Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-12-23
CHEAT SERIAL AT EMPIRE.
ZuCora, Most Fascinating Serial
Story Given to the Public,
Opens This Afternoon.


both in conception and in its hand
ling. Altogether it promises to be
most fascinating story TO follow
and Manager Dolson of the Empire
Theatre in DEBORAH is to be congrat-
ulated on securing this wonderful
serial story for the patrons of the
Empire. The first pictures will De
shown this afternoon and evening
and will be free to everybody. Don't
miss the opening chapter. There are
to be in all twenty episodes, each
complete in itself. Thus, those WHO
have not seen Chapter One will en-
joy CHAPTER Two or Three just the
same. In that respect Zudora is
comparable to a series of short stor-
les in which the same characters ap-
pear, but at the same time it pro-
ceeds like a novel towards the final
climax.
Thrown on the screen first is a
picture Of Harold McGrath the ia
nous writer who is to novelize for
more than five hundred newspapers
this latest creation of the author OF
THE Battle of the Sexes" in con-
sultation with the creator of this
photomasterpieoe, DR.. Daniel Carson
Goodman. They presently give place
to Marguerite Snow, the Countess
Olga of The Million Dollar Mystery
now a winsome girl of eighteen, Zu-
dora, daughter of miner and a cir
Gus acrobat. She is followed by
James CruZe, who, as the long-haired
Hindu mystic, Hassam Ali, uncle OF
the orphan, Zudora, seems possessed
of a parchment-like skin and an ex
preston of hypocritical solemnity
Harry Benham, strong and well set
up, bows from the screen. He is Il
play John Storm, Zudora's lawyel
lover.
Hassam Ali, the mystic, uncle ant
guardian of the eighteen-year-olt
beauty, Zudora, sits by the fire in h.
handsome home. Events of seven
teen years before pass in review, a.
| in a dream, before him. He sees
| himself once more the side show ia
| kir and fortune teller with the cir
Gus. He sees his sister, the tight roLe
walker with the same circus codd.
| ling the infant Zudora. The circus
has just returned to the minine
town where his sisters husband, Zu-
dora ia her, has been prospecting
for sold. The little family is reunit-
ed, AID events move quickly, for
that afternoon the baby's father dis
covers unlimited gold in the Zudora
mine-his mine and named after his
baby. Mad with happiness he be-
comes over excited, sets off blast
too soon, and is killed They tell his
wife, The babys mother, just as she
is about to walk the tight rope, and
she. too, attempting to do her circus
ring stunt, becomes dizzy, and falls
to her death.
All these scenes Hassam Ali sees
rer Gated in his dream. He wakes.
and, waking, remembers how the
baby's father wi h his last breath
had wi'led the mine, worth $20,OOO,-
600, to his daughter, Zudora, to be-
come her property absolutely, when
she reached her eighteenth birthday.
In the event Of her death, however,
it was to go to the next heir at law.
Hassam Ali, her nearest kin and
THIS the beneficiary in the event Of
her death, with stealthy cunning
plans to get the mines twenty mil
lion for his own.
The wonderful photography in the
handling and taking OF the figure Or
Hassam Ali sleeping by the fireplace,
while scene after scene passes by hil
in review, is worthy of special note.
Seldom, if ever, has such clever dou-
BILE exposure work been recorded
The setting shifts. Hassam Ali is seen
staring into the crystal where, writ
ten large, appears the word Zudora-
He is startled, but he is also deter"
mined. His one fear is caused by the
advent of the young lawyer, John
Storm, in the life OF his niece anc
ward. Zudora. He has never told
her of the inheritance that will De
hers when she's eighteen. That
will help. And he recognizes also
that he must under no circumstances
be implicated in the girls removal
Leading her lover by the hand
Zudora comes to Hassam Ali. This
is John Storm, and | love him. she
SAYS ingenuously. And love your
niece, Storm tells Hassam. Stu
armed, Hassam Ali pushes the young
attorney from him. 60. co.! ne
cries. and to Zudora he says: YOU
have always been Interested In M
mystical work, you have shown your
ability, you have begged me TO lie
YOU help. when detective cases Were
brought TO me to solve. Now YOU
NAV have your chance. The mex
,yanty eases that come to me l VII