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MILLION DOLLAR MYS-
Terry AT ELECTRIC

Compelingly interesting and full of
thrills is The Million Dollar Mys-
terry" Thanhouser's great serial pro-
duction, the first episode of which was
offered to the public at the Electric
lheater yesterday and will continue
today, and the first chapter of whose
serial story appeared in the Portland
Evening Telegram Saturday, June q.
The scenario for this great production
was written by Harold L0nergan and
the story by Harold MacGrath, the
popular fiction writer.
''The Million Dollar Mystery" is said
to be the greatest of American motion
picture predictions. No expense has
been spared by the producers to give it
those features which present day audi
ences demand. But, unlike the serials
previosly produced, the thrills in the
story are based upon logical chain of
circumstances, and not merely inserted
to bolster up the fiction. For the first
time in the history of photography, an
actual motion picture taken at depth
of 200 feet under the sea will be shown
in one of the scenes as this wonderful
story is unravelled. o. The sky, also, has
contributed its thrills, and there are
daring aeroplane and balloon flights.
| The mysterious ceremonies of The
| Black Hundred" an organization of
Russian conspirators, bound by secret
oath, will be disclosed to the public.
| Their efforts will be bent on securing
the fortune of wealthy heiress and
the death of hen father, who had broken
| his vows, but time after time they
| failed. Climaxes will be portrayed
vividly and with all the mechanism
known to the motion picture producer.
| Through the entire story each episode
of the motion picture production and
each chapter will be complete in itself,
and there will be an interest-compell-
ing element which will hold audiences
and readers spellbound.
"An amazing cast of film favOrites
will carry the action of the story and
exemplity on the screen how the deX-
tr0us hand of Harold MacGrath has
woven this wonderful fabric of romance
and intrigue. Florence La Badie, best
known of young screen stars, plays the
part of Florence Gray, the heroine
Marguerite Snow, veteran IhanhOuser
leading woman, plays Princess Olga,
the conspratuors feminine inspiration,
and Lila Chester, Susan, the companion
of Florence, who etfectually stands be-
tween her and the Princess. James
Cruise, Thanhouser S leading man, plays
newspaper reporter whose duty
brings him into contact with Florence
Gray and makes him her gratuitous
protector. Sidney Bracy. in the role of
the family butler, presents character
work rarely seen in motion pictures
Frank Harrington, as Braine, and Al
bert Froom, as the conspil ators, and
Alfred Norton as Stanley Hargreave,
give the strongest possible support to
the action of the story, presenting with
effective continuity the thrills, which
seemingly cascade one after another.
No expense has been spared in pro-
ducing THE Million Dollar Mystery. "
Even before one picture was taken the
Thanhouser Film company spent much
more than 5000, 600, this sum alone
having been paid for the old Frances
Wilson home near New York, where
many of the scenes were taken. Addi-
tional cost has been great. including
the purchase of flying machines and
balloons, the employment of skilled
aeronauts and divers and an army of
men and women, and in expense, as
well as in subject, it will be "The Mil
lion Dollar Mystery"
The mystery must be solved. The
producers are going to let the partrons
OF the theaters and the leaders of the
story in the newspapers solve it. The
Thanhouser Film Corporation will pos
itively pay the man, woman or child
who offers the best solution to this
mystery $40, 200 in cash. The solution
must be confined to 100 words. The
accepted solution will be set into the
film and shown in every theater in the
country exhibiting this production and
also printed in every newspaper pub
fishing the story.