Moving Picture World (Dec 1917)

December 22, 1917 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1843 a six-Inch gun. Subtitles : The base for the gun has to be carefully laid out. Assembling the parts of the complex, death-dealing device. When all set up the gun platform can be readily revolved to change the aim. Folkestone, England. — Canadian soldiers, back from the front on furlough, indulge in jolly sport at a big military carnival for the Red Cross. Sutbitles : A tent pegging contest. Girl war workers, too, make merry in leisure moments. Arlington, N. J. — Six million tons of ships by 1918 is America's plan, and as each vessel is finished the keel for another is quickly laid. Subtitle: The first rivet. Fort Meyer, Va. — President and Mrs. Wilson attend the graduation exercises as 900 officers are commissioned into the Nation's service. Subtitles : Secretary of War Baker distributes the coveted parchments. They are ready. Uncle Sam, to lead the way to victory. Help Win the War Through the Air. — The Government needs thousands of mechanics in its airplane factories to help build the great aerial fleet planned. Subtitles. Skilled and unskilled workers can be used for making and assembling the different parts. Men of engine experience can render patriotic service by joining the aviation section. The airplane — the aviator— the mechanic. This trio will do much to win the war. Will you do your bit? After December 15 the men of draft age can no longer enlist. This is your last chance. ENLIST NOW. Cartoon (Magazine Section). — The Handwriting in the Sky. HEARST-PATHE NEWS NO. 98 (Dec. 5). Rotorua, New Zealand. — For miles around the countryside is devastated when the volcano of Waimangu suddenly bursts into titanic eruption. Sub-titles : Hundreds of homes are wrecked. Nearby waters rise in violent fury during the disturbance. Seattle, Wash. — Seventy-nine days after the keel was laid, the Seattle is ready to be launched, the first shfp of the big emergency fleet. Sub-titles : Gracefully she slides down the ways — America's answer to ruthless warfare and U-boats. The Seattle is 8.S00 tons. Many more are being built and men are needed to help rush them. Join the army of shipbuilders. Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. — Commencement Day is held in student officers' camps. Twenty-five hundred successful candidates are commissioned at this school. Sub-titles : Fit to lead America's forces. Thirty-five hundred "future generals" at Fort Sheridan. Boston, Mass. — This is not an Arctic exploration ship, but a trawler just back from the Grand Banks with the first sign of winter : Sub-title : Stripping the vessel of the icy mantle. A Peek Into the Past. — Is milady returning to the fashions of ancient times? Here are some of the styles in Badgad over 2,000 years ago. By courtesy of Chu Chin Chow. Subtitles : Pantalettes are not a recent creation — they were worn in the days of yore. Smart "hats" in the year 100 B. C. On the Western Front. — Side by side with the Allies Poland's patriots are fighting to liberate humanity. General Archinard visits their' camp. Sub-titles: Brave fighters, too; they know the sufferings under autocracy. They strive to realize their dream of a free nation, for the Allies' cause is Poland's cause. New York City. — The entire waterfront in the Nation's largest port is placed under military control to protect all shipping from spies. Subtitles : Enemy aliens are prohibited from going within 350 feet of the shoreline. United States Marshal McCarthy, in charge of this district. The Red Cross Calls You. — Ten million new members by Christmas — is the slogan of a na*: tion-wide drive launched by the American Red Cross. Sub-titles : Every pledge will bring a ray of sunshine to some wounded boy over there. Have you given yours? Get a service' flag and make this a Red Cross Christmas of mercy. The Red Cross a National Symbol of Love. Patriotism and Service. All you need — a heart and a dollar. Join the Red Cross today. THE HIDDEN HAND (No 4 — "The False Locket" — Two Parts — Dec. 9). — The cast: Doris Whitney (Doris Kenyon) ; Dr. Scarley (Sheldon Lewis) ; Verda Crane (Arline Pretty) ; Jack Ramsey (Mahlon Hamilton) ; the Hidden Hand ( ? ? ?). Doris is trying to escape from the Hidden Hand by hiding herself under an overturned rowboat. Ramsey, who has been made a prisoner, escapes and rescues Doris. A search party rescues them from the rocky point on which they landed and Ramsey secures the packet containing the fingerprints, which he threw into the bushes before his capture by the Hidden Hand. In his den, the Hidden Hand plans to arouse Doris' jealousy. One of the female members of his gang is sent to Doris with a letter purporting to be from Ramsey to his wife, in which he says that he has the locket and is sending it to her for safekeeping. He tells her not to bo jealous of Doris Whitney as she means nothing to him. The letter is signed, "Your Husband, Jack." In the envelope is the false locket prepared by the Hidden Hand. Ramsey's supposed wife goes to Doris and gives her the letter and the locket and tells her to keep her hands off her husband. Doris demands the packet from Ramsey and again becomes friendly with Dr. Scarley. With the locket and the packet in her possession, Doris is about to attempt to open it and settle the question of her identity, when Ramsey warns her of the danger she runs, as he feels sure the locket is a false one Heeding Ramsey's warning, Doris puts the locket and the packet in the safe in her living room. Ramsey discovers the false entrance to the underground den of the Hidden Hand and decides to destroy whoever is using the den. He places dynamite in the false entrance to the den and arranges so it can be set off by electricity. The electrical wires he attaches to a piedmograph which records the footsteps on the ground in the vicinity of the dynamite. The Hidden Hand discovers Ramsey's plan and has Verda Crane lure Doris to the place where the dynamite has been placed. Ramsey sees the piedmograph record foosteps and sets off the dynamite. He hastens to see who his victim may be, and is surprised to find Doris struggling to free herself from the debris in the cave. Dr. Scarley tells Doris that Ramsey was responsible for her plight and Doris breaks with Ramsey. Late that night she hears noise in her living room and rushes down to find the false Ramsey opening the safe, by means of an oxyacetylene torch. He gags and binds her. He then opens the safe and secures the packet and the locket. Out of curiosity he attempts to open the packet. It explodes and kills him. The Hidden Hand, waiting outside the house for the false Ramsey, enters just as the evidence in the packet is destroyed. Doris manages to free herself from her bonds and is struggling with the Hidden Hand when the real Ramsey enters the room and rescues her. She is surprised to see Ramsey alive and looks in wonder at his dead double on the floor. He explains to her that it was his double who attacked her and secured the packet and the locket. The episode ends after a tender love passage between Doris and Ramsey. regains consciousness and seeing the tank climbs up its ladder to get a drink of water. Perry sees him and is about to shoot him when Stayne, who has been badly injured, opens his eyes and seeing the situation, shoots at Perry to obtain revenge on him. Stayne's shot goes wild and dislodges the tank. It falls to pieces and Harry falls to the ground. Perry is knocked unconsclouH, but lima is not to be seen. THE SEVEN PEARLS (Episode No. 14— "The Tower of Death"— Two Parts — Dec. 9). — The cast: lima (Mollie King); Harry Drake i ('reighton Hale) ; Perry Mason (Leon Bary). The fourteenth episode opens with a surprise for Harry when he is dr^wn to the bridge from over the Rapids. He is greeted by lima, who, he thought, was in the piano box that went over Niagara Falls. She explains tnat when Perry Mason and his men threw the case into the river she managed to escape from it. Home again, Kismet warns lima and Harry that the next day is the last one set by the Sultan for the return of the pearls and that if she fails to secure the entire seven pearls she must go into the Sultan's harem. They hear that Jeo. Gudgeon, a member of Grady's gang, has the seventh pearl and is offering it to the highest bidder. After many adventures lima obtains it, and hands it to Harry for safekeeping. He returns it to her as he does not want to be responsible for it. Perry and Stayne attack lima and Harry and secure the pearl. In the fight Harry is knocked unconscious and lima pretends to be senseless, but when Perry and Stayne start away she follows after them. Perry and Stayne discover her and corner her near a big tank. To escape them she climbs up the ladder of the tank and Stayne follows. He is about to capture her when she pushes him from the ladder. In the effort she loses her balance and falls into the tank. She lies unconscious at the bottom of the tank, which has only a few inches of water in it. Stayne wants to rescue lima so that Perry will be able to get the Sultan's reward, but Perry wants to leave her to her fate. Their difference of opinion results in a fight and Perry throws Stayne under a locomotive engine passing on the tracks near which they are struggling. Harry HER SISTER'S RIVAL (Russian Art Film Corp. — Five Parts — Dec. 9). — The cast: Prince Ilaskoff (V. A. Polonsky) ; Nita. the adopted daughter (V. V. Colodna) ; Mary, the daughter (L. M. Coronova). Directed by A. Arkatov. Nita and .Mary are reared as si-tern by Madame KrofolT, a wealthy businei S woman. At a reception Nita, the foster daughter, is adored by Bartlnsky, a wealthy banker, and who, though he desires to make her his wife, cannot Induce her to give her consent. The girls are later introduced to Prince Baskoff, whose worst habit is the spending of money. The Introduction was the means of many frequent calls by the Prince, and Nita falls in love with him. Meanwhile Mary, Madama Kromoff's daughter, has become enamored with the Prince and during a visit of the banker to the Prince's apartments, the Prince discloses the fact that be Is badly in need of money and i compact is soon made between the two men that if the banker will arrange for the Prince's marriage to Mary he (the Prince) will endeavor to help the suit of the banker in his desires for the marriage of Nita. Mary accepts the Prince's proposal of marriage despite her mother's strong objections and Nita, in a fit of pique, makes happy the ardent suitor, Bartinsky. A double wedding takes place. On the return from the honeymoon, which superficially was all that Mary in her heart's desire for happiness could wish for, the Prince against reverts to drinking and gambling. With the almost successive losses incurred by the Prince, the necessity for more money constantly arises and to save the humiliating application of her hi/ band coming to her for money, Mary gives him power of attorney, with the result that the money remaining is rapidly depleted. Mary's mother comes to her and expostulates regarding her husband's actions, but being a devoted wife she smoothes over the matter temporarily. With his source of supply shut off, the Prince resorts to other means of securing money, with the result that a money lender presents for payment three notes bearing a forged signature of the banker. This fact becomes known to Madame Kromoff, who repairs to the house of her son-in-law, where she berates the unscrupulous man for his shortcomings. Bartinsky, suspicious of Nita's loyalty to him, leaves on a pretended business visit. His unexpected return discloses the fact that his suspicions were too well founded. Bartinsky decides to get a separation from his wife and imprison the unscrupulous Prince for forgery. Learning of the banker's intention to send the Prince to prison, Mary calls on her sister and" entreats her to use every effort to have her husband stay his hand against her husband. Nita's pleas prove successful. The banker falsely asserts that the notes were signed by him and that the fault was not the Prince's. But meanwhile Mary's mother again visited her "wrath upon her unscrupulous son-in-law and during her verbal arraignment word is brought that the police have surrounded the house. Asking to be left alone for a few moments they hear the muffled report of a pistol and Prince Baskoff has passed the pale of human judgment. Miscellaneous Subjects TRIANGLE FILM CORP. FANATICS— (Five Parts— Dec. 9.— The cast: Mary Lathrop (Adda Gleason) ; Nicholas Eyre (J Barney Sherry; Hugh Groesbeck (William >ng) ; Robert Lathrop (Donald Fullen) ; Lola Monroe (Olga Grey); .Billy Haskell (Eugene Burr) ; Eyre's Clerk (Edward Hayden) ; Foreman (W. A. Jeffries). Scenario bv Joseph A. Roach. Directed by Raymond Wells. Robert Lathrop is involved in a love affair with Lola Monroe and is hard pressed for cash. He goes to Nicholas Eyre, steel king and friend of his wife's dead father, for assistance. Eyre refuses him and he gets his wife to intercede Unknown to her he gets $1,000. Going to the luxurious apartments of his mistress he finds her in the arms of her lover. A light ensues and Lathrop is killed. 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