The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

40 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "The Lion Man." Episode 9. "Sold Into Slavery." CAST. Stella Kathleen O'Connor Westcott Jack Perrin Enright Henry Barrows Lacey Leonard Clapham Lion Man „. Slim Pagett Celeste Gertrude Astor Ching C. Norman Hammond Wang William Carroll WESTCOTT and Stellar are in the underground passage, with the water rapidly rising about them. Enright, Lacey, Celeste and Wang are in Wang's office watching the glass tube that indicates the flow of water in the tunnel below. As Westcott and Stella are about to resign themselves to their fate, the Lion Man appears, opens a trap door and lowers a rope to them. With the aid of the rope Westcott and Stella climb up to the end of the tunnel, on a steep hillside. A rope ladder leads below, and Westcott goes down this. After Stella has started down, Westcott looks up and sees a Chinaman, hacking the rope ladder. A bullet from Westcott's gun kills him. Satisfied that Westcott and Stella are dead, Enright, Celeste and Lacey leave Wang's office, intending to return when the water has receded to obtain the will from Westcott's body. Westcott and Stella come to a house where they ask permission to dry their clothe?. Ching. who is one of Wang's hireling's, welcomes them, but when Vie hears them discussing Wane, he phones his master. The Sheriff and hi? men have taken Wans: prisoner, but with a doped cigarette Wang overcomes the jailer, and returns to his headquarters in time to receive Ching's phone. Wang: instmrts Chin? to dope Stella, and he will send some men for her. Westcott has left Stella to obtain some drv clothes and to notify the Sheriff of his experiences. Ching offers Stella a complete Chinese costume, which she dons. He also serves her with some tea. which renders her senseless. Wang's men call, and Stella is placed in a hamper and carried back to Wang's place. Enright, Lacey and Celeste come to Wang's place and are amazed to leam that Westcott and Stella are still alive. Thev proceed to Ching's house, to await Westcott. Indignation runs high against Wang and a moh is formed to lynch him. The Sheriff begs Westcott to assist him in holdingr them off, not having discovered that Wang has escaped. While awaiting Westcott, Enright discovers the Cavendish will, Stella having placed it under a rug for safe keeping. Lighting a match, Enright touches it to the envelope containing the will, telling the others that he is going to destroy it forever. At Wang's place, Wang sells Stella as a slave girl to Hong, a wealthy old Chinese. As Hong enters, Stella, somewhat revived, and learning that she has been sold into slavery flees into another room. She locks the door, but as she steps back away from it, from a Chinese Buddha, two powerful mechanical hands, clutch her tightly about the neck. EARLY JEWELS Just as good to-day as ever HERBERT RAWLINSON in "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 by 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 WEBEB