known as Minnesota, leaving their improvised home on the Ohio River. They started on their long journey in old fashioned covered wagons. Two months later, they reach the Mississippi River; being in the early fall the water was low and easily forded upon their landing. They camp for the night. Indians not relishing the invasion of the pale face watch them under cover of darkness, the Indian village nearby give the family warning to move on, but this the sturdy farmer refuses to do and is seen cultivating with his team of oxen. An Indian girl (a spy) under the guise of selling Indian wares, is admitted to the camp, gaining the information she sought, reports quickly tribesmen, who resolve upon decisive action at once. In the meantime Spotted Eagle has formed an attachment for one of Brown's daughters. A plan of complete capture of the family is arranged and carried out with all the cunning and fearlessness that characterized the American Indian of that period. They take their captives to the village where they are tied to the stake. A trapper taking his life in his hands, runs the gauntlet, mounts a running horse and hurls the Indian to the ground (a sensational scene in the extreme). The young girl who had previously warned the camp of Indian uprising is seen making her way to the military post to report the capture. When the soldiers reach the Brown camp, they find the settler that had made good his escape on Indian horse and who guided them to the village where a spectacular rescue of the prisoners is affected and again reunited.
- The barnyard gathering in the early dawn of day bring the denizens of the coup and pen in unison with one another, so far at least as the extent of their appetite. Chevalier de Rostrando, a middle aged French gentleman, enters his well-kept barnyard with it sleek groomed cows and horses, brilliant plumed birds and rolling fat swine who pay tribute to his entrée. In the meantime the opposition camp moves into line with Se the Crosse leading the entourage. His rendezvous is in direct contrast with his rival for dramatic honors. American farm pictures grace his wall, the old welcome dinner bell is made of corn, that is, with what was left over after making the crystal liquid that rests peacefully in Grosse's demijohn. The pig, goose, turkey and donkey are bewailing the absence of food and Grosse's headaches from the night before. He is in little frame of mind to further his prospects of out-generaling his rival. When the manuscript of his crowning effort has returned "with thanks" he is desperate, and to add to his agitated feelings he finds an announcement in the morning paper of the "unparalleled success of the one epoch-making drama of the age: 'Chevalier de Rostrand the hero of the hour.'" His rage knows no bounds and in his fury he demands red ink, red as blood, to convey a telegram of death. The challenge given is accepted and the French and American orosters settle the difficulty a la barnyard style.
- In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?
- 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.
- 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?
- A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her and she is in trouble. When he gets there, he finds her dead. He sets out to track down the husband.
- In a traditional "magician" attire, the wizard of illusion and jump cuts, Georges Méliès, says the magic words and conjures up wonders from a plain wooden box.
- 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.
- When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah, but passion overwhelms them, and after making love, they are married by Father Roubier. The two are happy until Capt. De Trevignac, a dinner guest, recognizes Boris as the former Father Antoine, a priest whose irrepressible lust forced him to leave the monastery. De Trevignac says nothing, but after his departure, Boris confesses to Domini, who urges him to return to the monastery. The years pass, and Domini rears her son Boris in the Garden of Allah.
- "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."
- Tom and Jerry join a traveling circus as rough riders. After a few months of circus life Tom becomes dissatisfied and longs for the west At this juncture the circus is unable to meet expenses and is attached by the sheriff. Tom and Jerry, out of employment, sell their saddles and plan to leave at once for the west. A chance acquaintance springs up m the town between Tom, Jerry and two girls. Jerry carries his own and Tom's money from the sale of the saddles, and one of the girls unsuspectingly gets the money from Jerry's pocket. Tom and Jerry are unable to pay when the waiter of the café presents the bill. An argument results, and Tom shoots up the place. They are arrested and sentenced to fifteen days in jail. Upon their release Tom and Jerry join the U.S. Army and are sent with a detachment of recruits to do duty at Fort Apache, Ariz. Jessie, the wife of Lieut. Manning, arrives from the east simultaneously with the appearance of Torn and Jerry. Captain Shiers, the commanding officer, drills Tom and Jerry with other recruits. Captain Shiers becomes infatuated with Lieutenant Manning's wife, but the lieutenant overhears it all and encounters the captain, who leaves the house. Captain Shiers is informed that the paymaster will arrive at the depot, several miles away with money for the troops. The captain plots to get rid of the lieutenant and win his wife. He sends Lieutenant Manning with a small escort of troops to meet the paymaster. The captain then sends a half-breed Indian to notify some hostile Indians, whom Lieutenant Manning has kept subdued in the past, that they can avenge themselves on the lieutenant by attacking the stage. The half breed delivers the message to the Indians, who open fire on the stagecoach and surround it. The Indians also surround the station which has been fortified by the troopers. Captain Shiers at the fort has been trying to force his attentions again on Lieutenant Manning's wife, but with no success. The fight between the soldiers and Indians continues unabated. Tom and Jerry volunteer to go to the fort for help. There is another running fight, in which Tom falls from his horse, his foot catches in the stirrup and he is dragged. The horse falls; Tom gets free as Jerry rides up, and Tom jumps up behind Jerry, and they make another effort to reach the fort. Jerry is shot from his horse by pursuing Indians, and Tom, after seeing Jerry is lifeless, shoots and kills one of the Indians and rides onward. Tom arrives at Fort Apache and a detachment of troopers is dispatched immediately to the station. The Indians decide to burn up the station by another method. They take the wheels from the overturned stagecoach, tie rags on them and roll them downhill. This method is successful and the station soon becomes a mass of flames. The troopers still hold out. Mrs. Manning, at the fort, cares for Tom in the hospital. She goes to her home for medicine when she is again accosted by Captain Shiers. She repulses his actions; he becomes angry and tells her of his plan for revenge. He embraces her and she screams and there is a struggle. Tom, lying in the hospital, hears Mrs. Manning's screams. He slowly rises, takes his six-shooter and staggers to the home of Lieutenant Manning. He sees the struggle inside and shoots and kills Captain Shiers. The troopers sent from the fort now arrive and the Indians are defeated. The troopers in the burning station are rescued. Upon entering his home on arrival at the fort, Lieutenant Manning finds his wife nursing Tom. Mrs. Manning explains all to her husband, who shows his gratitude to Tom. Jerry is laid to rest with honors due a brave soldier.
- Nadia, a poorly-paid stenographer, works in offices adjoining those where Mabel, her girl chum is employed. Nadia wears shabby clothing. Mabel is resplendent in beautiful garments. Nadia's father, a drunkard, forces the pay envelope from her hand, and the mother resorts with other men. "What's the use," says Nadia, when she is forced to contribute to satisfy her father's appetite for liquor, and sees her mother flaunt her shame. And so she listens to the urgings of Mabel that she become one to a party of four at Mabel's luxurious home. That night when Nadia leaves the office she goes to Mabel's flat, dons Mabel's finery and there meets Ashton, a wealthy rounder. She tastes liquor for the first time, wears a fine gown for the first time and dines for the first time in a questionable cabaret. In natural consequence, Nadia leaves her home and becomes a friend of Ashton. As time passes, Nadia learns the power of her beauty, and as Ashton's health declines, she schemes to secure his riches. She finally induces Ashton to purchase her a fine home. Stricken with heart disease, the man dies. A month later Nadia closes her beautiful town house and repairs to a fashionable seaside resort where she meets Amos Lawlor and Jules Villars, wealthy bachelors. She also meets Phillip Morton, a young businessman, who is in love with Isobel Warren. Nadia, when she meets Philip, meets the first man she has ever loved. Phillip's infatuation for Nadia grows, and when the siren finally resolves to leave the seashore Phillip follows her, emulating the example of the two aged suitors, Lawlor and Villars. At Nadia's town house, the woman is puzzled as to what method to use to keep secret from Phillip Morton, the admiration so openly shown for her by the two aged suitors. The woman is torn betwixt the love of gold as typified by the two old men and the passionate love she holds for Phillip. She carefully hides from Phillip the fact that she is anything but pure and innocent. What shall she do? Shall she be satisfied as the wife of Phillip with but his love? One day the question is settled. Nadia discards Villars and submits to the attentions of Lawlor, who has the most money. Nadia plots to keep Lawlor and Phillip Morton, both constant callers at her home, from meeting one another. Phillip arrives unannounced one day and discovers Nadia in the arms of another. Then it is that he spurns the woman, and later woos and wins Isobel Warren. Nadia, answering the lure of gold, marries Lawlor, but she never forgets her passion for Phillip. As time passes, Phillip Morton is ordered to South America. When Nadia reads in a newspaper of Morton's intended journey, she compels her aged husband to take her there. In South America Phillip Morton and Nadia meet again. Morton has long since lost all his infatuation for the siren, a fact which causes Nadia to long more passionately for the love of the man whom she has sacrificed for the lure of gold. Desperately the woman hits upon a scheme. She writes Phillip a note asking him to call at the hotel. Before his arrival Nadia garbs herself voluptuously. When Phillip, enticed by a subterfuge, enters Nadia's private apartments in the hotel, she exerts every woman's wile to win him to her. But she is unsuccessful in winning him. However she does not give up and conceives an idea that Phillip Morton may be tempted to divorce his wife and marry her should her aged husband die. The woman entices her aged husband to the top of a cliff, where she pushes him off, intending that he meet his death that way. Unknown to Nadia Lawlor is rescued by a beachcomber. The old man, burning with the desire for vengeance, begins his slow and painful climb up the cliff side. Phillip, walking along the cliff, again encounters Nadia. Again the woman pleads with him. Her flushed face with its uncanny beauty presses close to Phillip. He again spurns the woman and turns away. Nadia stands wondering there at the brink of the precipice. She finally realizes that her life has been in vain. She turns to leave the place. As she turns, she encounters the form of her aged husband. In quavering tones the old man accuses his wife of attempting to murder him. In a last desperate attempt to shut out the horrid spectacle from her sight and mind, Nadia again shoves the doddering old man to his death. He falls, but as he does so, he clutches Nadia's hair with his hands, and she, too, is dragged over the precipice and falls with Lawlor to death on the rocks below.
- Frank Gotch defends the World's Heavyweight Wrestling Championship against Stanislaus Zbyszko.
- An entire evening of magical entertainment is included in the 100 feet which composes the film. Hermann himself would have been proud of the result obtained. Our friend, the magician, first steps forward and produces an ivory billiard ball from space. With a wave of his hand he changes it into a full sized bowling ball, and in order to show that there is no limit to his ability makes one more change and holds in his hand a large cloth, known in magician circles as a "foulard." From this he produces a sleek and prosperous-looking rabbit, and then, apparently from nowhere, the stage is graced by the appearance of a charming lady in fancy costume. Holding the foulard in front of the lady, but allowing her head and shoulders to appear, he gradually raises the lower part of the cloth when it is seen that her "visible means of support" have entirely disappeared, leaving only the head and shoulder pendant in the atmosphere. These in turn disappear and the stage is empty until a large hoop covered with paper is seen to swing from side to side and, upon a pistol being fired, the lady makes her final appearance by jumping through the hoop as it swings and the film closes with her final bow to the audience. This also is a new film and one which in itself is an entire evening's entertainment. Don't overlook it.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A nicely-dressed man is riding on a bicycle, but he is clearly new at it. He cannot manage to steer in a straight line, and it is not long before he becomes quite a hazard to pedestrians and to others in his path.
- Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar. "One year later" Bud tires of society. We see Bud and his new wife entertaining and our cowboy shows plainly that he is desperately weary of the effete East, then Bud goes to the club and the men he meets there and their conversation is getting on his nerves. "After the theater" a return home and Bud longs for the fresh air of the vast West. As he sinks wearily into a chair a Remington painting catches his eye. It is one he had recently purchased, a broncho buster and his locoed horse. The artist had caught the wild spirit of his subject, and as Bud's mind returns to scenes of a similar nature, a happy inspiration comes. "By Jove, I'll do it." He seizes a telegraph blank, rings for his butler, and sends the following message: "Col. Dalton, Foreman Circle 'D' Ranch, "This high-brow life is killing me. Am sending you special train. Bring the whole outfit, band, horses and all. This town needs excitement. Come and help wake it up. BUD." A few days later we see the boys at a swell suburban depot: Bud and his wife in their auto, and the punchers in chaps and sombreros soon create a world of excitement on the city streets. Then Bud takes the boys yachting; next to see a melodrama, where the Colonel takes exceptions to the villain's heartless treatment of "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl." "Bud, either send those horrid creatures back where they came from or I get a divorce," declares Mrs. Bud. So the boys are next seen in a palatial café car homeward bound. The Colonel gets into an argument with the colored cook and that worthy dives through an open car window to escape the cowboy's wrath. Our closing scene is in the cozy home of the millionaire. He and his wife are enjoying a quiet tete-a-tete when the butler bands in a telegram. It reads; "On root. Everybody enjoyin' theirselves. The Colonel sure some happy, he just shot a coon. Will send the bill to you. THE BOYS." Bud laughs heartily. The wife joins and as she nestles up to her big manly husband, says: "You won't ever want to be a cowboy again, will you, Bud?" Bud turns slowly; looks at the Remington painting which has been the innocent cause of their recent quarrel, and walking over, he turns the picture to the wall, holds out his arms to his wife, and as her head nestles against his shoulder, we plainly catch his words, "Never Again."
- A tribe of Labrador Eskimos are seen in their peculiar ceremony of bidding the sun good-bye. It is called "The feast of the Adieu to the Sun." Zak, a young Eskimo belonging to a tribe far removed from the village of old Chief Opetek and his family where the ceremony takes place, is one of the participants; he is visiting his sweetheart, the daughter of the chief. When the sun has disappeared Zak says "good-bye" and starts with his dog team, on his homeward journey over the ice. He comes upon a half-frozen hunter, a white man. Back to the village and into the hut of the chief the stranger is taken, cared for and nursed back to life. Zak again prepares to depart for home and, according to the Eskimo fashion of greeting and leave-taking among near and dear ones, smells the sleeves of and rubs nose with his sweetheart. After he has gone, and during the absence of the girl's parents from the hut, the white man ridicules the Eskimo method of bestowing caresses, and shows her the white man's way of making love. The old chief and his wife enter the hut in time to see the daughter elope with the stranger. Winter has passed. Zak launches his kiack or canoe and starts upon his journey by water to the village of his sweetheart. His meeting with his sweetheart whom the white man long since deserted, their entrance into the summer village of old chief Opetek, the strange marriage ceremony of the Eskimos, portrayed by the natives themselves in their far-off land make up an historical romance of peculiar value to the film world.
- 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.
- James Norton, clubman and first-nighter, meets and becomes infatuated with Mignon, the classic dancing girl of the Metropolitan Variety Theater. He finds her vastly different from those she is associated with, and his respect for her is as great as his love. She loves refinement and culture, and loathes everything licentious and vulgar. She likes Norton and appreciates his friendship, but will not marry him until she feels sure of herself. She is subject to attacks of weak heart, and, one night while dancing, her heart fails and she falls in a faint upon the stage. The doctor insists that she give up her work, for the time being at least, and go to the country to recuperate. She does so and the transformation is wonderful. She grows to love the country and its simple, good-hearted, church-going people. John Harlowe, a young minister of rather puritanical ideas, meets and falls in love with her, and she in turn, realizing that she does not love Norton, gives herself to Harlow. The minister is ignorant of her former life and she does not tell him. They are very happy with their plans for the future, when Norton appears upon the scene. The minister takes his departure, and Mignon tells Norton why she cannot marry him. Harlow, meantime, has accidentally run across a magazine picture of Mignon and learns of her connection with the stage. He rushes to the field, where she and Norton have walked, and denounces her for an adventuress. Heartbroken, she pleads with him not to cast her aside. In order to prove to him that her dancing is not vulgar she makes him watch, while she dances for him. Harlow watches and as the dance progresses he begins to relent. She completes the last step and, as she turns for her answer, stumbles and falls, her heart has failed, and she drops limply to the ground, dead.
- General Arleno, the last grandee of the old Spanish regime, refuses to sell a certain sea-girt tract in California a big corporation for harbor purposes because it will dispossess his poor fisher folk. The railway discovering that his grant has a defect of title, take forcible possession, trusting luck to fight out its claims in court. Their harbor engineer, who has been called for this project, has fallen in love with a fair Californian at the closing of a mission school. She makes her home at the house of her uncle General Arleno, and when she returns there and finds her lover directing the invasion against their ancient estate, she gives him the hardest fight of his life; but, love finds a way and it ends well for all concerned.
- The story opens showing the exterior of a blacksmith shop, the blacksmith and father are at work on a wagon wheel, both talking to Gambler Joe, who is the well-known gambler of the West. The gambler, who the blacksmith thinks is a friend, turns out, as is always the case, to be a villain. It happens to be the noon hour and the blacksmith's wife arrives with lunch bucket. The blacksmith introduces his wife to Joe, the gambler, and they are next seen leaving the blacksmith shop together. They are now followed by an old hag (The Village Gossip) and Snake, a local scandal monger, who goes to the confiding blacksmith and father and tells him his wife is in love with Joe, the gambler, and they are planning an elopement. The blacksmith refuses to listen, and pushes Snake, the local scandal monger to the ground, and Gossips (the old hag) startles the blacksmith by showing him his wife and Gambler Joe going up the road in a wagon at a fast clip. The next scene shows the blacksmith saddling his horse, and taking his gun in pursuit, and after an exciting ride overtakes the gambler, who shows fight. The blacksmith dismounts his horse, and he meets the gambler face to face. At this moment the driver for the gambler rushes up behind the blacksmith and hits him on the head, knocking him senseless to the ground. Then the gambler and driver pick the blacksmith up and carry him across the lot to the railroad tracks, and place his body across the tracks. This is followed by the thrilling rescue of the blacksmith by his wife as the swiftly moving train approaches. She now realizes at last, her eyes being opened, takes her husband home, and tells the gambler to leave, that she will never see him again. The wife, whose perfidy is turned to love and obedience by seeing through the thinly veiled machinations of the villainous gambler.
- The opening shows a colored nursemaid in the park with baby carriage, and seated on a bench receives the attention of several smart colored men who admire her greatly and endeavor to make her acquaintance. But the dusky belle is coy and declines to make the acquaintance of any of them, until one more fortunate than the rest is invited to a seat on the bench with her, and a most pronounced flirtation takes place between the lady and her beau. The course of true love seems to run smoothly, and we are next introduced to the lady's home, where the young man is paying a visit and is introduced by the girl to her, father and mother, typical old darkies of before the war time, and several funny scenes follow in which the kid hint her plays a prominent part. The coon favors his girl with many presents and lavishes attentions upon her, although it cannot he said that the courtship proceeds altogether without incident. A rival appears on the scene, razors are drawn and finally a duel is arranged, at which both suitors, accompanied by their seconds, appear on the field of honor and exchange shots at thirty paces; one of the combatants is carried off the field, while our original hero remains the master of the situation, and the girl, arriving at the moment, is so pleased with his valor that arrangements for the wedding are made at once. The happy climax is reached at last and the marriage ceremony makes the two coons one and ends the "wooing" in a wedding. Next is seen the home of the young couple, but quite a change has taken place. No longer does the colored gallant overwhelm his lady with presents and similar attentions. Put the familiar sign of "Washing Done Here" is apparent, and while the woman toils at the wash tub the married coon smokes, drinks and enjoys himself at his leisure until he decides to go out and enjoy the sights and pleasures of the town. In turn he visits a trap game and several other gambling scenes, not forgetting various saloons, at which he accumulates a very perceptible package. His gambling experience has been unsuccessful and he loses not only his money but his clothes as well, and finally is compelled to rob a scarecrow in order to get clothes enough to get home again at all, which he finally gains in a very disheveled and ragged condition. The unfortunate coon has not been home long before he is attacked by imaginary foes as the result of his drinking bout; seizing a broom he gives battle wildly but is surprised by his wife, who, disgusted with the condition in which her husband has returned, attacks him viciously and gives him the beating he so richly deserves and ends by throwing a tub of suds and dirty water all over him.
- The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor. The professor makes another mystic pass and produces a second young lady then in the swing, and also a skeleton.
- Short actuality film which documents the passage of a Ringling Brothers circus parade through a prosperous Black community in Indianapolis.
- Tom, a cowpuncher, is engaged to marry Vicky Williams, a ranch girl. Vicky has a girl chum who owns a pet bear, and she tells Tom that the must get her a bear. With his friend, Sid Jones, Tom soon discovers bear signs. Tom enters a bear hole; the bear also enters, and Tom makes his escape just in time. Finally the bear is treed. The limb on which bruin is hanging is sawed off, and the bear falls to the ground, where it is lassoed by Tom and Sid. Vicky, in the meantime, has been playing with her girl friend's pet bear and it bites her finger. When she sees Tom and Sid approaching with the bear, which they finally captured at the risk of their lives, she tells them she don't like bears, doesn't want one, and leaves. With an expression of "Can you beat it?" Tom and Sid fall to the ground in a faint.
- "Soon after his engagement to Margaret Kingon, Chas. Burnham is called to Honolulu on account of the illness of his mother. While he is away, Margaret and some friends visit a medium, Antonio Guiseppi, who, with his power, persuades her to return the next day. Doing so, she falls completely under his influence and is told, among other things, that Burnham is false. He then persuades her to discharge her maid, Marie, and take one he provides for her, his accomplice, Celeste. But she acts so strangely, that her father becomes worried and cables Burnham to return as soon as he possibly can. So Burnham boards the next available vessel, wires of his speedy return and proceeds to wait impatiently for the ship to cross the ocean. His message, though, is never delivered, for Celeste intercepts it, carries it to Guiseppi and receives his orders to bring Margaret to him. Burnham goes to see Mr. Kingdon immediately upon his return, and while he is there, Kingdon receives a telephone message from Marie telling him that something is wrong, that she has seen Margaret and her new maid go into a strange house down in town, and thought it best to inform Kingdon. A taxicab is ordered immediately, and the two men go to where Marie has promised to meet them. They rush up the stairs and arrive in the medium's parlors just in time to stop the [farcical] wedding of Guiseppi and Margaret. In his rage, Burnham nearly chokes the hypnotist to death, and compels him to release Margaret from the spell he has cast over her. When, a few days later, Margaret has fully recovered from her terrible experience, she renews her engagement to Burnham." Moving Picture World Oct-Dec 1911 pp. 654 & 656
- To the town of Tombstone, in which Goodrich Mudd is known as the "Blacksheep," comes a burlesque company headed by Lida, a captivating woman. Mudd, the sheriff and Underdog, who works a mining claim in Tombstone and who is the boon companion of Mudd, compete to win the charmer, and in order to raise money with which to entertain Lida, Mudd, whose daily occupation is that of lolling in a hammock, plays a game of cards with the sheriff. During the game the manager of the theatrical company also takes a hand, but loses considerably. The money the manager takes from the company's cash box which is fastened to the treasurer of the company, who is handcuffed to the bedstead. Mudd takes Lida to dinner, and when he is far under the influence of wine, the burlesque queen hoists the $19 worth of fried chicken and other delicacies in a basket to the girls in the room above who have not eaten a thing for several days. But Tombstone's omnipresent bad man is always on the job, and when he sees the basket full of eats going up, he empties the contents into the cash box, which he had previously discovered and from which he had abstracted the balance of the company's receipts, lowers the box into its original place and "beats it." The theatrical manager cannot pay the hotel bill, so the proprietor attaches the wardrobe of the players, leaving them nothing but their stage costumes. Subsequently a lawyer arrives from Chicago, who tells Mudd that he has been left $2,000,000 by his aunt who recently died, and that he may obtain the fortune if he complies with the provisions in the will which are: (1) he must live in the Mudd mansion in Chicago; (2) must acquire culture; (3) must place a wreath on his grandfather's grave; (4) must get married to his cousin, Ada Steele, within 99 days; (5) if Ada refuses to marry him, he must marry someone else in 99 days; (6) to decline the terms the money will revert to his other cousin, Percy Vere. Great is the consternation of all present at the reading of the will when Mudd refuses to abide by the terms, and it is only when the crowd threatens to kill him that he finally agrees. He goes to the Mudd mansion in Chicago and takes all his friends with him. The lawyer informs Percy and Ada of the terms of the will, and as these two young people are engaged to be married, Ada contrives to get the fortune by "stringing" Mudd along until the last day when she will flatly refuse to marry him. It will then be too late for Mudd to get a wife, and the millions will go to Percy. Then he and Ada will get married. Percy and Ada go to the Mudd mansion, and Mudd tries to make love to Ada. She blows a whistle, which is the cue for Percy to come to her assistance, but he does not appear, for he has been captured by two female burglars who find upon him an incriminating letter from Ada Steele. The burglars offer to return the letter for $100,000. Some time later Ada and Percy are walking in Lincoln Park when they observe Mudd trying to put a wreath upon the spot in the lake where his grandfather met death by rocking a boat. He also recognizes the female burglars nearby, and tells them to kidnap Mudd until a certain time has passed when he (Percy) agrees to reward the burglars. They comply and Mudd mysteriously disappears. The time for Mudd's marriage is near at hand. Fearing that Percy may not live up to his word, the female burglars decide to watch him, and their suspicions are confirmed when they hear him say to Ada that the millions will soon be his and "The Spiders," whom the female burglars are called, can go hang. In revenge "The Spiders" give orders to release Mudd, who arrives at his mansion at 11:53. "The Spiders" are there, too, and they flaunt the letter found in Percy's pocket, revealing its import, and adding that Ada's absence proves that she has turned Mudd down. Mudd doesn't become alarmed, for he, at the last minute, marries Lida, who has always loved him.
- Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
- (First Reel) Cinderella's mother dies and her father marries a cruel widow with two ugly daughters of her own disposition. The father leaves on a long journey and poor Cinderella is soon forced to act as "slavey" to the tyrannical stepmother and her daughters. They abuse and mistreat her and finally turn her out of the house. The girl, footsore and weary, takes refuge in a deserted garden. Prince Charming refuses to marry the girl the king chooses for him and is thrust into prison. He makes his escape and by a strange coincidence attempts to hide in the same deserted garden that Cinderella has chosen. The prince has changed his garb for that of a milk vendor and in this apparel he meets Cinderella, who is also in rags. With each it is a case of love at first sight. He gives her a ring and she allows him to cut and keep a lock of her hair. The girl, now refreshed and happy, returns to her home, while the prince dreams of his girl in tatters. (Second Reel) The king issues a proclamation announcing that if the prince will return he may marry whomsoever he will. The prince, overjoyed, returns. Cinderella, now happy and carefree, pays little heed to her daily abuse and ill-treatment. She finds great comfort and solace in the ring, and memories, until one day the Prince is pointed out to her, and in him she recognizes her milk vendor. And so again her childish dreams are shattered. The king gives a grand ball in honor of his son. The stepmother and sisters go, leaving Cinderella behind, brokenhearted. Her fairy godmother then comes to her assistance, however, making it possible for Cinderella to attend the ball, the only requirement being that Cinderella leave the palace before midnight. Cinderella agrees and departs for the ball in state. (Third Reel) At the ball. Cinderella captivates the prince and his guests with her beauty and mischievousness. To him she looks familiar, but she steadfastly refuses to divulge her identity. Cinderella so thoroughly enjoys her evening with the prince that she forgets the approaching midnight hour until it arrives. Then suddenly remembering her godmother's admonition, she rushes from the palace, but in doing so she loses one of her silver slippers. Later the prince finds the slipper, and sends his couriers throughout the land, announcing that the owner of the foot that fits the slipper shall become his wife. Cinderella by chance is granted permission to try on the slipper and lo, she becomes a princess.
- 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.
- 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.
- The village of Snailburg is far removed from the centers of civilization. The Bazoo prints news events of the world several weeks after they occurred, as there is no telegraph line to Snailburg. and the news travels by slow freight. The threats of war against Mexico alarm the villagers who organize a volunteer force to repel possible invaders. They drill and maneuver under the directions of earnest officers and the neighbors look upon their efforts with awe and admiration. Two hobos come to town and devise a plot for a swell "feed" at the expense of the villagers. One takes a part of a Mexican spy while the other assumes the role of an American soldier in pursuit of the said spy. The volunteers at drill are dispersed in a panic when the supposed Mexican spy makes his appearance. They scatter in all directions, while the hobos feast upon huckleberry pie abandoned by one of the village housewives.
- A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.
- 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).
- Lost adaption of the 1904 book of "The Marvelous Land of Oz" in which Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Wizard encounter the rebellion army of General Jinger and his Leith soldiers.
- Now, girls, if yon turned suddenly around and found a nice, gentlemanly skeleton seated comfortably beside you, would you scream or be too frightened to utter a sound? Now Martha, the new maid of all employed in a medical college, was content to juggle pans in the kitchen, but when brought face to face with the cold remnant of a past mortal, she lets out a noise that would fade the sound of a moving picture machine into insignificance, and rushes from the room only to be confronted by another and another, until Martha is a regular encyclopedia of all that is frightful. Composing herself long enough, she summons the officers, who are led to believe something bordering on a massacre has occurred, and hasten to the scene. The appearance of the skeleton cools their ardor and dampens the courage of the bluecoats and they join the merry stampede. Martha hits a street car for the tall and uncut, but our friend the skeleton bobs up again and a large hole in the car window marks the maid's hasty exit. Seeking refuge from her Nemesis, she lands in a room with no visible skeleton, but the news was too good to be true and poor Martha finds it necessary to imitate Halley's Comet and on the window marks her course, landing on a steep roof, tumbles into the bathing tank below and is only rescued with difficulty. Poor Martha had a hard time and has never reconciled herself to the association of skeletons.