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CLASS 9— Dramas 111
REEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER
A-223toA-226 The Secret Kingdom Vitagraph
Dorothy Kelley, Charles Richmond, Eileen Pretty (Eighth Episode "Rum Cay") Of the entire serial we have reproduced this single episode as it stands out so conspicuously as one of the most thrilling sea fights ever shown. A synopsis at the beginning properly introduces the spectator and familiarity with the other episodes is entirely unnecessary to the thorough enjoyment of this one. The terrific fight on the deck and in the rigging of the ship between the piratical savages of "Rum Cay" and the crew and passengers of the ship, holds the spectator in breathless and thrilling interest from the start to finish.
A-229 to A-232 The Little Strategist Vitagraph
Paula Blackton and Two Blackton Children
The story concerns a family during the War of the Rebellion, and is laid in the far South, where increasing poverty and privation tempted the mistress of the plantation to sell two of her little negro slaves. Her own children overhearing the business transaction hastily advise the old negro mammy and uncle (parents of the pickaninnies) and insist upon being hidden away with the colored children, until their mother should realize the cruelty of disposing of these little pickaninnies. Two pretty romances run through the story, which is characterized by beautiful photography, the many playful pranks of the children and their puppy playmates.
A-235 to A-246 Graustark Essanay
Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Lester Cuneo, John Cossar, Bryant Washbum, Edna Mayo, Ernest Maupain, Charles Stein and Harry Dunkinson
Grenfall Lorry, a wealthy young American of leisure, meets the Princess Yetive of Graustark traveling incognito in America and falls in love at first sight. He accompanies her party sightseeing at the National Capital, and after her departure to Europe, decides to follow and find the young lady, with no other clue to her identity than that she is from a little European principality called "Graustark." Arriving in Graustark with his college chum, he immediately becomes involved in conspiracies and court intrigues, during which he saves the life of his former acquaintance, only to discover that she is a princess and the reigning sovereign of the country. He also learns that the poor country is bankrupt and its only salvation lies in the marriage of its princess to one or the other of a couple of undesirable princes, from which ordeal she naturally shrinks. In the stormy scenes which follow, one of the princes is killed and the crime is fastened upon Lorry. The latter is rescued by the princess, but gives himself up due to an exaggerated sense of honor, and is about to be executed when his college chum by a superb bluff fixes the crime upon the guilty prince and everything ends happily with wedding chimes. The photography is fine, the acting excellent, the properties elaborate, the plot thrilling and the story absolutely clean and above the slightest trace of unfavorable criticism in any particular.
A-247 and A-248 Romeo and Juliet Vitagraph
A condensed presentation of the principal scenes from one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.