Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1918)

January 12, 1918 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 2S3 Ramsey are in the garden but Piatt finds Verda in the house. She tells him that the packet is in the sale. Piatt knows the combination and secures the packet. He goes to his room. Verda tells the Hidden Hand that Flatt has both the packet and' the locket. The Hidden Hand climps up to Piatt's room and enters through the window. He overpowers Flatt with the deadly gas from his claw and secures the locket and the packet. Flatt had opened the locket and examined the hand-print and before the Hidden Hand had entered had taken one of the jewels from the locket, so that it would not open the packet. Doris and Ramsey enter the house and find Scarley and Abner Whitney before the open safe. They learn that Flatt had taken the packet. As they are talking the announcer from Flatt's room rings and Doris, Ramsey, Scarley and Abner go to investigate. They find Flatt dead on the floor in his room. Ramsey reconstructs the scene after finding the finger prints of the Hidden Hand on the window sill. An overturned hourglass caused the bell to summon the butler, and suspicion of Flatt's death points • to Abner. Both the packet and the locket are missing, but Ramsey finds the jewel in the dead detective's hand. Verda overhears him tell Doris that the locket wil.» not open the packet, and she warns the Hidden Hand just as he is trying to open the packet. As part of a plot Verda is kidnapped by the Hidden Hand and his henchmen. Doris and Ramsey witness the capture and follow the car in which Verda is carried away, in their roadster. The Hidden Hand takes Verda into a deserted house, and Doris and Ramsey enter after them. , As Doris and Ramsey are mounting the stairs the Hidden Hand releases a lever, which throws them into a pit under the stairway. As they are seeking for means of escaping, the Hidden Hands turns another lever and long tongues of flames shoot out from the wall and up from the floor, getting ever closer and closer to Ramsey and Doris. The Hidden Hand goes to a glass trap-door to the pit to gloat over his victims. He sees Ramsey, who has secured a brick, about to throw it through this trap-door. Concealing himself he sees the brick thrown through the trap-door, breaking the glass, and sees Ramsey grasp the floor at the side of this trap-door, pull himself and then, hanging by his knees, lower his body to pull Doris to safety. Realizing that his victims are about to escape him, he starts to attack them as they hang in this precarious position. THE EIGHTH ANNUAL ROUND-UP— PENDLETON, ORE. (Three Parts— Dec. 30). — In the picture are shown such thrillers as broncho busting, wild horse racing, bull-dogging steers, horse breaking by some of the famous cowgirls of the West, squaw races, roping cattle and riding them. The observer soon becomes conscious of the great danger to life and limb that these contests impose. There are several instances where men and girls are thrown so violently to the ground before the camera that they lie senseless and are taken away to the hospital. In the bucking horse contests there is keen competition since the championship of the world is involved. One notes that there are many different kinds of bucking. Some horses at once rear, prance around on their hind legs and fall backward. Some jump around the arena stiff legged. Others pitch violently with a rocking chair motion. Still others run at full speed and then suddenly come to a stop, frequently flinging their riders over their heads. Most difficult of all the sports is bull-dogging. In this the cowboy races after the running steer and throws himself from his horse to the back of the steer while going at full speed, seizing at the same time the horns of the animal. There comes a contest of strength. 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His competitors, most of them, have been thrown so violently that one wonders what manner of men are these that «an have such falls and live. Sometimes the horses charge the fence with their riders and break their way through in a shower of timbers. PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP. TAMING TARGET CENTER (Two PartsDec. 30 — Mack Sennet Comedy). — The cast: The New Sheriff (Polly Moran) ; the Old Sheriff (Ben Turpin) ; the Cafe Proprietor (Tom Kennedy) ; His Leading Vampire (Gonda Durand). Target Center is a rather sleepy little town— that is until Polly arrives — and Ben has been a good sheriff, especially when nothing else was going on. The village jail made a most satisfactory chicken roost and all was to the merry. This was all changed, however, when Polly arrived. She had planned to marry Ben and came to pay his folks a visit. The time she had picked to arrive wasn't the quietest in the history of Target Center by any means, for some of the inhabitants had planned a jolly little riot — but they didn't know it waa a riot until after Polly had taken a hand, when the riot became a rout — and the jail was filled with lodgers, not chickens this time. Meantime Polly had discovered that Ben was no more than a coward, a fact which certainly didn't make a hit with her. The breach was widened by Target Center's leading vampire, Gonda Durand, although it wasn't Ben's fault. As so often happens, circumstantial evidence proved his complete undoing. Caught by Polly herself and Tom Kennedy, the cafe proprietor, apparently in the very act of having a comradely drink with "that terrible vamp," he tries to make his escape by hiding under a barrel — but without success. 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