Motography (Jul - Dec 1915)

418 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XIV, No. 9. The man is in the midst of reading love poetry to her when she is handed a card. She leaves Tremayne and goes to meet Mary Shields, a representative of the Disentangling Agency for whom she has sent. Sometime later Tremayne realizing that he is on the verge of proposing to Amelia telegraphs to Smith. The next day Spencer Jones, one of the ablest representatives of the S. D. A. arrives upon the scene. After some days Tremayne and Amelia realize that the representatives from the agency instead of disentangling their love affair have become seriously entangled in one of their own. Both Tremayne and the girl wire the S. D. A. telling them that the representatives are no good and that they themselves are more in love with each other than ever. Paul wires back to both Jones and Mary Shields and refers to "Rule 63," which reads: "In desperate cases resort to row on lake. Tip the boat and rescue girl or in reverse case let man rescue the girl. Ninety times out of one hundred the rescued party will propose to the girl or the girl will fall in love with her rescuer." Smith then goes to Mrs. Tremayne's and they leave together for the summer resort. They arrive just in time to pull Amelia, wet and struggling, out of the water and Tremayne crawls out after her. Further out on the lake Jones and Mary are clasped in each other's arms. Rule 63 has worked, Paul and Amelia are again happy in each other's love, Tremayne and his wife become reconciled to each other and Jones and Mary have found themselves. two have learned, ere this, that Powell is Stanley's assumed name. After Esther's spectacular leap from the yacht Blair engages in a mighty struggle with Luke Lovell on the deck of the boat and locked in a fighting clinch they both fall "The Diamond From the Sky" Reviewed by Neil G. Caward CHAPTER eighteen of the North American serial "The Diamond from the Sky," which is entitled "The Charm Against Harm," is one of the most thrilling that has yet been released in this continued story. It contains two of the biggest settings that this reviewer has ever seen in an American film production. One of them, the dance hall, known as "Pete's Palace," is probably as immense as any setting that has ever been erected by any company for a picture production, and the action that takes place within this setting is fully as exciting as anything that has preceded it in "The Diamond from the Sky" serial, which is noted for its spirited action. Hundreds of supernumeraries are used in this dance hall scene and all of them are so splendidly trained and well rehearsed that the big scene gets over with a punch that must have pleased its director and is sure to please exhibitors and patrons the country over. The other big setting shows the interior of John Powell's home in Los Angeles and convincingly depicts the home of an American millionaire, though the action that transpires within this setting cannot in any way be compared with that witnessed in the other big stage setting. Esther, who in the previous chapter leaped overboard from Arthur Stanley's yacht when Blair Stanley attempted Vivian receives her instructs to jerk "The Diamond from the Sky" from her neck, is rescued by the faithful Quabba. He brings her safely to shore and then accompanies her to John Powell's office in the hope of at last coming face to face with Arthur Stanley, since the The fight in the dance hall. into the water. There Blair strikes Luke a cruel blow in the face and swims back to the yacht, while Luke with difficulty makes his way to the shore and disappears. Arthur Stanley, known as John Powell, learns while in his office that Esther and Quabba have been seeking him and have recently departed from the mines, whither they sought refuge when pursued by Blair Stanley. Giving instructions to send horsemen out to search for them, Arthur leaps into his automobile and himself prepares to take up the hunt for them. On the way to the mines he encounters Marmaduke Smythe, the English lawyer, and takes him along. Esther and Quabba, on reaching Powell's office, discover the latter has departed in his car and set out tp follow him, and a little later Blair and Vivian Marston also learn of Arthur's departure and Blair, after introducing himself as Arthur's cousin, makes himself at home in Arthur's palatial mansion. On pay day for the miners, when all the hundreds who are employed in the mines seek amusement and recreation in a notorious resort called "Pete's Palace," Quabba and Esther arrive in the vicinity and enter the place to seek refreshment, little suspecting its real character. A short time later Arthur and Marmaduke Smythe reach the same resort and enter to quench their thirst after the long drive. A score or more of cowboys come in to "paint the town red" and soon the interior of "Pete's Palace" is buzzing with humanity. Hundreds are engaged in gambling, scores are dancing with the girls employed by Pete, and still countless others are gathered in the bar-room and at the lunch counter. A half-drunk cowboy, noting Esther and Quabba at the lunch counter, insults the girl by asking her to dance with him. Luke Lovell, who has found his way thither and sought employment in the place, recognizes Esther and goes to her rescue. When he hits the cowboy, a free-for-all fight begins, the drink crazed men and women struggling with each other in all parts of the big resort. Arthur notes the attack upon the girl, leaps into the fray and deals smashing lefts and rights to those about him and staggers forward through the mob in an effort to reach the side of the girl who has been insulted, not yet recognizing her as Esther, but ere he is across half the space that separates them, the surging crowd surrounds him. The odds become too great against him and he goes down beneath an upper-cut delivered by a drunken miner. Meanwhile the crowd surges over toward one wall in an effort to get out of the fray. The wall gives way and with a crash the building topples in like a house of cards, Arthur and hundreds of the struggling crowd being buried beneath the falling timbers. Meanwhile "The Diamond from the Sky," dashed aloft in the fierce struggle, has settled down upon one of the antlers of the elk's head carried by Marmaduke Smythe, though as the picture closes the latter has not yet discovered the prize that has fallen so unexpectedly to him.