Reel Life (1916-1917)

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Mutual Featurettes IN “Shorty Turns Wild Man,” Shorty Hamilton has an ex¬ traordinary new series of ad¬ ventures in an effort to rescue Professor Wade, an absentminded geologist. Wade is lost in the desert, the services of the ever-ready cowboy hero having been enlisted by Anita Keller of the secret service. This is the fifth of “The Adventures of Shorty Hamil¬ ton,” released through Mutual. Wade had been prospecting about the Sierra Nevada mountains after radium and had just discovered a valuable deposit at the time that his guide caught desert fever and died. News of the professor’s predicament reached civilization by “Indian wire¬ less” and the intrepid Miss Keller was ordered to look after him. Struggling to get out of the desert by himself, Prof. Wade became lost, and, in this situation, encountered Horatio Knowles, a tragedian, mem¬ ber of a traveling company, who had been stranded and had wandered into the desert in a temperamental fit. The news of Wade’s radium discov¬ ery and the fact that he had a phial of the stuff worth $100,000 in his pos¬ session, had been widely circulated, with the result that “Crack” Peters started out to waylay the explorer and obtain possession of the mineral. When Peters and his gang found Wade and Knowles, the latter fell dead at the first volley fired by the outlaw gang and Wade crawled into a bunch of cacti. In this desert hiding place Wade found an old skull in which he hid the radium, dying soon afterwards of his wounds. Shorty found the bodies of the two men. and beside the actor, his box of make-up. Realizing that Peters and his gang were close upon him, Shorty, in desperation, made up as a wild man, using Knowles’ grease paints. In this strange character, cavorting about the desert, Shorty was encoun¬ tered by Apache Bill and Peters, who were so alarmed at his antics that they decamped. Meantime Shorty had seen his horse, Beauty, disappearing in the distance, having been scared by her master’s strange behavior. Shorty was compelled to sleep in the desert and while asleep he be¬ came moonstruck. This deprived h i m temporarily of the power of speech, and while still un¬ able to talk he was captured by a traveling circus, the manager of which was con¬ vinced that he had found a genuine wild man. Anita, meanwhile, had been strug¬ gling to rescue Shorty from his captors, but without success. He was confined in a cage by the circus men and released through the efforts of Beauty, pet mare of the cowboy, who kicked in the door of his cage on see¬ ing him imprisoned, after she had also been captured by the circus gang. There is a sensational chase in the end of the picture in which Shorty is pursued by the whole Wild West de¬ partment of the circus after his es¬ cape on Beauty. Of course Anita is discovered awaiting Shorty at the end of his jour¬ ney. There explanations and oscula¬ tions. Needless to say there are many comedy situations prominent through¬ out this production. When “Shorty” arrives at the circus, bound by stout ropes and caged, he is met by a “mot¬ ley” mob. Amongst the most prom¬ inent to greet him are Lillie, the fat lady, who tips the scales at four hun¬ dred pounds ; Jack the Giant, seven feet six inches tall and weighing nearly as much as Lillie ; Sam, the midget, three feet in heighth and about the same breadth; Nora, the bearded lady, with long, black silken whiskers and Irene, the snake charmer, fond¬ ling a 10-foot python. 5}C Synopsis of ‘JERRY’S BIG MYSTERY’ One Reel — Cub comedy featuring George Ovey. Jerry . George Ovey Hank . George George Tiny . Claire Alexander Jerry’s landlord, tiring of his c failing to pay the rent, turns him Y out. He throws Jerry across the hall and he lands in the lap of a woman. The husband finds Terry in this compromis¬ ing position and a fight ensues which ends in the arrival of the police and much trouble. Jerry escapes and be¬ gins to make love to Tiny. Later to escape one Hank, Jerry squeezes into a headless dummy form and after scaring numerous people he returns to Tiny, scares Hank away and then is free to carry on his love-making un¬ molested. * * * Synopsis of “LURED AND CURED” Two Reels — Vogue comedy featuring Paddy Me Quire. A Country Boy . Paddy McQuire A Country Girl . Lillian Hamilton City Chap . John Oaker Vampire . Jessie Perry Lillian, a country girl, loves Paddy, a neighbor. A city chap comes into her life and then things begin to hum. He happens to be the head of a band of gangsters and persuades Lillian to return to the city with him. Lil is placed under the care of a creature of the vampire type. Paddy arrives in the city and manages to gain entrance to the house where Lil is kept prisoner. He is robbed of all of the money he possesses, $2,000, and dropped into a cellar. Lil is told that there will be no wedding and is also dropped into the cellar. They manage to escape, by strange methods, and Lil asks Paddy to take her back to the farm. i REEL LIFE — Page Seven