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1 form y separately published work icon What Happened to Jean Keith Yelland , ( dir. Herbert Walsh ) South Australia : Trench Comforts Fund Committee , 1918 7729884 1918 single work film/TV

'Jean was apparently of humble birth, living with her parents in the hills. A cockatoo made a fine cinema star, and ably took in part in the picture. Everybody and everything seemed out for the best, and even star thistles veiled themselves as giant fern under the camera's spell. Jean's love for 'penny dreadfuls' led her to seek romance out in the great world (thus doth Adelaide appear to the country-bred lassie!). Her meeting with Ashbourne, surnamed the wicked, added to her desire to see the city in which he dwelt, and, one eventful night, Jean fled from home, with nought but her pure heart and a dress basket to assist her career. The winning of the Trench Comforts competition gave Jean her chance, for she won a motor car, and thus was able to earn a living on the stand. The familiar city streets presented a new aspect, as this motorist performed many sensational escapades, and the views of Charles Moore & Co.'s fine emporium, made fine pictures — the marble staircase being particularly impressive. Then fate took a hand in the game, and Mrs. de Trafford adopted Jean, to replace a long lost daughter. The crowds about the city and at a Government House garden party, enabled the audience to identify many citizens—and to see them walking to and fro on the screen, seemed to lend unreality to everyday life, and suggest that 'all the world's a stage.' Mrs. de Trafford sent Jean to a boarding school, where she cultivated less hoydenish ways, and learnt, instead, the art of pillow fighting, and cigarettes. However, when her 'coming out' party was announced, she appeared as a worthy scion of the de Trafford household. The Ladies' Night Club gave opportunities for gay pastimes in the moonlit garden, and the Red Cross tearoom girls paraded in picturesque regimentals. Miss Kekwick and Miss L. Hack danced a fox trot, and 'Jean' and 'Reg' did the same. Mixed bathing at Glenelg made a further scene of jollity, 'no sight for blind men'— and the villain Ashbourne was amply punished by an unpremeditated sea bath. The sea pictures in this portion of the play were really lovely. By one of those happy coincidences possible in fiction, Jean actually was the long-lost daughter of the de Traffords, as her foster father proved at the crucial moment.'

Source:

'What Happened to Jean', The Register, 8 November 1918, p.9.

1 form y separately published work icon Algie's Romance Keith Yelland , Leonard Doogood , ( dir. Leonard Doogood ) South Australia : South Australian Feature Film Company , 1918 7581860 1918 single work film/TV

'Mr. Doogood featured Algie, a city dude, who went to stay with friends in a country, home. He was the victim of incessant practical joking, which at times seemed questionable in his role of guest, but his impregnable good humour and forgivable self-appreciation made him impervious to ridicule. His experiences were lightened owing to one of the twin maidens falling in love with him. Her removal of a harmless snake from his bed was one of the acts of mercy. But Algie, although he was induced to ride an ass nine miles for a doctor who was not needed, was not a two-legged ass. At unexpected moments he showed himself a crack shot, and a good judge of a future wife. His visit ended happily, and 'the end of a perfect day' was charmingly screened.'

Source:

'Algie's Romance', The Mail [Adelaide], 20 April 1918, p.6.

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