Reel Life (Sep 1914 - Mar 1915)

Ten REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLA YS she sees Mawby pocket the letter to the lawyer, and taking the will out of her dress she puts it in a secret compartment of a locket she is wearing. Her death occurs that night. After the funeral, Mawby helps himself to Mrs. Halloway's jewels. The locket, however, appearing to be of small value, he tosses it over to Madeline. Pressed for money and fearing that if the missing will is found he will be penniless, Mawby tries to inveigle Madeline into marrying him. Failing in this, he contrives to have her lured to a lonely roadhouse, coming along just in time to save her reputation, if she will promise to marry him. Realizing that he is at the bottom of her predicament, the girl indignantly refuses, and is marched to jail by the police, who have raided the inn. Mawby seeks to clinch matters by wiring The Evening Statesman the details of her arrest. The city editor assigns Muriel Manning to the story. Muriel and Madeline discover in one another old friends, and Madeline confides everything to the young reporter. While they are talking in the prison cell, the locket drops from Madeline's neck, and the will is disclosed. A few days later, when Mawby tries to put over a forged will, Muriel produces the authentic document. A watermark on the false paper provides conclusive evidence. Mawby is jailed, and Madeline becomes her mother's sole heir. THE STOLEN JEWELS— Thanhouser In Which a Pawn Ticket Provides the Key to a Mystery March 21, 1915 CAST Jack Kent Harris Gordon Bryce, a detective Morgan Jones Mrs. Ball '. Carey L. Hastings WILLIAM JAMESON engages Bryce, a detective, to investigate several mysterious robberies which have occurred in one of his stores. Suspicion is thrown by Guy Manse, the manager, upon Jack Kent, a young clerk, whose duty is to open and close the safe, and with Manse's help the detective manages to entrap the clerk and secure evidence against him. Kent is sent to jail. Mary Ball, his sweetheart, alone believes in' his innocence. Also, she is conscious that Manse covets her. She watches the manager closely, and one day sees him drop a pawn ticket. Quickly she notes the number and name of the pawn broker. The manager recovers the ticket without knowing that he has betrayed himself. Mary locates the stolen jewels and puts the detective upon the right track. Kent is absolved and the manager punished. ANCESTRY— American (Two Reels) t A Romantic Story Wherein Love Puts a Girl's ; Ambition to the Test March 22, 1915 CAST The Duke of Lorenzo George Field The Duchesse of Lorenzo .Charlotte Burton The Duchesse 20 years later Josephine Ditt Harold Deam Edward Coxen Anna De Voe Winifred Greenwood The Count King Clark Innkeeper John Steppling Father Time William Bertram Rosa Marjorie Cresswell Leo Americo de Marino THE Duke of Lorenzo is banished for a term of years for duelling. He leaves the Duchesse and their child at the ancestral villa. Twenty years elapse. During this . time the Duchesse goes to America, where her daughter dies. She returns to Italy with a young companion, Anna De Voe, who passes for her own daughter. Anna, who loves the Duchesse and is fascinated by her new life, is quite willing to keep up the pretense. The Duchesse has a shock of paralysis, which renders her mind a blank. At the time that she is stricken, Anna is helped in reviving her by a young American artist, Harold Dean, who is sketching in the villa park. They fall in love. Not long after, the Duke returns from his exile. Harold asks him for his daughter in marriage. But the Italian nobleman tells Anna that she must marry a man of her own rank. Soon the American girl realizes that love to her is more than ambition. She confesses her identity, and she and Harold are married. THE GAME OF THRILLS— Reliance Wherein a Young New Yorker Finds His Romance at Last March 22, 1915 ^ „ CAST Jack Morris George M. Mario Loretta Blair Gladys du Pell Graves Gordon De Maine Belden Charles Bryant Tramp Alfred Fisher JACK MORRIS, a young engineer, complains to Graves and Belden, bachelor pals of his, that there is no excitement or romance in New York, and that he has decided to sail in a few days to South America. The two friends conspire with an actress, Loretta Blair, to give Morris an adventure. The girl goes to his rooms at the hotel, representing herself to be a Russian woman seeking to evade the secret police of her country. She implores his aid. Graves and Belden, disguised as Russians, enter the apartment and bind and gag M orris and Loretta. They then take their victims to a deserted house and, after, locking them in, depart, satisfied, to their club. A tramp accidentally sets fire to the house, and when Belden and Graves return to release their prisoners they find the building in flames. They try frantically to break in through the fire lines, believing that they are the murderers of Morris and Loretta. Then, through the smoke, they see the supposed victims coming toward them. Morris tells the conspirators about their narrow escape and that they have been watching the fire from a distance. And then Belden and Graves are forgiven their serious little joke, because Morris has found his romance at last right in New York. WHEN THE FIRE BELL RANG— Beauty A Side Splitting Farce Which Keeps a Fire Department Running March 23, 1915 CAST Joe King .Irving Cummings Lige Peters Joseph Harris Chief Grady Fred Gamble Kate, his daughter Virginia Kirtley JOE, the handsomest among the five assistants of Fire Chief Grady, is in love with Kate, the chief's daughter. Grady threatens to dismiss Joe unless he stops making love to his daughter. Called out of town on business, the chief calls at the fire house to administer a farewell warning. Hardly is he out of sight, however, when Joe and Kate celebrate by a rendezvous at her house. They are seen through the window by Lige Peters, the village mischief (Continued Overleaf)