Reel Life (Mar-Sep 1915)

Ten REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS taken away in a fine automobile her heart is broken. She discovers the address of the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Calvert, and steals back the baby during the absence of the servants. The police are notified. Mamie and Ben are found asleep under a tree and are taken to the station house. When the Calverts hear Mamie's story they find that their hearts are big enough for two children. ! , THE ONCE OVER— Beauty How a Practical Joker Got His ; ' ? W |; April 6, 1915 ; CAST Bob Green..,, Webster Campbell Tom Brown Joseph Harris Nellie Blake Virginia Kirtley TOM BROWN'S favorite expression is "the once over." When he suggests to his roommate, Bob Green, that they go down town and "give the girls the once over," Bob explains that he has a date that afternoon with a girl whom Tom never has seen and that he intends to be loyal to the young woman and not flirt with anybody. So Tom goes down town felone, where he meets a very attractive creature, one Nellie Blake, who, it turns out, is the girl to whom Bob is devoted. She begs Tom to help her get rid of Bob. The pair of them play a number of practical jokes on the distraught Bob, finally landing him in jail, which gives them a chance to go and get married. They send word to Bob that they have given him "the once over." When Tom arrives at the home of his bride he discovers a family of twins and two other youngsters by the young woman's first husband. This puts a rather different face on things. Bob, released from jail, and bent on revenge, looks through the window and sees Tom holding the quartette of step-children on his knees. Congratulating himself on his lucky escape, he enters the house and announces that he has come to give Tom and the babies "the once over." THE CYCLE OF HATRED— Thanhouser (Two Reels) Wherein Jealousy Seriously Miscarries April 6, 1915 CAST :0 ,. -X Olive Tracy Miss Conroy Little Helen, her child ....... Helen Badgley Persis King Florence La Badie Dr. Morrison Morris Foster The Ayah in the Tracys' apartment. . Carey L. Hastings OLIVE TRACY, a young widow, becomes insanely jealous when the engagement of Dr. Morrison to Persis King is announced. She saturates some flowers with a poisonous prescription which she has obtained from the doctor on a pretense of illness, and fastening Dr. Morrison's card to the bouquet, has it taken to Miss King. Little Helen, Mrs. Tracy's daughter, is very devoted to the woman whom her mother hates. She happens to be in Miss King's apartments when the roses arrive and is the first one to smell them. A few minutes later she sinks back in a chair unconscious. Persis, in alarm, summons the child's mother. Realizing what she has done, Mrs. Tracy, in an agony of remorse, confesses. Dr. Morrison saves the child's life— and the mother is cured of her jealous disposition. A TOUCH OF LOVE— American Starring Charlotte Burton in An Ideal Role April 7, 1915 CAST Fannie Vivian Rich Jim Harry Von Meter Martha Charlotte Burton Bill Reaves Eason Steve Jack Richardson MARTHA is secretly in love with Jim, a young prospector; but as she is the warm-hearted friend and helper of everybody in the camp, he does not suspect her real feeling for him. Fannie, a beautiful dance hall girl, comes to town. She and Jim are mutually drawn to one another and Martha, believing that the newcomer is not worthy of Jim, warns him against becoming entangled with her. He answers that Fannie only needs someone really to love her. Jim and Fannie go for a ride and the dancer is thrown from her horse and severely hurt. They carry her to Martha. Martha stifles her first impulse to let the girl die and faithfully nurses her back to health. Learning of Fannie's unselfish efforts to support her mother and her child, over whom, in her helpless condition, she worries incessantly, Martha discovers that the dance hall girl's heart is in the right place. On her recovery she helps Fanme and Jim to take up life together. MOLLY OF THE MOUNTAINS— Broncho (Two Reels) A Vivid Play of the Kentucky Hills By William H. Clifford and Thomas H. Ince April 7, 1915 CAST John Harlow Frank Borzage Molly Rhea Mitchell Jed Simms A. Hollingsworth I OHN HARLOW, a railroad superintendent, while mak« t ing a new cut in the Kentucky mountains, wins the love of Molly Simms, daughter of Jed Simms, a moonshiner. When results force her to plead with Harlow to marry her he refuses — for he already has a wife — and then, to escape the rage of Jed Simms, he reveals to the revenue officers the location of Simm's still. The moonshiner takes refuge in Harlow's cabin where, concealed in the chimney, he overhears Molly enter and make a desperate appeal to her lover, who treats her with brutal cynicism. Simms is prevented from killing Harlow on the. spot only by the importunities of his daughter, and the railroad superintendent, flees the hut. He is mistaken for, Simms, however, by the officers, who have seen Molly go into the cabin. They shoot, and Harloiv falls dead. THE INDIAN CHANGELING— Reliance A Strong Drama of Daughterly Devotion April 7, 1915 CAST Robert Marsh Ray Myers Nona May Gaston Vera Claire Anderson ROBERT MARSH, a wealthy young rancher, has an Indian sweetheart, Nona, who bears him a child. Already, however, he has deserted her for Vera Blanchard, a girl from the east, whom he marries. They have a daughter, who is the idol of her father's heart. While (Continued Overleaf)