rope breaks and great excitement follows among the crowd, for the fellow is drowning. Police enter, but because of the confusion they forget to rescue him. Finally somebody recovers his presence of mind, lowers a rope with a hook on it, and draws up the victim, covered with mud and gasping from his strenuous baptism. A final tableau shows reconciliation and rejoicing.
1114–1115. THE CATHOLIC CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. Length, 950 feet. Price, $114.00.
This film is the only one taken of the Centenary of the Founding of the Archdiocese of New York and should interest any audience, regardless of their religion.
Some of the scenes shown in this most imposing and elaborate picture are:
- Celebration of children during the centenary week.
- Grand celebration at the St. Patrick's Cathedral.
- Procession of Cardinals and Prelates from Archbishop Farley's residence to the Cathedral.
- The monster Parade of Saturday, May 2d.
Amongst the organisations shown are: St. Francis Xavier Cadets; De La Salle Academy Cadets; Ancient Order of Hibernians; Bohemian Catholic Societies; Classon Point Military Academy Cadets; The Knights of Columbus; Detachments from the Several Parishes of the ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK, etc.
1116–1123. A Fake-Diamond Swindler. Length, 586 feet. Price, $70.32.
In his laboratory full of chemicals and electrical apparatus a man who claims to have invented a way of manufacturing diamonds, is besieged by many people whom he has cheated out of their money through his alleged process. Finally the president of the diamond mines in South Africa enters, sees a diamond manufactured, and receives it as a present in the form of a scarf-pin.
The gendarmes then enter, drag the impostor to court; but in the midst of exciting and ludicrous legal proceeding, the latter knocks the officials over and escapes through the window. There is a hot pursuit in which many obstacles are encountered and overturned, one of which is a park bench with a couple sitting on it engaged in a lively conversation. The prisoner is at last caught, and we take leave of him making faces, from behind the bars, at his guards.
1124–1131. Curiosity Punished. Length, 564 feet. Price, $67.68.
This entertaining sketch shows us, first, two adjoining rooms in one of which two musicians are practising and in the other an irritable old man is suffering from inability to sleep. The landlord stops the music. The old man, in order to find out what is actually going on next door, bores a hole through the wall. The musicians discover it and secretly determine to put a joke on the aged Paul-pry. They go through a mock murder. As one falls to the floor, feigning death, the sight proves so frightful to the curious lodger that he jumps against the wall with full force and lands in the next room. He then rushes for the police after alarming everybody else in the house. The crowd rushes in and finds the room empty; he returns and captures the murderer as he sneaks through a trap door. They take the hamper with the supposed corpse to the police station, and when the body is removed the fellow gets up and laughs at the audience.
