Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

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14 R®el LIfs The Heart of Kathleen The Black Sheep October 22, 1913 In the two reel BRONCHO, "The Black Sheep," we have the ititensely human story of Jim Foster, the scapegrace son of a wellto-do farmer — and sweetheart of Mary Ellis — who leaves home and goes to Arizona "to conquer his love for liquor and his temper." Like most people, starting out to reform, Jim only falls into ■sEfOTse scrapes. His impulsiveness gets him into fights with the icowfeoys — and one ill fated night, in a drunken brawl he kills Black Sill, the sheriff's deputy. Branded as an outlaw, he is skulking and Gliding in the wilds — when a letter from his mother finds its way to Jiim somehow — telling him of his father's death, and begging him to come home — that half the farm is his, if he will marry Mary ElHs and heal his mother's broken heart. A wave of homesickness breaks over him — he longs for the old place — and his mother anr* Mary. But he has no money to get him East — not a friend left from whom he can beg or borrow. Then a scheme flashes into his head — he will rob the stage, due in Phoenix :two days hence. Jim's plans, however, are set at naught by the Indians. He sees them lying ready to attack the svage — wheels his :horse — and, at the risk of arrest, rides like mad to warn the nearest settlement. Before the sheriff and his posse can get to the scene of the holdup, Mary Ellis — who has come all the way from Ohio to reclaim and bring home her lover — has been wounded by the Indians. Jim finds her and carries her to the little hotel at the settlement, begging frantically that she may have care and treatment. Then, when the doctor has come — and all is well with Mary — the sheriff puts handcuffs on Jim, the outlaw, and is leading him away. But Mary pleads for him — with all her heart and soul — weak and in pain D (9 initio as she is— and the sheriff says he will think it over. He does — and brings the decision — "We'll call it even — ^Jim's a free man — on condition that yOu give us a wedding." D©mmo The Heart of Kathleen Oct. 23, 1913. Beautiful Irish settings, vivid Irish types, an intensely dramatic plot combine to make "The Heart of Kathleen" a film that will be long remembered. In poin's — essential points too — the story is improbable, contrary to Irish character. Yet, such exceptions may be found as the case of Kathleen, and the character of Dennis is altogether typical. Dennis Connor returns to his native village of Killadykee to stir up the people to resist English misrule. There he falls in love with Kathleen, the daughter of a fisherman, and they are engaged. In a terrible storm at sea, Kathleen's father is lost, and a young English Lord washed up from a wreck, two events which change the girl's entire future. Proud, full of life, determined to be "free" at any cost, she resents Dennis' scathing remarks about the English stranger, whom she happens to find charming and even irresistable. In a fit of temper, she breaks her engagement — the Englishman proves faithless; he deserts her — and she drowns herself in the sea. Dennis Connor — fired with both personal and patriotic hatred for the entire nation of "bloody sassenach" — flings himself into the Irish Rebellion, an impassioned leader. The incidents move rapidly — with terrible realism reproducing one of the countless bloody outbreaks, adding protest upon protest, up through five centuries of Irish history. The closing scene shows the hero a refugee, on shipboard, bound for America.