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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1913
Page
34
The Vita graph Company rereleases its acclaimed drama The Tale of Two Cities for England. The film long favored by English audiences is being issued again as a patriotic presentation. Billy Horner schemes with a Greek chorus of two tramps to pose as Zulu slaves and a prince.
The Vitagraph Company previews twenty five new photoplays for the season. Thirteen are comedies including four Bunny pictures and two Costello entries from the Vitagraph Globe Trotters. Wallie Van as Cutey stars in two laughs. Hughie Mack appears in two more comedies. Notable titles include Arriet's Baby and Her Sweetest Memory, a London coster drama and a poignant tale of a poor girl.
Thanhouser forces in Los Angeles present Marble Heart a two reel film from a Charles Selby play. Marguerite Snow plays the jilting woman with James Cruze the scorned suitor. The drama shows a woman choosing wealth over artistic talent.
In New York King Baggot plays a charitable optician whose deformity shields true love with a blind girl. He rescues a sister and provides a home while concealing his face. She discovers his shape but loves him still, and he regains sight as she proclaims The Heart Sees Best.
A rich young heir pursues his father’s stenographer who disapproves. Poverty reveals character with the gentleness of the sister outweighing the insincere girl. The father reconciles with his son after choosing the wrong sister. An embezzling clerk helps the loyal sister, an elopement is arranged, and a suitcase mix up leads to the embezzled funds being restored.
Violet Horner loves Billy Quirk though her father opposes the match. The elder Quirk bets he will urge Billy to wed Violet. Horner sends Violet to a boarding school. Billy, disguised as a girl, infiltrates and nearly ruins it. The scheme is exposed, they elope, a police chase follows, and a letter hints at a future with Captain Spar and the Prince in the Canary Islands.
Broncho Billy, intoxicated, robs a store then is shot in the wrist by Brown. Mary Walker helps tend the wound. A sheriff warns him to leave town. Mary’s brother gambles away money to a gambler, Broncho Billy intervenes at the saloon and recovers the funds before restoring the injured man home. The tale continues with further events.
Kalem presents a two part western with Miss Jane Wolfe and Carlyle Blackwell. Morton the settler is rescued by Laughing Water and Big Eagle then weds the Indian girl. Years pass with a mine discovered and a tragedy erupts when Morton returns with his son.
Se lig presents a sympathetic tale about two small children who long to see the circus but cannot afford the price. Baby Lillian Wade Roy Clark and Bessie Eyton head the cast in this appealing release dated June 2.
The Royal Theater opens today as an exclusive cinema with first run Mutual Film Services. The program includes After the Massacre Rivals Outwitted and educational oyster industry footage, plus Nemesis a 2800 foot feature with Hemlock and Halstead. The venue promises cool air, fresh seating, and planned renovations including new carpeting and Fox style chairs.
Thomas Commerford, famed for his versatility, joins Essanay Eastern Stock Company after a long Lincoln J. Carter era. He will take on heavy roles in upcoming productions. Vitagraph’s Roughing The Cub features Hughie Mack as the Cub with Brooklyn reporters, written by Courtney Ryley Cooper.
Essanay plans a two reel dramatic masterwork titled The Forbidden Way to be released within three or four weeks. Chicago critics call it among the companys best productions. Olive Skinner returns to the screen with Nestor Company as part of a government film project filmed with Animated Weekly. A print will also be stored in the Washington treasury vault.
Gwendolen Brooks, now with Powers Company, is noted as a daring rider and athlete after recent ingenue work with Douglas Fairbanks and Brady. Universal previews What Abraham Lincoln Did, a heart story based on John Hay’s interview, with Logan Paul as Lincoln. Other notes include Miss Johnny Johnson joining Rex Company and several film vignettes such as The Heart of Hernanda and The Spell featuring hypnotism and peril.
The Princess Theatre presents The Dead Secret a Marion Leonard three reel feature with Anim ated Weekly today and tomorrow plus Shriner Dallas convention footage and other short programs The program also includes In Slavery Days Harvard to Princeton boat race and various newsreel items with Violet Horner poses.
The Historical Medical Museum organized by Henry S. Wellcome will open in London near the end of June. It will display Galvani’s original apparatus, Graeco Roman votive offerings, ancient microscopes, medieval and modern surgical tools, amulets from English folk medicine, early medical medals, coins, manuscripts, and printed books. In Nashville a prison cat escaped after Pursley fired nine shots, then was recaptured and later escaped again.
Experiments in France show roof signs for guiding aviators are best made of silvered glass balls set in a black background. These signs produce the greatest visibility at long distances for air navigation.
Washington plans a global celebration of the 1814 Ghent Treaty centennial from December 24, 1914, to February 18, 1915. Delegates from English-speaking nations will participate, with events in Washington and London, honorary chairman William Jennings Bryan, and a program of services, school festivals, and diplomatic receptions.
A veteran grumbles about misled enlistment posters promising action in the Philippines. He recalls rough training at Fort Sam Houston then border duty along the Rio Grande with harsh conditions and bugged rations. He plans to reenlist, aiming for a non commissioned officer role in the same regiment.
Berlin May 24 The well founded Liebknecht disclosures shock the war party but expect military and naval bills to pass. Finance Committee favors the measures, striking three cavalry regiments. Debate predicts passage nearly unaltered, with taxation burden debated and delayed into fall.
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