Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Eighteen REEL LIFE Real Tales About Reel Folk DIRECTOR Jack Adolphi at work is about the most dramatic sight about the Reliance and Majestic studios. Recently he pulled off a thrilling scene at the Los Angeles police station in "The Runaway Freight", an exciting romance of railroad life. Here he had to break in a couple of raw recruits to the movies, in the persons of two officers of the city force who were obliged to handle a Thespian crook well trained by Mr. Adolphi in the art of putting up a stiff fight. The policeman said afterward that they never had met with a tougher proposition on bona fide duty. ing minutely the interior of a test station and the mechanism' of the wireless telephone recently perfected by Mr. McCarty. The illustration at the bottom of this page shows the inventor instructing Director Fred A. Kelsey of the Reliance in the use of this wonderful device. That it is a success is evident from the delighted expression on Kelsey's face. Jack Adolphi Directing a Scene in "The Runaway Freight" Fred Burns and his horse, Ripper, are the admired of all beholders. Perhaps in all the West there is no more striking pair. Mr. Burns, who won fame at an early age as champion lariat thrower and cowpuncher in Montanat now practices his picturesque arts exclusively for the Reliance and Majestic motion pictures, and both on the screen and in real life, he excites all manner of feminine admiration and masculine envy. He may often be seen tearing across the ranch lands in California, attired in all his cowboy regalia. And suddenly, in the middle of a hundred acre lot, he will swing himself from the saddle to jot down a poem before he forgets it. "Vigorous motion over an inspiring country," he says, "is enough to jar up all the poetry that's in you, and send the ideas rolling together in quatrains and stanzas." The Thanhouser Company announces that David H. Thompson, the popular "Dave" of the Big Stage for the past year, has returned to character and heavy leads in pictures. He was unable longer to endure his exile. Mr. Thompson, because of his good judgment and knowledge of the business, was selected a twelvemonth ago to handle the extras in rehearsals, which kept him out of the films himself. But he was clever enough to tutor Frank Grimmer meanwhile, who now steps into the shoes Thompson only too gladly sheds. Everybody familiar with his work in "Aurora Floyd" and many other Thanhouser productions in which he has won distinction, will be delighted to see their old favorite once more on the screen. Fred Burns Writing Poetry While His Horse, Ripper, Patiently Waits J. P. McCarty, the electrical inventor, has become a movie star. He appears in the Reliance tworeeler, "The Wireless Voice," one of the most remarkable plays which the Los Angeles studios have ever put out. The drama has a thrilling plot, with a love story interwoven, and is also a first class educational subject. It initiates the spectator into the wonders of electrical invention through show Director Fred A. Kelsey being instructed in the Mysteries of Wireless by J. P. McCarty Recently, on a trip to Los Angeles, several American stars were sitting in a restaurant when they noticed a small boy at the next table staring Dave Thompson, of Thanhouser, wildly at Louise Lester. Who Again Comes to the Screen "Oh, mother!" he cried, pointing excitedly, "There is Calamity Anne!" Of course, everybody in the cafe turned and looked, and the mother hastened to apologize for her son. It seemed that Miss Lester's famous character was the heroine of all his childish romances, and< the actress-playwright, far from being disconcerted, frankly admitted that she had never felt so complimented by any ovation in her life. She has sent her little admirer a photograph of Calamity and her burro, Tommy. Of all her roles, Miss Lester's favorite is Calamity Anne. She would rather be known as the "quaint old woman of the West," than in any of her brilliant society parts.