The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

36 -THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY THE VANISHING DAGGER" Episode No. 18. "Silver Linings" Grant Eddie Polo Zan -.. Karl Silvera Sonia Ruth Royce Beth Thelma Percy ■^y^HILE Grant is battling with the lion in the cave, the smugglers decide to go back and see what the wild beasts have done to him. Grant kills the lion and circles back to the island shore, seeking means to escape from the island. The smugglers after a futile search for trace of him, have about decided the beasts of the jungle have made a clean feast of him when they spy him making his way along the shore. They give chase and fire upon him. He falls, apparently wounded. But just as they are about to pounce upon his inert form on the top of the cliffs overlooking the sea. Grant, who has been shamming, leaps to the edge of the cliff and dives into the sea swimming for a tug that is moored off shore. The smugglers give chase in a dory, but Grant reaches the tug, overcomes two seamen and eludes his pursuers, putting out to sea. Meantime, Zan and Sonia, by means of a magic mirror, learn the first mate has pavraed the dagger and fled to Chile. They leave Beth under guard while they rob the pawnshop and regain the dagger. Beth escapes and goes to the police to whom she tells her story. While she is there, she learns thru a detective that Grant has returned safely and is awaiting word of her at his apartments. Over the phone, she arranges to meet Grant, who still retains the magic fluid from the dagger. On applying the fluid to Beth's forehead. Grant finds it does not work. He recalls the Numidian ritual and realizes the dagger itself is necessary to remove the murder confession from his fiancee's forehead. Zan and Sonia return to their rooms, learn of Beth's escape and also that the fluid is missing from the dagger. Zan, reaching Grant by phone, offers to remove the confession from Beth's forehead if Grant will surrender the vial and allow him and Sonia to depart unmolested. Grant agrees. Zan removes the confession. Suddenly the police, who have taken Zan's trail after the pawnshop robbery, rush in. Zan and Sonia think themselves double-crossed and about to surrender, when Grant intervenes, telling the police they are mistaken — that Zan and Sonia are his guests. The police leave. Grant turns the vial over to Zan. Grant's magnanimity overwhelms Zan and Sonia, who repent of their villainous acts. Zan tells Grant he has taught him what a real man should be. Zan and Sonia leave for Numidia with the dagger, to claim the throne. Grant now reveals to Beth that he has lost his estate. He is a pauper. He says he will take her back to her parents in England whenever she is ready. She prepares to leave with the Warrens. But at the train, seeing he will not propose, she tells him she wants not his riches, but his love. Grant grabs her, leaps from the train and, both bareheaded, they race for a minister. Sub-Titles. — But when it comes to swimming your Uncle Sam cannot be beat. Norman Ross wins a 2,000-yard race. And the U. S. Navy crew is in a class by itself against Europe's best. New York City. — Dynamite explosion spreads ruin and death in heart of Wall Street. Rome, Italy. — International presents a visit to the Pope with the Knights of Columbus. Exclusive pictures photographed by Captain Ariel Varges at the Vatican. International News No. 62. Syracuse, N. Y. (To be omitted from California prints). — Harness kings in record speed races for Empire stake. San Francisco, Cal. (For California only) . — California honors 70th "birthday" with brilliant parade. Coney Island, N. Y. — Good-by Summer. Coney's giddy season draws to a close in a whirl of gaiety. Sub-Titles. — Hold your seat — We're shooting the chutes. A farewell glimpse of Coney the beautiful — The fairy city as day blooms into brilliant night. Marion, Ohio. — Negro voters greet Senator Harding. Colored Republicans visit presidential candidate's home. Sub-Titles. — And among those present is General John J. Pershing. Hand-shaking is one of the presidential candidate's main duties. Antwerp, Belgium. — The world's best diver. Here is Fred Koehler of Denmark in action winning the international title. New Screen Magazine No. 86 "See America First!" That is a slogan which new screen magazine 86 preaches when it shows some delightful mountain and brook scenes of the American countryside. These scenes can vie in beauty with the Alps or Pyrennes. Uncle Sam is busily at work in the Treasbury Building in Washington, D. C, printing paper money. There are several kinds of presses, but no machine ever invented equals the human hand in the delicate operation of polishing and printing plate. The "shots" include scenes where the money is examined and checked and scenes of the silver vaults. There is a great vault in which are kept all the plates for printing paper money, and of all the 4,500 employees in the bureau, only five have ever entered this vault. This issue of the magazine has a pleasing diversion on "How to Pick Your Husband by His Cigar" and some humorous excerpts entitled •'With the Wise Birds." human Harry Carey says THERE'S many a hobo counting ties today all because he wouldn't count 'em — in his family — when he had 'em. —Watch for "Sundown Slim."