Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Eight REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS MOTION pictures of real fighting in the European war zone thus far have been about as scarce as molars in a barnyard fowl, and the enterprise of the Mutual Weekly in obtaining scenes, showing French troops actually engaged in repelling a German charge on their trenches, merits genuine congratulation. The pictures, which appear in the current issue of the Mutual Weekly (No. 8), show a battalion of the gallant piou-pious defending their trench against a savage attack of the Kaiser's legions in the vicinity of Ramscapelle, France. Bursting shell and shrapnel, with all their terrible toll in wounded and dying men, are shown with a vividness on the screen that passes description. Scenes taken after the battle, showing the havoc wrought by these same agencies in a church and cemetery in the rear of the firing line are also included in this number of the Mutual Weekly, visualizing in a fashion, that renders all words inadequate, the marvellous destructive power of these modern engines of warfare. All in all these scenes are among the most notable which have come to America since the beginning of the titanic struggle in which the European nations are now engaged. RUNAWAY JUNE (Episode 8) (Two Reels) By George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester March 3, 1915 CAST June Warner Norma Phillips Ned Warner J. W. Johnston Gilbert Blye Arthur Donaldson Tommy Thomas Marguerite Loveridge Charles Cunningham Charles Mason Edwards Ezra Walck Mrs. Villard Elizabeth Drew Burton, Ned's detective J. O'Day THE taxi, in which June and Mrs. Villard were making their escape, kept steadily ahead of Cunningham's limousine. Suddenly, however, the conspirators saw it plunge across a sidewalk, over a fence and down a steep enbankment. They speeded to overtake the demolished machine. Blye and Cunningham went to the rescue of Jane, while Edwards and Tommy Thomas helped Mrs. Villard. Both women were unconscious, and in this state were carried to a sanitarium where a Dr. Remert took them in charge. When June came to herself, she found a confidante in Mary, the head nurse. Satisfied that her injuries were not serious, but that she was suffering mainly from the shock, her spirits revived and she began to talk with the nurse about the possibility of her entering Mary's vocation. Dr. Remert seemed to approve, and promised that he would speak to the chief about June. When, however, it developed that "the chief" was none other than Gilbert Blye, June refused to have anything to do with the hospital and was persuaded to return home with Mrs. Villard, as her companion. Meanwhile, Ned's detective, Burton, had been putting in some good work. He had traced Blye to his club ; seen him in conference wth Mr. Villard, who suddenly had returned to New York, and the result was that on the evening the Villard party was motoring home from the sanitarium, Ned Warner lay in wait near the estate. Just as he would have intercepted the automobile in which rode Blye, June, Mrs. Villard and the others, however, two pairs of strong arms reached out, and seized him. The motor rushed past. THE LAWBREAKERS— Reliance An Unusual Drama of Politics and the Underworld March 1, 1915 CAST The Judge Gordon De Maine Black Bradley Barker Jerry Miles .' George M. Mario Ruth Parker Glynn Braun Mr. Moore Alfred Fisher JERRY MILES, leader of a gang in the tenement district, is influenced to reform by Ruth Parker, who visits Jerry's lame sister, Kate. Later, Ruth's father, the Judge, runs for mayor. His political opponent, Black, by threats compels Jerry to steal for him certain incriminating papers from the Judge's library. Ruth catches him in the act. The gangster cannot explain himself without revealing to Ruth her father's crookedness, so he is silent. He is captured by the Judge's campaign leader, who leads him away out of Ruth's life forever. THE DERELICT— American Wherein a Warning Dream Saves a Woman From a Fatal Mistake March 3, 1915 CAST Leo Holmes Edward Coxen Louise Wilke Winifred Greenwood P. G. Wilke, Esq John Steppling Bruce Morgan George Field Dr. ' Lane William Bertram LOUISE WILKE remarks in the hearing of Leo Holmes, her fiance, and Bruce Morgan, Leo's friend, that never could she marry a man who was a drunkard. A I organ, who is secretly Holmes's rival, at the next club dinner gets his friend under the influence of wine, and then has him receive an urgent message to go at once to Louise's home. When she sees Holmes intoxicated, Louise breaks the engagement. Morgan presses his suit. With her thoughts divided between the two young men, Louise is visited by a dream in which is shown to her a life of misery with Morgan. In her dream she sees him turn out to be a worse drunkard than Holmes, and selfish and brutal in addition. In trying to defend herself from him she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, poking about in the refuse barrels below, hears her scream. He rushes to her rescue, taking upon himself her guilt. Louise awakes. She sends for Holmes and they are reconciled. ON THE HIGH SEAS— Kay Bee (Two Reels) A Thrilling Drama on Shipboard By C. Gardner Sullivan and Thomas H. Ince March 5, 1915 CAST Dirk Morgan Richard Stanton Anne Warner Leona Hutton Stella Warner Thelma Salter John Warner..' Edward Brennan DIRK MORGAN, one of the trusted members of a powerful band of international crooks, receives word that the steamer "Empress" has left Melbourne with a secret consignment of gold. The letter also contains plans of the steamer's hold and cabins. Morgan books passage for himself and his companion, Anne Warner. They go aboard at {Continued Overleaf)