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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
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d Special, Preparedness Feature
CAST.
Jefferson Maynard. Rodney Ranus Kitty Miles Vola Smith
Senator Wright Charles Mailes
Mona Wright Grace Carlyle
Richard Wallace,
Herbert Rawlinson
Orlin Dagore Charles Gunn
Keron Theris Albert MacQuarrie
James Brown Malcolm Blevins The Ambassador Walter Belasco
King of Foreign Poiver
His Minister of The Ambassor Brent Wright State dor to the U. S.
Grace Carlyle, well known on the legitimate stage, who here appears at her very best in a. part that shows to good advantage her stately type of beauty. The whole is a great dramatization of a great problem, which is all the more pertinent since the European war startled this country into a consciousness of its utter helplessness from a military standpoint. That is the problem and the solution, as Mr. Steele points out, is industrial preparedness. This is the story:
Jefferson Maynard is a Congressman who is the author of a bill on preparedness that is before the House. There is great excitement, as the measure is arousing quite a bit of interest and the sentiment is very bitter on each side. Among those onposed is Senator Wright in the Upper Chamber. Wright owns a large iron foundry with branches in New Mexico and has as his manager a young man by the name of Richard Wallace. Wallace is a bright young fellow and is strongly in favor of the Maynard bill even though his employer is opposed. He is also in love with Mona Wright, the Senator's only child, and has many arguments with her about the measure, as she sides with her father's views.
Working against the bill are some foreign spies, Dagore and Theris, who use all the means that they can to prevent the passage of the bill and do not stop even at bribery. They even get a hold over one of Maynard's best
The invaders overtake Wallace in Brent's dining-room.
Discussing domestic Preparedness.
friends and make him withdraw his support from the measure.
At last the bill is before a conference committee of the House and the Senate, of which Wright is the chairman. The Senator is obdurate, as he thinks that preparedness is a bad thing, so at last, in order to gain time for his party, he decides to adjourn the meeting, giving as an excuse that he wants to go West to see his family. This hinders the passage of the bill.
Out West he and Mona are met at the station by his son and daughter-in-law with their baby, and also by Wallace. There is a happy family reunion as they are all at the home of young Wright. But in the midst of this peace there falls like a thunderbolt the crash of war. That night there is a raid on the border by some Mexican bandits and they all barely escape with their lives. The sight of the wreck that the raid has made of the homes of American citizens from lack of proper protection, stirs the pride of Senator Wright and he wires Washington to send troops at once. The reply that comes back the next morning is that there are no troops to send.
These events change the Senator's mind and he goes East with Wallace to get the bill through the Senate. He arrives just as the bill is up for vote and gets permission (Continued 6n page 26.)