The Washington herald., 1914-04-15

-.Captain Junior is the title of the
two-reel ''Broncho'' which tells a dra-
rnatilc story of life at a Western military
post.
Although he knows that it will be
great shock to his son, Capt. Allen of the
Red River Valley military post tells the
boy that he is about to marry a second
time "Cap'n Junior says nothing but
wanders away from the tort and throws
himself sobbing upon his mothers grave.
Hours pass and still the heart-broken
youngster pours forth the story Of his
griefs to ears that cannot hear. Sergeant
Casey sent out by Capt. Allen. finally
finds Captain Junior and brings him
back to the fort.
Can't. Allen leaves for the railroad sta
ton in a stage coach with his son. Cap
tain Junior does not greet his future
stepmother any too graciously. Before
returning to the fort Capt. Allen receives
a message notifying him that the In
dians are on the war path. Captain
Junior" and his new mother are told to
go back to the fort while Capt. Allen
leaves to suppress the uprising.
The Indians, after rayaging the town,
become holder and attack the fort. Cap
tain Junior takes Alice, his fathers
BRIDE to the mountains, fearing capture
by the Indians. Meanwhile, Capt Allen
rushes back to the fort with his COM
are missing. A command is sent out and
the distracted father is about to give
way TO his fears that both his son and
young bride have been massacred when
he and his men come upon them and
touching reconciliation takes place.
"CaptaIn Junior" 2-reel Broncho,
Colonial today. 927 Pa ave. nw.-Adv.
1t became known recently that the
Universal Company is quietly searching
around for some unusual two and three
reel dramas especially adapted to Miss
Leah Baird Imp star. Miss Baird is
especially gifted in heavy emotional work
and already the company has lined up
several plays that are expected to show
her to better advantage than in anything
done in many months.
If the claims of a French inventor be
credited it would seem that at last the
synchronous photographing and actual
filming Of the voices of motion picture
players on the same film has been &C.
crmplished. 1t long has been known to
scientists that sound waves can be made
TO trace visible waves of varying contour
on a moving sensitive film to which
michophones have been electrically Icon-
nected. A special film, double the width
Of the ordinary film, is used for the work
and Photographic records of the action
have been registered, is designed to
bear a series of pictures. while the right
half of the double film contains tiny
depressions similar to those on a phono-
graph record. The one film thus serves
as a phonograph record at the same time
It answers all the purposes of an or
binary motiCn-picture reel.
Renne Kelley. until recently leading
lady of THE Speckled Band" has been
engaged by the Selig PoIyscope Company
and is now appearing in plays at the
North Side studio.
Gertrude CoghIan is playing a limited
engagement in vaudeville in a sketch
by Will Hodge, entitled Bridge"
The following letter recently received
by the Selig Company will be of interest
in view of the talk recently that the
showing of motion pictures was injuri-
GUS to the eyesight. The letter is from
well-known scientific authority. and
states: Eyes are not injured, nor is the
health Of patrons destroyed, much less
are the morals of youth corrupted by
moving pictures Just as the playhouse
of the olden times eliminated the taint
of vice from its performance, just as the
editors Of up-to-date magazines have
come an understanding that the reading
public does not relish wickedness and
undertaking, so photoplay producers
have rapidly learned that the public is
intolerant of the vicious and suggestive,
and the scientific aids that have come to
the projection of moving pictures have
eliminated the old-time flicker that was
annoying and injurious"
Ed Coxen, leading man of the Ricketts,
Flying A" company, recently made
fall from a horse for effect The effect
in the pictures is great, but Coxen was
laid up for several days. The title Of
the picture is THE Ingrate," a two-part |
Western drama soon to be released.
Raphael 9th and o. <reels daiiy.--Ady.l !