Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Eight REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS A NOTABLE cast is that of Runaway June, the new Reliance serial, which was especially written for screen production by George Randolph Chester, author of the famous Wallingford stories, and his wife, Lillian Chester. Incidentally, the scenario on which the fifteen instalment photoplay of Runaway June is based, is by Marc Edmund Jones, creator of scores of successful motion picture plots, in co-operation with Oscar Eagle, the famous director of super-screen plays. J. W. Johnston, who formerly played leads with Eclair, is to aopear as Ned Warner, the young bridegroom in Runaway June. The role of June, herself, will be filled by Norma Phillips, who needs no introduction to Reel Life's readers. Old Aunt Debby, the negro cook in the Moore household, and a character Mr. Chester has apparently loved writing about, will be impersonated by Myra Brooks, who formerly distinguished herself in the company of the late Richard Mansfield. Winifred Burke will be seen as the svelte and vivacious Iris Bletherington, June's closest friend and Mile. Evelyn Dumo has come all the way from Paris to play the part of Marie, maid in the Moore household, and incidentally afford a living for herself and her parents, left penniless by three sons who have died for France. One of the most important roles in the play, that of Gilbert Blye, the Man with the Black Vandyke, in the wake of whose motor all the crowd comes streaming, will be embodied for screen purposes by Arthur Donaldson, who will be remembered from the cast of "The Prince of Pilsen". OUR MUTUAL GIRL (Chapter 52) January 11, 1914 CAST Margaret Norma Phillips Jack Stuyvesant Mr. Johnston Mrs. Knickerbocker Maym Kelso Aunt Abbie Grace Fisher Margaret's Maid Miss Dumo MARGARET, looking from her boudoir window, fell under the spell of the outdoors. The early winterafternoon had broken in a flood of golden sunshine, and soon, attired in comfortable walking clothes, and taking Bouncer, her pet collie, she started for a tramp through the fields. The same lure of the open had enthralled that day a young society man of New York. In knickerbockers and walking jacket, shotgun in hand, he was proceeding on a jaunt through the woods. But Jack Stuyvesant was not in good shooting form, and a third clumsy attempt merely chipped a big piece of bark off an oak. Our Mutual Girl was sitting on a boulder, amusing herself and Bouncer ,by throwing twigs and stones in a brook for him to recover — when the piece of bark fell into her lap. At the same instant, Jack Stuyz'esant came bounding through the underbrush to see what had fallen to his gun. Face to face with each other, there was almost instant attraction. But Margaret had conventions to consider — and after talking awhile, they parted with never an idea that they should ever meet again. That night Our Mutual Girl had a dream. She lived over all her experiences — her childhood on the Maryland farm, her year of shopping, sight-seeing, meeting celebrities, her little romances — but at the end of them all she seemed to see Stuyvesant's face, like the solution of a complicated problem. When the next morning came a note from Auntie Knickerbocker bidding Margaret return to the Fifth Avenue house, her instinct told Our Mutual Girl, that something real was going to happen. Well, she went — and that evening Auntie Knickerbocker introduced her to — Yes, gentle reader, to Jack Stuyvesant. And it ends in the way all girlhood romances should end — they started to live happily forever after. This is the last of the fifty-two chapters of Our Mutual Girl. It is followed by Runaway June, the new Reliance serial, in which the favorite of thousands of young people all over the country appears weekly. HER MENACING PAST— Thanhouser (Two Reels) A Study in Psychopathy, Featuring Mignon Anderson and Morris Foster By Philip Lonergan January 5, 1915 ANNA SANDERSON has been trained by her father, who is a professional burglar to be his accomplice. She loves the excitement of the life and has no desire to reform. One day, however, the police trail the father and daughter, and Anna, in scaling a high wall, falls and is knocked senseless. Her father carries her in his arms for some distance. Then, seeing that there can be no escape for either of them thus, he places her in the vestibule of a house, and makes his getaway alone. A young doctor and his mother discover the unconscious girl. But when they have revived her they find that she has lost all remembrance of her past life. They keep her in their home, and eventually Anna and the doctor fall in love and are married. Some time after this, a fall from a horse restores the girl's memory. The old life of peril and adventure reasserts its attraction for her, and she is on the point of rejoining her father, who has discovered where she is living, when she realizes that stronger than love of adventure is the new love which she bears her husband. THE ALARM OF ANGELON— American The Pathetic Story of a'n Immigrant and His Family January 6, 1915 CAST Dan Grey, attorney Ed Coxen Edna Lane, his fiancee Winnifred Greenwood Angelon George Field Marie, his wife Josephine Ditt Judge Walsh John Stepphng An Invalid Edith Borella ANGELON, a poor Italian, after months of hard labor in America, saves enough money to send to Naples for his wife and children. He buys a postal order and in attempting to mail it at a fire box he is arrested and given his choice, either of paying a fine, the equivalent of his savings, or serving a term in prison. He sends the money to his family. When they reach New York, Angelon, still in jail, is not there to meet them. They fall into the hands of a padrone from whom they are rescued by Edna Lane, a young woman engaged in social service work. She finds Angelon's wife a position with an invalid Italian woman interpreter, and the children are sent out to sing and play (Continued Overleaf)