human
Who was in the cast, Mr. Werner? What were they playing and just exactly what was each doing at the time of Miss Lamar's collapse?
gpt
Well --Werner's eyes shifted to mine, then to Mackay's, and there was a subtle lack of ease in his manner which I was hardly prepared to classify as yet--
human
Stella Lamar was playing the part of Stella Remsen, the heroine, and--uh, I see your associate has the script--
gpt
Jack Gordon plays Jack Daring, the hero--the handsome young chap who runs down the steps and encounters the butler and the maid in the hall just outside the library--
human
Wasn't it his face in the French windows of the library at the same time? Kennedy asked.
gpt
Wasn't he the murderer of the father, also?
human
No! Werner smiled slightly, and there was an instant's flash of the man's personality, winning and, it seemed to me, calculated to inspire confidence.
gpt
That is the mystery; it is a mystery plot. While the parts are played by Jack in both cases now, we explain in a subtitle a little later that the criminal himself, the 'Black Terror,' is a master of scientific impersonation, and that he changes the faces of his emissaries by means of plastic surgery and such scientific things, so that they look like the characters against whom he wishes to throw suspicion. So while Jack plays the part it is really an accomplice of the 'Black Terror' who kills old Remsen.
human
A new idea in the application of science to crime! he remarked, dryly.
gpt
Just suppose it were practicable!
human
The 'Black Terror' Werner continued,
gpt
The director chuckled.
human
No Millard story is ever complete without a vamp and Marilyn's been eating them up. She's been with Manton Pictures for nearly a year.
gpt
You played the millionaire yourself?
human
Yes, I did old Remsen.