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September 20, 1913
MOTOGRAPHY
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Some "Wonderful Night Photography
In "The Bridge of Shadows"
SOME unusual night photography, in which the long boulevards of a city, gay with electric signs, and passing motorcars are shown, makes "The Bridge of Shadows," a forthcoming Selig two reel release quite out of the ordinary, and more than atones for one or two minor, defects in the plot of the story.
This is also one of the first pictures the reviewer has seen in which Mabel Van Buren appears for the Selig Company, and she acquits herself most capably. H. A. Lockwood plays the male lead opposite her, and also does well. The injustice of circumstantial evidence is clearly brought out by the film, also the stupidity of tbe average policeman.
The story opens in the home of Francis Edmunds, the wealthy president of the Ohio Insurance Company, who reads in the morning paper of the floods which have been sweeping through Ohio, bringing death and destruction in their trail. Upon arriving at his office Edmunds takes Edward Warren, the new bookkeeper, into his confidence and the two start to go over the books to ascertain how hard the company has been hit by the catastrophe.
Edmunds departs for his home and dinner, leaving
The Trial in "The Iiridge of Shadows."
instructions for Warren to return and finish the work of checking up the books in the evening, A telegram from the vice-president of the company announcing that the losses in the flood district have been so tremendous
as to wipe out their entire capital, causes Edmunds to suffer an attack of the heart, from which he dies a few moments later.
Meanwhile Warren has found the note from his
Kathlyn Williams in "Young Mrs. Eames."
employer and after reading it, tore it up. He gets a hasty lunch and then returns to the office to complete the task assigned him. The night-watchman, who has seen him enter, does not recognize him as an employee of the company, having never seen him before, and as the vault is open and the books scattered about the private office of Edmunds, he jumps to the conclusion that Warren is a thief and has him arrested.
Though unable to convict him at the trial, the police still believe him to be a suspicious character, and keep an eye on him wherever he seeks employment, with the result that he is hounded from one job to another, each employer discharging him as soon as the police explain their suspicions.
Meanwhile disaster descends upon the Edmunds home, and Blanche, the daughter of the insurance man, steps from affluence and her automobile down to the