OCR Text |
Show Tramps Trap Auto Speeders The Sale Of A Delusive Exclusive Ex-clusive Pattern Vest With Confusive Results. Broncho Billy Reform What Follows Biaka't Outbreak Oi Jealoui Rafe The Equiae Vetorao Of The j Police Force And The Story Of Hii Life. Too Many Cops (Kalcm). Two motorcycle policemen, located at different dif-ferent points along a road, establish a. mode of communication by which tliey can time pceiing automobilists They make a number of arrests, and in most cases they permit tbe speeders speed-ers to go on their way for a consideration. consid-eration. Three tramps witness the proceeding, and by a subterfuge secure se-cure the badges of the police They hac the time of their lives extorting money from all manner of auto drivers, driv-ers, regardless of the speed, but are , called to account in a most unexpect- i ed manner when they have held up James Jeffries, Jack Jeffries and Barney Bar-ney Oldficld. An Exclusive Pattern (Lubin). A 1 haberdasher sells to a young man a vest that he declares to be an abso- ' lutcly exclusive pattern. The design , is unique and startling, and Tom j wears it home to luncheon with much pride. He immediately spills soup on it. but Nan, his vviic. promises to . clean it. After the wife has cleaned , it she hangs it in the backyard to dry. ( It is stolen by a tramp. She tele- . phones Tom of the theft, and notifies ; the police, giving a description of the 5 vest. Nan goes on a shopping expedi- tlition, and the first man she sees on the street is wearing the stolen c-i. i or at least she thinks it is the stolen 1 rt. She endeavors to recover it, and the man. deeming her a lunatic, flees in horror Meanwhile Tom has ( seen the vest adorning the tigurc of , a suffragette, a prize fighter, and the , original tramp, and his attempt- to re- j cover it have been highly disa-trous The police now busy themselves, and i the tangle comes to a head at the sta- i tion house, where the simultaneous t ir appearance of half a dozen persons wearing the vest, tends to disprove i the haberdasher's assertion, thai the f one sold to Tom was without a dupli- catc Freed from the clutches of the law, Tom and the other battered and I furious vest owners, proceed to wreak c vengeance on the haberdasher They i treat him to a hath under the fire k hydrant. f I Broncho Billy Reforms (Essanay). Broncho Billy and his p.ils plot to rob the general store. Broncho Billy , is elected t go into the store and j engage the proprietor in conversation j while the others enter the rear door ( and rob the till A beautiful young ( girl comes out to wait on Broncho Billy, and he is attracted by her beauty and sweetness and goes back to his pals and declines to have any- ( thing to do with the robbery. His g pals attack him, tie his hands and feet, and go off on their horses to do ' the hold-up without him Broncho t Billy manages1 to free himself, mounts r his horse and goes after the bandits 1 Broncho Billy arrives on Uic scene just in time to prevent the robbery, j and routes his erstwhile pals The : jjirl thanks him, and as he leaves. ( looks after him and sighs. He looks f longingly at the girl as he mounts ' his horse, and thinks what happiness I life would hold for him if he had led ; an upright and honest life. H Binks Elevates the Stage (Imp). T'oor little Binks is now an actor, and loves the leading lady, who coquet- j tishly encourage- him. while she Teally adores Mauri, c Mt. Cheesing- , ton. the handsome leading man. One , night while Binks is dressed a a convict and behind prison bars, he fees the leading lady and the accursed Maurice Mt. Chcssington embracing off the stavte. This maddens him. and he drops his character and shakes hi-, fist at them. The manager gives him a kick, and Binks, jumping with pain, knock- down the scenery on the leading man's head, and they have m rough-and-tumble fight. He thinks he has killed his rival and runs away, pursued by actors and audience. He escapes them, but his convict suit later causes his arre-t. and he is held until the manager effects his release I l . j The Veteran Police Horse (Than- houscr), An empty headed young colt was frisking about the farm one day when a strange burse was introduced intro-duced into the pasture. He was old and shabby and at first the colt looked look-ed scornfully at him. but when he found that his companion had been put in the world he displayed more interest, specially when he learned that hi frieiuJ has been on the police force. As the veteran tells the si iry of his stirring life its thrilling incidents inci-dents arc pictured on the screen. While looking for a desired location. Director Georg Mel turd, of the Kalem Company, at Glendale, Cat. had an automobile auto-mobile aocideni which tore the engine from his machine and put the brakes out of commission. Mr. Mclford was traveling a rough mountain road and narrowly escaped a plunge over a steep precipice. As it was. he was obliged to walk twelve miles through the dust. |