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■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
BEN WILSON in tAefast £pisode of
The "Voice" revealed.
MOST satisfactory conclusion is reached in the last chapter of the serial, "The Voice on the Wire," which is one of
the very best continued
photoplays that U n iversal has ever issued. The last episode is called "The Living Death," and in it the identity of the "Voice" is revealed, and also his reason for the series of crimes committed throughout the serial. Few stories ever adapted to the purpose of a serial picture have so consistently maintained the interest until the very last scene as "The Voice on the Wire" has done.
Shirley and Polly, fascinated, watch the disembodied hand writing. Cronin and Prof. Duval wait in an adjoining room; the latter preventing the former from entering the room. The hand writes that he was a member of the "Black Seven," a psychical and scientific research body of Paris and, because the scientists considered them crazy owing to their advanced theories, their meetings were necessarily secret. Five of these men were the ifive victims of the "Voice," the sixth was iRenolds and the seventh was Emil Laroux, who, not content
THE solution of the mystery is reached in the last chapter of this winning serial, adapted from the novel by Eustace Hale Ball, by Stuart Paton and produced by Ben Wilson, its star.
CAST.
Shirley : Ben Wilson
Polly Neva Gerber
Renolds Jos. Girard
Cronin Howard Crampton
Prof. Duval De Brullier
Renolds' Wife Irene Hunt
Laroux William Quinn
with proving that astral bodies could be projected, was positive that he could recall a soul at will, providing that the body in which the soul lived on this earth was preserved before death by a certain ancient process. The person had to be an easy subject to his will before the experiment. The men didn't believe him, knowings that
Shirley and Polly await the end.
no one would consent to being mummified alive. That night Renolds tried to convince Laroux of the absurdity of his new theory, but the latter seemed to be obsessed by the experiment he called "The Living Death."
At Renolds' home, Laroux soon discovered that he could easily dominate the will of Irene, Renolds' wife. He told the five men and, though at first they were shocked, they soon were eagerly questioning him and he demonstrated his power by calling forth the astral body of the young wife. When Renolds, — or Chantard, as he was known, — went on his African expedition, Laroux went with him and willed that Irene should go too.
A year later they were in the heart of the African jungle. Laroux had been a great help and a true friend. Irene's baby was a healthy boy. Then one day Renolds went to get some wonderful specimens and during his absence Laroux received a letter from the five men urging him to proceed with the experiment. The black tropic night crushed what little moral fibre there was left in Laroux' soul. Irene was soon under the influence of his will. Then with the help of (Continued on page 37)