Universal Weekly (1914-1915)

THE UNIVERSAL WEEKLY 16 COHEDY AND DRAMA IN "HIS UNCLE'S WILL" MAGIXE yourself suddenly in the position of either marryiny a girl whom you have never seen before, or else losing an inheritance and going to work like a day laborer. Would you take a chance and at least see the girl, would you throw the whole thing Rex drama, in two reels, featuring Ella Hall and Robert Leonard, is a delightful play. Written and produced by Mr. Leonard. Released November l». down as an imposition, as preposterous; Perhaps that would depend on how you were raised. If you had been previously independent, financially and otherwise, if you had the real American youth's spirit and ideas which gives him the right, above all others, to choose whom he shall marry, it is likely that you would say, "Go to the devil" to the condition in your deceased relative's will. And that is just what the young nephew, the hero of this delicious comedy-drama, said ; and yet, that is just where the story began. "His Uncle's Will" was written and produced by Mr. Leonard himself. He also acted the leading role with Miss Ella Ball, the winsome little Rex leading lady, playing the "girl in question". And just as these two superb artists are delightful in their respective roles, the play is delightful : there is Comedy and drama every moment that the picture is on the screen. How this young uephew starts out to gel « job, how he meets the *ery young woman he was trying to escape, how he falls in love with ber and she with him. without either knowing the other's identity ; how the elopement is arranged and carried out and how the sudden awakening comes, owing to the fact that they are indeuendently wealthy, makes you smile and enthuse • >ver the quaintness and ■deverness of it all. "His Uncle's Will" is a romance, clean and entertaining, with a big laugh m it. Upon his return from Kurope, Arthur Stephens, through his secretary, learns the terms of his recently deceased uncle's will. He is to be disinherited in case he refuses to comply with one condition — that he marry the daughter of an old friend of his uncle's. This young woman he has never so much as seen . The same day, while out driving in his machine. Stephens makes the acquaintance of a charming little country girl and his heart tells him he has, at last, found the girl of his choice. Return ing home, he informs his secretary that he cannot hear of his uncle's preposterous demand, and forthwith he sets out to ■secure employment . The lawyer, who is acting as executor of the will, receives an answer to his communication addressed to the girl in question, in the form of a little unsophisticated country girl. Not being able to locate Stephens, and not knowing what to do with the girl in the absence of her future husband, he gives her a letter if introduction to the matron of a certain young lady's school, where shp is admitted and cared for by the matron in charge. CAST. The Mephew Robert Levnanl The Girl in Question Ella Hall The Matron Helen Wright The Secretary Robert Chandler Answering an advertisement, Stephens secures the position of chauffeur to th? matron of this same school. He there meets, for the second time, the little coub try girl of his dreams. He soon wins her love, and after many narrow escapes, the young people succeed in eloping. All ends happily when he finds that he has unwittingly fulfilled the condition contained i» his uncle's will. All That Was Left for the Aunt. fjr <$r fgr <£t One of the most realistic duels eve/ fought before the camera was this week staged in the third episode of the "Terence O'Rourke" series, in which J. War ren Kerrigan is appearing in the title role. Although he was already considered proficient i» the handling of the broad-sword and foil, Mr. Kerrigan spent two weeks training under the direction of one of the best fencing master* on the Pacific Coast. The result exceeded even the fondesi hopes of Mr. Kerrigan and his co-director, Jacques Jaeeard. The finished production of this chapter in the series is r«garded by those who saw it projected at the company's theatre at the Hollywood Studios as even better than the two that have gone before it. This in stallment has also wit nessed the first work with the Universal eoni pany, of Gretchen Leder er, whose work with « □umber of Eastern cotu panies has placed her name well up on the LV of coming photo stars. <£* <!? 4? «J? Cleo Madison, of "The Trey o' Hearts" fame, has returned from her well-earned week's vacation and, apparently, in better health and spirits than she has been for a long time, announcesthat she is again ready to take up her work af leading lady with the Gold Seal company, under Mr. Lucas' direction "Vancer, my pony, and I", said Miss Madison, in speaking of her trip, "have had the best tim> we ever spent together. We traveled over rough mountain trailsand stopped to rest under the overhanging sycamores when we were tired. I had one experience, however, which left me rather frightened for a time, in spite of what I went through in "The Trey o' Hearts". I got lost. It was the first time such a tbinK ever happened to me, and I hope it will he thf> Vist »Jt »Jt *Jf *J* .No sooner had King Baggot recovered from his eye trouble than Jack Cohn, editor of the Universal Animated Weekly, followed in his wake. While hurrying out of the Imp studio a few days ago, Editor Cohn was struck in the eye by a cinder from a passing train. The eye became inflamed and swollen, until he was forced to seek the services of a surgeon. He wi!I! be back at his desk in a few days.