8 ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER May, 1918

New Spy and Scientific Movies

THERE seems to be no dearth of in-
teresting photoplays, especially among
those that depend on science to at-
tract theater patrons. One film -play
in particular is very much in the
limelight at present, being the exposé of
numerous plots against the United States
even before we were drawn into this great
world conflict.
Written by that celebrated authority, Wm.
J. Flynn, late retired chief of the U. S.
Secret Service, the drama under the title of
By GEORGE HOLMES
Another photo shows an exciting scene
in the sixth episode of "A Daughter of
Uncle Sanz." Jessie Emerson (Miss Jane
Vance) has just been captured by a band
of German spies and taken to their head-
quarters in an abandoned cave on the New
England coast, where they propose to force
her to reveal the secret of a marvelous war
invention perfected by a lieutenant in the
United States Army. Jessie pretends to
faint and while her guard rushes for aid
she makes her way to the wireless instru-
to get money to complete her father's
scientific researches, marries a wealthy man
she doesn't love. A son is born to the
couple only to become a barrier between
them. The husband leaves for a long sea
trip, is reported lost, but turns up at home
just in time to see Laurel promise herself
to Richard Leslie, a young doctor she had
loved before her marriage. The death of
their son embitters Durand, the husband,
and he plans a revenge as fiendish as it is
novel.

War Plots, Science, Mystery -All Are Dished Up in Profusion in the Newest "Movie" Dramas. Fig. 1 -A German Spy Radio Station In the
Mountains, from "A Daughter of Uncle Sam." 2 -The Chemical Laboratory in Olga Petrova's "The Light Within." Figs. 3 and 4-A New
Radio- Controlled Torpedo Built by German Spies in America, from "The Eagle's Eye."

The Eagle's Eye" leads one thru a series
of episodes which show the despicable
methods and plots originated to wreak ven-
geance and hamper as much as possible
the work of beating the "Hun "!
Two of the photos show a specially built
wireless-controlled torpedo which the Im-
perial German Government made in this
country for the destruction of the flagship
of the Atlantic Fleet as it was leaving New
York Harbor after the review of 1915.
Also there may be seen a compact' land
radio set tuned with the apparatus on the
torpedo. so that perfect control may be had.
ment in the cave and sends out a call for
help. The ruse is detected and she is over-
powered, but not before the operator who
has taken lier place at the Government sta-
tion has picked up the brief message. The
unfinished call for help is turned over to
the army authorities, and soldiers are or-
dered to scour the community in search of
the possible hiding place of the gang.
The last photo is a laboratory scene from
"The Light Within," a recent Petrova
photo -play feature. Mme. Petrova, the
famous Polish star, plays the part of
I aurel, a doctor's daughter, who, in order
He pretends a deep interest in the young
doctor and thru various pretexts throws
the pair together on every conceivable oc-
casion. Laurel finally discovers a serum
for the cure of the deadly anthrax germ
thru the medium of the mascarine turtle.
She possesses but one small specimen of
the turtle, the only other one being the
property of the city Zoo. Supremely con-
fident of the serum, she decides to demon-
strate the efficacy of her cure for anthrax
by inoculating herself with the deadly
poison. Young Leslie begs her to use him
(Continued on page 66.)

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