Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — Film Shows Kilgallen Kicking Count [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Film Shows Kilgallen Kicking Count

C| HICAGO.— Persons who attend moving picture shows will soon have a chance to see the Chicago romance of Count de Beaufort thrown upon the screens of 6 and 10 cent moving picture theaters. The Count has posed for a picture story of his affair with the KilgaUen heiress of Chicago and says he is going to get $25,000 and royalties for the venture. The first scene shows the Count and Countess in the hotae-comlng act. Pa KilgaUen Is evidently surprised when his daughter bounces in with her prize. In the next scene the Count is shown as a working man—just to win the old man’s favor. He is switching cars and the foreman is evidently telling him if be doesn't like his Job be need not worry because he will be killed before he has bsd time to become really disgusted with It In the next scene the Count is

shown presenting a fountain pen to I*a. Pa tells the Count that the pen is of no use to him because he has writer's cramp from signing checks and the banks won’t accpflt his rubber stamp signature. Pa changes the subject and hopes the Count will find it convenient to get out before It becomes necessary to fill his coat tails full of boots. Of course, the Count doesn't pose as one of the brightest men in the world, but he Is bright enough to catch the drift of Pa’s remarks and drift away. Then a long line of insistent creditors is Bhown outside the Count’s door and here Is where his bulldog gets into the picture, by jumping out among the creditors, whereupon they disperse In confusion. The scene at the hospital, where the Countess was taken when injured, shows the Count trying to "butt in,’’ disguised as a Red Cross attendant. Ilia nemesis. Pa KilgaUen. ever an the Job. it there and disperses the Count The last scene shows the Count literally rolling in wealth and two men with shovels such as are used by la» borers ib Pa Kilgallen’s steel mills are keeping the Count from b ling buried by a flood of gold.