Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Dec 1920)

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MOTION PICTURE Another Chinaman had accompanied them and they had taken the white woman into a banquet hall, all red and black lacquer, couches and weird contrivances for pleasure and for torture away from us. and makes us move on. W'e cant get a footlidld. not that way. and we dont get on very firm or very fast. I 'spose gangs must be gangs." The third District .Attorney fingered his lost wallet, containing its thick wad of bills and other, valuables, that hour returned untouched, by Dinty. There were not. in his section. many Dintys. Painful experience, the jiainful exjieriences of others, had taught him that. Dinty bad refused reward in the shape of a.tenner. despite the sick, beloved Dorecn and the gang and the jireempted corners. John Xorth rose and clapped the small man on one lean but unflinching shoulder. "Keep a stout heart, my friend," he said, "and we'll see what can be done." .\ week later Dinty received a communication from the third District .Xttorney. It requested the honor of an interview. I'he sum and substance of the interview was that Dinty accepted a loan, on a strict business basis, wherewith he collected a .selling force of his own, inclusive, of course, of Chinkie and Watennillions. bought up some corners, and became the leader of a gang of little fellers to oppose Levinsky's big fellers. Xorth also insure<l the little tellers police protection. Dinty was exuberant. His mother's teaching was right as right. The white light of it burned on the zealous altar of his soul. Dinty sold the editions in Dl.VTY Fictionizcd. liy permission Xciian production oi his story. Fairfax. Released by First N' Dirly O'Sullivan Dorecn O'Sullivan Danny O'Sullivan Judge Whitley Ruth Whitley Jack North Wong Tai Sui Lung Mrs. O'TooIc Harry Flynn .Mcxandcr Horatius Jones.... The Tough One Wong Tai's son which it was heralded that Judge Whitley's twenty-year-old daughter Ruth had been abducted from her home : that foul play was .suspected ; that the Secret Service was operating, etc., etc. It stated, further, that Judge Whitley had been the instigator of the recent very vigorous campaign to clean up Chinatown, further deductions as to the local source of the abduction were unnecessary. Dinjy read it with a (|ui\er of his small muscles. He had the elements of chivalry and it made him shudder to think that in that festering alley and byway, among tlte Eurasians who moved about with padded, sinister footsteps, scorned alike by Chinese and white, a white girl, gentle and high-born, was secreted. When he leariied that John North loved her. even as, zenith of all romance, Danny O'Sullivan had lo\ed t!ie young Oorecn, all liis Irish was up. He ached to conspire. He dreamed fitfully of the fia.sh of knives and the snarl of teeth in pallid yellow faces. His vivid imagination showed him secret panels and underground dungeons and holes beneath the earth, foully conspiring to bloodcurdling conspiracies. He told North all he knew and all that he had heard of the desperadoes of Chinatown. "It's one of the Malays." he said. "I can bet. It's one of them half-breed Malays. They cling together like glue. There's Dorkh. for instance. He's got some white in him. That makes him a'l the worse. It makes him cunning. Chinkie's scared to fits of Dorkh and his sister is Dorkh's Chinese wife. She's scared to fits of him too. She's only a kid. fifteen. Thin and lemon colored with terrified eyes. I u.seter look like that in the dark, once. I'll bet it's Dorkh." That night Dinlv's susjiicion was confirmed by ludge Whitley. .North called on him and told him of his talk with Dinty. "I try to draw him out." he said, "very often those kids are .scavengers of information, and Dinty "s would be straight." Whitley groaned. "It is Dorkh." he s'aid. "I've been keeping it to myself for a twofold reason; first, because I feared further enmity if publicity got out and. secondly. I had no confirmatory word. Tonight I got a message direct. .A month ago I sentenced his son to San Quentin for killing a Chinaman in a gambling row'. Dorkh came to me and tried In bribe me. He was ferocious in his svelte way. Naturally, I refused the bribe. He left ine, apparently reasonable. Then . . . this . . . Ruth. God, God, to from the Marshall Scenario by Marion ational. The cast : — Wesley Barry Colleen Moore Tom Dannery ....J. Barney Sherry Marjorie Daw Pat O'Malley Noah Berry Walter Chung Kate Price Tom Wilson .^ron Mitchell Newton Hall Youn^ Hipp (Fifty-four)