Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

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Reel Life 11 a narrow passage which brought him out in a thick forest behind the house. Peering stealthily through the bushes, he saw the Count's groom waiting with a pair of fresh horses. Seizing the man from behind, Lawrence bound him with his coat and dragged him inside the cave. Then swinging Elaine into the saddle, he, sprang upon the other horse and they were off. Behind them the flames roared through the timbers of the deserted house, while Vassali and his friends watched the spectacle with fiendish satisfaction. Of that mad ride through a sunlit, terraced country with the clear blue of a Sicilian sky above them and the scent of grapes filling the air, Lawrence and the Countess could never think in after years without some recurrence of the apprehension they felt before they reached the safe haven of an American's yacht ten miles down the coast. It was an older Elaine whose girlish loveliness had ripened to that of mature womanhood, who read the following cablegram one morning some months later, in her father's office : "Col. Ro'bert Grey, Battery PI. Building, New York : Your sonin-law, Count Nicolo Vassali died suddenly at country estate, Sicily. Divorce proceedings necessarily abandoned. Thompson and Ralli, Solicitors. Lawrence read the message over her shoulder. Then — she was in his arms — and her lips sealed the consent for which he had waited so long., Mafestls The Marriage of Niatana By William, Nigh. Nov. 2, 1913. This play is one of the strongest arguments against mixed marriages which has ever been shown upon stage or screen. The mixture of two races is always a doubtful experiment — almost an impossible one — though happy marriages have sometimes resulted from it. But if the couple are to live the every-day life of either race, conforming to its manners and customs, the time very soon comes when alien racial traits begin to jar and lead to ostracism if not tragedy. A young Lieutenant — son of the Cfflonel commanding the Post, attends the graduation exercises at the Post Grammar School — Martha's Decision American and becomes infatuated with Niatana — a Chief's daughter from a neighboring reservation. The girl is slightly darker than the average brunette among the whites, and very beautiful. The Lieutenant visits her at the reservation and is caught by an Indian Brave, in love with Niatana, kissing her. He is dragged before the Chief and to save his cowardly life asks for the girl in marriage. The Chief consents — as also does the Colonel. They are married. But the young cub soon tires of her — abuses her — and enters into a plot with a white girl to brand his wife as a thief. The Indian Brave gains access to their house in time to expose the plot — but is attacked by the Lieutenant with a revolver. In the fight, the Lieutenant is mortally wounded and the Brave escapes with Niatana. They are pursued by the soldiers and are about to jump to their death from the top of a high cliff when the Colonel gallops up with his son's dying confession. Niatana and the Brave return to their own people. The play is dramatic — tragic — but worth seeing. j.^ The Marriage of Niatana Majestic Martha's Decision Nov. 10, 1913. CAST Martha Bradley Winifred Greenwood Mrs. Bradley Jean Durell John Freeman Ed Coxen Ralph Soaforth George Field Mr. Soaforth, his father Wm. Tedmarsh Anna, Martha's friend Marion Murray Jim, Anna's husband Chester Withey A Baby Baby Morrison The charm about this simple love drama is, that it happens. Old playmates do come together in after years, and marry — finding that early environment and associations have fitted them for congenial partnership, and that separation has proved and ripened early seeds of romance. Martha and John had been playfellows in childhood, and comrades through their school days. At sixteen, Martha found herself an orphan, obliged to be self-supporting. She went to the city, trained herself for business, and a few years later, had risen to an enviable position as private secretary to the head of a well known firm. Her employer fell in love with her, and proposed. But Martha did not love him — indeed, she seemed to love no man — and yet, when the successful young business woman at last steals time to think and ponder upon these things, she finds herself dreaming of the home village and of John. She goes back — and finds her dreams, and all the old sentiments, justified. This very sweet, natural, little play stands high among the new offerings.