The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY I At the left Pat is in her garage costume. In the centre the start of the race. At the right the detective. EPISODE NINE of the big serial, written and produced by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford, is entitled "A Strange Discov While crossing the Atlantic, Pat ery," and brings the daring ^IJLt Vachef ^ Sfet/ af JS? queen of the Apaches to Amen house on the morning Kelly had called ca, where she wins an auto race, to redeem the stolen pearls. Her mys terious disappearance from the drawing-room where Kelly had expected to CAST. find her, was accounted for by her Patricia Montez Grace Cunard attendance upon the Apache meeting Phil Kelly „ Francis Ford in a room, reached from the drawing His Assistants room by a secret passage. Pete Gerald Pat informed the members of her Jerry Ash gang that she had been retained by Mary MacLean Gertrude Short Robert Jackson, wealthy manufac Robert Jackson, inventor, turer of high speed motors, to ferret Leonard Clapman out a plot against his commercial wel Wallace Drew Abe Mundon fare that seemed to exist among his Jack Elliot Joe Moore employees. She delegated six of her men to find employment at the factory, and, having disguised herself as PISODE No. 9 of the big a man, Pat also became one of the serial "The Purple Mask," workmen. Numerous exciting inciis called "A Strange Dis dents resulted. covery." The last chap Mary MacLean, niece of Robert ter brought the Queen of Jackson, is heiress to his fortune and the Apaches and the de Wallace Drew is trying to gain her tective, Phil Kelly, to good graces with her prospective America on the same boat. In this, wealth in mind. Pat becomes suspici Pat is found, surrounded by a devoted ous of Jack Elliott, superintendent of band of shrouded men who do her bid the factory, and advises Jackson to ding, engaged in the same sort of disappear, leaving the impression he Robin Hood tactics, with which she has sailed for Europe, was occupied on the other side of the Subsequently a cable is received ocean. that Jackson has died in London. Through previous arrangement the reading of the will is accomplished, and when Jack Elliott finds that the entire Jackson estate and fortune has been left to Mary MacLean, he becomes resentful. In the hope of finding some way to break the will or cast doubt upon Jackson's death, Elliott engages Detective Kelly. Finally it is established that Jackson did not die, and with the possibility of Miss MacLean being kept out of her fortune for an indefinite number of years. Drew joins forces with Elliott and becomes antagonistic to the Jackson interest. Miss MacLean has entered a car, equipped with Jackson motors, in the Speedway Race for the Golden Cup. Drew and Elliott determine to put the car out of commission, hoping thus to deny the Jackson motors the advertising they would secure in the event of Miss MacLean's car winning. Pat discovers evidence of their conspiracy and determines to thwart them. Convinced that she must first dispose of Kelly, the girl decoys him to her home and when he enters the house to investigate, traps him in an iron-walled compartment in the cellar, which has been built for the purposes the Apaches might have for it, and (Continued on page 34)