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- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLew AyresMaureen O'SullivanLouis CalhernA gossip columnist's rise to fame, closely based on the real life of Walter Winchell.
- DirectorHugh DierkerStarsMae BuschOwen MooreFritzi BrunetteFor the sake of a woman, Robert Morton serves a prison sentence and is disowned by his father, Henry. He is freed after several years and arrives in San Francisco, California, where he meets Camille Balishaw in a Barbary Coast saloon. She offers Robert shelter and aids in his rehabilitation, but his prison record prevents him from holding a job. After Camille and Robert are married, he finds another job and gradually regains his self-respect. Henry has a change of heart and seeks out Robert, asking him to return home, but without Camille. Robert remains loyal to his wife, forcing Henry to relent as he realizes the depth of their love.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsHoot GibsonLaura La PlanteHarry ToddWhen Bud Watkins (Hoot Gibson), loses his ranch and savings to gambling house proprietor "Gentlemen Jim" Slade, the Cocopah Kid, a notorious bandit, lures away Betsy Burke (Laura La Plante), Bud's sweetheart and the daughter of the local sheriff. The Cocopah Kid, mortally wounded, dies in Bud's house; and by impersonating the dead man, Bud regains his lost ranch and saves Betsy from Slade's clutches. Bud's disguise is exposed when a posse catches him, and he gets a reward for capturing The Cocopah Kid and Betsy realizes her true love for Bud.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsHouse PetersGrace CarlyleJohn St. PolisJohn Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back, she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry, thought he is actually protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart Bessie. He's about to give up his church at the request of his congregation when the brother comes forward to confess.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsGladys WaltonNiles WelchEdith YorkeNita Moore (Gladys Walton), a circus performer, is mistreated by the ringmaster and runs away to join an old couple who are persuaded that Nita is their long lost daughter. Phillip Lessoway (Niles Welch), the couple's lawyer, falls in love with Nita, but after a quarrel he discovers and reveals to the adoptive parents that Nita is an impostor. Nita attempts suicide but is saved from a watery grave by Lessoway.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsRockliffe FellowesFritzi RidgewayBuddy MessingerReleased from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living. When Shugrue realizes his influence, he refuses to "throw" a game for blackmailers who threaten to reveal his past, and he goes to Judge Drury to tell the whole truth. The judge decides that Shugrue is more valuable free than in jail; the star is reunited with Ida.
- DirectorKing BaggotStarsGladys WaltonGeorge StewartTom GuiseMarcel Murphy, a telephone operator with society aspirations, overhears Mrs. Margaret Benson's conversation describing a party she is planning for her son, Ralph, and wangles an invitation by imitating the hostess's voice. At the party, a maid accuses Marcel of stealing another guest's jewelry, but Mr. Benson creates an alibi for Marcel, claiming she is the daughter of an old friend. He then secretly rents a hotel suite for her. Complications reach a climax when Ralph, Mrs. Benson, and Marcel's parents arrive at the hotel at the same time and find the young woman alone with Mr. Benson. Matters are explained, and Ralph asks Marcel to be his wife.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsHerbert RawlinsonHarriet HammondLincoln PlumerBob Mortimer loses his job as a result of his failure to land a certain order. In his room Bob is surprised to find $50,000 in his traveling bag. The townspeople immediately presume that Bob is a rich man who has come to build factories in the town and he is given a cordial welcome. Lang, a professional crook, who has come to the place to fleece the people, joins forces with Mortimer whom he believes is a brother crook. How Bob reforms Lang and becomes prosperous completes the story.
- DirectorKing BaggotStarsGladys WaltonSpottiswoode AitkenOtto HoffmanGretchen Ann (Gladys Walton) runs away from her foster parents and is sheltered first by train brakeman Bill Kelley (William Robert Daly), then by elderly oilman Pete Sebastian (Edward Jobson). After Gretchen Ann keeps Sebastian from being duped by a medium, he sends her to a fashionable school, asking that she agree to marry him when she returns. She accepts the condition, but Sebastian releases her from the commitment when he realizes that she loves John Kelley.
- DirectorKing BaggotStarsGladys WaltonGeorge StewartTom GuiseMarcel Murphy, a telephone operator with society aspirations, overhears Mrs. Margaret Benson's conversation describing a party she is planning for her son, Ralph, and wangles an invitation by imitating the hostess's voice. At the party, a maid accuses Marcel of stealing another guest's jewelry, but Mr. Benson creates an alibi for Marcel, claiming she is the daughter of an old friend. He then secretly rents a hotel suite for her. Complications reach a climax when Ralph, Mrs. Benson, and Marcel's parents arrive at the hotel at the same time and find the young woman alone with Mr. Benson. Matters are explained, and Ralph asks Marcel to be his wife.
- DirectorColin CampbellStarsDustin FarnumFred KohlerBessie LoveRiley Sinclair sets out to kill the three men who left his brother, Hal, to die in the desert. One of the intended victims, Sam Lowrie, commits suicide, while Riley kills another in self-defense. During his pursuit of the third man, Ed Sanderson, Riley meets schoolteacher John Caspar, but soon discovers that his new friend is actually Virginia Cartwright, a woman on the run from her cruel husband, Jude. After both Jude and Ed are killed in a fight, Virginia is free to marry Riley.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsMarie PrevostEdward HearnHallam CooleyGlamorous New York model Molly (Marie Prevost) yearns for a life of luxury but spurns the advances of her boss' son in favor of a shipping clerk. Their plans for marriage and a suburban home are nearly ruined by a misunderstanding on her part; she is nearly compromised by the boss' son but is brought to her senses and returns to the man she loves.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsMarie PrevostEdward HearnHallam CooleyGlamorous New York model Molly (Marie Prevost) yearns for a life of luxury but spurns the advances of her boss' son in favor of a shipping clerk. Their plans for marriage and a suburban home are nearly ruined by a misunderstanding on her part; she is nearly compromised by the boss' son but is brought to her senses and returns to the man she loves.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsJohn GilbertClaire AndersonJ.P. LockneyDonald Keith, a young lawyer who takes up residence in the small town of Owasco, Michigan, finds himself opposed by lumber king Quartus Hembly, feared by all the townspeople. Keith takes up the case of Daniel Kersten against Hembly, who has cheated him out of his property, and during his investigation he discovers that the father of Thora Erickson, whom he loves, conspired with Hembly against Kersten, and at length he obtains a deathbed confession from Erickson. Hembly has Keith wounded on the night before the trial and bribes the jury, but Keith appears, stirs up the town in rebellion against Hembly in spite of his weakened condition, and wins his case.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsBuck JonesEileen PercyMae BuschA drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very valuable land. When the old man is found murdered, the drifter is accused of the crime. He didn't do it, but he has to find who the real killer is and clear his name.
- StarsMatt MooreFritzi BrunetteHarry StaffordPopular jockey Jimmy Snell entertains Elinor Ranny, his employer's 14-year-old daughter, and is greatly impressed by her sweet nature. Upon her departure from the stables, Elinor presents Snell with a rose, which he preserves. During the next five years, Snell goes to the bad. Elinor, now grown to young womanhood, goes on a shopping tour accompanied by her school chum Nora Kelton, whom she is visiting. On a panhandling expedition, Snell is hurled bodily from a saloon; the girls witness this and hasten to the fallen man's aid. Elinor recognizes Snell and declares her own identity. The girls then scheme to procure Snell employment with the racing establishment of Nora's father, Frank Kelton. Snell, however, succeeds in placing himself with the Kelton stables. Crooked bookmaker Jerry Pierson schemes to prevent Kelton's entry from winning a big handicap, Snell defeats the scheme, is reinstated to good standing with the Jockey Club, and rides Kelton's horse to victory.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsWilliam RussellFlorence DeshonSylvia BreamerWhen Sally McTurk's husband is murdered, her brother Ken Thornton goes into hiding and winds up in a small mountain community, using a phony name. He's taken in by a local family, the Harpers. A mutual attraction soon develops between Thornton and the family's daughter, Dorothy, but a local bully who has designs of his own on Dorothy sets out to have Ken killed. He survives the attempt, but his past comes back to haunt him.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHoot GibsonFrancis FordJ. Farrell MacDonaldOrphaned Molly is heir to a ranch and mine and falls under the influence of saloon-owner Plimsoll, who schemes to deprive her of the inheritance. Sandy Brouke and his pals, Soda Water Manning and Mormon Peters, wander off the range and champion the girl's interests. Sandy falls in love with the girl. The partners succeed in getting the mine from the conspirators and working it themselves while sending Molly off to school. Plimsoll frames Sandy and his men, however, and she returns to find them in jail. Through Molly's efforts Sandy is released, and ultimately the crooks are defeated.
- StarsMatt MooreFritzi BrunetteHarry StaffordPopular jockey Jimmy Snell entertains Elinor Ranny, his employer's 14-year-old daughter, and is greatly impressed by her sweet nature. Upon her departure from the stables, Elinor presents Snell with a rose, which he preserves. During the next five years, Snell goes to the bad. Elinor, now grown to young womanhood, goes on a shopping tour accompanied by her school chum Nora Kelton, whom she is visiting. On a panhandling expedition, Snell is hurled bodily from a saloon; the girls witness this and hasten to the fallen man's aid. Elinor recognizes Snell and declares her own identity. The girls then scheme to procure Snell employment with the racing establishment of Nora's father, Frank Kelton. Snell, however, succeeds in placing himself with the Kelton stables. Crooked bookmaker Jerry Pierson schemes to prevent Kelton's entry from winning a big handicap, Snell defeats the scheme, is reinstated to good standing with the Jockey Club, and rides Kelton's horse to victory.
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsKing BaggotViolet HornerMrs. Allen WalkerTom Walsh loves an office girl and is engaged to marry her. Unknown to her he furnishes two rooms in the old homestead, intending to surprise her after the wedding. But she jilts him, and on the day set for their wedding she runs away with another man, whom she marries. Tom is almost insane with rage and grief, and in his terrible agony he demolishes the furnishings of one room and rushes into the bridal chamber to destroy that also, but his old mother calms him and he locks the room with a resolve that it shall never be opened unless his bride-who-was-to-be returns. As time passes, he becomes wealthy and she almost a beggar. In ruined health she returns to her hometown, and by a strange freak of fate she happens to overhear an Italian whom Tom discharged from one of the quarries he now owns, threaten his life. Weary and ill, she struggles to the scene of the attempted murder and saves her former sweetheart's life, but is badly wounded. Tom carries her into his home and unlocks the bridal chamber which for five years had been closed. A reconciliation is effected and the oil of peace and joy has calmed the sea of their turbulent lives.
- StarsKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalySusanne WillisMr. White and Mrs. Black were originally married to each other and divorced. Mr. Black and Mrs. White were also formerly man and wife and divorced each other. The two ladies assumed their maiden names, and each meeting the other one's husband, fall in love and marry. Mrs. Black thus becoming Mrs. White, and Mrs. White becoming Mrs. Black. Neither of the men or ladies tell their newly married partners that they have gone through the divorce court, the two men believing they have married spinsters and the two ladies thinking they have married bachelors. None of them have heard of the re-marriage of their former husband or wife, and each one is fearful of meeting the other. The Whites have rented a house which is too large for their needs, so they advertise for a congenial couple to share it with them. The Blacks answer the advertisement and each former man and wife confront each other separately and as neither one is in a position to give the other one away, they swear each other to secrecy and for mutual protection they agree to occupy the same house, though each individual is in constant dread lest his wife or her husband should discover their former relations to one another. The mother-in-law of both men makes an unexpected visit on her daughter, thereby precipitating the disclosure that they all have dreaded. Explanations are refused by all; Mr. and Mrs. Black (the 2nd) with the mother-in-law, beat a hasty retreat sadder but wiser, while Mr. and Mrs. White (the 2nd) decide that no one will ever share their home again.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotJane FearnleyJoe MooreGovernment agent Nell is under cover in the Cumberland mountains. She bribes a poor mountain man to betray his neighbors, but he has a change of heart and rats her out to the moonshiners. They get the drop on Nell and are about to kill her when the man she bribes step in to saves her life. The film ends with the two at the marriage altar.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalyViolet HornerLuther Clews, a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, finds himself in financial difficulties. His son Howard, owns Queen Bee, whom father and son expect to retrieve the family fortune, as she is entered in the famous Latonia Derby. Young Howard has lost heavily on a previous race, and without his father's knowledge has given his note for $5,000 to Doc Martin, an unscrupulous poolroom owner doing business in Lexington, Kentucky. Martin, knowing Queen Bee's great value and thinking that if she were scratched, his own, Eagle, would win the Derby, induces young Howard to give him a mortgage on Queen Bee to secure the note. The day Howard is to ship his horse to Latonia, Martin forecloses. At this juncture. Howard's fiancée buys all interest in Queen Bee. Martin secures the assistance of a friend who endeavors to poison the animal in order to prevent her entry in the race. The plot is foiled by Howard, who is secretly watching his pet. The race is run. Queen Bee is victorious, and fortune again smiles on the Clews family.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotJane FearnleyWilliam Robert DalyJack Gayboy is in love with famous Broadway favorite Dolly Varden, and true to the proverb their love affair fails to run smoothly. The father, Mr. Gayboy, objects to his son's marriage with an actress, though as the picture develops it is shown that he too is an admirer of the fair sex. Jack, knowing his father's weakness, arranges that his sweetheart should impersonate a maid in their home, and by a well-arranged plan they succeed in securing Kodak evidence of the old man's penchant for those whom he considers not in his sphere. When confronted with proof of his fondness for the girl, Mr. Gayboy relents and gives his permission to the marriage of Jack and Dolly, which duly takes place.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalyViolet HornerDrink is fastening its arms around Frank Downing. He has broken promise after promise made to his wife to reform and she in despair appeals to a friend, who endeavors to persuade her to leave and accept a position as teacher in the village school in a distant part of the state. One night Downing comes home helpless, having spent his week's wages on drink, and there is no food in the house for Edna and their son Tommy. Edna has finally had enough and she and Tommy leave the degraded man to go forth into the world and earn their living. Upon arriving in the village where her school is located, Edna meets and inquires her way of John Stevens. He is a widower devoted to his little daughter Doris. Through this chance meeting a friendship is established between Edna and John, which grows stronger and stronger as time passes, until John discovers that he loves her very dearly, and asks her to be his wife. Edna then admits her love and confides her story to him. He is willing to wait until she can secure a divorce. During vacation Edna and Tommy return to their old hometown, and here she secures her freedom. While she is away a wreck of a man, practically a tramp, is arrested in the village and tries to dispose of some carpentry tools, which are recognized as the property of John Stevens. The man is Downing. He is taken to Stevens' shop so the tools can be identified. Downing makes an appeal of desperation to Stevens; touched, John saves him from the law's grasp by stating he is a new workman whom he has just employed. Downing is put to work and Stevens helps him to fight his curse. He is finally reclaimed and becomes a true man. Edna returns to the village full of hope, and Stevens, still ignorant of the relations that once existed between her and the man he has saved, is awaiting her with all a true lover's impatience. Edna enters the shop and comes face-to-face with Frank, and John learns the truth. The situation appalls all, all but John, a man who knew his God, and knowing Him, abided His will. He joins their hands, saying, "Whom God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder." Downing, with the past before him, refuses the sacrifice, and endeavors to leave, but John stops him. "It is God's will," he says, and the reunited husband and wife pass out of his life together.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotViolet HornerWilliam E. ShayThe officers and stockholders of the Mutual Construction Company were holding a serious session. Huntley Sharpe, the president, announced that a half million dollars must be raised forthwith in order that certain unfinished contracts in hand could be completed; then matters of the company would proceed smoothly. But a minority of the stockholders would not trust the president. They demanded that a receiver for the company be appointed. This demand so affected Mr. Sharpe that be suffered a nervous breakdown, fearing the collapse of the company. His physicians decided that if he would regain his health be must go away instantly. This brought about unexpected results. The stockholders realized that Sharpe's absence from the city would bring about the very thing they desired to avert, viz., the downfall of the company, because public confidence in it would be weakened. In this difficulty a bright inspiration occurred to the company's secretary. He met a man exactly the double of Mr. Sharpe. Swearing all to secrecy and pledging Sharpe's double likewise, the man was induced to take the place of Mr. Sharpe in the office day by day. Meanwhile the real Mr. Sharpe went to Hot Springs, recovered his health after a short course of treatment, and while there, meeting several financial kings, was so enabled to raise the necessary money to complete the contracts and assure the continued prosperity of the Mutual Construction Company.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotVivian PrescottWilliam Robert DalyAmos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in order to pay his debts. However, things were inclined to take a better turn for him. He was invited to be a guest of some friends of his. And between him and the daughter of the family some sort of heart interest was supposed to exist. Disinclined to accept the invitation at first, he yielded to the persuasions of his friend, the brother of the girl, and made his way to the host's house. Unfortunately his nether garment gave way in a somewhat conspicuous place and in his attempts to conceal the tear while the evening party was in progress, poor Amos suffered a great deal of torture. Finally, he was shown into the room of his probable fiancée. And while in the act of searching for a needle and thread, was discovered by her father, who had not yet made the acquaintance of Amos. Poor Amos stood in imminent danger from an ugly looking revolver which Mr. Crampton pointed at him. However, his peril was discovered in time by the girl and her brother, and the lady lending him a convenient dressing gown, proceeded to help him out of his sartorial difficulty, and at the same time intimated to him that she would not be disinclined to darn socks for an indefinite period. So the young couple was made happy.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotViolet HornerWilliam Robert DalyJapanese soldier Hokoruma is sent to San Francisco to obtain at all hazards a plan of the new harbor fortifications about to be erected. He registers at a Japanese employment bureau and secures a position of butler in the home of the Commanding General, Colonel Jones. This gives him the opportunity to learn and see much that is necessary for him to know in accomplishing his end. The Colonel's daughter Clara is engaged to Lieutenant Pond, and the marriage is set for the near future. At the Officers' Club, Lieut. Pond is guilty of an act unbecoming to a gentleman, and the Colonel, who is severe but just, offers him the choice of two alternatives: court-martial or resignation. The Lieutenant is overwhelmed with the threatened disgrace. But he thinks he sees a means of escape; he will persuade his fiancée to elope with him. The Colonel would never carry out the proceedings against his son-in-law. He enters Clara's home secretly and, while waiting in a dark room, while she is preparing to join him, a man stealthily creeps in and endeavors to make away with some important papers, which are kept in a secret drawer. Recovering from the surprise the Lieutenant springs on the intruder and there is a terrific struggle, at the height of which Clara enters the room. She is horrified to see her lover in the clutches of a supposed burglar, and immediately arouses the household. Her parents appear, and the spy succumbs to the vigorous blows inflicted by his opponent. When the lights are turned on, it is revealed that the would-be robber is none other than Hokoruma, the butler. Lieut. Pond is, of course, fully forgiven by the Colonel, who is saved from disgrace by the courage displaced by the man whom he was to court-martial, and to whom he now willingly and gladly gives his daughter.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotViolet HornerWilliam Robert DalyGeorge, an "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically-inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, a strapping, muscle-bound stud is also after Clarice, and she seems to prefer him to George. After reading an article by a female writer saying that women prefer the "caveman" type of man, George decides that if that what it takes to get Clarice, then that is what he will be.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotJane FearnleyWilliam E. ShaySir Robert Audley, while a good and honorable man, has no social ambitions, and after a time Lady Audley's life becomes monotonous, so she devises a scheme which she believes will be of advantage to her. While her husband is away from home on a long trip, she plans to become suddenly ill and die; this is successful, and enables her to appear under another name. She next ensnares a wealthy nobleman, Sir Michael, and at last sees her dream about to be realized. When Sir Robert returns, he penetrates her disguise and threatens to expose the ruse. Failing to persuade him to keep silent, she determines to put him out of the way forever. For this purpose an old well in the Abbey Court grounds is used; there Sir Robert is supposed to have fallen to his death, but a villager whispers her secret about. Sir Michael's son denounces her but his father is completely infatuated, and therefore gives no credence to the rumor and orders his son from his home. Through a chain of circumstances Lady Audley succeeds in getting her enemies under one roof, a quaint old English inn. Here the desperate creature plans to destroy them all. The dread cry of fire rings out on the still village air, and heroic rescues alone save her victims from a horrible death. Confronted by them on the threshold of the castle, just as she fancied all evidence against her had been consigned to the flames, Lady Audley collapses and insanity mercifully closes the portals of her distorted mind.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsWilliam Robert DalyVivian PrescottWilliam E. ShayAntonio Morse is a struggling artist in Rome, devoted to his attractive young wife and baby. He cannot dispose of his picture, however, and as the story opens, there is no food in the house. His wife, receiving attentions from the famous artist, Pietro Novetti, becomes discontented, and as her husband leaves to make another effort to dispose of his work, receives the more prosperous painter, who makes passionate love to her, and tempts her to desert her husband. In a weak moment she succumbs and leaves her husband and baby. Tony is successful in obtaining a pittance for his paintings and starts home happily with a few purchases. He finds his wife gone, and a note from her, in which she tells him she loves Pietro. The poor artist breaks down over his baby's crib, and then the vengeance in his nature asserts itself and he decides to bide his time. He leaves for America, where for five years he struggles against misfortune. One day as he is painting in the Art Museum, he is brought face to face with a new picture entitled "Despair," which has been presented to the Museum by a wealthy society woman. In the model he recognizes his wife, and in the artist, the man who has broken his life. He learns that the artist will shortly come out to America and in a moment of frenzy he takes his palette knife and cuts the picture from the frame. A great reception is arranged for the Italian painter, Pietro Novetti, and he is feted at Miss Caldwell's home. The unhappy Tony sends his little daughter with a note to Pietro, telling him to follow her, and he will find "Despair," the picture, whose theft has aroused the police forces of the world. Novetti follows the child, refusing the company of the other guests. They, however, rush in an automobile to police headquarters, where they secure the assistance of detectives and police. Meantime, Pietro arrives with little Angelica, at Tony's home. In a dark corner is "Despair," carefully curtained from curious eyes. Tony faces Pietro after sending the little girl into the next room, where she seats herself at her small easel, and oblivious to what is to follow, paints her little picture. Tony throws aside the curtains and reveals the picture to Pietro. He, of course, recognizes Tony as the man he has wronged and tries to make his escape. The door is locked, however, and the moment of the unhappy artist's revenge is here. Tony seized Pietro by the throat, and overpowering him, is about to stab him, when little Angelica rushes into the room and prevents the act. Just then the door is broken open by the police who arrest Tony. Pietro is seized with remorse, and to free the man whose heart he has broken, pronounces this picture "a miserable copy." The police then leave the two men alone, and the prosperous artist hands Tony a letter from his wife, Angelica, in which she writes, "You may well picture me as Despair. I have only loved one man, and I dare not return to him. This is the end." He offers his hand to the sobbing, broken-hearted Tony, but the latter refuses it, and is left alone with the one tie that binds him to life, little Angelica.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotVivian PrescottWilliam Robert DalyAway up in the lonely northern land lives a trapper and his young wife. He follows his occupation from day to day without noticing that his helpmate finds life somewhat monotonous. In this remote household there comes, by accident, a handsome stranger who is hunting in the country. He gets separated from his party and meeting with an accident is found helpless by the husband, who brings him to his home to be cared for by his wife. As the days pass they fall in love with each other. The husband returns at a moment when a love avowal has been exchanged. What does he do? Confront them and kill either or both? No, he conceals his knowledge. Shortly afterwards the woman agrees to elope with her admirer. They have barely started away when the man is seriously injured by falling in a bear trap. The woman ministers to him. The husband appears. His mind is made up. She cannot return to his home. Her lover is wounded. The husband leaves them and returns to his lonely hut.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsWilliam Robert DalyWilliam E. ShayViolet HornerMrs. Phillips sent her confidential business man a parcel of bonds to deposit in a safe place. Mr. Forbes, the gentleman in question, was about to put them in a safe when an interruption took him from the room and the precious papers found their way into the wastebasket and subsequently into the trash barrel outside. A detective is called in and his investigation turns up some cigar ash and he concludes that the man who smokes this kind of cigar must be the recipient or custodian of the lost bonds. The detective following up this clue examines the cigars smoked by a great many persons, much to their discomfiture and his own inconvenience. Finally, he comes across a policeman smoking the identical brand of cigar and this fact leads to the discovery that the lost documents are concealed in the policeman's hat, the same being placed there by his sweetheart, the cook, who thinks the hat too large to be becoming and thus pads it out sufficiently for a good fit. The cigar ash proved the right clue which led to the recovery of the documents and their return to the proper owner.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotVivian PrescottLillian LorraineLora and her parents coming from Italy were met at the pier by a friend, but on their way to their new home she becomes separated from them and is lost. She attracts the attention of Mrs. Radley, a society woman, who takes the girl to her home. Mrs. Radley has a son, Albert, whose heart goes out to the Italian violinist. Lora becomes a talented musician and she is invited to appear at an east side club entertainment and here she is recognized by her poor parents. For a moment she is indifferent to them and faints at the recognition. She is taken immediately to the home of her adopted mother. But filial duty asserts itself and the girl recovering decides to seek out her parents, and so exchanging her fine clothes for her old Italian garments, she visits them, is reconciled to them and they show their happiness at having found her. Mrs. Radley in the meantime has discovered the absence of her protege. Albert succeeds in finding her. He offers to marry her and proffers an engagement ring, which he returns to him. But he tells her that he truly loves her. The protestations of Albert overcome the girl's scruples and the story ends with the engagement of the poor Italian girl to the son of her benefactress.
- DirectorKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalyStarsKing BaggotLottie BriscoeWilliam E. ShayIt is war time and before the brave Northern Captain Robert Evans goes away he bids adieu to his sweetheart, Edith Hobson. As victory after victory attends the Northerners, despair grows in the South. Lieutenant Hobson, Edith's brother, who is, of course, fighting on the Confederate side, is a fugitive from Grant's men. After many desperate wanderings and adventures, he takes refuge in his own home. Thither come Captain Evans and his men in search of the fugitive. He is admitted to the room where the wounded man lies. Instantly he realizes the gravity of the problem. Shall he arrest the wounded brother of his fiancée, shall he not? He decides on the latter course and returning to his men, he tells them that the man whom they were pursuing was not in the house. So the poor, hunted wretch escapes, presumably to recover and to interpose no barrier to the marriage of the victorious Northerner and his sister, Edith.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalyWilliam E. ShayNoah Prespott was a mechanical genius, who had passed some of the most valuable years of life in the employ of William Steele, a manufacturer of labor-saving devices. Noah invented a new street cleaning machine. Steele agreed to go into partnership with Noah and to assure Noah patent protection at Washington. Shrewd and unscrupulous, Steele thus got the game in his own hands and it was not difficult for him to play double; persuade the Washington authorities that Noah was not the real inventor and that he, Steele, was. Unfortunately, Steele was not so careful as he might have been of documentary evidence, showing that Noah was the real inventor. These papers were lying about in Noah's humble home, where he repaired after being dismissed by Steele. To increase poor Noah's troubles a little, a boy and a girl were sent him as a legacy. The kind-hearted fellow tended the little children with all a father's rare and gratified tiny Ruth by stuffing her broken doll with some fragments of paper taken from a waste paper basket. Steele got out his machines and was acclaimed by the press as a great inventor, but his clerk was suspicious of him and at a visit to Noah's home discovered that some paper which came out of the little girl's doll supplied sufficient evidence proving Mr. Steele to have been a partner of Noah's ideas. Confronted with this evidence, therefore, the manufacturer was compelled to disgorge some of his profits to the tune of $10,000. So poor Noah and his young charges were made happy by the money.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsKing BaggotLucille YoungWilliam Robert DalyThe wife of an engineer is dangerously ill. A telegraphic message comes from down the road announcing that a village is threatened with a forest fire and the lives of the inhabitants are endangered. There is no one else to man the engine and he goes. The driving of the engine through clouds of smoke, the burning of the telegraph office and the mad flight of the frightened villagers all combine to introduce a realism that holds the interest from start to finish. When the engineer returns from his perilous trip through the flames he finds his wife much improved in health and receives the plaudits of his kind neighbors. He is presented with flowers and obliged with an impromptu speech of thanks.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsWilliam Robert DalyKing BaggotLottie BriscoeLeaving for the office, O'Brien got roughhoused more than once before he landed at his desk. Sending out for refreshments he was deprived of them by a predatory hobo. Going home at night for peace and a quiet smoke, he found all the rooms in his house occupied by his courting daughters and their lovers. Even on the very roof of the building the solace of tobacco is denied him; he is ejected from that position. Finally O'Brien makes for the Contractor's Club only to find that place closed for repairs.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsKing BaggotLucille YoungWilliam Robert DalyRed Gallagher, an "A.D.T." messenger boy, is addicted to reading literature of the yellow-back variety. Shirking his work, he seats himself on a barrel in an alley, pulls out a detective story, and reads. He yawns, drops the book, sleeps, and dreams. In his fancy, he is the hero of the detective tale. There is a mustached villain with an able accomplice in a handsome termagant of a woman. They are persecuting a young, innocent maiden in an effort to induce her to "sign the papers." She is subjected to all kinds of tortures and is suffering intensely when Red is called in to deliver a message. He scents the conspiracy and puts the gentleman detective wise. The sleuth decides to assist and the pair start out to rescue the young and innocent maiden. The plotting pair discover they are about to be shadowed and they spirit the girl away. There is a chase with the messenger kid and the detective in hot pursuit. The boy has his trusty revolver and he fires it at intervals, hampering the flight of the demons in human form, although several laps in the rear. The chase ends at a sawmill where the tender flesh of the helpless girl is about to be mangled by a huge saw. Red arrives in the nick of time to pull the quivering body off the log. His joy is short-lived for the detective places the beauty in a motor car and carries her off, rewarding Red with a few coins as a surcease for his sorrow. The boy awakens to find it all a dream, picks up his book, and starts away to deliver a belated message, disappointed and humbled.
- StarsKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalyIsabel ReaTwo brothers part and take different paths. One of them makes a success in life; the other is, if not a failure, at any rate, not conspicuously flourishing. It chances that both brothers are residents of the same city, unknown to each other. The little daughter of the wealthy brother gives a children's party. This attracts the attention of a poorly dressed child, who is invited to the party out of pity. The child is taken sick and is carried home to her parents by the rich father of the party-giving child. When the two men meet it is discovered that they are brothers.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsGeorge Loane TuckerEthel GrandinWilliam Robert DalyNewlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Sperry are expecting a visit from Mr. Sperry's uncle, a wealthy cattleman from Kansas. He has never met the wife and she is anxious to make a good impression. She receives a letter from another relative, warning her that the man from cyclone country is quite eccentric and just might come disguised to test her qualities. She remembers the admonition and when "Slimmy," a typical nomad, puts in an appearance, he is royally received. The knight of the road is agreeably surprised. He thoroughly enjoys the situation of being guessed out as the expected relative. He is wined and dined like a prince, and tops it off with a fragrant cigar, finishing up by appropriating the contents of the box. In the meantime, Uncle Silas arrives and calls at the husband's office, where he receives a royal greeting: business is dropped and the nephew proudly escorts the man from the West down the street, having in prospect a happy surprise for his wife. They enter the hall and the fumes of a cigar greet their nostrils. The uncle is shocked and inquires sternly if the wife is addicted to the use of tobacco. They go into the room and find "Slim" enjoying all the comforts of a privileged guest. There is consternation. The husband fires out the tramp and the perplexed wife tries to explain, but the irate husband will not listen. The uncle is also exasperated and announces his intention of boarding the next train for Kansas. Finally the wife shows the letter and it all dawns on the husband. There is an explanation to the uncle and a happy reconciliation between Mr. and Mrs. Sperry. The story closes with the tramp inhaling the fragrance of a choice cigar, his hunger appeased, about to take passage up the road on the bumpers of a freight car.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsWilliam Robert DalyMary PickfordMr. Kirby has rather a tarty disposition for a newly married man and his wife is exactly the reverse, being eager to look after his comfort even to the minutest detail. Kirby receives an invitation to attend a stag dinner on Thursday night and begins to make preparations Tuesday. He has only one dress shirt and admonishes his wife to have it sent to the laundry immediately. The wife sets about to do so, but she receives an invitation from a dear friend to go motoring and, of course, forgets all about the shirt. The evening of the dinner arrives and Kirby returns home out of sorts. He hunts for the dress shirt and then consults his wife. It dawns on her that she has been remiss in her duty. Kirby fumes and rants to the consternation of the young wife. In her desperation, she decides to launder the shirt and takes it into the kitchen, where she makes elaborate preparations. As she is a novice in the laundry art, she makes a mess of it, ending in burning a hole through the shirt and ruining the garment. Kirby enters the kitchen at the crucial time to find his wife in tears and the shirt smoking under the red hot iron. The humor of the situation mollifies him and he takes his wife in his arms and kisses away her tears.
- StarsWilliam Robert DalyCollege pranks furnish material for amusing stories and the circumventing of the faculty has taxed the inventive mind of many a student. In this case Professor Jenkins and his co-laborer, Miss Penelope Grim, keep a tight rein on their respective charges, owing to the proximity of the sexes. The young people resent this and decide to outwit the instructors. The girls have prepared a little spread in the room occupied by the ring leaders in the scheme and they cast about to devise ways and means to smuggle the young men into the apartment. One ingenious mind suggests hauling them up in a basket and the idea is acted upon immediately. A large basket and a strong rope are secured. The basket is lowered over the window ledge and the plan works admirably. The young men are hauled up in rapid succession, but the return trip is made once too often, for the basket is sighted in midair by Professor Jenkins, and he takes in the situation at a glance. His advent into the room containing the hilarious party is like a bombshell, but the instructor proves to be a good fellow and enters into the spirit of the occasion with a zeal that is appreciated by the students. Miss Prim, passing by the door, has her suspicions aroused. She enters, but there is a complete metamorphosis, the young men secreting themselves, the professor being chucked under the couch. She exits not quite satisfied that all is well. The professor emerges from the escapade without being suspected and is balled as a jolly good fellow by the students.
- StarsWilliam Robert DalyCollege pranks furnish material for amusing stories and the circumventing of the faculty has taxed the inventive mind of many a student. In this case Professor Jenkins and his co-laborer, Miss Penelope Grim, keep a tight rein on their respective charges, owing to the proximity of the sexes. The young people resent this and decide to outwit the instructors. The girls have prepared a little spread in the room occupied by the ring leaders in the scheme and they cast about to devise ways and means to smuggle the young men into the apartment. One ingenious mind suggests hauling them up in a basket and the idea is acted upon immediately. A large basket and a strong rope are secured. The basket is lowered over the window ledge and the plan works admirably. The young men are hauled up in rapid succession, but the return trip is made once too often, for the basket is sighted in midair by Professor Jenkins, and he takes in the situation at a glance. His advent into the room containing the hilarious party is like a bombshell, but the instructor proves to be a good fellow and enters into the spirit of the occasion with a zeal that is appreciated by the students. Miss Prim, passing by the door, has her suspicions aroused. She enters, but there is a complete metamorphosis, the young men secreting themselves, the professor being chucked under the couch. She exits not quite satisfied that all is well. The professor emerges from the escapade without being suspected and is balled as a jolly good fellow by the students.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsMary PickfordOwen MooreCharles ArlingA loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- StarsWilliam Robert DalyCharles ArlingJohn King and his wife, Dora, with their little girl, Ida, live plainly but contentedly upon his small salary. Little Ida has few playthings, her father not being able to purchase more, but to her mind they are the finest ever seen, her favorite being a Teddy bear, with one bind leg missing. In order to make the animal as interesting as possible, her father makes a tiny crutch for it, which fills her childish heart with joy. One morning, as King is on his way to the office where he is employed, he sees a man suddenly taken ill and assists him to return to his residence. This man, William Daly, a wealthy old bachelor, is very grateful for the service, but sees no way of returning the favor at the time. In consequence of this delay, King is quite late to his work and his employer, an irascible old skinflint, gives him a terrific scolding and in spite of King's explanations, discharges him from his service. King returns home greatly cast down and not knowing which way to turn, he tries to find other employment but without avail and they finally find themselves without sufficient food to keep them alive. King then decides to pawn his best suit of clothes and taking little Ida with him, goes to the pawnshop and gets some money. But the lack of decent clothing makes it still harder for him to obtain employment and he grows more and more discouraged. His wife realizing how handicapped King is without his best suit, slips out of the house with her little girl and going to the pawnshop, exchanges her engagement ring for the clothing and returns with it to King, who is deeply grateful for the sacrifice. Things still go badly with the family and they are at the end of their resources again. Then little Ida has an inspiration, she will pawn her teddy bear. So wrapping it up, she steals softly from the house. On her way to the pawn shop, she meets Mr. Daly, the innocent cause of her father's discharge. Her bright face attracts the gentleman and he stops and speaks to her and as she leaves him, he watches her, not knowing, of course, whose child she is. Ida enters the pawnshop and tries to pawn her treasure, which, while it amuses the pawnbroker, he does not know what to say to her. Mr. Daly then enters the shop and comprehending the situation, takes the child away and inquiring her address takes her home, where he meets King with much pleasure and is introduced to his wife. As Daly is about to leave he asks for the Teddy bear, which Ida gladly gives him. He then, having learned their circumstances, offers King money, but King refuses it. Stooping to kiss Ida "good-bye," Daly forces a bill of a large denomination into her hand and goes away. Daly places the Teddy bear on his desk at his office and thinks often of the child who gave it to him. The day before Christmas. Daly, who is lonely, is blessed with a beautiful thought; he will give the little girl a Christmas tree at his own home and invite her parents. Buying nearly the entire contents of a toy-shop, he has his servants deck out a tree and. when his guests arrive, he gives them a royal welcome. And one of the most precious gifts taken from the tree is a letter for John King, offering him a splendid position as confidential man with Mr. Daly.
- DirectorKing BaggotWilliam Robert DalyStarsKing BaggotWilliam E. ShayLottie BriscoeEric Masters and his wife are leading the life of society people on a very limited income. Their friend, Vernon Godfrey, who is quite wealthy, is interested in Mrs. Masters, holds a note of Eric's, which he is willing to renew, provided the wife will go away with him. She very nearly consents to do this, when he threatens to ruin her husband, but in the end, love for her husband triumphs, and she remains true to him. At a fashionable ball, one of the guests, Mrs. Leslie, loses a valuable jewel, which is found by Eric. This means a way out of all his difficulties, as the jewel is worth $10,000. He is tempted to retain it, giving his wife all she desires, and repaying his friend. But after deliberation, he returns the jewel, preferring to be honest, and with his repentant wife agree to lead a happier and more economical life in future.
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsHayward MackJohn R. CumpsonSadie WestonMr. Michael McCarthy and his associates struck work. They were brick layers and building men by trade. They struck and gathered themselves together; formed a local, elected "Mickey" McCarthy president, and asserted their freedom. Mr. "Builder," whose work was stopped, offered a reward of $500 to anybody who would break the strike. Mrs. McCarthy got wind of the offer. She gathered the wives of the strike-breakers together. They went in a body to the builder and offered to do the work, leaving their husbands at home to do the domestic work; a job of which they soon tired. The result was, of coarse, inevitable; the men went back to work. Mr. "Builder" kept his promise and paid the reward to the chief strike-breaker. This was Mrs. McCarthy, who triumphantly pocketed the $500 check.
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsJohn R. CumpsonGrace LewisHayward MackPercy and Edith are sweethearts and he escorts her to a ball under the pretense of being a finished dancer. They arrive at the function and commence to waltz to inspiring music. But to Edith's dismay, she finds that she has been deceived, as Percy only succeeds in falling all over himself and the furniture, and to her mortification he causes her to fall also. She becomes indignant and leaves the room, accompanied by another admirer. Percy is seized by the green-eyed monster and rushes home alone. He decides to learn to waltz, and makes life miserable for his fellow boarders by making them dance with him. Finally the he turns his attention to the cook in the kitchen, much against her will, and ends up falling over the stove. At last, after much perseverance, Percy acquires the art to perfection and attends another dance. Edith is there but he refuses to dance with her, devoting his time to the other girls present. Edith becomes very jealous, but after an amusing scene, Percy forgives her, and they spend the remainder of the evening enjoying the dances together, and this time she lets him see her home.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsHerbert RawlinsonHarriet HammondLincoln PlumerBob Mortimer loses his job as a result of his failure to land a certain order. In his room Bob is surprised to find $50,000 in his traveling bag. The townspeople immediately presume that Bob is a rich man who has come to build factories in the town and he is given a cordial welcome. Lang, a professional crook, who has come to the place to fleece the people, joins forces with Mortimer whom he believes is a brother crook. How Bob reforms Lang and becomes prosperous completes the story.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsHerbert RawlinsonHarriet HammondLincoln PlumerBob Mortimer loses his job as a result of his failure to land a certain order. In his room Bob is surprised to find $50,000 in his traveling bag. The townspeople immediately presume that Bob is a rich man who has come to build factories in the town and he is given a cordial welcome. Lang, a professional crook, who has come to the place to fleece the people, joins forces with Mortimer whom he believes is a brother crook. How Bob reforms Lang and becomes prosperous completes the story.