Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

REEL LIFE Fifteen STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS THE COMING OF THE REAL PRINCE A Modern Fairy Drama by the Reliance Players in Two Parts. By Henry Albert Phillips March 21, 1914 CAST Annie Olga Treskoff St. John Thomas R. Mills Bud Harry Spingler Mrs. Jones Sue Balfour Sequestered from the world by her devoted mother, Annie is nurtured on fairy tales and fables. She lives in a world of dreams and "Cinderella" is much more real to her than her school playmates. For lack of an ideal Prince Charming, Annie sets Bud, the grocer's boy, up in her imagination as the Fairy Prince who will deliver her into the world of beautiful things. When St. John, an unprincipled but handsome young rake from the city, makes Annie's acquaintance, however. Bud is forgotten. St. John takes advantage of Annie's innocence and induces her to run away with him to the city. Bud and Mrs. Jones trail them and find iAnnie when she is in danger. St. John is proved to be a coward when Annie's clothes catch fire. Bud, however, puts out the blaze. St John runs way with what he supposes to be Annie's inheritance and Annie, the Dreamer, awakes at last to the realization that Bud, after all, is her Prince Charming in modern guise. THE EUGENIC BOY A Thanhouser Comedy Telling How the Gang Made a Real Boy of Little Lord Fauntleroy. By T. O. Ekonhead March 15, 1914 CAST Cyril Reginald Pointdexter Madeleine Fairbanks Mrs. Pointdexter Lila Chester Mr. Pointdexter Mr. H. De Jonge Trained Nurse Miss Maude Pease Governess Frances Keyes Park Policeman William Noel Police Lieutenant Charles Horan Mike Googan "Mike" Cyril is Mamma's pet. He takes a sterilized bath three times a day and sleeps between sterilized sheets. He drinks sterilized water, has his temperature taken every three hours and in general leads a sterilized life. Mr. Pointdexter would like to see his boy join in the sports enjoyed by other youngsters, but mamma, who spends a great deal of time reading books on eugenics and prophylactery, is shocked almost into a faint at the idea. While the governess and the park policeman are enjoying themselves in the park Cyril steals away, meets "Mike," a very tough, red-headed youngster, and promptly resents the latter's insults and jibes at his long curls by mashing "Mike's" snub. nose. Pleased to find that Cyril really has the makings of a real boy in him, Mike stands sponsor for his adversary and Cyril is informally introduced to "the gang," who are playing baseball nearby. He knocks out a home run when the bases are full and immediately is crowned a hero Meanwhile Cyril's absence is discovered, several Italians are suspected of the kidnapping and the police are notified. Hysterical with anxiety, mamma takes to her bed with a corps of trained niirses around her. Mr. Pointdexter, the police and the servants find Cyril just as he slides into the home plate with the winning run. He is smeared with mud and grime but, strange to say, the fact seems to please Mr. Pointdexter. Overjoyed at her son's safe return, Mrs. Pointdexter consents thereafter that her son shall live the normal life of a small boy. THE CAT'S PAW A Thanhouser Two-Reel Story of a Diplomatic Free Lance. By Clarence Herbert New March 17, 1914 CAST Lord Trevor James Cruze ^ Nan, his ward Flo La Badde •^bdul George Barnes Pfaff Arthur Bauer Marquis Yato L Tamamoto General Von La jeez Joseph Baker Fraulem Von Karenstauffen Nan Barnard Lord Farlesdale George Weiseman Captam Mandeville Cyril Chadwick Lord Farlesdale meets the Marquis Lato of Japan on board the flagship of the Japanese squadron, which is at anchor in the bay ofif Clovelly, where Lord Farlesdale has his country home. A secret treaty between the English and Japanese Governments is turned over to Lord Farlesdale, who puts it in a safe in his home over night for safe keeping. Pfafif and the Fraulein von Karenstauffen, a young noblewoman employed in the secret service of a Continental power, are determined to possess the treaty and the beautiful young noblewoman almost succeeds in inducing Capt. Mandeville, an English officer, to open the safe by telling him that the vault contains some compromising letters written by the Fraulein's indiscreet sister. Lord Trevor and his ward. Nan, who are also guests at a week-end party in the Farlesdale home, suspect Pfaff, the Austrian general, and his companion, and manage to frustrate their plans before Mandeville unwittingly betrays his country. "OUR MUTUAL GIRL" Reel No. 9. In the ninth reel of "Our Mutual Girl" Margaret and her aunt visit in their motor the hospital for crippled children in the Bronx, where they distribute dolls and flowers. The auto party then is spirited away down to the East Side, over on First Avenue among the sidewalk vendors and push carts. Margaret and her aunt distribute dozens of dolls to the thinly clad children. Coming uptown again, Margaret and her aunt stop at the Little Church Around the Corner. A few minutes later they are caught in a traffic jam at Forty-second street and Fifth Avenue. Their next stop is at Hepner's wig shop, where Margaret, following the dictates of fashion, purchases several colored wigs. A stop is made on the way up Fifth Avenue before the recently completed Church of St. Thomas, at Fifty-first street and Fifth Avenue After admiring the structure for a few moments Margaret and her aunt enter an impressive apartment house, where Margaret is introduced to Dorothy Dix, the author and newspaper writer. Miss Dix presents Margaret with an autographed copy of her latest book, "Mirandy." In the evening Margaret attends a performance of "High Jinks" and much enjoys the antics of Stella Mayhew and Tom Lewis. That night Margaret dreams that she has replaced Elaine Hammerstein in the cast of "High Jinks" and that she and Burrell Barbarctto dance the wrigglewraggle number with the chorus.