The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 17 CAST. Clara Hawthorne, Ruth Clifford Prentice Tiller.-Rupert Julian Ramon Mordant, Frank Brownlee Stephen Pitt, Wedgwood Nowell O'Meara. Harry Rattenberry Rosario E. A. Warren while she is talking to a suspicious-looking man, she returns and chides her, escort for not keeping his word. Tiller then invites the girl to a cafe, for the purpose of getting from her some explanation of her mystifying conduct. The girl tells her story — in effect that she had arrived the day before from England, to join her fiance whom she had not seen for two years. Met at the steamship by strangers, they took her to No. 218 Lester street. To her surprise she learns that her fiance has, since they parted, joined a revolutionary society and is now a dynamiter. Upon trying to escape from the Lester street house the tgirl had accidentally disturbed some chemicals, and in the excitement of the explosion that followed she had fled. Tiller accepts her story with a grain of salt, but accedes to her request to deliver, fc| her, a letter to a lady with whom she wishes to communicate. When Tiller reaches the address indicated on the envelope, he finds the house apparently vacant. But he knocks vigorously at the door until a man appears, takes the letter and says he is the "Miss Smith" addressed. The contents of the missive alarms "Miss Smith," and the man rushes from the house, leaving Tiller alone in the empty reception room. When Tiller sees policemen hurrying toward the house, he makes his escape through the back yard. Once in the street Tiller sees "Miss Smith" enters a taxi and decides to follow. There has been an (Copyright 1917, Bluebird Photoplays, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) nouncement of a brilliant reception at the Hawthorne residence and Tiller is astonished to see "Miss Smith" enter that stately mansion. For some time there has been at No. 218 Lester street, a frequent visitor known only as "The Face," so named because of the weird appearance of his countenance — a muscular contraction that makes him hideous to behold. He is a confidant of the band of criminals sheltered there, the leader being none other than Mordant, who has lately escaped from Paris, making his getaway with twin necklaces that he has smuggled into the United States. Police are assigned to all society events and are at the Hawthorne reception. Tiller arranges to be a guest, receiving his invitation through mysterious influence. The girl of his Lester street adventure is there. Another guest is Mrs. Mont-Ferry, a distinguished matron who wears at her throat a necklace of great brilliancy. The girl of Tiller's adventure also wears a necklace, When the jewels Mrs. Mont-Ferry wears are stolen from her neck, Tiller is accused of the theft. A search discloses a necklace Mrs. Mont-Ferry cannot identify. A few moments later the girl of Lester street secretly gives to Tiller, for "safe keeping," the necklace she has taken from her own throat — and Tiller departs with the twfn strings of gems in his possession. The girl hurries to Police Headquarters and identifies herself as a Secret Service agent, disclosing the fact that she had all but captured the famous criminal, Mordant, when he escaped. Tiller now proceeds to "clean up." On his information to the police Mordant is arrested at No. 218 Lester street (for Tiller is "The Face"). He calls upon the girl (who is Clara Hawthorne) and gives to her the evidence upon which she will get credit for the arrest, and then discloses his own identity as the Chief of the Secret Service. «