Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

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Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

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During rehearsals of "The Masked Mystery," a new play, understudy Jack Boyle falls in love with the heroine, Lolita. She is in love with James Stewart, the hero of the play, and he returns her affections. Devereaux, who plays the villain, is also in love with her, but just as in the play, she loathes him. The climax of the third act is where Devereaux enters the darkened stage to rob the safe. The heroine discovers him. He draws a revolver and during a desperate struggle, the gun goes off, killing the heroine. After rehearsal, Devereaux meets Lolita and tries to kiss her, but Jack interferes. Stewart comes up, takes the trembling Lolita in his arms and announces they are to be married after the opening performance. Devereaux, very bitter, goes to his club and there inflames his anger and jealousy by drinking. Seeing a newspaper item of an unfortunate accident wherein the actress is accidentally shot on the stage, a fiendish idea occurs to him. On the night of the performance he exchanges the blanks in his stage pistol for ball cartridges, placing the rest of the bullets in his overcoat pocket. At the final rehearsal he lays his coat down and later takes Stewart's coat by mistake, while Stewart gets his. Jack and Devereaux have a fight in the latter's dressing room and Devereaux is rendered unconscious. Jack sees his longed-for chance to play a leading part, makes up as Devereaux and steps out on the stage. In the darkness no one recognizes him and not knowing, of course, that the revolver is loaded with bullets, Jack is about to shoot the heroine when Stewart, who has grasped the deadly plan in Devereaux's mind, through finding the bullets in the latter's overcoat, grabs Jack's arm. The revolver goes off, mortally wounding Jack. Before he dies, he tells the whole story and Devereaux meets his just punishment, while Jack passes away in Lolita's arms with a smile on his lips.

Rather an unusual production, the story of which was written by Frank Dazey. and produced by Maurice Costello and Robert Gaillard. The entire story takes place behind the scenes and on the stage, and commences with the rehearsal of the play which is to be enacted. The Understudy (Maurice Costello) is accidentally shot while substituting for the real actor. Other members of the cast are Estelle Mardo, Gladden James, Thomas R. Mills, Phil Sandford and Robert Gaillord. - The Moving Picture World, February 20, 1915

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The Understudy; or, Behind the Scenes

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The Understudy; or, Behind the Scenes

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