The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

22 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "A Dead Yesterday" lOM WREN is the pampered son of a wealthy mother, who has spoiled him by giving him everything he asks for, withI out counting the cost of what is to follow. The family fortunes are at a low ebb on account of the poor management by the widow and her son, Tom, and it is the mother's fond wish to replenish them by a marriage between her soj^ and a wealthy young heiress. Tom apparently agrees with this plan, but is really in love with Agnes Kempler, an artists' model at one of the large department stores. He has furnished a house in anticipation of his marriage with the model, and one day, while his mother is shopping in the store in which the model works, he sends the girl a note xhat everything is ready for the marriage, and that she is to be at the house at four that evening. The girl has just had a trying time posing with a gown for Tom's mother, although neither of the w^omen knew of the other, and receives the note with joy, knowing that her hard life will soon be over. The young couple are married secretly and start on their new life full of hope. Nearly all the fortune of the Wrens is invested in coal mines in West Virginia, and on the recommendation of an old family friend Tom is sent to look after their interests. While in the mine fields Tom meets John Ford, a mountaineer whom he formerly knew, and his daughter, Ella. Tom is trying to figure a road out which is unfamiliar to him, when Ella offers to accompany him and they set out in the machine. An accident happens and they are forced to remain out aU night. Her father has grown anxious over her absence overnight with a RE X Two Reel Society Drama, written by Tom Lewis. Directed by Chas. Giblyn. Features Cleo Madison and Hobart Henley. A wife gives up her right in favor of one who would otherwise have been without the law. CAST. Tom Wren Hobart Henley His Mother Jean Hathaway Agnes Kempler Cleo Madison Miss Eaton Hilda Sloman John Ford Ray Hanford Ella Ford Agnes Vernon Baby Girl Baby French man and sets out to find them in an ugly frame of mind. He finds them and tells Tom he will either have to marry the girl or be killed. He is forced to marry her. Soon afterwards he leaves for home. Time passes and Tom gets a note from his mountaineer wife that she is in the hospital with a baby. He goes to his mother's house and she confronts him with the news that all their fortune is gone and says he will have to marry the heiress to save them from ruin. He shows her the note he has just received from one of his \\'ives and tells her it is impossible. The mother is deeply shocked and goes to the hospital. Tom leaves for his first wife's. Tom arrives at his home and Agnes notices his pocket is torn and insists on fixing it. In running her hand in the pocket to sew it she finds the note. She is horror-struck, but manages to keep him in ignorance of her knowledge. She goes to his mother's house to make herself known. While there Ford, the father of Ella, arrives, and Agnes, in the next room, hears him tell of the baby. She renounces her claims as a wife in favor of the wife and baby. Time passes and Agnes has become an outcast. Ella has died and her child is left to comfort the husband. He has vainly tried to find Agnes. Ella's child is the pride of the household and has a great hold over Tom. Agnes is brought into court on a charge of vagrancy. A society woman present, representative of an uplift league, takes her to the league, telling the judge she would like to try and reform her. At the room she meets Tom's mother, who is also a member of the society. Mrs. Wren overrides the girl's objections and takes her home with her. At the home Tom is plajing in the garden with the little girl when his mother sends him word to come in at once. Wonderingly he complies and finds his long looked-for wife, who has ever held his love. JENNIE LIND RELATIVE IS CLEVER ACTRESS. ^NE of the clever young actresses at Universal City is Viola Lind, who is a grand-niece of the famous Jennie Lind, the Swedish songstress, who captured the world by her singing more than half a century ago. Miss Lind is appearing in a number of parts at the Pacific Coast studios, and a few days ago caused a big laugh when she was plajing in the Joker company's comedy entitled, "The Harem Scarem Deacon," when she made the remark, "I would be willing to bet this is the first time anyone ever found a Swede in a harem."