Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Eight REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS THE current issue of the Mutual Weekly (No. 10) contains many notable features. Aside from its war views, which include scenes showing life in the French trenches, and the manner in which the wounded are hurried to the field hospitals, there are many others of unique and unusual interest. Sing Sing prisoners, under the enlightened regime of Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, are shown knitting warm mufflers for the soldiers of the warring countries. Interesting views of St. Patrick's Cathedral, which the anarchists, Abarno and Carbone, tried to wreck with a bomb a few days ago, and who now each face twenty-five years imprisonment for so doing, are included, together with a picture showing the two worthies in the hands of the police. A thrilling eleven-story drop from the Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. ; views of the "Kroonland" and the "Great Northern" passing through the Panama Canal, and United States cavalry in training at Fort Thomas are among the other entertaining and timely features of this issue of the Mutual Weekly. All of which goes to show that the exhibitor who is not using this service would do well to investigate its possibilities as a business-bringer. 'RUNAWAY JUNE (Episode 10) \ . (Two Reels) By George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester March 17, 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 Marie Evelyn Dumo Anna Grace Ady GILBERT BLYE and his party go aboard the steamer which they have chartered for the trip to Bermuda. Ned Warner and Burton, his detective, also board the boat. They practice the policy of watchful waiting. Soon Ned is informed by Burton that June is sitting alone on the lower deck. He hurries below. Suddenly Blye, from where he is sitting, sees the runaway bride in her husband's arms. He goes to the captain and tells him that a crazy man has attacked one of the ladies of his party. The next thing Ned knows he is struggling in the grasp of two husky sailors. June is in hysterics. Ned, locked in his stateroom, is unable to escape until just before the landing in Hamilton Harbor, Bermuda. Here he is seized by two sailors. The three men fight furiously. Finally Warner is backed up against the rail, and then — by accident — pushed overboard. A practised swimmer, he strikes out toward a small fishing craft, calling for help. The fishermen take him aboard. When first they hear that Ned is over the side of the ship, both June and Blye are equally horrorstricken. The news of his rescue, however, calms them both. June is inspired to refuse to land, but Blye compels her to do so. Burton, following them, learns the name of their yacht and their route. This he confides to Ned as soon as that unfortunate young man sets foot on the pier. But how are they to board the yacht? DOGGONE IT— Royal The Story of a Desperate Young Man March 20, 1915 FRANK, a ne'er-do-well, receives a letter from his fiancee's father advising him to cut out an imaginary fast life or be left penniless according to the terms of his father's will. That evening the girl asks him to get her a dog. On the way home he picks up a stray canine and carries it to his room. The girl's half-witted brother, who has studied burglary by mail, breaks into Frank's room, and is caught, first by the dog and then by Frank. In exchange for his freedom he agrees to pry open Frank's father's safe. He is captured by the father— but not before the son has found a clause in the will granting him unconditional rights to the estate. ETHEL'S DOGGONE LUCK— Komic Chapter 19 of the Famous "Bill" Series by Paul West March 21, 1915 CAST Ethel Fay Tincher Bill Bobby Feuhrer Hadley Chet Withey Ed Eddie Dillon Ketcher Max Davidson KETCHER, a professional dog thief, steals a valuable dog from Mrs. Dapper and after that everybody gets involved, including Mr. Hadley, Ethel, Ed, her sweetheart, Bill and the cop. The intricate action consists in the rapid and surreptitious switching about of several stolen dogs by the clever Ketcher, until nobody can tell which dog is whose, and everybody is accusing everybody else of being a thief. The police court is helpless to disentangle the mix-up. But in the end Mrs. Dapper gets back her dog, Ethel and her young man are reconciled, and, as a finishing touch, a fierce bull dog fastens himself to Bill's trousers. THE FORGED TESTAMENT— Majestic (Two Reels") Wherein Two Women Suffer from the Machinations of an Adventurer March 21, 1915 CAST Mawby Charles Cleary Mrs. Halloway Cora Drew Muriel Olga Gray Madeline Signe Auen MAWBY, an unscrupulous adventurer, beguiles a rich widow into marrying him. Very soon she discovers his real character. He constantly badgers her for money, which he loses at cards, and one night he wrests her purse from her, falling in a semi-drunken stupor on the couch. Mrs. Halloway, feeling a heart attack coming on — she has an incurable heart trouble — and fearing that Mazvby will get possession of her estate, sits down at once and writes a will, leaving everything she owns to her daughter, Madeline,, who is away at school. Suspicious, however, lest Mawby be feigning drunk to put her off her guard, she hides the will in the front of her dress. Then she writes a letter to her lawyer, asking him to come the next day for the will. Feeling faint, and gasping for breath, she staggers to the porch and falls on a divan. From there (Continued Overleaf)