Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

Reel life 17 Jack Richardson as Raj Singh in "The Occult" The Occult Nov. 24, 1913 CAST Harold Brinkworth Sydney Ayrcs Raj Singh Jack Richardson Tomar ,. Jacques Jaccard Edna Brooks i Vivian Rich Her mother Louise Lester Her father Harry Von Meter Butler William Tedmarsh Maid Violet Neitz Recently many young American women of leisure have taken up the fad of the occult — the mysterious ceremonies and strange personalities of trance mediums and swami gaining an extraordinary influence over their imaginations. This seems, at first glance, almost incredible — considering the exceedingly practical turn of mind characteristic of American girls, who are free from superstition, and far removed from the susceptibleness of the Oriental disposition. And yet, it is true that most American women hunger for the expression of certain mystic sentiments that fail of finding a channel to-day through religion or love. In a practical age — an age of business environment and of extreme realism in the arts and amusements, with a deficiency of mystery — women of leisure, who have temperament to appease, have most naturally turned to the Eastern cults — as the Romans, in their spiritual poverty, turned before them. Swami have arisen to meet the demand — purely commercial fakes — like anti-fat doctors, or any other fraud that women demand. In "The Occult" the American company has given us ^ very interesting expose of this particular form of humbug, There is a delightful romance interwoven — and the lover wins out, in heroic fashion, unmasking the real character of the Hindoo impostor. Her Father's Daughter Nov. 22, 1913 CAST Grace Anna Laughlin Mrs. Deacon Miss Fielding John Deacon Thomas Mills Graham Paul Scardon Dick Harry Spingler This very interesting play is full of optimism— for it depicts the younger generation compensating for the deficiencies of their elders. John Deacon is sentenced to prison for a crime committed by his employer. He charges his wife to go to Graham and get from him a written confession — trusting, no doubt, to the eloquence of her appeal above every other hope of release. She is a weak woman — • and evidently he has been deceived in believing that she loves him — for she consents to accept a large sum of money from Graham and leave town. Grace grows up in ignorance of the past, and her mother tells her that her father is de'ad. Fifteen years later, Graham dies — and in his last hour confesses to his son the wrong he has done the other man. Young Graham is no such coward as his father — he determines to find Deacon and do all in his power to atone for his father's crime. Meanwhile, Deacon's term expires, and he searches in vain for his wife and child. By chance, Dick meets Grace, and they fall in love. About this time an automobile accident brings a poor "down and out" into Dick's care — and he discovers it is Grace's father. When the daughter learns the truth, she claims her father with all the love and tenderness that her mother lacked — eventually bringing about a reconciliation between her parents — while she and Dick, drawn together in deeper sympathy than ever before, are very happily married. Reliance Harry Spingler and Anna Laughlin in "Her Father's Daughter"