When
Lost
Angeles
was a
little
pueblo,
the
mission
chain of
old
California
was a
mighty
empire,
when gay
caballeros
roamed
up and
down El
Camino
Real,
the
King's
Highway,
to
serenade
dimpling
senoritas
and
fight on
the
slightest
provocation;
when
robed
frailes
labored
to bring
the
natives
to a
realization
of
Christianity;
when
intrigue
was in
every
breath
of air
-- a
turbulent
time of
loving
and
fighting
and
romance?
A
peculiar
situation
in which
a
caballero
of
blood,
high-strung
and
honorable,
finds
himself
linked
with an
adventurer
and a
delicious
senorita
with a
will and
way of
her own
furnishes
the
basis of
the
story.
Guitars
twinkle
and
blades
flash in
the
bright
moonlight,
rough
soldiers
and
scheming
Indians
make
nefarious
plans,
scene
after
scene
unfolds
before
the
reader
until
affairs
reach a
smashing
and
unexpected
climax.
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Mark
of
Zorro,
The -
PhotoPlay
Edition
1920
Fairbanks
Film
-- starring
Douglas
Fairbanks
Don
Diego
Vega
gets the
name of
being a
good-for-nothing,
because
of an
apparently
disinterested
attitude
toward
the
world.
The
natives
are
maltreated
and
cruelly
ruled by
the
Governor
and
priests
are
persecuted.
Don
Diego
masquerades
in black
covering
his face
with a
mask,
and
rides
the
hills
avenging
the
oppressed.
No one
is able
to
capture
him
because
of his
wonderful
skill
with the
sword.
When in
a fight
he
always
leaves
his mark
on his
opponent,
a
"Z"
cut into
his
face.
Soon he
gets the
caballeros
on his
side,
and with
them
rescues
from
prison
Don
Carlos
Pulido,
his wife
and
Lolita,
their
daughter,
the girl
he
loves.
She
loves
him as
Zorro,
but
cannot
stand
him as
Don
Diego,
not
realizing
that he
is
playing
two
parts.
In the
end he
and
Ramon
fight a
duel in
which
the
captain
gets the
"Z"
on his
forehead.
Thus it
is
revealed
who Don
Diego is
and her
father
is proud
of him
-- not
mentioning
the
admiration
the girl
has for
him.
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