Reel Life (Mar-Sep 1915)

New Releases on the Mutual Program and Janet are in love. But Keene objects to the match. In the event of a marriage, he threatens to disinherit his nephew. An old knife is sent the bachelor from the Orient. It is especially admired by Brown, the butler, who has been in the household for many years. One day Keene falls asleep in his chair, with the stiletto over his arm. He dreams. It seems to him that he quarrels with Rex over his love affair. A horrible cry brings the servants running to the library, where they find their master dead on the floor. Rex is bending over him, the knife in his hand. He is arrested and tried on circumstantial evidence for murder. Janet testifies, greatly against her will. Her suffering on the stand is acute. Then, old Brown, the butler, comes forward. He tells how his daughter, Violet, years before had fallen in love with Keene, who refused to keep his promise to marry the girl. Seeking revenge, Brown entered the service of her faithless lover. His opportunity came when the uncle and nephew fell to quarreling. The deed was his. Keene wakes. Out of the joyful relief to find that it is all a dream, he gives his consent to the marriage of Rex and Janet. ***** JERRY AND THE GUNMANCUB COMEDIES One Reel — September 9, 1915 The Inimitable George Ovey in a Scene from New and Mirthful Comedy CAST Jerry George Ovey Dead Shot Dick Jefferson Osborne Mr. Goodrich Louis FitzRoy Sheriff Gunning R. Jackson Doctor Arthur Mund Mrs. Goodrich Janet Sully Jessie Goodrich Goldie Colwell Goodrich, Mrs. Goodrich and their pretty daughter, Jessie, arrive in a small western town just as a bad man is shooting up the place. "Dead Shot Dick" comes to the rescue of the easterners. Dick is a gunman at loggerheads with the law. Sheriff Gunning posts a notice offering a reward of $1,000 for his capture; Dick sees the notice and compels the sheriff to eat it. He then interrupts the spooning of Jerry and Jessie, cutting out the former with the fair stranger. Jerry determines to be avenged. The Goodrich family depart for home. They invite Dick to visit them. He accepts, and a few days later arrives in town, with Jerry hot on his trail. Both pay marked attentions to Jessie. "Dead Shot Dick" orders his rival out of the way. Jerry refuses, and in the tilt that follows the lordly outlaw is worsted. Dick, laid low, is attended by the doctor. In the midst of the treatment he revives. Grabbing his brace of six shooters, he powders up the room, Jerry coming in for an extraordinary share of attention in commemoration of past performances. Dick compels Jerry to swap clothes, and continues on his rampage. At an opportune moment, however, Jerry applies a shillalah to Dick's head, and he falls into dreamland. In his rival's pocket, Jerry finds a copy of the notice offering the thousand for the outlaw's capture. Visions of the reward prompt Jerry to tie a rope to the gunman's ankles and drag him off to jail, where he hands his prize over to ithe authorities and demands his money. The sight of the $1,000 leaving his hands, however, proves too much for the judge. He orders Jerry arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and the crestfallen hero is cast into the same cell with him bosom foe. * * * * ^ A DARK HORSE RELIANCE One Reel — September 13, 1915 cast Bobby, a newsboy Bobby Fuehrer Will Haverley Fred Burns Marion, his wife Margie Wilson j Tony, head trainer Ben Lewis Constable William Rhyno Bobby, a newsboy, protects a cripple from being tormented by the other boys, and is rewarded with a position in Will Haverley's racing stables. Bobby is allowed to exercise "Old Ironsides," Haverley's favorite horse, which holds the track record. The young groom sees a handbill announcing $1,000 in prizes for trotting races at the county fair. He determines to take chances on winning enough money to send his sick mother to the country. At the entrance to the fair, Bobby discovers a runaway monkey. He makes the monkey perform for the crowd, and takes in enough cash to pay his admission fee. But just here a constable interferes. The monkey has stolen a watch. Bobby is made responsible for the theft, and both he and the simian are locked up. However, they escape and re Bobby" Fuehrer as the Newsboy turn to the track. Bobby has entered "Old Ironsides," on whom he has bet all his money. The horse wins. Haverley himself is in the crowd. Furious, because his stable boy has entered his horse without permission, Haverley threatens to discharge Bob. The constable complicates matters by coming to re-arrest Bob and the monkey. The man who lost his watch, however, testifies to the boy's innocence, and Bob, freed, pleads with Haverley to go with him to see his mother. He does so. Touched, yet wishing to teach Bob a lesson, Haverley takes from him all his winnings and sends him back to the stables with the trainer. Then he gives the money to Bob's sick mother. The following day she is sent to the country, and Haverley keeps her there until she is well. [ Nine ]