Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Ten REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS THE GIRL WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN— Kay Bee (Two Reels) Wherein a Dance Hall Girl Proves Her Gratitude to Her Benefactor By C. Gardner Sullivan and Thomas H. Ince March 12, 1915 CAST Daisy Wellington Leona Hutton George Fowler Frank Borzage Mr. Canby Edward Brennan DAISY WELLINGTON, having contracted a slight affection of the lungs, is dismissed from the dance hall as useless. She has no place to go, no way of earning money, and as she stands weeping in the street, George Fowler, a prospector, learning her story, offers her a home with him in his cabin in the mountains. Daisy gratefully accepts. Life in the open restores her health. She grows to love Fowler, but he is completely absorbed in getting enough "dust" to send for his wife. The stage on which his gold goes out is robbed. Fowler, himself, is away on a prospecting trip and Daisy gets the information. She returns to the dance-hall and succeeds in gathering enough spoils to send Mrs. Fowler her fare West. The wife is warmly welcomed by her husband, and she begs Daisy to make her home with them indefinitely. But she has the wisdom to go away. EX-CONVICT 4287— Reliance (Two Reels) Showing How, After Ten Years, the Prison Stigma Still Clings March 13, 1915 CAST Forbes Ralph Lewis His Wife Catherine Henry MALCOLM FORBES, ten years after his discharge from prison for forgery, is hounded by a former cellmate, "Sooty" Decker. Forbes comes across his old discharge letter, which reminds him all too vividly of the past. He determines to destroy it. But, being interrupted just then, he thrusts the letter into his pocket and forgets it. Forbes is very happily married and successful in business^ He is wrapped up in his wife and child. Mrs. Forbes* knows nothing of his old life. The following morning his wife keeps the coat he has been wearing to mend it — 'and finds the letter in the pocket. She decides to keep the secret from her husband. Meanwhile, Decker goes to Forbes' home and appropriates the incriminating letter, intending to •threaten Forbes with it in his office. But the husband, "by this time, has remembered the document in his pocket He rushes back home — to come upon his wife unawares in her grief. He determines to end his life. Meanwhile, Decker has been struck by an automobile in the street. As he is dying, he confesses to the minister, giving him the letter. The minister hurries with the document to Forbes' .house, and is just in time to save him from suicide. IN WRONG— Royal A Sidesplitting Farce, Involving a Burglar Bride March 13, 1915 A YOUNG couple living in a boarding-house are about to be married. The girl shows her wedding presents to the boarders and is advised by the landlady to lock them up over night, as there have been burglars in the neighborhood. That same night she dreams that her gifts have been stolen. Waking, she thinks she had better go downstairs and see if the things are safe. A young man, hearing her in the parlor, and supposing she is a thief, sneaks to the other side of the parlor portieres, and when she comes within reach, grabs her, portieres and all. He then ties her up in the draperies. The house is aroused and the police sent for. Meanwhile, the fiance is beside himself because he cannot find his prospective bride. When the police arrive and force the captor to untie the portieres, the whole mystery is explained. HER BURIED PAST— Majestic (Two Reels) The -Story of a Woman's Mercy and a Woman's Mistake March 14, 1915 CAST Muriel Irene Hunt Her Mother Jennie Lee Mrs. Madison Florence Crawford Madison W. H. Brown MURIEL MANNING, reporter on the Evening Statesman, traces, a mysterious murder case, for the solution of which her -paper has offered a reward of $500, to Mrs. Martin Madison, wife of the president of the local trust company. Madison is on the point of foreclosing the $500 mortgage, on MurieVs home, where she supports her old mother, an$ the girl is insanely anxious to win the money. She forces a confession from Mrs. Madison, who tells -her in full the story of her early disgrace at the hands of Howard Trimble, a gambler. Then, of his recent return from South America ; how he threatened to blackmail her publicly except she gave him a huge sum of money, which she was unable to obtain ; and how, in a desperate attempt to shoot herself in his rooms, she had inadvertently killed her persecutor. Muriel hurries home to write the story for the last edition. But visions of the woman in her terrible distress, of her two children and of her aged mother, are too much for the young reporter. When the last edition reaches Mrs. Madison it contains only a brief paragraph, referring to the murderer as "unknown." With trernbling hands she puts away the pistol she has been ,'holding in readiness. Meanwhile she has found on the floor where Muriel has dropped it, the letter concerning the mortgage. She persuades her husband to cancel the demand, charging the sum to her own allowance. CAUGHT BY THE HANDLE— Komic A Laughable Detective Parody Revolving Around an Umbrella March 14, 1915 CAST Mrs. Riche Eleanor Washington Tootner, her maid Fay Tincher Mr. Riche Max Davidson Schly, a detective Chet Withey HORDE, a gentleman smuggler, receiving a tip from his confederate, Swagger Tim, that he is to be arrested on leaving the ship, contrives to conceal some uncut diamonds in the handle of Mrs. Riche' s umbrella. As it happens, the ship's officer sees him, and though the custom's inspectors can find nothing on Horde and are obliged to let him go at the wharf, the officer advises Schly, a detec (Continued Overleaf)