Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1914 — The Princess to Have Big Attraction Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

The Princess to Have Big Attraction Wednesday.

Manager George, oi the Princess, has made ai iangemenb- lor one of the biggest attractions of the year, for Wednesday, April 9th. “Through the Clouds,” is a 4-feeT production involving the limit ip dare-devil, death defying aeronautics, altitudinous actihg and sky-high photography. It is the most marvelous wierdly wonderful picture ever filmed. London, the hiding place of criminals - and political offenders, has become the headquarters of a band of international rogues with Rudolf Berkman at their head. Sybil Marston is a member of the gang and Berkman uses her as a decoy in a bogus accident and thus they gain access into the house of Lord Denison, where they steal the. famous “Higby” diamonds. ■ - Lord Denison, on discovering his loss, at once communicates with his friend, Halifax Hilliard, a wellknown detective, who with his daughter, Thelma, lives out Finchley way. Hilliard tracks the thieves to their lair but is captured and incarcerated in a cellar. In a unique manner he gains his freedom. A passerby throws his finished cigar; it falls down the grating and burns his bonds. Meanwhile Thelma, anxious at her father’s non-appearance, proceeds to the house he had told her he was going to and gains access through the window. She hesitates on entering the room and hearing footsteps hides in an ottoman just as her father staggers into the room, having escaped from the cellar. However, his freedom is short lived for her is pounced upon by Berkman and the remainder of the gang, bound and gagged and placed on the ottoman. Thelma in her hiding place hears with horror the decision of Berkman to take Hilliard up in a balloon and cast him into the sea. As they take her father out, she escapes and dashing off, meets some aviators to whom shgj tells her story. Gainng their sympathy, the well known aviator, Verrier, agrees to take her up in his* aeroplane and

a chase through the clouds ensues. One of the gangsters meets his deserts from a well timed shot by Thelma and as the aeroplane passes below the balloon containing her father the plucky girl leaps and catching a guide rope climbs up, and up, finally reaching the basket where she releases her father. Tugging at the valve they descend at Leatherhead? where instructions are wired to the police and the house of the international thieves surrounded. On the arrival of Hilliard, the place is raided and the thieves attempt to hide in an old well but a water pipe bursts and they nearly lose their lives, only being saved by their arrest by Hilliard. The jewels are recovered and Thelma receives a magnificent reward for her perilous journey “Through the Clouds.” There will be matinees in the afternoon and the regular evening performances. All seats Will be 10 cents.