Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Fourteen REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS Davis, learns the story of the fatal gem from a native fakir, or wise man, but will not permit himself to be alarmed by superstitious tales. Not long after, he goes away, leaving his wife and baby in the care of a trusted Hindoo servant. However, the servant has seen the diamond, and loyalty giving way before greed, he plots with a bandit chieftain to rob the Englishman of the gem. The diamond is found, and the two Indians quarrel for its possession. In the struggle, a lamp falls into a barrel of gunpowder, blowing up the house. The Englishman, who has turned back, sees the building fall, but reaches the place in time to rescue his wife and child. The servant and the bandit are found dead. Then Davis takes the precious stone and hurls it into the sea. i i THE WARNING— Majestic 1 Wherein a Dream Averts a Tragedy Oct. 13, 1914 CAST Dorothy Dorothy Gish Her mother Miss Washington Mr. Edwards Donald Crisp kOROTHY, dissatisfied with humdrum life in the country, becomes infatuated with Edwards, a city ian, and an adept at love-making. Her mother warns ler, but the girl is headstrong. One day, lying in the hjammock, indulging her romantic day dreams, she falls asleep. Presently Edwards finds her. She is waked by hjs kisses. And when he urges her to elope with him, promising marriage and all the pleasures of city life, she consents. On their arrival in New York he takes her to a boarding-house, where he goes through a ceremony with her. Later, disillusioned and deserted, she finds out that the marriage was "fake." Unable to find work, she is on the brink of suicide, when a kindly landlady persuades her to go back to her mother. But Dorothy finds herself an outcast from home — her own mother will not take her in. She wanders down to the bridge over the lake, and is in the act of jumping into the water — When the scene fades out, and she realizes that she is falling out of the hammock. BAD MAN MASON— Reliance A Western Story of Love and Lawlessness Oct. 14, 1914 CAST Bad Man Mason A. E. Lowery Fred, the tenderfoot Frank Bennett Fanny Bright..... Florence Crawford The sheriff Arthur Mackley JEREMY DEXTER, sheriff of Serman County, notifies Lanky Mason to leave town, though reluctantly, fqr there is a great deal of good in Mason. Once he saved the life of the Sheriff's own child, and another time he rescued the town from fire. But the night before he has got into a shooting scrape, killing a Mexican. And the Sheriff realizes that the community would be better off without Lanky. In the next town the exile comes to the rescue of Fred, a tenderfoot, who has lost his last cent in a gambling den. He learns from the Easterner that he has come West to claim his sweet heart, Fanny Bright. This is the name of a young school teacher in the town Lanky has just left, for whom, as it happens, "Bad Man Mason" has long cherished a secret admiration. He resolves to lead Fred to her house. En route, Lanky is fired at from ambush by the dead Mexican's brother. Seriously wounded, he is carried to the school-teacher's home. It turns out that she had sent Fred back East as unworthy of her. But recognizing the really heroic qualities in Mason, she nurses him back to health. The Sheriff ceases to fear for the future good behaviour of Lanky. THE END OF THE GALLERY— Broncho (2 Reels) Wherein the Spirit of Revenge is Tragically Revealed By Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan Oct. 14, 1914 CAST Bob Shores Richard Stanton Maude Dunbar f: Gladys Brockwell Dunbar. ,. .Harry G. Keenan SHORES, a miner, young and wealthy, is hoodwinked by an adventuress into selling his mine and giving her the proceeds. That same night, Maude Dunbar and the man who, unknown to Shores, is her husband, escape with the check for $30,000. Years later, Maude ana Dunbar are conducting a mining office in Denver. They are looking over a certain region, when they are recognized by Shores, who has made a rich find there. Half crazed by his early experience, and greatly*changed in looks, Shores is not recognized by Maude and her husband. When he invites them to inspect his property with an eye to purchasing it, they readily fall into the trap. Having imprisoned the two inside, Shores sets off the bomb which he has secreted in the mine, letting in the river and drowning the victims. JIMMY— Domino (2 Reels) A Play of Strong Human Interest By Thomas H. Ince and Richard V. Spencer Oct. 15, 1914 CAST Jimmy Cyril Gottlieb Jimmy's mother Gertrude Claire Mary Mildred Harris Dr. Lobel Charles French JIMMY, a newsboy, is the sole support of his mother and crippled sister, Mary. His mother reads of the arrival in the city of the noted European surgeon, Dr. Lobel, and his offer to treat patients at a free clinic. Mary is taken to the hospital. But while Jimmy is holding her place in the waiting line, the surgeon announces that he must leave at once to catch his steamer and return to Paris. Jimmy pleads with the great doctor, who telephones the steamship officials and persuades them to delay the sailing half an hour. The operation is speedily and skilfully performed. When the surgeon reaches the pier the ship is already steaming down the bay. But the captain of a tug boat hurries Dr. Lobel on board and succeeds in overtaking the liner.