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FILM STORy IFMB RAIDERSSTI1M1AThe Chest of Fortune” Is War Romance Full of Thrills and Interest.“THE CRUCIBLE” CONVINCESTells Story of Immigrant Boy Who Wins Way in Love and Politics.THE CHEST OF FORTUNE.Ain two parts. Produced by theKulem Company.)John Hunter Morgan... .Jere AustinCaptain Wellington John MaclcinStokes, a fisherman.. .James R. RossMrs. Stokes..........Helen LlndrothJack Wellington........Guy CoombsKate .............Marguerite CourtotOne of the most interesting pictures of the week Is “The Chest of Fortune,” a stirring drama of military nature, which tells the story of Morgan’s raiders and how it affected the destiny of a four-year-old boy. The realistic war scenes bring back with wonderful vividness some of the stirring episodes of the great struggle.Hard pressed by the federal troops, Morgan and his men flee across the bridge. Just before the pursuers come In sight one of Morgan’s telegraphers taps the wires, suspended underneath the bridge, and learns of supplies being sent to Wellington of the Union forces. The Confederate leaders blow up the bridge as the Fed-erals ere about to cross. The baffled Union soldiers are compelled to withdraw. Wellington rescues the supplies and orders them stored in his own quarters. He is seated, with his wife and small 6on, looking at a recently taken daguerreotype of the three, when a servant announces the approach of the raiders. The captain hastily gathers his silverware, which he places in a chest. Obeying an Impulse, he throws the daguerreotype into the chest. He orders two faithful servants to conduct his wife and child to a safe refuge.Captain and Wife Slain.The captain and his wife are elaln. The old servant puts the child and chest in an old rowboat and heads for midstream. As he is throwing the chest overboard to lighten the boat he is shot. The boat drifts until recovered by a fisherman. The sobbing orphan boy is welcomed by the flsber-folk, who rear him and love him as their own.Years pass, the boy Jack grows tomanhood and is in charge of dredgeoperations on the river down which ho drifted to safety. The childhood action of Jack and Katie, a neigh-^miriug maid, has turned into lov,£. When Jack asks for the hand of Katie the father refuses, as he knows nothing of the parentage of Jack. The following day the dredge brings upthe old chest, with the daguerreotype, which proves Jack the son of Captain Wellington. The “Chest of Fortune” will prove intensely Interesting, as stories written around the civil war are ever in demand by the lover of picture plays and are thrilling to the younger folk.THE CRUCIBLE.(Produced by the American FilmCompany.)Daniel Ryan..........Sydney AyresMaurice Carter Harry Von MeterRichard Boyne Jack RichardsonDan McGee Julius FrankenburgMary Carter............ Vivian RichMrs. Carter............Louise LesterMaid Violet.............Violet Kelt*“The Crucible,” produced by the American Film Company and reviewed by Chicago audiences, is a pleasing picture. The drama, while not remarkable for its originality of subject, is convincing and, by commendable acting of its impersonators and * evident good directorship, will be classed as a good number on the theater program.Dan Ryan emigrates to the United States and finds work as a street laborer. As he wields his pick Mary Carter, daughter of the Mayor, and Richard Hovne, her suitor, drive past In an automobile.- Out of curiosity Mary orders the machine stopped and she takes a kodak picture of a man with a barrow on a plank.Rival Finds Snapshot.Evincing a liking for politics, Ryan outers the game and two years later is elected Alderman. He and Mary meet and fall in love, Mary failing to recognize In him the former street laborer. He wins her hand. One day, in looking over Mary’s photo album, Hoyne comes across the snapshot of the street gang and recognizes Ryan’s picture. Mary’s father compels her to break the engagement, telling Ryan that “only a man of good birth can marry his daughter.”Later Ryan stumbles into a room where Hoyne is bribing a number of Aldermen to vote against a public utilities bill. He cofiscates the agreement and escapes with it after a fight.In council that night he produces the bribe agreement, during a fiery speech, and the bill is passed, greatly to the joy of the Mayor, to whom its defeat would have meant political ruin. Ryan becomes popular with the people and is elected the next Mayor. Convinced that the crucible has produced a gentleman, Carter consents to the marriage of his daughter to Ryan. The kodak picture Is given a conspicuous position in the office of the newJMayor. **/' , - v ' .“The Crucible,” with Its well select-• i! cast, proved an entertaining picture, t * continuity of which wsa easy to follow throughout.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Mar 03, 1914
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