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- DirectorStuart PatonStarsAllen HolubarDan HanlonEdna PendletonA French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- DirectorEugene NowlandStarsJohn LehnbergKathryn AdamsRobert WhittierIn a little Western mining camp a man works day after day at his claim to win riches for his adored wife--who is dissatisfied with her lot in life and sees her husband as an impractical dream. The tempter appears to this young, attractive, discontented wife as a you Easterner who comes to the mining town in search of fortune. The miner welcomes the new arrival and gives him work on his claim. Gold is discovered, and the newcomer is made a partner in the claim and sent to register it in the name of his benefactor and himself. The miner does not know that the young Easterner has paid attentions to the wife, fanning her discontent and telling her how happy she would be if she would only divorce her husband and go away with him. In the mining town the man from the East registers the claim in his name alone, and sells it at once to the proprietor of a dance hall. This man, with a number of hired thugs, goes to the mining claim and takes possession, driving off the indignant husband. When the miner demands by what right he dares to seize the claim, the dance-hall owner shows him the registry deed and a receipt from the Easterner. Then, for the first time, the truth dawns upon the miner. He runs to his cabin to tell his wife the news, and finds her gone. A note tells him that she has left with the other man and intends to secure a divorce and marry him. Stopping at a nearby town, the angry husband overtakes the fugitives and a fierce fight ensues. A blow from the Easterner's pistol butt sends him to the ground unconscious. Then the wife and the Easterner board a train for the east, while the unconscious miner is carried back to his cabin. In the East the wife secures a divorce from her husband and marries the other man. As the years pass the banker's wife learns her husband's true character. The desire for revenge has become almost an obsession with the miner, and when he is able to dispose of the timber lands he owns he leaves for the East. When he arrives in New York he discovers that his former partner is visiting a friend in the Adirondacks, so he goes there and hires a cabin where he can watch the banker and plan his vengeance. The opportunity comes soon. The banker's host gives a handsome entertainment to his guests. While the gaiety is at its highest, a stern-faced man lurks outside the house. Twice he raises his rifle to fire, and each time stays his hand, for if he pressed the trigger he would have killed his wife. As the banker stands alone, a groom sees the figure with the leveled rifle and springs upon him. The muscular miner easily overpowers the servant and escapes. Several days later the banker's little daughter rides off through the snow-covered mountains. Night is falling when the riderless horse returns to the stable. The miner found the child, sick and delirious, in the snow, cared for her and decided to bring her up in ignorance of her real parentage. The former miner prospers. Tempted to recoup his losses by using the funds entrusted to his care, the banker is arrested and sentenced to prison. Several years later, the former banker's wife is sent to a wealthy home where she was told that a housekeeper was wanted. In the owner of the handsome mansion she recognized her first husband. Gradually the heiress becomes attached to the housekeeper. The convicted banker escapes from prison and in his desperation appeals to his wife. She aids him. As he leaves he is seized. In the struggle that follows he is killed. The girl never learns that her father is slain by officers of the law, and the true story of her life is never told to her, for her foster father marries his housekeeper.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsGertrude SelbyThomas JeffersonPaul ByronCarlotta lives with Giuseppe a violinist, in "Little Italy." the Italian quarter of a great city. With Rags, a monkey, they earn a livelihood playing on the streets. One day Tom, a wealthy chap, is attracted to the girl and asks her to dance at a charity ball, giving her his card and the date. But Giuseppe drags the girl away. Tom and his friend follow them home, but they are seen by Giuseppe, who tells Michael Gavotti, a leader of Black Handers, and his master. Gavotti threatens Giuseppe if he allows Tom to see the girl again. He also tells two of his men to watch the place. While Giuseppe is absent, Tom appears and persuades Carlotta to come to the charity dance. He is seen by Tony, a fruit vendor. In love with Carlotta, and jealous of her, Gavotti's men also see him and are ordered to abduct the girl. Giuseppe returns, finds her gone, and informs Tony. The two are heart-broken. Tony learns that Carlotta is not Giuseppe's daughter. Giuseppe happens to see the monkey, "Rags," near a building and with the aid of Tony he manages to rescue the girl. It is the night of the Charity Ball and Carlotta pleads to be allowed to go and finally Giuseppe consents, if Tony accompanies her. Judge Andrews and his wife have received word from the Black Handers that their granddaughter, held in custody, would be returned upon receipt of a sum of money. Their daughter ran away with an Italian count, and, dying, had left the granddaughter in care of an Italian friend, the father having died some time before. On the night of the charity dance the Black Hand promised to return the girl. Andrews attends the ball, intending to slip away at the appointed time. When Gavotti cannot find the girl, he goes with his men to Giuseppe's room, where they find the old man packing. Not until after they have tortured him does he reveal that Carlotta has gone to the charity ball, where the Judge and his wife are startled by her resemblance to their daughter. Carlotta goes into the garden and is abducted by Gavotti. Tom, Tony and the Judge take up the chase, which ends in Gavotti's quarters. Most of the gang, including Gavotti, are killed. The Judge and Tom take the girl home. Mrs. Andrews is overjoyed at having Carlotta safe. She marries Tom. On her return from the honeymoon she seeks out Giuseppe and Tony, who rejoice with her.
- DirectorLloyd IngrahamStarsMae MarshRobert HarronJennie LeeWhen the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in court, the boy's mother asks the judge for mercy, but he refuses. In retaliation, the family kidnaps the judge's young daughter and raises her to be one of their own, schooling her in the ways of crime. One day she steals a valuable pin from a young American artist; he catches her, but an attraction develops between them--and her "Apache" family is not happy about it.
- StarsMae Marsh
- DirectorCharles M. SeayStarsMuriel OstricheEdwards DavisJack HopkinsCircus dancer Babette learns from Zaidee, her fortune-teller mother, that her father is the respected businessman Ezra Butterworth, who had deserted Zaidee years before and then remarried. After Zaidee dies, Babette goes to live with Ezra, but he is so fearful that his second wife, as well as the townspeople, will learn of his less-than-upright past that he takes her in as his ward and forbids her to mention their real relationship. Still, gossip begins, and Ezra is forced to tell the whole story to his wife, who forgives him. Disgusted by the intolerant townspeople, Babette returns to the circus, as well as to her sweetheart Petey. In the end, Ezra publicly acknowledges her as his daughter and presents Babette and Petey with a farm as a wedding present.
- DirectorDell HendersonStarsIrene FenwickOwen MooreEva FrancisAmong the younger members of the select families of the "Avenue," are Pete Milholland, a "good fellow" and sportsman, and his fiancée, Alice Gardner. Only once have they quarreled, that was when Pete disgraced himself by coming upon the polo fields intoxicated. This was good cause, and we now find Peter staring blankly ahead of him with the returned ring in his hand. Still in a stupor from drink, Pete instructs his butler that he is leaving for Europe and staggers out of the house. He finds himself on the shores at Coney Island, in a garb not his own. During his wanderings in the amusement park, Pete comes before the entrance of the "Turkish Dream." Partially attracted by the pretty dancer and chiefly in need of sleep, he smuggles himself into the place. He has come at the psychological moment, for the proprietor, Mooney, and his daughter, Tessie, the dancer, are in a quandary. Their orchestra, the pianist, has left them. Pete steps into the breach, much to the jealousy of Jan, the boatman, Tessie's ardent lover. As time passes Pete decides to return home, taking with him Tessie and her father. The jovial Irishman and his daughter dislike the idea of leaving their "kind," but with the arrival of the automobile they agree to go. Tessie is taken care of by Pete's aunt, who would rather do most anything than come in contact with the belle of Coney Island. Her arrival causes consternation in society circles and it is realized by Pete that she is not suitable for him, but he is determined to marry her, as Alice, according to the papers, is going to become the wife of his friend, Tony Graves. During her stay at the Milholland mansion Tessie notices how Pete controls his feelings when Alice approaches, and how Alice's heart nearly breaks when the two girls meet. Alice and Pete finally come face to face, and Pete learns that the newspaper report of Alice's marriage to Tony was false. He takes her in his arms, and thus they are discovered by Tessie. Summoning all her strength and forcing a smile upon her face, Tessie tells them that she lied and does not love Pete at all, and returns her ring. Pete is overcome to think that he was on the verge of falling into the trap set by this young "vampire," while Alice is overjoyed at the unexpected turn of events, though secretly feeling that Tessie is making a great sacrifice. After Tessie's return to her kingdom on the beach, "The Turkish Dream," true love steals its way into her heart as it had done to Alice and Pete, and soon Jan proves to be her ideal of a husband.
- DirectorCharles MillerStarsBessie BarriscaleCharles RayMargery WilsonWhen a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. He gets far more than he bargained for when a beautiful Irish colleen catches his eye.
- DirectorFred J. BalshoferStarsMarguerite SnowFrank BaconZella CaullPeggy Ainslee, the daughter of a wealthy broker, tires of the empty life of society, and determines on a mission of charity and uplift in the poor quarters of New York City. She confers with Charles Hathaway, a settlement worker, who conducts her on several tours among the needy. Peggy is engaged to marry Algie Sherwood, a social idler, and it is arranged to announce their engagement at a birthday party given in her honor. Isabelle Rawlston is also in love with Sherwood, and determines to break up his match with Peggy. On the night of the birthday party Isabelle intimates to Sherwood that Peggy's interest in Hathaway is one other than charity. He becomes jealous and tells Peggy she must give up her settlement work. She refuses and returns the engagement ring. Peggy receives from her father, for her birthday gift, stock in Consolidated Cotton, valued at $50,000. This she puts away, intending to use it in her charities. The next day her father tells her that he has just learned of the deplorable financial conditions among the owners of the cotton mills in the south, and that he has written to Colonel Robert Carter, one of the big cotton growers, and offered to aid him. Colonel Carter, who is proud and haughty, becomes indignant when he receives the letter from the Wall Street broker, and turns down his proffer of assistance. This puzzles Peggy, and she decides to go south and investigate conditions at first hand. Arriving in the south she obtains a position as a mill hand. Her beauty attracts the attention of the foreman in the Carter mill, and he tells Peggy she must remain after work, as he wishes to see her. He attempts to force his attentions upon her, and a struggle ensues. John Carter, son of the owner, enters at the critical moment and rescues Peggy. The foreman is discharged and the gallantry of young Carter makes an appeal to Peggy. The boll weevil is discovered in the cotton, and this, together with a shortage in the crop, threatens ruin for Colonel Carter. For the second time be refuses financial aid from Peggy's father, and the broker decides to crush him by cornering the cotton market. Peggy learns of her father's manipulations and hurries to New York. With her $50,000 worth of stock for a nucleus she begins a fight on the exchange, in which she is triumphant over her father. He is dumbfounded when he learns the identity of his antagonist. Peggy explains the hardships he would have worked among the mill hands had he been successful. She induces him to take a trip south with her, when they meet the Carters. The two men profit through the meeting, and come to a complete understanding on economic questions and conditions. Young Carter learns that Peggy was the one that "broke"' the corner and saved his family from ruin. The two decide to exchange cotton bolls for orange blossoms.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsAnnette KellermanWilliam E. ShayHal De ForestA sultan agrees to help a wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary Miles MinterDodo NewtonLizette ThorneDuring a jewelry-store holdup, 6-year-old Millicent Hawthorne, the neglected daughter of a wealthy socialite, falls on her head and is carried home to be reared by Mother Gumpf, the leader of the thieves. The fall cost Millicent her memory, but at night she dreams of her former high-society existence, while during the day she works for Gumpf as a pickpocket and later becomes a cabaret dancer. A friend of the Hawthornes sees Millicent perform, recognizes her, and reports back to Mrs. Hawthorne, who has vowed to be a devoted mother should she ever find her daughter. Finally, after the Hawthornes rescue Millicent from Kraft, the lecherous cabaret manager, an operation restores her memory, and she delights in the love of her long-lost mother.
- DirectorIvan AbramsonStarsJoseph BurkePaula ShayJ.J. ClarkRetired banker Daniel Morgan lives with his wife Paula and their daughter June, who is married to experimental scientist John Lansing. June gives birth to a daughter while Paula is on her deathbed; Paula's last wish is that her granddaughter be named for her and that Daniel present her $50,000 necklace to the girl on her wedding day. Morgan promises to carry out her wish. She dies. For five years, Morgan finds consolation in faithful devotion to the welfare of his daughter and her family. One day he takes them to Atlantic City for a rest. There, induced by June, Morgan visits Maxine, a clairvoyant, who predicts tor him a second marriage to a young woman "who will make his life an earthly paradise." Morgan succumbs to the clairvoyant's wiles, and the next day June finds her father in Maxine's company. Meanwhile, June's husband meets with an accident in New York and June returns to him; Morgan stays in Atlantic City, stating that he has an important "business engagement"--and marries Maxine. Two days later, he brings his wife home. June gives her a cool reception, and as time passes the women become bitter enemies. Later, Maxine persuades Morgan to give her the necklace bequeathed to June's daughter; when June sees it around Maxine's neck, her anger knows no bounds. Maddened with fury, June tears the jewel from the charlatan's throat. Morgan, entering the scene, heeds his wife's reproaches, and in frenzied rage orders June and her husband and daughter from his home. When the governess 30 years in Morgan's service rebukes him for his heartless conduct and warns him that "he is living in a fool's paradise," she too is ordered from the house. June, now living in a cheap boardinghouse with her family in poverty, is about to have another baby. Terrified at the thought of further responsibilities and the bitter recollection that the venom of Maxine's malice has transformed her kind father into a brute who forced this misery on her. June conceives a desperate plan to avoid the consequences of motherhood, but fortunately, her intentions are defeated in time by her husband. John now decides to see Morgan and tell him the facts. Morgan informed by John of their poverty and June's desperate notion, resolves to come to their aid, but, here too Maxine comes forward unexpectedly, orders John from the house, and tells Morgan "she doesn't want his pauper relatives around." One evening, Rufus Stone, Maxine's lawyer and friend takes her to a performance of "Faust." Morgan remains at home. In their absences, he compares "Faust's" with his own life. He sees himself as "Faust" giving the jewels to Maxine, as Marguerite; while Rufus, as Mephisto, laughs mockingly at his folly. Morgan, now awakened, realizes that the old governess was right when she accused him of living in "a fool's paradise." Late that night, Morgan finds Maxine in the arms of Rufus. His infatuation turns to hatred, he tells Rufus, "You love my wife? Take her." He tears the necklace from Maxine's neck and orders the pair from his home. He restores his daughter and family to his home. Maxine now proposes marriage to Rufus, but he tells her she is too late. A week later, while the family is celebrating their reunion, Maxine appears like an ugly shadow from the past. It is her last attempt to regain the old man's affections. He again starts to weaken before her poisonous charm, but his little grandchild rushes to his aid and with her magic power she overpowers the vampire's pretense. Morgan gives Maxine a liberal allowance and freedom and commands her to leave, and she goes forth into the night.
- DirectorWalter EdwardsStarsWilliam DesmondDorothy DaltonP. Dempsey TablerArthur Worden, who runs a mission on San Francisco's Barbary Coast, is derided by chorus girl Freda Maxey when he asks her to attend services. These two meet again on board a ship when Freda is bound for Europe and Warden is on his way to the Orient to "save souls." There is a shipwreck and both are washed ashore on a distant and isolated island. Many days of close companionship erases the antagonism between the self-righteous preacher and the brazen dancer, and finally love blossoms between them. The preacher, believing it to be nothing more than primitive passion, fights an inward struggle, until the appearance of another castaway forces him to recognize the pure love that has developed between them.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsFannie WardJack DeanCharles West
- DirectorJacques JaccardStarsHarry CareyOlive CareyHoot GibsonUnaware of the weakness of Bob Graham's character, Bess Dawson decides to marry him instead of the other cowboy who loves her, Cheyenne Harry. Before the wedding, however, some crooks induce Bob to take part in a hold-up. Then when Harry hears that a posse has been dispatched to catch Bob, he rides out to him and helps him escape. Determined to spare Bess from marrying a convicted criminal, Harry then lets the posse think that he himself, and not Bob, was involved in the robbery. Bess is horrified that Bob has let Harry take the blame and finally realizes that she picked the wrong cowboy. As a result, after Bob is killed in a gunfight and Harry has been cleared of the robbery charge, she quickly accepts his marriage proposal.
- DirectorPaul HurstJ.P. McGowanStarsHelen HolmesLeo D. MaloneyThomas G. LinghamEpisode 1: "The Lumber Pirates" "Dollar" Holmes, so called because of his greed for money and power, is a small timberland owner in a region where both the trust and a tribe of Klamath Indians hold similar lands. He is under contract to the combine to deliver to it 10,000,000 feet of timber by a specified date. It is a rich deal. His wife is about to become a mother, and Holmes has set his heart fiercely on a boy to inherit the fortune he means to pile up. A forest fire sweeps away half of Holmes' standing timber. Greer, president of the trust, learning of this, writes a sneering letter hinting at Holmes' ruin unless he fulfills his contract on time. This he cannot do unless he obtains possession of the Indian lands adjoining his. Sleepy Dog, chief of the tribe, refuses to sell. Holmes' wife gives birth to a daughter, and he in a wild rage of double disappointment curses her and the babe, and rushes out of the cabin into the deep woods. He comes upon Dill, a bootlegger, surreptitiously selling whiskey to his loggers. Holmes promises to forebear punishing him if he will go into the Indian camp, from which Sleepy Dog is absent on a trip, and sell his stuff to the savages. The Klamaths are made drunk, and when they demand more whiskey Holmes offers them $100 apiece if they will deed their timber lands to him. They do so, and Holmes wires Greer that he will fulfill his contract; also that with acquisition of the Indian lands he has obtained exclusive right to use of the region's one river for log-floating purposes, thus cutting off the trust's lands from the market. The trust capitulates and accepts Holmes' terms, by which he is given a heavy interest in the combine and made a director. Sleepy Dog returns. Holmes quarrels with him, murders him and throws his body over a cliff. The crime is witnessed by Holmes' wife, a fact which he discovers. In terror of her life, the woman flees the cabin, carrying her infant in her arms. In trying to reach the farther bank of the river over a jam of logs she is hurled into the stream when a blast of dynamite blows up the king-log, and is whirled away in the current, clinging to a log and holding the babe in her arms.
- DirectorRobert BroadwellStarsCrane WilburLouis DurhamE.W. HarrisAllan Dwight, sheriff, and Jean Belleau, a young French surveyor, live in Circle City. They bear such a striking resemblance that they can hardly be distinguished one from the other. Jean has a half-wit brother, Paul, whom Holden, a political crook, teases and bullies. Dwight catches him in the act, thrashes him, and incurs the enmity of the bully. That night Holden and Pascal, a Mexican, meet McFadden to get from him their share of money contributed by Senator Thurston tor certain nefarious undertakings. McFadden does not turn over what Holden and Pascal consider their rightful share and they vow vengeance. Their opportunity comes when Paul, the half-wit, in trying to enter McFadden's outhouse to get his runaway dog, is menaced by McFadden. Pascal fires at McFadden, killing him, and then throws the gun and Paul beside the dead man. When the crowd, which is attracted by the shot, gathers around, Holden accuses Paul of the murder, and incites the mob to lynch him. Bob Clayton, a friend of Jean's, attempts to stay them, but, being unsuccessful, he hurries to notify Jean and Dwight. Dwight arrives first and tries to circumvent the mob's fury. A struggle follows in the course of which Dwight is thrown against the barrel upon which Paul is standing and the boy is hung. Jean arrives and swears vengeance upon those responsible for his brother's death. Dwight is in love with Evelyn, the daughter of Senator Thurston, who is in control of the party known as the Thurston gang. Dwight makes his feelings known in the matter of the gang's activities, and Evelyn feels that her father is the brunt of his remarks. Dwight, however, continues his course of attempting to stamp out the work of the gang. A month or so rolls by and a mysterious bandit appears. After each successful robbery he leaves a note signed "The Devil." He becomes so daring that a vigilante committee is organized to capture him. In his mountain lair it is seen that "the devil" is none other than Jean Belleau. His lieutenants are Clayton and Holden, the latter having confessed to Jean that Pascal was his brother's murderer, causing Jean to end the Mexican's existence. Holden has grown jealous of Jean and makes known the bandit's identity to two detectives, advising them that he may be known by his horse, which is branded with the form of a pitchfork. When Jean goes to town he is pursued by the officers, but escapes capture by hiding in Dwight's automobile. Dwight learns that he is in his car, and desirous to save the good that is in him, Dwight permits the bandit to take his car to escape while he takes charge of Jean's horse. Jean returns the car the next morning and leaves with it a note saying that he has decided to give up his lawless life. Soon after Jean leaves after extracting a promise from his friend, Clayton, that he, too. will also abandon the lite of an outlaw. Holden assumes the leadership of the gang and plans a bold daylight robbery, proposing to assume the character of "The Devil." Clayton overhears the plot and determines to frustrate it for the sake of "The Devil's" name. In the attempt Clayton is shot by Holden, who, with his gang, escapes to the mountain retreat. When Dwight hears of the robbery and is told that "The Devil" is responsible, he determines to seek out Jean and either make a man of him or bring him back a prisoner. He starts out on Jean's horse. Meanwhile the vigilante committee is also bent upon entering the bandit mountain stronghold. Holden was badly wounded in the affray at the bank. Holden wounds Dwight, and noting the remarkable resemblance between the sheriff and Jean, he places evidences of the bank robbery upon the man he has wounded. So the posse finds Dwight, and of course, their natural assumption is that Dwight has been the bandit. Dwight is taken back to town and arraigned before the authorities. An account of the bandit's career is printed in the papers and attributed to Dwight. Jean, speeding eastward on a train, reads the story, and realizing the situation, wires back to the Circle City authorities to stop prosecution until he arrives. He does return and Dwight is released from custody. The police are anxious to run down Holden and offer Jean certain clemency if he will lead them to the mountain stronghold, where Holden and his men are hidden. Jean consents to avenge the death of his friend Clayton, at Holden's bands. When Jean and the posse arrive a pitched battle takes place. At last Jean and Holden meet. After a terrific fight Jean succeeds in rolling Holden over to the edge of a cliff. Holden falls over it, but Jean, with a firm grip upon his wrists, holds him suspended in midair as he himself lies at the edge of the cliff on his breast. One of the bandits takes aim and fires at Jean. As the bullet enters his body Jean, with a convulsive movement, loosens his hold on Holden's wrists and the latter is dashed on the rocks thousands of feet below. Jean struggles to his feet and tries to make his way back to the posse, but only succeeds in reaching his faithful horse and at her side he falls. Meanwhile Dwight has recovered from his wounds and found a happy resting place in the arms of Evelyn.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsWilliam FarnumDorothy BernardWillard LouisA young woman falls in love with and marries a handsome young man. Her twin sister sets out to break up the marriage and frames her sister's husband to make it look like he is an infamous bandit who has been plaguing the area.
- DirectorRichard RidgelyStarsMabel TrunnelleRobert ConnessHerbert PriorSpanish soldiers arrive in Cuba and raid the farm of Dolores' father. Father and brother, attempting to protect their home, are arrested and held for court-martial. Captain Hernandez listens to Dolores' plea for their release and taken by her beauty, promises to set them free. His advances to her are interrupted by the sound of a rifle volley. Through the open window, Dolores sees her father fall before the firing squad. For this she kills Hernandez. Running to his home in the mountain fastnesses, she tells Garcia, Cuba's savior, of her act. Political unrest finds the Maine anchored in the Harbor of Havana. Jose, Dolores' brother, hiding from the troops who have killed his father, seeks revenge. Prowling about, he enters a subterranean vault where he sees an officer exhibiting to some visitors, the switch which controls the mines laid in the harbor. The officer and his friends depart, and Jose throws the switch which sends the Maine and its crew to the bottom. Garcia's whereabouts are unknown and President McKinley seeks a man who can deliver a message addressed: General Garcia, Somewhere in Cuba. Of the many who are called, Lieutenant Rowan alone is chosen. Mme. Gonzalles, a spy in America, employed by the Spanish government, is instructed to ascertain the attitude of the United States government, after the sinking of the Maine. She discovers that Rowan is sailing for Cuba with a message for Garcia. Determining that the message must not reach its destination she follows Rowan on his trip across, arranging by wire for his arrest upon his arrival in Havana. A soldier, stopping at a well near Dolores' home, drops a message addressed to Captain Gonzalles, Mme. Gonzalles' brother, informing him that she has arranged for the American's capture. Dolores rushes to Garcia with the news. On board ship, Mme. Gonzalles makes several efforts to get the message, but each time is foiled by Rowan. He learns of the fate that awaits him and when the boat docks, escapes the pursuing soldiers by jumping overboard. Rowan swims ashore and eludes the pursuing Spaniards. Meeting one of the soldiers single-handed, Rowan overpowers him. exchanging his own wet clothes for the man's uniform. Thus, clad as a soldier of Spain, Rowan sets out to roam the wilderness for Garcia. He meets Dolores who, at first frightened because of the uniform he wears, shows her relief and joy when she learns that he is "Americano." He manages to make her understand that he is seeking Garcia. "Butcher" Weyler, Governor-General of Cuba, upbraids Mme. Gonzalles for her failure in effecting Rowan's arrest. Fearful lest Weyler wreak his wrath upon her, Captain Gonzalles, her brother, offers to assume personal responsibility for the immediate capture of Rowan. From the brow of a hill, Rowan and Dolores sight the pursuing party. Capture is imminent and Rowan entrusts his message to Dolores. They part ways and soon Rowan is made a prisoner. Dolores, however, manages to set him free. Again, they start on their journey, but the pursuers soon take up the trail and before long they find themselves ambushed. All hope seems lost. Dolores parts the bushes and reveals in the distance, the house of Garcia. She returns the message to Rowan and bids him hasten on, while she remains behind with his rifle, holding off the attacking troops. Rowan delivers the message, but on his return he finds the bullet-riddled body of Dolores, mute witness to her great heroism. As a sacred memory of the one who made the delivery of the message possible, he takes back home with him Dolores' lace scarf. Back in the barracks the boys are rejoicing at Rowan's success. He is greeted amid wild shouts and cheers, and when the lace scarf comes to view his friend turn to him with an all-knowing smile. But the story of Dolores' sacrifice soon makes them understand and when the call to arms is sounded they march away cherishing the name of the unknown "little Cuban."
- DirectorJohn W. NobleStarsFrancis X. BushmanBeverly BayneRobert CummingsPhilip and Miles Quaintance quarrel over the love of Ellen Sheridan; Miles is rejected, while Philip is successful. Philip dies soon after his son is born, and Miles proposes to the widow. When she refuses him, he uses every means to make her unhappy. She leaves the Southland where they live, taking her infant son Stephen. When Stephen has grown to manhood, his mother dies, first telling him the story of Miles' persecution. He is so embittered against his uncle that he avoids meeting him, and he leaves for South Africa. Miles Quaintance amasses a fortune, and in his declining years he hopes to meet Stephen to make restitution for the wrongs he had done his parents. Miles has a ward, Dagmar Lorraine, whom he sends to Paris to study singing. There she meets Etienne, the Duke de Reves, who has an unsavory reputation. He makes violent love to Dagmar and obtains her consent to marry him. After the ceremony a woman enters the church carrying a baby whom she claims is the Duke's son. Horrified, Dagmar flees from the church and returns to America. In a whimsical mood, and partly to atone for the wrongs he had done in his past, Miles makes a will leaving his $10 million fortune to Dagmar and Stephen, provided that they marry and that the wedding takes place before midnight of the following May 31. Miles does not know of Dagmar's wedding and dies before she arrives in America. Stephen is notified of the contents of the strange will at a trading station in Africa. He decides he will take no assistance from his uncle, and with Timothy O'Farrell, a companion, he plans a way out of it. They find the body of a white man floating in the river, and Stephen puts all his papers and trinkets in the pockets of the dead man. Mark Seager, a gunrunner, finds the body and conceives the idea of impersonating the dead man, marrying Dagmar, and claiming the legacy. He sets off for America immediately. Stephen and O'Farrell also leave for America. They are in a restaurant, where they see a man abusing a young girl and using threatening language. It is the valet of the Duke, who has met Dagmar and is trying to blackmail her for his silence. Stephen drives the valet out of the place, and is charmed by the appearance and manner of the girl. She leaves before he can question her. While driving her automobile home that night, Dagmar has trouble with the engine. When she stops to fix it Seager, who does not know her, observes her predicament and attempts to take advantage of it. She frightens him away with a revolver. The next day, Stephen sees an automobile offered for sale, and noticing that it corresponds with the one driven by the girl he met the day before, he answers the advertisement. Dagmar sells the car to him as she is low in funds. That night the valet and the Duke come to her home and she flees, taking passage the next morning on a steamship bound for Paris, where she has left some money in a bank. Seager learns that she has gone, and he follows. Likewise do the Duke and Stephen and O'Farrell. Stephen, taking the name of A. Newman. Seagar finds Dagmar in Paris and tells her he has come to marry her. One look at him and she leaves. The Duke finds her and persuades her to come to him, saying he will lead a better life, and introduce her to his own society. On the night of the reception she is kidnapped by Seager, who takes her to a deserted house where he has arranged for a rascally advocate to come and marry them. The Duke follows to the house and is killed in a fight with Seager. Stephen and O'Farrell have followed the Duke's valet and arrive there just as Seager is forcing Dagmar into a marriage. It is just 10 minutes to midnight, the time assigned for the $10 million wedding. Seager is driven from the place and Stephen and Dagmar tell each other of their love. Both agree not to touch a penny of Miles' fortune, and after the clock strikes twelve they are married.
- DirectorRae BergerStarsClarence KolbMax DillDodo NewtonLouie is the vendor of an article of diet known to the trade as "hot dog." Mike is a sandwich man, who carries the advertising legends of a tent and awning manufacturer. They observed a gang of urchins maltreating a little pup. In trying to assist the little dog Mike and Louie were treated to a bombardment of sundry loose building materials close to the hands of the small boys. But the dog was rescued and Mike and Louie were united in friendship through the common cause of the pup. Mike and Louie sought an adjacent drug store for first aid to the dog. The drug store was operated by an unprincipled person, whose chief trade was in "dope." Mike and Louie happened in just at the time the alleged druggist was apprised that a police raid impended. He was preparing for a hasty retreat. He seized the opportunity and presented Mike and Louie with the drug store until he should return if in return they would keep a little girl Mary, aged ten, who had been left to his care. Mike and Louie become owners of a drug store, guardians to the child, and masters of a pet dog. The police, not knowing that the place had changed hands, decided to raid it. Mike and Louie were dragged to court, where they had to prove that they had just come into possession of the drug store and assumed guardianship of the child. The judge commended them after a pathetic scene and Mike and Louie returned to the drug store. Eight years later the drug store is more dilapidated than ever. Mike and Louie were eking out a bare existence, giving all their money to the education and desires of Mary. Some time during the eight year lapse, Mike and Louie had acquired a clerk. Bob, who had graduated from a school of pharmacy and who had come to them to gather practical experience. Mary and Bob fell in love with each other. Things took a bad turn when the "Drug Trust" refused to grant Mike and Louie more credit. They were forced to make spurious drugs. Through an accident Mary learns of the trickery. The next day she imparted to Bob the details of her discovery. Contrary to her expectations, he laughed and told her that it was far more harmless to sell the stuff that Mike and Louie were making than the actual dope which was harmful to the customers. In the midst of the explanation Mike and Louie came in and saw the two youngsters in an embrace. They demanded that Bob stop his love making. He replied that he intended to marry Mary. He was told that if he had any business ability he would be working some place for a salary instead of with Mike and Louie for nothing, and to make the thing harder Mike suggested that before Bob marry Mary, he make a million to buy her all the little trinkets that she might want. Bob decided to make a million for Mary. Sitting in the park reading the paper, an article on the new "Science of Mind" caught his eye. He stopped to think and recalled his argument with Mary that it isn't what you take, but it is what you believe when you take it. So Bob got the great idea. Bob rushed back to the drug store and imparted his idea to Mike and Louie, who merely scoffed and asked him where he would get the money with which to advertise and distribute the wonderful pills. Bob had an idea and betook himself to the "Drug Trust" and impressed them with the fact that he had the greatest drug panacea ever discovered. They drew up a contract with him, and agreed to pay Mike and Louie one million dollars on date of distribution of the pills. An enormous system of advertising was instituted. All over the world appeared the legend, "Mike's and Louie's panacea for all ills, take a pill every hour, pray and have faith." Orders flocked in from every portion of the globe. The night before the day upon which the pills were to be released. Mike, Louie, Bob and Mary were so engrossed in their work that they forgot poor Fritz, the dog. who became hungry and ate a cake of soap. Finally he was discovered by Mike, who knew he was sick. They looked for remedies and could find none, when Louie had the great idea that if the pills could help people, they could help the dog. But Mike answered that the dog could not pray. However, they decided they would pray for him so Fritz was handed a bunch of pills. Unknown to Mike and Louie, the pills contained a light narcotic, so that when taken in large quantities they caused profound sleep. They thought that the pills had killed him. Immediately they had visions of thousands upon thousands of dead people, all of whom had taken the pills. After due consideration they made a suicide pact deciding to kill themselves with their own pills. Mike and Louie slept and dreamed that they had gone to Heaven. Here they met the druggist, Mike, certain that the druggist was in the wrong place, decided to throw him out This started the noise. Mike, Louie and the druggist were dragged before St. Peter. Mike woke up. Outside the drug store the crowd had gathered, led by officers of the "Drug Trust." They heard the noise and were certain that the relations of the dead people who had taken pills had come to wreak vengeance on them. Finally they were quieted and handed what was found to be a check for a million. Thus did Mary get her million, and Bob his Mary.
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsVivian MartinHarry HilliardWilliam H. TookerAn English aristocrat visiting Norway falls in love with Thelma, daughter of a Viking-like Norse landowner, and this first part is an idyllic story. He marries her and takes her to England. Society women, one of whom has been infatuated with the young man, are disappointed, because Thelma is not only beautiful but has pretty manners and is popular. There is a very melodramatic conspiracy to break her heart by making her suspect her husband. It works and she runs away back to her Norway home. Her husband follows and the happy ending unites the two in the old Norse homestead.
- DirectorGeorge D. BakerStarsMay RobsonFlora FinchKate PriceA grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
- DirectorFrederick A. ThomsonStarsH. Cooper CliffeDorothy GreenDion TitheradgeThe story, in brief, tells of Baron Chevrial, whose whole interest in life centers in women and his one big hobby, the censoring of female loveliness. He is smitten with the charms of Rosa, the incomparable dancer of the Opera Comique. He pays homage to her beauty by establishing her in the most luxurious quarters and lavishing upon her the major part of his income. Rosa toys with the Baron, even curtailing his liberty, which extends only so far as her whim or caprice will permit. The Baron, however, true to his nature, finds that Rosa does not entirely fill his craving for feminine companionship and seeks new fields to conquer. Therese Beauchamp, a beautiful girl, prominent in society, meets with his approval and he marries her, but keeps up his interest in Rosa, making no effort to conceal his relations with the ballet dancer from his wife. And then a new woman enters his life and for a time he is oblivious to everything else until visions of his former ballet girl charmer arise and he returns to Rosa. He decides to give a party in honor of her birthday and their reunion, and throws open the magnificent Chevrial banquet hall for the occasion, Rosa and ballet girls, still in costume, being brought from the opera house in motor cars. During the progress of the dinner the Baron rises to propose a toast to Rosa, when he is stricken with apoplexy and drops dead.
- DirectorPaul ScardonStarsBarney BernardGarry McGarryBobby ConnellyDavid Solomon, a wealthy banker, is merciless in his dealings with his rich clients, from whom he exacts the highest interest. He aids the poor as much as possible. To facilitate his kindness among the people of the Ghetto, he runs there a pawnshop, unlike all others, for to the needy he measures out money, not according to the value of the articles they offer, but according to their needs. David's son, Maurice, is given to high living. It grieves his father, who is, however, consoled by the fact that his daughter, Ethel, seconds her father's charities by maintaining a day nursery for the children of the poor. One day David sees a young girl fall unconscious in the street. He takes her to the hospital where the doctor tells him that the girl, Mary, is suffering from exhaustion. David's heart is touched and he resolves to make Mary's future his own care. When she has regained her strength he finds her a position as a model in a dress house of a friend, Silver. Ethel visits the dress house to buy gowns, bringing Maurice with her. He sees Mary for the second time, having noticed her upon the street. Maurice arranges to meet Mary under an assumed name, and pursues his courtship with all seeming love. She so learns to worship Maurice that she gives him all, not stopping to count the cost, nor to demand the wedding ring. For a brief while Mary tastes of a great happiness, but Stevins, the man for whom she once worked, and who, because she would not encourage his advances, drove her from every honest position, naming her as a thief, visits the dress house to get gowns for "The Bunch of Flowers," a set of girls so termed by Maurice who has been much in their company. He recognizes Mary, repeats the accusation, and her employer discharges her. Mary returns to the little flat supported by Maurice, where she tells her story. Maurice has begun to tire of her. He seeks Stevins, who tells a seemingly truthful story. Maurice believes it and leaves Mary, writing to this effect. He, however, does not know that the girl he has wronged is about to become a mother. Six years elapse, and we find Mary and her little son, living in poverty. Again she is rescued by David Soloman, who has called to see a deserving case next door to Mary, the object of his charity being Mrs. Payne, the landlady who drove Mary from her door, and who is now a paralytic. Mary tells David her story, showing him the letter from her lover. He recognizes the writing of his own son. He takes his grandson home with him where the child is seen by Maurice, who is conscience stricken. Heinstitutes a search for Mary. Stevins, the man who hounded Mary, needs a further extension of his loan from David. But David, having learned what he has done, Mary forces him to the wall and ruins him. Goldstein, who has been a faithful secretary to David, resigns. He loves the daughter of David, but being a poor man does not declare his love and so decides to leave for other parts of the country. David has watched the love which has existed between Ethel and Goldstein, and gives Goldstein a check for a large amount, quite sufficient to start them on their honeymoon. David informs Maurice by telegraph, not signing his name, where Mary may he found. He then goes to her with her little son. Maurice arrives, and makes reparation by marrying Mary.
- DirectorLynn ReynoldsStarsMyrtle GonzalezVal PaulGeorge Hernandez"Miss Lady," as the Black servants call the Colonel's daughter, has an admirer in the person of Don Morley whom she does not care for on account of his passion for gay life. However, he promises to reform if Myrtle (Miss Lady) will marry him. As they are out for a canter one day, an accident caused by Chick's foster-father's carelessness, is just averted, and in this way Miss Lady makes the acquaintance of Chick, a little mute chap. A storm one day causes Don and Lee Dillingham to seek shelter in a saloon conducted by Sheely. Sheely and Lee fight and Lee shoots, wounding Sheely, but not seriously. Lee gets Don to promise that he will say nothing about it. All of this has been observed by Chick, hidden in an old barrel. Don, according to the agreement leaves town, and Lee so warps the story that suspicion is fastened upon Don. The Colonel forbids his daughter to receive any word from Don until his name is cleared. Don has left for the West and accompanied by a friend makes a trip to the Orient, where he anxiously awaits a letter from Miss Lady in response to the one he sent her. Through Chick's foster-father's carelessness, a train is derailed; the Colonel is killed and his friend Professor Querrington is injured; he is taken to the Colonel's home, where Miss Lady nurses him back to health. He falls in love with her; later, financially embarrassed and not knowing where Don is, she consents to assume the responsibilities of the Professor's household. But the Professor resumes his writing and Miss Lady is quite neglected. As Don with his friend are ready to return home, he receives a letter from Lee telling him of the marriage of Miss Lady. He is grief-stricken and decides to remain in the Orient while his friend returns home. His friend calls upon the Professor and it is then that Miss Lady learns that Lee has tricked her lover. Don's friend wires him to return home. Christmas Eve the Sequins are giving a party but so engrossed is the professor in his work that he sends Miss Lady alone. She will not dance, as her husband does not approve of the pastime. Don, who has returned, goes to the affair, meets Miss Lady and when she tells him that she did not receive his letter, he leaves her. Sequin advises Don to sell a certain bank stock. He does and a few days later the bank fails. This causes the loss of the professor's entire fortune and eventually his death. Then Miss Lady returns to her own home and takes with her Chick to whom she has become attached. Finally she decides to have him operated upon in the hope of restoring his speech. The operation is successful. Don has been brought to trial for the injury of Sheely and things look bad for him. Chick hears Miss Lady weeping over the fate of Don, and then he tells her that it was the dark-haired man, Lee, who did the shooting. They waste no time in running to Don's aid. and he is soon vindicated. Later Don and Miss Lady are married.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsBen LewisBessie LoveGeorgie StoneA young woman and her six little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsJ. Warren KerriganBertram GrassbyLois WilsonGeneral Stampoff takes control in Kosnovia, and to insure his position as the country's strong man, he installs Prince Alexis Delgrade, the idle son of Prince Michael, as the titular ruler. Alexis surprises everyone, however, and shocks the reactionary Stampoff, by instituting a series of democratic reforms. However, his public success cannot make up for his personal problems, as Alexis is unable to marry his sweetheart, Joan Cameron, because she was born in America and thus could not reign as queen. Then, Alexis discovers that his mother came from Indiana, thereby making him as much an American as a Kosnovian, and also invalidating his claim to the throne. As a result, he abdicates and marries Joan, while Michael, vowing to maintain his son's democratic policies, takes over as king.
- DirectorCleo MadisonStarsCleo MadisonTom ChattertonDouglas GerrardTired of poverty, Jane finally accepts the advances of Ambrose, the wealthy owner of the factory in which she works, and becomes his mistress. Years later, long after she has left Ambrose, Jane falls in love with Richard Newton, whose own past, like hers, hardly stands out as scrupulous. They get married and have a child, but then Richard finds out that Jane had been a kept woman, and insists on a separation. He soon begins to think about his own past indiscretions, however, and realizes the hypocrisy of judging Jane by a higher standard than the one by which he has lived. As a result, he asks her forgiveness, and she eagerly takes him back.
- DirectorWilliam WorthingtonStarsFranklyn FarnumAgnes VernonBarney FureyHoward Dana and his partner in adventures, Olga Veloski, discover that Sam Brockton, millionaire from the west, has arrived in town and they arrange to fleece him. They plan an old confidence game and locate the scene in one of the residences of wealth, knowing that the occupants of "Millionaire's Row" are spending the summer at various resorts. Agnes Darling and her father come to town for a day or two from their summer home in the mountains. Mr. Darling's automobile breaks down and as Brockton passes, he offers his services to help make repairs. In this way he discovers that Agnes is a charming girl and falls in love. The incident has been observed by Olga and her accomplice and when the repaired automobile drives away, Olga attracts Brockton's attention. She tells him that if he will come to her home the next day she will introduce him to Agnes, who is supposed to call at Olga's residence. Olga and her accomplice manage to avoid the caretaker in the house they have selected for their work. At the appointed time Brockton arrives and through an old confidence game he is robbed. The scene of the robbery happens to be the town residence of the Darlings. Just as the trick is being turned, Mr. Darling and Agnes arrive at their home. Upon entering the house, the Darlings are amazed to find that the house has been entered. They come upon Brockton, who is so frank and interesting in his explanation that he ingratiates himself with Agnes and her father, and they invite him to their country home. The two sharpers escape and join another member of the confidence gang, a crook known as "Dippy" Lewis. When Olga observes a striking resemblance between "Dippy" and Brockton, she decides to use the crook to an advantage. Olga overheard the invitation Brockton had received from the Darlings and dresses "Dippy" to resemble him. She sends him to the mountains and he is received by the Darlings. "Dippy's" criminal instincts lead him to commit several robberies among the hotel guests, and when Brockton arrives he finds himself under suspicion. He is puzzled at Miss Darling's conduct toward him. Olga has directed members of her gang to chloroform Brockton and dispose of him in a cellar, that he may not by any mischance reach the mountains before "Dippy" Lewis arrives there. The striking resemblance between the two mislead the toughs and they chloroform "Dippy" and confine him in a cellar. Agnes is perplexed at the strange transition in Brockton's manner, for he really is of a gentlemanly type in strong contrast to "Dippy," whom the girl had previously mistaken for him. The Darling family decide to return to the city and invite Brockton to call upon them there. Olga hears of this and plans to have "Dippy" again impersonate Brockton. When Olga attempts to locate "Dippy," she discovers that he is a prisoner. Before she can have him released, Brockton makes his visit to the Darlings, a fact of which Olga is not aware. Thus it is that she goes on with her plans, sends "Dippy" to call at the Darling home and there the two men meet and settle matters.
- DirectorRalph NewmanStarsE.H. CrosbyJerry HuntMadeline Randall
- DirectorLawrence MarstonStarsNat C. GoodwinRichard NeillMabel WrightThe most powerful enemies of Norton, a mine owner, are Reid and Richard Ranson, brokers. He catches them short during a flurry in copper and forces them to the wall. Reid threatens to kill Norton, but Ranson, the junior partner, plans a more subtle revenge. He is intimate with Yvette, an unscrupulous adventuress, and plans through her to injure Norton. Norton has a daughter, Lois, still at school. His wife is an invalid. The Norton family go to the seashore, followed by Yvette, who succeeds in meeting her prey. On the return to the city Norton is seen frequently with Yvette. She learns that he is planning another killing on the street and so informs Ranson. After a riotous night at Yvette's apartment, Norton's valet is summoned to take him home. Mrs. Norton overhears the telephone conversation and follows the valet. The shock at finding her husband at another woman's house brings about a relapse, and after a short illness she dies. Meantime Lois has become greatly interested in Roy Simms, a young engineer. After her mother's death she returns home only to find that her father has married Yvette. The girl and her stepmother disagree and Lois leaves home. She takes lodgings in a cheap boarding house. Yvette gets control of Norton's property, and when he is ruined in Wall Street turns him from the house. Yvette, desirous of ruining Lois as she did her father, sets an underworld character known as "The Rat" on her trail with orders to abduct her when found. She is pursued, and when about to be caught is saved by her father, now a derelict. Roy Simms learns of the misfortune which has befallen his sweetheart and hastens to her side. Norton is forgiven and they all go back west where the elder man rehabilitates himself. Ranson and Yvette meet their just fate, the former is shot by the woman during a quarrel and she is arrested on a charge of murder.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsRobert B. MantellGenevieve BlinnClaire WhitneyBrother and sister Peppo and Gorgone destroy the death certificates of a brother and sister named Palmieri who died in Calcutta, and assume their identities so they can inherit 20 million francs. They hire a law firm in Paris, where Gorgone meets the Count De Moray, a wealthy diplomat who just returned from India, and attempts to ensnare him. When the count's wife pledges a necklace to a jeweler for a loan to pay her mother's illegitimate son, gambler Robert Burel, to keep his identity secret, Peppo informs Gorgone, who convinces the count that his wife has a lover. When Gorgone pays Robert, the count sees them embrace. He shoots Robert, divorces the countess and marries Gorgone. Later, the count's daughter Pauline returns from India with her sweetheart, Elliott Drake of the Italian consulate. After Pauline agrees to marry Peppo to save her father from financial ruin, the countess gets her mother to confess, and Drake proves that Peppo and Gorgone are impostors. The countess forgives her husband, Peppo takes poison, and Gorgone accidentally stabs herself to death trying to kill the count.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsMae MarshWilfred LucasMazie RadfordA teenage girl lives with two grizzly bears in a cave in the California Sierras and plays with rabbits and birds. When gambler Jim Hamilton and his mistress try to interest wealthy Bob Jordan in purchasing an abandoned mine in the Sierras, Jordan, mistakes the girl clothed in leaves and feathers for an animal, shoots her in the arm. He nurses the girl, who cannot speak, and she repays him with a slave-like devotion. At the mine, Hamilton remembers that fifteen years earlier, Indians attacked his home while he was away and killed his family. The wild girl, really Hamilton's daughter, remembers fleeing from the raid into the woods. Although Hamilton's mistress tries to seduce Jordan, he refuses to buy the mine. Hamilton then tries to rob Jordan at gunpoint, but the girl has buried Jordan's money belt as a prank. Jordan's anger causes her to return to her cave, but later they reconcile, and she returns the belt. After Hamilton's mistress leaves with another man, Hamilton returns to the city, and Jordan starts back with the girl following at his heels.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsWinifred GreenwoodGeorge FieldEdward Coxen"The Woman" is brought up on a farm by a miserly uncle who denies her the company of other young people. It is no wonder then that she is introduced by a traveling mining stock broker. When the uncle learns her plight, he puts her out. A storm is raging. The girl seeks shelter in the same place as the man who has seduced her. He persuades her to go to a nearby town and marry him. She does, but shortly after the ceremony she discovers that he is already married, when his wife and the police come and take him. Deserted and alone, the girl finds out that her uncle has been killed in the storm, and has left her his money. She takes it and goes to a small city where she lives. Five years later her little son is quite a lad, and they are living happily. The woman is known as a widow. Two men fall in love with her, a prominent physician and a broker. The broker wins his suit. Later her husband engages a chauffeur for the woman. When the man arrives at the house she discovers that it is the man who betrayed her. He threatens to expose her unless she keeps him supplied with money. She dares not refuse. He treats their son cruelly. One day the broker sees the chauffeur hit the lad and discharges him on the spot. The chauffeur again threatens the woman, this time telling her that if he does not get his job back he will reveal the truth about her. The woman goes to her husband's office when he is not in, and meets the chauffeur there. He flourishes a gun and a struggle ensues. The man is shot and the woman runs away. The coroner finds a locket in the hand of the dead man that belongs to the woman. He keeps the incriminating bit of evidence for the trial. The woman hides herself, unknowing that her husband has been arrested for the murder. A vision of the penitentiary causes her to hasten to court where she tells of the man's attack upon her. This testimony clears the husband, and both are discharged. She determines to have her mind free of the shadow of her secret, and tells her husband the true story of her life when they return home. She is forgiven.
- DirectorHerbert BlachéStarsGeraldine O'BrienThurlow Bergen
- DirectorRoland WestStarsBradley BarkerJose CollinsArmand Cortes
- DirectorRobert ThornbyStarsLillian CookEdward KimballMollie KingNewt Spooner's determination to kill Henry Falkins. who has denounced Newt and sent him to prison, grows deeper rooted with the years. It seems that the red-branded hatred in his mind has seared its impression upon every fiber of his being. And then Minerva Rawlins enters his life. The change in Newt's nature does not come in a flash. Despite the influence of the girl he loves, he still cherishes his hatred. Fate throws the two men together in the Philippines. Amidst battle and bloodshed the vision of Minerva follows Newt. His opportunity to slay Henry Falkins occurs, but the influence of Minerva reaching out even across miles of salt ocean, stays his hand at the eleventh hour. How Newt's final stage on the upward path he has set himself to follow is reached, is depicted dramatically. The last barriers with which Newt has steeled his dark hatred are swept away and a woman's power saves him from himself and the vengeance of the law.
- DirectorBarry O'NeilStarsEthel ClaytonCarlyle BlackwellAlec B. FrancisMarion Livingston, daughter of the boss of the Elsinore coal mines, rescues a young superintendent of the mines, from a mob of miners. Jack's brother, Harold, comes to visit him and falls in love with Marion.
- DirectorLloyd B. CarletonStarsEmory JohnsonAlfred AllenRichard MorrisIn the days of '49 some of the aristocracy of old California contrived to gather unto themselves more than their share of the precious yellow metal which abounded. There were those among the populace who resented this state of affairs. Luis Lopez was one. Smarting under the yoke of the aristocracy, Lopez determined to champion the cause of the people. Accordingly, he set about to enlist the aid of others and chose Jose Garcia for an ally. Jose finally agreed to wage a campaign against Don Ortega and Don Mendoza. Jose set out for the home of Don Ortega, whom it was agreed that he should rob. Lopez chose Don Mendoza as his prey. It was agreed between Lopez and Jose that the gold which they hoped to gain would be devoted to the uplift of the oppressed. Jose's destination lay across the desert. Stopping to slake his thirst, he was horrified to find that he had lost his canteen. He found instead a crucifix which his priest had secreted in his pack-saddle. Tearing it off, he flung it with anger into the sands and passed on. Senor Arrelanes, another aristocrat, with his daughter Carmen were traveling in the same direction, intending to visit their cousin, Don Ortega. They found the crucifix and later came upon Jose, exhausted. They bore him to the home of Don Ortega, where Carmen nursed him back to health. Lopez reached the home of the Don Mendoza and asked for lodging. In the night he crept into the living room and stole the bags of gold which his hosts had deposited in a chest. Surprised by Mendoza'a wife, Lopez set upon her. Mendoza came to the rescue and drove Lopez out. Jose had fallen a willing victim to Carmen, and vowed to himself that he would not be guilty of robbing those who had befriended him. He set forth on his return to Santa Barbara to meet Lopez. Lopez threatened that he himself would take the money. During the night Jose stole Mendoza's gold from beneath Lopez's pillow and hastened away to warn Ortega. Discovering Jose's absence, Lopez quickly gave pursuit, vowing to kill the traitorous Jose. Jose arrived in time to warn Ortega so that when Lopez arrived he fell into the trap laid for him. Carmen at last prevailed upon Lopez to forsake his evil ways. And so when Carmen had yielded to the pleadings of her impetuous lover, Jose, Lopez stood nearby to share their happiness, and later returned to Santa Barbara, there to spend the remainder of his days with the gentle priests at the Mission.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsCarter DeHavenFlora Parker DeHavenHarry CarterWillie O'Donovan, grandson of Cormack O'Donovan, a retired millionaire contractor, is regarded by his parents as more of a nuisance than an asset. Mr. O'Donovan, Willie's father, is actively engaged in business, while his wife is an enthusiastic aspirant for social recognition. The grandfather, coming to the O'Donovans' home for dinner, enters to find that he has interrupted a domestic row. The grandfather, disliking to have Willie brought up in such an atmosphere, persuades the parents to let him send the boy away to a boarding school. Willie arrives on the school grounds and is made miserable by Peters, one of the other boys. Peters is in love with Mary, a pretty country girl. Willie receives word from Baden Baden, where grandfather had gone for his health, announcing his death. The will he has left with his valet bequeaths his entire fortune to Willie, but naming the person with whom he is living on his eighteenth birthday as the custodian of the fortune until Willie has reached his majority. Willie's parents are overjoyed when they hear of the news. O'Donovan has been losing money rapidly in his business and finds Willie's fortune a necessity. Since the grandfather's departure for Europe they have entered suit for divorce which complicates matters. Each of them decides to beat the other to the possession of the boy before he reaches his eighteenth year. Each of them writes to him to come to them. Willie refuses to have anything to do with them, so each hires a detective to get him. Clews, the father's detective, captures him, but Willie succeeds in giving the detective the impression that he is not Willie. That night Clews breaks into the dormitory, and following directions given him by Willie, gets another boy whom he takes back to the city to the waiting father. Willie's father is enraged at the detective's mistake and orders him back to get the boy. Returning to the school grounds he and Ketchum, the rival detectives, are pitted against each other. But Willie is too clever for them, and evades the detectives each time they plan to get him. School ends and Willie goes to live at Mary's home in the country. But the villains still pursue him. While he and Mary are fishing, Clews manages to capture him and take him back to his waiting auto. Ketchum, however, in the meantime, has learned that Clews is ahead of him. He hurries to the village constable and enlists his aid, insisting that a kidnapping is about to be pulled off. And so, when Clews arrives at the machine he is met by the posse and is arrested. In the confusion, however, Ketchum gets Willie on board a train and starts with him for New York. Ten miles out of town Willie escapes. En route, he runs into a gang of hobos who take his money and clothes. Willie is then forced to hide his nakedness in a sack. O'Donovan gets Clews out of jail and they start for town when they see Willie returning in his sack. They give chase, but Willie beats them to the gardener's cottage, where he gets a suit of clothes and starts for the church where he is to meet Mary. They trail him there and capture him again. Willie, who is wearing the gardener's clothes, begs for permission to return to Mary's for his own clothes. They hurry there and are met at the house by Mrs. O'Donovan, Ketchum, Mary and her mother. When Mary's mother refuses to let either party take the boy without a warrant, they rush off to get said warrants from the town justice of the peace. While they are gone Willie escapes through the window and they return to find him gone. The next day Willie is eighteen, and since he is living with neither of them, the money is to go to charity. They go to the attorney's office to hear the settlement of the will. One minute before the appointed hour, in walks Mary and demands the money. The parents are indignant until she informs them that Willie is living with her. Mother is about to faint when in walks Willie and announces that they are married and on their way to Europe on a honeymoon. The parents make up and decide to forget the divorce.
- DirectorRichard GarrickStarsMildred GregoryHoward HallE.K. JamesIsabel Bland is a fun lover and does not want children, but her wealthy, reclusive husband Robert desires some. They drift apart, and after Isabel learns of Robert's involvement with another woman, she divorces him and goes to their Florida island summer home, while Robert retires to the Everglades, leaving his business with his roguish brother John. When Robert learns that Isabel's old sweetheart, William Proctor, is coming to visit their island home, his love for Isabel returns. He goes there and during a storm, sees Isabel passionately embracing Proctor. A flash of lightning illuminating Robert's face on the window pane strengthens Isabel's resolve to resist Proctor. She reconciles with Robert and after a year, dies giving birth to their daughter Bella. Twenty years later, when Bella rejects her cousin Ralph's proposal, Ralph's father John proclaims that because Bella's parents never remarried, she is illegitimate and not Robert's lawful heir. Judge Randolph, the father of her sweetheart, Sidney Austin, learns that because the court fees were never paid, the divorce decree is invalid. With her legitimacy proven, Bella marries Austin.
- DirectorE.H. CalvertStarsLewis StoneMarguerite ClaytonFlorence OberleBasil Breckenridge, a broken old man on the verge of starvation, but concealing it because of his proud southern ancestry, is set upon by young ruffians on the street. The old man becomes infuriated and gives the young leader a shaking. His father, Ald. Connors, the city's political boss, happens along and attacks the old man, who strikes at him with his cane. The sword blade inside falls out and the police arrest him on the charge of assault with intent to kill. Col. Wright, attorney for the friendless, takes his case. It comes up before Judge Andrews. John Andrews, protégé of Boss Connors, has just been made assistant district attorney, and is there to prosecute. The aged defendant sees the scar on the judge's forehead and hears his name. He sees the two as rival captains in the Civil War, the Confederate picking up the wounded Union officer and taking him to his home. He recalls that when he was believed dead the Northerner took his young wife and baby home with him. Both are near him now, the first time he has seen either for decades. His wife sits behind him, his son is prosecuting him. The scar on the judge's forehead is the mark of their secret duel. A sword, awarded Capt. Knighton for gallantry and pawned by the aged defendant the day before is introduced at the trial but the defendant disclaims ownership. Recognition comes on the part of Judge and Mrs. Andrews and in chambers they plead with Connors and their son, but to no avail. The prisoner's head sinks to his breast when the jury returns. He does not rise when bidden. "Your honor," says Col. Wright, after a pause, "The defendant has taken his case to a higher court." Reverently, Judge Andrews and his wife place the historic sword in the still hands of the late defendant as they are the only persons in the crowded courtroom knowing to whom it rightfully belonged.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsWilfred LucasMary AldenBessie LoveHard-working insurance-company bookkeeper John Carter comes home on Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke-sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening. During intense third-degree police questioning, Carter acts guilty, but cub reporter Ned Fowler, who loves Carter's daughter Helen, intervenes. After the watchman, arrested for fighting and in need of drugs, confesses, Carter is released, but insurance company president Ira Wolcott will not reinstate him because of his notoriety. During the next year, Carter fails to find work because of his age. As Easter approaches and his life-insurance premium comes due, Carter decides to kill himself in a gas-filled hotel room so that his starving family can collect the insurance money. When Carter's little daughter Nellie strays into Wolcott's yard, Wolcott learns about Carter's plight and rescues him. Carter returns to work, and Helen becomes engaged to Ned.
- DirectorFrank ReicherStarsSessue HayakawaTsuru AokiEarle FoxeA Japanese maiden is pursued by an unscrupulous American young man who falsely believes her to have great riches.
- DirectorEmile ChautardStarsRobert WarwickMollie KingGerda HolmesJim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventually wins over the locals by turning the tables on a town bully and trying to collect damages from a railroad magnate, whose trains have killed many of the Blake ranch's cattle. When the railroad refuses to pay, Jim comes up with a plan that will make them pay far more than they originally had to. Problems arise when he falls in love with Alice, the railroad magnate's daughter.
- DirectorJames VincentStarsBertha KalichKenneth HunterWilliam H. TookerAssistant district attorney Robert Powers learns that political boss John Moore has chosen another candidate for promotion over himself, Powers invites Moore to his Long Island estate for the weekend and urges his lovely wife Marian to entertain Moore to win his favor. After Powers arranges for Moore to be injured while trap shooting so that he has to spend weeks at their home, Marian nurses Moore and they fall in love with each other. When Marian realizes that her husband cares more about his career than their marriage, she plans to leave with Moore, but her daughter Betty intervenes and pleads with Moore not to take her mother. Realizing that Marian would have to sacrifice Betty if they went off together, Moore leaves alone. At the end, Marian orders her husband out of their house and lives independently with Betty.
- DirectorLloyd IngrahamStarsDouglas FairbanksJewel CarmenC.A. de LimaA young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.
- DirectorFrederick A. ThomsonStarsE.H. SothernEdith StoreyJohn S. RobertsonWhen Julie De Varion's old father is imprisoned for harboring fugitive Huguenots, she goes to the authorities and begs for his freedom, declaring that he only did it out of kindness of heart. They refuse to release her father unless she locates the Catholic's greatest enemy, Ernanton De Launay, who lives in the depths of the forests and who has been vainly sought after for years. Although she knows her father would loathe such methods of release, she accepts the offer and sets off with her lady-in-waiting, Jeanette, to capture the enemy of the king by means of her womanly beauty. While stopping at an inn for the night, she is molested by a man who has been sent after her. A stranger, who is also stopping at the inn, comes to her rescue, however. The stranger offers her his protection for the rest of the journey, a kindness which she gladly accepts. He promises to take her to Ernanton De Launay, believing that she merely wishes to meet him. They continue their journey, and on the spur of the moment Julie dispatches her servant back to the officials with the statement that she has located the enemy and for them to release her father. Ernanton's servant discovers that they are being spied upon, and tells his master, who, now in love with the girl, kills him for daring to cast a reflection on the sweetest flower of womanhood he has ever met. When Julie asks him why he assaulted his servant, he truthfully tells her his reasons. Realizing that she has fallen below his estimation of her, she sends another servant after the bearer of the message in order to prevent it reaching the officials. She will not allow her womanhood to suffer even for her father's freedom. When she returns to the city, Ernanton follows her and is forced to believe that she is the spy his servant had accused her of being. She gains admittance to the officials' room and asks her father's freedom. She is refused, as the understanding was that the enemy was to stand before them, and she has failed in her quest. She will not bring the man who has won her love to them, and frankly states such as the case. Ermanton, who has been standing behind the curtain, now comes forward and tells them that they see the enemy before them, to release the aged father. Julie is distracted at the way things have turned, and becomes inconsolable. The Huguenots, who have been gaining victory after victory, now enter the city and surround the palace, demanding the release of their leader. The officials are forced to surrender, and Ermanton seeks Julie to tell her of his love and ask her to become his wife.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsLillian GishSpottiswoode AitkenSam De GrasseDorothy Raleigh is a high-spirited Southern beauty who has been brought up by her father, Col. Raleigh, an unreconstructed Kentuckian, to have nothing to do with the townspeople of the little village of Norwalk, just outside of Louisville. She has no other companions than the old negro servants, her animal pets and her books. One day there comes into her life by chance a young millionaire gambler named Forbes Stewart. He makes love to her and asks the Colonel for her hand. Indignant at his presumption, the Colonel orders him from the house. But the young people elope. When Dorothy meets her husband's friends she is grievously disappointed. He determines, rather than cause her unhappiness. to change his mode of living, and give up his old friends. But a detective who knows something of his past, tries to blackmail him. His defiance leads to his arrest, and he is sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. Dorothy is loyal to him at first but when another woman enters her home and seemingly proves that she is Stewart's wife by an earlier marriage, she goes back to her father. The stern old man, however, has disowned her, and she is compelled to seek shelter in a cabin with her old negro mammy. When Stewart is released from the penitentiary he hastens to his home to find his wife. Instead he finds this other woman, an old flame who has taken this method to win him back again. He repudiates her, however, and hurries to Norwalk to see the Colonel and demand Dorothy. The Colonel refuses to tell her whereabouts, but from an old servant Stewart learns the truth. Dorothy in the meantime has been led to believe her baby illegitimate, and the villagers, glad to see the proud name of the Raleighs dragged in the dust, make her life miserable. She is about to kill herself when Stewart arrives. The outcome reunite the lovers and brings a change in the heart of the father that is supremely satisfying.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRita JolivetMarc B. RobbinsElliott DexterFlorence Brent is the daughter of Bennington Brent, who runs a successful laundry business. Florence's childhood friend, John Oglesby, is a Congressman. When Florence visits her friend, Eleanor Williamson, in Washington D.C., she meets Eleanor's fiancé, who is a Count. The Duke of Buritz, a countryman of the Count, tries to corrupt Oglesby for political reasons. Meanwhile, the Count breaks his engagement to Eleanor, having become enamored of Florence. Oglesby eventually exposes the duplicity of the Count and Duke.
- DirectorRichard BennettStarsRichard BennettGeorge PeriolatAdrienne MorrisonUnder an assumed name, law student Lawrence Kirby courts the daughter of Dr. Cartmell. When she becomes pregnant, however, Lawrence leaves town to escape the responsibility of rearing his illegitimate child. Years later Kirby, now a judge and a stern proponent of capital punishment, unknowingly sentences his innocent son to death in the electric chair on the basis of circumstantial evidence. As the youth is about to be executed, his identity is revealed and the horrified Kirby relents. The judge's plea for mercy is ignored, however, and his son electrocuted. Immediately afterwards, Dr. Cartmell, a longstanding opponent of the death penalty, revives the lad and restores him to his mother.
- DirectorDonald MacDonaldStarsHelene RossonForrest TaylorHarry von MeterJudge De Voe and his wife are robbed of their baby girl, Mary Katharine, by a nurse in retaliation of her discharge. The nurse takes the baby to the mountains seeking the aid of her cousin, Martha Fagan, in hiding the child. Martha is the wife of Tim Fagan, a brutal mountaineer. They have a baby, the same age as the De Voe child, whom she calls April and who her husband cares nothing about. While he is on a hunting trip, their baby dies. The nurse arrives while Martha is at the grave of her child, and leaves the stolen baby while she goes out in search of Martha. In passing a deep canyon she makes a misstep and is dashed to death. When Martha returns and finds the child, she thinks that it is a gift from heaven to take the place of her child, and names it "April." When her husband returns she lets him believe it is their child. Eighteen years later April is still in the mountains with her supposed parents. Martha Fagan has aged with the hardships of life, and has become sullen and bitter, but she still loves April. Tim Fagan is engaged in counterfeiting with a young mountaineer, Casper, who wants to marry April. Tim agrees to sell April to Casper for $500. April dislikes Casper, though unaware of the bargain. The only one of the mountain folk who appreciates April is Doc Jenkins, and between these two, there is a strong affection. Jerry Gordon, of high social standing, has written a book of poems. He takes a trip to the mountains for his health. He meets April and she recognizes him as the author, having read his book, and friendship is established between the two. He pitches his camp nearby and she brings him his vegetables, milk and eggs. As the days go by, they become more interested in each other, but he hesitates to tell her of his love as he feels the gulf of social standing between them. One night Casper comes to Fagan and induces him to sell April for $3.50. April overhears this and goes to tell Jeffery about it. Jeffery is out hunting, a storm takes place and April stays in his tent for the night. He is obliged to find shelter elsewhere. In the morning Fagan discovers April's absence. He and Casper start out immediately in search of her. Just as they are nearing Jeffery's tent, Jeffery returns as Fagan is about to shoot him, April comes between them and at this moment. Doc Jenkins appears on the scene. Casper declares that he loves April and that she belongs to him, while April clings to Jeffery who, declares that he is going to marry her. Doc Jenkins says that the ceremony must take place at once in order to settle the matter and performs the ceremony while covering Fagan and Casper with his gun. In the meantime Martha Fagan becomes seriously ill and dies. Before her death she tells Doc Jenkins of April's identity and that the baby clothes she wore when she was first found were concealed in a chest. In the meantime, the De Voes are visiting Jeffery and when they find out of his marriage to a girl living in the mountains, are very much horrified and shocked. April hears this and decides to throw herself into the ravine. Just as she is about to leap off the rock, Casper finds her and tries to save her. She struggles with him, and in the struggle, he loses his balance and falls to his death. When Doc Jenkins goes to the camp and meets the De Voes they quickly discover that they are the parents of April as they recognize the baby clothes that Doc has with him. In the excitement Doc asks for April, he finds her standing on the rock preparatory to sacrificing her life. She is saved from her impending fate, learns the truth regarding her parentage, and that Jeffery really loves her and wants her.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsMary NashLumsden HareH. Cooper CliffeRozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States with her brother whose name happens to be Young Carl. Rozika marries a chap named Trevor and a predicament ensued after the Great War comes knocking at the door.
- DirectorHarry HandworthStarsErnest TruexDorothy KellyAlbert RoccardiYoung Artie Hamilton gets expelled from college, and his angered father--a wealthy railroad baron--throws him out of the house. Artie tells his father that within a year he'll have made enough money that he could buy his father's railroad. Soon afterwards Artie falls for a young girl he sees at a girls' school, Annabelle Willowboy. When he discovers that Annabelle is being courted by wealthy Uriah Updike, and that Updike's father owns property on which Artie's own father intends to build a branch of his railroad, Artie sees a chance to make his boast to his father come true--but it will take some scheming and trickery to do so, something Artie is fully prepared to do.
- DirectorWilliam F. HaddockStarsGertrude RobinsonAlexander GadenCovington BarrettMayor of Lynboro, Loren Hayward is so dedicated to his work, he soon neglects Milly his young wife. In order to rekindle his affections, she engages in a flirtation with ladies' man Robert Chapman, an all too willing suitor who forces her to kiss him. As Robert embraces Milly, Loren appears and angrily orders them both from the house. After abducting her son Bobby, Milly flees to another city, but Loren follows them and takes the boy back home. Learning afterwards that Loren and Bobby have contracted scarlet fever, Milly breaks into the house and nurses them back to health, and husband and wife are reconciled. During a party, however, Robert mistakenly enters Milly's room, but she is saved from a compromising situation when burglars break in through the window. As the terrified Milly faints, Robert escapes in the confusion.
- DirectorFrank Hall CraneStarsKitty GordonLumsden HareFrank GoldsmithScandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him. Eventually, Lila agrees to marry Andrew, but during their honeymoon, Dromiroff abducts her from the bridal suite. At headquarters, Lila is shot while destroying the documents, and before dying, she telephones Andrew to confess her misdeeds. The conspirators are killed when their car plunges from a cliff.
- DirectorEdward JoséJoseph KaufmanStarsPauline FrederickEarle FoxeFrank LoseeLaura Ward a selfish girl steals a large sum of money, her twin sister Agnes is mistakenly accused of the crime and sent to prison. Meanwhile, Laura abandons her sweetheart, alcoholic architect Richard Leigh, to marry an elderly millionaire named William Benedict, but she soon renews her affair. When a detective catches the lovers together, Agnes, just released from prison, agrees to pose as Richard's mistress, thereby saving Laura's marriage. Through Agnes's influence, Richard is regenerated, and the two eventually marry. Later, however, Laura reappears, and Agnes finds Richard drinking and embracing her. In a rage, William shoots and kills Laura, but Agnes forgives her erring husband and takes him home.
- DirectorWilliam Robert DalyStarsFritzi BrunetteAl W. FilsonLeo PiersonWhen Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity. Brierson realizes that Azalia and Jack love each other, and so, to eliminate his rival, he tells Zeb that Jack is the child's father. To disgrace Jack further, Brierson convinces Dagmar, a black woman, to claim Jack as her son, but Zeb is told that Brierson is the father of Cindy's child and is also Dagmar's son. In the end, Zeb kills Brierson, who, before he dies, learns from Dagmar that although she is not his mother, he is black. Jack marries Azalia, and Cindy, whose child has died, goes back to the man she loved before Brierson.
- DirectorGeorge SiegmannStarsDorothy GishKeith ArmourCarl StockdaleYoung Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She enters her horse, Atta Boy, in a big-money race, hoping the win will enable her to pay off the mortgage and save her home.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsPauline FrederickCharles WaldronMady ChristiansAudrey, an orphan, becomes the ward of a wealthy man, but when he travels to England, she is turned over to an unscrupulous couple who usurp her money and turn her into a slavey.
- DirectorO.A.C. LundStarsViolet MersereauLester StoweElizabeth MudgeGeorge Arden and his wife, Jeanette, enter a deserted house in the woods and Jeanette, in a weakened condition is placed by her husband on a straw-covered cot. He then hastens to camp for a doctor. As he is going past a saloon in the town, he is hit in the head by a stray bullet. He falls prostrate to the ground where he is later found by Joe, a Canadian half-breed, who, with the aid of three friends, tries to stop the flow of blood. Joe goes to the cabin where he sees that Jeanette has given birth to a child and is in a dying condition. The crowd from the dance hall is homeward bound when the light from the cabin attracts their attention and some of the women enter. Louise picks up the infant and another woman bends down over the still form of the mother. Next day we see George in the back room of the saloon. His reason is gone and he has lost the power of speech. He finds a cave and draws back into it for refuge. Joe is appointed godfather at the christening of the motherless infant. He says, "She came to us like the autumn wind. Let her name be Autumn." There is a lapse of fifteen years. Autumn has been brought up by her godfather. Outside the Golden Eagle Saloon stands "Nobody." Right below his eye is a scar from a bullet wound. In the gambling room of the Eagle saloon we see Kate, her lingers covered with diamonds. At the other end of the table sits a gambler known as Diamond Jack, with whom she is apparently in love. The scene shifts to the headquarters of the Royal Mounted Police, where Trooper Dick is told that a Chinaman, Hop Lee, has been trying for fifteen years to find George Arden. Dick is given an old-fashioned photograph with an autograph of George Arden and is assigned by his captain to make a search for the missing miner. Dirk arrives at Camp Eldora and makes the acquaintance of "Autumn." Joe induces Diamond Kate to provide a fine dress for Autumn, so that she can go to the ball that evening to attract customers. Dick proceeds to the dance hall and presently Autumn, clad in the new dress Kate has given her, comes in to watch the game. Dick and Autumn recognize each other. Thinking he is unnoticed, Jack spins the wheel quickly and moves his hand to the corner of the table to pull off a crooked deal. As Jack's hand disappears underneath the edge of the table we see Dick grasp it and hold it in a firm grip. With his other hand Jack draws a gun and shatters the lamp chimney, putting the house in almost total darkness. Autumn hides behind the shutter. A group of men move toward her holding on high the apparently lifeless body of Dick, which they throw into the river below. Autumn rouses "Nobody" and draws him toward the rapids, where they throw a rope to Dick, who has revived. By an investigation of the contents of a crevice in the wall of the cave in which "Nobody" lives Dick learns the identity of the mysterious person. Kate the next day watches Jack leave the saloon and follows him. Joe meanwhile leads Autumn up to the cross-road of the trail leading to Frenchy's cabin, where he has promised Jack to bring her. Kate sees Jack enter the cabin. He draws Autumn to him and kisses her passionately. Kate opens the door and dashes the contents of the pepper castor into Autumn's face. It blinds her. She then fires at Jack. Dick, walking along the trail, turns quickly as he hears the shot. Kate presses the gun into Autumn's hand and disappears into the next room. Dick enters and sees that Autumn still holds the hot revolver in her hand. Kate returns to the room with a surprised expression and Dick takes from her shoulders the shawl which shows a smoking hole through which the bullet had passed. Dick question the two girls and each denies her guilt. The crowd insists that Jack must be avenged and clamor to have both women hanged. A man seizes a coiled lariat from the wall and the mob leads the two girls to a tree nearby. Dick dispatches a boy to ride to headquarters to summon the mounted police. A horse is led under the hanging noose and as the mob makes a dash at the terrified women Dick holds up his hand and says. "Wait. The gallows shall decide between them; the innocent shall hang the guilty." Then addressing Kate, he says, "You say you are innocent. Are you prepared to hang this woman?" Kate shouts, "Fling the murderess on the horse at once and give me the whip." The mounted police are now in sight. Dick puts the same question to Autumn, asking her if she is prepared to hang Kate. Autumn moans, "I cannot." Dick exults at Autumn's answer and says to the crowd, "Judge for yourselves who is the guilty one." Kate makes a dash to escape through the crowd, which yells, "Hang the murderess." The mob gets Kate away from Dick. The mounted police pull up their horses and raise their rifles. The noose is about Kate's neck and the mob are about to draw it. Six rifles blaze away. The rope is severed and Kate falls fainting upon the horse's neck. Dick delivers his prisoner to the mounted police. Later we see Dick at the headquarters with "Nobody." Hop Lee enters and "Nobody" gives no sign of recognition. Captain Mills, who is on duty, questions both men searchingly. The surgeon declares it to be a case of lost memory resulting from a bullet wound which a successful operation will cure. Two weeks later "Nobody's" memory has been restored. He knows he is George Arden, but the past fifteen years remain a blank. He recalls that he left his wife in an old abandoned cabin near Camp Elora, but believes that this only happened yesterday. Dick takes "Nobody" to the old cabin in an effort to solve the mystery and "Nobody" remembers the cabin. Joe is prowling around the woods with his gun and with him is Autumn. Autumn, seeing the two men, approaches to ascertain what they want. "Nobody" sees her coming and takes her for his wife. A light dawns upon Dick. He summons Joe and asks, "Where is the girl's mother?" Joe answers, "She died here fifteen years ago." Then he points to her grave through the window. The mystery is solved and Dick makes his report to headquarters. A year later Dick and Autumn plan their marriage.
- DirectorLloyd B. CarletonClarke IrvineStarsDorothy DavenportEmory JohnsonRichard MorrisWestie Phillips, the son of poor and simple Quaker folk, notices a woman marooned on a rock with the tide rising. He rescues her and ever this memory of her remains with him. To Martha Gorham, the daughter of a millionaire, it is only an incident to be remembered for a short time with gratitude toward the boy. In love with Martha Gorham is Harry Arnold, a man considerably older, whose one aim in life now seems to be the winning of her, despite her refusal. Her father, Silas Gorham, is fond of Arnold and favors his suit, although he does not urge his daughter to marry. Arnold invites Martha and her father to go on a cruise with him on his yacht and she consents. Arnold has arranged with his captain to have it appear that the yacht is wrecked near an uncharted island, so he can take Martha to this spot alone and after a month or so the captain is to return and pick them up. About the same time Westie Phillips decides to go out into the world and make his way. He is shanghaied aboard a vessel bound for the Orient and meets with such severe treatment that he manages to escape in Honolulu. It so happens that the Arnold yacht is in the vicinity, and one of the men becoming troublesome, the captain decides to put him ashore. Fate again brings Westie and Martha together, for he secures the sailor's place on board the yacht. He recognizes Martha, but she does not know him. Westie scents that Martha is in danger, and it is with a great deal of satisfaction that he sees Martha repulse the advances of Arnold. Then comes the time when the yacht is in the vicinity of the island. Arnold's plans work out nicely, as he gets Martha in a boat away from her father, but Westie, though he does not know exactly what is happening, senses that there is danger for the woman he loves and insists upon accompanying Arnold. The captain fells him with a blow. Gorham and the others take to the boats and Arnold and Martha are in a boat by themselves. Westie secures a boat and rows for the island. He hears a woman's screams and again comes to Martha's rescue. Then the three take up their life as they find it on the island. Arnold becomes almost crazed when he finds his plans foiled and offers Westie any amount of money if he will but move to the other side of the island. One night Arnold tries to kill the girl, and Westie again saves her. One day Westie and Martha sight a ship and manage to attract it. Before the boat arrives Westie and Martha recognize their love for each other, and their destiny is fulfilled.
- DirectorCharles MillerStarsBessie BarriscaleArthur ShirleyJoseph J. DowlingJust before mountain girl Barbara "Bawbs" Colby's aunt dies, she reveals that Bawbs' deceased father had left her $5000, but to watch out for men because they would only be interested in her for her money. Her aunt's warning is tested when Bawbs falls for a new arrival in the mountains named Ralph Gunther, who says he is an author who's there for the peace and quiet he needs to write.
- StarsHarry FoxGrace DarlingLittle John SullivanBilly is a fourteen-year-old messenger boy. When he is not delivering messages, he is learning telegraphy. He delivers a telegram to Judge Richard Morton, from the warden of Sing Sing. It reads: "Peter Raven escaped. Thought to be headed for New York." Peter Raven is a desperate criminal. A scene shows Judge Morton sentencing him. Raven creates a disturbance in court and declares that his first act when he is free will be to kill the Judge. While Billy is waiting for an answer to the telegram he encounters Judge Morton's daughter, Jean, aged twelve, in the hallway and falls in love with her. They are having a delightful conversation, when Jean's governess, Mme. Laurette, carries her off. Billy, with his first love sorrow, writes a letter to Beatrice Fairfax, asking for advice. Beatrice receives it just as Jimmy Barton, star reporter, is started out on the story of the escape of Peter Raven. Jean writes a playful note to Billy, calling him her knight, and asking him to save her from an imaginary ogre, her governess. Little does she know that the woman is a villainess. As Jean dispatched the note, Mme. Laurette receives a check for a trunk. She is the wife of Raven. She hurries to the Pennsylvania Station, where she receives the trunk and takes it to her home. Inside is Raven. They plan to kidnap Jean. Meantime Jimmy Barton, who has been sleuthing, discovers that Raven has come to New York. He starts to trace the final destination of the trunk, Billy has received Jean's playful note and hurries to her home. When he arrives he observes suspicious actions between an alleged blind man and the governess. The latter, with a thimble on her finger, begins tapping on the window pane. Billy's quick ear detects the Morse code. She is sending the blind man a message regarding the plans for kidnapping. Billy notifies Beatrice. The kidnapping plan is to steal Jean while she is taking her automobile for a ride with the governess. Jean and lime, Laurette come out of the house and enter the automobile. The kidnappers follow in another car. Billy, desperate at the delay of Beatrice, hangs on the steps of the kidnappers' machine. When a lonely spot in the country is reached, the kidnappers pretend to have a breakdown and they hail the car containing the governess and Jean. When it stops they overpower the chauffeur, drug the child and escape with Billy still clinging to the step. In the flight Billy is thrown from the car, but Beatrice soon appears and picks him up. They follow the kidnappers to a shack at the river's edge and burst in upon them just as little Jean is recovering consciousness. The kidnappers then throw Jean out of the window and into the stream below, but she is rescued by Billy. Jimmy and two detectives row across the river to the kidnappers' house. With the detectives following, Jimmy burst into the room. Beatrice is rescued and Raven, Mme. Laurette and the other kidnappers overpowered. Beatrice, Jimmy and Billy take Jean home. When the Judge and his wife learn of Billy's bravery, they promise that someday when the children are older, and Billy is earning more money, they will entertain the proposition that they wed. Jimmy and Beatrice hurry back to their office with another good story.
- DirectorLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsHarry FoxGrace DarlingAllan MurnaneSerial in 15 parts about a female crime-fighting reporter.
- StarsHarry FoxGrace DarlingOlive ThomasMartin O'Day, professional gambler and saloon-keeper, has bet heavily on the New York Yankees winning from the Giants in the deciding game between the two clubs for the championship of New York City. O'Day has been led to believe that Bert Kerrigan, star pitcher of the Giants, will not be in condition to play. At the last moment, however, McGraw, to the consternation of the Yankee backers, announces that Kerrigan will pitch. Realizing that he stands to lose many thousands of dollars, O'Day decides to kidnap Kerrigan. The pitcher is engaged to marry Rita Malone, and has already furnished an apartment for his bride-to-be. O'Day sends an anonymous letter to Rita, warning her that Kerrigan has another girlfriend, and that if she calls at a certain hotel at 9 o'clock the morning of the game, she can get proof of his duplicity. He also sends a letter to Kerrigan, telling him that Rita is untrue and visits the hotel. Kerrigan is told to watch a certain window of the hotel at 9:30 the next morning. Rita, greatly worried, writes to Beatrice Fairfax, who confides in Jimmy Barton, the newspaper reporter. Jimmy is already working on the story of the ball game, and has had several interviews with Donovan, of the Yankees, and McGraw, of the Giants. He knows that O'Day is betting heavily on the Giants and goes to see him. Meantime Rita and Kerrigan have separately gone to the hotel. Rita is escorted into a room, the window of which Kerrigan is watching. She is seized from behind and her face is covered with kisses. From the street it seems to Kerrigan that she is returning the caresses. He rushes up to the room, is trapped, captured and bound. One of the gang then sends a note to O'Day, telling him that Kerrigan is trapped and being held. The note arrives, while Jimmy, feigning drunkenness, is talking to O'Day. Jimmy sees its contents and covers O'Day with a revolver. Then he makes the gambler write a note to his subordinates, telling them to obey orders from Jimmy, after which he locks O'Day in a vault. Jimmy hurries to the hotel, presents the note and secures possession of Kerrigan and Rita. It is then afternoon and the ball game is on. Beatrice has just arrived at the hotel too. The four leap into an automobile and there is a wild race through the city streets to the Polo Grounds, in which several policemen take part. The fifth inning is being played when they finally reach the crowded grounds, and the score is 2 to 0 in favor of the Yankees. The Giants bat and score three runs in the sixth, giving them a lead of one. The Yanks come back in their half and the first three men up get on bases. Kerrigan has hurried to the clubhouse and at this stage of the game appears on the field in uniform. "It's up to you to save us, Bert," says McGraw to Kerrigan, "there's three on and nobody out." Kerrigan goes on, strikes out the next three and holds the Yankees safe for the remaining innings, the Giants winning, 3 to 2. It is not until after the game that Kerrigan can explain his mysterious absence to Manager McGraw. Then, too, Rita and Kerrigan explain their presence at the hotel and Jimmy tells of O'Day's attempt to wreck their lives to accomplish his end. While the great crowd is surging from the grounds, Beatrice and Jimmy hurry to their offices to write the story.
- StarsNigel BarrieGrace DarlingHarry FoxJane Hamlin's father, a wealthy inventor, has just died and the young woman is going over his private papers. She finds a note addressed to her, which reads: "Open the safe and drop its contents into the ocean. Do not touch the third button. The machine is loaded with poison gas." She opens the safe and draws forth an infernal machine. As she does so, her fiancé, Clayton Boyd, enters. He has a handsome face, but it displays weakness of character. They sit conversing in the dark room far into the night. The scene changes and shows the interior of a room occupied by a gang of anarchists. They had tried to secure Hamlin's invention before his death and now plot to steal it. One of their number, Sverdrup, is delighted to commit crime. As Jane and her fiancé are talking in the dark room, they see Sverdrup at the window. As he jimmies it and enters, they hide behind a couch. Covering the anarchist with a revolver, Boyd compels him to throw up his hands. Jane switches on the lights and leaves the room to phone the police. When she is gone, the anarchist offers Boyd $1,000 to free him and help him get the "only perfect infernal machine." He accepts, allows the anarchist to escape and then throws himself on the floor. When Jane and the police arrive he feigns unconsciousness and as he recovers, claims the burglar beat him over the head. The police doubt his story and leave in disgust. Jane is greatly troubled and writes to Beatrice Fairfax for advice. Meantime, Boyd and the anarchist lay the plot to secure the infernal machine. Boyd makes up as the ghost of Jane's father. That night he gains entrance to the Hamlin house, and as the ghost, tells Jane to give his secret to the man she loves. Jane falls in a faint. Beatrice and Jimmy visit her the following day. After Jane has told her story, Beatrice agrees to spend the night with her. Jimmy has been shadowing Boyd and late that night follows him and the anarchist to the Hamlin house. He sees them go to the roof through an adjoining vacant house, sees Boyd disguise himself as Hamlin, wind a sheet about himself, and descend through the trap door to the Hamlin house. Sverdrup has been left on guard and Jimmy overpowers him. Then, winding a sheet about himself, Jimmy descends, too. Boyd appears before Jane and frightens her almost to death. As he is talking to her, he hears a noise behind him. He turns to confront another ghost, and almost collapses himself from fright. Jimmy drops his sheet and covers Boyd with a revolver. But Sverdrup has recovered and enters behind Jimmy. He is about to deal him a blow over the head when Beatrice, emerging from the room adjoining that of Jane, fires from the doorway and drops the anarchist. Jimmy then tears the sheet from Boyd and strips from his lips his false moustache, revealing him in his true character. Two policemen summoned by Jimmy take away the plotters and Jane takes Jimmy and Beatrice to the library to show them the infernal machine. As they are examining it, other members of the gang surprise them, compel them to surrender the infernal machine, and escape. As Beatrice scolds Jimmy for his carelessness he explains: "Don't worry. I pressed the third button."
- StarsGrace DarlingNigel BarrieGeorge ConnorHenry Hanson and his wife are newlyweds and Mrs. Hanson is much perturbed because of her inability to learn anything about her husband's business. At the close of a pleasant evening together, he sends her to bed. No sooner has she retired than he admits a disreputable looking man. Mrs. Hanson's curiosity overcomes her and she comes downstairs and overhears a part of the conversation between her husband and his visitor. Among other things, she hears her husband tell the man: "You needn't fear me. I did two years in Atlanta prison and escaped." Mrs. Hanson returns to her room, and writes to Beatrice Fairfax. Beatrice receives the letter and decides to go to Mrs. Hanson. Jimmy, the reporter, promises to call later. The next scene shows the living room of the criminal gang. The man who called on Hanson at his home enters with him and introduces him to the chief as one who desires to join the gang. He is put through a rigid examination. After he has proved his worth, he is told that the big job the gang is pulling off is to place a bomb aboard an outgoing steamship, which the gang has been hired to destroy. An old hag is the housekeeper for the gang. As they are leaving the house, Doyle, the leader, complains of the littered condition of the place and suggests she hire a woman to help her with the work. She hangs out a sign, bearing the legend: "Strong Woman Wanted." The gang, with Hanson, is then shown riding through a country wood in a rough wagon. In the bottom of the wagon is a long box resembling a coffin. At a lonely spot, they meet an undertaker's cart. The box is placed in a long case, such as those in which coffins are shipped, and then into the wagon. As the gang completes its work, they see Beatrice and Mrs. Hanson, who had followed the latter's husband, peering through the bushes. They had followed Hanson to the scene. Hanson rushes to protect his wife, but is prevented by Doyle. The two women are forced to go to the house occupied by the gang, where they are bound and thrust into the cellar. Meantime, Jimmy, assigned by the city editor to investigate the actions of the gang, has located their headquarters. Seeing the sign for a strong woman wanted, he disguises himself as a Swedish girl and secures the place. He sees Beatrice and Mrs. Hanson brought in and thrust into the cellar. Jimmy releases them and prepares for the fight which is to follow. Hanson, upstairs, is seated by a window, smoking. Two men pass by the house. Hanson, nervously throws his cigar through the window to the sidewalk. One of the passing men picks it up and they hurry away. The gang hears voices in the cellar and attempts to descend. Jimmy holds them off with a revolver. Then Doyle throws a bundle of burning straw downstairs, smoking out the prisoners. As they come up the stairs a battle is fought, in which Hanson joins Jimmy and the two women. While the fight is in progress, the scene changes again and shows the man who picked up Hanson's cigar. He tears it apart and finds a message inside. It instructs him to wireless the steamship "Mandalay" to throw the coffin overboard, as it contains a powerful bomb, to be discharged in mid-sea. Having performed this service, the two men return to the house of the gang, just in time to take part in the fight and place the gangsters under arrest. Then, for the first time, Hanson is disclosed as the chief of the Secret Service. As he clasps his wife to his breast he explains: "There would be no secrets in the Secret Service if we told them to our wives."
- StarsElsie BakerGeorge ConnorGrace DarlingWhitestocking, a famous racehorse, has mysteriously disappeared. Jimmy Barton ascertains of Bitney, the owner, that a thoroughly reliable stable boy slept in the stall with the door locked and the key in his pocket. He was found doped and the horse gone. The only opening to the stall except the door was an opening over the manger too small to admit a man. About the time Jimmy is receiving this information, Beatrice Fairfax gets a letter from Cutie, the fat lady in a country fair sideshow, saying that her sweetheart, the dwarf, absented himself from the show for three days and would give her no explanation. She asks advice. Beatrice shows the letter to Jimmy, who explains about the stolen race horse. They go to the country fair and enter the freak tent. Beatrice talks with the fat lady, who points out the dwarf. Jimmy goes over to the dwarf's station and talks to him. He sees Wilder, a bookmaker, come in and slip a note to the dwarf. The note reads: "Sam arrested for shell game. We divvy after race." The dwarf laughs in delight and tucks the note in his belt. Jimmy, under pretense of whispering a joke to the dwarf, picks him up and filches the note. The scene changes to the main avenue of the fairgrounds, where Jimmy, disguised as a fakir, starts a shell game. He is arrested and locked in the jail in a cell next to Sam. As he is being thrust into the cell, Jimmy steals the keys from the jailer. Sam is induced to talk and tells Jimmy how the dwarf was put through the opening in Whitestocking's stall and doped the stable boy. Jimmy lets himself out of jail, and hurries off to stop the "Free-for-All" race. In the meantime, Beatrice urged on by Cutie, asks the dwarf where he was during his absence of three days. The dwarf is frightened and runs to warn Wilder, the bookmaker. He finds him in another box stall, superintending the blacking of Whitestocking's legs, the name of the ringer being Black Joe, as indicated by a sign on the door. Wilder sends the dwarf back with directions and he, returning to Beatrice, says: "If you'll come with me, I'll tell you." Beatrice follows the dwarf to the stable, where Wilder and his stable boy seize her and bind her in the stall, while the ringer is led out to the race. Jimmy ascertains from Cutie where Beatrice went and follows. He is recognized by the constable who arrested him and is followed by the crowd. At the stable he breaks down the door, overpowering the stable boy, who is on guard, and rescues Beatrice. He explains to the constable and hurries off to stop the race. Too late, they are off, Black Joe, the ringer, in the lead. Wilder and his confederates, who have wagered immense sums on the ringer at staggering odds, are arrested and when the race is over, Jimmy rushes to the judges' stand and protests the race. He proves his charge by washing the stain from Whitestocking's ankles and is applauded by the crowd. Beatrice attempts to console the fat lady while the detectives carry away the struggling dwarf.
- StarsGrace DarlingHarry FoxBetty HoweBeatrice Fairfax receives a letter from Alice Masters, an heiress and orphan, saying that she has become engaged to the man of her choice, David Holmes, but that her guardian, Mr. Harvey, objects and has forbidden her sweetheart to call upon her. She says that her other guardian, Mr. Wells, sympathizes with her and has promised to demand an accounting from Harvey. Alice also says that her mother died insane and recently she has begun to have delusions of the strangest kind, which greatly disturb and frighten her. While Beatrice is thinking of Alice and her trouble, Jimmy Barton is given an assignment to investigate the death of a Wall Street broker named Wells. On his way out, Jimmy stops to tell Beatrice of his assignment. She is struck by the sameness of names and hands Jimmy Alice's letter. He advises Beatrice to call upon Alice, promising to join her there. At Wells' office, he finds a policeman questioning the chief clerk, who declares that Wells saw no one that morning except Mr. Harvey, his co-trustee. Harvey carried a black bag. He remained only a few minutes, leaving the bag in the private office. An hour later Harvey's confidential servant called for the bag, and the broker was found dying, the bag on the floor nearby. There was a queer odor and the servant quickly opened the window and went away with the bag. Jimmy finds a small key on the floor, but nothing else. In the meantime, Beatrice arrives at the Harvey mansion. Harvey informs her that Alice is insane, but Beatrice is convinced otherwise and promises to spend the night with the girl. Jimmy hurries to the Harvey residence, but is refused admission. He goes on a tour of inspection around the house and discovers an open window on a low balcony. He enters and finds himself in a large bedroom. On the table he sees a black bag and concludes that it is the one Harvey carried into Wells' office. A noise at the door compels him to hide to prevent discovery by Harvey's servant, who comes in and puts the bag in a closet, filled with all kinds of strange and fantastic costumes, parts of stuffed animals and reptiles. The servant takes a huge stuffed hand from the closet, locks the door, puts the key in his pocket and goes away. Jimmy tries to pick the lock of the closet door but is interrupted and hides under the bed as Harvey enters with the closet door key which he places on the table. Harvey becomes angry over two telegrams which he reads and throws them on the floor within reach of Jimmy. Jimmy finds the telegrams are from brokers demanding more margins. Harvey falls asleep. Jimmy takes the black bag and hurries to the police station. He shows the key to the captain and inserting it in the lock of the bag turns it around and around as if winding up a toy. There is a buzzing inside the bag and all draw back in alarm. Jimmy, unconcerned, takes out his watch. At the end of an hour the bag suddenly opens and a puff of vapor is sent up. All are affected by the fumes. Jimmy demands Harvey's arrest. The police captain explains that there is no evidence that the bag is the same as the one taken into Wells' office. "We must have more evidence," he says, and Jimmy agrees to get it. He secures a "devil suit," and with a detective gets into Harvey's bedroom. Jimmy puts on the devil suit and with the black bag hides behind the curtains. Harvey comes in and from the closet takes a large stuffed snake which he fastens on his arm and goes out into the hall. Jimmy and the detective follow and see him hide behind curtains on one side of the stairs. As Alice comes up, Harvey thrusts the snake out from the curtains and Alice screams. Jimmy in the devil suit and waving the black bag runs in and drags Harvey through the curtains. He tries to escape but is caught by the detective. Harvey asks if he can be arrested for playing a practical joke on his ward. Jimmy, still arrayed in the devil suit, holds up the bag and leads the way to Harvey's bedroom, all following him. The detective handcuffs Harvey to the bedpost. Alice, Beatrice and David look on wonderingly. Jimmy looks at his watch and calls attention to the fact that it is exactly nine o'clock. He takes the key from his pocket and makes a pretense of winding the bag. Then he sets his watch against the bag with the dial facing Harvey, and directs everyone to leave the room. At five minutes to ten, Harvey screams for help and Jimmy and the others burst into the room. Harvey is shaking and afraid. He confesses that he has speculated with Alice's money, and that when Wells demanded an accounting he fixed up the bag with a secret but powerful poison gas and left it in the broker's office timed to open of itself in an hour and do its deadly work. Jimmy takes down the confession and makes Harvey sign it. Harvey points in horror to the watch. "Ten o'clock," he shrieks. But Jimmy answers with a laugh, "I didn't wind it."
- StarsGrace DarlingEdgar L. DavenportEvelyn FarrisClinton Harding of the U.S. Revenue Service, sleuthing for smugglers at Smith Harbor, falls in love with Dorothy Dane, the niece of Donald Dane, of whose occupation as a smuggler Harding is unaware. He tells Dorothy of his love and when he bids her good night at her cottage inadvertently leaves his gun. he is stopping at the village hotel and late that night goes to the cottage for his gun which he finds against a tree near the old well, just where he left it. He is about to return when he sees Dane and two fishermen slide down the well rope. Harding hides his gun in the bushes and follows them. At the bottom he comes upon a large cave which extends through the cliff to the sea. He sees Dane and his helpers taking cargo from a small boat at the cave's opening but before he can get away with his information he is discovered by the smugglers and overpowered. Two days later Beatrice Fairfax received a letter from Dorothy saying that her sweetheart has mysteriously disappeared. At the same time Jimmy Barton, a reporter on the same paper with Beatrice, who has been on the trail of the smuggling story, learns that Harding has not been heard from by his chief in two days. The fact that both disappearances occurred at Smith Harbor leads the reporter to connect the two. He advises Beatrice to pay a visit to Dorothy and without taking Beatrice into the secret goes down to Smith Harbor himself disguised as a peddler. While Beatrice is talking to Dorothy, Jimmy as the peddler appears and arouses Dorothy's interests by a display of wristwatches. Dane coming up is induced to put on what he thinks is a watch, but which is in reality a symograph. "That won't tell," he says. "No," Jimmy replies. "It tells secrets. I can sell it cheap because I buy from smugglers." The hand on the dial of the instrument attached to Dane's wrist rises to "high" and Jimmy is elated. As he is going away he stumbles over Harding's shotgun and observes the initials G.H. carved on the stock. He looks down the well and mentally connects it with Harding's disappearance. Quickly hiding his pack Jimmy writes a note telling Beatrice to summon the revenue officers and creeping to the edge of the cliff drops it at Beatrice's feet as she is returning to the village from her visit to Dorothy. Jimmy then returns to the well and lowers himself by means of the rope. He finds the cave at the bottom and sees Harding bound in one corner. He crawls to him unobserved by the smugglers and cuts his bonds, returning to the well opening, where he shouts, "Didn't I tell you that watch told secrets?" As the smugglers rush for him Jimmy climbs up the rope, and Harding running the other way escapes by diving into the sea. The revenue officers arrive in time to arrest the smugglers and the lovers are made happy in their reunion.
- StarsGrace DarlingElaine HammersteinGeorge ConnorThe prologue opens with an interior view of the office of the editor of the New York Evening Journal. Mr. Brisbane is seated at his desk, dictating. His private secretary enters, and receives instructions. "Tad," the cartoonist, comes in with his "comic" for the day and receives an O.K. on it from Mr. Brisbane. As he leaves, the managing editor enters, accompanied by Beatrice Fairfax. The three engage in an animated conversation in which Beatrice Fairfax outlines certain work she has in mind and the prologue ends. The first episode shows Beatrice Fairfax at her desk, opening her mail. One letter in particular interests her. It is signed by Mary Ryan, who tells the confidante that she believes her fiancé, who is a watchman in a bank, is growing cold in his affection. The next scene shows the reportorial rooms of the New York Evening Journal. "Jimmy Barton," the star reporter, hurriedly enters with a story of a bank robbery. As he writes, Beatrice looks over his shoulder, and reading his copy, sees that suspicion points to the watchman of the bank. She recalls Mary Ryan's letter, and tells Jimmy. Beatrice and Jimmy hurry in a taxi to Mary's home. There they learn her story. There is, of course, "another woman." Meantime the bank robbers are seen enmeshing the watchman. He flirts with the "other woman" and she inveigles him into their den. There they bind and gag him and take his uniform. One of them impersonates him as the watchman at the bank. At midnight he admits his confederates. There is a thrilling scene, showing the robbers drilling the door of the vault. They escape with the money. Mary's home is again shown. Beatrice and Mary start out to find Mary's rival, while Jimmy docs some sleuthing. He trails a notorious bank robber to his home and hears him relate the story of the robbery to his mother. They catch Jimmy eavesdropping. A fight follows and the robber and his mother escape from the house. Jimmy hears groans in the cellar, and finds the bank watchman there bound and gagged. He tells Jimmy how the "other woman" led him into a trap at her home. Together they leave to locate the house. Beatrice and Mary have reached there before them. The robber with whom Jimmy had the fight sees them peeping through the keyhole as the other robbers count their loot. Realizing they have been trapped the robbers prepare for flight. After desperate struggle, Beatrice and Mary are forced into a room, where one of the robbers, a doctor, sets fire to a mixture he has prepared which produces a deadly gas. Beatrice and Mary are fast losing consciousness when Jimmy and the watchman, with a number of detectives arrive. There is a terrific battle with the robbers, all of whom are finally overpowered, the two women restored to consciousness and the funds of the bank recovered. There are explanations and a reunion between Mary and the watchman. Then Beatrice and Jimmy hurry to their office, where they write the story of the capture of the bank robbers and the recovery of the plunder for a midnight "extra."
- DirectorLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsGrace DarlingElsie BakerJames GordonArturo Bocetti is the first violin of a theater orchestra. He has been married but a short time and lives most happily. The two are seen together in their music room. A letter comes addressed to Arturo. He is terrified to find it is from a gang of black-handers, who demand $200. Unless he gives it to them, they write, they will kill his wife. Arturo takes $200 from their scant horde, and leaves to comply with the blackmailers' demands. Marie, already suspicious, finds the money gone and decides the letter was from a woman and that Arturo took the money to spend upon her. She writes a note to Beatrice Fairfax. Beatrice receives the letter just as Jimmy Barton, the star reporter on the paper, is given an assignment to hunt down a gang of black-handers, because he "knows their lingo." She hurries to Marie while Jimmy, disguising himself as an Italian, is soon with the gang. Meantime. Arturo changes his mind and decides to notify the police. At the station house door he is warned that he will be killed, too, unless he complies. Several days pass. The den of the black-handers is shown. Two of them are making a bomb with which they intend to blow up Arturo's house, unless the money is paid. Jimmy, in his disguise, is playing poker with other members of the gang. Suddenly his coat sleeve is pulled back. It reveals an arm, white as a woman's, with the hand stained brown. The gang is upon him, but Jimmy seizes the newly-finished bomb. The gang flees. They decide to act quick. The theatre is about to let out, and they wait for Arturo as he leaves the stage door. Marie, angered by Arturo's evasiveness, has summoned Beatrice, and they, too, wait at the stage door to see what he is doing. As he leaves Arturo is handed another note from the black-handers, telling him to leave the money in the cup of a blind man on the corner, really one of their gang. Arturo drops the note and hurries away to comply. Marie springs out, picks up the note and she and Beatrice read it. Then Marie realizes how cruelly she has misjudged him. They hurry after Arturo, with the black-handers following them. Before the two women can prevent it, Arturo places the money in the blind man's cup. Beatrice and Marie reach the blind man a second before the black-handers and grab the money. Their cries bring back Arturo. Beatrice, Marie and Arturo dash in the hallway, up a flight of stairs and into a photograph gallery, whose owner has just stepped out. They barricade themselves in. The black-handers, unable to open the door, rush to the rood and drop down through the skylight. Unnoticed, Jimmy still in his disguise has joined them. The gang is fast overpowering Beatrice, Marie and Arturo, when Jimmy, with the bomb in his hand appears. The black-handers are terror-stricken at sight of the deadly tube and gladly surrender, just as the police arrive. Jimmy has a difficult time explaining his identity, but Beatrice finally recognizes him. Marie falls weeping on her husband's breast, declaring that had it not been for the advice of Beatrice Fairfax her whole life would have been wrecked.
- StarsHarry FoxGrace DarlingBetty HoweJimmy Barton's city editor handed him a newspaper clipping with the heading. "Indian Prince at Biltmore; Rajo Jaibel arrives from Calcutta." Jimmy was told to interview the man, but the Prince refused to see him. While he was talking to the clerk, another Indian arrived and was escorted to the Prince's room. A bellboy got Jimmy into the adjoining room, where he heard the Prince, his caller, and several other Indians discussing a plot to secure possession of a stolen idol and to "avenge Buddha." The only definite information Jimmy got was the address "220 Pelham Road," and the fact that something was to develop that night. Jimmy returns to his office, defeated. While he is pondering, Beatrice Fairfax enters. She has just received a letter from a girl who tells her that her fiancé has quarreled with her father, and asks if it would be right for her to elope. She signs the letter "Dorothy McRay. 220 Pelham Road." Jimmy and Beatrice note the address and start off to investigate. The scene shifts to the McRay home and shows the quarrel between Don Jordan and Dorothy's father, Christopher McRay. Jordan threatens the older man and is ejected from the house. Dorothy goes weeping to her room. McRay, alone, opens the door of a vault and brings forth the Stone God. He alone knows the combination of the vault. The inner door of the vault connects with an automatic revolver, so that if any other person, without the proper precaution, enters the vault, he will be greeted with a storm of bullets. McRay's memories take him back to his bridal trip. The scene shows him with Dorothy's mother in India. In a jungle temple, his bride sees an image of Buddha, and longs to possess it. McRay offers to buy the god from the priest, who ejects him from the temple. A fight follows. That night McRay returns to the temple, overpowers the priest and steals the stone god. The priest, Ali Rajo Jaibel, takes an oath that Buddha will be avenged. The scene again shows McRay in his library, haunted by his memories. With a sigh he returns the stolen god to the vault. He closes the door but does not lock it. As he emerges, Rajo Jaibel, who has gained access to the house, slips from behind a curtain and stabs him. He leans over the prostrate form and tells him he is the priest from whom the god was stolen. Ali opens the door of the vault. There is a fusillade of bullets and Ali drops dead inside the vault. With his last strength McRay staggers over and closes the door. Then he drops dead on a couch. While this tragedy is ending, Don gains entrance to the rear of the house to Dorothy, who agreed to elope with him. Hearing the shots in the library, he hurries there. The only thing that meets his gaze is McKay lying dead, and on the floor a knife. A maid hurries in, rushes screaming from the room and summons help. Don picks up the knife and is gazing at it in horror, when the police arrive. With them come Beatrice and Jimmy, who have just reached the house. Don is arrested for the murder, despite the protests of Jimmy and Beatrice. Jimmy learns of the rendezvous of the East Indians and hurries there with Beatrice, satisfied that through them the mystery can be solved. The plotters are assembled and are listening to a recital of the tragedy by one of Ali's aides who accompanied him to the McKay residence and has returned. As they stand at the door, a look-out traps them. They are hurried into the adjoining room. One of the Indians is left to guard them while the others decide how they are to be killed. Jimmy overpowers the guard, takes his turban and mantle, and passing their excited companions, unlocks the door. Then he and Beatrice make a dash for liberty. They escape after a fight. Jimmy and Beatrice again reach the McRay home just as Don is being taken away to jail. Jimmy halts the police with the announcement that the real murderer can be found in the vault. When the door is opened, Ali is lying on the floor dead. Don and Dorothy are reunited.
- StarsDick BennardGeorge ConnorBuck ConnorsJimmy Barton, the reporter and amateur sleuth, is given an assignment to hunt down a gang of counterfeiters who have been passing spurious bills. He tells Beatrice Fairfax about it. She has just received a letter from John Miles, who writes her that his fiancée, who was to have met him at church, has mysteriously disappeared, and that Madame Gaillard, her employer, denies all knowledge of her whereabouts. After consulting with Moran, the United States Secret Service agent, about the counterfeiters, Jimmy and Beatrice start out to try to locate Jean Moore, the missing girl. The scene reverts to the interior of Madame Gaillard's home. Jean is at work in the library and starts toward the door of a rear room. Madame appears and warns her never to attempt to enter that room again. Later in the day. Jean's curiosity overcomes her and she enters the room and finds various articles for making counterfeit money. While she is there, Madame surprises her, a desperate struggle follows, which results in Madame overpowering Jean, and locking her up in a deserted chamber. Then she circulates the story that Jean has left her employ. Madame goes out and is seen travelling from store to store, making trifling purchases, and always paving for them in bills. In a drug store, when she stops, Jimmy Barton also happens to be making a purchase. He offers a large bill in payment and the clerk gives him, among his change, the bill he has just received from Madame. Jimmy thinks it looks strange, and follows the old woman, and is satisfied she is passing the spurious money. As she nears her home, Madame realize she is being followed. She enters a small restaurant adjoining her home, from which there is a secret passage to the cellar of her house. Jimmy follows her into the restaurant, but the man in charge declares the woman never entered there. Meantime Beatrice has gone to the home of Miles. She learns the location of the house where Jean was employed and together they go there. As they alight in front of the house, they encounter Jimmy, who has lost all trace of the woman he has followed. The three enter the restaurant. It is deserted. Jimmy goes into the back room, just in time to see a trap door slowly being raised. Concealing himself, he waits until the restaurant keeper, who is really one of the counterfeiters, emerges. With the assistance of Miles, he binds and gags the man. Then, he, Miles and Beatrice pass through the trap door. In the dark passage where they find themselves, they hear a woman's muffled screams. The scene changes and shows Jean attempting to escape. Madame Gaillard loses her wig and is revealed as a man, the leader of the counterfeiters. Prior to this, Jimmy, satisfied that he was on the right trail, has Beatrice telephone Moran and the latter, with a force of his operatives, starts for the place. Jimmy and Miles overpower the supposed Madame Gaillard and rescue Jean. She tells them the story of the counterfeiters and they start for the cellar. After they have gone, Gaillard succeeds in freeing himself and starts by another passageway to warn the other members of the gang. They arrive in the cellar about the same time. A battle follows. The counterfeiters are winning when Moran and his men arrive. Gaillard is shot dead in the fight, and the others overpowered. John and Jean are happily reunited, while Jimmy and Beatrice hurry away to tell the world, through their newspaper, of the capture of the counterfeit gang.
- StarsBuck ConnorsGrace DarlingHarry FoxMimosa San is a little Japanese girl in love with Hako Satsu, a secret agent of the Japanese government. Satsu receives word from his government that it would like to secure the plans of a remarkable rifle sight that has just been invented by John Brayton. Brayton, however, has just disposed of them to the United States War Department. Satsu contrives to get the plans. He calls in Anna Cortes, a pretty Spaniard, to help him carry out a plot for stealing them. They meet in a restaurant where Mimosa San is employed as a cashier. Mimosa sees them and becomes jealous. She writes a letter to Beatrice Fairfax asking for advice. Jimmy Barton, a newspaper reporter, is given an assignment to interview Brayton on his invention. Brayton refuses to see him and Jimmy returns to the office. Beatrice Fairfax shows him the letter from Mimosa San and they go to the restaurant where she is employed. Mimosa shows them Satsu and Anna again talking together. Jimmy decides to go to Brayton's residence for another attempt at an interview. As he is nearing the Brayton country home, he notices an automobile hurrying away. He catches a passing glance of two persons he believes to be the Jap and the Spanish woman. When he reaches the Brayton home, he finds it in a turmoil. Brayton is just returning to consciousness. His plans have been stolen. He tells about being called outside to give assistance to a woman hurt in an automobile accident. He had assisted her companion to carry her into his house. Once inside, the two turned on him, beat him into insensibility and stole the plans. The man, he believed, was a Jap. Jimmy hurries to his office and writes the story or the theft of the plans. Then, with Beatrice, he again goes to the tea garden where Mimosa is employed. While they are talking to her, she receives a telephone message which changes her from despairing grief to radiant happiness. She refuses to answer further questions and hurries from the room. Beatrice follows the girl while Jimmy goes to a detective's office and meets Brayton. Beatrice sees Mimosa enter the apartment of Anna. Satsu is there. He explains that his friendliness for Anna was only for the good of their country and shows her the stolen plans. Beatrice hurries away and phones Jimmy, who, with the detectives, swoop down upon the place. The detectives search Satsu, recover the plans and hand them to Brayton. While the detective's back is turned. Mimosa San seizes his revolver. She turns the tables on the detectives, including Jimmy and Beatrice. Holding them at bay, Mimosa San and Satsu escape through a rear door. Jimmy, Beatrice and the detectives, after the departure of the Japs start in pursuit. The two reach the bay, jump into a launch, and are pushing away just as the pursuers, with Jimmy and Beatrice at their head, appear. Mimosa San is crouched in the stern, while Satsu is navigating the craft. Jimmy draws his revolver and is about to fire, when Beatrice stops him. "Let her have him." she pleads. "We have the plans." Together they stand on the pier, as the launch drifts out to sea.
- StarsMary CranstonGrace DarlingHarry FoxBeatrice Fairfax receives a pitiful note from Madge Minturn: "I must have a name for my baby. His father, a well-known lawyer, is to be married to-morrow." Beatrice shows the note to Jimmy Barton who wonders if the man could possibly be James Conley, society man and lawyer, who is to wed Margaret Payne. He goes to the Conley law office on the excuse of securing a political interview, and casually mentions Madge Minturn. His suspicions are immediately confirmed, for Conley becomes confused at the name. Beatrice then goes to Madge and hears her story. Conley's father, fearing exposure, advises his son to settle with Madge with money. Conley starts to see Madge and meets her in the woods with the baby. She scorns his offer of money. As he leaves, he sees a tramp lurking in the vicinity, he enters into an agreement with the man to kidnap the woman and baby, and to compel Madge to marry him. Madge places the baby on the grass, and leaves it for a moment to get a drink of water. The tramp secures possession of it and takes it to an abandoned hut. Madge follows. She gains entrance and the tramp overpowers and binds her. The tramp hides the baby in a barn, and then tells Madge that he will kill the infant unless she consents to wed him. Madge struggles to gain her freedom but it is useless. Meantime Beatrice has gone to the home of Margaret and informs her of Conley's duplicity. Margaret consents to aid Madge. Beatrice and Jimmy start for Madge's home. They are told she has been missing several hours. They trace her to the woods, and arrive at the deserted cabin while Madge is vainly trying to escape. A battle between Jimmy and the tramp follows. The tramp is overpowered, Madge is freed, and the baby recovered. The next scene shows the interior of the Payne home the following day, with everything ready for the wedding of Conley and Margaret. The bride enters on the arm of Margaret's father. The ceremony is performed and Conley raises his bride's veil to kiss her. He is amazed to find that the woman he has wed is Madge, Margaret having arranged the details for the substitution. Conley indignantly declares that the ceremony is illegal, as his license calls upon him to marry Margaret. But Beatrice and Jimmy, who are there as guests of Margaret, forestalled such a complication by having Madge procure another license containing her own name. Beatrice has the baby with her. When Conley sees it and realizes how beautiful Madge is in her wedding dress, he agrees to accept her as his wife.
- StarsGrace DarlingHarry FoxMay HopkinsBeatrice Fairfax receives a letter signed Robert Wells, who writes: "Is there any way an honest man can prevent his girl from falling in love with a fascinating foreigner?" At Jimmy Barton's request the letter is handed to him, for he knows Bob. Jimmy visits Bob at his office and finds him much excited over the attention paid to his fiancée, Martha Ainsley, by Andre Versale. A scene shows Versale calling upon Miss Ainsley. He is a fortune hunter and has established an accomplice in the Ainsley home as Martha's maid. Versale urges Martha to elope with him from a masque ball that is to be held at the Ainsley home on the following night. Jimmy and Beatrice secure cards to the ball from Bob, who also furnishes them with a description of the costumes to be worn by Versale and Martha. On the night of the ball the two men and the two women, their faces covered by masks, look exactly alike. Versale mistakes Beatrice for Martha and urges her to elope. She agrees. He tells her he will go to her room and instruct the maid to prepare for the trip, taking all her jewels with her. Beatrice tells Jimmy and then detains Versale. Jimmy goes to the room, but after the jewels are in a handbag, the maid becomes suspicious and tears off Jimmy's mask. She sees she has been imposed upon, but Jimmy overpowers her and takes the bag with the jewels. He hurries downstairs and gives the bag to Beatrice. Versale has completed all his arrangements. Jimmy leaves Beatrice a moment. While he is gone, Versale, believing Beatrice to be Martha, carries her bodily, despite her struggles, into a waiting automobile. When Jimmy gets back he is amazed to find Martha instead of Beatrice, and Beatrice, the jewels and Versale gone. He tells Martha of Versale's duplicity. Accompanied by Bob, they jump into a high-power automobile and start in pursuit of Versale and Beatrice. A wild ride follows. Just at dawn, they come within sight of Versale's car. He starts shooting at them. Bob, who is driving, puts on the greatest speed and the car dashes alongside that of Versale, just as the adventurer puts a bullet into the front tire of Bob's car. As it explodes, Jimmy leaps from the running board into the flying automobile. A battle follows. Jimmy finally compels Versale to drop the revolver. Beatrice picks it up and as Jimmy overpowers Versale, she covers the chauffeur and orders him to stop. The two prisoners are bound and Jimmy turns over the jewels to Martha. She weeps on Bob's shoulder and promises him she will never flirt again. While Bob takes Martha home and policemen take charge of Versale and the chauffeur, Jimmy and Beatrice hurry to the office, where they write the story of their night's experience.
- StarsGrace DarlingHarry FoxMay HopkinsSimeon Gold, editor of "The Vampire," a scandal weekly, is seated in his office. Madeline Grey, a pretty young matron, enters. She has been summoned by Gold, who has in his possession some indecent letters she wrote to another man, prior to her marriage. Gold demands a large sum of money for them, under threat of publishing them. She is unable to secure the money and, terrified, writes to Beatrice Fairfax for advice. Beatrice shows the letter to Jimmy Barton, and they decide to go together to Mrs. Gold's home and from her learn her story. Jimmy later calls on Gold under pretext of interviewing him for his paper. The only information he gets from the blackmailer is that he keeps all of his private papers in his bedroom. Jimmy watches the Gold home and forms the acquaintance of the vegetable man. By a liberal use of money the vegetable man consents to let Jimmy take his place. Thus disguised. Jimmy gains access to the Gold kitchen and makes love to the maid. She is baking a pie, and while her back is turned, Jimmy secures an impression of the key to the kitchen door in a piece of dough. That night Jimmy, learning that all of the Gold household is out, visits the house. Beatrice, despite his protests, accompanies him. They have assured Mrs. Grey that her letters will be returned to her within a few hours. Meantime Gold again visits her. He demands the money. In her eagerness to ward him off she declares she will have the letters within a short time despite him. Gold, alarmed by the threat, hurries home. There is a light in his bedroom. Taking his chauffeur with him, he hurries there and surprises Beatrice. She and Jimmy have just located the Grey letters in the hall safe, but have not secured them. Beatrice pretends she is a friend of Mrs. Grey. Gold backs her into an adjoining room and leaves the chauffeur to guard her. Then returning to the bedroom, he takes the letters from the safe. Jimmy is hiding behind a curtain and when Gold turns, he finds himself looking into the muzzle of a revolver. Before he can move, Jimmy deals him a blow that renders him unconscious and secures the letters. Beatrice and the chauffeur in the next room hear him fall. The chauffeur rushes to his side, but also finds a revolver at his head. The maid, who has returned, enters the room, sees Jimmy and collapses as she exclaims: "It's the vegetable man.'' With the letters, Jimmy and Beatrice back out of the room and escape. They hurry to Mrs. Grey, who burns the letters as the episode ends.
- DirectorJoseph A. GoldenStarsMarie EmpressMarian SwayneWilliam HuntingtonInez Valenti is the niece of Grant Thorne, who runs a gambling house. She acts as a lure for her uncle's den. Barry King becomes infatuated with her, and this gives her a violent aversion to the life she has been living "behind closed doors." Elsa Montford, daughter of the Judge, is saddened by King's attentions to Inez. Thorne also becomes jealous of King. They fight in the gambling house; Thorne is shot, and King throwing the pistol away, runs, but is caught. Elsa has seen the affair and tells her father who takes her to the police station, where she identifies Barry among the other prisoners. Inez is in despair when she learns that there was a witness to the affair whom the State has in charge, and refuses to leave the city while he is in danger. She sends for Elsa, and tries to bribe her to keep silent, but on refusal offers her a glass of wine which has been drugged, but Elsa breaks the glass and escapes. Inez tries to get Barry to jump his bail, but Elsa pleads with him to stay and fight it out. He agrees and writes to Inez telling her he loves Elsa. Inez, in despair, writes out a full confession of her life, and declares that she and not Barry killed Thorne, Barry having kept silent as to having taken the pistol from her in order to avoid incriminating her. Elsa reads the confession. When she has finished she phones to the district attorney and together they go to Inez's room where they find her a suicide.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsEdith JohnsonHarry CareyRuth CliffordDuring a rebellion in Mexico, Nina Garcia, a diplomat's daughter, is forced to become a spy for the revolutionaries. She works as a nurse in a military hospital and steals papers for the rebels, but officials finally discover her involvement in enemy espionage. Just as soldiers arrest her, she performs an experiment on herself, hoping to prove the worth of Dr. Ralph Hamlin's serum for gangrene. Unimpressed by her bravery and unmoved by Ralph's pleas for a pardon, the government orders her shot after her recovery from the injection. Finally, United States troops arrive and save Nina from execution.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsDustin FarnumWinifred KingstonHerbert StandingWhen a young woman deserts her rancher husband and, with her son Ben, goes to live with the drunken Tom Blair. Blair raises Ben as his son, but kills Ben's mother, causing the boy to return to his natural father. There, Ben falls in love with Florence Winthrop. Later, Ben gains revenge for his mother's death by killing Tom, but he loses Florence, who decides to live in the East. When Ben learns that Florence has become engaged, he goes after her and issues an ultimatum: if she does not take him back, he will kill her fiancé. After first resenting Ben for his demand, Florence realizes that she loves him and returns West with him.
- DirectorHoward M. MitchellStarsGrace DeCarltonRobert WhittierRoy PilcherHeart-of-Oak, an Indian, shakes the dust of a Western reservation for a college career in the east. Heart-of-Oak is the son of a noted chief, and has taken the preservation of his race deeply at heart. His younger sister, Little Fawn, worships him. At college the Indian quickly becomes a favorite. He wins a place on the varsity crew, and finds a friend in a fellow oarsman Granville Wingham, a young American of wealthy parents. Granville's sister Carolyn also has a high regard for Heart-of-Oak, though the attachment never becomes romantic, Carolyn being betrothed to a young man whom she has known since childhood. Little Fawn wins a scholarship in the Indian school in the West, and surprises her brother by announcing that she is ready to return east with him the second year to share his studies. Carolyn befriends Little Fawn in her strange surroundings. At the sophomore ball, dressed in an Indian costume, she innocently captures Granville's admiration. On their return West for the summer Little Fawn secretly cherishes memories of the handsome white student who has covertly made love to her. Wingham, the elder, owns a ranch near the reservation. His son and daughter visit the property. They see a great deal of Heart-of-Oak and his sister. With deep foreboding the Indian watches Little Fawn and his friend. He talks gravely with the girl, telling her that for the sake of her own people she should not think of marriage outside her ancestral race. The Indian puts his trust in his college friend, whom he believes to be the soul of honor. When the disillusionment comes Heart-of-Oak tracks the runaways into the wilderness. The deep-rooted passion of the redskin for revenge takes possession of this educated Winnebago, who reverts to the type of his savage forebears. Ordering his sister into the hills, he closes in ferocious man-to-man battle with her lover, until the white man, bound and helpless, lies at the mercy of his erstwhile friend. Meanwhile, Carolyn has been summoned by the ruthless Indian. His vengeance is to be complete. But Little Fawn, driven back to the place by anxiety for the man she loves, is in time to sacrifice her own life for the safety of the white woman, his fury quenched by the sight of his sister, dead at his feet, Heart-of-Oak commands his victims to return to their own people, that he may be alone with his next of kin.
- DirectorRupert JulianStarsLouise LovelyGeorge BerrellRupert JulianIn 19th-century France, wealthy, single young Bettina is pursued by dozens of young men, but she believes that they're interested more in her money than in her and rejects them all. Young Army Lt. Jean Reynaud meets her and falls for her without knowing how wealthy she is; when he finally finds out, he is afraid that, because of her high social status and his low one, he'll be perceived to be just another gold-digger, and his sense of honor won't permit that, so he turns her away. She, however, doesn't want to be turned away, and he finds the tables turned when she pursues him.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsDorothy GishOwen MooreGeorge FawcettAfter the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. She meets David Chandler, Graystone's owner, who is attracted to her and tells her to come back whenever she wants to. Betty's mother soon remarries, but her new stepfather is not the same kind of man that her father was; she finds herself the subject of some vicious gossip begun by her mother's new husband when he spots her at the estate with David. Complications ensue.
- DirectorTravers ValeStarsEthel ClaytonCarlyle BlackwellEarl SchenckDane Ashley, a successful young author, is informed that he has inherited an old estate in a small village, and being tired of his work and life in the city, he decides to go down and stay on the place for a brief rest. One day Dane is amazed to find a crowd of boys and girls pelting a young girl. He rescues the girl and would punish her tormentors, but she begs him to let the matter drop and hurriedly disappears through the door in the stone wall which separates his house from the one next to it. Much impressed with his young neighbor, Dane makes inquiries about her and learns that she is a Miss Virginia Carlton and that nothing is known concerning her except that she is crazy. Disbelieving the rumors as to Virginia's insanity, Dane uses clever little ruses to further his acquaintance, and the friendship so strangely begun, soon develops into love. Although Virginia cannot conceal her love for him, she tells him their friendship must cease, that there is a wall of shame and misery between them which prevents their ever being anything to each other. Dane thinks he has guessed her secret when he hears a baby at play on her side of the wall; he believes she has been the victim of an unwise and too-great love, but when he is with Virginia her purity and innocence totally contradict this theory. One night he is startled to see a face, which he is sure is Virginia, which is lit is lit up by a wild and impish gleam, peering in at his window. When he reaches the window he sees the girl fleeing over the high stone wall. A few nights later he meets her on the road. She gives no sign of recognition, but leads him on. Dane cannot understand; his heart sick at the thought that the pure-souled Virginia, whom he loves could act thus wantonly, but the next day, when he meets Virginia, she is again the sweet simple girl and he becomes convinced that it must be during moments of temporary insanity that she makes her nocturnal excursions. Nightly the girl is seen in the village, a beautiful evil spirit luring men from their firesides, to render them mad with strange passions and unfulfilled desires, for she always escapes from her victims. At last Virginia can restrain her feelings no longer and she tells Dane that she wants him to hear her story and to help her. Two years before, her twin sister, Helen, had fallen in love with a young naval surgeon. When their father had sternly forbidden her ever to see him again, the impulsive girl left home and went to the surgeon's hotel. There she lived with him as his wife for two weeks, until he was suddenly called away to foreign waters. Returning to her father's home, Helen was injured in an automobile wreck and her mind shattered. The father died of the shock, and Virginia, realizing her sister's condition, had rented the house in the country. Here Helen's child was born. Dane is overwhelmed with happiness to know that the girl he loves is neither insane nor the mother of the child he had supposed hers. He tells Virginia he will locate her sister and bring her back. He sends his friend, Dr. Robert Haskell, to Virginia to aid her. Virginia denounces Dr. Haskell for his treachery to her sister, and before he can reply, Dane brings in the unconscious Helen, whom he found wandering about the streets. Doctor Haskell works over the wounded girl, and while they await anxiously the result of his operation, he explains to Virginia that she is doing both her sister and herself grave injustice. He tells the astonished girl that he and Helen were married on the day she left her father's home, and that ever since his return from the foreign parts he had been searching vainly for his wife. Gradually life and memory return to Helen and she throws her arms about her husband's neck as Virginia and Dane look on.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRobert EdesonEleanor WoodruffCarl HarbaughMine owner Big Jim Garrity discovers that Hugh Malone is selling cocaine to his miners. He warns Malone to stop, but Malone refuses. He then decides to destroy the mine in order to get rid of Garyity. A miner is killed and Malone frames Jim for the death. Jim is imprisoned, but escapes and flees the country. He returns years later and, through a twist of fate, runs into his old enemy Malone.
- DirectorHenry OttoStarsHarold LockwoodMay AllisonLester CuneoJohn spies his girlfriend embracing his brother. Stunned, John deposits the family's money and leaves the country. Years later he returns to find his brother dead, the plantation in ruins, and that he is suspected of stealing the money.
- DirectorLloyd B. CarletonStarsRichard MorrisDorothy DavenportWilfred RogersRailroad tycoon Richard Strong discovers that his enemies are scheming to bankrupt him. Strong enlists the help of Charles Dalton, and together they foil the plot. By chance Dalton meets Strong's wife, Elinor.
- DirectorKenean BuelStarsFrank BurbeckMattie FergusonFrank GoldsmithYoung Margaret Walsh's husband dies while on a polar expedition. Grief-stricken, she consents to marry Morgan Delafield, a much-older man who is a close friend of her father. However, it's not long before she falls in love with Stephen Bond, a man who's actually younger than she is. While she tries to resist her feelings for Stephen to not endanger her marriage, gossip about the pair nevertheless begins to make the rounds, with unintended consequences for all concerned.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsGeorge WalshMartin KinneyDoris PawnWhen spoiled playboy Algernon DePont gets thrown out of Harvard, his father throws him off the family estate. Algernon proceeds to take his butler and drive out West looking for adventure. He finds it when he falls in love with the daughter of a cattle rancher and finds himself the target of a lynch mob.
- DirectorRae BergerStarsClarence KolbMax DillMay CloyLouie, the janitor of a large New York building, leaves New York for a small town to try to work out his formula for the "manufacturing of gold from baser metals." He has picked at random numerous chemicals and intends to try them out. He arrives in Solemn, where lives Mike, a confectioner, and Claire, a young school teacher. Mike and Louie become friends and both are working on the chemicals, into the town comes a young millionaire, who falls in love with Claire, but she will have none of him until he proves that he can do something. He hears of Mike's discovery and persuades Mike and Louie to form a company with him, and they call themselves "The Big Three." They go to New York, and there by bluff interest a Wall Street magnate in their proposition. After many difficulties it is found that Mike's formula will not make gold of baser metals, but that it is a perfection of "puncture proof rubber." This formula brings Mike and Louie riches and Claire discovers that her millionaire can do something and agrees to marry him.
- 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.
- DirectorHarley KnolesStarsAlice BradyJosephine DrakeFrank ConlanA social-climbing young woman marries Robert, a rich alcoholic, for his money. Although basically a good man, when drunk Robert treats her as if she's just one more thing he owns, and not his wife. Realizing her mistake, she leaves him. Her brother-in-law believes that the two of them actually do love each other, and sets out to bring them back together.
- DirectorLionel BelmoreStarsDarwin KarrCharles KentBobby ConnellyIn 1876, Lt. Tony Britton of the 7th Cavalry is in love with pretty young Barbara Manning, but the wife of his superior, Capt. Granson, is in love with him and begs him to run away with her. Britton refuses, but is soon sent to arrest Sioux chief Rain-in-the-Face, who has murdered two soldiers from the 7th. He captures his quarry and carts him off to jail, infuriating the local Indians. When Capt. Granson learns of his wife's infatuation with Britton, he makes trouble for Britton, who is soon forced to resign his commission. He signs up as an army scout, and learns that the Indians are planning to attack and massacre the 7th under the command of Col. George Armstrong Custer. Can he get to Custer in time to warn him of the impending attack, and will he--a disgraced army officer--be believed?