Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1915)

January 23, 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 575 Dore tells Ruth what the letter contained and copies from the key she wears the numerals so crudely carved by her father five years before and which always have been a puzzle to her. That night the "greaser" steals the key from Ruth's neck and takes it to Wilkerson. Wilkerson leaves camp at once but is pursued to the mine entrance and its caverns by Dore's men. Eluding his pursuers he escapes through the caverns of the mine through a secret opening at the back of the cliff. With a rope he drops over the ledge and lowers himself downward. The soldiers seize the rope and are about to haul Wilkerson up when he drops, lands unscathed in a bush and hurries away. Jumping a freight, he lands in San Diego, secures the services of a diver, wires Mrs. Darnell to join him and then sets out for the sunken ship. Dore, meanwhile, leaves for San Pedro with Ruth, leaving word for Kane to remain in charge of affairs at the mine. At the port of Los Angeles, Dore secures a boat and diver with a hoisting apparatus. Dore and Wilkerson approach the latitude and longitude indicated on "The Master Key" at about the same time. Wilkerson's diver is already down on the sea bottom when Dore's diver puts on his harness and sinks into the waves. Wilkerson's party attempts to prevent the diver from going to work. but Dore and his men hold them back with their rifles and revolvers. Wilkerson's diver finds the chest and it is hauled upward just as Dore's diver crawls along the sea bottom toward him. WORLD FILM CORP. THE DEEP PURPLE (Five Parts).— Doris Moore is the daughter of a minister living at a small country town a few hours' distance from New York. She helps her father in his work among his congregation, teaches in the Sunday school and plays the weezy old organ in the church. The household is thrown into a mild state of excitement on receipt of a letter purporting to come from an organ supply company in New York, but which in reality is from a band of crooks who use this as one of the fraudulent schemes whereby they obtain money from the unwary. The letter offers to supply a beautiful pipe organ on receipt of an installment of onethird of the cost, the balance to be paid on time. The matter is laid before the deacons and they decide to consider the offer. The minister writes to the organ company and the chief of the crooks, Harry Leiand. a handsome, dashing man of the world, arrives and explains in glowing terms the advantages of the organ. While waiting for the deacons to collect the first installment of two hundred dollars, Leiand pays considerable attention to Doris, who is much fascinated by him, representing as he does a totally different type of man to what she has been used to. In the meantime, the crooks in New York have received information from out West that Will Lake, a young eastern college man who in two years has made a fortune, of fifty .thousand dollars is returning east, and will stay in New York for a week. They decide to try to blackmail Lake on his arrival and at once communicate with Leiand, who replies that he will return immediately as soon as he gets the organ money. Leiand has become attracted by the freshness and beauty of Doris and decides to lure her to New York and then make use of her in the crooks' nefarious schemes. He protests violent love for her and proposes marriage, and Doris consents. Immediately after receiving the two hundred dollars from the deacons, he approaches Doris as she leaves Sunday school and with well simulated despair tells her he has received very bad news and that he is threatened with ruin and begs her to go to New York with him as she alone can save him. After much persuasion, Doris' scruples are overcome and she returns with Leiand who takes her to the boarding house run by 'Frisco Kate, a house which is used by the crooks as a meeting place. It is decided to have Doris act as a decoy and to get Lake to visit a flat which has been prepared beforehand. She is therefore told that Lake has defrauded her lover Leiand of a considerable sum of money and that if he could be seen, things might be arranged satisfactorily. She is told to speak to Lake, who will be pointed out to her in the hotel, and tell him that her mother who has friends in Goldfield wishes to ask his advice about mining stock. The plan succeeds and Lake unsuspectingly goes to the flat and while alone with Doris, Leiand with two other crooks rush In and accuse him of being In a compromising position with Doris whom he calls his wife, much to her amazement, and says that Lake must pay in money to avoid scandal. Lake intuitively feels that Doris Is Innocent and refuses. A furious fight ensues in which Lake Is knocked unconscious, robbed of all his money and locked in the room, the crooks making good their escape with Doris, whom they take to their hiding place. Their plans are defeated, however, by one of their own band, Laylock and 'Frisco Kate, who. hardened crooks^ though they have been, refused to be parties to the dragging down of an innocent girl. They release Lake and go along with him to the police and lead a raid xn the crooks' hiding place who are all captured and receive their just deserts. Doris meets her father at the police station, he having come to New York to trace her. Lake. who is much interested in them, invites them to his hotel to meet his mother and sister. There is a pretty ending to the story when Will Lake, who to celebrate his good fortune and has made the church a present of a beautiful organ, pays a visit to Doris and her lather, and a love romance, the seeds of which were set when she innocently acted as a decoy, is happily consummated. Down the track comes running John Storm,too late to aid his sweetheart and frantic with apprehension. He comes up just In time to »ee Zudora and her little charge descend from tbe caboose and the next instant he holds her close in his arms. When they turn to thank Jim Baird, the man to whose heroism and resourcefulness they owed their rescue, it is to find him gone. He has vanished as utterly as the destroyed powder car. THANHOUSER SYNDICATE CORP. ZUDORA (Episode Nine — Reels Seventeen and Eighteen — "Kidnapped ; or the Mystery of the Missing Heiress"). — Soon after Zudora's thrilling escape from the clutches of Chang, the Chinese hypnotists, in which John Storm and the mysterious Jim Baird played no small part, the sudden, strange disappearance of a child, destined to inherit millions, became the talk of the town. Zudora, like every one else, became interested in the case and determined if possible to solve it. although her uncle, Hassam Ali, busied himself with other things, often being mysteriously absent from the house for days at a time. It was at this time that a certain Madame Duval, the beautiful, but somewhat mysterious woman, who was in the confidence of Chang in Episode Eight, was introduced to Zudora. Oddly enough, the girl, having been under Chang's hypnotic influence at the time, did not recall ever having seen her. Feeling a strange attraction for her new acquaintance, Zudora returned her call, although had Jim Baird known of it, the friendship of the two might have awakened some misgivings in his breast, for he evidently distrusts the charming fair one. During Zudora's visit at M^adame Duval's she was much puzzled at the coming and going of many strange guests, the mysterious conferences held and the frequency with which her hostess was called away. It was during one of these absences, that Zudora idly glanced at a newspaper on the table before her. An item in the personal column caught her eye and her fertile brain did the rest. Hardly waiting to say goodbye to Madame Duval she sets forth on what she believes is a clue to the whereabouts of the missing child. Nor is she far off the scent, for the hint she had received from the "personal" leads her to a deserted freight caboose in a little used railroad siding. Listening at the door she overhears the kidnappers discussing plans to get their victim in a safer place. In the meantime Jim Baird has also been investigating certain clues which have come into his possession. John Storm, also, informed by Zudora in a hasty note, of what she has learned, begiiis an investigation on his own account. Thus all three are eagerly hunting for the missing heiress. But it is Zudora who first learns the whereabouts of the stolen child. Watching her opportunity, she is about to liberate the little one, when three members of the gang, returning suddenly and finding her, seize both Zudora and their captive and imprison them in the old caboose, where Zudora had first overheard their plans. Meanwhile Madame Duval, who has some mysterious connection with the forces that are opposing Zudora, becomes worried at the delay in bringing her plans to a successful issue. Acting under instructions evidently, the gang are seen placing an infernal machine in car filled with gunpowder, which is next to the old caboose In which Zudora and the kidnapped child are Imprisoned. An engine hooks up with the train and slowly moves off, hauling the caboose with it In a few moments the explosion is certain to take place and it seems that nothing can save the kidnappers' victims, unable to get out, from being blown to atoms. But it is not to be. Jim Baird, who by some psychological instinct or perhaps because he is never really out of touch with Zudora's doings, always seems to be on hand at the time of Zudora's direst need, appears on the scene, just as the train is starting. Instinctively, he seems to sense the danger. Running swiftly forward, he makes a flying leap upon the rods at the side of one of the freight cars, climbs upon the roof of the powder car and makes his way to the caboose. He sees Zudora's terrified face at the window. Clambering down between tho cars he uncouples the caboose from the train. And not an instant too soon. For hardly has the train gone half a city block before there is a tremendous explosion and the powder car disappears in a great cloud of white smoke. It is but the work of a moment for Baird to batter in the door of the caboose and assist the frightened Zudora and her helpless companion to the ground. He dashes into the caboose again, hoping to find some evidence against the kidnappers. He has hardly finished his hurried search, when there Is a sudden explosion. PATHE. THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE (Episode Three — "The Vanishing Jewels" — Two Parts — Jan. 11). — Elaine Dodge, whose father was murdered by the Clutching Hand, vainly endeavors to apprehend the mysterious criminal. She and Perry Bennett, her lawyer, are interrupted by Susie Martin, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, who tells them that owing to her father's refusal to pay blackmail the Clutching Hand threatens to loot his shop at exactly noon that day. Elatne 'phones Craig Kennedy, the scientific detective, and informs him of this latest project of the Clutching Hand. They arango to meet" in Martin's shop before noon to frustrate the dastard's design. They arrive and are met by Mr. Martin, who has the shop closed and guarded. A clock strikes twelve and on the last stroke the floor beneath a case of precious jewels caves in and the case goes hurtling to the cellar where the three crooks start to bag their loot. To prevent interruption from above, the criminals fling a bomb through the hole. Kennedy seizes the bomb and hurls it back througli the opening. The crooks make a hasty getaway through a secret doorway, leaving their loot behind. The bomb explodes, the smoke clears, the party descends and finds the jewels intact. Kennedy, searching for clues, discovers the secret passage which leads him to the street. Answering hla inquiry, a street-sweeper points up the street at a vanishing limousine. Kennedy and Elatne in a taxi and their friends in two other cars experience a wild ride in the chase that follows. The taxi stops at a crossroads. They question a man who makes the sign of the Clutching Hand to the taxi driver, who answers him. The driver feigns a break-down, a controversy ensues and Kennedy is black-jacked and left unconscious in the roadway as the conspirators kidnap Elaine and dash off in the taxi. Kennedy is revived by his friends in the following auto and directs the trailing of the taxi. The crooks come to a lonely part of the country and stop outside a factory to debate the disposition of Elaine. She is carried bound and gagged to the water's edge and thrust into a large tankThe entrance is then sealed by a huge stone. The pursuers track the conspirators to the water's edge and become aware of Elaine in the tank, but are powerless to help her. The rising tide makes Elaine struggle to keep her bead above water. Kennedy sees hope in a sign "Oxacetylene Welding Co.," on the factory opposite. He and Jameson rush over, blow open the lock, enter and taking up an Oxacetylene outfit for metal burning, are back at the tank in an instant and work madly to burn a hole through it. They effect their purpose just in time to save Elaine, who has nearly succumbed to the rising tide. THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE (Episode Four — "The Frozen Safe" — Two Parts— Jan. 18).^ Elaine Dodge, endeavoring to track down the mysterious Clutching Hand, has been rescued from his confederates by Craig Kennedy, the world known scientific detective. Elaine, Craig Kennedy, Perry Bennett, her lawyer, aurt Jameson, a reporter, arrive at the Dodge home after a frightful experience and are welcomed by Elaine's Aunt Susan, who warmly praises Kennedy for the part he has played in her niece's rescue. Elaine shows Kennedy a new safe, said to be proof against any manner of forcible opening. She also makes him a present of her photograph. The men depart, Kennedy and Jameson going to the former's home. Arrived there, Kennedy shows his friend a machine he has had installed in the wall outside his rooms. It is (Continued on page 584.) GITHCIL FILM RENOVATOR The only renovator that cleans, softens and renovates films. Positively non-combustible nor inflammable, as shown in analysis made by Bureau of Fire Prevention of City of New York. Endorsed by leading film exchanges. Githcil Chemical Company 220 West 42d Street, (Candler Building) 'Phone Bryant 2968 New York City