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Show uu . VIOLET MERSEREAU II "THE ran Of MARY BLAKE" At the Oracle Theatre Sunday and Monday. Mary Blake and Flossie Payton are actresses who chum together and live at the same rooming house in New York, Richard Karney, wealthy threatrlcal manager, offers Mary an important part in a new play, and when the girl goes to his office to dis. cuss matters, Kearney makes violent love to her. She repulses his advances, ad-vances, and goes home to relate her experience to Flossie. The next morning there comes to Mary a note from Kearney offering marriage as atonement for his pre-I pre-I vlous conduct, and Flossie urges Mary to "take a chance " This Mary decides de-cides to do, and, going to Kearney's office, nccepts his proposal. Shortly after Kearney and Mary leave the office to be married a woman enters and asks for her husband. Mr Kearney. The office boy tells her that Mr. Kearney has just left to be married. From tho boy she gets his home ad-j ad-j dress and when Kearney and Mary return re-turn trom the church where they were wed, the woman is waiting for them.. Confronting the pair, 6he makes Kear. ney admit that his marriage to Mary is Illegal, because ho was married In Australia to the woman who had now appeared after an absence of many I years. Mary, broken-hearted, returns to I Flossie and her furnished room, tolls her sad story and, comforted by Flos ! sle, decides to go with her chum on tour with a traveling repertolro com-I com-I pany. The little town of Hillside is the first engagement to be played by the Manhattan Co., and there the show remains a week. One day Mary takes a stroll In the fields and woods near town and is viciously attacked by a tramp who overtakes her In a lonely; 6pot. The girl's screams are heard by Kirk Hardy, a wealthy young farmer, who happens to be passing along a road through tho forest, and he res-1 cues Mary from her assailant. The! acquaintance thus began is continued when Kirk frequently calls upon the! girl at the village hotel, and also walks with her to the theater Hardy's mother Is a flinty-souled member of the church and the deacons quickly spread the horrible news of her son's 1 social downfall. When the Manhattan Repertoire Co.! ends its encn cement ot !':!., 1.1.. rtA . must leave for the next town Mary is suddenly stricken with pneumonia and is left behlmi. Kirk hears of the girl's illness and supplies hor with medical attention and nurses, frequently fre-quently golnc himself to sit by her bedside Their love progresses and when the girl recovers they are married. mar-ried. Klchard Kearney had. meanwhile dl-vnreed dl-vnreed his wife, and learns through j Flossie, with the Manhattan Co that Mary is living at Hillsdale, happily married. Kearney, bent upon possessing possess-ing the girl, at all cost, goes to Hillsdale, Hills-dale, secures an Interview, and while Kirk Hardy's mother listens at the door pleads with Mary to go away with hlni. When she again repulses him, Kearney uses his strength to overpower her and forcefully kisses J her Just at the moment Mrs. Hardy j stealthy opens the door and looks Into the room. The mother tells her son; Kirk ac- I cuses Mary and she makes no attempt to deny the incident, explaining that she was helpless and that ehe had nothing to do with Kearney visiting her. Kirk goes to tho hotel, meets Kearney and when the showman asks Kirk to take a drink, Hardv seemingly seem-ingly accepts the courtesy, but prompt-ly prompt-ly dashes the poured-out whlskev into Kearney's face. In the fight that follows, fol-lows, a revolver is discharged and Kearney is dangerously wounded. With her husband under arrest, Mary goes to the hotel and nurses Kearney so capably that she saves his life. Hardy Is roleasod, explanations are forthcoming and the happv ending Is attained when Kirk and Marv are reunited and Mrs. Hardy contributes her blessing. This Is the story of Violet Morse-reau's Morse-reau's latest screen success, "The Honor of Mary Blake," to be exhibited In Bluebird photoplays at the Oraclo theatre Sunday and Monday. nn |
