Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Twelve REEL LIFE STORJES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS tive, about the umbrella, telling him to keep his eye on Horde. The next day, at home, Mrs. Riche asks her maid, Tootner, to glue on the loose handle of her umbrella. The maid, on finding the uncut diamonds, and supposing the handle to be "all busted" inside, dumps the fragments into the waste basket. Then she fastens on the handle and puts the umbrella in the rack. Mr. Riche comes downstairs and takes the umbrella out with him. While standing unsuspectingly on the steps, he is watched by Horde from across the street. Schly, the detective, behind a tree, is watching Horde. Meanwhile, Swagger Tim has entered the house and is trying to recover the gems. Tootner hears him in the dining-room and sees him start toward the hall. Mrs. Riche, at the same minute, goes into the hall closet for a coat; and the maid, a moment later, taking her mistress for the burglar, slams and locks the closet door. She tells Mr. Riche, that she has caught the thief and he comes inside to phone the police, leaving the umbrella on the porch. Horde makes a dash, gets the umbrella, but is caught by Schly. Meanwhile, Swagger Tim is hiding. The police arrive, a,nd when the closet is opened and Mrs. Riche released in a fainting state, Tootner is fired on the spot. Swagger Tim, in trying to escape through a window is captured by Schly, who drags both smugglers before the Riche family and explains to them about the umbrella.. On pulling off the handle, however, no diamonds are to be found. Then Tootner remembers. She rushes to the waste basket. The diamonds are recovered — and Tootner is handed back her job. THE TWO SENTENCES— American (Two Reels) An Intensely Interesting Psychological Drama March 15, 1915 CAST Jim Rodgers Harry Von Meter Jeff Wade Perry Banks Mrs. Wade Louise Lester Helen, her daughter Vivian Rich Tom Carter David Lythgoe Nellie Carter Charlotte Burton Fred Clark.... Jack Richardson William Ford Reaves Eason JIM RODGERS, a rising young lawyer, returns to the city to find that Helen Wade, his fiancee, has become the wife of another man. Rodgers buries himself in his profession. Later, as judge of the criminal court, he is called upon to try Helen's husband, Tom Carter, on a charge of assault to kill. Tom is found guilty, and Helen goes to Rodgers and pleads that he make the sentence one year only, not twenty. Rodgers replies that since she had not hesitated to give him a life sentence, banishing him out of her affections forever, he fails to see why she should expect him to deal so magnanimously with her husband. The following day he give9 Tom a long sentence. As time passes, Rodgers grows to regret his vindictiveness. When he is named as candidate for governor he accepts, chiefly because by this means he may become empowered to pardon Tom Carter. Helen determines to prevent his election. On the eve of apparent defeat, she tells him it is she who has been ruining his chances. Rodgers convinces her, however, of his real motive, the election is turned, Tom and Helen are reunited and Rodgers serves out his life sentence alone. THE REWARD— Reliance The Up-to-date Adventure of an Heiress March 15, 1915 CAST Mary Lang Winifred Allen Peter Lang, her father Alfred Fisher John Barrick Gordon De Maine Hugh Grey George M. Mario Detective Lawrence Hynes MARY LANG, daughter of a rich broker, is bored by the banal society existence she leads. Her father has arranged a match between Mary and his young business partner, John Barrick, who deeply loves the girl, but cannot seem to satisfy her romantic nature. Mary destroys all the photographs she has of herself and runs away in disguise to find adventure. Hugh Grey, a smart young reporter, while calling on Lang, chances to see a picture of Mary on his desk. On impulse, he pockets it. Next day when the story of her disappearance is all over the city, Grey, recognizes in a girl, who the evening before had arrived at his boarding-house, the lost heiress. He immediately lays siege to Mary's affections, and believing that at last she has found her true romance, she promises to become his wife. On the day before that set for the wedding Mary finds the photograph in Grey's possession, and realizes that she has fallen into the clutches of a fortune hunter. She denounces him. Determined at least to' win the reward of $10,000 which Lang has offered for his daughter's safe return, the reporter locks the girl in her room and sends for Lang and Barrick. Grey takes the check for the reward and also a trouncing from Barrick for refusing to give up Mary's photograph. Her eyes are opened to the genuineness of Barrick, and she becomes his wife. THE MASTER'S MODEL— Thanhouser (Two Reels) An Intense Character Drama, Starring Fan Bourke By Nolan Gane March 16, 1915 CAST Hugo, an artist Nolan Gane Jack, his friend John Reinhard Nita Fan Bourke Tony, her lover Frank Wood HUGO longs to paint a great picture. One day he happens to see on the street the very model he has been looking for. The artist follows the woman and her lover, Tony, into a dance hall. Nita scoffs at his proposal, however, until he offers her a good sum of money, if she will pose for him. Then she accepts, and agrees, to choose her own costume for the sittings. Next day she presents herself at the studio, wearing the flowing robes of the Madonna. The picture is painted and Hugo wins the Academy prize. Tony, who is intensely jealous of the artist, sneaks into the studio and is in the act of thrusting his knife through the canvas, when Nita intercepts him. They struggle. The artist's cottage is on the top of a high bluff. The two combatants stagger through the door and down over the precipice. Hugo, returning, sees their bodies at the bottom of the cliff. Then, in a vision, Nita appears to him as the Madonna, the woman she might have been. This story is told in fiction form on page sixteen of this issue of REEL LlFE. {Continued Overleaf)