The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-09-03
A BIG SPECIAL TONIGHT.
"A Million Bid,' a Five Reel Attrac.
ton at the Idle Hour Theatre
This Evening.

Tonight at the popular Idle Hour
Theatre will be presented an extra
special attraction, "A Million Bid"
a Vitagraph photoplay in five reels,
the play which holds the worlds
record in motion pictures, having
been shown at $50 consecutive per-
formances on Broadway in New
York This special attraction was
purchased at big extra expense by
the local management at the special
request of parties who had seen it
in the big cities. Owing to the added
expense of securing it prices will be
10 and 20 cents, and in order to ac-,
commodate those who cannot attend
the evening performance a special
The first evening show will start at
o'clock
The following is a synopsis of the
play:
After the death of her father, who
died from worry and the demands
made by his wife's extravaganza,
Agnes falls victim to her mothers
selfishness. The mother, looking to
Agnes to make wealthy marriage,
refuses her consent to the engage
/ ment OF Agnes and DR.. Loring Brent,
saying that if he goes away for a
year, and if they still love each other,
she will give her consent. Both
Agnes and Brent write to each other,
but neither receives the letters of the
other. Heartbroken, Agnes goes
abroad with her mother. In London.
her mother meets Godfrey Marshe,
an Australian millionaire, and forces
Agnes into an engagement with him.
For her mothers sake, Agnes agrees
to marry Marshe. Marshe feels
keenly her Indifference after mar
riage. The yacht, Rhoda, on which
they are taking their honeymoon, is
wrecked. Godfrey Marshe is struck
by falling chandelier and falls un-
conscious. Agnes struggles desper-
ate.y to save him. Her mother is
preoccupied in saving Agnes jewels.
Agnes is aided by Hume Her mother
has secured the jewels, but is drown
ed. Agnes swept overheard and later
rescued, is convinced that her hus-.
band has been drowned. The recol-,
lection of it unbalances her mind,
and Harry Furniss, one of the rescued
guests, calls upon DR.. Lorihg Brent,
now noted brain specialist. Brent
calls upon Agnes just after she had
found among her mothers papers
the letters that she and Loring had
written each other, and that her
mother had intercepted. Five years
later, DR.. Brent, happily married to
Agnes, and the proud father of son,
awaits the arrival of Mr.. de la Mer,
on whom he is to perform an opera
tionS that=Will restore to him his
memory OF the past. Agnes is given
permission by her husband to see the
patient, and recognizes him as her
husband, Godfrey Marshe. Hoping
that she may be mistaken, she listens
breathlessly to his story of the past
five years, which is all he can re-
member of his life. He tells how he
was fished up out of the sea; how a
novelist became interested in him
and introduced him to the sights of
Paris, how, in three years he was
prosperous, but troubled as to what
his past might have been. Agnes
tries to dissuade Mr.. de la Mer from
having the operation performed, but
fails. Next morning the operation is
performed, and Agnes has not been
able to tell her husband. In scenes
of intense emotional acting she
tries to get word to her husband. The
patient RECEIVERS his memory for an
instant, but the shock is too great,
his heart stops beating and he dies.