Lon Chaney - the "Man of a Thousand Faces."
Lon Chaney was an actor who could project both fear and sympathy with his film roles, via the use of makeup and the way he could, psychologically, become the character. However, Chaney proved that he didn't have to rely on makeup in order to give a convincing performance. It was a considerable loss when he died suddenly in 1930. He made one talkie picture but his transition to sound cinema was assured, being gifted with a good voice. His legacy lives on.
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- DirectorKevin BrownlowStarsKenneth BranaghForrest J. AckermanMichael F. BlakeLon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.Covers the actor rather than the man. An excellent documentary.
- DirectorBret WoodStarsLon ChaneyRonald GordonPatsy Ruth MillerA documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.
- StarsLon ChaneyGerald leaves England to seek his fortune in America and falls in love with Marja.Claude his older brother marks her for his own and they marry before he goes back to England.So when Gerald proposes she is already married.Since Claude is gone nothing is heard of him and because of this, Marja throws herself from a cliff, a cripple for live.Gerlad receives a letter announcing the death of Claude.Marja finds the letter and realizes how much Gerald did love her.
- DirectorWallace ReidStarsWallace ReidVivian RichPauline BushTwo men playing cards, the argument, flash of a revolver, and one lay dead. The murderer homeward fled, hurried his little girl baby into a west-bound train and was heard of no more. The years passed and boyish Jim Conway grew to manhood with the sole purpose of seeking out his father's murderer to deal justice to him. He went West and was one day, lost in the mountains. He called for help and help came in the form of a sweet-faced woman who led him to her home. He spent the following weeks with her and the aged father, learned to love the mountain nymph for her beauty of soul and fair face. One day she asked him his reasons for being in the hill country, and he, lover-like confided his secret. Behind the door, sat the white-haired father. He rose, shook himself like a leaf as he invited the young man into the house. And there he confessed the deed, baring his chest for the expected blow. But none fell for love had sweetened the poison of his thought.
- DirectorPhillips SmalleyLois WeberStarsLois WeberVal PaulDouglas GerrardAbandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
- DirectorAllen CurtisStarsMax AsherDaisy SmallLon ChaneyJake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- DirectorEdwin AugustStarsJeanie MacphersonLon ChaneyRobert Z. LeonardBarnacle Bill, a hunchback fisherman, rescues a child from the sea. He brings her up in the hope of making her his wife, but she eventually falls in love with a young man her own age.
- DirectorEdwin AugustStarsEdwin AugustLon ChaneyAn injured telegraph lineman, the father of a large family, finds it difficult to make ends meet. A gentleman thief attempts to aid the family by desperate means.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsRobert Z. LeonardJoseph SingletonJohn BurtonDisguised as a piper, a wealthy Scotsman wins the hand of a peasant girl.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJ. Warren KerriganPauline BushJessalyn Van TrumpUnhappy with his marriage, The Dreamer runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convinces him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories: in the first he is Napoleon, in the second he is a Knight, in the third he is a Sultan--but he dies in all of them. Meanwhile, his wife is about to be sent into the desert while refusing to marry a Stranger. Before this can happen, the Dreamer arrives and sends the Stranger into the desert. The Dreamer becomes again a loved, respected member of the Town.
- DirectorAllen CurtisStarsLouise FazendaMax AsherEddie BolandSusie turn down Lee's love to became an actress. After losing the leading lady the director of a movie team engages her. Many chaotic incidents make it necessary that at the end Susie is forced to accept Lee's love and give up film business forever.
- DirectorAl ChristieStarsEddie LyonsLee MoranRamona LangleyRamona is fond of pets. Her hubby, Eddie, has a horror of all animals and particularly her pets. The parrots bite him and the monkeys show their teeth. Ramona receives a wire from Eddie's uncle telling him that the circus has gone broke and that he is sending his pet elephant to Eddie to take care of. Ramona sends for Eddie and despite his protests insists that he go and get the beast. He attempts to get some stablemen to arrange to take the elephant. They refuse until he finally agrees to pay a high price for a stall. Arriving at the station Eddie is handed the huge animal with a bill for excess charges amounting to $300. Eddie has one trouble after another. The stable owner refuses to allow the beast on the place. It keeps with Eddie and his wife busy breaking down the fence to get the pet inside and then feeding and giving it water. In the meantime the neighbors protest and the authorities order it removed at once. The last scene of the beast shows him dragging a furniture van with Ramona sitting on top and Eddie leading.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJ. Warren KerriganPauline BushWilliam WorthingtonThe gambler takes his sick wife to the mountains. The doctor has informed him that she will need special care, and he, with rich, red blood in his veins, is disgusted with life and her in particular. At the local saloon he finds comfort in the smile of one of the female regulars. Jim is jostled and insulted by the cowboys until, maddened, he draws his gun and fires. The posse pursue him, but he escapes to the mountains. Meanwhile, the wife has discovered her husband's infidelity; leaving a note she goes into the hills with the avowed purpose of dying. At the stream she finds Jim, weak from the loss of blood. She nurses him and he, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, where she rapidly regains her health. Jim commences to realize the meaning of manhood. Time goes on; the wife feels now that she can regain her husband's love and starts for the mining camp. On the road her husband staggers to her feet and dies, having been shot after a saloon brawl. She goes on, meets Jim, and together they face the future.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsPauline BushMurdock MacQuarrieJames NeillRed Margaret, a moonshiner, struggles between love for a government agent and loyalty to her people.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushWilliam LloydIn an out-of-the-way spot in the mountains refugees from the United States and Canada, who are wanted for various crimes, have gathered. A man wanted for embezzlement arrives with his daughter Pauline. The embezzler is a natural leader and, to James' chagrin, becomes the leading spirit in the colony. Two members of the Northwest Mounted Police, Lon and Mac, are on the embezzler's trail. The embezzler, without James' knowledge, stations his men and instructs them to fire on the police. Mac is wounded. The embezzler's daughter takes him to her cabin. On one occasion the girl leaves the cabin and confers with her father. Lon follows and learns that her father is the man they are seeking. Believing that he has the girl at his mercy, Lon makes advances. Mac interferes because he, also, has fallen in love with Pauline. Lon then tells him of the girl's father. Mac goes to James and demands the surrender of the embezzler. James complies, and Mac arrests Pauline's father. The girl then appeals to Lon, promising him everything if he will save her parent. Lon lifts his revolver to shoot Mac. However, other refugees mistake Lon's intention. Lon is shot, and as they shoot at Mac the embezzler is killed. They are about to finish their work when another one of the mounted police comes up and covers them, while Mac disarms them. The girl looks from her dead father to Mac, whom she has already learned to love.
- StarsOwen MooreFritzi BrunetteJohn CharlesTwo fellows, Charles Young and Tom Moore, are in love with Dora Blake. Charles was the choice of her mother, but hated by her father, while Tom was the man whom the father chose as a husband for his daughter. Now, Dora did not know which to decide upon, but at last decided to marry Charles, whom she had known the longest. Upon hearing of the engagement, Mr. Blake forbade Charles ever entering the house again. Knowing that he could not succeed in making Dora his wife as matters now stood, Charles wrote a note to her, asking her to elope with him and to meet him at the station the following morning. Dora was delighted and answered that she was willing to go to the end of the world with him. The next morning she was waiting for him, when in he came, intoxicated. She never imagined such a thing of Charles. She would run back home, was her first thought, and when he informed her that he would have to go for the marriage license she was glad to have a chance to make her escape. In the meantime, when Tom found out that he had lost all hopes of winning Dora he decided to leave the town, go out west with a friend and forget his troubles. He went to the station, and there he met Dora just as she was coming out of the station door. She calmed herself as best she could and talked along with him, not thinking how fast time was flying, so by the time she thought she must get out of the place Charles had returned with the license. Tom, seeing that Charles was intoxicated, felt sorry for Dora when she denied knowing of what Charles was talking and took her away from him. Later Tom again pressed his suit, and was readily accepted, as by this time Dora had learned of her mistake and really loved him. All the family were now happy, and as the time for the wedding approached Mrs. Blake was glad that Dora had accepted Tom, after all. The night before the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Blake had gone out, and the butler came in with a note to Dora. She was horrified. It was from Charles, whom she had not seen since that day at the station. Thinking that she might get him to consent to go away forever, she allows him to he shown into the room. He had been away, but had heard how she had told Tom she was innocent. He was going to stay until the day of the wedding, and then show Tom the marriage license, and also the sort of a girl he was going to marry. Too dumb with terror to speak, the words she meant to say were forgotten. When he had gone she came to a full realization as to what would happen if she did not stop him. Thinking only of her happiness, she told her butler where she was going, and immediately set out for his home. When Tom came that night he asked the butler where Dora had gone and, being told, he set out after her. Upon reaching Charles' room he witnessed a scene he would never forget, Dora pleading with Charles to destroy the license and give her her happiness. Walking into the room, he asked what it all meant. Things were explained. Charles had wronged her, but she had lied to him. Taking her by the arm, he led her from the room and took her home. She begged for forgiveness, explaining that she did it to be happy with him whom she loved, but he was hurt and, kissing her good-bye, he said, "Only a little lie, you have told me one, you will tell me others," and then he left her.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushLon ChaneyIn a small town in the Rockies, Mac, Jacques and Jacques' sister, Marie, have grown up in an atmosphere semi-criminal. Mac, who is Jacques' best friend, is a serious and well-read man, superior to his surroundings. Mac loves Marie and she returns his affection. Desiring to make something of his life Mac goes to the city. He soon wearies of the city life, however, returns to the mountain wilds and joins the mounted police. Forrest, a comrade, is detailed to investigate the smuggling activities. He goes to the country where Mac lives and makes advances to Marie. In the complications which follow, Forrest is killed by Jacques. When the news of Forrest's death is brought to headquarters Mac is sent to bring the murderer in. He starts out eagerly to avenge his friend's death, never suspecting that it was Jacques who did the killing. He goes into the country wearing the despised "red-coat." His former friends scoff at him. Marie scorns him. Jacques' betrayer, a "Canuck" whom Jacques had once knocked down, comes to Mac and tells him where he will find the murderer. Mac follows directions and finds Jacques. Then comes an intense mental battle. Mac wavers at the thought of taking Jacques prisoner. Jacques' deed was done partly for his sake. Marie stands near. With a mighty effort he decides and in the face of the girl's scorn he leads his prisoner away. The townspeople try to rescue Jacques. Jacques' only thought is for his friend's safety and he fights by his side. When his friend falters in his duty Jacques compels him to remember his word. The two men understand each other; Jacques will not let Mac go back without his prisoner. Mac cannot take his friend to the scaffold. They clash, struggle and go down to death together into a pool beneath the treacherous "Devil's Slide."
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsPauline BushMurdock MacQuarrieLon ChaneyRepentant of the mistake of her innocent girlhood, the worn-out woman returns to the town of her birth, to the only ones to whom she can turn in her extremity, her parents. She finds them in the graveyard. As she walks through the streets the villagers shun her. The news is rapidly passed that the Magdalen has returned. The gray beards are indignant that she should blast the fair name of their town by her presence there. The citizens' committee calls upon the new minister and instructs him to order the woman out of town. The minister carries his message, but the woman tells him it is her house and she shall stay there. The young minister is struck with the woman and the sincerity of her repentance. He remonstrates with the gossips. He returns to the woman and comforts her. In the meantime, the citizens have gathered to trumpet her out of their village. Hearing some approaching, the minister, fearing to arouse further scandal, steps into her house. The woman bravely goes out to meet her assailants, and they begin to jeer at her and stone her, until the minister defends her. The unoffending half-witted fellow is hit with a brick and killed. And there is a suggestion of a future bond of sympathy between the Magdalen and the minister.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushAllan ForrestJoy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body. After all his friends have left the disconsolate girl seeks the help of Felix. The old musician is touched and all of his flowers, tributes to his success, he carries into the room of death and lends the girl as much financial assistance as she needs. The following day Felix adopts the girl as his ward. Lon, a sculptor, is impressed by her simplicity and beauty, and falls in love with her. Forrest, an artist, a malapert young man, patronizes the girl, and is repulsed in his advances. Felix puts up the money for Lon to go to Europe and study, and Lon, as a means of insuring the girl to himself when he returns, marries her secretly, but with Felix's consent. Forrest overhears when Lon and the girl are discussing their future happiness, and being ignorant of their marriage, he takes a jealous pleasure in the thought that all is not proper. He circulates gossip to the girl's discredit, and finally on the eve of Lon's departure, he convinces Felix's friends that he is right. The old musician is at work on a second symphony, and is utterly oblivious to what is going on; he scarcely notices that he is deserted by his friends. The friends hold a council, and decide to tell Felix the kind of woman he is harboring. Old Felix, after fully grasping what they mean, drives them from his studio. However, he is rendered more feeble by the reaction of his violent emotions and the contemplation of the foul suspicions which have separated him from his old friends. Thus he labors with feverish haste to complete his last symphony. But work and worry and forgotten favors are too much for the old man. His mind begins to wander. He staggers to his bedroom and dies. The girl finds him there, and carries the message of his death to his old friends. They congregate around his bedside, and that his soul may hear and forgive them, they play his last symphony. Lon, the sculptor, has returned from Europe, famous, and while the party of friends are yet beside the death-bed, he enters and greets the girl as his wife. The friends understand the injustice of their treatment of Old Felix, and again gather around his bed.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsPauline BushWilliam C. DowlanMurdock MacQuarrieGiovanni Bartholdi ( Lon Chaney ), in desperate need of money, arranges to sell Carlotta ( Pauline Bush ), to supposed white slavers. Tony ( William C. Dowlan ), a friend, and her father come to her rescue and Carlotta is happily reunited with her family.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushWilliam C. DowlanAccording to the play a sinister family skeleton overshadows and threatens to wreck the lives of two innocent persons, until the workers of evil defeat themselves by the same methods with which they at first gained ascendancy over others. John Spencer had been a criminal at one time in his life; he feared the iron hand of the law. But as much as he feared the law falling upon his shoulder and forcing him to answer for his misdeeds of long ago, he loved his daughter. For her he sought to do right. Pauline was ignorant of her father's past and she idolized him as a good father and a man of principles. Roger Dixon is the only man who knows of and can prove John Spencer's guilt. He makes this knowledge the basis of a systematic scheme of blackmail: the price of his silence growing larger day by day. Pauline loves and is loved by Arthur, a young attorney. As time passes the blackmailer grows bold in his demands, and finally he threatens that if Pauline is not given to him in marriage he will send Spencer to states prison. The father, a moral coward, becomes party to a scheme to discredit Arthur in the girl's eyes. As an actor in the plot, Spencer goes to Arthur with a number of options which the young attorney is to investigate, but not to sell. Arthur gives Spencer a receipt for the options. Dixon secures the assistance of two crooks. Dick, the penman, and Perkins. All three go to a restaurant to perfect their plans. With a half knowledge of the affair. Pauline follows Dixon and from a hiding place listens to the plans of the three men. Pauline returns to her father. He breaks down and tells her of his misconduct in early life and Dixon's power over him. To save him Pauline consents to marry Dixon. In the meantime, Perkins steals the options from Arthur's office and the case against the attorney is complete. In paying off Dick, the penman, and Perkins for their services in the conspiracy, the crooks fall out and Dick shoots and kills Dixon. With Dixon the family skeleton in the closet of the Spencer residence also expires and happiness follows for all.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushLon ChaneyThe Lamb is one of these gentle young men who spend their lives looking after the affairs of others and in the meantime lose all the best that is the heritage of the young. This particular Lamb is devoting his life to his invalid mother and in his spare moment editing a weekly paper. The citizens of the small western town deride the editor and his paper. But there are two persons who have faith in him, and they are the Woman and his mother. He loves the Woman deeply, but would not propose marriage because he deems it would be unjust to saddle an invalid upon a young wife. After an absence of five years, the Wolf, a husky mountaineer, who is sure of himself and devoid of the finer instincts, visits his home town. He had an old love affair with the Woman. He again renews the suit for her hand. She is captivated by his masculine force of character and accepts his proposal of marriage. They are married and the Wolf takes the Woman to his hut in the mountains, where he is the agent between a stage line and a mining company. The monthly payroll money for the miners is delivered to him by the stage company and he turns it over to the mining company. The Woman learns of her mistake in marrying the Wolf. He is all the things she least suspected, a brute, an egotist without sentiment, or love for her. In the meantime the Lamb's mother dies. Nursing this sorrow and the hopeless love for the Woman, he goes into the mountains in search of solitude. He falls in with a band of outlaws and at first is a visitor among them. Word travels to the village that he has actually become an active member of the band. He becomes a marked man, shunned and ostracized. He then determines that he will afford the village people cause for their fear and hatred of him. He becomes an outlaw and grows as coarse and as hardened as he was previously gentle and refined. The Wolf decides that as he is now thoroughly tired of the Woman, he will steal the payroll money left in his keeping and leave her. On the night set for the theft the Woman is alone guarding the money. The Lamb also has decided to steal it and he arrives first and is admitted by the Woman. He recognizes her as his first and only love, but she does not recognize him. To quiet her suspicions he lays his revolver upon the table. Presently someone outside is heard tampering with the lock. Each thinks the intruder a confederate of the other. The Woman covers the door with the Lamb's revolver. A masked man enters and she shoots and kills him. It is her husband, the Wolf. She then recognizes the Lamb and with the new light that comes into her face and into his face, it can be seen that in the future a different, better life is in store for each.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushLon ChaneyFor fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams. Dawson has an only daughter, June. There lives with him one, Wood Dawson, a nephew. In the rival family there is an only son, Joel. Joel and June were secret lovers. One day a gospel man comes into the territory and convinces the heads of the two families that their feud is ungodly. All their various henchmen are disarmed and peace and harmony is established. That is, until Wood learns that Joel Dawson is his successful rival for the hand of June. Then Wood becomes stiff-necked. He circulates the report that Joel and June have been carrying on improperly. He has words with Joel and in the general fight which follows Joel shoots and kills Wood. Both families reopen hostilities. Hen Dawson forgets his oath and sets out to kill Joel. However, when he finds Joel he finds June with him ready to elope. Tragedy is about to take place, when the gospel man forever puts an end to the long standing war of extermination. He marries Joel and June.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushWilliam C. DowlanIn a small mining community lives an orphan girl who is engaged to a miner. A degenerate Mexican infests the camp and proves a menace to the citizens. The orphan's sweetheart finds him intimidating two young sweethearts and gives him a well-deserved beating. Thus he incurs the Mexican's hatred. A young stranger, coming into camp, accidentally shoots himself while cleaning his revolver. The orphan girl takes him into her cabin and dresses his wound. She is called out by the Mexican and attacked, but is saved by the stranger. To secure revenge, the Mexican informs the miners that the orphan is harboring a man in her cabin; this reaches the ears of the orphan's sweetheart. With a strong fist, the young miner smashes the lying mouth. In the meantime, the stranger, unaware that the girl is engaged to the miner, falls in love with her. The miner finds it out and his heart aches, but he acts straight. Upon learning the truth, the stranger departs; he makes his way up the hill, leaving the girl behind with a sore heart, for she loves him in a way. However, as he looks back and down the mountain, the stranger sees the Mexican below him on a cliff about to shoot the miner and the girl as they stand on the door-step. He hurriedly throws his pack onto him, spoiling his aim; then he jumps over and down. He kills the Mexican, but his own life is sacrificed.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsPauline BushWilliam LloydGeorge CooperThere is a fine opportunity for bravery during the height of battle. But there is probably a finer opportunity at the moment of defeat when the cry increases to a roar, "Every man for himself." The man worthwhile is the man who does not heed this cry of the panic-stricken. Such a man was George Tate, moonshiner by birth, but possessing the qualities of which heroes are made. His father was murdered by a half-breed. His sister, Amy, was assaulted and was in continual danger from the same source. Although he lived in the shadow of the law, an outcast with other moonshiners, he believed in a square deal. One day the revenue officers swept down upon the moonshiners' still. Tate and Neut Haigh, who loved Amy, led the forces of the moonshiners. At the deciding moment in the battle the half-breed exposed the secret defenses of the rugged country to the revenue men. Tate, Haigh and Amy were finally driven into the Tate college. They were surrounded and the battle was at that stage when the weaker ones cry, "Every man for himself." Tate looked into the faces of Amy and Haigh. They were lovers. They had something to live for. His thoughts ran in leaps and bounds. He lifted a trap door in the floor. He knew that he was looking upon his sister for the last time. He could say nothing, except, "go."
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsMarc B. RobbinsEdna MaisonClarence BurtonAnn Purdy longs for the wild life of youth, but her father Amos is a strict disciplinarian and keeps a tight rein on her. One evening she wants to go to a local dance but her father forbids it. She waits until he is asleep, then sneaks off to the dance. On the way home, she loses her purse, and it is found by a policeman who returns it to her father. In a fit of anger, Amos casts the girl out of his house. Five years pass and Ann is now a widow with a small child. When she loses her job at a factory, she takes her child to an orphan asylum. There she meets her father's old friend, Dr. Green. He talks to Amos and arranges for a reconciliation, whereupon the girl and her child are taken back into her father's home. Moving Picture World.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushWilliam C. DowlanFulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. Pauline sees Morris from her window and recognizes him as the man who deserted her after fathering her child. One night she escapes from her room, takes her daughter's shawl, and stabs Morris to death. Returning home, she touches her daughter's hair, leaving blood stains on the sleeping girl. Morris is found murdered, the young girl's shawl is found near his body, and his blood is found on the still sleeping girl. The niece is arrested and convicted of murder, but Pauline is found dead in her room clutching a watch taken from Morris, and the young girl is cleared.
- DirectorMurdock MacQuarrieStarsMurdock MacQuarrieRichard RossonAgnes VernonOld Nathan stumbles upon Dick, his son, while the latter is going through his purse, robbing his father. He remonstrates, but instead of being touched, Dick becomes insolent. Nathan turns him out of the house with the hope that the world will remedy what the father cannot. Nathan's wife is now all that is left to him. He goes upstairs to commiserate with her. He finds her dead. After the funeral Nathan goes west and settles in a mining camp. Despite his troubles, he still radiates charity and kindness. One day Wild Bill, a "give-take-and-be-damned" sort of fellow, visits Nathan and throws down a damaged boot for repairs. This is the first and last time that he bullies the old cobbler. Nathan kicks him out of the shop. Bill comes to respect the old cobbler, and when Jess, Bill's sweetheart, and a dancer in a resort, must have one of her slippers repaired, it is taken to Nathan. He places a note in the repaired slipper. That touch of kindness is the saving of Jess. She casts aside her gaudy clothes. Nathan and Bill become good friends and the cobbler shows his friend Dick's picture and gives his history. One day the stage is held up. Bill captures the highwayman and recognizes him as Nathan's son. He takes Dick back to his father and when he displays the bags of gold to the miners, he explains, "He must have heard me coming, for he vacated in a hell of a hurry and left this." Nathan goes on spreading sunshine, making people happy, marrying and preaching sermons to the end of his days.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushGeorge CooperOld Jean Basse makes a meager living for himself and granddaughter, Pauline, by peddling his miniature statuary. Pauline is in love with an unsuccessful artist who lives on the floor above. Every character who lives in the alley is shown, with his or her troubles and joys. Above everything else, it has been old Jean's ambition to possess a high silk hat. One day he receives a letter from an attorney advising him that he has fallen heir to the estate of a distant relative. It creates a commotion in the alley because all think that they are going to lose Jean. But in his heart the good old man decides that he will divide his wealth with his friends. On the strength of the legacy Jean buys a handsome silk stovepipe hat. It is a proud day for him when he strolls into blind alley thus spruced up. The attorney calls to see him the next day and leads him to his inheritance, the contents of a small cottage. But everything has been attached by creditors, save a few worthless odds and ends in the attic. The only thing he considered worth taking home is a dust-covered painting. Jean, feeling that he cannot now afford the silk hat, sadly sells it back to the haberdasher. Jean's homecoming is not as sad as might be supposed, for his friends rejoice that their little colony will not lose him. However the old man's legacy is worth more than he at first realized. The artist, Pauline's lover, no sooner sets eyes on the old painting than he declares it to be an original Van Dyke. Jean takes the painting to a successful artist, who attempts to buy it for two dollars. Jean, however, refuses it. The famous artist then tries to steal the masterpiece. Failing in this attempt he tries to mislead Jean by admiring Pauline. But all his schemes are defeated. Pauline's sweetheart begins selling his pictures, and on the day they are married, the couple present Jean with a swell silk hat. But for the old man the end has come; he lies sick unto death. As a wedding gift he gives Pauline the painting, and as his life flickers away he insists on wearing the silk hat.
- StarsMurdock MacQuarrieAgnes VernonLon ChaneyRaphael Praz kidnaps heroine Kate.
- DirectorMurdock MacQuarrieStarsMurdock MacQuarrieAgnes VernonSeymour HastingsRoger Grant, foreman of the "Circle S" ranch, is engaged to Isabel Norris, the old ranch owner's daughter. Previous to a dance one evening, Grant receives the following letter from an official of the National Guard, "Anticipating an attack upon pumping station, Silver Lake reservoir, by the Federals, I request that you arm your cowboys and protect it until our troops arrive." Nunez, a Mexican spy, learns of the existence of the letter and that night enters the ranch house to steal it. Grant and Isabel return from the dance. She tells Grant to wait for her signal and then return. Shortly after his departure Isabel makes the appointed signal. An instant later Nunez comes from his hiding place, chokes the girl into insensibility and steals the letter. When Grant returns, he finds Isabel upon the floor, unconscious. Blame for the assault is laid upon him. He barely escapes with his life. The cowboys take after him. In the meantime Isabel finds a piece of lace from Nunez's hat. This, together with the fact of the theft of the letter, convinces her that Nunez is the culprit. She sets out to call the cowboys. In the meantime the Mexicans have attacked the reservoir. Grant battles with them single-handed and holds the great pumps until the arrival of Isabel and reinforcements. Nunez is captured and Grant vindicated.
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsMurdock MacQuarrieLon ChaneySeymour HastingsA company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.One of the few Chaney short films that exists.
- DirectorWilfred LucasHenry MacRaeStarsCleo MadisonGeorge LarkinEdward SlomanA crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushLon ChaneyFrancois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. They succeed in overpowering the turnkey and, assisted by Colin, who insists that his friend don the clothes of the turnkey, Villon makes his escape. Colin is tried, convicted and hanged. At the foot of the gibbet, Villon's farewell to the swinging Colin is interrupted by the entrance of the Chevalier do Soissons. Villon resents the knight's tirade against the corpse of Colin. Fight ensues and the crafty vagabond slays the knight, using as a weapon a great stone. The rich purse, armor, etc., of de Soissons proves too strong a snare for the impoverished Villon, who quickly changes habiliments with the dead knight, props the body against the gallows and then continues on his way to Paris. Philippa de Annonnay, the fair ward of the Chevalier Bertrand de Pogne, is held prisoner in an inn. Villon chooses this inn wherein to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Here he meets de Pogne. From her window she sees the entrance of Villon and determines to appeal to the strange knight. An animated discussion between Villon and de Pogne is interrupted by a scream from Philips. Villon starts to climb the stairs to the gallery of the inn. De Pogne bars the way and a terrific battle with swords ensues. The fight continues up the stairs and toward Philippa's window, through which the girl reaches as the fight continues on the balcony and stabs de Pogne, who falls to the floor below, dead. Villon conducts Philippa safely to her castle, then resumes his journey to Paris. Having dissipated the proceeds of the de Soissons adventure, Villon hies himself to a garret, where he spends his time in courting the muses. Louis XI, the "Prowler," determines to test the loyalty of Villon. To this end, the king hies himself to a dungeon in the Bastille, causes the arrest of Villon, then offers that worthy his freedom if he will help overthrow the king. Villon indignantly refuses to purchase his freedom at such a price. Whereupon Louis reveals himself to the poet and presents Villon with a bound copy of his (Villon's) manuscript, which was the first book to be printed in France. Then Louis knights him, bestowing upon Villon the title Chevalier des Loges.
- StarsMurdock MacQuarrieAgnes VernonLon ChaneyJohn Burns, "villain," meets a bear which chases him. Burns falls over a cliff. Bob Jenkins, a young miner, finds the unconscious Burns and carries him to his cabin. The injured man is cared for by Bob and they become pals. Dave Williams and his daughter. Lucy arrive in the mining town. The girl and Bob begin to write for themselves the first chapter of the old, old story. Burns meets the girl and at once loves her. She likes him but repels his advances. He finds that she cares for Bob. The worm of jealousy eats the heart out of him. Crazy with his love, Burns arranges a gun in the cabin with a string running from trigger to the door latch, so that Bob will be shot when he comes in. Fate, however, sends two mice who gnaw the string. Bob finds the gun and realizes the treachery. He fires his revolver. Burns hears the shot, thinks Bob is dead and hurries to Lucy. With a tale of Bob's hurting himself he drags her away into the hills, determined that she shall be his. Bob has brought the men and the death of Burns ends the picture.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushJoe KingLon ChaneyRuth Braddon, the daughter of a wealthy factory owner, who is interested in improving social conditions, receives a letter, advising her to look at the state of affairs at her father's own factory. She visits her father and he refers her to his junior partner, Fred Howard, to whom Ruth is engaged. Accompanied by her fiancé, Ruth goes on a tour of inspection through the factory. In the hallway, she sees a crowd of workers gathered around a girl who has fainted in the poorly-ventilated workroom. As they approach the group, David Hale, a factory hand, asks Howard for better conditions. Howard orders David back. Ruth, admiring David's personality, interferes and tells him she will talk with her father. The next day David visits Bessie and tells her he is expecting a raise of wages soon and they will marry. Bessie's happiness over David's love is interrupted by a visit from Ruth. David takes her through the tenements, showing her poverty in its worst form. She asks him to assist her in lightening the burden of the poor. He consents. The close contact into which David and Ruth are thrown in their work, draws them together. Ruth awakens to the knowledge that she is in love with David. She breaks her engagement with Howard. He goes to her father. The father shows a letter he received from David in which he asked for an increase of wages so that he may marry Bessie Clay. Ruth comes to her father's office for money and her father places the check close to David's letter so Ruth will see it. She learns for the first time of David's engagement. She is overcome and on leaving her father's office meets David. She breaks down and weeps.
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushDoc CraneThe youthful monarch, Edward IV of England, is treacherously advised by Sir Stephen Fitz Allen, who is the King's boon companion, in favor of turning down the offer of Louis XI to cease the controversy that has been pending so long. The King, Edward IV, follows the advice of his companion and the French messenger meets with an insult, returning to the French court in a quandary. The old roue, remembering through a vision his scene with Villon in the dungeon, sends for the Poet Laureate to solve the riddle. Villon suggests that it might not be a bad idea to remove Sir Stephen, thereby causing the weakling, Edward IV, to fall into his hands. Louis XI considers the advice good and orders Villon to proceed to England and to move against Sir Stephen. Sir Haco Hubba, long tired of the strife and bloodshed, has shut himself up in Castle Lyme, where he dwells in peace with an only daughter, the Lady Eleyne. Villon learns of Sir Haco, begs an interview, and is invited to call at Lyme Castle. Villon accepts. Here he impresses upon the mind of Sir Haco the fact that it is better that one perish, than that the lives of countless thousands be sacrificed. Sir Haco agrees, but can see no way whereby the wily Sir Stephen can be induced to enter a trap. The Lady Eleyne enters and Villon informs Sir Haco that his beautiful daughter is the bait whereby to catch the fish. Eleyne's scruples are overcome and she agrees to go to court and there ensnare Sir Stephen. The action follows and Sir Stephen, now madly in love with Eleyne, follows her to Castle Lyme. Villon is on the watch, and catching Sir Stephen prowling about the castle halls, summons Sir Haco's men-at-arms, who quickly dispatch Sir Stephen, whereupon Villon returns to Louis' court and acquaints his master with the success of the expedition.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarrieWilliam C. DowlanPauline BushWith the opening of the story Richelieu pardons the Duke of Orleans and all his followers in the Languedoc revolt, save one. The exception is Adrien de Mauprat, because he seized a French town without his leader's orders. Richelieu advises him to lead his troops against the Spaniards and seek honorable death in battle. Julie, Richelieu's ward, loves de Mauprat, but notwithstanding her entreaties, the Cardinal is relentless; de Mauprat courts death on the battlefield. But now that he seeks death, it shuns him; instead of a soldier's grave, he wins glory. Julie has another admirer, Haradas, the King's favorite. Aware of de Mauprat's place in Julie's affections, he sets himself to bring discredit upon his rival. Later, Julie, at the King's request, attends court. She makes a deep impression upon the weak-minded, fickle monarch. A year after the departure of de Mauprat, Baradas and his followers conspire to murder Richelieu and seize the throne of France. At this critical time de Mauprat returns, famous in battle, sad of heart and loathing Richelieu. Thus he becomes a ready member of the conspirators. However, Richelieu hears of his arrival and of the conspiracy and has him arrested. In the meantime, Julie has returned from court and again appeals for de Mauprat's life. Thus, when de Mauprat is ushered into the Cardinal's presence, instead of hearing his death sentence, he is informed that he will marry Julie the following day. Hearing of this the King is violently angry: Julie is summoned to appear at court. Once there she is virtually held prisoner and her marriage is declared invalid. The false Barad is convinces de Mauprat that he has been tricked by Richelieu. De Mauprat swears vengeance and again joins the conspirators, all of whom sign a scroll addressed to the Spaniards offering to deliver France into their hands. From here the story develops with plot and counterplot. How de Mauprat discovers his tragic mistake in thinking the Cardinal has double-crossed him, how he manages, through a heroic effort, to save the old man's life, how de Mauprat falls into the hands of the King and is only saved by a master stroke of diplomacy on Richelieu's part, the death of the scheming Baradas and the final achievement of happiness for the young lovers, Julie and de Mauprat, makes up the essential points of the story.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushJoe KingCarmen PhillipsStephen's wife fails to inspire him in his painting. While seated before his hearth stone the young artist dreams of a beautiful pastoral love scene between a faun and a wood-nymph that is interrupted by the daughter of Pan. She lures the faun from his own true love with the weird music of her father's flute. The artist awakens from his dream with the picture of the daughter of Pan lingering in his mind. It is the picture he would like to transfer to canvas. In searching for an ideal model, Stephen meets Caprice, a dancer who exemplifies the spirit of Pan's daughter. She is induced to pose for the coming masterpiece. Stephen becomes enamored of his model and sadly neglects his wife. When the wife is refused admittance to her husband's studio, she naturally becomes jealous and angry. As the days pass the wife becomes friendly with her husband's friend, Arthur Darrell. Darrell is in love with the wife and makes advances, but for the time these are spurned. The sinister influence of Caprice upon the artist is apparent, and even after the painting is finished he is too fascinated with her to let her go. In a passionate love scene he wins her. His wife, in the meantime, has come to an understanding with the friend, Darrell. However, she decides, in fairness to her husband, to inform him prior to her departure, of her intentions. She finds the studio empty; the fatal picture is there finished to mock her. In a rage she slashes it to ribbons and with the act of destruction, the influence under which Stephen has worked is broken. Deserting his sweetheart, he hurries home to find love and forgiveness in the hands of his repentant wife.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushGertrude BambrickTom FormanTo give her sister Alice an education and dress her properly, Annie labors in a local canning factory. Unknown to Annie, Alice has engaged herself to Seadey Swaine, the son of a well-to-do businessman. Time passes and Alice is about to graduate; Annie works nights to provide her with the proper graduation dress. At this time, Alice exhibits a diamond ring and informs Annie of her engagement. Later, against her sister's advice, Alice goes to work in the canning factory to provide herself with a suitable trousseau. In the factory Alice meets Duncan Bronson, manager of a department. Bronson, who bears an unsavory reputation, is attracted to Alice and succeeds in winning her approval. Annie looks on with troubled eyes. She gives Alice a bit of sisterly advice, but the younger girl refuses to listen. Annie seeks out the manager, but is only laughed at for her pains. She suddenly blooms forth prettily adorned with dresses purchased with money she had laboriously saved. The manager discovers that Annie has charms far superior to Alice's, and turns his attention to Annie. After Alice is married to young Swaine, the danger past, Annie returns to her plain dress and tightly-combed hair. She is suspected and gossiped about, and even her own sister refuses her the consolation of a good deed done. In the little village, Annie continues her work in the canning factory alone, heart-hungry, suspected. Annie was a martyr to Virtue. But was she justified?
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLaura OakleyRay GallagherCarlotta, born of lowly parents, is adopted by the nobleman Don Valasquez and is raised to womanhood. She has grown up, and fallen in love, with Valasquez' son Don Manuel, but he is sent off to the court of the King. Six years later, the son returns with a wife and small child. Carlotta becomes obsessed with hatred and one day, she sees the child reaching for a rose on the window sill. The child begins to lose its balance and Carlotta, still filled with hatred, does nothing. The child falls and is killed. Later, Carlotta feels remorse and joins a nunnery, where from her window she can see the boy's grave. Thirteen years later she tells sister Agnes her story, and says that each year, on the anniversary of the boy's death, his spirit appears before her with a cross of blood on his forehead. That day is the anniversary, but this time the spirit appears and Carlotta recognizes in him the Christ child and knows she has been forgiven.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsWilliam WorthingtonHerbert RawlinsonCleo MadisonAfter a prologue which shows several aerial views of the Acropolis, the story begins. The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse. Because the general Dionysius is infatuated with Calanthe, Pythias' sweetheart, he sends the soldier to fight the Carthaginians at the Battle of Agrigentum. Pythias returns in triumph, and then angers Dionysius even further when he defeats Aristle, the general's favorite, in a chariot race. During the wedding ceremony for Pythias and Calanthe, Dionysius has himself proclaimed sovereign while Damon is absent from the Senate. Shocked, Damon attempts to assassinate Dionysius, but he fails and is sentenced to death. In order for Damon to say goodbye to his wife and son, Pythias leaves Calanthe and takes his friend's place in prison, offering to die in Damon's place if he does not return. Despite several tests of the strength of their friendship, they remain loyal to each other and so impress Dionysius that he allows them both Free.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsTom FormanPauline BushLon ChaneyEve makes a poor living selling flowers. She pleads with her old nurse, Matilde, with whom she lives, to allow her to enter cafés saying she would have no trouble to dispose of her flowers there. Matilde realizes the time has come to tell Eve of her mother's fate. Her mother, a singer, had married the only son of a wealthy man. This son was disinherited for connecting the family with a stage performer. Time went by and the pair drifted from bad to worse; Bentley after using up all his wife's money and jewels, deserted her on the night Eve was born. Matilde was maid to the mother and when she died it fell to her lot to care for Eve. When the old nurse finishes the story she dozes off, still dreaming of the past. Eve, desperate by lack of food and her nurse's weak condition, decides to disobey. Taking her flowers, she steals out to seek the bright lights. A crowd of young revelers, among them Victor Austin, are attracted to the pretty flower girl as they enter the café. They buy all her stock. Austin leaves his friends and steals back to Eve as she stands dazed by her good luck He makes advances to her and she frees herself, running to shelter in the tenements. She finally steals back into her own lodging only to find the old nurse dead. Eve is grief-stricken, but soon recovers. In on old trunk she finds some letters which give her an inkling as to where her father's relations can be found. She starts out to locate them and to demand her rights. At a junction where she has stopped to change cars, she is robbed of her train ticket and what little money she has. A theatrical company offers her sympathy and protection until they reach Utica, the town for which she was bound. She is offered a small part to play and she makes good. The star of this company, James Gordon, although married, cannot resist the charm of Eve. On reaching Utica and learning that her father has inherited the Bentley fortune, but is away on a hunting trip, Eve pleads to remain with the company. Gordon gladly consents. Shortly after comes the news that Gordon has been offered a position in New York, the mecca of all his ambitions. The company must disband. Eve seeks her dressing room to hide her tears. There Gordon finds her and is unable to withhold expressions of love back. Eve is happy until she learns from another member of the company that Gordon is married. She remembers her nurse's warning about the perfidy of men; she determines to seek out her father and never see Gordon again. She departs. Meantime Gordon receives a telegram to the effect that his wife, who had left him, is dead. In vain he seeks Eve to tell her. Eve has found her father. His friend, Austin, falls in love with Eve. The father is in favor of the match in that he owes Austin big sums of money. James Gordon's New York debut is attended with great success. Yet he still longs for Eve. He reads of her approaching marriage with bitterness. Eve learns Gordon's wife had been dead for some time, through a newspaper article, and realizes at last his intentions were honorable. She goes to the theater to see him in the new play. The sight of the man she loves overpowers all social ambitions; she casts aside her jewels and her wealth and seeks him out as a woman who understands life's real meaning.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyMillard K. WilsonAgnes Duane, a young woman of the twentieth century, full of good red blood and with plenty of spirit, returns to her New England home and its prim atmosphere, after completing her course in college. Arriving there, she finds that her considerate parents have chosen for her a husband. The individual whom they have chosen for this honor happens to be an effeminate, insipid, very sanctimonious little minister. Upon meeting him Agnes laughs in his face, much to the humiliation of the minister and the consternation of her strait-laced parents. Thinking to cure her of some of her crudeness, her father sends her to his brother down in Kentucky, where she roams the mountain fastness in untrammeled freedom. One day while wandering about in the hills she becomes lost and is found and taken to her uncle's home by one of a queer duo of mountaineer brothers who harbor an inborn and intense hatred for each other. One of these men is a veritable giant in size and strength while the other, the one who rescued Agnes, is of small build and slight strength, but is possessed of a superior cunning. Soon she becomes acquainted with both these brothers and both fall deeply in love with her. Finally, one night the younger and smaller brother, tries to force himself upon her and he is confronted by the giant. In a dissolve the reason for this hate is revealed. As a result of this encounter the weaker man devises a diabolical scheme to put his brother out of the way. Fortunately for the giant, the scheme fails and he passes the trap unscathed. In the meantime, Agnes has felt herself drawn to the larger man by his sheer animal magnetism. She seems on the point of confessing her love for him when, through a cruel act, his true nature is revealed and she turns from him. Soon after she meets the Rev. Hugh Baxton, a real man at last, and to him she surrenders unconditionally.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushWilliam C. DowlanCharles ManleyHazel and Jack are about to be married. At his death, Hazel's uncle, Howard Wild, has bequeathed to them as a wedding present a deed to the old Wild mansion. He leaves to each a key, believing in equal rights for man and woman. The gift recalls to Hazel and Jack the many happy hours they spent with the old man and how often he had acted as peacemaker in their childish quarrels. The wedding day approaches. A gossiping friend imparts to Hazel a bit of scandal, concerning Jack's name with that of another. They quarrel and Hazel, to avoid questions, decides to hide in the old Wild mansion till the scandal of the broken engagement at the eleventh hour blows over. Without Hazel's suspecting, Jack has followed her to Uncle Howard's country estate. Howard Wild, during his life, was not only famous as a collector of antiques, but also for his wine cellar. A couple of crooks seize their last chance to rob the place before the arrival of the bridal couple in a few days. Hazel arrives at the deserted house and makes herself comfortable, forlornly dwelling on her quarrel with Jack, when she is startled by the noise of the robbers. Overcome with fear, she watches them through the curtain helping themselves to her late uncle's treasures. They pause in their operations to see if any wine has been left in the cellar. Hazel takes this opportunity to escape, and as she runs out into the hall she encounters Jack, who has just entered with his latchkey. In the dark hall she mistakes him for another crook and, with a piercing scream, faints away. The burglars, hearing the scream, believe they are in a haunted house and beat a hasty retreat, leaving the booty behind. Jack revives Hazel, learns the reason of her fright and also that she does not intend to forgive him unless he humbles himself before her. Jack refuses to do this, knowing he is innocent. Uncle Howard's spirit comes to them and again acts as the peacemaker and the sweethearts start for home to be married on the morrow.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushWilliam C. DowlanLon ChaneyTom Walsh, his daughter, Pauline, and his son, Pete, live in a tenement known to the police as a nest of crooks. Tom and Pete force Pauline to act as their "lookout" in various small robberies by means of which they make their living. Pauline, however, is good at heart and, although forced to meet crooks and ex-convicts in her father's squalid apartment, has little liking for the life. Tom and Pete plan a new "job" and appoint Pauline to keep watch for patrolmen and passersby. While acting as "lookout," Pauline becomes interested in a band of Salvation Army singers and enters into conversation with the captain of the band. The captain gives her a pamphlet to read, which greatly influences her life. Meanwhile Tom and Pete have been frightened away from the house they planned to rob. They find Pauline gone from the spot where they told her to stay. Angered by her desertion they go home to await her coming. When Pauline arrives she tells her father of her experience with the Salvation Army band and begs her father to lead an honest life. Enraged by her talk, Old Man Walsh starts after her with a large knife, intent on killing her. Pauline rushes from the room, pursued by her father. Walsh stumbles at the head of the stairs in his drunken anger, falls and is killed. Pete returns from the corner saloon and finds his father dead. In his intoxicated condition the sight interests him little. He inquires for Pauline and when he learns that she is gone he leaves the tenement intent upon bringing her back. Pauline obtains a cheap room in a better part of the city and in a few days secures a position as nurse in a wealthy family which is preparing to leave for the west. Her brother finds out where she is working, however, and when she leaves town follows on the brake beams of the same train. Pauline believes that she has left her old life behind, but one day while in the park with her little charge her brother confronts her. She refuses to go with him and asks him to leave her alone in peace. Pete is about to drag her away when Paul Reeves, a rich young mine owner, knocks Pete down. Reeves introduces himself to Pauline and sees her safely home. A strong friendship springs up between the young people. Peter, in an ugly mood after his beating, enters a cheap saloon, where he finds a crowd of loafers bullying an emaciated "dope" fiend. Pete knocks several of them down and thereby gains the deep devotion of the unfortunate. Meanwhile Paul Reeves and Pauline become increasingly fond of each other and after a short courtship are married. Reeves builds a beautiful home for his young wife and does his best to allay her fears of her brother's return. Pete, in the meantime, has become the leader of the gang which he soundly thrashed. After a successful raid he gets drunk. Shaking an unopened beer bottle the neck bursts from the gases within and blinds him for life. The dope fiend whom he has befriended nurses him back to health and waits upon his idol hand and foot. The "dope" reads for hours each day to Pete, who becomes the brains of the gang and engineers their operations. While the "dope" reads the papers for likely "prospects" Pete hears of his sister's wedding and orders the "dope fiend" to take down the address. That evening, led by his companion, Pete arrives at his sister's mansion. Pauline invites her brother in and commiserates with him on his misfortune. Pete, however, pays no attention to her sympathetic expressions, but bides his time to be revenged. Pauline leads him into a room and Pete, who has familiarized himself with the locations of the doors and windows in a hurried survey of the room during his sister's absence, locks the doors on her. He then demands a large amount of money. When Pauline refuses him he attempts to choke her. Pauline eludes him and fights desperately for her life. Finally she reaches the door and escapes down the stairs. Attempting to follow her, Pete falls down the steps and breaks his neck. He is still breathing when Pauline's husband enters. Pauline tells her husband of her narrow escape from death and the photoplay ends with husband and wife locked in each other's arms, the only bar to their happiness effectually removed.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushWilliam C. DowlanLon ChaneyOlga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small salary. In addition she is handicapped by having the sole care of an invalid sister. A capital operation is necessary to save the girl's life. Olga, being entirely without money, appeals to her employer. He offers to furnish the money on terms that the girl, through the urgency of her sister's case, is finally forced to accept. The operation is performed and the girl is removed to the seaside. Three months later Olga learns that her sister is dead. The futility of her sacrifice and her natural antipathy to the life she is forced to lead, lead her to flee from the home of her betrayer. One of the truly good men of this world, the Reverend John Armstrong, finds her wandering disconsolately through the streets, and he, claiming a former acquaintance with her, takes her to the home of his mother. As time goes on, the young people, mutually attracted long ago, become engaged. John receives a call to a country village, and on the eve of his departure for the scene of his future labors, he and Olga are married. A year later the little village is stirred by the exhibition of a moving picture entitled, "Shall We Forgive Her?" Mr. Jellice, one of the deacons of John's church, attempts to prevent the exhibition, and by doing so becomes embroiled in a law suit with the manager of the theater. John sends for legal assistance, the attorney selected being Stephen Leslie. Leslie arrives and in his visit to the parsonage meets the woman he betrayed. He upbraids her for leaving him and proposes that they resume their former relations. When Olga refuses he threatens to expose her. The timely arrival of John and the committee on their way to the theater saves Olga for the time being. The party enter the theater, the committee agreeing to abide by John's verdict on the picture. At the parsonage, Olga determines to give up her fight. She sees no escape for Leslie but in flight. She writes a hurried letter to John and bids good-bye to the home in which she had found true happiness and contentment. On her way to the depot she is attracted to the theater and finally makes up her mind to enter. The picture tells the story of a sacrifice such as her own. The despairing girl watches it with breathless interest. At the culmination of a tense, dramatic scene John, rising in his seat, praises the picture and upholds the moral which it teaches. A vision of the Saviour is shown and the sublime words, "Judge Not Lest You Be Judged," are flashed before the tear-dimmed eyes of the audience. Subsequently Olga and Leslie meet. His entire attitude is changed and the pictured story has worked his reformation. He implores Olga's forgiveness and begs her to return to her husband. John, arriving home, finds the letter of confession. He is stunned for the moment, but seeing his sorrowing wife on her knees, he remembers the sublime words of his Divine Master, "Judge Not Lest You Too Be Judged," and takes the erring but repentant woman to his arms.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsWilliam C. DowlanPauline BushMark FentonMario Busoni, a young sculptor, is the ward of his uncle, Father Busoni, pastor of the Church of the Holy Name at Fiesole. The boy has shown wonderful skill in his chosen profession, so much so that he is selected to execute a life-sized statue of the Madonna for his uncle's church. This commission fills both uncle and nephew with great joy, and the lad's departure from the studio at Naples to fulfill his commission is made the occasion of much rejoicing among his fellow-workers. A discordant note is struck by Janice, a model. This girl passionately loves the young sculptor. She begs and entreats him to remain with her, and he is on the point of yielding to her blandishments when the timely arrival of his uncle puts Janice to flight. Uncle and nephew arrive at the scene of the boy's future labors and the work is commenced. A month later an important letter arrives at the studio for Mario, and Janice undertakes to deliver it to him. She arrives at the church, delivers the letter and attempts to ingratiate herself with Mario. She is again defeated by the watchful uncle, but determines to bide her time. Meanwhile Mario becomes dissatisfied with the conditions under which he is working, and finally induces his uncle to permit him to have a living model. It is found in the person of a beautiful young fisher girl, the widowed daughter of Pietro Ferrari, a fisherman. Later Mario heroically rescues the girl's father from the sea. Soon after the girl and her baby boy pose for the young artist. Tomasco, a hulking fisher lout, is in love with Mario's model. He offers marriage, and being refused, suspects Mario of being his rival. Meeting with Janice, her heart like his, aflame with jealous rage, the two plot the destruction of Mario's masterpiece, the almost completed statue of the Virgin and Child. Mario has proposed and been accepted by the fisher girl and the news of his betrothal determines Janice and her accomplice to put their plot into effect at once. Arriving at the church, the man carrying a heavy sledge, they are confronted by the finished work, a marvel of beauty of the statue. He throws down the hammer and refuses to perform the bidding of the jealous woman. She laughs at him for his sentiment and, seizing the hammer, swings it aloft. The destruction of the statue is imminent, but Divine intervention is at hand, and the eyes of the beautiful Madonna open. The poised hammer is dropped and both man and woman fall to their knees at the base of the statue, where they sob out their penitence in contrite prayers. The curtains hiding the statue are pulled aside and the bishop and his followers view the marvelous work of the young artist. Enthralled with admiration, the bishop extends his hand in blessing. The scene changes to a quiet nook near the seashore home of the fisher girl, where we find her and Mario in loving embrace, the patriarchal father holding aloft the baby boy, who is clapping his hands at the incoming rollers of the mighty sea.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsPauline BushWilliam LloydLon ChaneyPauline's uncle is the proprietor of the only hotel Maplehurst boasts of. The girl is an orphan and has been adopted by her relative. Dick, the young hotel clerk, is one of those "best hearted fellows in the world." His only fault, in the girl's eyes, is his rusticity. He is a country boy. Pauline is a country girl, but with a love of romance and pleasure implanted deep in her impressionable nature. A stylish young snob from the east arrives at Maplehurst. Pauline sets her cap for him, and it is one of the greatest moments of her life when she strolls down the village street with the dandy. The little hotel clerk is hurt to the quick when Pauline disregards his homely love. Woman-like, Pauline makes the most of the Snob's visit to the village. At the little town's social gatherings she appears in a beautiful pink gown, while The Snob scorns the village beaux when they show up at the country dance hall in their "store clothes." The Snob wears evening clothes, and while the girls of the village are impressed by his appearance in contrast with their brothers and sweethearts, the boys themselves despise him for his attempt to lord it over them. The Snob cares little for local opinion, however, nor makes any attempt to accommodate himself to village customs. The town boys are able only to hire a "rig" on Sundays to take their "girls" out for a ride in the country. The Snob, however, once he has won the heart of the prettiest girl in town, orders his high horsepower racing car and takes Pauline out for perilous drives for long distances. On one of these long tours The Snob, with cruel cunning, takes Pauline to a wayside inn. Outside the inn is a terraced garden with grape arbors hiding the diners from the view of passersby. Suspecting nothing, Pauline is induced to partake of a heavy dinner, and then, when The Snob sneers at her "countrified temperance," she sips slowly at a stinging drink he orders. Pauline takes the drink merely to please her companion and little suspects the sinister ulterior purpose he has in view. One drink follows another, and soon Pauline has passed beyond the point where good judgment rules her actions. Late that night they return to Pauline's home town. The chill air brushes away the fumes of the liquor from Pauline's brain and the deceived girl weeps bitterly in a rear seat of the big racing car. The Snob, at the steering wheel ahead, sneers to himself as he helps her alight at her humble home. The inevitable happens. The Snob goes east, leaving an invitation for Pauline to visit him at his home. The moth flies into the flame. She runs away from home. A year afterward Pauline is cast aside by The Snob. In a big city boarding house, where the good, the bad and the indifferent live, she gives birth to a child. She is penniless, and The Snob's people will not recognize her. The Snob himself is sent away west. Here he begins life anew. Pauline's predicament is seemingly hopeless. A procurer of women who lives in the house, is touched, and he advises her to make a living on the street. Another neighbor calls and advises her to commit suicide. Either of these things might have happened had not an elderly childless couple taken an interest in the case. They told her it was the greatest thing in the world to be a mother. Pauline writes her uncle for help. Dick, the hotel clerk, reads the letter and sends her money. About this time the uncle dies. When Dick becomes the proprietor of the hotel his first act is to go after Pauline. In the meantime life in the west has made a man of The Snob. He returns east to Pauline, but she scorns him and refuses to let him see his child. This time the man "paid."
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsWilliam C. DowlanJoseph De GrassePauline BushHelen MacDermott, daughter of the Factor at Bear Lake, has been carefully and religiously brought up by her widowed father. Bob Brandt, a dashing young gambler and adventurer, stops at Bear Lake in his wanderings, and having occasion to visit the post to buy supplies, he becomes acquainted with Helen. She quickly surrenders to his charms and he, taking advantage of her innocence, persuades her to elope with him in the face of her father's opposition. Six months later, happily married to her, (as she thinks) good and honest young husband, Helen is rudely awakened by a delegation of the Vigilant Committee, who roughly give her husband orders to move his operations to some other locality. Helen then learns that her hero is nothing more nor less than a gambler and swindler. Having a deep loathing for divorce, and too proud to return to her father, Helen continues as Bob's wife. A month later after the Vigilante episode, while wandering about the country, Bob accidentally shoots himself in the shoulder. Jim Stuart, a lieutenant in the Northwest Mounted Police, finds Bob and Helen and takes them to his quarters, where he cares for the injured man until he is well again. A warm friendship develops among the three and Jim secures a place on the force for Bob. Soon Jim discovers he is slowly falling in love with his friend's wife, and, try as he will, he cannot still the cravings of his heart. Seeing the disgrace he is sure to bring upon himself by some day losing his self-control and declaring his love, he resigns from the service and goes away without saying good-bye to Helen. A few days later, Helen, who has been keeping a diary which Bob has never seen, is suddenly called from the house, and leaves the diary lying open on the table. Entering a few minutes later, Bob sees the diary and reads in it a confession of Helen's love for Jim. Bob realizes that his wife's love is lost to him, and he determines to bring Jim hack so that she may gather a few scattered fragments of happiness. Acting upon his resolution, Bob tracks Jim down and forces him to return to the post with him. There he explains the situation and wishing them all happiness, rushes down to the river. Brought face to face with the cold proposition and realizing the great sacrifice Bob has made for her, Helen is swept from her feet by the return of her old love, and the decision that he is after all, the better man. She rushes from the house, just in time to save Bob's life from a would-be Indian murderer and throwing herself into his arms, asks and receives forgiveness.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushWilliam C. DowlanLon ChaneyTwo children are born into the world, a boy of wealth and luxury, a girl of poverty and simplicity. The man becomes a musician with the soul of a poet, keenly sensitive to the real beauty of life, despite his immense wealth. The woman bespeaks charming simplicity, underneath which is hidden a deep soul. Constantly dragged into the whirl of society, the man tires of the sham and pretense and finally breaks his social ties and assumes the disguise of a wandering street musician. He travels about from village to village and finds in the simplicity of the farmer folk that for which he has sought in vain on the higher planes of life. Meanwhile the woman begins to ascend the ladder. She goes to the city to become a protégée of a wealthy aunt and is introduced to the society from which the man has just escaped. Here she meets the Count, a profligate soldier of fortune, and is urged by her aunt to look with favor upon his suit. Soon after she attends a week-end party given at the country home of one of her aunt's friends. Here she is subjected to what appears to her mind an insult. She escapes from the house and sets out afoot for her aunt's summer residence, dressed in the simple garb of a country maid, a character she had been impersonating at the party. In going along the path through the woods, she is attracted by the melodious tones of a violin. Her curiosity is aroused and she follows the music to its source, discovering the man. He plays for her again and a warm friendship springs up between them. Each is afraid to disclose his true identity for fear of dispelling the illusion. Other visits follow, always in disguise, and finally the inevitable happens. They fall in love with each other. Meanwhile great pressure is brought to bear upon the woman in the interest of the Count. Finally the woman, realizing the hopelessness of her love, capitulates and marries the Count. When the little country girl comes to him no more, the man loses interest in the life he is leading and returns to the city, throws himself into the mad whirlpool of life in a vain endeavor to forget. He goes abroad, thinking to find solace. Meanwhile the woman has been reaping the bitter fruits of her marriage to the count. One night, when stopping at a famous watering place, she hears again the haunting strains of the violin. It draws her irresistibly and she comes into the presence of the man and his real identity is disclosed. Finally a point is reached at which flesh and blood can resist no longer, and the unhappy lovers determine to elope. The count discovers their plans and they rush away to their death. The threads of destiny lie severed. But unseen hands pick up the threads and weave them together in the life after death.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyT.D. CrittendenNan De Vere is a chorus member who, like the others, has her ups and downs. She has lived straight, but at last decides that it does not pay. She is pursued by Mr. Lany, a wealthy hunter of the stage door, and at last decides to accept his money and attentions, which he has been offering her for some time. Nan is notified by fellow chorus member Marie that Lany is waiting for her in the wings. She prepares to play her part of the game. Lany has a wife, a true and devoted woman, who has stuck with him through thick and thin, but who has been unable to keep pace with his progress in the social world. In a last attempt to rescue her husband from the wiles of the showgirl, Mrs. Lany calls upon Nan De Vere to release her husband. Nan is at first contemptuous, but when Mrs. Lany tells her tearful story of her husband's and her own terrible struggle up from poverty, of his lucky mining strike and succeeding affluence, and finally his growing indifference and coldness for the wife who has enabled him to reach his present position. Nan's heart is touched and she resolves to give the unthinking husband a lesson. She hides Mrs. Lany behind a curtain and sends word to Mr. Lany that she will see him. Lany enters and takes her in his arms, when by a previously arranged plan with Joe, one of the men of the theater, hears Nan's screams. Joe comes in flourishing a revolver and claims her husband. Lany concludes he is the victim of a "badger game" and the woman he married is the only true-hearted woman in the world. He leaves the dressing room willingly.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyWilliam C. DowlanPolly, maid of all work at Mrs. Jennings', forms a romantic attachment for Will Deming, popular actor, for he is the only one who has bestowed even a kindly look on Polly. In her spare moments she dreams of herself as a great lady loved by Deming. Olive Trent, a young girl seeking a theatrical career, takes lodgings at Mrs. Jennings'. Her attempts to get an engagement meet with failure. Will sees her one day in an agency and is filled with admiration for her fresh young beauty. He sympathizes with her in her distress. She repulses him, mistaking his motive. Will little dreams that they live in the same house. Tod Wilkes, a burlesque performer living at Mrs. Jennings', has seen Olive come and go. At last he manages to meet her and, thinking her a find, offers her an engagement in the burlesque company of which he is a member. It is an offer so far below Olive's aspirations that she refuses. The last of Olive's money goes to satisfy her landlady and she is desperate. She decides to accept Tod's offer, and goes to tell him so. He invites her to his room to run over her part. Tod's rehearsal with Olive is over, but he still detains her. Before she is aware of his intentions he has seized her in his arms and kisses her fervently. Olive fights herself free. Enraged as well as humiliated, she goes to her room, too overcome with the shock of her experience to observe Will and Polly. Will recognizes her and offers her work in his company, a position which fulfills her highest ambitions. They leave the next day for Syracuse with never a good-bye or a glance at poor little Polly, who was the humble instrument in bringing them together. Polly shakes her head sadly and murmurs, "Such is Life."
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyWilliam C. DowlanRose is rescued by Jack, a ranger and he falls in love with the Girl.Paul, an artist sees her and induces her to pose for him.He takes her to his studio,but when she learns that he is married runs away.Paul follows her and is stopped by Jack.Silent Jordan, a old man living in the woods stop Jack from shooting Paul.He tells them a sad story and Jack, with tears in his eyes takes Rose in his arms.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyWilliam C. DowlanSister Ursula is a novice in a convent in Southern Spain. One day, while the peddler Perez comes to the convent to sell his wares, she sees Manuel, a handsome cavalier riding by and she cannot suppress her feelings of affection for him. Perez sells the Abbess a beautiful length of fabric for an altar cloth, but when Ursula is putting it away, she cannot resist the temptation to drape herself in the cloth and admire her own beauty. Coming to her senses, she runs to the Abbess to confess her sins. Her penance is to kneel in vigil before the altar all night, but during the night she falls into a deep sleep. She dreams that Perez tempts her to leave with him by saying he will make her Manuel's lover. She is traveling with Perez, disguised as a boy, when they come upon a group of thieves, who proceed to attack Manuel when he passes near their camp. With the help of Perez, Ursula drugs the guards, and they help Manuel escape. The trio comes upon a troupe of dancing girls, who tease Ursula for "his" shyness. Carmela, one of the dancers, attempts to win Manuel's favor, and when she does not succeed she attacks him with a knife. Ursula steps in her path and is stabbed in the arm. While tending to Ursula's wound, Manuel discovers her true identity. The girls plan a feast for Ursula, but Carmela denounces her as a fallen nun. The crowd attack her and beat her for her sins. Ursula wakes up on the altar with the Abbess beside her, and they pray together for her forgiveness. Motion Picture News.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyWilliam C. DowlanJames Brandon owns the famous racing horse, Ladybird. He backs her heavily for the last race of the season. His son, Will, is in love with Peggy Baldwin, the daughter of his father's head groom. The Brandon family opposes the marriage on account of Peggy's low origin. One night, however, Will, finding his father in good spirits over the prospective winning of the race on the morrow, gives him a detailed account of Peggy's virtues. The story is interrupted by the entrance of a servant with a telegram for the father. "Ladybird in fine form. Looks sure winner." Brandon is so elated that he asks his son to make a wager staking his happiness on the outcome of the race. In the event of Ladybird's winning Will consents to give up the girl. Will finally consents to this believing his chances are as good as his father's. Later, however, he overhears Brandon tell his wife of the wager, and of the telegram, which makes his bet a sure one. Will becomes very angry at being tricked, and decides to turn the tables on the old folks. Will persuades Ted Baldwin, Ladybird's jockey to feign intoxication, knowing that with any other rider, Ladybird's chances are slim. He explains to Ted that his sister Peggy's happiness depends on Ladybird's losing, and as Ted idolizes his sister, he yields. It is within an hour of the race and Ladybird's owner is anxiously awaiting the coming of his jockey. Peggy has tried in vain to rouse Ted, and the situation is desperate. Peggy looks at Ted's new jockey suit, and decides to take his place. She has often ridden Ladybird and understands her. There is no time to lose, so Peggy hastily dresses, and gallops off to the racetrack. She arrives just in time to weigh in, mount Ladybird and ride up to the starting post. After an exciting race, Ladybird wins by a length and the crowd gathers around the winner and her jockey, but Peggy hastily dismounts and slips away. When out of sight, she sinks on a bench overcome by exhaustion. It is here that Brandon and his son, Will, find her. Brandon comes to congratulate the jockey and Will to demand an explanation of Ted's apparent betrayal. They are surprised to discover that Peggy was the rider. Explanations follow and the father is so tickled at his son's defeat in trying to foil him, and at Peggy's gameness in entering the race, that he consents to their marriage.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyWilliam C. DowlanThe little cow-camp of Rawhide is slumbering under the desert stars. Suddenly the doors of one of the saloons bursts open and Fred and Jack back out of the saloon shooting. They leap upon their waiting horses and dash away, a body of citizens in pursuit. Out on the desert's edge stands the lonely little cabin of Pauline, "The Girl of the Desert." On the night in question, she has retired for the night when she becomes aware of a pounding on the door and a man's voice asking her to open it. She takes her revolver from under her pillow and waits. Slowly the door is forced open. Pauline draws herself back into the shadow and when one of the intruders lights a match, he finds himself looking into the muzzle of a revolver. Pauline orders them out. The two men are Fred and Jack, who have sought refuge from the pursuing cowboys. They leave the cabin good naturedly but camp nearby for the night. The pursuers, baffled and thrown off the track, divide into several small bands and start scouring the country for the fugitives. One of these stumbles upon Pauline's cabin and demands entry. Pauline, thinking that they are the two refugees who first broke into her cabin, warns they away and when they persist in trying to force an entry, opens fire and slightly wounds one of them. They return the fire through the door and when one of the bullets from their guns shatters a lamp chimney near Pauline's head, her feminine nature asserts itself and she dives under the covers. Frank and Jack, startled out of a sound sleep by the shots, investigate and find that their would-be captors have broken into the cabin and are subjecting the girl to insult. They immediately champion her cause and succeed in taking their pursuers captives. Out of gratitude, Pauline offers to show the two fugitives the trail across the desert to the border. They set out early next morning, leaving the three members of the posse tied up in the cabin. Owing to a wound which Fred has sustained in the encounter, he becomes delirious and they finally lose the trail. But after many hardships, the border is reached. Pauline says good-bye to the boys, sets out on the back trail across the desert to her little cabin and the incident closes.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushRay GallagherLon ChaneyRay, a young novelist, sets out for the mountains in search of local color for his book. He meets Pauline, a young maid, and falls in love with her. Ray receives a notice that he must return to the city at once, so he marries the girl, but keeps the wedding a secret since his father has forbid him to marry before the age of 25. Jed, the local Postmaster, is in love with Pauline himself, and he intercepts all the letters to and from Ray while he is gone. Pauline, thinking she has been deserted, moves to a distant mining region with her father, Lin. When Ray returns to the mountains he can find no trace of his wife. He publishes his book titled "The Maid of the Mist" with a picture of Pauline on the fly leaf. Pauline gives birth to a child, and her father swears vengeance on the man who has dishonored her. One day, Lin finds a copy of Ray's novel left by some tourists, sees Pauline's picture, and he goes to the city to find the author. Ray shows Lin their marriage certificate and is happily reunited with his little family. "A strong one-reel subject with Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush, and Ray Gallagher in the cast. This is a pleasing subject throughout." ---Moving Picture World.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushQueenie RossonHelene RossonJean Chesney, from childhood, acted as a little mother to her sisters and brothers while their mother earned a scanty living at the wash-tubs. Death claimed all but Jean and two younger sisters. Rita secures a position as stenographer while Lilly, the youngest, clerks at the ribbon counter in a department store. Jean is an extra girl at one of theaters; her work leaves the two younger girls alone in the evenings, and it is during these hours that Rita confides to Lilly that her employer, Henry Leslie, has made advances to her. Both girls are thrilled at the romantic turn of affairs, never dreaming of serious consequences. Jean attracts the attention of Henry Leslie's son, Bob, on one of his visits behind the scenes of the theater. Under the influence of liquor he forces his attention upon Jean and she slaps his face. This does not daunt him, for he believes all girls can be won with a few flowers. Jean's perversity has only added fuel to the flame. Jean scorns his gifts and flowers. About this time the hardships of the department store grind tells on Lilly. One day she faints in the store, is taken home and does not return to work again. Rita continues her flirtation with her employer, Leslie, and finally an automobile trip to his country home is planned. Rita is innocently delighted over the trip, for Leslie, in a fatherly way, has made many promises of all he will do for the sisters, especially Lilly, whom Rita idolizes. Rita tells Lilly of the proposed trip, learning of Lilly s poor health and Jean's struggle to keep her sisters strong, both physically and morally, the kindly actors make up a purse and present it to Jean. At last the eventful day of Rita's trip to the country arrives. She goes to work as usual. Jean has a matinee, but makes Lilly comfortable tor the few hours she must be absent. Bob Leslie's usual gift of flowers awaits her. Angered by his persistence, she tosses the violets out of the box. The girls sharing her room decorate themselves with Bob's offering of love. Seeing them thus adorned, Bob realizes that at last he has met the exceptional girl. His admiration deepens into something better and stronger. He is hastily summoned home. His mother has had a serious heart attack. His father must be reached at once but various 'phone calls fail to locate him. Bob goes out to find him. Jean is surprised when she fails to find Rita at home. She questions Lilly, who at first evades her queries, but finally enlightens Jean as to Rita's plans for the afternoon. Jean realizing Leslie's true object, hastily dons hat and coat and determines to find Rita and save her if possible. Meanwhile, failing to find his father at his business or the clubs, Bob decides he must have gone down to the country. He starts tor their country home. Leslie's manner remained paternal until after supper was served and Rita began to ask if they had not better start homeward. Then Leslie's true motive becomes apparent, for, inflamed with wine, he does not mince matters. Poor Rita is disillusioned. She struggles pitifully to protect herself. Her strength at last fails her and as she shrinks from his approach, the door swings open and Jean comes down between them. He laughs at her tirade and declares she is even more charming than her sister Bob enters at this moment and is dumbfounded to find his father in the company of the two girls. He glances from Jean to the supper table with its overturned wine glasses and his ideal is suddenly smashed. Bob tells his father his serious news, which sobers Leslie, and they hurriedly leave. On their arrival at home they hear that Mr. Leslie has passed away. Rita finds it difficult to obtain another position, so now Jean's earnings supply their needs. Bob Leslie, heartbroken at his mother's sudden death, drinks heavily to drown his sorrow. One night when in a drunken stupor he hails a taxi. The chauffeur and his confederate, a crook, taking advantage of Bob's condition, beat and rob him. Driving down a narrow dark street, they drag him while he is in an unconscious condition to a doorway and then hurry away. Jean, returning from the theater, stumbles over the body on entering her home. With Rita's assistance they help him upstairs. "When the blood and dirt is washed from his face, Jean recognizes Bob. For a moment, recalling his father's conduct towards Rita, she decides to turn him out, but her better nature conquers and she lets him remain. The next day he is sufficiently recovered to return home but he lingers in hopes of seeing Jean who since his return to consciousness has remained aloof. He questions Rita and the girl, attracted to him, tells him bitterly of the hard struggle a girl has in a big city, her experience as an example. He is overjoyed on learning the part Jean played on that terrible night and that she is the good girl he at first thought her. He pours out his heart to Rita, telling her of his love for Jean. Jean's sudden entrance puts an end to their exchange of confidence. Rita beats a hasty retreat. Bob beseeches Jean to forgive his rudeness to her and to overlook his father's treatment of Rita. At last he gains a smile from her and her hand is held out in token of forgiveness.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyJoseph De GrasseAs a child, Nance is rescued from drunken, abusive parents by Jerry, a kind-hearted thief. Although she grows to womanhood in the company of crooks, she remains virtuous. Famous attorney Arthur Langham has obtained enough evidence against the Riley Gang,, of which Jerry is a member, to send them all to the penitentiary. Langham's close attention to his profession causes him to neglect his wife Enid, who drifts into a flirtation with his best friend, Clyde Herndon. About this time, Jerry is arrested on a burglary charge and the gang fear that at Jerry's trial, Langham will produce the evidence he has accumulated. Nance visits Jerry in jail and he induces her to go to Langham's house to steal the evidence. Nance watches outside the Langham home and, seeing the Langhams depart in their limousine for the opera, believes the time has come to secure the papers. She manages to steal them and is about to depart as she came, through the library window, when the lights are suddenly turned on and she is confronted by Langham. He compels her to return the documents and then, becoming interested in her, asks for her history. She tells him her sad story, which arouses his sympathy. He makes a compact with her, agreeing to use his influence in Jerry's behalf if she and Jerry will lead better lives. The day of the trial approaches and the gang, becoming more fearful, plot to put Langham out of the way. Nance overhears their plans to wait for him on a lonely road during a contemplated auto trip. His wife and friend also decide to take advantage of this trip and arrange an elopement. Nance determines to warn Langham by placing a note on his desk, and she steals into his house. Hearing a noise, she hides, and is surprised to see Langham's wife about to depart with another man. Herndon sends the wife back for her jewels. As Mrs. Langham leaves the room, Nance confronts Herndon and accuses him of his perfidy in betraying his friend. Langham reads of Jerry's escape from jail and hastily changes his plans and returns home unexpectedly. Mrs. Langham on re-entering the library, questions Nance as to how she came there; she hears her husband's voice giving orders to a servant. She and Herndon are dumbfounded. Nance grasps the situation and takes the jewels from the wife's hands. She motions them to silence as Langham enters the room. He is surprised to see Nance and Herndon there so late at night, but before he can question his wife, Nance steps forward and tells him a plausible story which brands her as a thief, but clears Enid and Herndon. Langham is about to give Nance up to justice when his wife intercedes for her. He yields to her entreaties and leaves her alone with Nance. The wife begs Nance to accept recompense for her great service, but Nance at first refuses. When the wife urges her to take the money to start a new life, she consents, and upon her return home, she learns of Jerry's escape and that he is in waiting to see her. She goes to his hiding place, shows him the money, and tells him she earned it honestly and that they will use it for a new start on the straight road. Jerry acquiesces, and for the first time tells Nance of his love for her.
- DirectorLon ChaneyStarsJ. Warren KerriganVera SissonGeorge PeriolatWalter Jason, a young man from the country, comes to the big city to find a position, but fails to do so. Oswald Trumble, so known to society, though in reality a master crook, strolls through the park, his mind busy with a scheme to steal the jewels of Mrs. Crosby Moore, a leader of society, whose forthcoming fancy-dress ball is the talk of the town. As Trumble approaches the bench where Jason is seated, the young man arises, shows exhaustion and then slowly continues on his way. Struck with Jason's clean-cut appearance, Trumble follows the young man, trails him to the river, and prevents him from committing suicide. Later, we find Trumble and Jason, seated together in the grill of a hotel, the latter doing justice to a full meal, purchased by Trumble. Still later, we find Jason in Trumble's apartments, where the latter, under the guise of disinterested friendship, is urging the young man to exchange his shabby clothing for a more fashionable suit. Still later, Trumble introduces Jason into his social set, setting the young man's mind at rest with the explanation that he, Jason, can be of assistance in the disposition of certain bonds, securities, etc., in which Trumble deals. Jason accepts the explanation, also Trumble's money, and makes himself agreeable to those to whom he is introduced. In the course of events, Jason meets Mildred Moore, only daughter of the society leader whom Trumble has marked as his prey. Mutual attraction follows the meeting, though Jason, while recognizing the fact that Miss Mildred is partial to him, forbears from taking advantage of the situation. On the contrary, the crafty Trumble urges Jason to press his suit, for the master criminal knows that Jason's entree to the Moore home will give him the opportunity for which he is waiting. A week prior to the date of the fancy-dress ball, Jason received a card of invitation. He decides not to avail himself of the invitation. Trumble, in a rage, accuses Jason of ungratefulness. Whereupon Jason relents, and sends his acceptance. That night Trumble plans his coup. Thus Jason will be certain to stroll outside the country house with Mildred Moore. Some pretext will be invented whereby Jason will be called away from her, her abduction will follow, and another young woman, attired in Mildred's costume, or its duplicate, will be substituted in her place. Upon Jason's return, he will conduct his masked partner into the house, where, with the assistance of outside confederates, Mrs. Moore will be enticed upstairs and robbed of her jewels. Everything goes as planned, save that Jason, upon his return to the garden fails to see upon the arm of his partner a certain mole, to which, earlier in the evening he had referred as a "beauty spot." His suspicions aroused, Jason conducts his partner to the house, excuses himself, and loses no time in acquainting the detectives, who are present at Mrs. Moore's request, with his suspicions. The girl is caught, unmasked, given the third degree and forced to confess. A trap is set, and Trumble, with others of his gang, are captured. Jason forces Trumble to tell where Mildred is secreted and then rescues the frightened girl. Having returned the girl to her mother, Jason makes an honest confession, in which he accuses himself as the instrument, though an unwilling one, whereby Trumble was enabled to carry out his scheme. Mildred and her mother forgive him, however, and soon after the engagement of the young couple is announced.
- DirectorLon ChaneyStarsJ. Warren KerriganVera SissonJ. Edwin BrownVera Ronceval has been brought up in seclusion by her father, Amos Ronceval, a recluse. One day she meets Orthen Owen, an artist, and they fall in love. When Amos learns of this, he forbids Arthen to see his daughter, and in his rage suffers an attack of heart disease. Dying, he commits Vera to the care of her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, a lawyer. Mr. Ronceval takes Vera away with him to his city home. Arthen, unable to find further trace of Vera, falls upon evil ways, neglecting his art and finding forgetfulness in dissipation. Reduced to poverty, he makes a contract with Lee Varick, famous as an artist, whereby Arthen is to paint pictures, signing Varick's name to them. Varick has acquired his reputation by this traffic in the work of others. In the meantime, Vera has been living with her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, who is a friend of Varick's, and who greatly desires a match between Varick and Vera, Although Vera has never forgotten Arthen, she has, to please her cousin, conditionally consented to an engagement with Varick. One day Vera meets Arthen in his fallen condition, and learning the story of his fall, she tells him that she still loves him, and that she will break off her engagement with Varick. At the same time Arthen, obtaining a new lease upon his manhood, seeks Varick out to return the check just given him for the sale of his name and work to Varick. Vera calls upon Varick, tells him that she knows of his mode of obtaining fame and that she will not marry him. Varick, believing that he has her in his power, attempts to commit an assault upon her. Just then, Arthen, on his way to return Varick's check, hears Vera's cries for help and breaks into Varick's studio. He knocks Varick down and rescues Vera. He then takes her to her cousin, who, upon learning the whole story, gives his consent to the marriage of Vera and Arthen.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushMillard K. WilsonLon ChaneyKate Graham is the belle of Breathitt County, Kentucky. In love with her are two young mountaineers, Lafe Jameson, leader of the dread Jameson clan, and Dick Massey, a man of finer sentiments. Dick is trying to learn to read so that he can leave the hateful mountain country with its life of crime and poverty and go out into the world and make good. He necessarily carries on his studies in secret, however, as that sort of thing is discouraged in the mountains. One day Kate surprises him studying his primer and ridicules him. Dick is so hurt by her tirade that he hides his book under a log and temporarily abandons it. Proceeding on her way Kate comes across a real "Furriner," who is in the mountains spending her vacation. She saves him from being bitten by a snake, but when he tries to thank her, she runs away from him. He so impresses her that she is ashamed of her ignorance and slipping into the woods, steals Dick's books and begins the study of them. She can make no progress with the printed matter, but is delighted with the pictures. Later she meets the "Furriner" and they become very friendly. Lafe, becoming jealous of this friendship and mistaking Collins' sentiment, undertakes to whip the "Furriner." He meets with the surprise of his life and immediately changes his mind when he tries to put his plan in operation. Seeing that his attentions to the girl are likely to have a serious result and wishing to avoid it, Collins writes a curt note to Lafe, informing him of his disinterestedness in the girl and speaking of her ignorance and position in life in no uncertain tone. When the note is delivered to Lafe, he is with the girl, and she, thinking the note is for her, opens it. She is unable to read it and submits it to Lafe for perusal. He being unable to decipher it, takes it to Collins' camp and asks for a translation. He decides that the truth will be best and tells her the contents of the note. She flies into a rage. Meanwhile Lafe has called a meeting of the clan and convincing them that Collins is a Revenuer there to collect evidence, has them pass sentence of death upon him. The lot of executioner falls to Dick. He starts for Collins' camp and meets Kate, who tells him the tale of the "Furriner's" insult and declares her intention of killing him. Dick promises to settle with him and goes to the camp of the "Furriner." Arriving there he is struck with the sincerity of Collins' explanation and starts away from the camp. He is halted by the sound of a gunshot and looking back sees Collins writhing on the ground wounded. Dick confesses to the shooting when Lafe falsely accuses him, but luckily, Collins regains consciousness and explains that he accidentally shot himself. Hearing this and realizing the sincerity of his love, Kate surrenders to the faithful Dick and they study the primer together.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushLon ChaneyA crook and his pal are disturbed while attempting to rob a bank. The crook, fearing capture, leaves and takes up his residence in a western mining town where he meets the girl, the girl being one of those "Good Angels" that minister to the wants of others in distress. The crook assumes the guise of a minister of the gospel and owing to the good influence of the girl determines to shun all crime. He writes his pal to this effect but the pal, declining to accept the decision as final, comes to the town where the pseudo minister has chosen to stay and travel the "straight and narrow" path. The "stronger mind" is that of the second crook, who persuades the first to forego his good intentions and induces him to make an attempt to rob the local bank where the girl's father is employed as watchman. The denouement which results in the death of the second crook and the redemption by the girl of the weakling, who could not resist him, complete a perfect story of heart interest.
- DirectorLon ChaneyStarsJ. Warren KerriganVera SissonWilliam QuinnVera, an heiress, while on a trip to the seaside, sees and admires Jack, an oyster dredger. She takes a fancy to his mode of living and through her lawyer proposes to change places and life with him for a time, placing all her property in trust with her lawyer. Jack finally agrees to the proposition and is installed in the wealthy girl's home, while she takes up the work of an oyster dredger. Vera's lawyer plots to force the girl to marry him as he has absolute control of all her property and she cannot gain possession without his consent. Vera is indignant at the lawyer's presumption. Jack tires of the life which is so different from that to which he is accustomed and decides to go back to his dredger. In a saloon, he overhears the lawyer make an insulting remark about the wealthy girl helping the oyster dredger and is about to attack him, when the crooked lawyer steps backward and falls into the sea. Jack and Vera are reunited as the story ends.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsPauline BushLon ChaneyLydia Yeamans TitusNan Brenner is a toiler in one of the large department stores. Her mother, built on a large scale physically, virtually overawes the household. Her husband, failing to make a living in the past, she has taken in washing and forces him to do the labor. As a compensation for his work she gives him ten cents on every dollar that she makes. This sum immediately goes to swell the funds of the liquor trust. Jimmy Ford is a shipping clerk in a large wholesale house. Every evening he catches the car as it comes through the wholesale district and as the crowds usually get on downtown he always has a seat. He has noticed Nan many times and has offered his seat many times. She refuses each time. One rainy day he goes through the same routine and while waiting for Nan to take the seat, a laborer slips into it. Jimmy expostulates and a fight ensues, in which Jimmy throws the laborer out. Nan is weary and thankfully sinks into the disputed seat. When Nan goes to get off, she notices Jimmy has left his umbrella in the seat and takes it to him. He gets off with her and offers to share the umbrella with her. She at first refuses, and then reluctantly agrees. Jimmy gets a promise from Nan that she will go with him for a walk through the park the coming Sunday. At last the long awaited day arrives and the two lighthearted young folks set out. Passing several of her acquaintances. Nan hears them remark that she has a "steady." Near the zoo they see a poor drunken sot who is being baited by a crowd of boys. Nan, with horror, realizes it is her father. Jimmy, not knowing him, takes pity on him and runs the boys off and offers to take him home. Nan tells him it is her father and he tells to go on ahead that he will bring him home. Nan thinks her newly-found romance is over, for when they arrive home, Jimmy will see her home life as it really is. When Jimmy arrives home with the old man, his wife abruptly jerks him out of Jim's hands without even a word of thanks for his kindness. Nan has gone to her room and thrown herself sobbing upon the bed. As Jimmy starts to leave, he hears her and timidly knocks on her door. She bids him enter and he bashfully tells her that they had better go back and finish the rest of the peanuts he purchased. Out in the park later is found a young couple. The girl is shaking with sobs, while her protector has his arms around her vainly trying to soothe her. At last she raises her head and looks searchingly at him. Satisfied with her scrutiny, she surrenders into his eager embarrassed arms and as the story ends Jimmy takes his toll of kisses.
- DirectorLon ChaneyStarsLon ChaneyGretchen LedererWilliam QuinnPedro is a violin maker. One day while his talented ward, Marguerita, is playing on a new violin that Pedro has made, Maurice Puello, director of a theater, comes in with a violin of his own to have repaired. He hears the girl play and is enraptured. He persuades her to come to his theatre and give a rehearsal. She is shy at first, but Pedro, too, urges her to accept, and she agrees. Her first appearance is a great success, and Pedro in the audience, wildly applauds her. Pedro decides to make a special violin for her and lavishes his love and experience in the work of art for his sweetheart. At last the work is completed and he goes to the theater to give it to her. Waiting at the stage door, he sees Marguerita and Maurice come out arm in arm. He is overcome with jealousy and disguises himself as a blind beggar in order to watch the girl. One night as he is playing, Maurice and Marguerita come by and are attracted by the music. The girl immediately falls in love with the violin and they try to buy it, but he tells them he has made it for his sweetheart and refuses to sell. He shows it to them and they see an inscription on the back "to my Marguerita.'' Pedro, in anger, discloses his identity and furiously breaks the violin across his knees, throwing the pieces aside. One night Pedro wanders into a café in the Latin Quarter and while sitting at one of the tables, sees Marguerita come on the performers' stage and give a rehearsal. He calls one of the waiters to him and, giving him a coin, tells him to take it to the girl and request another performance. The girl asks who sent the coin and Pedro is pointed out to her. She is surprised, but consents and renders a very touching melody. She goes to the table where Pedro sits, still playing and asks for forgiveness. He is about to turn her aside when he notices that she has the violin he had made for her and then broken. He is overcome by the evidence of the girl's devotion to him and the two unhappy hearts are once more full of gladness.
- DirectorLon ChaneyStarsLon ChaneyT.D. CrittendenVera SissonBecause of the extravagance of his wife, Jim Mason's home is broken up and he becomes a thief. His first attempt at burglary nets him the famous Allison pearls and a most unexpected acquaintance with Florence Allison, whose home is about to be broken up through the neglect of her husband. Jim recalls his own lost happiness, and prompted by deep sympathy, he suggests a plan to restore her husband's love. In gratitude, Florence insists that Jim shall keep the pearls, which he does, only on condition that he shall return them in six months in case his plan shall have failed. The husband, upon returning after a night out with the boys, finds Florence bound and unconscious, and realizes that his neglect has placed her life in jeopardy. The shock rekindles his dormant love and Florence regains her happiness. The trust makes Jim face life from a new angle. To protect the pearls and make good his word of honor to a trusting woman becomes the ruling passion of his life. He faces and overcomes temptations to dispose of the pearls. Down on his luck, he drifts back to the old rendezvous, where one of the gang who has long suspected Jim has the pearls, determines to have them. In a fight which ensues Jim is injured and drags himself to the Allison home to redeem his pledge, as he believes his plan has failed. He finds Florence happy in the possession of her husband's love and receives from her his just reward.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsElsie Jane WilsonLule WarrentonLon ChaneyThe Gertz family lives in a tenement room; below them live the Coulahans, a crude family. Tom Coulahan loves Cora Gertz, but she doesn't like his family. She finally agrees to marry him and moves in with his whole family. When Tom's father dies, Tom becomes a drunkard, and when his mother dies, all the household duties fall upon Cora. Hans, a friend from Germany, comes to look after Cora. Tom tries to rob him. Cora takes medicine to commit suicide. Tom bullies her to help him rob Hans, but Tom fills the glass with Cora's suicide potion and drinks it down. Cora and Hans are happily reunited.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsArthur ShirleyLon ChaneyHelen LeslieJohn Sloan is sheriff of Long Butte. One day, while wandering about the countryside, he sees some bushes move. Thinking it is an animal, he fires and misses. Later he takes another shot and is more successful, knocking off the hat of a man in hiding. The man comes forth and tells the sheriff that he is called "Frenchy." The sheriff leaves him and starts to cross the stream nearby where he sinks up to his armpits in quicksand. He is saved by Frenchy, who tells the sheriff that he is a fugitive from justice and begs his protection. The sheriff realizes his debt to the criminal and takes him home, where he gives him the best in the house, telling him that he will give him shelter for the night and assist him out next morning. Years before the sheriff was in love with a French girl, but she was won over by the honeyed words of a Frenchman. Although he lost the girl, her likeness is always before him and he nightly dreams of what might have been. The Frenchman bunks in the next room of the sheriff's house, and on looking on a table nearby sees a picture of the girl of the sheriff's dreams. He recoils in superstitious horror for he sees the face of the wife he has murdered staring him in the face. The next morning the sheriff's deputies arrive, and tell him of the murder. Seeing "Frenchy," they recognize him as their man and capture him. The murderer pleads with the sheriff and so appeals to his honor that the sheriff, in order to pay his debt in full, allows him to escape, giving him five minutes' start.
- DirectorLon ChaneyStarsLon ChaneyGretchen LedererKatherine CampbellBy the flickering light of a candle an old peddler hides a bundle of bills in the chimney of his wretched hovel. In a house nearby Mary, a factory girl, lives with her invalid sister. Mary comes to the rescue of the old peddler when some boys in the neighborhood throw stones at him, an incident which earns the gratitude of the miser. Mary is saving her earnings to take her sister to a climate where she will recover from her malady. Mary goes to the bank to open an account and gets acquainted with Charles, the cashier. Charles is afflicted with a secret greed for money and as he handles the funds of the bank he suffers a great desire to take them. Mary's savings at the bank have grown to an amount sufficient to take her sister away, when the bank fails and it is announced that Charles, the cashier, has absconded. The old peddler sees Mary pounding on the doors of the bank. He hurries to his hovel, and gets the packages of bills from their hiding place and prepares to leave. Upon opening the door he is confronted by Mary, who is on her way home. Thinking he sees another vision, he staggers hack. Mary, thinking him ill, enters the hut and tries to assist him. The old man shows signs of insanity, and, throwing the bills on the table, tells her he has robbed the bank. He clutches at his hair and beard, and, tearing them off, reveals himself, Charles, the cashier. Mary is horror-stricken and pleads with him to restore the money to the poor. In delirium he gives her the money and tells her to take it to the bank. She leaves with it. Charles, in a frenzy, starts to pursue her to recover the money when an accusing vision of her appears near the door. He staggers back and over a chair, which he hurls through the vision. Hiding his face in his hands, he staggers to the wall, where he sinks to the floor and dies.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsCleo MadisonArthur ShirleyLon ChaneyDick Rance, forest ranger, incurs the everlasting hatred of Black Scotty, mountain renegade, when he arrests him for willful burning of forest land and game-killing out of season. Scotty vows vengeance. That same afternoon Rance rescues a girl whose canoe is overturned by her escort. To his surprise he discovers that the girl is Grace Milton, whom he was to have married, but whom he left when he found her in the arms of John Harding. Upon Grace's recovery she decides, still ignorant of the ranger's true identity, to reward her rescuer. Accordingly she goes on horseback to Rance's cabin. Harding follows her, fearful of a renewal of the engagement he so successfully severed. At the cabin the lovers meet. Grace finds Rance cold and unforgiving. Later Harding finds her and again presses his suit, but she denounces him and runs away. Harding meets Black Scotty, who, still determined to be revenged, is seeking an easy tool. It happens that the fires in Rance's district have been more frequent and dangerous than in any of the outlying districts, and he is warned that stricter vigilance must be exercised or a new man found for the post. Scotty steals and opens correspondence relating to this matter, in which he himself is accused of being the incendiary of these fires, and he sees a safe and sure way of removing his enemy and saving his skin. He lays the matter before Harding and they agree upon a plan. Grace writes to Rance, begging his forgiveness and asking him to meet her at Pine Cove. The letter written, her pride will not permit her sending it and it is thrown away. Harding recovers it and sees that it reaches Rance, who immediately rides to Pine Cove, where he is held up by Harding while Scotty lays the death trap and sets fire to the King Pine. Far across the lake, Rance sees the flames, and after a terrific struggle, escapes from Harding and reaches the fire in time to stop information reaching the next district in his absence. The fire is fought and conquered. Rance is rewarded for his bravery. Harding confesses to his deceit and the lovers are reunited.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsCleo MadisonArthur ShirleyLon ChaneyThe story is staged in an imaginary German principality. While working in the fields the wife is taken ill and her husband in leading her home passes the palace of the Duke of Safoulrug, on the grounds of which she sees the fleur de lis, and is so attracted by the flower that she can think of nothing but it for months after. When her baby girl is born there is a birthmark of the flower on her shoulder. The mother dies, and fifteen years later, Lisette, the baby girl, who has grown to be a charming young lady, is endowed by prenatal influence with a strong fascination for her mother's favorite flower. Passing the Duke's palace, she demands that her lover, Antoine, pluck one for her. As he is about to do so, the gardener, who ordered her mother away from the palace, demands that they move on, but Lisette manages to get a flower. This is witnessed by the young Duke, who says that she may possess it, notwithstanding the fact that it is a flower worn only by persons of royal blood. Lisette's father reprimands his daughter for taking the flower, and tells her the story of her mother. Lisette eventually marries the Duke, and although he is deeply in love with her she cares little for him save that by her marriage she is in possession of the fleur de lis. During a reception by the King, His Majesty becomes infatuated with Lisette and while dancing with her he takes her in his arms just as the Duke enters. The King extends his hand for the Duke to kiss. He obeys and subsequently goes into the garden where he commits suicide. The announcement does not affect the Duchess, and she is later installed in the King's palace as his mistress. His Majesty is taken ill and Antoine, who has become a famous surgeon, is to operate on him. Lisette is at the bedside of the King the next morning when the doctor arrives. Antoine does not recognize her, and she, puzzled, goes to her suite where she paces up and down for hours while the doctor is working on the King. The operation is a success, and Antoine carries the glad news to Lisette, who says she does not care, and puts her arms around the doctor. He throws her aside with the remark that the fleur de lis is between them. This enrages Lisette to such an extent that she burns her birthmark out with a hot iron. After a lapse of time Lisette is back with her father, and Antoine, feeling the power of love, also returns to the principality where, over the grave of Lisette's mother, a reconciliation is effected between Antoine and his sweetheart.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsCleo MadisonArthur ShirleyMary KearnenA fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsCleo MadisonLon ChaneyArthur ShirleyOld Ben Morrison and his daughter, Jen, an unsophisticated girl, live on an island not far from the mainland. Jasper Crane, middle-aged sensualist of the rougher type, bargains with Jen's father, in hopes of marrying and gaining possession of the girl. Morrison is willing, and explains that she is like her mother, who deserted her home and baby for a city man. Jen, hearing of her father's plan, makes her escape by swimming to the mainland, where she seeks protection from Mrs. Hilton and her daughter, Dorothy, members of a camping party. James Hilton, Dorothy's brother, falls in love with Jen. Kent, a refined sensualist of the party, covets the girl, but finds his plans checked at each turn by James. Knowledge of James' affection for Jen reaches his mother's ears, and she informs her daughter that things are going too far and the strange girl must go. Jen overhears the conversation between Mrs. Hilton and her daughter, and realizes that she is not wanted. Kent, noticing the girl's discomfiture, gives her a sum of money for expense and advises her to call at his office in the city, should she ever want for anything. Alice, Jen's mother, served for a time as the plaything of John Newton, the man with whom she ran away, but when he tired of her she drifted into a vulgar blasé set. Jen unable to secure work in the city, writes to Kent for aid. Kent is engaged to marry Dorothy Hilton and plans to celebrate the closing days of bachelorhood on board his palatial yacht. John Newton, who is just returning from an extended European trip, is also to be in the party. Kent and his cronies plan a surprise for Newton. Knowing his former relations with Alice Morison, they plan to have her as one of the party. At the party Alice is discovered by Newton and strange emotions surge in the breasts of the pair. At the height of the party Kent receives Jen's letter asking for aid and he plans to add to the zest of the party by showing them an unsophisticated girl. He accordingly sends for Jen. She arrives, and Alice recognizes her daughter, although she cannot reveal her true identity her child. Back in the offices of Kent and Hilton, who are partners, news comes of a financial crisis, and James Hilton leaves hurriedly to communicate with his partner aboard the yacht. When he finally arrives he is shocked to see Jen, plainly embarrassed, in the midst of the mad riot aboard the yacht. He takes her from the place, and Newton, seeing what Alice is undergoing, suffers a change of heart. He asks her for a chance to atone for the past, and begs her to lead a life worthy her of daughter, he to supply the means. Kent drops out of the party suddenly and hurries to the mainland. On the deck of the yacht alone, James and Jen plight their love anew. Alice, the result of her past sin apparent, sinks down overcome, while Newton endeavors to quiet her tumultuous emotions, realizing his own part in the tragedy so narrowly averted.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLon ChaneyArthur ShirleyMarcia MooreMelissa is mistreated by her stepfather but loved by her sweet heart Lon. One day a new schoolteacher arrive in the mountains town and all women fawn over him. Lon becomes jealousy and plans with the other men to make an attempt on the Teacher. But having a change of mind Lon get himself injured, but winning the Love of Melissa again.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsGrace ThompsonGretchen LedererLon ChaneyMrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question have never seen each other. Mrs. Burne-Smith thinks by making the brilliant match with wealthy Allen Winthrop she will be enabled to pay off some of her pressing debts. Enid Burne-Smith has a mind of her own, and has often had thoughts of a handsome lover who would carry her off despite her protests. Naturally she does not fall in with her mother's plans and it takes quite an argument before she is brought "in line." Allen Winthrop has just returned from abroad and views with amusement the efforts of his mother to try and win him to assent to the matchmakers' plans. He finally agrees to accompany his mother that night to the Burne-Smiths. Allen has received an anonymous letter stating that the agent who is in charge of one of his tenements is a crook. He decides to investigate the matter. Allen and his mother arrive at the Burne-Smiths and are delayed waiting for Enid She has flatly refused to meet Allen, and, after tying the maid up, makes her escape and finally ends up in a tenement house, where she gets rooms. The next day Allen disguises himself and secures rooms in his own tenement. This is the same place where Enid is staying, and she has become acquainted with Mabel and her sweetheart, George. Enid secures work and Mabel helps her. Every evening after work, the girls are met by their lovers and Enid sighs as she thinks she has no one to look after her. Enid notices that the landlord is familiar with Mabel and later finds that the girl has coaxed him to put off collecting the rent. With the rent money she has been buying clothes with which to get married. She and Allen meet several times and are mutually attracted. George has noticed Martin, the landlord, around Mabel, and has told her to "cut him off" her calling list. She tells of her indebtedness to him to Enid, and the latter pawns her last piece of jewelry to secure funds with which to release Mabel from the landlord's clutches. Martin comes to the girl's room and, while they are arguing, George and Allen come to the door demanding entrance. Mabel has refused to let Enid pay her rent and when she hears George at the door, she is frightened and persuades Martin to hide in the closet. George sees the money on the floor and is still suspicious. Martin then comes out of hiding, claims the money, and says that he bought the dresses for the girl. Enid, seeing that the love between George and Mabel is about to be broken up, takes all the blame and says the dresses are hers. George takes Mabel in his arms and tells her that she had better quit going with Enid. Allen is very much disappointed in the girl and leaves her. too. Enid then determines to return home and forget her little adventure. Allen places George in charge of his tenement, discharging Martin. Allen then tries in vain to find some trace of Enid. He and his mother are invited to the Burne-Smiths for dinner and he listlessly goes with her. The two mothers are delighted when Enid and Allen meet. The two stare at each other like long lost friends. The plans of the two matchmakers have been more than fulfilled, and as the story ends, Enid and Allen are planning their honeymoon.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsGretchen LedererLon ChaneyArthur ShirleyThera Dufre, a former member of a foreign secret service bureau and now in hiding from the government agents, receives a mysterious letter ordering her to take a certain sealed packet, which she has in her possession, to an appointed meeting place and deliver it to DeSerris, a member of the service, whom she has never seen. In the same city is living a Mrs. Irving, who bears a likeness to the secret service woman. DeSerris, who is to identify Thera by a photograph, waits at the appointed place and, by accident, Mrs. Irving passes. DeSerris accosts her and demands the packet, but, of course, being ignorant of the entire affair, she tells him that he has mistaken her for someone else. DeSerris believes that she has determined not to give up the packet and forces his way into her auto. Thera, who arrives just in time to see DeSerris' mistake, decides to escape from the city. Fortunately for Mrs. Irving, the auto arrives home and she escapes from the car before DeSerris can harm her. Irving, a very jealous man, sees DeSerris follow her from the car and refuses to accept his wife's explanations that the man mistook her for someone else. That evening as Mrs. Irving is putting their little daughter to bed, the child pleads for her doll which she had left in the summer house. Mrs. Irving goes to get it and is accosted by DeSerris, who is on the premises and who again demands the packet. They are seen by Irving who goes after them with a gun. DeSerris conceals himself and Mrs. Irving tries to wrest the gun from her husband. In doing so, the gun is discharged, and their child, who had decided to get the doll herself, is hit Thera, on the way to the depot to catch her train, is struck by the Irving's auto carrying the child to the hospital, and, although not seriously hurt, Irving sends her back to his house in care of the butler, who is in the auto. Irving notices the resemblance of the woman to his wife. Arriving at the hospital the child is rushed to the operating table. Thera is taken to the Irving home, but feeling that she is able to proceed to the depot, is on the point of leaving when she sees Mrs. Irving and recognizes her. The servants leave the room and Thera is on the point of fleeing when through a window. DeSerris enters the library. Mrs. Irving confronts him when he again demands the packet. Thera watches from her place of concealment. Mrs. Irving struggles with him when he threatens to shoot her and Thera kills him with a shot from her revolver. Mrs. Irving collapses in a dead faint. Locking the doors to bar out the servants, Thera sees a chance to escape the consequences of the crime, and places the gun beside the unconscious form of Mrs. Irving and is on the point of leaving through the window when the phone rings. To allay suspicion Thera answers the phone and over the wire comes Irving's voice saying that the child will recover and begging forgiveness for his jealousy. Realizing that Mrs. Irving would be torn away from her family and found guilty of the crime, Thera decides to remain and accept the penalty. Unlocking the door she admits the frightened servants and tells of the killing. Then she waits calmly for the arrival of the officers.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDigby BellLouise LovelyHarry HamLemuel Morewood is a wealthy businessman to whom riches bring no pleasure because he has entirely lost the sympathy of his sons, for whom he lives. Billy is society-mad and completely enthralled by Mrs. Bruce Guilford, a leader of the smart set. Tom thinks of nothing but sports; he is an amateur athlete of national prominence. Lemuel longs to see the boys interested in the business. He especially wants Tom to marry Frances Berkeley and Billy to marry Emily Donelson. But the boys will have none of them. Bessie Brayton is a Western orphan who has come to New York and taken up society entertaining for a living. Her only property is a half-interest in the Bluebird mine, which she supposes is worthless. One evening, the Morewoods employ Bessie to entertain at an exclusive dinner they are giving, and here she meets Major Bellamy Didsworth, who offers to sell her half-interest for her. Lemuel has run away from this dinner. But, goaded by Bessie's taunts that he is old-fashioned, he gets into his evening clothes and enters into the gambling that follows. Bessie encourages him and he cleans up on Didsworth, as the others look on, staggered by his plunging. Leaving them dazed, Lemuel makes a spectacular exit with Bessie to "blow his winnings." Lemuel keeps up the pace he has set. He goes to the races and there his conduct is so riotous, and his followers, Bessie and a sporting man, so conspicuous, that Mrs. Bruce Guildford is scandalized. She criticizes Lemuel to his son. Billy defends his father, and the quarrel results in a complete break. Bessie has a telegram from Didsworth saying he can get $1,000 for her stock. Lemuel suspects that Didsworth is planning to rob her and takes the matter into his own hands. He and Bessie go out to Nevada together. Lemuel's sons think he has run away to get married to Bessie, and they follow, with Emily, Frances, and Ford, the family lawyer. Out in Nevada, Lemuel and Bessie find that her half of the Bluebird is worth at least $75,000, and they discover that the other half is owned by Carl Higbee, Bessie's old sweetheart who disappeared in Alaska. On the way to Nevada, Tom becomes engaged to Emily and Billy to Frances, which is exactly contrary to what Lemuel planned. They arrive in time to stop the wedding, as they think, and are mortified to learn that they are all wrong, and that Bessie is to be married to Higbee. Lemuel is delighted that his sons are bringing the girls into the family, although they have shifted partners. Lemuel agrees to go back and help the boys run the business.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyMillard K. WilsonArthur ShirleyJune Lathrop, an orphan under the guardianship of Rupert Spaulding, a rejected suitor of her now-deceased mother, meets John Henshaw, a young surgeon just home from college. Their attraction is mutual. June learns of the love her guardian bears for her. He tells her how he loved her mother in her youth, but delayed his proposal so long that she at length married Tom Lathrop, June's father. He tells June of her mother's dying wish that he care for her, which request he has so faithfully fulfilled through all the years. He now asks June to allow him to care for her all through life. She is at first inclined to refuse, but realizing his true love for her, she finally consents. Spaulding does not live long and just before his death he enacts a promise from June that she will never marry again, having her make a written promise to that effect, which is filed with the other legal papers of the estate. Henshaw calls after Spaulding's death and again pleads his love, only to learn of June's promise. Spaulding's spirit hovers about his wife and she becomes a victim of sleepwalking. One night she falls from a balcony while asleep and suffers concussion of the brain. It happens that Henshaw, now a celebrated surgeon, receives the case and he sees that a very delicate and dangerous operation is necessary. While under the influence of the anaesthetic, June's spirit meets that of her dead husband. He tells her that he has witnessed her intense suffering and offers to free her from her promise. In spirit she follows him to the vault where me papers are laid, extracts the copy of June's written promise and it becomes ashes before her eyes. He then bids her an affectionate farewell and says she will never be troubled by him again. Meanwhile, Henshaw and his assistants have been working feverishly to revive June from the influence of the anaesthetic. They finally bring her to consciousness. She does not know whether it was all a dream or a spiritual reality. She orders her lawyers to bring her the package of documents; upon opening it the lawyer and all present are dumbfounded to find that the topmost slip which formerly bore the promise in June's handwriting is indeed ashes. June now realizes that her dream has been a reality and that she is now free to marry the man she loves.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyHayward MackMarjorie EllisonA journalist is reluctant to ruin a woman's reputation for the sake of a juicy story.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyLon ChaneyGrace ThompsonIn pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in care of one of her sister's slaves.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyAgnes VernonLon ChaneyMontgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, makes a hobby of befriending everybody upon whom he can intrude his good offices. Thus occupied, he neglects his wife considerably, and she in turn gives her entire attention to household duties. Vera Lane is a rich widow with whom Ernest Courtney is in love but too bashful to pursue. Mrs. Hammond comes to Seaton in distress with the story that some years earlier, she left home with a married man and lived with him for several months. Upon discovering that she had been deceived, she returned home and later wed John Hammond. Some weeks after her marriage, her husband was called away on a business trip; while he was gone Mrs. Hammond became the mother of a child, the result of her conduct previous to her becoming Mrs. Hammond. She concludes with the statement that the nurse who has always secretly cared for her child has just died and that the child must be provided with a home. Seaton goes to Hammond and relates a story which in substance makes Seaton the child's parents, and induces Hammond to adopt the child; thus Mrs. Hammond receives into her own home the child of her illicit adventure. Later Mrs. Hammond writes to Seaton, telling that the child safely arrived in her home, and further makes clear the unfortunate condition under which the baby was born. By mistake Seaton gives the note to Hammond; upon reading it, Hammond concludes that Seaton played a trick on him and induced him to adopt the issue of an affair between Mrs. Hammond and Seaton. That very night, while attending a reception, Hammond discovers Seaton and Mrs. Hammond in confidential conversation. Hammond shoots, but the bullet strikes Mrs. Hammond, who has thrown herself in front of Seaton to protect him. Coincident with these details, Seaton undertakes to present Ernest Courtney's love affair to Vera Lane, the widow, in convincing fashion. While progressing with this purpose. Mrs. Seaton becomes suspicious of her husband and is doubly mystified when she sees him carrying the child to Mrs. Hammond's home. Since she witnessed Mrs. Hammond's shooting and is a friend of all the concerned parties, the widow attempts to straighten the various entanglements, and succeeds so well that the Seatons reconcile, as do the Hammonds, after Mrs. Hammond has told her husband of her past.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyLon ChaneyLule WarrentonAn unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond). Louise Lovely plays two parts: Giovanni's wife Leonita, who comes to grief when Cyrus falls in love with her; and Giovanni's daughter Elisa, whose beauty brings a horrific resolution to the two families' woes.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLouise LovelyLon ChaneyJay BelascoYoung ballet dancer Bobbie Brent has lost her parents and must care for herself and her younger brother and sister. To keep the children, she pretends that they are her own children and not her siblings. Jack Stinson, her boyfriend, is aghast at this deception and breaks up with her. However, Jack's old girlfriend Velma is still jealous of Bobbie and comes up with a scheme to get rid of her once and for all so she can have Jack all to herself.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsC. Norman HammondJay BelascoLouise LovelyA young author is so overjoyed at selling her first book that she unknowingly signs over all her rights to the greedy publisher. Later, after the book becomes a best-seller, the publisher's nephew (who has fallen in love with her) tries to help her get her rights back.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLon ChaneyDorothy PhillipsFrank WhitsonDick Temple is serving a five-year prison sentence because he took the blame for a robbery his father committed. His father promises to go straight, but the old man dies two years later, before he can reveal Dick was Innocent.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsHelen LeslieFrank WhitsonA pacifist mother tries to protect her son, whose patriotism makes him want to enlist in the army. Her uncle, a doctor, has invented a heart medication which mimics heart disease. Just a drop or ten in her son's drink should keep him home.
- DirectorGeorge FelixStarsGeorge FelixEva LoringLon ChaneyFelix goes to work on the fatal morn that is the time setting of this film. He finally gets to his work after taking a forced ride on a moving "dolly." His work for that day consists of shingling a roof belonging to Tad. He goes to work and makes a mess of the whole affair, and then gets into a quarrel with Tad and his two boys. He finally sets fire to the house and then when it all collapses is thrown into the nearby river. But that is not the end, as he manages to throw the whole tribe of Tad into the river for revenge. This is not all that happens in this little comic classic, but in any case it is enough to know that in the end Felix comes to grief.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsJack MulhallLon ChaneyPriscilla Glenn is a product of the woods, a wild, impulsive, nature-loving child. Her father is her antithesis, seeing none of the beauties of nature, thinking women only creatures to be browbeaten. Between her mother and herself there existed a strong bond of love and understanding, understanding that they were companions in the same misery and unhappiness. Priscilla had to fight for an education. At last, through the efforts of Anton Farwell, the schoolmaster, Priscilla had the opportunity of beginning her education. For a rest there came to the spot Mrs. Travers and her crippled boy, Dick, and later a specialist, Dr. Leydward, who was to eventually straighten the crooked limbs of the boy. Priscilla and Dick met and a romance between the two was begun. Jerry Jo, a half-breed, coveted the girl, and lured her to a house on the hill where there was a library. Although the girl was as sweet and pure when she returned home the next day her father sent her from his roof. Priscilla went to her only friend, Anton Farwell, and together they started for a new country. For Farwell was hiding from the world. In the long ago he had loved Joan Moss, and for the love of her killed the brother of Dr. Leydward. Before Priscilla and Farwell had gone far he received word that he must choose the alternative of living buried in the woods or in prison. So Priscilla went on to find her way alone in the big city with the mission to look for Joan. Priscilla devoted her life to the care of the sick, and so once more she and Dick Travers met, and worked hand in hand for suffering humanity. It was thus that she knew Dr. Leydward and his daughter, Margaret, who was to wed Clyde Hunter. One day as Priscilla was strolling in the park she saw Jerry Jo, now a nondescript beggar. Towards him she bore no malice, but a strong desire to make life happier. On following Jerry Jo to the tenement room he called home, some of the inmates mistook her for an angel of mercy for a dying woman, who was none other than Joan. From her lips she learned that the crippled child belonged to the affianced of Margaret Leydward, and also secured Farwell's exoneration. She showed Leydward and Margaret the true type of the man the latter was about to marry. Then she wandered back to the "place beyond the wind" to find comfort and peace. She found that her mother had died and her father had been stricken blind and still refused to own her as his own flesh and blood, and a second time sent her from his home. And then, crushed and wounded, she again found solace in her old friend, Anton Farwell, who a short time previous had returned to his home. To Farwell she told of the finding of Joan, but left with him his ideal of her, of her trueness and worth of trust. Priscilla returned once more to her little sanctuary in the woods, where she had erected her own altar to her own God, and where, too, she first met Dick. And there he found her. For realizing his love for her, he had followed her to the "place beyond the wind" and for a second time, with his old violin he started a new spark in the life of tho one woman, the one whom he would cherish and love and protect as long as time went on.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMurdock MacQuarriePauline BushLon ChaneyLon is a member of the Northwest Mounted and is in love with a little girl of the woods. He is accused of a breach of duty and rather than have the morale of the corps suffer he submits to the false evidence. Later he is vindicated.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsVola ValeJack MulhallA woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child. A copy exists in the Archives du Film du CNC according to the American Silent Feature Film Survival Database.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsMaude GeorgeLon ChaneyAfter divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites her to lunch, setting gossipy tongues-wagging. The news reaches his devoted wife who has discovered she is pregnant. She confronts the ex-wife who agrees to never see Ralph again and marries another admirer. Devasted, Ralph decides to kill himself ,luckily he is found in time by the doctor with the good news of the birth of his child. Ralph regains his senses and the couple are happily reunited.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam StowellLon ChaneyOliver Curwell disowned his son Roger because he declined to abandon art and go into business, Roger gradually drifted from bad to worse until he was a derelict on the streets of San Francisco. In his art-student days a girl of the name of Olga had shown interest in him, believing he would inherit his father's millions, but when he was cast off the girl abandoned her pretense of affection. One evening Roger wanders into "Sailor's Rest," a saloon and dance hall run by "Hell" Morgan. A work of art hanging behind the bar Roger denounced as a "daub." Morgan resented this remark and was beating Roger when Lola saved his life by her interference. Morgan's daughter continued to befriend Roger and finally prevailed upon her father to give Roger the job of playing the piano in the dance hall. Roger painted Lola's portrait and they fell in love with each other. Sleter, a tough politician, objected, for the reason that he coveted Morgan's daughter. Olga leads a party of friends to "Sailor's Rest" on a slumming tour. She sees Roger at the piano and sends for him, as she reads in the newspapers of the death of Oliver Curwell, who willed his millions to his son. Roger joins Olga's party, and the old days are recalled. He forgets his love for Lola, and makes advances which Olga reciprocates. Lola goes to the party of slummers, and takes physical toll of both Roger and Olga. As a result Roger leaves "Sailor's Rest" and Lola resigns herself to Sleter. But when he attempts to collect his reward, Lola rebels and resists his advances. The tumult in Lola's room attracts "Hell" Morgan. He dashes upstairs, and in an encounter with Sleter is shot and mortally wounded. Lola drives Sleter from her room and escapes, dragging her father down a fire escape. Hardly have they reached the ground when San Francisco's earthquake and fire break loose. "Sailor's Rest" tumbles in a burning heap. Helping her father, Lola reaches the Presidio, where refugees are assembling. Her father is near death and she seeks a doctor in the crowd. Roger has been drawn back to "Sailor's Rest" by his love for Lola, and when he finds the place in ruins he likewise wends his way to the Presidio. Fate brings them together as "Hell" Morgan dies.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsLon ChaneyPauline BushCarlotta and her old father, struggling for an existence, are befriended by Marino, a hardened character of the underworld. Marino, under the guise of friendship, misleads Carlotta, who puts up a brave fight. She is rescued by Peter, an old friend who happens to come on the scene. In the meantime Carlotta's father, learning of Marino's perfidy, swears vengeance. He soon finds Marino and a fight follows. Marino is about to stab Carlotta's father when he is subdued by Peter. Peter and Carlotta are now happily married and lay plans for a happy future.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam StowellLon ChaneyMary and Fannie Graham are forced to live with their criminal father when their mother dies. Mary flees, but Fannie remains with her father and is reared as a thief, becoming known as "Flash" Fan.
- DirectorIda May ParkStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam StowellLon ChaneyJack Lane, a young nature photographer, goes to the mountains to experiment with his new flashlight process that will automatically photograph the passage of any bird or wild animal. While asleep one night, Jack is awakened by gunshots and soon after discovers that his camera has registered a picture of a woman fleeing carrying a shotgun. Curious, he visits the cabin of Porter Brixton, the murdered man, and is arrested for the crime. Managing to escape, Jack meets Delice Brixton, the woman whose likeness developed from the plate. They both suspect each other of the crime, but Jack is recaptured and brought to trial. At the hearing, when the dead man's half brother, Henry Norton, appears and admits killing Brixton in self-defense, Jack is acquitted.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam StowellLon ChaneyNora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- DirectorIda May ParkStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam StowellLon ChaneyDreading the drab and loveless factory life that she sees all around her, Madge Garvey refuses the marriage proposal of factory foreman John Blake, a rough but honest man, fearing that he will degenerate into the brutal drunk that her father Joe has become. Instead, Madge takes stenographer Cora Hayes' advice and seeks work in the big city. Arriving in the city, Madge accepts a job as a model for women's underwear but is shocked at the brevity of the garments as well as the duties expected of her beyond those of posing. Only Blake's timely arrival preserves her innocence, and after the foreman proves that he can be loving, Madge agrees to loving him.