The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -35 The Great Radium Mystery." Episode 16. "OVER THE CATARACT." CAST. C1rn,!lard V = -1 .Cleo Madiso" (Ihe Countess Nada) Gloria Marston Eileen Sedgwick Bob Preston Rob Reeves Sf ^ZZ^ Bob Kortman John Marston Jeff Osborne JJe Dove Robert Gray gOB rescues Gloria from the fire in the old lady's hut. The Buzzard with his men see Bob rescuing Gloria and taking her to the river bank where he bathes her wounds and burns He starts in pursuit of him and succeeds in lassoing him by throwing a lariat fromthe branch of a tree, then stealing Gloria. Bob manages to effect a getaway, re easing himself from the lasso and following a trail of white feathers which Gloria has dropped all along the way, goes m search of her. The Buzzard meanwhile takes Gloria to a rocky den near the border where he arranges with a gang of Chinese to take the radium from Gloria, following out his instructions. He knows she will decide to do this rather than take the risk of being shipped to Mexico. Bob and Nada, following the trail oi the Buzzard, get caught in a lion's den in a cave. Gloria, seeing this, succeeds in getting a gun from one of the men through trickery, and backs the whole gang up against a wall. Ihe Buzzard knows her to be leaning against a secret panel which leads over the bank of a deep cascade and so lets her get away with the gun pulling stuff— Gloria falls through the panel down the incline of the cascade. HE WANTS MORE JEWEL PRODUCTIONS. SUPERLATIVE ft Double diu Jcreeas Oieatejt novelto ETERNAL TRIANGLE" -a comedy usin^ dog actor j exclusively HELEN JEROME: EDDY KENNETH HAPLAN Hear Burwell Hanu.ck, KJever Kiddie Kanuo, Ceorge Evans' Concert Orchestra and Utest News Weekly FROM A PATRON. 1301 Euclid Street, Dec. 26. 1919. T1N yncerSal Motion Picture Co., Gentlemen.— I want to say how much I enjoyed a motion picture produced by you and entitle "Under Suspicion." The plot and arrangements tor the picture seemed to be especially well done The players also did their parts well, but they had an interesting story to carry out— so, I thank you for an hour of pleasant entertainent. Very truly yours, J. K. Toules. Pittsburg. Fred Largen of the Lyric Theatre, Creighton, Nebraska has run all of the big pictures which have been offered to him and nothing is too big for him to tackle. He has run all of the Jewel pictures up to and including "Destiny," and the following letter to J. H. Calvert of the Omaha Exchange shows briefly what he thinks of them. Mr. J. H. Calvert, Universal Film Exchange, Inc., Omaha, Neb. Dear Curly.— Is "Destiny" the last of my Jewels? Let me know ' so I can arrange further booking with you. Calvert, I want to say right now, that those Jewel pictures are the best programs we have ever run in this theatre. I have run all the big ones, as you know. May we soon have more of them? Fred Largen. MONROE SALISBURY [HIS DIVORCED wire FHCM LIONS IMBEADT1E5 JUrbnuM CARL LAEMMLE SAYS: "WATCH UNIVERSAL' (Continued from page 16.) set a figure at which he believed the production could be made. As a matter of fact, it cost more than ten times the amount he originally specified. "This condition applies largely to all big productions. It is hard to estimate the total cost of a picture, simply by reading the scenario, and I believe that after a producer has accepted a script which gives promise of making a big or unusual moving picture, he should go the limit to make the production perfect. True Settings for Foreign Scenes "As an example of the extent to which progressiveness in the making of motion pictures can be carried, I need only tell you that I now have four expeditions taking pictures in foreign countries — Africa, India, China and Japan, and that I am about to send a similar expedition into South Africa. These expeditions are costly, but they result in realistic pictures with true settings. "Universal has adopted QUALITY as its watchword for the coming year and we will not stint in bringing all our productions for 1920 up to the highest possible standard of excellence." New Screen Magazine NO. 50. CODA Lake, in California, is a western edition of the Dead Sea. It is so rich in commercial chemicals that the water beneath the snowwhite surface is as red as strawberry pop. Our own chemist shows us this week how to make a beautiful mineral garden in one minute by making a solution of equal parts of water and liquid glass and adding sulphates of iron, cobalt, manganese, nickel, and uranium nitrate. Dr. E. D. Angell gives us some healthful games for the playtime of life, one of them being "Skin the Snake." Then we are taken to the pilot house of the sea-monster Leviathan, the world's largest ship. German officers boasted they had crippled her beyond repair, but four months later she was carrying American troops. With Commander Statton the officer who safely guided the maritime destinies of five per cent of America's victorious soldiery, including General Pershing, we are taken all over the dreadnaught. The issue closes with a few choice excerpts from letters written to employment bureaus and employers that are extremely funny.