The Biograph (July 3-10, 1915)

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Six THE BIOGRAPH SHAKESPEARE GEORGE and Tom Evans, arbiters of public opinion in Willow Creek, are present when the boys begin to ridicule the music of an old blind violinist set down by the stage coach that afternoon. They pronounce the music fine, and, to sustain their reputations as critics, clean out the saloon. They take the old man to their mine, where he is welcomed by their friend, i Stinger Johnson, and his wife, I Marietta. As the days pass, the old ■9{-' -toy \ S man endears himself to them all. ^ £ Marietta treats him as a father. The I partners make a big clean-up and J. \ I insist that he share with them. One V day Stinger Johnson reads aloud a H ** " news item to the effect that a W^~'~ notorious desperado is dying in jail >/'. at San Bernardino. The old man 3 §r startles them by requesting to be BLp ImL » Another 0 Number 45 in this unrivaled series of two reel pictures— the Two Reel Biograph, released each week in the regular service— a headliner on any program without extra charge The blind via \ is Shakespeare \r>Tum Evans. L Violinist's d' n Her swee/hea . . Stinger John .. Marietta, his n taken to San Bernardino. Arrived there, he asks a question of the dying man: “What have you done with my daughter and her child? ’’ The question dates back twenty years, when the old man, then a young musician, had forbidden his daughter to marry a worthless man. She had gone the way of her heart and