Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1918)

140 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD die -without food or water. Meanwhile Jack Fay has decided that Gaston is a prisoner and that they must make another attack on the temple. Betty makes a flag of truce from a piece of her aunt's petticoat and finally succeeds in talking with Jack, telling him that Gaston is hurt and must have water, that she gives him her word that not a drop will be used by any one but him. She rushes back with the canteen to Gaston, passing Harry as he goes out through the passageway. The natives suddenly discover that the volcano is again erupting, and thinking the FireGod angry with them, go to the temple to pray to the souls of their ancestors for deliverance. The Phantom from his ship watches the island and the actions of all its inhabitants. Shaken by the rumbling of the volcano, portions of the ruined walls of the temple begin to fall. Just as Harry emerges from the passageway, part of the wall caves in, blocking it. Betty is surprised not to find Gaston. He has escaped from the temple by means of the secret passageway, and has joined Jack and his men. She comes to a mummy room, a large natural cave which -as been used as a burial place by the islanders for centuries. Hearing some one coming, she hides behind a mummy. The natives enter and begin praying. One native suddenly sees Betty. The chief concludes that she has been sent as a sacrifice to be fed to the FireGod in the burning mountains. They carry Betty there. Meantime, Gaston has allowed the people from the temple to come out as the walls are crumbling. Betty is not with them and he and Jack go througn the secret passageway into the temple, but find only one terrified native, who is finally forced to tell what has become of Betty. They rush out and up the mountain, at the top of which the chief stands, about to cast Betty into tne seething lava. Gaston takes aim to fire, but he and Jack suddenly stand rigid, staring up toward the top of the mountain, thunderstruck with amazement. January 5, 1913 Mutual Film Corp. STRAND. HER AWFUL FIX (One Reel— Jan. 2).— Mary is persistently pursued by Fred, a young doctor, but becomes engaged to Tom. John and Grace, his wife, are to stand up with Mary at her wedding, when their baby is taken suddenly ill, and Fred is called in, it being his first case. A few hours before the wedding Mary decides to run over to John's house and see how the baby is getting along. When Mary arrives she takes the baby in her arms, when Fred enters with John and announces that he has diagnosed the case as smallpox. The house is quarantined, leaving Mary separated from Tom, marooned under a penalty of five years in the penitentiary if she leaves. After several ineffectual attempts, Mary finally escapes from the house, pursued by the police. She is captured and brought back. Tom then comes to the rescue, gags an officer and takes Mary home where a minister is waiting. The police are hot on their trail, and interrupt the ceremony. In the meantime, John calls in an experienced doctor, who pronounces it a case of prickly heat. When the officers bring the pair back Tom wants to fight the whole bunch, but cools off when John tells him the correct diagnosis, and the wedding bells ring. MUTUAL WEEKLY. ISSUE NO. 156 (Dec. 24). Everywhere-in-America. — Have you joined the Red Cross? Be one of the ten million new members and make this a year of mercy. Join now. Subtitles : "Go to Your Local Red Cross Chapter." "Send a Dollar on its Errand of Mercy." Chicago, 111. — Getting ready for Santa Claus. Our soldiers will not awaken on Christmas morning with empty socks. Chicago, 111. — Christmas tree ship arrives from the Michigan forests. Miss Elsie Shoneman follows her father's custom of bringing trees to market by the lake route. Boston, Mass. — "Cut-a-cord" of wood movement started here. Apalachian Mountain Club members chop wood to relieve coal shortage plan of Mr. Jas. J. Storrow. Chicago, III. — Alien enemies take warning! Stay out of barred zones. Subtitle : United States Marshal Bradley. San Pedro, Calif. — Incendiary plot suspected in burning of steamer. The O. P. Clark goes down with valuable cargo. Loss $100,000. Camp Kearney, Calif.— Are you observing a wheatless day? Our boys, at one camp, require 12,000 loaves of bread daily to keep them In proper trim. Charlestown, Mass. — In memoriam. Sailors fire volley on Boston Common in memory of lost comrades on the Jacob Jones which was sunk by a German submarine. Camp Kearney, Calif.— The "Pershing" of Japan visits General Strong here. General Hibiki will probably lead Nippon troops in France. Subtitle : "He Thought Our Boys Were Good Marksmen. This Is What He Said — " Haddock, Ga. — In the winter. George Stallings, "gentleman farmer." Subtitles: "In the Good Old Summer Time." "The Miracle Man." "Manager of the Boston Braves." Thoune, Switzerland. — A convoy of interned French soldiers leave the prison camp to go back to France. Excerpts from a Letter Received from a Boy in France with the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps.— U. S. Official War Pictures released by the Committee on Public Information through the American Red Cross: Subtitles: Dear Mother : Our trip across was uneventful. We arrived in Paris in good health and immediately went to the Red Cross headquarters and received our credentials. Our personal belongings were loaded in trucks to be sent to our ambulance base while we were bundled off to the station to go by train. After a long, tiresome ride in a stuffy French train, we were glad of the opportunity to make a hasty though primitive toilet. We were almost starved. After a good feed, the word was sent that General Pershing was to visit our camp and give our bunch the "once over." The following day we had our first experience at the actual front being under fire for the first time. It was a common sight to see wrecked ambulances by the roadside. The wounded get first aid treatment at dressing stations just behind the lines and then are removed to base hospitals farther from danger. On returning to camp this evening I found your letter awaiting me and was overjoyed to hear from you so soon. Pathe Exchange, Inc. HEARST-PATHE NEWS NO. 101 (Dec. 15). Wilkes-Barre, Pa.— With the arrival of winter the coal shortage becomes acute and mines are working to capacity to supply all needs. Subtitles : Huge piles of coal are on hand, only awaiting transportation. As fast as the cars arrive, they are loaded and dispatched to the market. Meanwhile people everywhere wait anxiously for their allotment. Daily scenes around coal yards in New York City. Fort Myer, Va.— Fencing contests feature the training of the members of the Second Cavalry in preparation for the great offensive. Subtitle (Passed by Committee on Public Information) : Into the ranks of the enemy — will charge this Light Brigade. On the High Seas. — Slowly but surely the dangers of ruthless warfare vanish as the Allied fleets clear the ocean lanes of lurking Uboats. Subtitles : Their mighty guns have accounted for many a missing German submarine. American destroyers, too, have rendered great service toward stopping murder on the seas. Amsterdam. Holland.— The love for sport continues unabated, as is evidenced by the large crowds that attend the national swimming contest. Subtitle : Some fancy diving New York City.— Voted by U. S. Marines as the most popular movie actress. Pearl White the Pathe star, sends a Yuletide greeting to the 'seasoldiers "over there." Subtitle : Delivering her message of good cheer to Sergeant Miller, who will carry it to France. Linda Vista, Cal.— Katherine Stinson, the noted aviatrix, visits Camp Kearney before starting on her record-breaking cross-country flight Subtitles : Getting ready for the journey. The darmg "birdwoman" sets a new non-stop flight record, covering G10 miles in 9 hours. Halifax, N. S. — First pictures of the appalling disaster caused by the explosion of the ammunition ship, Mont Blanc, when over 2,000 people lost their lives. Subtitles: The Belgian Relief bhip, Imo, which caused the catastrophe by ramming the munition ship. Hundreds were crushed when their homes caved In like toy structures. Searching the ruins for bodies. Churches and schools suffered the same fate St Joseph's School, in which 40 children perished The railway station is left without a roof. The Red Cross relief train succors many of the wounded. This noble organization is ever ready to alleviate suffering. Join the Red Cross and help. HEARST-PATHE NEWS NO. 102 (Dec 19) New York City.— Caught in the midst of a terrific storm that sweeps the East, this city is soon buried under a deep blanket of snow. Subtitles : Little folks are happy, for snow means sleds and joy untold to them. The Polar bears at the Zoo enjoy this reminder of the frigid North. But not so with Hattie, who at once joins the park's snow-plow force. San Pedro, Cal. — A mysterious fire on the big lumber schooner O. M. Clark is gotten under control by sinking the ship on the sand bars Subtitle: More than $200,000 damage was don* to the vessel and cargo. Savannah, Ga.— The demand for rosin in the making of shrapnel and other munitions has given great' impetus to turpentine distilleries. Subtitles : The rosin is the residue left after the oil is distilled. Sixty thousand barrels ready for shipment to the Allies. Pelham Bay, N. Y.— Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels visits the big naval training station for volunteers in the Naval Reserve. Subtitles : The Naval Reserve is now an important branch of Uncle Sam's sea forces. Perth Amboy, N. J.— Relief from the coal shortage is in sight as hundreds of cars heavily laden with the black diamonds arrive from the mines. Subtitles: The coal is frozen on the journey and the cars are steamed. A huge revolving bridge rushes the work of unloading by dumping whole carloads at a time. As soon as any coal appears in New York City, it is eagerly besieged by waiting erowds. New York City.— On with the dance, in summer calms and winter snows ; even blizzards cannot mar the barefoot art of the Crawford girls. Subtitle: Quiet repose atop a leading New lork hotel. Linda Vista, Cal.— Military envoys from Great Britain, France and Japan pay a joint visit to the National Army boys at Camp Kearney. Subtitles: The artillery squads in action. A perfect hit at two-mile range. The Call of Humanity.— Louder, ever louder sounds the cry from younder battlefields. Who will answer it? The Red Cross needs 10,000 000 new members to aid its relief work. Subtitles : Ihe White House sets an example of service to humanity. Has your home a service flag' Little Ellen McAdoo, granddaughter of the President, has won four members to the cause. How many have you? Its hand is not outstretched only to the war's unfortunates. It radiates sunshine everywhere. Red Cross depot at Halifax. All you need— a heart and a dollar Join the Red Cross now. Get others to join it too. THE HIDDEN HAND (Episode No. 6 "The Flower of Death"— Two Parts— Dec. 30).— The cast: Doris Whitney (Doris Kenyon) ; Doctor Scarley (Sheldon Lewis) ; Verda Crane (Arline Pretty) ; Jack Ramsey (Mahlon Hamilton) : The Hidden Hand (???). The action in this episode begins with the light on the church roof where Verda Crane saves the life of Jack Ramsey by diverting the aid of the Hidden Hand and endangering Doris Whitney, when the bullet meant for Ramsey strikes the rope by which the girl is suspended. Ramsey saves her and the girl is lowered to the ground. The Hidden Hand and his henchmen rush from the church belfry and are followed by Ramsey and Verda. They reach the ground and find the Hidden Hand and his henchmen have escaped. They also find Doris is safe. Later at the Whitney home, Scarley prepares a night blooming cereus, pouring into the flower, which will open at midnight, a deadly poison, whose fumes will render any one inhaling them unconscious, and if breathed long enough will kill. To get rid of Ramsey, Scarley orders it placed in the room in which Ramsey will be working that night. Doris sees the cereus becomes interested in. it, and wishing to see it bloom, orders it taken to her bedroom. Toward midnight the man who has handled the plant teels the effect of the poison on his hand. He goes to Dr. Scarley's room, as Scarley is a guest in the Whitney home, shows his hands and receives treatment. Doris watches the cereus and Is pleased to see the flower open exactly at twelve. The opening of the flower releases the poison and Doris, overcome by it, falls unconscious to the floor. Ramsey hears her fall and investigates. Scarley is told by the workman that the flower is in Dons' room and he rushes in and rescues her. When she learns that he saved her life, she is friendly to him much to the chagrin of Ramsey. The next day the Hidden Hand plots with A erda against Doris and tells her she must lure Doris to an old house where some plasterers are working. The Hidden Hand's henchmen take the place of the plasterers and later they capture Doris. Verda escapes and rushes toward the Whitney home. She tells Ramsey of Doris' capture and that she has been taken into the old house. Ramsey rushes to rescue Doris. Inside the old house the Hidden Hand has prepared a bed of boiling lime, and over this Doris is suspended in such fashion that the end of the rope holding her in this dangerous position will be released by the person opening the door of the house. On the release of this rope the girl will drop into the boiling lime and be burned to death. The Hidden Hand and his henchmen leave the girl to her fate and we see Ramsey about to open the door, which will spell Doris' doom, as the episode ends.