The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

40 -THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "THE DIAMOND QUEEN" Episode No. 7 "The Amazing Ultimatum" CAST Doris Eileen Sedgwick Zeidt Frank Clarke Bruce George Cheseboro Kennedy Harry De More Doris stands terrified, looking at the great arm that seems about to clutch her, she suddenly gets a surprise and a good laugh when the arm is followed into view by the comical, portly figure of her negress housekeeper, who had merely been in the self-satisfying, gesticulating throes of a good stretch and yawn. Back in the office of the diamond king, Zeidt is telling himself that the girl who had just made the amazing claim of having an unlimited supply of diamonds may be bluflSng, but he resolves to take no chances. Unknown to anyone but himself, Zeidt arranges With Kennedy, a private detective, to surround the office with his men. At the appointed hour, Kennedy and his men hide themselves in and around Zeidt's office, guarding every exit. But what neither Zeidt nor Kennedy knows is that Mary O'Rourke, formerly Doris's maid, now her aide in the fight against the trust, has been secretly following the movements of both Zeidt and Kennedy. Doris leaves her secret headquarters, a house in East 37th street — and goes to her hotel suite. There she receives a large box of roses, addressed to Doris Delmont, with a card from Bruce Weston, inscribed "to the most interesting girl that I have ever met." She hugs the roses to her breast and once again love threatens to upset her plans, but she masters her emotions and thrusts the flowers aside to keep her all-important engagement. When Doris stands before the trust members in a gorgeous array of diamonds, she convinces Zeidt that he is mistaken in greeting her as Doris Delmont. He introduces the other, including Bruce, who Doris never knew was a member of the trust. But he had not taken any part in the ruination of her father. This, also, she does not know. Thus she fiilds the man she secretly loves among those she has sworn to crush! She again refuses to recognize Bruce who, silent, pondering, cannot understand her attitude. By a sensational display of diamonds, most of which she ibrings in a handbag, Doris, whose identity remains unknown to all except Bruce, convinces them that she has found the UNLIMITED SUPPLY and can smash the market, and also the trust, unless they agree to what she has to propose. Zeidt and his associates are thunder struck, awed, but Zeidt's face bears a sneer as he thinks of his arrangements with Kennedy. Leaning: toward Doris across the table in his office, Zeidt hisses out the question: "What is your proposition? ' At ithe same time he draws forth his handkerchief and mops his forehead, upon which beads of tense excitement stand forth. It is the signal to Kennedy. Doris tells Zeidt she will destroy the source of her unlimited supply of diamonds and bind herself to utter secrecy, as the trust must, when they purchase from her at one half the existing karat price One hundred million dollars worth of diamonds! The dramatic pause that results is broken when Zeidt summons Kennedy to arrest Doris, but Brue interferes, forcing Zeidt and the trust member to a pledge of secrecy and fair play. When the detective and his men are dismissed, Doris says she will give the trust ninety days to accept or decline her offer. If it is accepted, she expects a certified check. If declined, she will flood ithe market with diamonds, annihilate it — and smash the trust! She will call ninety days from the next day, at noon, for her answer. Doris leaves the trust chieftains dumfounded, but as she descends to the lobby of the building discovers that in spite of the pledge of fair play Kennedy and his men are trailing her. "A Waiting Maid" One Reel Star Comedy Featuring DOROTHEA WOLBERT J^IZZIE, the Maid, while helping the daughter of the house get ready to greet her sweetheart notices his picture on her dressing table and steals it. She shows the photograph to the butler with whom she is in love and also to the cook and they take the message of love on the picture to be meant for Lizzie. They congratulate her and when the young man calls at the house the butler shows him into the kitchen and leaves him with the maid. He discovers his picture and laughs over it and then proceeds to show her how a modern proposal is delivered. While on his knees before her he is surprised at the entrance of the young lady of his dreams and attempts to pass off the matter as a lark. She believes the worst however and rushes out of the house closely followed by her fiance and in turn by Lizzie and the Butler. The young lady and also the butler insist that Lizzie and the astonished youth be married. A minister is secured and while the butler holds their hands together they are dragged before the clergyman. However Eddie convinces the butler that he does not love Lizzie and the butler substitutes his hand when the minister makes them man and wife. The girl, however, when the time for the final part of the ceremony arrives, throws herself on a couch and cries. She is astonished to hear a shout and to find her fiancee sitting beside her and the butler holding the maid in his arms. She then forgives him and they make up. International News No. 9 Lexington, Ky. — Man O'War goes home. Retired from the turf for breeding purposes, greatest horse of the day returns to his native city. Brooklyn, N. Y. — New sport invented. Second Field Artillery, N. Y. N. G., finds "basketball" on horseback, an exciting pastime. In The Public Eye. — Prince Antoine Bibesco. new Minister from Rumania, arrives with his English wife. . . . N. Y. City. Sub-Titles. — Sir Ernest Shackleton, famous explorer, comes to look after his personal interests in Canada. Secretary Daniels welcomes Admiral Newton McCully's seven adopted Russian waifs into the "Navy family" . . . Washington, D. C. Lord Reading, noted British Statesman, who will attempt to adjust England'sdifficulties in India. . . . London, England. The Race For Oil. — Britain's building tankers in American yards in struggle for world's supremacy. • . . Shooters Island, N. Y. (Launching of the San Tiburcio.) Sub-Title. — While at Quincy, Mass. the huge tanker Indian Arrow flying the American flag, takes the water. Fresno, Cat. — A new temple to Buddha. Japanese colonists open their largest church in America. (Something for Americans to think about.) Sub-Titles— The Bulletin board record of donations to Buddha. Praying to the ancient dieties of Nippon. In The Cascades, Washington. — Bucking the storm King, huge rotary plows make short work of twelve foot snow fall on picturesque mountain roads. Sub-Title.— Glimpses of the White Paradise — from the train steadily forging its way through the wall of snow. Fex, Morocco. — Moroccan chieftains pay homage to France Native leaders give pledges of loyalty to General Lyautey. On the U. S. S. Delaware In The Panama Ca^ml. — Great Atlantic fleet goes through Canal to join Pacific armada. Tad Cartoon. — Watching the fat bloke trying to telephone from a telephone booth.