The Substitute Stenographer
The Substitute Stenographer, from Edison Studios, was a 1913 American silent film directed by Walter Edwin The film was the third of three "Kate Kirby's Cases" detective tales produced with Edison in 1913 before actress Laura Sawyer left Edison to continue the series later that year with the Famous Players Film Company and the director of the other five films, J. Searle Dawley. It was released in the United States on 4 August 1913.
Plot
Described simply as "A Detective Story", the plot summary in The Edison Kinetogram was:Cast
- Herbert Prior as Andrew Clark
- Bessie Learn as the Stenographer
- Richard Neill as the Head Clerk
- Robert Brower as the Police Inspector
- Laura Sawyer as Kate Kirby, the detective
- Harry Beaumont as James Clark, Andrew's brother
- Arthur Housman as the Second Clerk