The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-08
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Saved by Telephone two partsl.
Belle Stanley, a pretty. young school
teacher, lives with her widowed moth-
side resort. Harvey Randall, loose
living and reckless young fellow. is
struck by Bellies beauty and takes
on Sundays. The girl is offered po-
sition at the country school some
miles inland and there meets Jim
Young. telephone lineman who has
C. arge OF the district wires. He falls
fondness for music, installs tele-
phone in her room, through which she
can hear the Sunday concerts at the
beach. through a horn receiver placed
in front of the band stand.
Randall follows the girl, and in a
fight between the rivals, Harvey Is
worsted. Some time later, RandalIs
gang plan to loot several freight cars
abduct the girl and carry her OF On
ia yacht. Jim Young hears of the plaza
and rides to warn the school teacher.
Randall shoots Young but the lineman
climbs a telephone pole to tap the
tangIes the wires and the girl IS
awakened by the sound OF her moth
ler's voice in the room praying for her
safety. she arouses the owner Of the
house and he repulses Randall and the
gang. Afterward when Jim has re-
covered Mrs. Stanley explains that
she had left the phone receiver OF the
hook and knelt in prayer near the
telephone. Jim had SO crossed the
wires that they connected with the
wire from the beach in Bellies room
and through this remarkable circun-
stance the girl had been saved from
Randall and his gang Also The
lSmouldering Fires, with J. Warren
Kerrigan. and Pressing His Suit, with
King Baggot. Two of your movie
favorites. Five reels OF high class
photopiays. Don't miss them-Adver-
ltisement.
''The Escape" Thrills Vast Audiences.
The Escape" an adoption from the
famous play of the same name by
Paul Armstrong, and which same was
the starring vehicle of Helen Ware,
the famous American actress for
many years. was exhibited yesterday,
6llbSc dAlQ ulSul, dl Tie Hippo
drome theatre. Never before in the
such vast throng Of amusement
seekers turn out to witness any
photoplay production.
Long before the first performance in
the evening was over. hundneds of
people stood in line waiting their
chance of admittance. Hundreds OF
others were turned away as it was
impossible to accommodate all who
came. and this afternoon large crowds
attended each matinee performance.
THE Escape" will have its last show
, ings tonight The first show will
start promptly at 700 p. m the sec
ond at SIS and the last at $3.50 p.
m. Come early and avoid the crowds.
In the early part OF this play a
youth becomes moral imbecile be-
cause of a brain injury while playing
| with kitten and without apparent
cause, except that Of viciousness, he
| takes the animal and with great ma
! lignancy and with careful elaboration
and exquisite joy in his facial express
{ sion, slowly twists It's head about its
body and kills It. A long drawn out
gasp AID a murnur Of horror Is re-
! fected by tn. audience. Later when
this same youth kills the villain by
shooting him, round of applause Is
elected.
Step by step, the audience which
was appalled, by the righteousness
and insane destruction Of a kitten, is
gradually keyed 70 a pitch where 1t
pants for retribution TO overcome the
villain and actually exults IN his de-
struction.
It is not only a matter of point OF
view, but demonstrates that below the
4 surface Of US all there turks still the
+ spirit Of an eye for an eye and a
v tooth for tooth idea. 1t shows that
= beneath a calm and modern audience
r, there still remains the primitive de.
IL mand for blood when the horrible
q morality Of one man makes the lust
, OF vengeance enter into the blood OF
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