The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-11-17
MOTION PICTURES AID RED
CROSS SEALS.
Interesting Drama Tells Realistic
Story Of City Life-Ready Decem-
Der 5th.

Interesting Drama Tells Realistic
Story Of City Life-Ready Decem.
Der 5th.
Motion pictures will again be used
In the Red Cross Seal Anti-Tubercu-
losis Campaign. a picture prepared
by Thomas "A. Edison, Inc. entitled
The Awakening of John Bond will
be ready for exhibition about Deem
Der 9Th, according to an announce
ment made to-day by the National As
sociation for the Study and Proven
ton of tuberculosis.
The film is the fifth health film,
and the second dealing with tubercu-
losis and the Red Cross Seal move
ment which has been issued by Edi-
SON lit il about 1000 feet long, and
tells an interesting story of everyday
life in New York City.
The leading characters i'm the story
are Bond, political boss, his wife,
Grace, and Nellie O'Brien, aged is,
living on the lower East Side of New
York. The O'Briens, a large family
live i'm a miserably kept tenement
owned by Bond, who refuses to do
anything to clean up his building for
fear of losing money. Bond is mar
ried and sails with his wife on a
cruise for wedding trip, taking with
him as a. deckhand, George O'Brien,
Nellie's brother, who has consump-
ton. On the cruise George fails rap
idly and finally dies; Bonds wife
having nursed him during his sick
ness and being with him at the last,
takes his death bed messages. AS
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with George, Mrs. Bond contracts tu-
berculosis from him, and II brought
back to New York for treatment. On
her arrival home, she sends for Mel
lie to give her Georges dying mes
sages, and there Nellie sees and de-
nounces Bond as the murderer OF her
brother, because he refused to clean
UP the tenement in which they lived,
or to help secure q hospital where
consumptives might receive free
treatment.
Meanwhile, Bond has been trying
to find sanatorium where he may
place his wife, but to his horror, finds
every private sanatorium full, and no
room for more patients.H then pro
ceeds to the tuberculosis Society and
finds that there is no public place,
because he voted against it. He tries
to bride the secretary to make a
place for his wife, but the official
takes his money and gives him a
package of Red Cross Seals. Bond is
at first angry, but when he learns
what the Red Cross Seal means, he
writes out check for $150,000 for
the campaign and agrees to support
the hospital bill. The secretary then
shows Bond tuberculosis exhibit and
an open air school, and arranges for
the placing of his wife and the o.
Rrien children, who also have tuber-
culosis, in sanatorium. The last
scene shows Bonds wife and the o.
Brein children recovered, playing in
Bonds parlor, and committee wait
ing on Bond, showing how his candi-
date Is being supported because he
believes in the tuberculosis hospital.
The film will be shown in thous-
ands of moving picture theatres dur
ing December, and will be used by
tuberculosis societies all the year
round. The picture is produced IN
der the supervision Of the National
Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis and the New
York Committee On the Prevention OF
tuberculosis.