Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

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Resl Life 17 The Old Folks at Home Oct. 24th, 1913. Every little while, Mr. Lloyd F. Lonergan turns out a picture play which gets right down at the heart of things and exposes some social weakness in a human but humorous way. The Old Folks at Home is a case in point. An old boatman and his wife lived in a modest little shack on the seashore, thoroughly contented with their limited income and simple manner of living. One day, a camera enthusiast happened along and induced them to pose for him — Mrs. Boatman being apparently caught in the act of painting the bottom of a dory. By the sort of odd coincidence which is always happening in every-day life, the picture eventually comes into the hands of their son — a rich city broker — and gives him a twinge of conscience at the idea of his parents living in supposed poverty while he and his wife have everything they can wish. A hurried trip down the coast results in the Old Folks selling out their boat business and moving up to the son's home in the city where they try to accustom themselves to an entirely different manner of living — wearing stiff and uncomfortable clothes, eating rich and unaccustomed food — being on dress-parade from morning to night. At last, they can stand it no longer (who could, after once knowing the luxury of the simple life?) and quietly leave the house in the midst of a reception given in their honor, leaving a note of explanation. They return to their own comfortable shack on the beach — buy back their old business — and we see them in the final scenes — thoroughly comfortable again — living their own lives independently and under obligations to no one. Every audience will be tempted to ask Mr. Lonergan where that comfortable old living-room is situated. It certainly exists— because we see it on the screen — • almost too good to te true. Wertz Family Assn., Chicago, Oct. 4th, 1913 At Studios of the American Film Mfg. Co. King Edward's Double Wanted for Movies Offer of $250 a Day Fails to Bring Out Exactly the Man Required. London, Sept. 20." — A moving picture company is now offering $250 a day to a man who looks exactly as King Edward looked at fifty years of age. The company is flooded with personal applications and letters from men who are sure they are the "spit and image" of the .dead monarch. The most c:urious looking men are absolutely convinced they are the ones wanted, but none has yet been selected as capable of filling the bill for a film to be entitled "Queen Victoria, Sixty Years a Queen." — Nezv York Tribune. The Old Folks at Home 7 hai lioiiser