Volume II: Filmography

DOT ON THE DAY LINE BOAT

British release title: HOW DOLLY "DID" HIM

(Falstaff)

July 16, 1915 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (948 feet)

Character: Comedy

Director: Arthur Ellery

Cameraman: Lawrence Williams

Cast: Mignon Anderson (Dorothy Dimples, newspaper reporter), Morris Foster (Dick Way, her sweetheart), Arthur Bauer (Ridgeway Parks, a rich old man)

Location: Some scenes were filmed aboard a Hudson River Day Line steamer, on the route from Albany to New York City.

Notes: 1. The title appeared as Dot on the Dayline Boat in The New York Dramatic Mirror, July 7, 1915, and in schedules printed in The Moving Picture World, July 10 and 17, 1915, it appeared as Dot of the Day Line Boat. 2. The name of the newspaper reporter was given as Dolly Dimple in synopses published in Great Britain.

ADVERTISEMENT, The Moving Picture World, July 17, 1915:

"It is a newspaper story with a joke turned on a dignified old financier. But the little girl who knows proves that the bigger they are the harder they fall, and this old millionaire falls hard. It not only wins the reporter his story but knocks one of the props out from under the argument that woman's sphere is the home."

ARTICLE, The New Rochelle Pioneer, May 1, 1915:

"George Foster Platt, assisted by James J. Dunne, will take a trip to Troy to 'do' the opening of the new Erie Canal. They plan to do a single on the boat going and coming, and will be away for several days."

ARTICLE, The New Rochelle Pioneer, May 15, 1915:

"A company of players, under the direction of George Foster Platt, visited the arsenal of the Department of the East at Watervliet, New York, recently. Some very fine views of the guns were obtained, some of the guns being the ones completed for the defense of the Panama Canal. The party also visited the Meaneely Bell Foundry at West Troy to see the casting of a 3,800 pound bell. [This was for the film, A Maker of Guns, released July 6, 1915.] On the return trip a one-reel comedy was taken on the boat. In the party were Mignon Anderson, Morris Foster, Arthur Bauer, James J. Dunne, and Lee Williams."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, July 10, 1915:

"Ridgeway Parks, a great financier, is one of the few big men with whom no reporter ever has succeeded in getting an interview. He throws out of his office Dick Way, a young reporter who gets to him by a ruse. Dorothy Dimples, Dick's reporter-fiancée, determines to avenge the insult. When the financier takes the boat to Albany she also is on board. Dorothy pretends to be a homesick girl going back to boarding school, and soon the financier is trying to comfort her. He finds her so young and innocent, and so full of admiration for his sagacity, that it delights his heart to talk to her of his business affairs. Then he consents to let a young man with a camera take a snap-shot of them, so that Miss Dimples 'can show it to her children' in years to come. The next day The Daily Star has the whole story - also the picture. Parks hates reporters now worse than ever."

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