The Washington herald., 1913-12-09

The Lubin Motion Picture Company has
taken Silver City, New Mexico, by
storm. Their doings have been a source
Of constant surprise and wonder to the
entire population for the last two weeks,
and the question on every lip is, What S
next?" This man, Romaine Fielding, has
got Silver Citys goat and if scme one
were to start the rumor that he had
bought all the buildings between Bullard
and the gulch and was intending TO pile
them in the Main street ditch and make
a flood scene of them, nine-tenths of the
people would believe il. And why not?
He stops at nothing-expense or no eX-
pense-so long as it gets the results he
is after.
The biggest stunts yet We're pulled off
Sunday at the smelter in the presence
Of a thousand people. A couple of riot
scenes We're staged around the smelter
buildings iE which a number Of promi-
nent young men displayed proclivities
heretofore kept carefully under cover.
One of the high bridges on the Pinos Altos
and Mogollon Railway was blown up, but
the sensation of the day was the burning
and blowing up of the two immense
wooden tanks which stood on an eminence
back of the smelter. The effect secured
was beautiful, and if ii looks big on
the screen it ought to create sensation
wherever shown. The shock of the eX
plosion was heard for miles, and pieces
Of timber flew hundreds of feet in the
air.
After a six months vacation. Mar
guerite Snow is back at work at the
Thanhouser Studio. She has been lead
ing lady with ThanhCuser for three con-
secutive years. Returning from the
Thanhouser Studio at Los Angeles last
Spring, sha decided she needed rest
Miss Shows first picture on the return
date is "Peggy's Invitation" in which
she was directed by Mr.. James Durkin.
The whimsical Thanhouser play. What
Might Have Been" reminds us of Dick
ems. Like Scrooge, an old miser is con-
verted by a dTeam-Only, no such pleas
ant dream as in THE Christmas Carol
and where he has intended to work evil,
-auses a great deal of happiness instead.
Rolfe was very wealthy-but old, and
ugly as sin. He hadn't spent his life
developing the attractive, lOvable quail
ties-but had devoted himself, body and
soul, TO piling up money, being too selfish
and stingy ever TO marry. Then, in his
old age, he falls in love with his ste
nographer. She is young. very pretty-and
not girl to be tempted by mere money.
More she is in love with a handsome.
young clerk in RoIf's office. Billy isn't
earning much-and they must wait.
When the rich broker proposes, he is
astonished to find himself rejected-then,
he catches n to the fact of his arrival
and falls asleep one evening in his chair.
planning how he is going to rid himself
of the young clerk, and get the girl for
himself
In his dream he works this all out
and then things take an unexpected turn,
for the young man avenges himself on
the broker. He wakes in Il cold sweat
and accepting the dream for a warning,
hastens to raise the clerks salary, and
bring the young couple together in quite
a grandfatherly way. 1t is a very in
teresting play-with that vein of gentle !
humor running through it, which espe-
CialIy distinguishes Mr.. Lloyd F. Loner- !
gans dramas.
Clara Dale, 4 young ingenue of the Es- |