The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

38 —THE MOVING PICTURE. WEEKLY "THE MOON RIDERS" Episode 9 "The Triple Menace" CAST Buck Ravelle Art Acord Anna Mildred Moore Baldwin Charles Newton Egbert George Field Warpee Tote Du Crow Rosa „ Beatrice Dominguez g'UCK RAVELLE is made prisoner and left hanging to a rope attached to a freight elevator in an old warehouse. Egbert and his men leave, having started the elevator down. Buck is drawn slowly into the air. Regaining consciousness, he manages to free himself, and reaches the window of the warehouse in time to see Egbert escaping. Buck follows. At the Baldwin ranch, Anna's father is in danger of being lynched by the infuriated ranchers, who are stirred to action by insinuations against Baldwin by one of Egbert's secret agents. Anna returns with the Sheriff in time to save her father. In the city, Buck overtakes Egbert's car, and Egbert, to escape discovery, leaps from the car to a street car. His men leave the car and wait in ambush in an alley for Buck, who is following them. In the fight in the alley, Buck is the victor, and regains the money from Egbert's men. Egbert and his paramour, Rosa, reach * the station in time to catch the last train for the east. Buck misses the train, and knowing the importance of reaching the ranch with the money in time to take up the option from Warpee, hires a gasoline speeder on which he leaves in an endeavor to overtake the train on which Egbert and Rosa are traveling. At the ranch, Baldwin tells the men that Buck should arrive at any moment with the money. Still dissatisfied, the men rather unwilling to trust him, until Baldwin tells them he is willing to submit to arrest and be held by the sheriff as hostage until Buck arrives. This they agree to do. Baldwin gives the option papers to Anna, telling her to go to Warpee's cabin, get Warpee, and meet Buck and close the deal. Anna leaves for [ the cabin, not knowing that she is followed by Marston, a moon rider j secretely working among the ranchiis;. fealdwin is placed in jail. Egbert's men recover and follow Buck tO' the station, where Buck is seen to leave on the gasoline car. They wire Egbert on the train, telling him that { Buck is trying to overtake the train. "! Egbert leaves the train at a small ' station near a river. The ranchers decide that in order to be safe, they should have the option which Baldwin holds, and he is asked for it. He tells them that he hasn't the papers, having given them to Anna. This the ranchers will not believe, and storm the jail where Baldwin is held. Anna reaches the cabin, followed by Marston, who now dons the disguise of a moon rider. The ranchers, in an effort to overcome the Sheriff and obtain the papers from Baldwin, set fire to the jail. As the flames gain headway, the Sheriff tries to free Baldwin, but a falling timber prevents him, and Baldwin is left to the mercy of the flames. At Warpee's cabin, Anna is attacked by the moon rider, as Warpee has left the cabin in an endeavor to see Egbert. Egbert, after leaving the train, goes to the drawbridge spanning the river. As Buck approaches the bridge, Egbert raises the bridge, having knocked out the operator, and Buck, unable to stop, reaches the bridge, and clinging to the car, speeds over the uplifted end of the bridge and topples with the car to the water below. "THE VANISHING DAGGER" Episode No. 1. "The Scarlet Confession" CAST John Grant Eddie Polo Sir George Latimer C. Norman Hammond Lady Mary Latimer Laura Oakley Elizabeth Latimer Thelma Percy Prince Narr Ray Ripley Sir Richard Upton Arthur Jervis JOHN GRANT, a wealthy young American, Prince Narr of Numidia, and Sir Richard Upton, are being entertained by Sir Geo. Latimer, his wife and daughter Beth at their home on the south coast of England. Narr is jealous of Grant, whose suit for Beth appears to be making progress, whereas he, Narr, has been rejected. Narr is possessed of hypnotic powers, and he uses these in his trial to gain Beth. He has his men kill Upton as he is about to depart, then hypnotizes Latimer, and convinces him that he killed Upton with the jewelled dagger which he, Narr, had placed in his hand. He promises secrecy if Latimer will consent to his marriage with Beth. Latimer begs for time to consider. Beth enters, after a walk with Grant, during which they had becorne engaged, and Narr invites her to join them in a good-night drink, whereupon he puts "dope" in her glass. She loses consciousness and Narr compels Latimer by hypnotic influence to write with a strange liquid the following confession across Beth's forehead: "I killed Sir Richai;d Upton — (signed) Sir Geo. Latimer." .This writing fades at once, but Naj-r says it will reappear in six months, to be removed only by a liquid carried in a small vial in the hilt of the jewelled dagger. Narr departs, saying he will return in six months to claim his bride. Grant gets in a fight with Narr's henchman in the interim, killing two, and is starting toward the house, when he sees the now frenzied Latimer hurling himself over the clirrs into the sea. Grant makes a spectacular dive after him, and is engulfed helpless in the great surging waves at the foot of the cliff. —I "Three Pairs of Stockings" (Star Comedy) Featuring Harry Keaton. CAST Smith Harry Keaton His Wife Ida Tenbrook The Burglar Ralph McComas gMITH was a frisky feJlow who was "hitched" for fair. He and friend wife didn't get along remarkably well and one day when three show girls from the nearby burlesque came into Smith's store and he measured them for stockings, Ida plainly showed her rage. The girls didn't pay for the stockings but promised to make good for them if Smith would come around to the theatre so Smith began wrapping them up, preparatory to following the "queens" over there. Friend Wife was irate, however, and locked poor hubby up. In the meantime, Ralph the terrible terror enters to rob the place and in the mix-up that follows Smith gets away leaving Ida to face the burglar gun in hand. She comers him and phones for the "cops." Smith is having a lovely time at the theatre. The three girls kiss him for his kindness and in the excitement Smith exits for home leaving his hat behind, and bearing the imprint of three pair of lips on his face. He gets home to find friend wife still facing the burglar and when she views his tell-tale face, fury ensues. And to make matters worse, one of the queens, in a real queen rig-out, rushes in with the hat. The "cops" appear on the scene, and irate Ida hands over Smith, leaving Ralph to a clean getaway, with merchandise and all. Smith is landed in jail, where sobbingly he beats his head against the bars. Ida is, in the meantime, beginning to relent and comes to the jail to get Smith out, but when she begins to quarrel with poor hubby again, and slaps him in her old vigorous manner. Smith turns on his heel, enters his cell again, and decides to bide awhile there in peace.