The Substitute Stenographer, from Edison Studios, was a 1913 American silent film (short) 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
Kate Kirby's cases The Diamond Crown. (Edison – 1913) On the Broad Stairway. (Edison – 1913) The Substitute Stenographer. (Edison – 1913) Chelsea 7750. (Famous Players – 1913) An Hour Before Dawn. (Famous Players – 1913) The Port of Doom. (Famous Players – 1913)
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External links
The Substitute Stenographer at the British Film Institute