Universal Weekly (November 23, 1912)

18 THE UNIVERSAL WEEKLY STORIES OF THE FILMS (Continued from page 14) death in fear that the girl will have some disfigurement of which he will not be proud. He instructs his man-servant to investigate, and report to him regard- ing the beauty of the unknown girl. Joe starts his investigation and comes upon the young lady, who has been paddling in the river. She has removed one shoe and stocking. She hears some one ap- proaching, and realizing the predicament she is in, she quickly places the bare foot under her, and sits on it. When the would-be hawkshaw discovers her, he realizes on seeing only the one foot, that the girl is minus a leg. He so re- ports to his master. Dave resolves to let the fortune go by default, but when the landlord presses him for his rent, he realizes that there is nothing left for him, but to take the best of a bad bar- gain. In the meantime, a flirtation is taking place on the beach between Dave and a very handsome young lady. Dave is badly smitten, particularly so, after having saved the young lady from drowning. As the two become better acquainted, they learn one another’s name, when lo and behold!—they dis- cover that each is the one the other must marry to inherit the money. The scenes of this comedy are all laid in and about Los Angeles, California. WAS MABEL CURED? (Victor Drama, Nov. 22nd.) Mabel Jones returns home from board- ing school, filled with the idea that she is a born novelist, and with a partially written manuscript upon a sociological subject in which the hero is a burglar. Now Mabel’s father is a sergeant of po- lice, and having had in his past experi- ence about all the dealings with burglars he cares for, he turns a deaf ear to her tearful pleadings to be introduced to a member of this noble profession. He commands her to turn her thoughts to- ward domestic science or poetry, and write about either the best method of darning socks or tuneful spring. But Mabel persists in her determination, and the sergeant is about to grow real angry when he sees a chance to cure her and her mad infatuation for under-world sub- jects. Among the sergeant’s acquaint- ances, is a rising young novelist, named Jefferson Lang, who is also writing a sociological novel, and in which the her- oine is a sneak-thief, and who is bother- ing the boys about the station house, to introduce him into circles, where he, too, can obtain the necessary “atmosphere.” By clever planning, and aided by the rest of the boys, Mabel and Jeff are brought together, he believing her to be “Shifty Sadie,” the sneak-thief, and she knowing his as “Baffles,” the gentleman burglar. Then follows a game of cross purposes and misunderstandings between the young couple, which culminates in them both being arrested by a strange police- man, and locked up on charge of burg- lary, grand larceny and highway robbery combined. Unfortunately, for the ser- geant, his “fine station hand” in the mat- -ter is discovered by the unlucky pair at the eleventh hour, and through the kind- ly aid of a prison chaplain, they turn the tables on the sergeant, and the station house in general, by getting married and combining their efforts upon a novel. THE DEBT. (Rex Two-Reel Drama, Nov. 21st.) Paul Warren, the son of a rich ranch- owner, is hopelessly in love with Beatrice Blake. Upon learning of her betrothal to his brother Jack, he decides to go away to a distant place and live the life of a hermit. Zema, an octaroon, em- ployed by his parents, had been betrayed by Jack, previous to the opening of the story. Her brother guesses her secret, and, knowing of Paul’s departure, con- demns him. In order to shield Jack, she confirms her brother’s judgment, (Continued on page 20) UNIVERSAL NESTOR DRAMATIC COMPANY, under direction of Mr. M. H. Fahrney Dorothy Davenport W. C. Dowlan Howard Davies H. McGuire W. H. Ryno leading woman leads heavy ... camera man character