The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ■19 "LIBERH" EPISODE No. 16 CAST. Liberty Horton Marie Walcamp Major Winston Neal Hart Jose Leon L. M. Wells Capt. Bob Rutledge Jack Holt Pedro Eddie Polo Pancho Lopez G. Raymond Nye HE sixteenth episode of the serial "Liberty" is a tremendous test of nerve for its chief character, played by the intrepid Marie Walcamp. She has endured almost more than a woman can stand in the former episodes, and run risks innumerable; but in this her courage is put to still greater proof. Shut up in the dungeon, into which she escapes by prying loose a stone in the wall of her cell, she finds herself in close proximity to snakes, (real, live, crawling serpents they are, too,) gila monsters, snapping turtles, rats and other horrors of the animal world. She plunges into a pool, already inhabited by a choice selection of these specimens of the animal kingdom. Pedro, tortured almost to death, is shot into the pool on top of her, and in this appalling situation we are forced to leave them for another whole week. The sixteenth episode opens with the Major crawling out of his improvised grave, ^vhere he finds the bodies of his dead men. He is horror stricken as he sees the ravages of death that are strewn about him. His wounds pain him so that he can scarcely walk and the terrible sight that greets his view almost unbalances his mind, together with the pain that he is suffering. He takes a canteen from one of the bodies and after Liberty is brought back to the prison by Lopez. quenching his thirst he starts out, alone in the desert, to find civilization. In the meantime Jack and his band of men have decided that they will not go back to the States until they have found Liberty. So they start out in (the direction of the Leon Hacienda to learn what news they can. Marie is still in the subterranean chamber with all the horrors about her. The plucky girl, who has gone through so much, is at last discouraged, as she is beginning to feel the hardship. She has not had anything to drink for more than two days and the thirst is terrible. She comes very near yielding to the temptation to drink some of the stagnant water in the pool. In the torture chamber Pedro is faring scarcely any better. They have tortured him so that the spark of life has almost gone out. At last he faints from utter exhaustion and they take his limp body and put it through an aperture. The door snaps back and his body is swallowed up in the black. In the dungeon Liberty is about to yield and drink some of the water when the body of a man comes down the chute. It is Pedro. Liberty drags him out of the water and so saves him from drowning. In the meanwhile Major Winston is wandering on the desert. He has no more water and is almost dying of thirst. In a frantic effort to find water he digs into the sand. The buzzards are hovering near in the hope that his body will soon be theirs. Finally he falls exhausted and there he is found by Bob. UNIVERSAL CITY RECOGNIZED AS A WORLD CAPITAL. Touring Hupmobile received by the "Liberty" Company. UNIVERSAL CITY has been officially recognized as one of the capital cities of the world — in this case the world of motion pictures. Recognition came to the film municipality in the following manner. Recently a Hupmobile started out on a tour of this country, with the avowed intention of stopping at the capital city of every state in the Union. The journey was to cover twenty-five thousand miles, there and back. In every state capital the tourists were well received, but the greatest reception of all took place in the film "hub of the universe" — Universal City. (Continued on page 35)