The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY SI 'ELMO THE FEARLESS." Episode No. 7 "The House of Mystery." CAST y^S the gang heads the boat for the city taking Edith with them as prisoner Elmo's life rope catches in the rudder and he is dragged to safety. He shoots to the surface and drifts into the breakers where Stilwell, who has escaped from the caves, sees him. Stilwell plunges into the surf and manages to drag Elmo to safety. They hurry to the city. Horton has taken Edith to Leontine's a notrious gambling resort, where she is imprisoned. While Horton talks to Leontine, Edith cleverly filches the photo from Horton's overcoat. Elmo meets the boat at the Jackknife Bridge. He swings down from the bridge and learns fro mthe captain that Edith has been taken to Leontine's. Stilwell and he again take up the chase. Guy and the gang are on the lookout and attack Elmo and Stilwell in an alley near Leontine's. Stilwell is dragged inside, but Elmo escapes over a high wall, and later manages to get into Edith's room, by way of the fire escape. Leontine discovers him and during the fight that follows, Edith and he are shot down a trap to the cellar below. Here they find Stilwell, unconscious. About this time, the police raid the gambling den. During the desperate fight that follows, the chief of police and one of the gang tumble down the trap into the cellar. They continue the fight, both pulling guns. Elmo has discovered that several boxes of high explosives are stored there. He attempts to warn the men, but too late. The gangsters shoots, the bullet exploding the dynamite. The terrific explosion wrecks the building, burying all beneath the ruins. Screen Magazine. No. 58. go many people who like to brag about the natural wonders of this country know so little about it that they think the Grand Canyon is all that there is here to see. "The Screen Magazine shows the marvelous grandeurs of California's Red Rock Canyon, a gorge which in magnificence, if not in size, is as wonderful as anything in the world. Alon Bement, who has been telling men many startling things about themselves by reading the characteristics of their hands, tells the audience of the Screen Magazine the difference between the Constructive, the Executive and the Philosophical hand in a very interesting series of studies. A new adventure of Cinema Luke and a new set of Laughographs bring this number of the Magazine to a happy end. Current Events. NO. 9 First Pictures of an Aeroplane Flight Over the Snow-clad Alps. Sub-Titles.— "Jumping off" from the famous resort, St. Moritz, Switzerland. Flying 18,000 feet above sea level with an awe-inspiring panorama of majestic mountains below. 'Mid the wintry, fleecy clouds. The snowfooted "Twin Sisters" — Dernina and Bellavista. Making Seamen for the Merchant Marine. — Virgin Islands. Next Winter's Coat.— The poor little sheep gives up his own garment to clothe you. — Yakim, Wash. Sub-Titles. — A speedy barber — he shaves 150 customers a day. It's a cold, cold world. Battle of Flowers on the Goa) Riviera.— Nice, France. Sub-Titles.— The "gem of the Meditteranean" with the American Y. M. C. A. Casino in the background. Tourists from every part of the world take part in the winter carnival. Curiosities of the Sea.— Here's the hermit of the deep — lives all alone in a sea shell. — N. Y. City. Sub-Titles.— And this is the Hippocamtus Hudscnius, which in plain American means sea horse. Mr. Barnum said one of these was born every minute. The submarine butterfly. Uncle Sam's Jackies in the British West Indies. — Bridgetown, Barbados. Answering a Raid Call on the Mexican Border. — Candelaria, Texas. Sub-Titles. — The bugler sounds "assembly." And the 5th Cavalry rapidly gets under way. Through the Palisades of the Big Bend. Scouring the border towns — ^but the bandits have vamoosed. Fording the Rio Grande — homeward bound. International Presents the Sultan of Turkey in His Royal Palace. Sub-Titles. — For the first time in the history of the Ottoman Empire a monarch of the rea'm poses for the camera. E. Carl Wallen, International staff photographer (at right) who persuaded Mohammed VI to pose and was later awarded the Turkish medal of the Order of Fine Arts. The Sultan and his attendants leave for the palace in Constantinople. In the Throne Room of the Palace — the Sultan gives Major Arnold of the American Near East Relief, an order for Turkish wheat for the starving Armenians— the first "philanthropic" act of his career. The Sultan, being eager to hold his job, tells Major Arnold the Turks are going to behave (perhaps). Some of the Sultan's subjects performing the religious rite of "washingup" for Friday prayers. Friday is the Turkish Sunday — the one day on which it is forbidden to murder Christian Armenians. A glimpse of Constantinople— from which the Turk's expulsion is being urged for centuries of misrule. THtlJBlG MONEY 12 (continued from page 29) MONROE SALISBURY in "The Phantom Melody" with JEAN CALHOUN Story by F. McGREW WILLIS Directed by DOUGLAS GERRARD HARRY CAREY in "Marked Men" with WINIFRED WESTOVER Adapted from the story, "The Three Godfathers" By PETER B. KYNE Directed by JACK FORD MARY MacLAREN in "Rouge and Riches" with ROBERT WALKER Story by W. CAREY WONDERLY Directed by HARRY FRANKLIN JAMES J. CORBETT in "The Prince of Avenue A" with MARY WARREN Adapted from his stage success of the same name by Charles E. and Frank T. Dazey Directed by JACK FORD "The Peddler of Lies" with FRANK MAYO and ORA CAREW Adapted from the Saturday Evening Post Story. "The Peddlar," by Henry C. Rowland Directed by WILLIAM C. DOWLAN MARY MacLAREN in "The Forged Bride" with J. BARNEY SHERRY Story by J. G. HAWKS Directed by DOUGLAS t.i.KKARD