Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1915)

388 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 10, 1915 side of the door Frederick gives the man who has just entered the room a side look, and asks Kitty again to give up the coin; this she still refuses to do and, as he starts to grab her, she makes an attempt to strike him. She succeeds and sends him flying across the room ; she rushes for the door, but is grabbed from the back by the man and quickly taken from the room. * Frederick follows and tells her if she does not come across with the coin and stop meddling with his affairs, he will put her where she cannot do anything. The girl steadfastly refuses to give up her half of the coin and Frederick, hearing the noise in the next room and realizing that if Rolleau gets to him he may fare badly at his hands, quickly gets Kitty out of the house. Rolleau succeeds in getting into the ante-room just in time to hear Kitty, Frederick and his accomplice going down the hall. He rushes out, but can find no trace of any of them. Kitty is hurried into a cab and rushed across the desert, headed for the adjoining country of Grahoffen. With Rolleau close at his heels, Frederick employs his man to overpower Kitty, take the coin, and beat a hasty retreat. Kitty is knocked in the head and falls to the ground, unconscious, after having seen Rolleau shot by one of Frederick's men who was following him. After many hours Kitty comes to, to find herself alone on the desert, with the supposedly dead Rolleau a few feet away from her. She gets to her feet and staggers over to where Rolleau is lying, unconscious. She realizes his bad condition and the necessity for water, and, making him as comfortable as she can, looks about for an oasis for his relief. Wandering about, she suddenly sees upon the skyline a caravan en route to Grahoffen. Waving her arms and running toward it, she finally attracts attention. The leader of the caravan comes to her assistance and takes them to a peasant's home In a village near the principality. Kitty, making Rolleau comfortable and promising to return at once, goes out to inspect the country. Count Sachio, of the diplomatic circle of Grahoffen, out on a hunting trip, sees and becomes interested in Kitty. They immediately start a conversation, wherein Kitty states that she is a stranger there and has an injured servant at the peasant home a short distance away. Sachio, who is an unscrupulous villain at heart, pretends to be sorry for Kitty in her predicament and asks what he can do to help her. Kitty tells him she is anxious to get back to Gretzhoffen. Sachio calls his groom and, • placing Kitty on his horse and riding the groom's, he invites her to have tea at his lodge. In the meantime Frederick has returned to Gretzhoffen with the half of Kitty's coin, and pays the King another visit, hoping to get his part of the coin. The King suspects something wrong, and tells Frederick that it is in the bank with the other valuables. Frederick tells him it is no good, but that he thought it might make a nice charm. Michael laughs him off and Frederick leaves to think out a plan to get it some other way. Kitty, having made tea for Sachio, notices the other guests slowly scattering, and the sensuous looks of Sachio. Sachio. becoming bolder, tries to embrace her ; she repulses him, but the brute in him is awakened and he is just about to take her in his arms when he hears someone at the front door and, releasing her, comes face to face with Rolleau. Kitty prevented a fight, and, holding tight to Rolleau's arm, leaves the lodge. On arriving at his apartment, Frederick finds an invitation for a week-end at Count Sachio's hunting lodge. and he starts quickly for the lodge. Kitty and Rolleau, on the two horses they took from the outside of Sachio's place, start across the desert, headed for Gretzhoffen, when they come face to face with Frederick and his valet. Rolleau and Kitty succeed in getting the coin from Frederick by sheer brute strength, when they are all held up by a band of outlaws. Frederick demands immediate release in the name of the King of Gretzhoffen, and the bandits, thinking Kitty is also of the court, send word to King Michael that they have one of the women of his court and by paying a large ransom he can have her. When Michael gets this message he thinks it may be one of his many sweethearts and immediately sends the money, with several of his trustworthy soldiers. A fight ensues, wherein the soldiers rescue Kitty and take her to the King, while Frederick succeeds in making his escape. THE BROKEN COIN (Episode No/ 3, "When the Throne Rocked" — Released Week of July 5). — Kitty again meets Count Frederick, holds out to him the King's half of the coin they are both in search of. Frederick makes a grab for the coin, but Kitty quickly puts it back of her When the King and Count Sachio enter the room she ignores Sachio entirely, but makes a quaint courtesy to the King, asking his permission to return to her hotel, telling him she is quite strong enough, after the rest she just had. The King tries to persuade her to remain. at the place as his guest, but Kitty, anxious to locate the other half of the coin which Frederick's man took from her on the desert refuses. Kitty, sorry for the King in the hands of two such villains as Sachio and Frederick, and, liking him for himself, starts a little harmless flirtation which the King takes rather seriously. Kitty, returning to her hotel, is snubbed by the women guests, who think her very questionable, being American, and, then, too, she brought Rolleau to the hotel, and "no decent woman" . would do that. The next day the guests were surprised when the King's messenger came with a note for someone in the hotel. All were surprised to learn that it was Kitty, who receives an invitation to a "Black and White" ball to be given at the palace in a few days. Kitty purposely drops her invitation so the busy bodies may see it, then just as they are all looking at it, asks its return. Hurriedly having a black and white gown made, Kitty tries to locate Rolleau, whom she left for dead at Sachio's lodge, and failing to get any trace of him. she prepares for the ball. She starts to conceal the King's half of the coin on her person, but remembering her experience on the desert, is about to put it into a drawer when she hears someone sneaking along the hall ; quickly running to the door she is just in time to see the figure of a man disappear around the end of the corridor. Realizing the coin will not be safe there, she strikes upon an idea and, wrapping it into a small package, sends for a telegraph messenger and tells him to deliver it to either Kitty Gray or King Michael at the palace, at 1o'clock sharp. That off her mind, she finds she has all afternoon and part of the evening before the ball andT knowing Frederick is at the palace or at least thinking he is, she starts for his apartment, and slipping out a back entrance of her hotel, just misses one of his men who he has put there to watch her. Sneaking into Frederick's apartment she is startled by hearing his voice, and is about to turn and run back when she listens and overhears Frederick and the Prime Minister talking. Under the assumption that Frederick is a friend of King Michael, the minister tells him that the people of Gretzhoffen are going to revolt if the king does not cease his debauchery, and asks Frederick to do all that he can to have the king stop drinking. Frederick promises, but as soon as the minister has left, Kitty hears Frederick plan with his confederates to get the King drunk and have himself placed upon the throne. Kitty sneaks out and, returning to the hotel, sends a message to Michael warning him that although it may seem very strange to him, not to drink anything that night, should anyone offer him anything, to pretend to be intoxicated, and she will explain when she arrives at the ball. After sending her message, Kitty, hoping to learn more of Frederick's plans, returns to his apartment. Seeing him go, she enters his den and starts searching for the other half of the coin. In the meantime, Frederick's man who has been watching Kitty's movements, tells Frederick about the coin she has had sent to the palace and that she is at the time in his apartment. They return, find her there and lock her in. Kitty, desperate, tries to get out and warn the King about Frederick's treachery and her coin that Frederick will get, should he succeed in getting Michael drunk, but she finds every door locked and the window two stories from the ground. Frederick, sure Kitty will stay in his den until he lets her out, goes to the palace to carry out his plan, dethrone Michael and ascend the throne. Frederick at the palace, has everything in readiness for the revolution to take place FOR the best music obtainable for motion pictures find out about the new SEEBURG-MOTION-PICTURE-PLAYER Manufactured by J. P. SEEBURG PIANO CO. Republic Bldg., 209 S. State St., CHICAGO PHONE 2318-W. 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