Melodrama : plots that thrilled (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Melodrama : plots that thrilled
Date:
1954
Publisher:
New York : The MacMillan Company
Volume:
Melodrama : plots that thrilled
Leaf #:
00097
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 16, 2024
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MODERN LIFE <55 Mary Warner (Haymarket, 1869) the convict Kate Bateman as of practicable ice amid rocks beside a Druidical rocking-stone and pines, out of compliment to which the title was soon changed to The Frozen Pool. Sir Peregrine and Uriah lure Jenny across the ice until she reaches a hole and falls in. " The bells fire for the New Year and we are safe ", Uriah boasts as she drowns. Then the moon, bursting out, reveals the figure of Mrs. Fryer on the eminence near the rockingstone : Mrs. F. No! Ruined, Uriah! Body and soul, ruined. (Mrs. Fryer tears at the practicable branch of the tree and screams) " Murder, Jenny," etc. (All this as quick as lightning till climax.) Uriah Swift as thought, the gun ! (he seizes the gun from Sir Peregrine, and fires). Mrs. F. (having torn away the branch, places it under the rocking-stone, using it as a kind of lever) Useless, Uriah — my life is charmed against your bullet. Oh, Heaven, give me a giant's strength. Help ! murder ! Help ! (simultaneously with his reaching her, the rocking-stone totters and slides off, cracking the whole of the ice — crash. Mrs. Fryer leaps in after it).