Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Twelve REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS agents. Nettie Howard, who tends shop for the Captain, is in love with Dan. When he is overpowered in the cellar by Basil Cerino and his gang, she pleads for his release, but to no avail. While Flinn is out of the room, Nettie muffles the bell behind the counter by means of which the captain is able to warn the desperados in the cellar of the approach of danger. On his return from the conference in the cellar, her employer locks Nettie in a room, from which she escapes and goes to the office of the Surveyor of the Port, Dan's employer. The Surveyor sends her back with several detectives. Flinn, because of the muffled bell, is unable to warn the men at work in the ammunition cellar, and they are surprised. In the fierce fight which ensues; Cerino seizes Nettie and drags her into a secret passage, where Dan, the minute he is freed, goes to her rescue. The leader of the band is taken into custody. And Dan and Nettie soon after are married. THE DECISION— American j (Two Reels) A Comedy Drama Involving the Law and an Heiress February 22, 1915 CAST Robert Graham Ed Coxen Ida Price Winifred Greenwood Polly Price, a spinster Josephine Ditt Cousin Charles George Field Judge Clark John Steppling Alexander Du Bois William Bertram IDA PRICE has been cheated out of her share in her father's estate by her cousin Charles. She places the case in the hands of Judge Clark. Meanwhile, a strange 3'oung man, Robert Graham comes to study law with the Judge, and though Ida is not very well satisfied with Clark, because she is attracted to his new assistant, she allows him to appeal the case to a higher court. Cousin Charles tries in vain to compromise with her. The last day to file the papers arrives and the Judge starts to the court house. Meeting Charles, he accepts his invitation to drop into the club and have a drink. Ida's cousin does his best to get the Judge tipsy, and believes he has succeeded. Really he only delays Clark about ten minutes, who enters the waiting court room smiling and debonair. The appeal is granted. In the supreme court the former decision is reversed. Ida receives her fair share of the property — and incidentally a husband who is Robert Graham. ,'Y THE FATAL BLACK BEAN— Majestic The Exciting Story of a Mexican Girl's Ruse Ii February 23, 1915 CAST Anita Miriam Cooper Gordon ' Elmer Clifton Pedro Eagle Eye ANITA, a Mexican girl, falls in love with John Gordon, an American mine superintendent, hated by her brother, Pedro. Later, Pedro plans Gordon's assassination. Anita conceals in her clothing a black bean, and feigning that Gordon has done her a wrong, goes to her brother and begs to be allowed to kill the American. As she has expected, Pedro tells her that the assassin will be chosen by lot — and then he passes round a hat full of beans, all of which are white save one, which is black. Anita surreptitiously takes the black bean out of her waist and the duty of planting the bomb, which is to destroy her lover is accorded to her. After she has disguised herself as a man and rid den off, her brother discovers the black bean left in the hat. Suspicious of Anita, he follows her on horseback. She does her best to evade him, but is caught and forced to plant the bomb. Secretly, however, she has removed the fuse. Meanwhile Gordon finds the unexploded bomb, and looking for its thrower, he descries Anita struggling with Pedro in the distance. Gordon arrives just in time to save the girl's life ; and the brother and his horse, falling over the cliff, are killed. THE CONSTABLE'S DAUGHTER— Beauty A Country Comedy in a Lockup February 23, 1915 CAST Joe, the chicken thief Joseph Harris Silas Hicks Fred Gamble Mildred, his daughter Virginia Kirtley Mary, his wife • Gladys Kingsbury Bob, a city tramp Webster Campbell SILAS HICKS, the village constable, in wrestling with a chicken thief, is no match for his husky antagonist, who ducks him in the creek. Silas is seized with a violent chill and obliged to take to his room. His daughter, Mildred, pins on her father's badge and arming herself with his sixshooter, runs the chicken thief down, landing him in the lockup. Soon after she arrests Bob, a city tramp, and fines him ten dollars. The young man and his fair captive fall in love instantly. Silas recovers from his chill and returns to the jail. He is enraged upon finding the stranger with his daughter. He kicks Bob out. But Mildred steals after him and they stroll to her favorite tree. The constable goes to find Mildred. Armed with a club he swoops down upon the happy pair, and Bob quickly swings himself up into the branches of the tree, whither the constable's rheumatism prevents him from following. Mildred runs back to the lockup and frees Joe, the chicken thief. Father chases Joe and is getting decidely the worst of it when Bob comes to his rescue. After that he permits the young folks to continue their love affair. THE ADVENTURE OF FLORENCE— Thanhouser (Two Reels) A Romance Starring Florence La Badie February 23, 1915 CAST Florence Clark Florence La Badie Her father Justus D. Barnes Her mother _ Mrs. Edward Hoyt Dr. Ward Arthur Bauer John Travers Morris Foster FLORENCE CLARK, as 'she is leaving her friend's apartment, calls back to her, "If you want me, phone Oak 515." John Travers, who is passing the house, overhears. He is greatly impressed with Florence's appearance. That evening the girl has an unpleasant interview with her parents, who wish her to marry Dr. Ward, a business friend of her father's. She refuses to consider. %Ward. When Travers calls up and asks her to dine with him the next evening, though she realizes that it is a daring and unconventional thing to do, she is in a mood to accept. In Travers, Florence discovers the man she has always dreamed of meeting some day — and later, when her father finds that he holds an important interest in the very mines in which Dr. Ward is interested, he removes his objections to the match. {Continued Overleaf)