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IT’S here---the event the entire country

has been waiting for---the most costly, most

remarkable motion picture production ever brought out

-The Million Dollar Mystery, Nine miles of Iilm involving love, romance and

adventure. Today marks the start of this thrilling photo-story by Harold McGrath, the famous author of “Kathlyn.” The better theatres eyerywhere will present to you, starting to-day, two-reel episodes of this soul-thrilling drama once each week. Each episode will be [filled with thrills-new thrills. Each scene will revel sensations never before attempted. As the story progresses, wee by week a startling mystery will be unravelled, And 10,000,00 in cash will be paid for thek best 100 word solution of this mystery.

Think ()f it! $10,000 for 100 words. $100

a word! Simply see this remarkable series of

motion pictures---read the story by Harold McGrath in the

Charlottetown Guardian-and write your solution of the mystery. A clew to the mystery will be given in every episode. Anybody is eligible to compete for the $10,000,00. It is only nec- essary to see the pictures and to read the story in order to write your solution. Complete infor- mation will be furnished by the theatre exhibiting the Million Dollar Mystery- Go today or

tonight-see the first episode of this stupendous, mystic production-and get full information about the $10,000.00-for~a-100-words offer.

The Million Dollar Mystery will bring to

light the mysterious ceremonies of the Black Hundred

---a band of Russian Millionaires bound by secret oats to

carry out their fiendish designs. It will reveal the innermost secrets of this internationally known society. You will see in these amazing films how the dextrous hand of Harold MacGrath has woven love and hatred into every scene. You will witness the experiences of Florence Gray, the millionaire heiress, whose fortune the plotters are attempting to obtain. You will be thrilled by startling surprises-the fall of a balloon in mid-ocean, the death-defying portrayal of a railroad wreck, the breath-taking escapes of the heroine from the clutches of the villains. In these wonder- ful motion-pictures you will see, for the first time, scenes of the ocean-bottom’s mysterious life and vegetation-pictures taken under water at tremendous expense. In the Million Dollar Mystery you will find all the film favorites-an all-star Thanhouser cast including Florence La- Badie, Marguerite Snow, Lila Chester, James Cruze, Sidney Bracy, Alfred Norton and Frank Far- rington. The enacting of this entire story has been supervised by Lloyd Lonergan, famous director of the Thanhouser Film Corporation. `

The Million Dollar Mystery is, by far,

the most elaborate film production ever staged. No

expense has been spared to make this series of motion'

pictures the most entertaining an_d instructive photoplay ever presented. All the better theatres wl_l1show this stupendous attraction. Below ls a list of the theatres showing the first two-reel episode of the Mllllonj Dollar Mystery today and tonight. Hurry 'round to your favorite theatre- see the performance-and get full details of the sensational offer of $10,000.00 for 100 words.

See the First Great Episode of The Million Dollar Mystery at 4 THE PEOPLE’S TH TR .

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