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December 22, 1917 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1843
a six-Inch gun. Subtitles : The base for the
gun has to be carefully laid out. Assembling
the parts of the complex, death-dealing device.
When all set up the gun platform can be
readily revolved to change the aim.
Folkestone, England.—Canadian soldiers,
back from the front on furlough, indulge in
jolly sport at a big military carnival for the
tent pegging contest.
Red Cross. Sutbitles : A
Girl war workers, too, make merry in leisure
moments.
Arlington, N. J.— Six million tons of ships
by 1918 is America's plan, and as each vessel
is finished the keel for another is quickly
laid. Subtitle: The first rivet.
Fort Meyer, Va.—President and Mrs. Wilson
attend the graduation exercises as 900 officers
are commissioned into the Nation's service.
Subtitles : Secretary of War Baker distributes
the coveted parchments. They are ready. Uncle
Sam, to lead the way to victory.
Help Win the War Through the Air.—The
Government needs thousands of mechanics in
its airplane factories to help build the great
aerial fleet planned. Subtitles. Skilled and unskilled
workers can be used for making and
assembling the different parts. Men of engine
experience can render patriotic service by joining
the aviation section. The airplane—the
aviator—the mechanic. This trio will do much
to win the war. Will you do your bit? After
December 15 the men of draft age can no longer
enlist. This is your last chance. ENLIST
NOW.
Cartoon (Magazine Section).—The Handwriting
in the Sky.
HEARST-PATHE NEWS NO. 98 (Dec. 5).
Rotorua, New Zealand.—For miles around the
countryside is devastated when the volcano of
Waimangu suddenly bursts into titanic eruption.
Sub-titles : Hundreds of homes are
wrecked. Nearby waters rise in violent fury
during the disturbance.
Seattle, Wash.—Seventy-nine days after the
keel was laid, the Seattle is ready to be launch-
ed, the first shfp of the big emergency fleet.
she slides down the
Sub-titles : Gracefully
ways—America's answer to ruthless warfare
and U-boats. The Seattle is 8.S00 tons. Many
more are being built and men are needed to
help rush them. Join the army of shipbuilders.
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.—Commencement Day is
held in student officers' camps. Twenty-five
hundred successful candidates are commissioned
at this school. Sub-titles : Fit to lead
America's forces. Thirty-five hundred "future
generals" at Fort Sheridan.
Boston, Mass.—This is not an Arctic exploration
ship, but a trawler just back from the
Grand Banks with the first sign of winter
the vessel of the icy
Sub-title : Stripping
mantle.
A Peek Into the Past.— Is milady returning
to the fashions of ancient times? Here are
some of the styles in Badgad over 2,000 years
ago. By courtesy of Chu Chin Chow. Subtitles
: Pantalettes are not a recent creation
they were worn in the days of yore. Smart
"hats" in the year 100 B. C.
On the Western Front.— Side by side with
the Allies Poland's patriots are fighting to liberate
humanity. General Archinard visits their'
camp. Sub-titles: Brave fighters, too; they
know the sufferings under autocracy. They
strive to realize their dream of a free nation,
for the Allies' cause is Poland's cause.
New York City.—The entire waterfront in
the Nation's largest port is placed under mili-
tary control to protect all shipping from spies.
Subtitles : Enemy aliens are prohibited from
going within 350 feet of the shoreline. United
States Marshal McCarthy, in charge of this
district.
The Red Cross Calls You.—Ten million new
members by Christmas— is the slogan of a na* :
tion-wide drive launched by the American Red
Cross. Sub-titles : Every pledge will bring a
ray of sunshine to some wounded boy over
there. Have you given yours? Get a service'
flag and make this a Red Cross Christmas of
mercy. The Red Cross a National Symbol of
Love. Patriotism and Service. All you need
a heart and a dollar. Join the Red Cross today.
THE HIDDEN HAND (No 4— "The False
Locket"—Two Parts—Dec. 9).—The cast: Doris
Whitney (Doris Kenyon) ; Dr. Scarley (Sheldon
Lewis) ; Verda Crane (Arline Pretty) ; Jack
Ramsey (Mahlon Hamilton) ; the Hidden Hand
( ? ? ?).
Doris is trying to escape from the Hidden
Hand by hiding herself under an overturned
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rowboat. Ramsey, who has been made a prisoner,
escapes and rescues Doris. A search party
rescues them from the rocky point on which they
landed and Ramsey secures the packet containing
the fingerprints, which he threw into the
bushes before his capture by the Hidden Hand.
In his den, the Hidden Hand plans to arouse
Doris' jealousy. One of the female members of
his gang is sent to Doris with a letter purporting
to be from Ramsey to his wife, in which he
says that he has the locket and is sending it to
her for safekeeping. He tells her not to bo
jealous of Doris Whitney as she means nothing
to him. The letter is signed, "Your Husband,
Jack." In the envelope is the false locket prepared
by the Hidden Hand. Ramsey's supposed
wife goes to Doris and gives her the letter and
the locket and tells her to keep her hands off
her husband. Doris demands the packet from
Ramsey and again becomes friendly with Dr.
Scarley.
With the locket and the packet in her possession,
Doris is about to attempt to open it and
settle the question of her identity, when Ramsey
warns her of the danger she runs, as he feels
sure the locket is a false one Heeding Ramsey's
warning, Doris puts the locket and the packet
in the safe in her living room. Ramsey discovers
the false entrance to the underground
den of the Hidden Hand and decides to destroy
whoever is using the den. He places dynamite
in the false entrance to the den and arranges
so it can be set off by electricity. The electrical
wires he attaches to a piedmograph which
records the footsteps on the ground in the
vicinity of the dynamite.
The Hidden Hand discovers Ramsey's plan and
has Verda Crane lure Doris to the place where
the dynamite has been placed. Ramsey sees the
piedmograph record foosteps and sets off the
dynamite. He hastens to see who his victim
may be, and is surprised to find Doris struggling
to free herself from the debris in the cave.
Dr. Scarley tells Doris that Ramsey was responsible
for her plight and Doris breaks with Ramsey.
Late that night she hears noise in her
living room and rushes down to find the false
Ramsey opening the safe, by means of an oxyacetylene
torch. He gags and binds her. He
then opens the safe and secures the packet and
the locket. Out of curiosity he attempts to open
the packet. It explodes and kills him. The
Hidden Hand, waiting outside the house for the
false Ramsey, enters just as the evidence in the
packet is destroyed. Doris manages to free herself
from her bonds and is struggling with the
Hidden Hand when the real Ramsey enters the
room and rescues her. She is surprised to see
Ramsey alive and looks in wonder at his dead
double on the floor. He explains to her that it
was his double who attacked her and secured
the packet and the locket. The episode ends
after a tender love passage between Doris and
Ramsey.
THE SEVEN PEARLS (Episode No. 14—"The
Tower of Death"—Two Parts—Dec. 9).—The
cast: lima (Mollie King); Harry Drake
i ('reighton
Hale) ; Perry Mason (Leon Bary).
The fourteenth episode opens with a surprise
for Harry when he is dr^wn to the bridge from
over the Rapids. He is greeted by lima, who,
he thought, was in the piano box that went over
Niagara Falls. She explains tnat when Perry
Mason and his men threw the case into the river
she managed to escape from it.
Home again, Kismet warns lima and Harry
that the next day is the last one set by the
Sultan for the return of the pearls and that if
she fails to secure the entire seven pearls she
must go into the Sultan's harem. They hear
that Jeo. Gudgeon, a member of Grady's gang,
has the seventh pearl and is offering it to the
highest bidder. After many adventures lima
obtains it, and hands it to Harry for safekeeping.
He returns it to her as he does not want
to be responsible for it. Perry and Stayne attack
lima and Harry and secure the pearl. In the
fight Harry is knocked unconscious and lima
pretends to be senseless, but when Perry and
Stayne start away she follows after them. Perry
and Stayne discover her and corner her near a
big tank. To escape them she climbs up the
ladder of the tank and Stayne follows. He is
about to capture her when she pushes him from
the ladder. In the effort she loses her balance
and falls into the tank. She lies unconscious at
the bottom of the tank, which has only a few
inches of water in it.
Stayne wants to rescue lima so that Perry will
be able to get the Sultan's reward, but Perry
wants to leave her to her fate. Their difference
of opinion results in a fight and Perry throws
Stayne under a locomotive engine passing on the
tracks near which they are struggling. Harry
ng) ; Robert Lathrop (Donald Fullen) ;
Lola Monroe (Olga Grey); .Billy Haskell
(Eugene Burr) ; Eyre's Clerk (Edward Hayden)
; Foreman
(W. A. Jeffries). Scenario bv
Joseph A. Roach. Directed by Raymond Wells.
Robert Lathrop is involved in a love affair
with Lola Monroe and is hard pressed for cash.
He goes to Nicholas Eyre, steel king and friend
of his wife's dead father, for assistance. Eyre
refuses him and he gets his wife to intercede
Unknown to her he gets $1,000.
Going to the luxurious apartments of his mistress
he finds her in the arms of her lover. A
light ensues and Lathrop is killed.
Mary, I.athrop s wife, knew nothing of her"
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