The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 37 "THE GREAT RADIUM MYSTERY." Episode 11. PERILS OF DOOM. CAST. Cleo Rand Cleo Madison (The Countess Nada) Gloria Marston Eileen Sedgwick Bob Preston Rob Reeves The Buzzard Bob Kortman John Marston Jeff Osborne The Dove Robert Gray The Rat Gordon MacGregor 'J'HE driver of the mysterious tank entering the shaft through a secret entrance rescued Gloria and Bob from their perilous situation. He deposited them on a highway above the mine where Cleo Rand, who traveled under the alias of Madame Nada, gave her the long missing key and the tube of stolen radium. They decided to give it to Robert Ferris, Gloria's guardian and lawyer, for safe keeping until the other piece of the sheepskin map could be recovered. Madame Nada also informed her that this missing sheepskin was hidden in the fireplace at Bird's Nest Tavern. When they met the banker who was on the way to Gloria's rescue, these important documents and deed, which Madame Nada had also secured, were given to him and by him placed in the vault of the bank. The Buzzard gang had been quick to discover the escape of their victims, and they pursued them instantly and audaciously. They decided to blow up the bank. In full force they swooped down on the little western town, capturing Gloria and Bob, who were enjoying their first moment of security together. They tied them in separate rooms, while the Buzzard placed a stick of dynamite in the outside door of the safe which contained the valuables they sought and the banker. An instant later there was a terrible explosion. "SEEING THINGS." One Reel O-keh Komedy, Featuring Neal Burns. CAST. Neal J Neal Burns Nurse Josephine Hill The Clam By Himself ^EAL is one of the fashionable ones who at some time or other in their existence are awaiting the call of having their appendix removed. As he waits, he watches other patients — a colored man turning white with fright almost pauses Neal to swallow the thermometer with which the doctor is taking his temperature. He nervously arises and walks to the door — staggers through into the operating room. They put him on a table and as he looks, the doctor's face turns into that of a devil's, the nurse into a toothless old hag, and as the ether mask is attached, Neal feels like a pair of ice tongs are stuck in his ears and a wrench is applied to his nose and little devils with pick axes are hammering on his forehead. They fade itno oblivion and the darkness becomes light again. Neal sits up and finds the place empty. He goes to the door and in the corridor, to his astonishment, is himself. He asks his double what he is doing here and it replies: "The same as you are." Neal cannot understand. They sit on a bench and the double takes from his pocket a clam shell and starts sobbing. Neal asks what that is. The double tells him "It's my poor little appendix's house. He was such an affectionate little appendix. Every morning he would wake me up, and he was so patriotic. Why every time I played the national anthem he used to wave the American flag." Neal asks him what became of his appendix and the double tells him a wicked doctor cut it out. As thev talk the nurse misses along the corridor and the double tells him that she is his reincarnated appendix. Neal takes a fancy to the nurse — the double sits jealously and watches the proceedings. The nurse is quite coquettish and as Neal is about to steal a kiss, the double interferes. Neal is angry — starts to administer justice to the double when he comes to and finds he is struggling with the doctor and the nurse. "THE LION MAN." Episode 2. The Rope of Death. CAST. Jim Westcoit Jack Perrin Stella Donovan ....Kathleen O'Connor Frederick Cavendish . .Barney Sherry Patrick Enright Henry Barrows John Cavendish Robert Walker Celeste Gertrude Astor The Lion Man SHro Padgett gTELLA is rescued by firemen from the burning house. She confides to Farris, city editor of "The Times," that she believes Frederick came to his death before the fire started. Farris tells her to follow Celeste. She disguises herself as a boy and starts for a Bohemian restaurant that Celeste frequents. At this cafe, En right and John are having a talk. Enright had retained a copy of Frederick's will, and tells John that he must sign a paper, turning over a considerable amount of money, or that he will disclose the will. The will previously made had not been found, and Frederick's estate has been ordered held in trust for one year. Celeste has received an important telegram that she displays to John and Enright. Stella, spying on them from the next booth, is observed. They rush to her, but she leaps over the partition and seizes the telegram. Some newspaper reporters come to her assistance, and she manages to escape, but with only half of the telegram. She goes at once to Celeste's apartment, enters by aid of a pass key, and is starting to search the apartment when Celeste, Enright and John come. Stella hides in Celeste's bedroom, and when Celeste enters, she overpowers her, takes the missing portion of the telegram and reads it. This telegram is from a man named Lacey, and states that Westcott has just returned from interviewing Cavendish, that he appears worried, and asking that immediate instructions be given. The message has been sent from Topaz, a mining town in Arizona. Enright has summoned "Rat" Beaton, a gun man, to follow the boy who had taken half of the telegram in the cafe. Beaton comes to Celeste's apartment just as Enright and John discover that Stella, or the boy as they think, is in Celeste's bedroom. They start to batter down the door. Stella finds a rope used for emergency in case of fire and starts to descend by it to the alley below. Enright, Beaton and John break down the door and enter the bedroom. Stella is only half way to the ground as Enright takes out a knife to cut the rope.