Reel Life (1914-1915)

Twenty-two REEL LIFE STORIES OF THE NEW PHOTOPLAYS He staggers up the steps of his former wife’s new home and demands to see his son. Larry, angered that he should be annoyed again by his old enemy, tells “Biff” that he has forfeited all right to see his son. Larry vows to “be squared,” and that night creeps up on McGuire’s home. He sees the back of a head through the window, and recognizes McGuire’s hat. He raises his hand to draw a bead with his pistol on the head when Larry’s child, who is wearing his father’s hat, jumps from a chair and half faces toward the window. Trembling at the narrow escape he has had from kill¬ ing his own child, “Biff” throws his pistol away and makes a sincere resolve to lead a better life. WHEN ALGY FROZE UP A Thanhouser Comedy With an Old Fashioned Ameri¬ can Winter as the Mise-En-Scene. By Lloyd F. Lonergan. April 4, 1914. CAST Gray, a village banker . .....Sidney Bracy Mrs. Gray, his ambitious wife . Carey L. Hastings Jack, a foreign nobleman . Cyril Chadwick May Gray . . . . Mignon Anderson Mrs. Gray, with oodles of money to spend and a limit¬ less ambition, decides, as the de facto head of the Gray family, to marry her daughter, May, to a British noble¬ man, whose titles take up three lines in Burke’s Peer¬ age but who exists on a decidedly small remittance. May is much peeved at her mother’s choice of a hus¬ band, and when Jack De Courceville arrives at the village station a sleigh-riding party is made up to meet him. Jack gets all that is in store for him and a little bit more. He finds himself among choice spirits who delight in “spoofing” him. He is much surprised to learn that in American slang “breaking the ice” means being rolled in the snow. ? He is shown all the delights of an old-fashioned American winter by his spirited hostess and her friends. In fact he is given such a cool reception, so to speak, that he decides to take the next train back to Broadway where they have tea sharp at 4 o’clock and muffins to go with it. THE UNREDEEMED PLEDGE A Majestic Photodrama in Which a Faithful Collie Plays a Leading Role April 21, 1914 CAST Davis . . . Joseph Swickard Mrs. Davis . Meta White Mina Davis. . Francelia Billington Harry, her suitor . Lamar Johnstone Kerns, a returned prospector . Dick Cummings Minister . D. Gilfeather John Davis, a prosperous farmer, excited by the news that gold has been found in the vicinity of his ranch, leaves his wife and daughter, Mina, despite their pleas. He takes with him on his prospecting trip his faithful collie and a small store of provisions. The provisions soon give out, but Davis is determined to continue his search in the goldfields until success re¬ wards his efforts. Meanwhile Mina, his daughter, mar¬ ries her sweetheart, Harry, and takes her mother to live with her. With starvation staring him in the face, Davis is forced to return to civilization for more provisions. With no prospects, he finds it difficult to obtain a grubstake, but a storekeeper who takes a fancy to the collie, promises to supply the needed provisions if Davis will leave his dog with him until his return. Davis rereluctantly parts with the faithful collie. With his larder replenished, Davis returns to the min¬ ing region. Luck this time smiles on him, and he sbon strikes a lead rich in ore. Working feverishly to un¬ cover all the gold possible before his supply of provisions gives out, Davis dislodges a slide, and thus shuts off his escape from the mine. Meanwhile Mina and her mother, alarmed aftt Davis’s continued absence, set out to find him. Passing a store window in the settlement, the frantic barks of a dogi at¬ tract their attention, and a moment later Davis’s cqllie comes bounding from the building. The dog, by his ac¬ tions, suggests to Gray, the storekeeper, that he may know where his master is. While the dog bounds ahead across the open country, Gray, Mina, her husband knd Mrs. Davis follow in an automobile. The chase finally ends at the mouth of the tunnel. Davis is rescued, and an affecting reunion takes place. THE INFANT HEART SNATCHER A Pretty Thanhouser Romance Based On An Incident From Real Life By Lloyd F. Lonergan April 19, 1914 CAST Ahren, first cross old man . ..Riley Chamberlin Ben, second cross old man . N. S. Woods Charles, third cross old man . Arthur Bauer May, a widow on the stage . Ethyle Cooke Helen, her daughter, Helen Badgley, The Thanhouser Kidlet Caddie, a mean-tempered landlady .. Carey L. Hastings Maid . . . Fan Bourke Judge . Justus D. Barnes Little four-ye^old Helen is the pet of a big New York boarding house. Her three greatest admirers are Ahren, Ben and Charles, three crabbed old coves, who spend most of their time outside of business hours racking their brains to provide new amusements for the object of their elderly affections. Helen’s mother a-t length returns to New York and takes her child away from the boarding house. The three old coves are heartbroken. Life holds out no promise of anything worth living for and things look gloomy, indeed, until one of the trio conceives the bril¬ liant idea of kidnapping the child. Their plan succeeds, but the little girl’s frantic mother causes their arrest. They are arraigned in court and things look black until little Helen climbs up on the Judge’s knee and explains things. The three old bach¬ elors then propose that the mother start a boarding house, which they assure her will be a money-maker and the judge, satisfied with the child’s explanation of the kidnapping, releases them. The boarding house is established and thereafter instead of being known as “the three crabbed old coves” the bachelors earn for themselves the sobriquet of “Little Helen’s Three Grand „ If pas.