The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 35 *'THE DIAMOND QUEEN" Episode No. 4 "Fires of Hate" Doris Eileen Sedgwick Bruce George Cheseboro Zimba Al Smith Martin Harvey Alfred Fisher Zeidt Frank Clarke Aline Josephine Scott I^ORIS is saved from the lion by a member of the Kaffir police who had gone forth to her rescue when Zimba's relay man reached the outpost. They had followed the sound of Zimba's shots. Doris, in safe hands, looks around for Zimba, her faithful protector, but he is nowhere to be found. The party moves on toward Kimberley. Zimba, unknowii to Doris, has resolved to devote his life to her and follows secretly. In Kimberley Doris resorts to the stage for funds with which to continue her secret mission. One night both Zeidt, who has returned from his mines to leave for home, and Bi-uce, who, with his yachting party, lay chance visits the city, attend the performance. Doris is veiling her identity under the stage name of Doris Delmont. Her vaudeville partner is Aline Earle, who in reality is a member of a diamond-smuggling ^ang. Both Zeidt and Bruce, neithe: of whom knows the other is in the theatre, see Doris and think she is Doris Harvey, but neither is absolutely certain. Bruce ascertains her Tiotel address, intending to look her Tip when his inquisitive guests are not with him. Zeidt sends a note to Doris in her dressing room and she, lor a purpose, agrees to meet him there after the show. Doris is not aware of Bruce's presence at the theatre. He has occupied an obscure seat. Aline, who has noted Zeidt's €ye on Doris and who recognizes him as the diamond king, commends Doris on her great "catch," and urges her to play Zeidt to the limit. Meantime Zimba the faithful has saved Doris from the frenzied jealousy of a half-crazed admirer, a fellow performer, who forced his attentions upon her just as she was summoned to hfer act. Zimba is thrown out of the theatre from the stage door. He had secretly concealed himself among the props to guard his "white queen." Zeidt goes to Doris' dressing room. She has already had supper served and invites him to join her. He accepts after being convinced by her manner and conversation that she is not Doris Harvey. From his own lips Doris hears the story of how the diamond trust drove her father to his death. Bruce, at this time, is walking back with his party to the hotel — the same hotel where Doris is stopping. Back in America, in his secluded underground workshop, we see Martin Hai-vey, assisted by Tim, formerly the family chauffeur, bring his mysterious experiment to a mai-velous success, after all the years of toil and defeat. Triumph had come at last! In her dressing room Doris, who finds herself the object of Zeidt's licentious advances, discovers the theatre is in flames. They had been trapped by the fire in her room. Zeidt, leaving her to her own fate, attempts to escape. A mass of buraing scenery falls in front of the dressing room door just after Zeidt dashes out of the room, thus walling in Doris to a terrible fate. Meantime Bruce, walking homeward with his party, learns the fire is at the Kimberley theatre. Instructing his party to go on to the hotel he has dashed madly back, fearing for the life of the girl Doris. He cannot convince himself it is not Doris Harvey. At the stage door he learns Doris is still in her dressing room. Bruce rushes into the flaming stage structure in search of her. Zeidt, lost amid smoke and flame on the stage, is stmck by falling scenery and is buried senseless under the burning debris. Bruce, in an attempt to find Doris, falls through a stage trap door that gives way to flames, and Doris, imprisoned in the dressing room, is about to collapse from suffocation. "Won: One Flivver" One Reel Star Comedy 'J'HE gay young fellow wins a flivver in a church' raffle and he calls up The Girl and tells her to come right over. He doesn't see his partner steal the raffle tocket from his pocket. The Girl comes over and they put the flivver together inasmuch as it has arrived in parts. But they can't get it out of the house. Meantime, the landlord arrives for the rent and they have some joV> trying to keep him from seeing the flivver behind the curtain. Finally, The Girl and the butler get the parts" out, assemble them again on the lawn near the house and then the gay young fellow tries to start the thing going, but with no success. His partner comes along and claims the flivver; he gets in. He gets arrested for sitting in the flivver, however, for none of them have noticed a "Keep Off The Grass" sign. After he is "hauled in" the gay young fellow and The Girl take possession of the ffiwer once more; they try to start it and the whole outfit )lows up. International News No. 5 Rockaway Beach, N. Y. — Airmen welcomed in pouring rain. Swirling storm fails to dampen ardor of homefolks' greeting to the returned balloonists. Sub-Titles. — Parading in the pouring rain in honor of the airmen. Lieutenants Farrell, Kloor and Hinton welcomed by Borough officials. Neiv York City. —Ben Franklin honored as Thrift Week opens. "Poor Richard's" birthday marks beginning of National Saving Campaign. Suh-Titles.~(Zhsir\es Schwab honors "Father of Thrift". Gold Star Mothers of colored war heroes join in 'he tribute. Pictorial Brevities In the News of the Day. — Stage beauties rehearsing on Madison Square Garden Roof for a race with geese. — New York City. Sub-Titles. — "Sneaker" racing is the latest winter fad. — Lake Placid, N. Y. Miss Natalie Mae Todd christens her namesake— a trim little craft.— Brooklyn, N. Y. Supreme Knight Flaherty and Director Larkin inspect model for the K. of C.'s great war memorial to be placed at the tomb of Napoleon in Paris. — New York City. Many new ships, built for the U. S. Shipping Board, are tied up for lack of cargoes. (Photographed at Martinez, California, from a U. S. plane.) Chicago, ///.— Blue-Ribbon chickens. Prize array of beauties on exhibition at big show. Sub-Titles.— Miss Silkie in her winter furs. A couple of scrappers. Boston, Mass. — Moving time in zoo. Man-eaters suffering from cold shifted to warmer quarters. (Boston only.) Oakland, CaL— Children dance at Duck festival. Annual pageant in honor of wild fowl, held on shores of Lake Refuge. (Los Angeles only.) Middleton, Ireland. — Irish homes burned in official reprisal. British rulers order destruction as punishment for "neutrality" in present crisis. Warsaw, Poland. — Poles honor heroes who saved capitol. Thousands pray in streets at dedication of memorial to men who stopped Russian drive. On the Atlantic.— -SSI ith the fleet steaming south. Glimpses of the "Gobs" activities on the long trip to Panama. Chicago, III. — Speedy skaters in title tourney. Lightning pace set by leaders in Sleipner Cup Derby — watch 'em. Sub-Title. — Down the track with the speedsters. Tad Cartoon.