Reel Life (1915-1916)

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New Releases in the Mutual Program HEARTS AND CLUBS— CUB COMEDY One Reel — December 24, 1915 — Jerry Assists Cupid, Starring George Ovey. Cast. Jerry Jerry Ovey Shorty George George Lewis Hayden Jefferson Osborne Father Louis FitzRoy Madge Belle Bennett Sheriff Arthur Munns Mounted Policeman William Jackson Jerry helps himself to a policeman’s horse and rides off to seek knightly adventures. He discovers Shorty, an amiable giant, depositing a note in a hollow tree for his sweetheart, Madge. After Shorty has disappeared, Jerry is witness to the sneaking actions of Lewis Hayden, the young man father prefers. Hayden steals the note and runs to Madge’s stem parent. Daughter is upbraided, but she retorts courageously. Father determines to punish Shorty and he mistakes Jerry for the young man in question. Having sized up the whole situation, Jerry returns to find Shorty. He confides to him and promises to help him win the girl. Shorty puts on Jerry’s clothes and lies in wait. When Father appears he is startled to see “that little runt of a fellow” he has anticipated licking, shoot up to six feet, two. Shorty grabs father and Hayden, his ally, by the hair, and sends them off. Next morning, father nails up Madge’s bedroom window — only to learn that his daughter already has made her escape. Father pursues a familiarly clad figure on horseback. After a long chase he runs down Jerry, attired in his daughter’s clothes. Returning, wrathy, he finds that Shorty and Madge have just been married. * THE FIDDLERS— NOVELTY One Reel — December 20, 1915 — A Screaming Mixup of Long Hair and Catgut. Hans is kicked out of the German band. Meanwhile, the Sausage King, who is bringing out his young daughter, Lina, that evening, is on tenterhooks because the world-famous violinist has failed to arrive. Hans stumbles up the steps of the mansion. He is dragged indoors and presently finds himself the lion of the occasion. Rave n o us 1 y hungry, Hans snatches the refreshments in fistfuls and jams them down his throat. The Sausage King begs to remind his friends that the man is “Eccentric, you know. Oh, very !” Lina already has lost her heart to the temperamental youth, and when he is challenged by Count Wanterpence to a duel, there is terrible excitement at the coming-out ball of the daughter of the Sausage King. Hans is laid low. He recuperates, however. Then the unsuspecting Count gets his. Lina is in ecstasies. Meanwhile, the arrival of the real violinist promises to expose the modest ex-musician of the German band. But the Sausage King is of no mind to have the sensation of the evening spoiled in the society column. So he buys off the great Strensky with a check for $500. Hans and Lina plight their troth, and Mamma, none the wiser for the deception, rejoices. THAT COUNTRY GAL— BEAUTY One Reel — December 25, 1915 — The Rural Relative Turns the Tables on her City Connections. Cast. Phyllis, the country girl Neva Gerber Aunt Sara Rose Lucille Warde Uncle Martine William Carroll Cousin Clarisse Nan Christy The city relatives of Phyllis, the country girl, are horrorstricken when they receive word that she intends to visit them. They never have seen Phyllis, and they picture her as the greenest of the green. At the station, a very pretty, up to date young woman catches Uncle Martine’s eye, and in trying to start a flirtation with her he forgets all about looking for the country cousin. Little does he dream that the object of his admiring glances is actually she whom he has been sent to meet. All sorts of complications follow thick and fast. Phyllis has something on every one of her city relations in less time than it takes to tell it. Each one of them, fearing that the country girl may tell, showers her with attentions, and she has them all but literally eating out of her hand. Phyllis enjoys the joke. At the same time she makes Uncle, Aunt and Cousin Clarisse her friends for life. N= * % * % TOODLES, TOM AND TROUBLE— FALSTAFF One Reel — December 23, i915 — A Young Man’s Adventure as a Nursemaid, Featuring Colin Campbell. Cast. Tom Colin Campbell Toodles Baby Gereghty Trouble “Lady,” a Dog Toodles, a very attractive baby, is idolized by all his Jerry as First Aid to Cupid in “Hearts and Clubs.' REEL LIFE— Page Ten