The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-03
THE sP0|LERs"
"The Spoilers" at the Regent Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Fea-
turing William Farnum

Thrilling, powerful and picturesque.
virile masterpiece. Played at Chest
nut Stree Opera House, Philadelphia,
for two months at fifty cents and a
dollar.
The same will oe ON at the Regent
theatre, two shows at night and three
during the day on account of the length
Of the masterpiece.
The production was eight weeks n
reeord-breaker at the Studebaker, Chi
cago.
1.-The Spoilers is thrilling, red
blooded story of strong men battling
for supremacy with all their power of
mind and muscle -+alert for every cast
of chance.
This picturesque, rugged romance of
Alaska has love story with splendid
imagination thai grips and holds the
sympathies. 1.-The Spoilers presents
the most stubborn, strenuous and excit-.
ing fight ever pictured-the acme of
realism.
See whole town dynamited, vol.
canic earthquake extraordinary, won.
derful drawing power.
A synopsis of the story of "The
Spoilers" written by Rex Beach, the
author:
Glenister and Dcxtry, co-owners of
the Midas, the richest mine in Alas
ka, after celebrating their good fortune,
leave Nome to spend the winter in the
States, but before leaving Glenister
arrives at an understanding with and
bids goodbye to Cherry Malotte,
dance-hall girl. who has become inter
in him, paf, 20
Alaska in the following spring plot
is hatched in Washington, d. c., to
juggle the Alaskan land laws in such
a manner as to rob all. the rich miners
of their property, and to that end n
corrupt Judge is appointed, with in
structions to obey the orders of Alex
Mcnamara, the genius of the entire
conspiracy.
The Judge is dispatched to Nome at
once, but on the eve of sailing from
Seattle he is taken i'll and is forced
to entrust certain important documents
to his niece, Helen Chester, who thus
becomes the innocent agent of the con-
spirators. Helen sails, but en- route to
Nome smallpox breaks out on the ship
and she is threatened with thirty days
quarantine. She escapes with the as
sistance of Glenister and Dextry. The
two men are ignorant of the nature of
Helen s errand, and gallantly fight and
defeat her pursuers, then smuggle her
on board their own ship and protect
her until she arrives at Nome.
In due time Judge Stilman and Me
Namara arrive in Nome and, with the
help of Strives rascally firm, begin
their Vaccinations. The new faction
shortly assumes control of all the mines,
including the "Mldas, - and Glenister,
because of his love for Helen, prevents
the miners from using violence against
Judge Stillman and prevails upon them
to let the law take its course. Cherry
Malotte, the beautiful dance.hall girl,
returns from Dawson City, discovers
Glenister' s love for 'Helen and deter
mines to combat it. In this she is as
sisted by the Broncho Kid, a gambler
and an outcast, who has recognized in
Helen Chester his own sister, whom he
had not seen since boyhood, and who
misinterprets Glenister s feeling for
Helen. Glenister and Dextry find that
the Nome court will grant them no re-
lief and decide to send their lawyer,
Bill Wheaton, back to San Francisco
with an appeal to the Federal courts.
To secure money for this purpose they
arrange to robe the sluices of their own
mine, which they succeed in doing, but
are saved from capture by Helen.
Wheaton returns from San Francisco
with a writ from the Federal court,
which Stillman refuses to recognize,
thus making plain the nature of the
conspiracy. Becoming fearful Of out
right violence, Mcnamara undertakes
to remove the gold dust from the Midas
and other mines to a place of greater
safety, but Glenister and his friends
storm the bank and are prevented from
taking forcible possession of the gold
only by the timely arrival of troops.
Meanwhile Glenister becomes con-
vinced that Helen has become con
seious accomplice of "The Spoilers -
and intends to marry McNamara; so,
in a reckless mood, he spends desper-
ate night in the northern gambling hall
playing faro. The Broncho Kid, who is
dealer, plots to ruin Glenister with the
assistance of Cherry as case-keeper. y
At the crisis of the game, when his
money is gone Glenister wagers his in
terest in the "Midas' and is pre-
vented from losing only by Cherry S
declaration that "the cases are wrong" "
Cherry saves Helen from drunken
miner, and, learning her identity,
prompts her to suspect the truth of the
situation in which her uncle figures.
Realizing the great wrong that she has
helped to do, Helen undertakes to reme-
DIV it. With the aid of Cherry Malotte,
Glenister makes good his flight, sum-
mons his friends and decides to make
an end of of the looting of the mines
by destroying them with dynamite.
Wrapped IN world OF, mystery aad
uncertainty, Helen appeals to McNa-
mara's accomplice, Struve, who offers
to put her in possession of the truth
if she will go with him that night to
distant roadhouse for supper.
The miners dynamite the =" Midas
and defeat their enemies, when Glenis-
ter hears of Helen's danger and rides
headlong to her rescue. He arrives
only to find Struvc badly wounded and
to hear that Helen has gone away with
the Broncho Kid Needless now of all
save Helen S safety, Glenister rides into
town and there encounters Mcnamara
at Struve's office The two men fight
a terrific handto1hand battle, in which
Glenister triumphs.
Wheaton arrives in time to effect the
arrest of the conspirators on instruc-
tions from the Federal court and Helen
produces the proofs of guilt which she
had secured from Struve. Justice is
done and Helen confesses her love for
the man she had helped to wrong.
Adv.*