The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-14


Presented by Metro pictures corpora
ton Directed by Herbert Blache
Adapted from the poem of the same
name by Robert w. Service. thu
"Kiplfng of the Yukon"
Cast.
Jim Maxwell ll---- Edmund BreesC
Lou, his wife Kathryn Adams
Nell, their daughter, --Audrine Stark
! Nell, grown up-------- Evelyn Brent
Jack, Nells husband Wallace Stopp
Dan McGrew William A. Morse
The Story.
, Jim Maxwell is happy in the love
of his beautiful wife, Lou, and their
little daughter Nell. His skill at the
piano adds to their pleasure, as he
whiles away the twilight hours by
playing the great masterpieces of the
composers, taking especial delight in
improvising music OF his own.
Into this earthly paradise comes
the tempter-Dan McGrew, who pos
es as Maxwells best friend. He
takes advantage of Jims hospitality
and Louis sympathy by telling of his
own unhappiness and finally sue
ceeds in making Lou believe that her
husband is unfaithful to her He in
duces her to elope with him to the
land of the Yukon, where he hopes
to make his fortune.
Lon refuses to leave Nell behind.
and McGrew takes the little one on
his horse. But he has no desire to
be annoyed by the child, and makes !
no attempt to catch her when she |
falls off into the water as they are
fording stream. Nell is rescued
by kindly people, who bring her up
as lovingly as il she were their own
child. McGrew goes on in search of
gold.
Lou soon discovers the despicable |
nature of the man for whom she has
eft her husband. Embittered she
becomes a woman of the dance-halls, \
'eady to accept a strangers hospi.
ality or to steal his poke" when he
$ drunk. The loss of her child,
whom she supposes dead, has appar-
.ntly stripped from her the last ves-
ige OF human feeling. However the
leart within her is not dead--it only
lumbers.
Jim Maxwell has become wan.
Lerer on the face of the earth. He,
90, at last seeks the Yukon, in
earch of gold and forgetfulness.
tell has become a beautiful young
'oman, and marries Jack, the youth
f her choice. Fate brings father
nd daughter together, when Nell
md Jack rescues Maxwell. stagger-
lg with WEAKNESS and snow-blind-
ess, from an avalanche.
The years have not improved Dan
lcGrew. For an old grudge he kills
miner, Sam Ward, and then. Green
1g into the tent of Nell and her
usband, fastens the guilt on Jack.
ack is arrested and thrown into Jail.
the identity of Nell and
r husband, jim aids him to escape.
It he is recaptured.
In the Malamute saloon Jim and
S old enemy, Dan McGrew, at last
me lace to face. Lou is sitting at !
e OF the tables. Jim lurches to-
ard the piano. and in a wild impro-
sation pours forth the bitterness
his soul and the tragedy of his
nelly life. Then he turns upon the
artled assembly, and tells them his
ory. Cries Maxwell,
Zone of you is hound of hell
Id that one is Dan McGrew."
The lamp is dashed to the floor.
ID two guns speak out in the dark
SIS. The men struggle, the others
wing them a wide berth. When
shts are brought, one man lies
lad. the victim of his own peril ly.
he other stands above him. "The
ly that's known as Lou" comes to
axwell and kisses him tenderly, and
lned by Nell and her husband, who
S been released, they start out on
g snowy trail together.
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