Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Fourteen REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS WHEN A WOMAN WAITS— American (Two Reels) Wherein a Young Woman Gives Up Her Own Happiness for Her Motherless Brothers and Sisters December 28, 1914 CAST Agnes Graham Winnifred Greenwood Ben Hewitt Ed Coxen Jack Lane George Field Mr. Graham..... John Steppling Mrs. Graham! Bessie Banks Mabel Graham Charlotte Burton Jessie Graham Miss Davis Jimmie Graham Bert Hatmer Mabel at 13 Fay Muskley Jessie at 11 Ursula Holt Jimmie at 9 Byron Thornburg Minister William Bertram TRUE to the promise she has given her mother on her death bed, that she will take care of her younger brothers and sisters, Agnes Graham tells Ben Hewitt that they must postpone their marriage at least seven years. He goes West, hoping to strike it rich and return with a fortune to claim his bride. The news of his death in the gold fields fails to reach Agnes, who toils on for the family year after year. The younger girls grow up and marry. Her father dies. And Agnes is left alone at length in the big, empty house. From time to time, she takes out her bridal finery, now yellow and antiquated, puts it on, and lives through in imagination the wedding which never was to be. Loneliness and disappointment gradually undermine her health. And one day, clad in her bridal veil, her frail heart succumbs, and she goes to rejoin her lover at last. LUCY'S ELOPEMENT— Thanhouser (Two Reels) In Which a Farmwagon has the Laugh on an Automobile and the Young Lovers on an Irate Father December 29, 1914 CAST Ezra Jenkins Justus D Barnes Lucy, his daughter Mignon Anderson Jack, her lover Morris Foster LUCY JENKINS' father wishes her to marry Henry Watts, a rich neighbor of his own age. But Lucy detests the old man, and she and Jack Winslow elope in an automobile. . The angry farmer gives pursuit. The automobile breaks down — and it looks as though Jenkins is to win the day. But the timely approach of a farm wagon proves a blessing to the young couple, who reach the parson's and are married before Jenkins can overtake them. LOVE KNOWS NO LAW— Beauty A Delicious Comedy Starring Virginia Kirtley and ' Joseph Harris December 29, 1914 CAST May Gibbs *T'. Virginia Kirtley Dr. Stone Joseph Harris Bridget, the cook.. ..Emma Kluge Dr. Black Webster Campbell BRIDGET, Banker Gibbs' cook, reads how a scheming maid spilled water on her foot, and pretending that she was seriously injured, rested in bed for a month and lived on the fat of the land. Bridget hastens to follow her example. A hurry call is sent to the hospital, and Frank Stone, a young doctor, responds. He hears May Gibbs whisper to Bridget that she will come to see her at the hospital daily — and being already in love with May, for the month which ensues he makes the most of their propinquity. The old banker, refusing to sanction their union, they decide to marry without his knowledge. He is made aware of the plan, however, by a surgeon who is jealous of Stone. As it happens, Gibbs reaches the hospital just after a warning has gone forth from the State Board of Health to be on the look-out for smallpox suspects. The banker is seized and put to bed in an isolated building, where his ravings soon result in a straight jacket. Bridget, wandering about the grounds, discovers her master, and on a bribe of life employment, releases him. Wrapped in a sheet, he reaches the hospital reception room just as the wedding ceremony is ended. By this time the attendants have traced him with the straight jacket. But Dr. Stone gives him a clean bill of health in exchange for his blessing. THE BABY'S RIDE— Majestic Being the Story of an Unintentional Kidnapping December 29, 1914 CAST Husband Wallace Reid Wife Miss Blake Baby By Himself A YOUNG wife is so absorbed in knitting her husband a vest for his birthday that she forgets to keep an eye on their two-year-old child, who creeps out on the porch, and rolling himself up in a rug, falls asleep. The carpet cleaner's wagon comes to get a bundle of carpets left on the porch to be called for. By mistake, the baby in the rug is also loaded into the van. He is jolted out, however, still rolled up in the drugget, and barely escapes being run over by an automobile. Struggling free, the baby gains the sidewalk, where he is met by a company of little boys marching. They command the baby to join their ranks, and when he demurs, the leader, who believes in compulsory military service, spanks him with his gun and constrains him to fall in behind. Meanwhile, the father and mother are wildly seeking their lost child. As the line of tiny soldiers straggles by, they recognize their hopeful bringing up the rear. THE UNSEEN VENGEANCE— American The Story of Woman's Forgiving Love December 30, 1914 CAST John Holland Harry Von Meter Kate, his wife Vivian Rich Olga Charlotte Burton Her father Robert Klein George Sherwood, editor Jack Richardson Host Reaves Eason Hostess Edith Borella Maid Cora Morrison Doctor William Vaughn The Boy, S years old ' Cupid Cavens JOHN HOLLAND and his wife, Kate, are. happy together until his book, "The Unseen Vengeance" makes him famous. It has been inspired by the story of a Russian girl, whose father, a political refugee, has been assassinated by government spies. She becomes a celebrated actress, and Holland, now the literary lion of the day, meets her at a social function and becomes infatuated with her. He deserts Kate for Olga — and vengeance pursues him in the guise of failure, remorse, illness, and finally, abandonment by the woman for whom he has sacrificed everything. Kate learns of his plight. Her love has been constant, and hers is a big enough nature to comprehend her husband's sincere repentance and forgive his weaknesses. She goes to him, and they are reunited.