The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ■29 "Just one moment, there, Mr. Hardin," cried Bob. "I've solved the whole mystery." BUTTERFLY Picture. Written by Bess Meredyth and produced by Elmer Clifton. The story of a safe-maker and a burglar, who combine for mutual profit. CAST. Bob Moore Jack Mulhall Irene Hardin Ann Kroman The "Eel" AI. McQuarrie Molly Uarda Lament Mr. Moore Hal Wilson John Hardin, Irene's Father Wilbur Higby the safe for proof that he opened it, he soon receives word that the necklace his disappeared. He rushes to the Hardin home, where Irene's father tells him to hasten to return the necklace, as he is going to summon the police. Bob, knowing that there is only one other man who could have opened the safe, immediately starts for the cafe where "The Eel" and his bunch hang out. "The Eel" hurries to Molly to have her hide the necklace. Bob has just arrived at the cafe, where he finds "The Eel," and has demanded the necklace, when the police raid the place and, after a grand fight and scramble, Bob pulls "The Eel" out with him and they escape to Molly's flat. When the police knock at the door. Bob has already obtained the necklace and tells the officers that he came to see Mr. Rehan about some work. The police leave after apologizing and "The Eel" consents to go back to work. Moore by this time has reached the Hardin home, where John Hardin rages and two detectives arrive and look about for clues. Bob enters through the window and hands the necklace to Irene. Hardin is astonished and stammeringly tells the detectives that it was all just a little joke. They leave in disgust and Bob tells Hardin, that having opened the safe, he will now take the best he, Hardin, has. He puts his arms about Irene; Hardin is speechless; Moore laughs uproarously. "Now go ahead with your consolidation," says Bob complacently to the two fathers. SAFE CRACKING WINS THE GIRL. gINCE the days of knighthood young men in love with fair maidens have been asked to perform doughty deeds in order to win the hands of the damsels. The young man in the Butterfly Picture, "The Midnight Man," is confronted with one of the strangest tasks which any lover was ever asked to perform, in order to call himself an accepted suitor. This is nothing less that to prove himself a flrst-class cracksman! He is the inventor of a burglar-proof safe, and the girl is the daughter of a rival manufacturer. When the young fellow jeers at father's lock, the old man says that if he can open it he can have anything that he — the old man — owns. The boy's thoughts instantly fly to the daughter, whom he devotedly loves, and he starts practising safe-cracking right away. How he wins the girl and nearly loses her again is delightfully told in the Butterfly Picture, "The Midnight Man." Jack Mulhall is the modem knight, and Ann Kroman is the girl. The Eel, after two weeks of honest work, is sorely tempted by the sight of a $10,000 pearl necklace belonging to Bob's fiancee.