Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Ten REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS photograph to his office to remind him of his troubles, where it is stolen by two friends of his, Harry and Jim. They decide to put up a joke on Bray. Harry, who is an actor, gets into a make-up as much like the photograph as possible. Meanwhile Bray has returned home to prepare a welcome for his mother-in-law, including a mine under the front steps and a breakaway ceiling in the guest room. His wife is away. Harry and Jim seize the opportunity to go over to Bray's, Jim pretending he has found the mother-in-law at the station. The mine works all right, and the ceiling comes down. But the ruse being discovered, Bray dopes Harry's whiskey with tabasco. The doctor is called, and order is restored barely in time to welcome Mrs. Bray's return with the real mother-in-law. ABOVE PAR— Reliance Disclosing How Financiers May Stoop to Yeggmen's Methods February 19, 1915 CAST Berry William Brown Ruth, his daughter Billie West Carson, her lover W. E. Lawrence PERRY, a Wall street broker, likes Dick Carson, a young newspaper man and his daughter's fiance, but has little regard for Carson's profession. Berry is approached by another broker, Stirling, with a proposition to secure a corner on a certain product through crooked manipulation of stock. Berry flatly refuses to enter the combine, and Stirling determines to cause the other man's ruin. His secretary, Morton, manages to secure a position in Berry's office and immediately the latter begins to lose heavily through the leak of information. Thinking that there may be a good story in the case, Carson takes it up. He flnds out that Morton is in the employ of Stirling. That same night Stirling hires two cracksmen to steal from Berry's safe certain papers, while he and Morton wait in their office for the delivery of the goods. The yeggmen are discovered by Carson, who is unable, however, to overcome them both. Berry and his daughter chance to pass the office and see the light. They investigate. Carson's battle with the robbers attracts the attention of a policeman who arrives in time to help in subduing the crooks. Stirling calls up Berry's office on the phone and Carson, pretending to be one of the yeggmen, tells him that they have secured the stuff and will be right up. The Berrys, Carson and the police go in a body to Stirling's office, where he and Morton are placed under arrest. Mr. Berry changes his opinion about newspaper men. THE BOUNDARY LINE— Reliance (Two Reels) An Indian Legend of a Tribal Feud Produced by Arthur Mackley February 20, 1915 CAST Ty-ee Htas Tom Wilson Awasos, his son Roy Myers Chief Broken Bow Chief Dark Cloud Awaneta, his daughter Teddy Sampson Kalapoo, his wife Dove Eye THE Malotek and Canewa Indian tribes are camped near the Coyote wind-break for the hunting season. The chiefs lay out the boundary line between them, and agree, that for either tribe to hunt or kill across the line, is to break faith and bring on war. Awasos, the son of Ty-ee Htas, chief of the Canewas, in the eagerness of the chase, pursues and slays a deer in Malotek territory. He and his companions are captured by braves of the other tribe and carried before Chief Broken Bow. They are sentenced to be killed by torture. Awasos long has loved Awaneta, daughter of Broken Bow. She recognizes in the prisoners her lover and his companions. During the. night she frees the Canewa braves. To save the sentry from death, the Indian girl confesses it was she who let the prisoners go. Much against his will, her father is obliged to let her suffer, at the demand of the tribe, in place of Awasos and his men. She is left in a cave to starve. Here she is found and rescued by her lover who takes her home to his own people. Thither come Broken Bow and his squaw, trailing their daughter from the cave, for they have relented toward her. Ty-ee Htas is restrained by Awasos from putting the Malotekas to death ; then Awasos declares his great love for Azvaneta. The two tribes make peace and celebrate the marriage of the children of their chieftains. TWO JONES— Royal A Comedy of Doubles February 20, 1915 TWO men, both named Jones, and exact doubles of each other, live in adjoining towns. Neither is aware of the existence of his double. One is married and henpecked. The other elopes with his sweetheart. The two couples go to Cedarhurst for a vacation and a honeymoon respectively. There they become badly mixed. The wives can't tell their own husbands when they see them, and the father of the eloping Jones, who has pursued the runaways, yents his wrath on the wrong party. At last both wives and both husbands meet. And then matters get straightened out. HIS SISTER'S KIDDIES— Thanhouser A Laughable New Version of "Budge" and "Toddy" By William H. Stevens February 21, 1915 CAST Samuel Bender Will H. Stevens Maud Golden, his sister Ethyle Cooke Samuel Golden, his nephew Leland Benham Ethel Golden, his niece Helen Badgley Bridget, the cook Fan Bourke SAMUEL BENDER, a wealthy bachelor, offers to stay with his sister's children, while she takes a fortnight's rest and vacation. He writes her that nothing could possibly give him more pleasure than to be with his small nephew and niece, whom he has made sole heirs to his estate. He buys all kinds of toys and games — enough to make his life miserable for a month — and departs for the country. In two days his sister receives a telegram, stating that Samuel has been called back to New York on very urgent business. Once aboard the train, he experiences some relief. But he loses no time in destroying his will and making a new one in which he leaves his property, real and personal, to the orphan dogs of Gotham. THE MUFFLED BELL— Reliance A Detective Drama With Marguerite Loveridge in the Leading Feminine Role February 22, 1915 CAST Dan Ward Arthur Forbes Nettie Howard, his sweetheart Marguerite Loveridge Captain Flinn Alfred Fisher Basil Cerino George M. Mario DAN WARD, a dective in Federal employ, is sent to investigate Capt. Flinn's sailors' outfitting shop, suspected to be the headquarters of a band of revolutionary (Continued Overleaf)