The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

40 —THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "THE GREAT RADIUM 4| MYSTERY." Episode 18. "Liquid Flames." CAST. Cleo Rand Cleo Madison (The Counters Nada) Gloria Marston Eileen Sedgwick Bob Preston Rob Reeves The Buzzard Bob K^r'man John Marston Jeff Osborne The Dove Robert Gray QLORIA flies free of the car and despite her injured ankle lands in safety. Bob manages to extricate himself from the wreckage and with the assistance of the banker get1-; Gloria away while the Buzzard and his men capture the banker's car to make their getaway from the detectives. In the car the Buzzard finds a bag containing a number of keys one of which is the key to vault containing the Marston radium. With the combination and the two sheepskins the Buzzard finally discovers the number and starts for the Marston laboratory. Bob in the meantime has grotten away on the Buzzard's horse while the banker follows on Bob's horse. Gloria is left alone while Bob and the banker pursue the Buzzard to capture the stolen keys. Bob discovers the Buzzard's henchmen and while tying them to a tree after having roped them and dragging them through the woods, is shot at by the Dove and left tied in place by the henchmen. Gloria, meanwhile, has found the bag and Brownie, her dog, attacks the Buzzard tearing the sheepskins from the pocket of his shirt and runs to Gloria with them. The banker finds Gloria and starts with her towards the laboratory. The Buzzard and the Dove discover their whereabouts and give chase. At the laboratory Gloria discovers the hidden vault and as she is about to extract the radium from it is pounced upon by the Buzzard and forced to watch him obtaining the Radium, Bob in the meantime being brought in tied while this is going on. Just as the Buzzard and his men are about to get the radium by opening the vault from the combination secured from the two sheepskins, a burst of liquid flame in the form of a burglar alarm kills the Buzzard and his flock as the banker and the Mystery man rescue Gloria and Bob from the gas-filled room. In the laboratory the Mystery Man leaves Gloria and returns to the room filled with flames. By throwing a switch he cuts off this barrier to the radium and returns to Gloria in the laboratory, presenting the radium to her. Gloria is amazed at the generosity of the Mystery man and asks why he does this for her. He explains that now that both Bird and the Buzzard are dead, the accusers of her father are out of his way and he astonishes Gloria and Bob and the banker by disclosing himself as Gloria's father who has been in seclusion in the guise of the Mystery Man. After thanking Bob for h's assistance and that of Madame Nada. his assistant. Marston joins Bob's hand to that of Gloria as a token of his willingness that they should marry. EARLY JEWELS Just as good to-day as ever HERBERT RAWLINSON "COME THROUGH" by GEORGE BRONSON HOWARD with ALICE LAKE and ROY STEWART Directed by JACK CONWAY DOROTHY PHILLIPS in "PAY ME" with LON CHANEY and WM. STOWELL Directed by JOSEPH DE GRASSE DOROTHY PHILLIPS in "A SOUL FOR SALE" "SIRENS OF THE SEA" with CARMEL MYERS, LOUISE LOVELY and JACK MULHALL Written and directed by ALLEN HOLUBAR ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN in "THE CO-RESPONDENT" by ALICE LEAL POLLOCK and RITA WEIMAN Directed by RALPH INCE FLORENCE LaBADIE in "THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY" by EDWARD EVERETT HALE MILDRED HARRIS in "THE PRICE OF A GOOD TIME" Written and directed bv LOIS WEBER MILDRED HARRIS in "THE DOCTOR AND THE WOMAN" from the novel "K" by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Adapted and directed by LOIS WEBER MILDRED HARRIS in "FOR HUSBANDS ONLY" by G. B. STERN appearing in Smart Set Directed by LOIS WEBER "CRASHING THROUGH TO BERLIN" RUPERT JULIAN in "THE KAISER, THE BEAST OF BERLIN" written by E. J. CLAWSON and RUPERT JULIAN Directed by RUPERT JULIAN MILDRED HARRIS in "BORROWED CLOTHES" Written and directed by LOIS WEBER DOROTHY PHILLIPS in "THE HEART OF HUMANITY" Written by OLGA SCHOLL and ALLEN HOLUBAR Directed by ALLEN HOLUBAR MILDRED HARRIS in "WHEN A GIRL LOVES" Written and directed by LOIS WEBER