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- In Holland, cavaliers rescue the governor and his daughter from Spanish spies.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Opal, who knows nothing about her ancestors, falls in love with G. D. Stanley, the strange young man who is her closest neighbor in the Canadian wilderness. One day, Opal is informed that she is really the princess of a small country and must return to her native land to marry the neighboring king to save her people from invasion. Opal decides to sacrifice her love for Stanley, but before she departs, she spends one hour alone in his cabin. On the eve of her wedding to the dissolute king, it is discovered that Stanley is actually Stanlai, heir-apparent to the throne. When the drunken king attempts to attack Opal in her boudoir, Stanlai kills him, thereby becoming the ruler of his country, and Opal becomes his queen.
- In the land where the Sun hangs low and the hungry wolves shadows play ominously over the everlasting snow, Joe Mauchin meets Jeanne Verette. He is a trapper, come down to the little post of Mead's Pocket, a vicious mining town, for supplies. She, the daughter of a saloonkeeper who compels her to "drum up trade" among his maudlin patrons. Joe falls in love with Jeanne. A brute of a man seeks to interfere and in the resultant struggle falls dead. Joe and Jeanne flee to his camp miles away and a year's happiness follows. Then the trapper finds Constable McKenzie of the Mounted Police half dead in the snow. Joe revives the officer and carries him to his cabin. Straightway McKenzie arrests the trapper for the saloon death. A desperate fight ensues between the two and the constable, overpowered, flees for aid. He is last seen in the woods, staggering from the effects of a wound, and with a pack of wolves slowly drawing in on him. Joe, in the cabin, draws to his arms Jeanne who is shyly clutching a newly made bit of baby clothes. It is that for which Joe had fought.
- A poor but brilliant inventor sets out to make his fortune by discovering buried treasure, with the aid of a special inverted periscope through which he can view the ocean floor.
- "Combining the elements of dramatic interest and stirring animation is the sensational film "The Slave Mart", a Kimberly Feature production in five reels, which opens at the Bijou theater tonight, While not risque, as a number of persons who were given a private exhibition of the picture indorsed (sic) it, nevertheless it deals with a worldwide theme which has set more than one mind pondering. Pregnant truths are unfolded, exposing conditions in metropolitan centers that will hardly bear the light of investigation. For the reason that youthful minds are so easily open to impressions the management has decided not to admit boy and girls under 16 to the performances. "The Slave Mart" deals with a beautiful Italian immigrant, Maria Gramada, who on her arrival at New York is lured by a gang of human vultures under the guist (sic) of friends of her aunt. Jack Spaulding, a society man, happily senses what is under way and intervenes to save Maria from a terrible fate. A friendship begun in such unusual circumstances ripens into love. Maria is admitted to the Spaulding home, and in the course of time goes as a guest of the family to their seaside home, where she meets a former sweetheart of Jack's. In the meantime in the course of an evening's entertainment they witness a cabaret feature "Zuleiia (sic), the Odalisque in the Slave Mart." The old affection between Jack and his former sweetheart takes on new zest under the flame of their companionship. Maria, her heart sorely wounded, in a moment of jealousy and despair, resolves on a revenge similar to Zuleika's, but fate intervenes and rounds out the love story in a happy way."
- Ben and his pal Paddy, a couple of drifting loafers and con-men, arrive in town via a "side-door Pullman" - a free ride in a boxcar. They set up a printing press, and start printing counterfeit money, get involved with a couple of swell-looking towns-girls (even when looked at crooked by Ben), and get highly inebriated.
- In a boarding school for girls Margarita is called to reception: the duchess widow of Santauro, mother of Margarita, has gone to take her out. Her friend Laura, the daughter of Dr. Reyes, is very sad at the departure of her companion. When Margarita comes in contact with sociable environments, the young girl will be exposed to many temptations in the halls. Like Luis de Castro, a soulless seducer who had already conquered her mother, and now is about to do the same with her daughter.
- Ham and Bud, while trying to evade a policeman, become cooks in a pancake house.
- Out of the elite and civilized east into the rough and primitive west there comes a little party which judged the desert must be larger than all New York, and their trail a little longer than the Gay White Way. Ruth Harkness, who has inherited the Flying W ranch from a relative, heads the timid little band. A prim and conventional aunt and uncle and Willard Masten, her fiancé, all dolled up according to his Fifth Avenue tailors ideas of the west, accompany her. Headlong the little party plunges into the meshes of a conspiracy of two cowboys to mulct the girl of her holdings. Rex Randerson, a happy-go-lucky ranger with a clear-gray eye, steps in to frustrate the plot, and incidentally falls in love with Ruth. This enrages Masten, who joins the conspirators and extends their plot to include Randerson's death. The girl and the ranger are caught in their "death trap'' and count themselves lost, but the fearlessness of Rex in a single-handed battle with the villains saves the day. Ruth thanks him by consenting to become his bride, and an old-fashioned cowboy wedding ends the dark adventure.
- Casey takes a beating from apartment tenants Mr. and Mrs. Little, so in revenge, Casey disguises himself as the woman who Mr. Little expects to meet in the park, with Mrs. Casey bringing Mr. Little's wife to observe.
- Lady Lou is forced by Hatfield, her cruel foster father, into the dance hall life at a brutal lumber camp. Through the efforts of a stranger who is secretly in love with her, Lou escapes to a neighboring camp where she meets and marries the lumberjack Conahan without telling him of her past. Lou's unsavory past is finally revealed in a confrontation with her foster father, and her husband turns from her in disgust. She is once again saved by the stranger's intervention when he tells Conahan the truth about the girl's life. After Conahan's and Lou's reconciliation, the stranger, no longer needed, wanders alone into the snow.
- Iza, a beautiful and sensuous charmer captivates a Prince, an Artist - all who come near the flashing of her luring eyes. And of one man's immense faith in her, and his desperate misery when he finds her false.
- Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker, so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Welland Riche. The latter has left earlier in the day on a trip, so when Sadie and. her dog, George Washington Square, who has been her companion in the hamper trip, are dumped down the clothes chute of the Riche home while concealed in the basket, they find easy access to the upper regions of the mansion and then, indeed, Sadie thinks she is in heaven. Sadie soon is discovered by the servants, but they believe she is just another of Mrs. Riche's fads when she tells them she is there to stay. Believing Mrs. Riche as desiring that the best of care be given the child, Sadie is dressed in rich garments and is much at home until Mrs. Riche returns. While the servants' explanations have been made, Mrs. Riche, in the meantime having been won over by the child's beauty and sweet manners, decides Sadie may remain. But the tenement child's happiness is short-lived when George Washington Square appears upon the scene. Mrs. Riche orders that the pup be removed and tells Sadie that, instead, she can play with the Riche collection of Poms. Not so for Sadie. She informs the wealthy matron that she wouldn't give up George Washington Square for all the heavens and that if G.W.S. cannot remain she will go. So hugging her doggie close to her she returns to her worried mother with the explanation, "I have been to heaven, but they sent me home because they didn't like my dog."
- This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett's company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It's a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or flirting inappropriately with their nannies. Others take in a movie matinee, where the on-screen action is outpaced by the outrageous behavior of certain theater patrons. Marital strife between a restauranteur and his hoity wife contribute further to one chaotic afternoon whose ever-increasingly craziness culminates in much farcical gunplay, mistaken identity and general property damage. - Dennis Harvey
- Given a choice between traveling to South America as an emissary for his father's ammunition company and foregoing his weekly allowance, Billy Drake heeds his father's warnings and buys an ocean liner ticket. Before leaving, however, the movie-struck Billy spots a beautiful woman standing in front of a theater and imagines that she is a film star. To his delight, he finds the woman on board his ship, as well as Count Von Nuttenburg, a political troublemaker, who has stolen a movie camera, thinking that it is a new brand of machine gun. Von Nuttenburg shows the camera to Billy, who concludes that the count is a director and the ship is a set for a movie melodrama. When the boat lands at a port torn by revolution, Billy insists that the guns and soldiers are part of the show. Not until he and the girl are seized by the rebels and threatened with death, does he admit his error. By a clever ruse, he escapes from his captors and with the help of Federal troops, defeats the count and wins the heart of his pretty shipmate.
- Mildred Vandeburg, an heiress who devotes her time to a hospital that she has built in the slums, breaks her engagement to her fiancé, T. Huntington Forbes, because Forbes is only interested in horses and sports. Meeda Jones, a nurse employed in Mildred's hospital, is married to a criminal named Spike, who steals some jewels and convinces his brother Dan to fence them for him. When Dan is killed as the police try to arrest him, his wife dies of shock, leaving their baby girl homeless. To help the baby, Mildred decides to take her to Forbes's home, where she informs her former fiancé that there is a "lady in the library" waiting for him. When Forbes sees the child, he decides to adopt her and devote his time to her, thus curbing his interest in horses. Spike Jones learns about the baby and decides to kidnap her and hold her for ransom, but he is outwitted by Mildred and Forbes. Finally, the happily reunited couple decides to marry and raise the child as their own.
- Tom Bain was born with a tongue so glib that his parents, early in his career, predicted he would be a second Chauncey Depew. In college it developed until he was capable of selling Liberty Bonds in a poor house. But Tom was ambitious to be an inventor and so built a tunneling machine that "would start at one side of a mountain and propel itself through to the other without man's assistance." His gift of gab sold the rights to the machine to a big manufacturing firm, but they soon found it worthless and instead of building machines, Tom was placed on the payroll as a salesman. And then, after an exciting series of adventures, Tom finally wins the hand of Peggy, whom he had met and courted in his college days. The wedding occurs in a hospital where the couple meet accidentally as patients.
- Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south, but on the deserts of the great west, where cattlemen and sheepmen often dealt out death to each other with the aid of their old friends, Winchester and Colt. Such a feud is in progress between the men of the desert when Jack, a nomadic cowboy, wanders into the scene. He is outspoken against the outlawry, and the sheriff, in jest, hands him his badge and asks him if he can do any better. Jack accepts the challenge and arrests one of the most recent slayers. The latter's companions immediately storm the jail and rescue him. In the fight Jack is desperately wounded. May, a girl of the ranch, finds the cowboy half dead and hides him in an isolated hut while she nurses him back to health. The feudists discover Jack's hiding place and attack him. He and the girl escape, and while Jack holds a narrow canyon against his pursuers the girl dashes across the desert in search of aid. Jack's life seems as good as lost when May returns with the opposing feudists, who save him. The wedding between Jack and the girl on the battleground reconciles the feudists and restores order on the desert.
- This is the first Greek religious film: the story of a young woman who studies in a Cycladic monastery and envisions the passion of Christ.
- Under promise of marriage, innocent Mary Ellen Ellis leaves her country home to accompany the experienced Walter Benton to the city. Mary Ellen finds herself in an underworld milieu, but she is able to influence burglar Bull Clark to reform, thus earning his undying gratitude. Clark is able to repay Mary Ellen when he rescues her from The Weasel, who has followed her to her apartment. When Benton returns and finds his wife and Clark together, a fight ensues between the two men in which Benton is killed by The Weasel. Clark is accused of the murder and sentenced to jail, but escapes and joins the Navy. Meanwhile, Mary Ellen is forced to live in shame until she is rescued by Jane Murray, an office assistant in an East Side infirmary. There Mary Ellen meets Dr. Graham, Benton's cousin, and the two fall in love. Fear of the doctor's scorn for her past life forces Mary Ellen to leave, and she is abducted by The Weasel and imprisoned in a vacant room. A newsboy informs the doctor of her whereabouts, and through the doctor's efforts Mary Ellen wins her freedom as well as his love.
- As a baby, John Ermine is stolen from a wagon train by the Crow Indians and is adopted by Chief Fire Bear. John grows to manhood, ignorant that he is a white man until his parentage is disclosed to him by Crooked Bear,.
- A mother is convinced her son is a ranch owner when in fact he is an outlaw, and she just saves him from hanging.
- Mollie Andrews is a little New England school teacher who goes out to Rawhide, Montana, to "teach the west" its manners. She is of romantic nature, and the picturesque statue and habits of Dan Clark impress her deeply. She marries him. Clark is a bad man at heart. He treats Mollie brutally after the first blush of honeymooning; then slays one of his own kind, and escapes across the border to Canada. The year that passes teaches Mollie some things about mankind she never knew before. One was to appreciate Constable Calhoun, of the Royal Mounted Police, who occasionally called on her, as a real friend. But though their mutual regard for each other ripens finally into love, Mollie remains true to her husband. When he turns up again she exacts a promise from Calhoun, on the strength of his love for her, that he will not harm Clark until the latter strikes the first blow. The beast within Clank still runs amok, however, and he attacks the policeman, unjustly accusing him of undue attentions to Mollie. A struggle ensues in which Clark falls dead. Thus Mollie is released from her marriage vows, and her future brightens with Calhoun awaiting her.
- Cornelius worked as a theater painter at the National Theater from the age of 17. After a short stay in America, he returned to the National Theater and later worked at the Norwegian Theatre. He made Fanden i nøtten together with the advertising pioneer Eivin Ovrum and the story is based on an old Norwegian folk tale. Simple cartoons and cut-out animation are used here.
- A promotional film issued to help raise funds in Germany during the First World war.
- Farm Alfalfa has a pup that causes life on the farm to be far from dull. Enjoying a quiet smoke one day the farmer lays down his pipe. The pup steals it and, taking it under the stoop, smokes to his heart's content, then retreats to the barn. The farmer takes a mallet and runs to the barn in search of his pipe. There he finds the pup chasing the ducks. In turn he chases the pup. He cannot catch him and returns to the barn. There he buys a wonderful game rooster from a neighbor. The rooster gets into a fight with the pup, which escapes the rooster's attacks for the moment. The rooster springs into the pail where the pup is hiding the moment the pup springs out. Thinking that the pup is in the pail the farmer makes a drive and kills the rooster.
- Episode 1: "The Sultan's Necklace" [synopsis not published] Episode 2: "The Bowstring" Harry Drake discovers that the masked figure who held him up is Ilma. When they realize the intruder has departed, they discover the pearl has disappeared. Harry tries to comfort Ilma. He tells her that he loves her, but she tears herself away from him saying, "Love me? Do you realize how I must pay for those pearls?" She then tells Harry she must go into the Sultan's harem or see her father killed, if she cannot recover the pearls. Harry offers to co-operate with her and Ilma suggests he pretend to join Grady's gang. He agrees to do so. Ilma is traced by the Sultan's executioner, to Harry's apartment. Standing outside the door, he overhears their conversation. Nemesis, who secured the pearl from Harry and Ilma, has been overcome by the executioner who takes the pearl from him. Harry again tells Ilma he loves her and is about to kiss her when he hears a knock at the door. He looks through the keyhole and assures Ilma no one is there. She points to the floor, starting back in terror as she sees a bow string, used to strangle women of the harem who flirt, slipped under the door. Later the pearl is mysteriously returned to Ilma, and Harry, gambling for Jack's pearl, loses his own. That night, a member of the gang, sneaks into a rich man's residence. He is followed by Ilma. Entering a room used as a picture gallery, decorated by suits of armor, Jack dons one of the suits. Drawing his sword, he starts to cut out one of the pictures. He is interrupted by Ilma, who demands his pearls. He tells her he cannot get at them through his armor. He overcomes Ilma and, tying her to a chair resumes his work. The door opens, and a second figure in armor enters. Jack fumbles for his gun but is unable to get it from under his armor. The strange figure draws his sword and he and Jack fight like knights of old. Jack is overpowered. The stranger proves to be Harry. Recovering the pearls, Harry gives them to Ilma, and starts towards the window after Jack, who tries to escape. Ilma backs towards the curtain. In an instant some unknown throws a curtain over her head, takes the pearls and escapes. Episode 3: "The Air Peril" Ilma had just recovered two of the pearls from the burglar when they are taken away from her. She joins Harry and tells him of her loss. They are accosted by an old woman, who is strangely disappointed when she finds they did not recover the pearls. Harry escorts Ilma to her apartment after trying in vain to console her. The next morning Ilma is puzzling out a note of sympathy she has received from someone who signs himself "Nemesis,'' when the Sultan's executioner drops an envelope into the mail slot in her door. Ilma opens the envelope and finds in it the two pearls and a note which reads: "Here are your pearls. Nemesis is not a woman, but a dangerous man. Don't trust him. Kismet." Ilma 'phones Harry, telling him she has the two pearls. While she is talking, Stayne, a member of the Grady gang, is announced by Harry's butler. Harry tells Ilma of Stayne's coming and imparts the information that this member of the gang had two of the pearls. Ilma says she will visit him at once to help him recover the pearls from Stayne. Stayne tells Harry that the night before he attempted to rob the Mason home, but was caught by Perry Mason and his brother. He was searched and the pearls found on him. Perry kept one and gave the other back to Stayne, and after taking his fingerprints released him. In the morning papers was a story that Perry's brother had been murdered and Stayne was accused of the crime. Ilma arrives and learns of Stayne's predicament, who offers them the pearl he has if they will clear him of the charge of murder. Harry and Ilma, pretending to be reporters, call on Perry Mason and arc recognized by him. He tells his story and shows them the pearl. As they are leaving the Mason home Ilma secures a key to the front door. Later she tries to persuade Harry to return to the Mason home, but when he refused, she goes alone. In the Mason home she hears a conversation between Perry Mason and his servant which convinces her that the man killed his brother and that the servant helped him. When Perry and the servant leave the room Ilma recovers the pearl from a vase in which Perry placed it, and is about to depart when Perry returns and captures her. Perry is about to call the police when Ilma warns him that if he does she will tell he murdered his brother. Perry decides to get her out of the way, and with the aid of her servant he ties Ilma with a rope which is attached to a ring at the bottom of a balloon. The room in which Ilma has been captured has a sliding roof and when this is shoved to one side the balloon is inflated. Before it is released a tube filled with acid is fixed so that by degrees it will eat away the rope with which Ilma is attached to the balloon while it is in midair. Perry cuts the rope and the balloon rises, carrying the struggling body of Ilma up toward the unknown. Episode 4: "Amid the Clouds" [synopsis not published] Episode 5: "Between Fire and Water" Having fallen into a lake from the ballroom Harry and Ilma conceal themselves from the villain in his hydroplane by hiding under the stern of a fisherman's boat. The dirigible has sunk to the earth and has been smashed. As Perry glides away in his hydroplane, Harry and Ilma attract the attention of the fishermen and are taken aboard the boat and reach the shore. The executioner, Kismet, returns to Ilma's apartment in time to separate Harry and Ilma, as the impetuous youth is about to declare his love to her. Undaunted by their dangers, Harry and Ilma decide to return to search the Mason house for the pearls. They search in vain and then decide to terrify Perry's servant into opening a safe for them. As they are about to secure the pearls. Perry returns and traps them in a water-tight cellar, which he constructed for experiments on models of submarines. Perry turns on the water and leaves Harry and Ilma to drown. To cover his crime he decides to burn down the house. The episode closes with the conflagration raging above their heads while they are about to sink in the water which almost touches the roof of the cellar. Episode 6: "The Abandoned Mine" Ilma and Harry are about to be drowned in the cellar of Perry Mason's home when the floor of it caves in and they drop into the shaft of an abandoned mine. Perry, who knows about the mine, has also taken refuge in it and is struck on the head by some of the debris. He is knocked unconscious and loses his memory. Wandering around in the mine he finds Harry and Ilma and attaches himself to them. He takes one of the pearls in his pocket and after playing with it for a while, throws it away. Ilma picks it up, recognizing it as one of the pearls she is seeking. Wandering around in the mine, Harry, Ilma and Perry follow a figure with a light and come to a counterfeiters' den in the mine. Realizing their danger Harry makes Ilma and Perry conceal themselves and he also hides from the gang of counterfeiters, who are returning to their den. Perry, thinking it some sort of a childish game, comes from his hiding place and shows the gang members where Harry and Ilma are bidden. Realizing that Perry is harmless the gang allows him to wander around but bind Harry and Ilma and decide to put them out of the way for fear of being betrayed to the police by them. As the leader is about to shoot Harry, Perry, who has gone into their storeroom, returns with a can of nitroglycerin in his hand. The leader threatens Perry, who. realizing from childish experiments that the substance in the can will explode, makes as though to throw it at him. The gang hastily backs out of the den and Perry, Ilma and Harry are knocked senseless by falling timbers. Episode 7: "The False Pearl" Harry and Ilma, lying insensible on the ground, are rescued by officers, who carry them to safety. While nobody is looking Kismet steals in, picks up Perry and steals off with him. Sitting him down in the light he produces a small vial from his pocket, opens it and holds it up to Perry's nose. Perry opens his eyes and asks what has happened. Kismet says: "The first shock took away your memory; the second returned it." The next morning Harry and Ilma see Stayne. This man has been saved by Harry, but it is only after a fight that he gives up the pearl, as he had promised. Later he apologizes with every sign of sincerity, and Harry and Ilma forgive him. Stayne speaks: "And to prove to you I'm sorry I'll tell you where to find two more of your pearls." Believing him, Harry takes an address from him. In the meantime Perry, wearing a mask, sneaks in the window of Harry's apartment, takes the pearl from where Ilma laid it and places a substitute in its place. Stayne gazes over his shoulder with amazement. Harry and Ilma look up at Stayne, who hesitates whether or not to tell what he saw. He concludes not to say anything and leaves. Harry makes love to Ilma. Kismet, who has been listening, draws the Sultan's carved dagger. Hearing a knock at the door Ilma is alarmed. Kismet standards in the doorway, holding his dagger towards Ilma. She speaks: "I will obey." As soon as the door is closed Harry demands to know what is meant. "That's the Sultan's spy, sent to kill us both if I should fall in love, but of course, I won't." Going over to the table Ilma discovers that the pearl is gone and in its place is a piece of marble. Harry and Ilma trace the pearl to Miss Sunderlee's home, and sneaking in, Harry recognizes Stayne's footprints from the fact that he is wearing Harry's shoes. Coming from behind Harry knocks Stayne down, takes the pearl, and with Ilma, runs away. Stayne and his pals pursue and trap Harry and Ilma on a little point of land on the edge of the Hudson. Harry sees some boys flying a kite. He and Ilma grab the kite string from the boys and plunge into the Hudson. Stayne and one of his men jump into a little boat near the boathouse. They raise the sail and pursue, guns in hand. Episode 8: "The Man Trap" The episode opens with a fight between a sailing vessel and a fast naval launch, in which Mason and Stayne were pursuing Harry and Ilma. The naval officers rescue Harry and Ilma from the river and take them to the shore. One of the seven pearls Ilma is seeking is sold to the leader of a pagan cult, who fits the pearl into one eye of a bronze god, which his followers worship. He seeks the mate of the pearl for the other eye of the god, and the member of Grady's gang who sold him the pearl gives him Ilma's address, telling him she has some pearls. The priest calls on Ilma and tries to buy her pearl, but she in turn offers to purchase the one he has from the priest. The priest lures her to the temple by telling her he will put the matter up to his followers. When she reaches the temple he makes her an offer of marriage, and when Ilma refuses he drugs her tea, steals her pearl and is just taking her in his arms when one of his ardent followers enters. She is jealous, and while the priest is fitting Ilma's pearl into the second eye of the bronze god the jealous woman drugs the priest's tea. He is about to kill her when the drug takes effect. Harry, being informed by Kismet of Ilma's danger, hastens to the temple. He revives her and she discovers her pearl is lost. He forced the jealous follower to tell where the pearl is, and Harry goes alone into the temple room to get the pearl from the eye of the bronze god when Perry Mason, also on the trail of the pearls, enters and holds him up. Harry steps aside while Mason takes a pearl from the eye of the god. As he does so the outstretched arms of the statue come together, holding Mason in their deadly embrace. His screams bring Ilma and the followers to the room, and when the woman relaxes the arms Mason falls to the floor. Harry and Ilma snatch the pearls and flee from the room. They start to open the door of the house, and Harry looks out to see if the coast is clear. He beckons for Ilma to follow him, but just as she starts to do so an unseen figure emerges from his hiding place near the door, grabs her, and taking her pearls, shoves her through the open door. Harry saves Ilma from falling. She is telling him of the loss of the pearls as the episode ends. Episode 9: "The Warning on the Wire" A voice on the wire says to Ilma: "Parsons, the jeweler, has one of the pearls." Ilma repeats the news to Harry. They leave for the store at once, where they are shown the pearl, which they discover to be a perfect match. At that moment Mayor Winton and his daughter, Marjorie, are ushered up to the counter. The Mayor wishes to purchase a large pearl to be placed in the center of a necklace. Turning to Ilma the clerk asks if she cares to purchase the pearl for $20,000. She refuses. The Mayor is staggered at the price but finally agrees, requesting that it be delivered to him. Harry and Ilma determine to follow the Mayor and his daughter. On the street Harry hears the Mayor say that he has a toothache, and that he is going to the dentist. Jumping into his machine he leaves followed by Harry. Marjorie gets into a taxi, and leaves for home. Ilma, who heard the address, follows. The Mayor arrives at the dentist's and is seen by Perry, who is disguised as a woman. He looks vindictively after the Mayor, mutters something villainous and follows. Harry, who happened to be near, hears the vindictive muttering, and suspects that something is wrong. In the office the Mayor explains his trouble and the dentist starts to work. He is interrupted by his office girl, who brings him a note. It reads: "I want to see you this minute. Remember Sing-Sing. Signed, Bennet." Excusing himself, he goes into the next room, only to see Perry in his disguise of an old woman. Drawing the man close to him, Perry instructs him to do away with the Mayor. To refuse would mean exposure, so he consents. Ilma, who has followed the Mayor's daughter, manages to see her at her home. Explaining that the pearls were stolen from her and what it will cost her, if she does not recover them, Ilma gets Marjorie to agree that she will have her father return the pearl. Harry endeavors to warn the Mayor, but he refuses to listen to him, saying that he is too busy. That night the Mayor receives a note from Perry telling him that the District Attorney is dead, and the same fate is to fall to him. The Mayor promises to give Ilma and Harry the pearl if they solve this mystery. While Harry goes in pursuit of Mason, Ilma follows the Mayor to the dentist's office the next morning. While she is waiting, she sees a gunman enter and slip a note to the maid, instructing her to have it delivered to her employer. Reading the note, the dentist leaves, so excited that he leaves the note behind. Ilma picks it up, but it is written in code form. Wondering what it is, Ilma rushes to Harry. Harry reads the note, sees the word Algol, and guesses the answer. He speaks, "That means under the crown on the Mayor's tooth. Death in six hours." For safety's sake, the Mayor goes to his summer home in the Adirondacks. Harry and Ilma try to call him up on the 'phone, but are unsuccessful, because, as Ilma is about to explain, a dead tree falls across the wire and breaks the connection. They jump into a machine. Rushing up a mountain road, the machine breaks down. Walking up the mountain, Harry gazes over the edge of the ravine. He sees an electric wire. Running back to the machine, he gets a long rope and some hooks. Ilma ties the rope around her and much against Harry's wishes has him lower her. Ilma reaches the wire and sends a message to the Mayor. Ilma makes another flash, then receives a shock, twists convulsively and hangs limp. Episode 10: "The Hold-Up" Ilma, who has been rendered unconscious by an electric shock as she flashed a warning to the mayor and saved his life, is revived by Harry and carried to the railroad station by the mayor and his daughter, who agree that she deserves the pearl they have. Harry and Ilma return to the city with the pearl, and Harry attends a meeting of Grady's gang trying to recover some of the other pearls that the members have in their possession. He learns that one of the gang has sold his pearl to a fence, and a banker by the name of Nello Falenti is going to buy it. Ilma discovers the banker is trying to convince one of his honest bookkeepers that the accounts in the bank are all right, when he knows they are not. Harry forces the crooked banker into "a business proposition." Falenti agrees to have $100,000 in the bank by the following Saturday. He will take $80,000 of this for himself and leave $20,000 for Harry and Grady's gang. Harry secures the combination of the safe and the keys to the bank, and reports to Grady. The gangster plans the robbery. That night Harry again goes to Falenti and proposes that he take the entire $100,000 and split the $20,000. Falenti agrees, and when the gang opens the safe it is empty. After leaving the gangsters, Harry goes to Falenti to demand his $100,000. Falenti gives it to him and Harry buys the pearl that Falenti had secured from the "Fence." Ilma steps in and Harry gives the Pearl to her. She covers Falenti while Harry calls up the police, stating that he is the banker, and that he wants a guard to protect the money he had taken home from the bank. While Harry is talking, Ilma disappears and he goes in search of her. Episode 11: "Gems of Jeopardy" At Ilma's apartment, Perry demands the three pearls. She refuses. He draws his revolver and gives her three minutes to decide. Ilma faints. Perry binds her to a chair. Recovering, Ilma is again commanded to deliver the pearls. She shakes her head vigorously. He takes a jar from his pocket and a pair of jeweler's scales. Holding the jar he says: "This is vitriol." He places the scales so that the pan is above Ilma's head, then takes a candle, lights it and asks if she is ready. Ilma will not relent. "This may not kill you, but your beauty will be gone forever." Perry is interrupted by the entrance of Kismet, who covers Perry, then knocks the scales over. Perry meets Stokes, who informs him that he is wanted by the police. Stokes tells Perry unless he gives him a pearl he will call the police. Perry gives him a pearl. Ilma hears a knock and is overjoyed to see Harry. She tells him that Perry has two pearls. Ilma finds a note from Kismet, telling her Perry has surrendered one of the pearls to Stokes. That evening Ilma calls at the Stokes home, and poses as a detective. Harry, as an inspector, calls to read the meter. Examining the pearl, Ilma refuses to return it to Mrs. Stokes. Ilma pretends to throw it on the floor. Stokes starts toward her. Harry blows the fuse, putting the house in darkness. Stokes grapples with Ilma. Harry picks Ilma up and rushes out. She tells him the pearl is under the table. Harry goes back, runs his hand under the table, is seen by Stokes, who orders his servants to seize him. As Harry rushes up the stairs, he is seen by Perry. Harry gets through the skylight, sees a ladder lying against a chimney, mounts it. Perry sends one of the men after Harry. He gives the chimney a push, which sends the ladder toward the other roof. As the film fades out, the man is bending Harry over the edge. Episode 12: "Buried Alive" The fight on the edge of a roof opens this episode. Harry is struggling with one of Perry Mason's henchmen on the roof of the Stokes home, while Ilma watches from the street below. When Mason's henchman pushes Harry over the roof he manages to grasp a drainpipe, as with a final effort he pulls the man from his secure footing on the roof and sends him hurtling to his death five stories below. Harry pulls himself up to the roof, and to his dismay sees Perry come after him. He starts down the drainpipe, and when he is near the ground the pipe breaks and he falls. He picks himself up, and runs to Ilma's machine. As they drive away he gives her the pearl he had secured. Plotting against Ilma, Perry persuades Stayne to secure a job as an ambulance driver for a sanitarium. Ilma is down-hearted at the prospects of being unable to secure the pearls in time to save her father's life. She is warned by Kismet that the time is approaching when she will have to return to his master if he does not secure the pearls. Harry suggests that she go for an outing with him, and as they are about to start on an automobile trip she is told over the 'phone that one of the pearls can be secured at a certain place. She persuades Harry to drive to this place, and on the way, when they are passing through a lonely wood, all the tires on Harry's car are punctured. He is forced to leave Ilma alone, while he goes to secure other tires. Telephoning to his man, he finds Kismet at his apartment, who tells him to go back to Ilma at once as it is a plot of Mason's to get her in his power. Harry returns and finds that Ilma has been captured by Mason and Stayne, and has been taken to a sanitarium, instead of a girl for whom they have an order for commitment. Harry's man arrives in his car with Kismet and they start after Ilma. Ilma is sent to the sanitarium in spite of her protests to the physician in charge and is locked in a room. She manages to get out and sees the man attired as a mason and seemingly working at his trade. She runs up to him and asks him to assist her. He promises to do so and leads Ilma out of the sanitarium and tells her to crawl into a cave where he will conceal her from her pursuers. He conceals her only too well and tries to seal her in the cave and bury her alive as the episode closes. Episode 13: "Over the Falls" Ilma is being carried away helpless by Perry Mason and Stayne in an automobile. They take the girl to an old warehouse and leave her there a prisoner. Harry and Kismet, on the trail of Ilma, reach the warehouse and seek to enlist the aid of a policeman. The policeman says it is against the law for him to enter, but at that moment the fire alarm in the warehouse is heard and the policeman decides to enter and investigate. Ilma had set off the alarm by means of a lighted cigar which Stayne had dropped in his struggle with her. She held the burning end of the cigar against the automatic sprinkler, with which the warehouse was equipped. They rescue Ilma as Stayne and Mason watch them from a distance. Mason and Stayne arrive at their lodging and find there a distinguished Oriental, who presents credentials and orders from the Sultan telling Perry to deliver Ilma in Canada, where the Turk's yacht is waiting. The next morning Ilma finds a box marked "piano player" in her apartment when she returns from a walk. She calls Hairy on the phone and tells him about it and he warns her it must be some trick of Mason's, and to take good care of herself. As she hangs up the receiver the end of the box opens and Mason leaps out and captures Ilma. He binds her and gets into the box with her. A girl about Ilma's size, who had been in the box, dresses in Ilma's clothes and leaves the apartment. The men who left the piano player box in Ilma's apartment return for it and carry it away on a truck. Kismet and Harry go to Perry's old hiding place and find there some carrier pigeons. Harry says they will lead him to Perry and consequently to Ilma, and the next morning the pigeons are released and Harry and Kismet follow them in an aeroplane. The pigeons lead the men in the aeroplane to a little farmhouse near Niagara Falls. Perry and Stayne see the aeroplane as they shove the box in which Ilma is a prisoner on an auto truck. Harry and Kismet see Perry in the truck and follow it. Perry throws the box in which Ilma is a prisoner into the river above the falls and Harry and Kismet abandon their chase to rescue Ilma. They rush to a bridge across the river and Harry is lowered from it by a rope around his chest. He carrier another rope with him and manages to put the noose around the case. As the men on the bridge, whom Harry and Kismet enlisted in the rescue, attempt to pull up the case, the noose slips and the case falls back into the stream. Harry is pulled up to the bridge as the case starts over the falls to what looks like Ilma's certain destruction. Episode 14: "The Tower of Death" The fourteenth episode opens with a surprise for Harry when he is drawn to the bridge from over the rapids. He is greeted by Ilma, who, he thought, was in the piano box that went over Niagara Falls. She explains that when Perry Mason and his men threw the case into the river she managed to escape from it. Home again, Kismet warns Ilma 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 Ilma 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 Ilma and Harry and secure the pearl. In the fight Harry is knocked unconscious and Ilma 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 Ilma 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 regains consciousness and seeing the tank climbs up its ladder to get a drink of water. Perry sees him and is about to shoot him when Stayne, who has been badly injured, opens his eyes and seeing the situation, shoots at Perry to obtain revenge on him. Stayne's shot goes wild and dislodges the tank. It falls to pieces and Harry falls to the ground. Perry is knocked unconscious but Ilma is not to be seen. Episode 15: "The Seventh Pearl" The preceding episode closed at the water tank near the railroad tracks. When this tank fell, Perry Mason and Harry Drake were unconscious. The water revives Perry, who finds that Ilma has been thrown from the water tank close to Harry and that both are unconscious. He draws his revolver to shoot Harry but the gun fails to explode as all the cartridges had been used. He looks in his pockets for more cartridges and finds the seventh pearl, which he had secured. Hearing some men approaching he jumps on a passing freight train. Harry revives and carries Ilma to the station, where she is revived. They then board the train for the city. Perry goes to Ilma's apartment and is searching for the pearls when Harry and Ilma enter. Ilma tells Harry that the six pearls she has secured are in the Security Safety Vaults. Perry overhears this and leaves Ilma's apartment without being discovered. He goes to the Security Vaults and rents a safety deposit box. In this Perry places a package containing chemicals, which he has prepared, sets a clock, which controls these chemicals, and locking the safety deposit box, leaves the vault. The Sultan's Ambassador calls on Ilma for the seven pearls and reminds her that it is the last day she has to secure them. Ilma pleads with him and tells him she will give him the six pearls she has secured if he will cable to the Sultan for a few hours' extension of the time she has to secure the seventh. He agrees to do so. They go to the Security Safety Vault to get the pearls. Perry has been there before and had secured the pearls from the safety deposit box where Ilma had placed them. The chemicals Perry had placed in his safety deposit box gave off a gas that rendered the guards senseless, and Perry, wearing a gas mask, had been immune to this vapor. He is escaping with the pearls when Ilma, Harry and the ambassador enter; they are overcome by the gas when they attempt to capture Perry. A general alarm is sent out and Harry learns that Perry was seen at Coney Island. He and ILma and the police go to that resort and hear that Perry has been seen near the Eden Musee, which contains the wax figure of himself in the act of murdering his brother Charles. Ilma spies Perry and follows him into the Eden Musee. She loses track of him and Harry and the police tell her she must have been mistaken. As they leave the building, they hear a shot fired and return to find Kismet with a bullet hole through his head and Perry with the executioner's dagger through his heart. Kismet had discovered Perry in the act of gloating over the seven pearls he had obtained after he had thrown Harry, Ilma and the police off the scent by taking the place of his own wax figure in the murder group. Kismet had demanded one of the seven pearls, saying it belonged to his people, and Perry could have the others if he gave up that one. Perry refused, and in the fight that followed both men were killed. Ilma finds the seven pearls and returns them to the Sultan's ambassador. In Harry's apartment after the wedding, Ilma is dressed in a Turkish costume. Harry enters. She puts a Turkish fez on his head and he sits beside her. Turning to him she says, "My Harry," and he answers, "My Harem." END.
- In dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to comprehend her husband's desperation, Virginia Baird refuses his request and, upon overhearing his lawyer advising him to utilize the bonds without consulting her, she decides to place them in the hands of old friend George Drake. Drake hijacks the securities, however, and their disappearance leads to the break-up of the Bairds' marriage, resulting in Virginia leaving the house. Attempting to console her father, Margery sets out on her pony to bring her mother home. But she is held up on the road by Captain Kidd Jr., who adopts her as his first mate, and the two children take up residence on a grass hut on a nearby island. There, while playing at being pirates, they discover the missing securities. As they are returning to land in a leaky boat, the children are found, much to the delight of their parents. Margery's return with the missing securities reunites the Bairds, and all ends happily.