Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 27 Third Adventure of "The Broken Coin" HE third episode of "The Broken Coin." Oriental Seecial Feature Set-ial, i-elates the further adventures of Kitty Grey in the little Balkan kingdom of Gretzhoffen. gained possession of the RELEASED WEEK OF JULY 11. G Kitty has King's half of the broken coin and interesting developments follow. Kitty, again face to face with her enemy, Count Frederick, holds out to him the King's half of the coin they are both in search of. Frederick makes a grab for the coin, but Kitty, ever on the alert, quickly puts it back of her. and smiles prettily as the King and Count Sachio enter the room. Sachio she ignores entirely, but she makes a very pretty and quaint curtsey to the King, asking his per ', mission to return to her hotel, telling him .she is quite strong enough, after the rest she just had. The King, smitten with Kitty and her breezy ways, tries to persuade her to remain at the palace as his guest, but Kitty, anxious to locate the other half of the coin which Frederick's man took from her on the desert, refuses. Kitty, sorry to see the King in the hands of two such villains as Sachio and Frederick, and, liking him for himself, starts a little harmless flirtation which the King takes rather seriously and, after she has gone, remarks that she is "some girl." Kitty, returning to her hotel, is snubbed by the women guests, who think her very questionable being American, arid, then, too, she brought Rolleau to the hotel, and "no decent woman" would do that. Kitty takes their slurs for what they are worth, and promises herself to get even with them some day. And that day was not feafiiring Grace far off, for the very next Cunard and day the guests were sur Francis Ford. prised when the King's messenger came with a note for gathered in the lobby to see who it RACE CUNARD and Francis Ford featured in serial written by Emerson Hough. Kitty saves the King from the machinations of Count Frederick. CAST. Kitty Grey Grace Cunard Count Frederick Francis Ford King Michael II Harry Hchumm The Apache Reese Gardner Count Sachio Ernest Shields Gorgas, the outlaw W. C. Canfield The Pawnbroker Doc Crane Confidant of Frederick Bert Wilson Rolleau Eddie Polo Seen es from the third episode of The Broken Coin," someone there, was that the All King knew in their hotel and all are much surprised to find it is Kitty, who receives through the messenger an invitation to a "Black and White" ball to be given at the palace in a few days. Kitty accidentally drops her invitation so the busy bodies may see it, then, just as they are all looking at it, asks its return. Hurriedly havins: a black and white gown made. Kitty tries to locate Roleau, whom she left for dead at Saehio's lodge, and, failing to get any trace of him, she prepares for the ball. She starts to conceal the King's half of the coin on her person, but, remembering her experience on the desert, is about to put it into a drawer when she hears someone sneaking along the hall. Quickly running to the door she is just in time to see the figure of a man disappear around the end of the corridor. Realizing the coin will not be safe there, she hits upon an idea and, wrapping it into a small package, sends for a telegraph messenger and tells him to deliver it to either Kitty Gray or King Michael at the palace, at 12 o'clock sharp. That off her mind, she finds she has all afternoon and part of the evening '■ before the ball and, knowing Fred erick is at the palace or at least thinking he is, she starts for his apartment, and slipping out a back entrance of her hotel, just misses one of his men whom he has put there to watch her. Sneaking into Frederick's apartment through a back entrance, she Is startled by hearing his voice, and is about to turn and run back when she listens and overhears Frederick and the Prime Minister talking. The Minister, believing Frederick to be a true friend of Michael's, tells him that the peasants and subjects of Gretzhoffen are threatening a mutiny or revolution if the King does not stop his drinking and association with loose friends. inister tells Frederick to ) Michael and keep him sober during the evening as a band of citizens have planned to gather outside the Castle during the ball, and if Michael is drunk, as they believe he will be, they will start an uprising and dethrone Michael, placing a man of their choice on the throne. Frederick promises to do all he can and the Minister departs. He no sooner gets out of hearing distance, than Kitty hears E^ederick call some of his men, relate quickly what the Minister has just told him, and then plot against Michael — to get him drunk, take sides with the citizens, and be put on the throne himself. Kitty hurries out and, returning to the hotel, sends a message to Michael warning him that although it may seem very strange to him. not to drink anything that night and, should anyone offer him anything, to pretend to be intoxicated, and .she will explain when she arrives at the ball. After sending {Continued on page 44.)