Reel Life (1914-1915)

Twenty REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS When Tom tells his father that he intends to marry the young woman, his father threatens to disown him. In order that Tom may not suffer further on her account, Edith resigns her position and goes to work in a dicta¬ phone factory, scraping records. Fownes finds it necessary some time later to discharge Claire, to preserve office discipline. Claire drinks heav¬ ily, and returns to the office, looking for trouble. He finds Fownes dictating into a dictaphone. The conver¬ sation ensuing between the two men is recorded on the cylinder, which continues to revolve. Blows succeed words, and, in the fight which follows, Fownes is fatally injured, and dies from his wounds be¬ fore medical aid can be summoned. Tom is at once sus¬ pected of the crime because of his quarrel with Fownes. Meanwhile the record into which Fownes had been dictating is sent to the factory and falls into Edith’s hands. Curious to know the substance of what Fownes had been dictating immediately before his death, Edith puts the record on the phonograph and hears repeated the conversation between Claire and Fownes. Con¬ vinced that she has evidence which will free her sweet¬ heart, Edith runs to Police Headquarters with the rec¬ ords. Word for word the magistrate listens to the tes¬ timony given by dead lips, and at the conclusion of the demonstration Tom is released and a warrant issued for Claire’s arrest. THE RIGHTFUL HEIR A Kay-Bee Two-Reel Irish Drama By Charles Paul Brown April 24, 1914 CAST Lawrence . John Kellar Phelim . . . Charles Ray Sir Patrick . George Osborne Redfield . Ray Laidlaw Innkeeper . Walter Belasco Patricia.... . Ramona Radcliffe Sir Patrick O’Neil has two sons, the elder of whom is Phelim, a spendthrift and gambler. Lawrence, the younger son, marries and has a son, Richard. In order to pay his debts, Phelim attempts to rifle his father’s treasure chest, but is discovered and disowned by his parent. Jealous of his brother, Phelim, who becomes the leader of a band of smugglers, engages Redfield, his companion in crime, to kidnap Lawrence’s son. Redfield takes the boy to a cave, from which the youngster is rescued by Driscoll, a tavern keeper. Driscoll adopts the boy. Later Phelim betrays Redfield, and the smuggler is sent to prison. From an old paper Redfield learns in prison that Lawrence has died and that Phelim has suc¬ ceeded to the estate. He manages to escape, and is hid¬ den from his pursuers by Richard. Redfield makes an appointment with Phelim, and in a quarrel which follows, both Redfield and Phelim are injured. Phelim sets fire to the barn where Redfield lies injured, but Richard again rescues the man who kid¬ napped him as a child. Later Phelim is captured. Red¬ field, dying from his injuries, confesses to the conspiracy and Richard is amazed to learn that he is the lawful heir to the O’Neil estate. Phelim later dies of his wounds, and Lady Patricia and her son, Richard, come into their own. NEARLY A BURGLAR’S BRIDE A Roaring Farce in Which the Komic Players Surpass Themselves By Anita Loos April 22, 1914 CAST Edgar... . . . Ted Browning The Widow . Fay Tincher Edgar is a burglar of the deepest dye. His whiskers are dyed, and the police wish he would die. He is so bad that when he walks through the park the babies squall in their carriages. The small boys hate him because he wrests the pennies from their hands, and the babies loathe the sight of him because he robs them of their milk bot¬ tles and gum drops. In the park, Edgar meets the Widow Murphy. The fas¬ cinating burglar obtains the widow’s permission to call. Next night Mrs. Murphy pays a short visit to her neigh¬ bor, Mrs. Dunn, thinking that she can get back home be¬ fore the flirtatious Edgar calls. Edgar sees her sitting in Mrs. Dunn’s window, and conceives the brilliant plan of robbing the house next door to Mrs. Dunn’s and pre¬ senting the objects d’art he finds there to the Widow Murphy. Saying is doing with Edgar. He rummages through the Widow’s mansion, dumps her jewels, sofa pillows, brica-brac and other valuables into a suit case and takes them next door. The widow pretends to be much pleased at the gifts, but has Mrs. Dunn quietly call the police. She is not able to conceal her rising gorge, however, and Edgar, smelling a rat of considerable size, attempts to break away. The widow detains him by sitting on his person. Ed¬ gar give^the police a stiff fight, and puts several of them out with a sofa pillow, but eventually he is taken away to the village hold-over, and the widow is saved from “just another fatal wedding, just another broken heart.” THE TIE THAT BINDS A Majestic Two-Reel Drama of the Lower Walks of Life April 19, 1914 CAST Mollie . . . Francelia Billington Larry . F. Bennett Hogan..... . Lamar Johnstone Spike . ,._.D. Mitsoras Child . Virginia Clark Biff Hogan, a gangster, and Larry McGuire, a work¬ ingman, strive to outdo each other in order to win the regard of Mollie McIntyre. Hogan, practiced in all the tricks of the pugilist and street corner tough, manages to demonstrate his physical superiority over McGuire and Mollie, pleased at having two men come to blows over her, accepts the victor. Soon after his marriage “Biff” falls back into his old ways. Out of work and in need of money, he breaks into a factory with two pals, and attempts to rob the office safe. He is discovered by the night watchman and cap¬ tured. Later he is sent to prison. Mollie secures a divorce, and some time afterward Larry proposes marriage and is accepted. Larry comes to cherish “Biff’s” son as his own. “Biff” is released from prison at the expiration of his term and returns to his old haunts. ( Continued Overleaf )