Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914)

1442 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD After a daring and dangerous jump from a high bridge, the detective is picked up by a police patrol boat -which starts in pursuit of Fred Moore. He is finally oTertaWen and at police headquarters the diamonds arc found on him. Detective Sharp is complimented by the chief of police for his smart work, but he leaves headquarters with the knowledge that his duty is not yet fulfilled, ffe goes to the home of Clara Moore, and while his emotions are torn between love and duty. Clara points to a little green bottle on the table. With 'her last breath, she exhorts the unhappy man to remember that she died for the sake of the man she loved. THE I. S. P. CO. DETECnVE FUTN, OF SCOTLAITD YARD (3 parts). — Lord Gray buys his wife an expensive diamond. They are seen making the purchase by a notorious London crook, who shadows them to their home. That night the crook and his accomplices, a man and a woman, capture Lady Gray's maid. They compel the maid to write a note to her ladyship, stating she has been taken suddenly ill, and that the bearer, her sister, will take her place. The woman crook takes the note to Lad.v Gray's residence, and is admitted into the household. She discovers Lady Gray locking the diamond in a small safe, after which she hides the key nnder a vase. During Lady Gray*s absence the woman crook steals the Jewel and conceals it by pinning it to her underskirt. A friend of the Grays calls at the house, and Lady Gray goes to show her the present. The loss of the valuable stone is discovered, and her husband is informed of the robbery. Lord Gray at once calls Detective Finn, of Scotland Yard, and places the case in his hands. The "maid" overhears Lord Gray's conversation, and learns the celebrated detective is expected within an hour. Calling her pals on the 'phone she tells them she has the diamond, but that the robbery has been discovered and Detective Finn put on the case. The gentleman crook calls at Lord G'ray's house. The card be presents bears the inscription "Detective Arthur Finn." He hears the story of the robbery. After numerous questions he asks if they have a maid, and the question being answered in the affirmative, he demands to see her Bhe is summoned. By a secret code she tells her confederate where the stolen jewel is concealed. Informing his lordship that the maid is one of London's most noted crooks, he suddenly grabs her and wrests the diamond from her underskirt. He tells Lord and Lady Gray to leave the case entirely in his hands. With the maid supposedly under arrest, he leaves the house, taking the diamond with him. and telling Lord Gray if he calls at headquarters in the morning it will be returned to bim. Detective Finn leaves his office and makes his way to Lord Gray's. He enters the gate just as the two crooks come out. Entering the walk that leads to the house he finds a handkerchief, which has the odor of a peculiar perfume. When he presents his card to Lord Gray, he is told that Detective Finn bad already been there. Convincing Lord Gray that he has been duped, he hears the whole story, and then starts in pursuit of the thieves, his only clue a perfumed handkerchief. About to board a bus he is again struck with the peculiar odor of the perfume on the handkerchief as a man and woman alight. He decides to "shadow" the pair. They discover they are being followed. The crook hurriedly puts his confederate into a taxi, telling her be will follow later and meet at their house. The crook then boards a bus. followed by the detective. In a handto-thand conflict on top of the bus, the crook knocks the detective down, and jumps onto a bus going in the opposite direction. The detective staggers up and succeeds in jumping onto the same bus, where another scuffle takes place, the detective again getting the worst of it, and the crook escapes by jumping onto a passing taxi. The detective hails a taxi and starts in pursuit. The detective overtakes the taxi, and makes a daring jump into it as it passes. Again the crook gets the better of a fight, and makes his escape by jumping onto a crane slowly rising in the air in front of a building which is being renovated, followed by the detective, who succeeds in grabbing a dangling chain. Finally they reach the scaffold, where a deadly struggle takes place; but again either by luck or superior strengtli, the crook makes his getaway over the roofs of the buildings, finally entering his own house, followed, however, by the detective. Here the detective is trapped, and bound securely to a sofa. A bomb is placed near the sofa, and a fuse, timed to bum for thirty minutes, is lighted, and attached to the bomb. Coolly informing the detective that half an hour later when the bomb explodes he will be on his way to Paris, the crook leaves, thoroughly convinced Detective Finn will bother him no more. But the crook reckons without the detective's dog. The dog becomes restless at his master's long absence. Escaping from the house, toe canine trails his master to the house in which he is a captive, but finds difficulty In entering the room, as the window is only slightly open. After much maneuvering with the window the dog succeeds in forcing it upward, and gains entrance. Obeying its master it first upsets the bomb, putting out ihe fuse, and then gnaws at the cords which bind Finn, until he is able to get free. Rushing out of the house. Detective Finn hails a taxi, and makes all possible speed to the Charing Cross Railway Station. He arrives just as the train pulls out, just too late to board the train that is taking the notorious crook to Dover. Hiring a high !?peed automobile, he tells the chauffeur he must beat the express to Diover. At breakneck speed, the automobile goes until it reaches the station at Dover — just ahead of the express. Making his way to the docks, the detective makes himself known to the officials, and assumes the disguise of a steward. At the gangplank he stands, waiting for the crook to come. Furtively glancing around him the crook approaches the gangplank, paying not the slightest attention to the disguised detective. As he approaches close to Finn a pair of handcuffs are snapped around his wrists, and he is marched off to jail to await his trial, not only for the robbery of the diamond, but on numerous other charges. FAMOUS PLAYERS. CLOTHES. — Olive Sherwood, a pretty Western girl living in Omaha, is very fond of finery. Young and inexperienced, she knows nothing of the deeper currents of life, but the refinements of society and its polished exteriors appeals to her strongly, and the crude West does not seem to provide what her fastidious nature craves. Her loving old father sighs over her extravagances, but is too indulgent to curb them, and in order to gratify her expensive whims invests in some Red Star mining stock that West, a crafty, unscrupulous Xew York broker, induces him to buy. On a business trip to Omaha. West sees Olive, and casts an admiring and covetous eye upon her. Horace Watling. his wife. Anna, and their child, Ruth, are firm friends of Olive, and Mrs. Watling's love for clothes creates a strong bond between both women. Mr. Watling, who is a small publisher, is Induced to come to New York and establish himself there as a partner in a big publishing concern. Olive envies the Watlings' gay life in the metropolis, so that when her father dies and West advises her to come to New York. Olive is easily persuaded to do so. For a time Olive is delighted with the gaiety of metropolitan society, but she has only one "party gown," and its frequent ■ appearances soon cause sly amusement and concealed scorn. Olive, left in straitened circumstances by her father's death, grieves over her lack of money for pretty clothes. At this juncture West comes forward and tells her that the Red Star raining stock owned by her father has boomed, giving her money in the form of "div^ends." Olive innocentHy accepts the funds, unaware that the stoc^ is worthless. A young clerk in West's office, whose father had been ruined by the broker, watches West's dealings closely, and enters in a diary all the evidence of West's crimes, hoping thereby to finally convict him. Watling. though prosperous, is weighed down by business cares, has little use for the society his wife worships, and secretly longs for the simplicity and happiness of his former life; and little Ruth, who is the devoted friend of Olive, is sadly neglected by her ambitious mother. Mrs. Watling invites Olive to a society circus. Olive has already met her ideal, Richard Burbank. a rich young society man who Is weary of the sham and artificiality of the life about him, and who has fallen ardently in love with Olive. He. too. attends the house party, and there declares his love for Olive. Olive accepts him and is very happy. ' West, who observes a tender scene between the two, is furious with jealousy, and enters Olive's room in a drunken frenzy, telling her that she will be his or he will expose her. Olive stares at him in mingled bewilderment and fright, when another guest suddenly enters the room. West hastily leaves, but later, in the presence of all the guests, and amid the gaieties of the society circus. West denounces Olive, and dramatically tells the assemblage that he has been supporting her, and that she would sell her soul for clothes. In proof of this, he displays the receipt for the clothes she wears, for which he had advanced the money in the guise of dividends. Olive, shamed by the disgrace into which her innocent ignorance and love of finery has led her. is too overwhelmed and humiliated to speak, and Burbank is reluctantly forced, in a bitter moment of doubt, to believe her silent admission of West's claims. During this episode, Watling learns that the Red Star mining stock, in which he had heavily invested on the advice of Olive, is worthless. Mrs. Watling also turns against Olive, who, brokenhearted, returns to Omaha, glad to do the sewing for the neighbors she once despised. When it is learned that the Watlings have lost their fortune, they are shunned, and they too see the hollo wness and mockery of society, and decide to return to Omaha and begin life anew. Burbank cannot forget Olive, and with returning love comes the conviction that she is innocent. He goes to West's office, determined to learn where she is, just as West is contemplating a trip abroad on his ill-gotten gains. West tries to escape, but the vengeful clerk aids Burbank in detaining him. The clerk produces the evidence of West's villainies, and the rogue, confronted by exposure and disgrace, and weakened by worry and dissipation, falls dead of heart failure. Little Ruth sees Olive in Omaha, and at once writes Burbank of her presence there. Burbank goes to Omaha, and the lovers are happily reunited. And Olive at last realizes the value of love and the folly of pride in clothes. ITALA FILM CO. A BURIED SECRET (Three Parts). — The young rletective. Jick, was successful in his profession; ^ but there was one thing needed to complete Ms ' happiness and that was the hand of the girl he loved. Fortune favored him in his suit. Juanna re ( turned his affection and the lovers appeared to be ' on a fair way to a life of peace and sympathetic companionship. Trouble, however, came from an unexpected quarter. Juanna's mother was a woman of fashion who led a double life. At home she was all that a mother should be. Abroad she was a detormined devotee of pleasure, associating with the b wealthy and fashionable. At a well-known resort' she made the acquaintance of a great financier, in. whose handsome salons she was always an honored^ gue.«t. The financier's house was entered one night by burglars and all the valuables stolen. The task of tracking down the criminals fell to the young de< Teitive, Jack. who. armed with a clue, succeeded in running them to earth in a secret cave where they were accustomed to meet and divide the spoils. And here a horrible discovery awaited the young man. This was nothing more nor less than the staggering fact that the mother of the girl he was in love with was the chief of the band of burglars. To think that this handsome refined woman who moved in the besft circles was guilty of such depraved conduct was a great blow to the young detective. Nevertheless he resolved to do his duty. He c«ifronted the woman in her house. She was amazed. She denied his accusation. He threatened her at pistol's point. But she outwitted him. Touching a concealed bell push, men servants entered the room and bound and secured the young detective while the woman wrested the revolver from his grasp. The fate of the young detective was horrible in the extreme. He was flung, bound and gagged into a subterranean stream from which after truly HercuI'-an efforts he managf?d to escape, floating out into the open river and being rescued more dead than alive. His escape is the signal for the guilty woman to take alarm. She realizes now that her arrest and condemnation to prison life are certain. Frightened beyond description she takes to flight. She makes her way to a steamer setting out for a foreign port. But the young detective is in hot pursuit. He boards the ship and unmasks the woman. Determined to escape, the guilty woman leaps into the sea and is drowned. The young detective returns to the girl he loves and she in losing an erring mother finds a husband who will console her for her loss. A SHATTERED IDOL (Three Parts).— Dr. Garde! is a man of peculiar ideas. His charity work has endeared him to the poor of the city, and their sufferings have preyed upon his mind to such an extent that he becomes a daring thief, taking from the rich to give to the destitute. Lydia Strand, toe daughter of a wealthy banker, is present at a discussion of t he recent robberies, and comment is made upon the coincidence that donations are made to charitable institutions by an anonymous person following each burglary. Lydia expresses her ad ■ miration of the clever thief, and takes delight in reading of his exploits. One night Gardel effects an entrance into the banker's home and is surprised by Lydia. He tells her of his ideas, though he refuses to reveal his face, which is hidden by a black handkerchief He is fascinated by the charming girl, and as he leaves be grasps her in his strong arms and presses a kiss ui>on her lips. , Gardel pays court to Lydia, and finally secures i her parents' consent to wed her. She does not suspect that he was the burglar she entertained, ' and being of a highly romantic temperament she dreams of the man she has enshrined in her heart as a hero. iMuch against her own inclination she is persuaded to marry Gardel. She does not prove an affectionate wife, and Gardel is worried. Her parents go abroad, and the big house is unoccupied. She resolves to revisit the room where she conversed with tlhe robber in the dead of the night. Gardel. starting on one of his marauding expeditions, sees her and follows. She sits down, and Ina spirit of make-believe addressee a letter to her unknown hero, reading aloud as she writes. The doctor. listening, believes she is writing to a real lover, and with an agonized cry leaps from the high balcony to the court below. Lydia runs dowu and tears the covering from the dead man's face, and finds t-he unknown idol she has been worshipping is her own husband CONVICT 113 (Three Parts).— Revillat is mined by unwise speculations, and goes through bankruptcy. His creditors bring criminal action against him and he is sentenced to prison. After several years he is treated as a "trusty," and when John Lange, a wealthy planter, asks the prison officials for a secretary. Revillat is given the position. H!s gentlemanly deportment and ability win him the regard of Lange, who is a bachelor with no Hying relatives. One night a terrible fire breaks out in Lange's residence. The firemen flght the blaze, but it A HELEN GARDNER FEATURE — Guaranteed Money-getter