Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Ten REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS A MODERN RIP VAN WINKLE— American (2 Reels) Wherein the March of Progress is Convincingly Shown, with a Touching Story Attached Sept. 28, 1914 CAST Convict 1617, later Steven Hogan .... Harry Von Meter Vivian Clark Vivian Rich Vivian Moore of 1860 Vivian Rich Her baby girl Billie O'Brien Thomas Dayton Jack Richardson His daughter Jimmy Perkins Clifford Day King Clark Gentleman Dick Reaves Eason Slick Jones Frank Nicely AN old man, serving a life term in a penitentiary, on account of good behavior has his sentence commuted. He is given his freedom, and furnished with a suit of clothes, five dollars in his pocket and a ticket to his native town, is sent back to the scenes of twenty-five years before. The small place where he was brought up has become a thriving city. He sees for the first time an electric car, automobiles and locomotives. All his old friends are gone. Bewildered and helpless, he goes back to the prison and begs to be taken in. A home on a farm is found for him where he ends his days in peace. THE BOSS OF THE EIGHTH— Broncho (2 Reels) A Drama of Love and Politics | By Richard V. Spencer and Thomas H. Ince Oct. 7, 1914 CAST "Big Steve" Cassidy Walter Edwards "Shorty" Cline Shorty Hamilton Jim Morrisey Louis Morrison Riley Arthur Jarret Molly Norton Enid Markey Mrs. Norton Fannie Midgley "QHORTY" CLINE collects graft from saloons and lO gambling resorts in the tenderloin for the political boss of the eighth ward, "Big Steve" Cassidy. On one occasion he rescues Molly Norton's stolen purse from "Buck" Hogan, leader of an East Side gang, thus incurring the gangster's enmity. When Cline leaves Cassidy's employ, determined to live honestly in the hope of some day winning Molly for his wife, Hogan and Cassidy frame up a plot and manage to get Cline sentenced to prison for three years. During a mutiny among the convicts, he saves the life of one of the prison guards, for which he is reprieved. He returns to New York. Cassidy soon after succumbs to heart disease, and "Shorty" and Molly are married. This story is told in fiction form on page sixteen of this issue of Reel Life. THE RIGHT TO DIE— Broncho (2 Reels) A Dramatic Argument, Proving the Selfishness of Suicide By C. Gardner Sullivan and Thomas H. Ince Sept. 30, 1914 CAST David Walters Hershall Mayall Mrs. Walters Gertrude Claire Marie Walters.... Enid Markey DAVID WALTERS loses heavily in the stock exchange and rather than face his wife and daughter with failure, he determines to commit suicide. He takes poison, but the dose is not strong enough to kill him. He falls into a troubled sleep, in which is shown him in dreams the fate of the family of a suicide. He sees his wife and daughter reduced to poverty. The latter is forced to work in a factory where she is hounded by a disreputable man with money, but who has only the vilest instincts. He wanders through the scenes suffering the tortures of the damned, but powerless to help his loved ones. When he awakens from these nightmares, he finds his wife and daughter well and happy, and his supposed losses, gains. WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET— Reliance A Breathless Story of Adventure in the West Sept. 30, 1914 CAST Maizie Florence Crawford Jerry A. W. Lowery The Crook W. H. Long JERRY KANE, a kind-hearted cowboy, comes into possession by inheritance of a thousand dollars. When Maizie Wallace arrives in town with her sick father, the latter too ill to go further, and without money, Kane takes up a collection for them at the hotel, putting most of his own wind-fall into the hat. Some rough characters, after Kane is gone, rob the girl and knock her senseless. They then escape. Kane returns to take the girl and her father to the house he has found for them. He discovers all that has happened. Maizie clings to him for protection. It happens that the robbers have hidden meanwhile in the attic of the cabin which is to be the Wallaces' home. Wishing to be on the safe side, Kane gives the girl a gun, and himself lingers on guard near the house. That night the outlaws attack Maizie and her father. In the confusion that ensues, she wounds Kane. He, however, gives fight, and the arrival of the sheriff's posse decides the fate of the crooks. The money is found. Maizie and Kane agree to share it — and all other things in the future. THE GAMEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER— Domino (2 Reels) A Powerful Treatment of the Theme "Vengeance Is Mine— I Will Repay" By Richard V. Spencer Oct. 1, 1914 CAST Mary Rhea Mitchell Coberley Thomas Chatterton The King Arthur Jarret Margaret, his daughter Margaret Thompson Trick, the jester Shorty Hamilton The gamekeeper George Osborne THE king's gamekeeper, unaware that the king has come to the hunting lodge, goes on his daily rounds of the estate, leaving his daughter Mary alone in the cottage. On his return, he finds her struggling in the embrace of a stranger. Not recognizing the king, the gamekeeper shoots. He is arrested, and Mary is borne off to the palace. Coberly, the king's captain, admiring the girl's courage, takes her secretly to his cottage and promises to free her father. The court jester discovers the plot and informs the king, who orders his henchmen to seize the girl and, if necessary, kill her. Meanwhile, Coberly has helped the gamekeeper to make his escape, and they, with Mary, have boarded a ship for the colonies. The king's only daughter, to whom he is devoted, is thrown from her (Continued Overleaf)