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Vol. XIII, No. 13.
"The $20,000,000 Mystery"
Episode eighteen of "The Twenty Million Dollar Mystery" contains many beautiful scenes and also sustains the story-interest better than some of the previous episodes have done, doubtless due to the fact that not quite so many bits of by-play are introduced.
The main happening is the rescue of Zudora from the isle of mystery to which she was conveyed after being kidnapped in the preceeding chapter of the serial. Captain Radcliffe also figures prominently in this installment, as he manages to smuggle some jewels, which he has taken from the Zudora mines, into the country under the very noses of the heiress' friends, though the latter know of the attempt which is to be made.
Perhaps the most striking scene in the entire picture is one in which an ocean liner is seen driving through the waves. This was taken from a nearby tug and the effect is wonderfully realistic. Close to this scene in appeal are those photographed off the statute of liberty. New York harbor, when Jim Baird, Hunt and John Storm, the characters portrayed by James Cruze, Sidney Bracy and Harry Benham, pursue three of the plotters in a motor boat. These scenes are indeed thrilling, as the waves appear to be about to capsize both the crafts at any moment. The scenes at the diamond mines also deserve mention.
The rescue of Zudora from the island is well done and Avill hold the interest of any audience. The acting and photography are both of the best and the episode as a whole will doubtless please all who witness it.
The picture opens with Zudora a prisoner on the island. Captain Radcliffe is in South Africa, where he manages to secure many diamonds from the Zudora mines by bribing the men in charge. He begins his return journey and sends a wireless to his confederates, telling them to meet him in the harbor and he will throw the jewels overboard to them.
Baird learns of this plan, while Hunt learns of Zudora's place of confinement through the carelessness of the crooks. The men get in touch with John Storm and the three set out in a motor boat to rescue the girl and foil the plan to smuggle the jewels ashore. They succeed in freeing Zudora, but the crooks slip out of their grasp with the smuggled diamonds. The picture ends with Baird and Hunt in a speed craft, following the motor boat in which the plotters are fleeing toward shore. C. ]. C.
New Horsley Printer Successful David Horsley's latest invention, a duplex automatic step printer was perfected on March 1, three days before the inventor left for Los Angeles, and is now in practical use in the Centaur Film Company plant at Bayonne, N. J.
Mr. Horsley's new device is a development of the famous. Horsley printer which has long been in use. It shows many radical departures from the original machine, and has certain definite advantages over printers of foreign manufacture. It is a solid and substantial affair, which does away with the long slide frame-up and eliminates many of the old style exterior adjustments, making the operator's work exceedingly simple and the whole machine fool proof. The new device is to be known as the Horsley printer No. 4, being the fourth in the series of Mr. Horsley's printer inventions. It is duplex in con
struction, with an automatic light shift and "trouble preventer," which work upon a principle entirely different from any now in use.
Owing to the simplicity of the mechanism, one operator is able to take care of the duplex or double printer with greater surety and ease than is possible with the old style "single." The printers are arranged on a hexagonal stand with six positions. The negative is assembled in a complete reel — and adjusted in such a manner that the slack from the first machine is taken up in the second machine and so on in rotation through as many machines, up to 12, as prints of that negative may be required. The same lamp centrally arranged, supplies the light for all the machines, so that there can be no variation in the quality or strengh of the light, each machine of course having its independent automatic shifts. The time saved by this wizard-like device and its ingenious arrangement is in itself a highly valuable gain, but the quality of the work, its rock steadiness, perfect registration and easy adaptability will win it a place of honor among the greatest patents of the motion picture industry. Like all of David Horsley's inventions, the No. 4 printer from drawings to finished product was constructed in the plant of the Centaur Film Company, said to be one of the most complete in America.
New Lubin Studio
The biggest artificial light studio in the country was informally opened at the Lubin ranch in Betzwood, Pa., this week, when Director Edgar Jones began the making of a series of three-reel pictures there. This is the third big studio to be built at the ranch during the past few years. The new studio, which has just been completed, is equipped with every modern scientific appliance for the making of photoplays. The Lubin engineers have been working for many months on the big studio and the system of artificial lighting has been so designed and arranged as to permit the ultimate taking of natural color motion pictures there.
Extensive improvements and additions have also been made to the laboratories at the ranch. These laboratories, declared by experts to be the best in the country, are Very busy places these days, and a great deal of scientific work is being carried on there by Mr. Lubin and his corps of assistants.
Denver Enters the Field
Denver, Colo., is the latest city to enter the race for the next national convention of the Exhibitors' League of America. H. H. Buckwalter and Harry N. Burhans, two veteran picture men of that city, are the leaders in the movement and are being supported by the various civic bodies, all of whom believe the securing of such a gathering would put Denver on the motion picture map.
The recent visit of the Universal Special, which stopped on its way to Universal City, Cal., gave them an opportunity to tell those aboard how ideally the city was suited to such an event and the Universalites and their friends promised to do all they could to turn the convention Denverward when they returned to the east.
Georgia and Parker Oliver are the names of two clever children who are appearing in Reliance and Majestic photoplays.