Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
The Shielding Shadow
GEORGE BRACKETT SEITZ Author "The
Episode S, "Through Bolted Doors"

and mods to several acauaintances.
Exits through doorway leading to small
back hall
Subtitle: Ravcngar the mysterious. from
whom Romanof stole One Lamp Louie's
confession.
one or two others at table playing Ra-
vengar glances of carelessly in Ro-
manoh's direction and then leaves the
table and nonchalantly follows Roman
off.
Scene IL. (Small hallway nearby Ro-
manon comes around end OF hallway
and gazes about to that he Is not
discovered
Show close foreground of portieres near
by Ravengar is seen to peek around
from behind portieres, watching Ro-
manof.
Show close foreground of Romanoff Sat
ished that he is not watched he goes to
hidden panel in the wall. Presses a
spring and steps through. Panel closes
behind him and Ravengar comes out
of his hiding place and moves toward 1t.
Scene IL. (Attractively furnished boudoir in
hidden house next TO gambling housed.
Blanca and three of her followers in
picture planning some crime Blanca Is
a very beautiful, black haired woman
with an extremely pleasing and allur-
ing personality. They register they
hear noise and turn as Romanoff comes
into room He is greeted by the others
Scene Is. (Smal hallway as per lD. Show
foreground of Ravengar in corner of
hall by panel lie presses spring and
goes through. As he does so. he is
discovered by the lookout In the gam
bling den, who has followed him
Scene IA. (Outer room). Ravengar comes In
through panel and moves to doorway
to boudoir. Looks in. As he does so,
lookout steps through panel and comes
up behind Rayengar, drawing gun from
his pocket. Ravengar turns and dis
covers him For a moment the two
men gaze at each other. then Rayengar
slowly raises his hand and with \ sud
den movement turns out light switch,
Lights go out and the two men close
In a struggle. Lookouts gun being
exploded, Blanca and others. attracted
by the shot, enter. Blanca turns on
lights, Ravengar has seized the look
outs gun. Turns to Blanca and the
others. Bows and grins. Speaks.
Spoken title: Shameful inhospitality. |
just wandered in looking for company
and this gentleman picked a fight with
the scene, Ravengar finishes
speaking out the above. Blanca speaks
Spoken title: You wandered In where you
had no business"
Continuing the scene, she finishes speaking
out the above and orders her men to
seize Ravengar. He indicates that he
doesn't want to be seized and points to
MS gun. Biahca smiles at RaVengaf
and speaks
Spoken title: Put 1t down. wanderer, guns
are not flashed here
Continuing the scene. Blanca finishes speak
Ing out the above. Ravengar smiles at
Blanca winningly and indicates he will
not put down the gun. Bancas face
grows a little stern as her hand moves
to cord hidden behind portieres and
pulls it. A trap door directly under
Ravengar opens and he falls down
through the hole
Scene Is. (Cellar of Bianca's hidden house).
Ravengar shoots down slide and lands
on mattress in cellar Rises and. NOV
ing to doorway of cellar tries It, He
finds 1t locked. shrugs his shoulders
and goes back to mattress As he does
so the door opens and Blanca comes In,
followed by two men with drawn re-
volvers, Blanca goes over to Ravengar.
who is seated on mattress. Looks at
him. Ravengar takes cigarette from
cigarette case. Gazes back at Blanca
and smiles at her, Blanca, turning to-
ward companions, speaks.
Spoken title: He Is fool, but very at
tractive one"
Show close foreground OF Blanca and Ra-
vengar. They gaze at each other, very
much taken with one another's person
ality. Then Blanca holds out her hand
in coaxing manner and asks Raven
gar for the revolver He thinks, Shrugs,
and hands 1t to her. She thanks him
and smiles at him again.
Subtitle: Having secured the confession
from Romanoff, the next night Blanca
sets about arranging a proper price for
1t from Sebastian
Scene 18. tThe foyer of a theater) Crowd
is coming out Sebastian and one or
two men friends In crowd. They seee
Blanca. She is beautifully dressed and
is with Romanoff. She gazes at Sc
bastian and half smiles in alluring man.
ner.
Show close foreground of Sebastian and
friends. Friend grins at Sebastian, de-
claring he has made a conquest.
subtitle: Leontine plays detective,
scene II. (Street location outside theater-
moonlight effect). Show close fore
ground of Leontine, yelled, stealthily
gazing out of covered automobile.
scene I8. (Curb nearby-moonligt effect.
Show foreground of Blanca getting into
Limousine with Romanoff. Sebastian and
friends come into foreground. As they
do so Blanca drops vanity case. Sc
bastan picks It up and hands It to her
As she takes 1t she presses Sebastans
hand and slips piece OF paper into It,
Rianca's limousine drives OFF
Show close foreground Of Sebastian and
his friends While friends have turned
their backs and are gazing In opposite
direction, Sebastian opens note and reads
Insert close foreground note in Sebastans s
hand. IT you are Interested in n Ger.
tain confesson-follow.
Continuing previous foreground Sebastian
finishes reading the above. As friends
turn around Sebastian hastily indicates
he has an engagement and. hailng a
taxicab, enters, after instructng the
chauffeur to follow Bianca's Limousine.
Show close foreground OF Leontne's au-
tomobile. Leontine speaks to her chauf-
feur
Spoken title: Follow that taxi"
Scene 10. (Outside Blanca's gambling es-
tablishment-a typical brownstone gam
bling house Windows and doors are
grated with iron grill work. etc) Show
foreground of Blanca and Romanoff
coming up to doorway of gambling
house Stop at doorway. Biancas au-
tomobile leaves. sebastians taxicab
drives up. Sebastian pays chauffeur.
who drives away, and Sebastian mounts
steps of gambling house toward Blanca
and Romanof, who can be seen at
doorway.
Scene 20. (Street location nearby--moon-
light effecD, Leontne leaves her auto
mobile and exits in the direction of the
gambling house
Scene 81. tOutside Bianca's house as per
19-moonlight effecU. Show foreground
Of Leontine coming to bottom Of steps
Her face is yelled 80 that she cannot
be recognized by Sebastian. She sees
Sebastian, Blanca and Romanon go
into gambling house
Show close foreground of Leontine at bot
tom Of steps, She half starts up steps
to follow. but stops. undecided what
to do.
Scene 22. (Bianca's boudoir) Blanca, Ro-
manof and Sebastian come In, Blanca
Is very pleasant to Sebastian and asks
him to be seated, Chinese servants