Reel Life (1914-1915)

Fourteen REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS She dreams that she is made the victim of a mock mar¬ riage and that Terence, convicted of murder, is sent to the gallows. She sees herself disgraced and laughed at by the Squire’s servants and there flashes through her fevered brain the picture of Terence swinging beneath the new moon on the gallows near Dublin with the crows a-pickin’ all roundabout. In tears she springs from her bed to find Terence's rosy face at the lattice. And through the grilled window lips meet lips and Terence makes terrific vows of eternal love and constancy. The Squire? Well, like the mare with the swollen fetlock at the Donnybrook horseshow, the Squire “got the gate” when next he called. GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY A Thanhouser Photoplay Based Upon the Famous Poem of the Same Title March 8, 1914 CAST May, the guilty child . Mignon Anderson Marian, her invalid sister . Madeleine Fairbanks Leland, her crippled brother . Leland Benham Hauck, another of May’s brothers . Roy Hauck Helen, their sister. .Helen Barclay, The Thanhouser Kidlet Casey, a policeman . Mr. Bodine The Judge . Carl Horan Arraigned in court for having stolen three loaves of bread, May McGuire, a fifteen-year-old girl, pleads that she is the support of three children, the youngest of whom is but four years of age. Her father and mother are dead, she sobs, and since their death she has been the sole support of the children. She begs for clemency and explains that she would not have stolen the bread if it had not been for the fact that she but recently lost her position, and with no money in her purse she was forced either to steal or to see her tiny charges starve. Sentence is deferred and a purse made up for the young woman. “RED,” THE MEDIATOR An A. D. T. Romance by the Reliance Players March 14, 1914 CAST “Red” . Master Dave McCauley Holworthy . Thomas R. Mills Miss Wetmore . Irene Hunt Holworthy and his sweetheart, Miss Wetmore, have quarreled. Their exchange of messages is both acri¬ monious and frequent. After having carried half a dozen “rush” messages which fairly sizzled, “Red” Walsh, a messenger boy, begins to take an active interest in the affairs of the principals. Surreptitiously, he reads the contents of the letters and telegrams. It is apparent to him that a misunderstanding has separated the young sweethearts and “Red” unanimously elects himself to the post of mediator. He tells Holworthy that Miss Wetmore has sent for him to come to her at once in order that they may straighten out their difficulties. Holworthy, however, meets with a cold reception. On his way back to the district telegraph office where he is employed, “Red” is run down and fatally injured. Upon being restored tem¬ porarily to consciousness in the hospital he asks that his two friends, Miss Wetmore and Holworthy, come to see him. The estranged sweethearts arrive at the same time. A touching reconciliation between the young couple is enacted as “Red” sinks back upon his pillows into a sweet satisfied sleep from which he does not again awake. CAUGHT IN THE WEB A Reliance Drama Demonstrating the Futility of Circumstantial Evidence March 11, 1914 CAST James Martin . Paul Scardon Daniel, his son . Harry Spingler Mrs. Martin . Sue Balfour Chief of Detectives . . . George De Carlton Hi9 assistant . Thomas R. Mills A counterfeiter . Edward Cecil The Coroner discovers that James Martin has been poisoned after an analytical examination has been made of a cup of coffee which he drank just before his death. Daniel Martin, the dead man’s son, is arrested, charged with having guilty knowledge of his father’s death. His sweetheart notifies Central Office detectives and they co-operate with her in an effort to find a motive for the poisoning. Directly above the dining-room table at which Mr. Martin sat on the morning he drank the poisoned coffee a black stain is discovered by the detec¬ tives. Moisture dripping to the table from the spot above is analyzed and found to be a deadly acid. The detectives raid the rooms above the Martin apart¬ ment and find that a container of engraver’s acid has been overturned on the floor. A further search of the rooms discloses counterfeiter’s casts and engraver’s tools. A watch is set upon the rooms and the counterfeiters caught in the police net. Young Martin is released from custody and marries the sweetheart who worked so hard to save him. THE GIRL WHO DARED The Story of a Young Woman’s Fight Against Her Sordid Environment, By the Beauty Players ‘ March 18, 1914 CAST Harry Marshall Court . Harry Pollard Maggie, The Girl . Margarita Fischer Frank, her brother . Frank Cooley Lill, her sister . Gladys Kingsbury The Father . Fred Gamble Brought up on the East Side amid sordid slum sur¬ roundings, Maggie might easily have fallen into the ways adopted by so many other girls who are paid pitiful salaries. Her sister and brother ’sneer at her pretensions and her unnatural father by his example and loose morals is unsympathetic when Maggie goes to night school and tries to educate herself above her lot in life. At the earliest opportunity Maggie leaves home and secures a position, succeeding in supporting herself with¬ out resorting to the shameful expedients adopted by her fellow workers. Her brother learns where she works and attempts to impose upon her. When he approaches Maggie in her place of employ¬ ment and threatens her, Court, Maggie’s employer, comes to her aid and gives her worthless brother a sound trouncing. The chance meeting between Court and Maggie results in a mutual attraction and not long after