Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Eight REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS WITH the conclusion of Chapter 38 of Our Mutual Girl, Carolyn Wells lays down the gifted pen which has carried Margaret through many thrilling adventures, and Arthur James, who already has contributed several interesting chapters in the screen-life of Margaret, again takes up the thread of the story where Miss Wells lays it down. Chapter 39 of Our Mutual Girl will prove to be one of the most popular that have thus far been offered the exhibitor. It teems with thrills and novel situations, which are handled in the cleverest fashion. Through a series of perfectly natural coincidences, Margaret finds herself a suspected burglar, and is made a prisoner by a rather good-looking young man with a shotgun, while he strives to ascertain just who she is and what her purposes are in being in the house. And Margaret, who, from considerations in which the welfare of Baby Lily plays a large part, steadfastly remains silent, while she goes through a series of adventures which would try the mettle and nerve of any young miss, still more so one as gently nurtured as Our Mutual Girl. Yet she goes through it all without a murmur, only to find that Baby Lily's father has again proved himself a thief and that her efforts to replace the jewel, which had led to her being placed in the position of being thought a burglar had been in vain. Altogether Chapter 39 promises to be the beginning of a chain of events in Our Mutual Girl's life quite different from all that have gone before and the scenario writer is to be congratulated on the happy fashion in which he has blended legitimate comedy and polite drama, obtaining an effect, distinctly pleasing, yet quite different from previous numbers of this popular series. OUR MUTUAL GIRL (Chapter 38) By Carolyn Wells Wherein Baby Lily's Jewel Causes Serious Complications Oct. 5, 1914 MARGARET spent an idyllic day shopping with Aunt Abbie. That little lady was as excited as a child. AH the wonderful gowns, negligees and luxurious wraps that her niece bought for her were chosen with such perfect taste, and were made in such beautiful, soft, becoming colors and materials, that she felt like an elderly Cinderella. When they reached home in Westchester, Margaret ran to find Baby Lily. "I have the booflest idea," she told that cherub, hugging the little life out of her. "You shall have a party!" She persuaded Lily to sit on the sofa while she dashed off half a score of notes to children in the neighborhood. Then she ran to the telephone and ordered goodies and toys and treasures enough for a whole Christmas. The party was the very next day. Baby Lily proved herself a perfect hostess and Margaret was proud of her. It was the day after that, that Our Mutual Girt went to a tea at the Hamiltons'. Just as she started she was reminded of the jewel Lily's mother had brought. It was too valuable to risk leaving in the house, and she decided to slip it in her lace dansant bag; and then go round to the bank with it after the tea. She had scarcely reached the scene of the festivities, when somebody noticed an antique pin which their hostess was wearing. Miss Hamilton took it off, and it travelled from hand to hand among the admiring guests. When it came to Margaret, she was startled to find that it was an exact replica of the one she had in her bag. She stepped aside a moment to compare the two. Why should Miss Hamilton have a jewel the counterpart of Lily's mother's? In the course of its passage among the score or more of guests, the pin was lost for a moment, and in the excitement of locating it, one of the girls turned her handbag wrong-side-out and suggested that everybody else do the same, in case some absent-minded member might have tucked it away unconsciously. Our Mutual Girl was in a quandry. But her quick wits came to her rescue. Drawing herself up haughtily, she said : "I think this is all utterly absurd ! I, for one, refuse to open my bag. I scorn the imputation, and I bid you good afternoon." Of course they ran after her and brought her back with a thousand apologies, and in the general commotion, the mislaid pin was discovered. Then Miss Hamilton told its history — which was decidedly romantic, it being the companion stone to one possessed by a cousin who had eloped with a chaffeur, and had never since been heard from. Margaret, painfully excited, though hiding her emotions, could not fail to recognize the clue to the family of Baby Lily. The following evening Our Mutual Girl might have been seen in Miss Hamilton's boudoir, searching her bureau, dresser and chiffonier before she brought to light the companion stone. The day before, while comparing them, she had exchanged the two pins. She knew she had by the different initials marked on the back. She could not have gone openly to her friend about it, as this would have been to expose the identity of Baby Lily. Hardly had she made the matter right when, opening the door, she found herself looking into the muzzle of a double barrelled shotgun. "Hands up!" commanded a very determined looking young man, nowise daunted to find his "burglar" a beautiful young girl. And Our Mutual Girl had no choice but to obey. THE LEGEND OF BLACK ROCK— Beauty A Romance of the Sea, Starring Margarita Fischer Sept. 29, 1914 Cast Carmelita .Margarita Fischer Joe Thornton Joseph Harris His mother Mary Scott Mona, his wife. Gladys Kingsbury TT. , ., , ( Kathie Fischer His children } Albert Cavens ONE morning after a big storm at sea, Joe Thornton, a young fisherman, ■.; finds a half-drowned girl lying: on Black Rock. He'v carries her home to his mother who ' revives her. She cannot understand a word of English, but keeps repeating over and over her own name in the | Spanish tongue — "Carmelita." Thornton teaches her to speak as he does, growing every day fonder of her, but thinking of her always as ; alarming child, a younger sister. Meanwhile, Thornton has been engaged to Mona, who presently returns to the fishing village. Carmelita follows the lovers to tr^eir, rendezvous, and in a fit of insane jealousy, tries to stab the American girl. Thornton (Continued Overleaf)