The artist poisons the medicine to speed his dying wife's departure.

The wife dies before she can change her will.

The poisoner madly seeks the missing murder evidence.

The model learns she married a murderer - who may murder her next.

The model feels murder in the artist's touch.

The police runs a mad race with murder.

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Today, as when, a good many years ago, he was the popular leading man of the famous Morosco Stock Company, Richard Dix is the arch-type of the he-man.

Currently starring in Columbia's "Secret of the Whistler," sixth in the studio's series of highly praised "Whistler" pictures, Dix has, ever since his stage beginnings, maintained his hold on the popular imagination. He has been in pictures for over 20 years, and today, there are innumerable fans who regard a Dix film as a 'must.

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When he was a boy, back in St. Paul, Minnesota, his father wanted him to be a surgeon. That didn't appeal to young Richard, so he tried banking, only to find it dull. Work in an architect's office was the next try, and that appealed no more than banking.

All this time, there was a dream in the back of Richard's mind. What he really wanted to do was act. With medicine, banking and architecture all out, he enrolled in the Northwestern Dramatic School evening classes, and, possessed of both talent and virile good looks, soon won a berth in a local stock company. New York beckoned, and in 1917, he made his Broadway debut in "The Hawk" with William Faversham.

Talking about his career, Dix says that he's had innumerable lucky breaks, and adds,"If I hadn't had, I wouldn't'have been in the game this long." One of his lucky breaks was becoming leading man of that above mentioned Morosco Stock Company on the west coast.

Richard Dix with Hal Revine Photo Courtesy of Richard Revine

Attention from motion picture producers was inevitable. Sidney Franklin gave Dix his first screen opportunity in "Not Guilty." The year was 1922, and ever since, the name of Richard Dix has been familiar to filmgoers.

A person-to-person meeting took place recently in Hollywood which climaxed a record long-time, long-distance association when Richard Dix, star of "Secret of the Whistler," met Hal Revine, organizer of the first Richard Dix fan club, who resides in Ottawa, Canada.

Revine started the first Dix fan club 21 years ago in Ottawa, and developed it into a world-wide organization having a membership of more than 5,000 fans.

The Ottawan, while visiting relatives in Santa Monica, was invited to the Columbia star's ranch near Topanga Canyon and then taken by Dix on a personally conducted tour of the film capital.

"Richard Dix and Hal Revine, two pals of long standing, at the corral fence, admiring the Dix string of fine saddle horses. Incidentally, the favorite of the motion picture star, "Apple", was ridden by his Canadian friend."