The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

20 -THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ./ ''THE GRA Y GHOST" "Why don't you kill me?" 11 ^^^^^^^ T is Hildreth, the young Englishman, whose mission to take a two-milliondollar necklace across the ocean causes all the trouble, who receives the warning, which gives the third episode of the new serial, "The Gray Ghost," its title. And it is the beautiful heroine. Mom Light, who gives him the warning. The story is adapted from the screen and produced by Stuart Paton, from the Saturday Evening Post success "Loot," by Arthur Somers Roche. At the theatre, Hildreth sits in a box with two crooks, who were seated before he arrived. He appreciates Mom Light's beauty and splendid dancing and sjTnpathizes with her when, without any cause, she falls, spraining her ankle. The manager informs the people that Miss Light will appear in the next act, but will be unable to dance again. When the men leave to smoke, Hildreth follows them and in the smoking-room is handed a program by a boy who whispers to him that there is a message inside it. The two crooks are determined not to let Hildreth return to the hotel. Mom Light becomes more anxious every moment. The note urges Hildreth to come at once to Mom Light's dressing-room and, greatly perplexed, he goes. The maid listens at the door, and realizing this, Mom Light laughs, calls Hildreth Ted, and then sends the maid to the drug store for a headache powder. Mom Light writes on a piece of paper and hands it to Hildreth; he reads, "For God's sake laugh." The situation is very strained. Writing again, she tells him he is Ted Daly; not to Marco waits for Hildreth. ^^rpHE WARNING" is the X title of the third chapter of the new serial which is adapted for the screen and produced by Stuart Paton from the Saturday Evening Post success, "Loot," by Arthur Somers Roche. "You are Ted Daly!" CAST. Morn Light Priscilla Dean Wade Hildreth Emory Johnson The Gray Ghost Harry Carter Hildreth's Secretary Eddie Polo Morn Light's Maid Gypsy Hart Ashby Wilton Taylor Williams Francis MacDonald ask any questions, but to meet her at twelve in the private dining-room at Bishop's; to ask for Jacques, who will understand and show him to the room; not to go back to the theatre; to say something polite about her injury and not to forget that he is Ted Daly. Just then the maid enters to sav that she sent a boy for the headache powder. Hildreth leaves. Two hours later The Gray Ghost is told by the crooks that they have again been foiled and he is eager to kill them. Piqued \vith curiosity, Hildreth calls up the Arabin home and leams from the butler that Mr. Arabin has not been in New York that day, but is in Boston. Hildreth is flabbergasted, but he goes to the restaurant and asks for Jacques, who shows him a private room, with a special exit. Hildreth sits down to wait. Mom Light is helped home by her maid, whom she sends to the drug store for a forgotten package. When the girl is gone she mshes to the phone and calls up Hildreth at Bishop's. She is just warning him not to retum to his hotel, when The Gray Ghost enters her room. She hears him, and changing to a light tone, she laughs and thanks "Ted Daly" for calling her up again. The Ghost says, "I hope this is not a love affair, for remember, you belong to me!" He goes toward her to take her in his arms, but she seizes a paper-knife and keeps him off.