The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY •37 Three interesting scenes from "Helen Grayson's Strategy." T HE swift thinking of a woman's brain and how it saved her happiness with her husband has been made the central theme of this clever Rex feature, which was written by Willis and Woods, and produced by John McDermott, with Irene Hunt in the feminine role and three well-known players, Malcolm Blevins, L. C. Shumway and Hayward Mack in the other parts. Helen Grayson had thought herself in love with Lloyd Bayless until it came to the point of leaving her husband. Then her heart told her that it was only her husband to whom she belonged. Piqued and chagrined at her refusal to accompany him, Bayless attempts to compel her to keep her promise and leave, but she finally makes him understand that she will remain. Then a messenger arrives with a telegram from her husband announcing his return within a short time. Bayless leaves. Grayson, returning, discovers that Helen Grayson's Strategy'' REX Two-Reel Feature. Written by Willis and Woods and produced by John McDermott, with Irene Hunt in the leading role. A story of a woman's clever trick to save herself. CAST. Helen Grayson Irene Hunt Lloyd Bayless Malcolm Blevins Homer Grayson... L. C. Shumway Physician Hayward Mack his wife was about to leave with Bayless. He tells her that he is going out to shoot him, and leaves her. She frantically phones Bayless to leave town, but he decides to wait for Grayson and "get him." Grayson, examining a revolver in his own office, accidentally wounds himself and he is taken home. Meantime Bayless, waiting for Grayson, becomes nearly frantic with the suspense and finally decides that he will go to Grayson's home and take matters into his own hands. He arrives in the night and Helen, hearing a noise, goes to the library, through a window of which Bayless had just entered. She tells him that Grayson is wounded and is now sleeping. Grayson delivers the ultimatum that either she will go with him or he will kill Grayson. She pretends that she will go with him and he embraces her. At that moment she takes a necklace from her neck and drops it into his pocket and then she calls for help. A passing policeman hears her, and when he enters the house she tells him that Bayless is a thief. Her testimony is borne out by the finding of the necklace in the pocket of the astounded man. He attempts to kill the policeman, but the man shoots first, killing Bayless. Upstairs, Grayson has been awakened by the shots, and when Helen returns to his bedside she tells him that it was a thief who had been killed. Grayson never knows of the real tragedy which has been enacted in his own house. "THE VOICE ON THE WIRE." (Continued from page 28) two negro boys, they carried her into another room and soon carried her mummified body from the house, Laroux took the baby with him. Renolds returned to find his wife and baby gone. With his men he followed Laroux all night until a swirling sandstorm stopped them. Dawn found them on the desert near the jungle's edge. Then they found Laroux face do\vnward in the sand, dead. In his right hand was clenched a confession of his insanity and of his mummifying Renolds' wife's living body and sending her to the "Black Seven" to prove his theory of "The Living Death." He had intended to use the baby as a medium of communication with her chained soul. The child was rescued. That night Renolds was bitten by a poisonous snake and his servant cut off his hand to save his life. Later a human arm was grafted to Renolds' body and he found that when his astral body was projected, the hand was the only thing visible. He had means of revenge, but waited seventeen years for his son's aid, killed all the "Black Seven," one by one. Renolds never found the mummy of his wife's "Living Death." He had killed his own son, "Red" Warren.