Reel Life (1915-1916)

“RUBE’S HOTEL TANGLE”— VOGUE One Reel. — In which the life of the city, its cabarets and pretty girls, puts the Rube in a bad way, financially and otherwise. Rube Rube Miller His wife Alice Neice Art . : Arthur Neice His wife Madge Kirby When Rube visits the city, he takes Alice, his wife, with him, not because he wants her along, but because she wants to go. Arriving at the hotel, Rube sees Madge in the writing room and flirts with her. Art comes in and sees them. This, of course, starts a fight, which Alice finishes when she comes looking for Rube. Rube, leaving her to fight his battle, runs upstairs and in his fright gets into the wrong room, which happens to be Art’s. Madge chases him out. Art, coming along the hall spots him. From then on it is one riot of laughter. There is a cross-eyed maid, a monkey-faced porter, a despondent man who tries to kill himself, several girls that are on the point of retiring, guests, etc. As a gloom chaser and a grouch dispeller, it is all that, and more. “THE OVERWORKED, OVERSEA OVERSEER”— FALSTAFF One Reel. — Cecil was a meek individual until someone tried to “spoof” him, then he would fight anything. Overseer Claude Cooper His successor Frank E. McNish The caretaker liked his job. But one day he learned that he had been superseded, by “Cecil Skidding-Hansom, late valet to the Duke of Bilgewater.” He had brought a gun along, expecting to have a wild time in America. This gave the caretaker an idea. He told Cecil that the country was extremely lawless, and kindly pointed out to him where danger existed. For example, in the North there were “bad Indians, who would kill you for a shilling.” In the South “is a camp where they are trying to reform murderers,” while indicating the West he said mysteriously: “And that way is the most dangerous of all.” Naturally, Cecil Skidding-Hansom was scared. He saw the “mad dogs” and was much alarmed, for he did not know that the dogs were the property of the ex-caretaker. He met a “reformed murderer,” who was out on a rampage and escaped from him after an exciting battle. Then by accident he learned that the old caretaker and his friends had been “spoofing” him. Cecil Skidding-Hansom was a bad man when he was aroused. The next day the “Indians” came, and he was ready for them. They chased him into the reception room of the mansion, and then to their surprise fell through the floor landing in a tank of water. Cecil Skidding-Hansom added to their sufferings by dropping them this note : Dear Old Chaps: You spoofed me, but I’m a sport. Sail my boat around until I come back with the bobbies. (I think you bounders call them police.”) Cecil remained as caretaker of the house, for nobody ever tried to play any more jokes on him. j}c i'fi ^ ifc ;}c MUTUAL WEKLY No. 66— GAUMONT One Reel. — Around the world with the Mutual cameraman. Mutual Weekly No. 66 offers a wide variety of new and interesting motion pictures of current events. Principal among them are scenes photographed along the Mexican border showing U. S. troops preparing for Mexican marches. At Fort Crockett, Tex., the soldier boys, waiting a call from the border, staged a boxing exhibition for the Mutual cameraman. In Seattle, Wash., troopers are shown boarding the cruiser “Pittsburgh” on their way to the border. The battleship “Kentucky” is shown departing for Vera Cruz to protect American citizens in case of danger, while another cameraman obtained interesting pictures of the departure for Mexico of the Fifth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Meyer, Va. The remainder of this interesting pictorial presents a number of pictures of world events, notable among them Harry Houdini, the “handcuff king,” freeing himself from a straightjacket obtained from an insane asylum in New York; the Seminole Indians performing their famous sun dance at Palm Beach ; the arrival of the S. S. “Patria” in New York Harbor after a narrow escape from destruction by a submarine ; the replacing of the old Lake street bridge, in Chicago, with a modern steel structure; the launching of the U. S. destroyer “Rowan” at the shipyards in Quincy, Mass., and the latest in spring modes direct from Paris. REEL LIFE— Page Nine