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Adventurer About To Be Deported
Gained Money and Jewels
by Trickery.
By SELFRIDGE HENNEGAN.
(Copyright, 1919, by the International
News Bureau, Inc.)
LONDON (by mail)~—The DBritish
authorities are to be congrateulated
on the rapidity with which they are
clearing out the'scum of the German
and other nations who found refuge
in Great Britain in pre-war days. No
¢ity in the world has ever had to tol
erate what London submitted to be
fore 1914, and the passing of the
altens bill will make it impossible for
expelled foreigners ever to set foot
on English soil again
Among the latest of the deportees s
a German walter who played many
‘parts in hie time, his most successful
role being that of “Baron von Brock
er,” a cousin of the ex-Kaiser. His
real name was Strett, and into his
three-and-forty years crowded more
adventure and episode than many
men do in a whole lifetime,
Well spoken, with nice manners and
rather handsome features, he had a
passion for women, and in the space
of a few years he claimed no fewer
thap 100 wives and sweethearts all
over the country, Whether he ever
went through the actual form of mar
riage with half this number of his
vietims lawfully, 1 can not say, but it
is pretty certain that many of his vie
tims lived with him at some time or
¢ther. He spent money to make
monev, for robbery was the real mo
tive whioh inspired his amorous en
terprises.
‘ln the West End he held jobs at
several restaurants, and In this way
he became acquainted with those on
whom he had designs. Unsuspecting
vigitors to London fell into his hands
and he had no difficulty in establish
ing friendship.
POURED LOVE IN VICTIMS’ EARS.
. Like Landru, the French Blue
beard, he spoke loftily of his family's
wealth, and of estates to which he
was heir in California and other dis
tant lands, If asked why it was that
2: tollowed the menial occupation, he
replied that this was the easiest way
of acquiring the language of any
eountry.
His methods of fleecing the unpre
pared of their savings and valuables
was not original. He simply poured
love into their ears and captured the
hearts of his victims. Then he pitched
the usual tale of the family cheque
which never arrived, and by a varlety
of plausible excuses and apologies 80~
deited aid from his girl friends.
Domestic servants fell an easy prey
to his stories and fietlons, and from
time to time he amassed considerable
sums, which he took care to bank
Jewelry, too, found its way into his
safe, and he h:{: a ttql:;n:lt vl\;;evuy
when he was thrown :
g:ko all adventurers, gu*et‘tl‘ be
lieved in fashionable dress, and thore
xo met him outside his working
urs could never believe that he was
one and the same individual. He
usually wore a morning coat, silk hat,
patent hoots and spats, while a daz
z'ing imitation pearl pin was con
gnlevously displayed on his tle.
How he managed to masquerade as
& modest German walter one week
and the next as Baron Brocker, a
eousin of the ex-Kaiser, is his own
secret, for through all his eacapades
he managed to stear clear of the po
lice. ’
Jt was In his own country that he
first started on his career of decep
tion, and after putting pald to tho ae
counts of numerous women in Berlin,
¥rapkfort and other German towns
he tried his luck in Paris. Strett was
a great traveler and a cautious one,
at that,
His courtships were invariably eon
dacted on fairly legitimate lines, lis
promises, however, were always oral,
unlike the majority of suitors, he
never wrote a letter. Thus he de
rdnd his dupes of an important clew
or identification mmnc. and when
he disappearsd nobody had the siight
ent idea as to his whereabouts.
When he came to London he worked
first of all in Solo and afterward in|
the Suand.: A striking feature of hw
methods was, that he never had any
use for women without money, nho
mwatter how .prepossessing thelr ap
pearance. To :::n confidence he fre
quently en his victims with
sums of money which he asked them
to mind for him till he wanted It
Then when the moment came to carry
out his plans he would borrow a huns
dred or two and in this way regain
mwn cash with substantial inter-
A VICTIM'S EXPERIENCE.
After lving some time in London,
he appears to have made his way to
J.ancashire and then Scotland, not in
the guise of a German aristocrat, but
as a° Swiss waiter. BEverybody who
met him was impressed by his genial
disposition, behind which he cloaked
his native caprice and cunning. No
body ever doubted his sincerity, and
hig campaign was so cleverly engl
ueered that when he vanished after
his usual custom, having enriched his
pockets, it was generally thought that
he bad gone on some business en
gagement abroad and would turn up
‘agein in due course,
One of his London vietims to whom
he was engaged for several months
and who found herself very much
poorer for the attachment, gave me a
picture of Strett and hix tactics,
“He seemed” she said, “to be a
very decent fellow, good looking and
jolly, and the sort of man you could
trust. 1 first met him in Shaftesbury
avenue, where he was employed as a
head waiter in 2 restaurant. He asked
me to see him again, and 1 agreed to
do Bc, After a while we became close
friends and appeared to spend a falr
amount of money.
“When we had known each other
‘:bm a month he asked me to marry
im, but 1 thought it was a rather
rash suggestion and I told him it
would he better to wait for a lttle
lu‘n‘gr. in case he changed his mind.
ortly afterward he told me he
had had some bad luck, as he had
put bis money into worthless shares.
sympathized with him, whereupon
he appealed to me to try to help him.
1 gave him all I had, 500 pounds, ana
% week later when I went to call on
him, 1 found he had left his employ
ment and gone to another purt of
Eoghn
» I was making inquiries I
et three other women who were aleo
Mn&' for Mr, Strett, and 1
the first time that he was
‘ ‘ , and had been robbing
What would you do with motion pictures
if you were master of the I”lworld 2 A 8
F all the millons or tne woria s wea.tn were stored
in the next room; if all the natural scenery of five
continents were within your reach—and the seven seas
and all the ships that plough their waves?
You could then make motion pictures exactly as a super
man would make them, difficulties vanishing at your
touch, romance taking shape at your merest beckon.
Dramatists, directors, stars, technicians, scenery, oceans,
forests, mountains, each fulfilling perfectly a function
in your plan, would contribute to a photoplay that
would be a masterpiece.
It you wanted an active volcano in your picture you would ask
your geographers and geologists which was the most
suitable one on the crust of the planet, and you would
" despatch an expedition across continents to “shoot’ it.
[t you wanted to show in one picture for a few moments
an actual scene on the banks of the great, grey Ganges,
you would cable your European representatives to
journey to India and do the job.
The leasing of a tropic island, the renting of a railroad, the
transplanting of ten thousand palm trees, would be
trifles in your eyes. Always you would be offered the
cream of the dramatic genius of the world first. That
would be a foregone conclusion!
This is the sort of thing you might do if you were master
of the world.
What will you say when we tell you that now—
after seven years—)
- Paramount-Artcraft has mobilized all the great geniuses
of production; dramatists, directors, artists, technicians;
and is equipped with world-wide facilities and
unlimited resources to make for you, to be shown in
' your theatre, exactly the kind of motion pictures you
would make if you were master of the world.
Great power carries with it great responsibility. We owe
.. it to you and to all humanity to make this great in
fluence contribute solely to the good and the harmony
and the entertainment of the world.
Wholesome American families and their neighbors on all
Continents may place implicit trust in the character of
any picture marked Paramount-Artcraft.
Tremendous Changes are Impending
* in the Art of the Screen
So far you have noted in all the better theatres that Para
mount-Artcraft has produced the best pictures of all
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kinds. You have noted in the great national magazines
and newspapers, that Paramount-Artcraft has focussed
the attention of people everywhere upon those better
pictures.
These two facts have created a world-appreciation of the
sheer importance of motion pictures in enriching the
life of the community
The broadening of this appreciation of motion pictures,
with the natural result of finer theatres, more comfort
able seating, better music and better presentation gen
erally—not alone in fifty cities but in more than five
thousand centres—is the direct result of Paramount-
Artcraft policy
All this Makes Possible the Next Great
Step in the Industry
You are about to become the deciding factor in the success
~ of a new and audacious producing and distributing
policy.
You are to decide by your presence at the showing of every
one of these new Paramount-Artcraft Pictures that you
want a big picture not just three or four times a year,
but a big picture twice or three times a week |
Every Paramount-Artcraft Picture will be a big picture
and each ong¢ will prosper on its own merit, quite
apart from what is called program or series booking.
You may not understand fully the nature of this develop
ment by the written explanation. You surely will
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The progress of the motion picture industry is measured by the
progress of FAMOUS PLAYFRS LASKY CORPORATION.
Its resources are unlimited.:
Its relationships, like the screen itself, are international,
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poration has not the mental resource and material
resources to overcome.’
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star-genius, costly equipment and producinfi audacity
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tive and distributing organization behind it, built up
by years of earnest and tenacious effort.
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Capt, Dieppe
Eliza Comes to Stay
Everywoman
Hawthorneofthe U.S. A,
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The Fear Market
The Female of the Species
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