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- Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
- Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang. The villain escapes from prison and makes his way to the railroad station and boards a train where he is tracked by private detectives. When the train stops at a country station, Fantomas alights with the intention of making good his escape, but he finds that he is being followed by two detectives, whom he recognizes. He goes back to his carriage, which leads the detectives to think he is quite safe, but he crosses the train and leaves by the opposite door, jumping into the baggage wagon of the train on the opposite rail. Just at that moment the train moves and a magistrate who happens to have nearly missed the train also jumps into the baggage wagon. Fantomas was who hiding, attacks the magistrate, and after a severe struggle in which he is victorious assumes the disguise of the magistrate and takes his clothes and papers. He continues the journey as the magistrate, successfully rescues certain criminals, who are brought before him to be tried, and manages to blackmail several members of society, with whom he is brought in contact. While here he is recognized by Fandor, the young and clever journalist who happens to come into the district and who has suspicions as to the authenticity of the magistrate. He decides to keep watch upon him. His suspicions are well founded and he identifies the magistrate as none other than Fantomas. After much trouble, he is able to get papers committing Fantomas to prison, but Fantomas' suspecting his immediate arrest, issues an order to the head warden, and tells him that it is Detective Juve's intention to be arrested disguised as Fantomas. The warden is not to tell a soul of the detective's intentional disguise, but is to let him remain in prison until 12 o'clock midnight, when the head warden is to personally release him. The police, not suspecting anything of this, feel quite safe when Fantomas is put in the cell and securely barred and locked. His scheme works favorably and once more Fantomas is at large.
- A thoughtful look at Jean Renoir's attempts to work within the Hollywood system during the 1940's, and his return to Europe as an international filmmaker in the 1950's.
- The story opens with Alan Armadale, Sr., on his deathbed. With him are his wife, his infant son and family physician. They have been traveling but are forced to stop through the serious condition of the senior Armadale. Calling for a lawyer, that his confession may be legal, Armadale tells the following story: At the age of twenty-one he had taken the name and become sole heir to the Armadale fortune. The legal son of the house had been cast out because of disgrace he brought upon the family name. The adopted son falls in love with a Miss Blanchard through her photograph. At the same time he meets a young chap called Inglesby, who in reality is the blood son of the house of Armadale. The two men become friendly, and Armadale, in a burst of confidence, tells Inglesby of his infatuation for Miss Blanchard. Shortly afterwards Armadale is stricken with fever. Upon Armadale's recovery he learns that his friend Inglesby has gone away. The young lover leaves shortly for Madeira, to meet and woo the unknown Miss Blanchard. He arrives at the home of the girl only to learn that Inglesby had been there before, and that the two were now husband and wife. The outlawed son, Inglesby, had recognized the foster son, Armadale, and had, through stealing from him the girl of his choice, repaid in full measure the loss of his own fortune and name. Meeting Inglesby, Armadale learns that he has married the former Miss Blanchard under the name of Armadale, the girl thinking him to be the foster son and heir. The two men exchange cards and a duel is arranged. In the meantime, Inglesby confesses to his wife the truth of his assumed inheritance. The wife accompanies him in quick flight aboard ship. When Armadale arrives at the beach chosen for the duel he learns that Inglesby has taken flight. Quickly pursuing him, in a swift yacht, he arrives to find the ship carrying the fleeing Inglesby, his wife and her young maid, a victim of a big storm at sea. Armadale, in the pursuing boat, gives quick aid to the passengers, rescuing Mrs. Inglesby and maid among the first. Inglesby returned to the cabin to find his wife's jewels. Armadale followed him there, and locked him in the stateroom. Inglesby thus perished. His wife and her maid escape and drop out of the life of Armadale, who marries later and has a son. This is the confession of Armadale. It is followed by his dramatic death. The story then deals with the fortunes of the son of the adopted Armadale, known as Midwinter, and the son of the disinherited Armadale of the earlier story who now enjoys the name of his forefathers as well as Armadale fortune. Legally, Midwinter should have the position. Mrs. Armadale, née Blanchard, has been a party to the crime of her drowned husband in failing to disclose the proper heir to the millions. She is devoted to her son, but endures a fearful menace in the person of a mysterious veiled woman who pays her visits frequently to collect hush money. The veiled visitor is the erstwhile maid who had been Mrs. Armadale's companion on the fateful sea flight when the husband was drowned. Armadale, the son, is out riding one day when he chances upon a stranger, hungry and exhausted. The former takes the stranger into a nearby inn and cares for him. Upon the latter's recovery he tells his benefactor that his name is Midwinter. Armadale gives his name. Midwinter recognizes in his friend the man who is keeping him out of his rightful inheritance, but because he knows, too, of his own father's share in the death of Armadale's father, Midwinter decides to allow his friend uninterrupted enjoyment of his wealth and position. Midwinter becomes a guest in the Armadale home. Mrs. Armadale recognizes him, but fears to make her discovery known. One night, from his room, Armadale sees the figure of a woman dancing gaily and with abandon on the moonlit lawn of a neighbor's home. He is vastly attracted to the girl and makes an effort to meet her. She vanishes however, leaving a gauzy veil in her trail. The following day Armadale calls upon his neighbor in the hope that the fair dancer may have been the daughter of the house. Instead, she is the governess, known as Miss Gwilt. Armadale is deeply infatuated. In the meantime his mother has died, and with her one link that might bind the boy to the secret of his false position. Midwinter in the meantime has discovered that Miss Gwilt is no other than the young girl who acted as maid to Mrs. Armadale on the sea voyage when the deception as to legal rights was practiced. That she is a schemer is plain to Midwinter but Armadale will hear nothing against his promised wife. It is at this point that Midwinter finds his big opportunity to repay to the son the debt he owes him. Midwinter captures the fancy of Miss Gwilt and is caught by Armadale leaving her bed chamber late at night. Armadale is prostrated by the shock. He has recently drawn up his will, preparatory to his marriage, naming Miss Gwilt as his heiress. The woman knows this, and, in one last attempt to gain the wealth she has struggled so hard to win, attempts to poison the sleeping Armadale. Midwinter frustrates her plan and at the same time unveils to the eyes of the believing Armadale the duplicity of his former fiancée. The sound, lasting friendship that springs up between the sons of the two men who had fought and struggled to injure each other, comes as a pleasant climax to the story.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- The Prince of Balanza is the young ruler of a principality of contented subjects. Since the Prince is now twenty years of age, his councilors wish him to marry. A Princess of a neighboring realm is suggested, but the Prince will not consider a young woman whom he has never seen. Not even yet in love with love, the Prince persuades his friend and adviser, the Duke of Perrettino, to take him in search of adventure to foreign lands. The Duke lays his plans to bring about the marriage on which the councilors have set their hearts. The Prince in his travels comes at last to the walls of the Convent of Palladio. Gazing upon a casement, he sees framed there, the most beautiful young woman he has ever beheld in all his life. The Prince of Ballanza breaks a red rose from a bush and throws it to the divinity. He is further encouraged to see that she hides the flower next her heart. Little does the youth know that the lady is the Princess of Cellini, the one whom his state councilors wish him to marry. The crafty Duke persuades the convent gardener to take the young Prince, who remains incognito, as his assistant. This brings him into his lady's presence. She does not spurn the admiration of the gardener's handsome assistant, since she does not know of her own high station in life. Notes pass between the two. When at last the Princess brings herself to confess that she loves him, she learns immediately after leaving the note at the accustomed hiding place, that she is a lady of high degree. At the same time the Mother Superior tells her that affairs of state require her immediate presence at Cellini. Knowing something of royal customs, the Princess recognizes sadly that she must give up the youth who has won her heart. Accordingly she leaves a second note for him, saying that they will never meet again, as she is going into a far country. The Duke follows to Cellini with the Prince. The lady has already refused the Duke of Florenze, who has asked her hand in marriage, and is overjoyed to find her friend of the convent garden has followed her to Cellini. Willing to abjure her rank for love, the Princess listens to his story, still unconscious of the fact that he is the Prince of Ballanza. Prompted by the Duke, the Prince elopes with the Princess, and all ends happily.
- Albert Richards, the young pastor of a fashionable and wealthy church, woos Louise Alford and wins her promise to become his wife. She is the daughter of a wealthy mill-owner, John Alford. Louise is a vain, pleasure-loving girl. Her love for Albert is only a passing fancy. After realizing the monotony of such a life as would be hers as his wife, the finally jilts him for Guy Carlton, a society admirer. In the meantime labor troubles arise in the mill owned by Louise's father. The leader of the mill workers is a home-loving, peaceable fellow, Baker, hard-working and reliable when unmolested, but a man of high temper when aroused. Baker is elected head of the first delegation sent to petition Alford not to increase the hours of their labor, as he proposes doing. The petition is denied. While visiting among the poorer classes of the city, Richard is called to minister to a factory girl who has been horribly hurt in Alford's plant. The dramatic story of conditions that exist in the factory told the minister by the grief-stricken father arouses in him the desire to investigate for himself. Later, the tragic squalor and privation of the working people is further revealed to the minister. These scenes confirm his resolve to make an effort in behalf of these unfortunates. On his way home after one of these visits Richards encounters a girl and man in combat, the bully beating the woman unmercifully. He goes to her rescue and assists the girl to her nearby home. The pastor learns that she is Marna, a woman of ill-repute. Struck by her apparent unhappiness and unrest, the minister succeeds in getting her to tell the story of her present life. Ill-health has incapacitated her for work in the factory, where there is no sympathy and had led her to a life of shame for a bare livelihood. Cheered by Richards' words of encouragement, Marna grasps eagerly at his offer to help her and later finds a haven through his efforts in the Salvation Army home. With the gathering of clouds on the factory horizon, Richards takes active interest in the cause of the workmen. His final break with the Alford family comes over his position in the matter. In a riot of the striking workmen, Baker is arrested for inciting it and is given two years in prison. Richards is dismissed from his church and comes under the influence of an atheist. He falls into debauchery, where the love and faith of Marna are the two abiding lights. His literary work also fails of success at the same time. Louise has married Carlton. But the bottom of the pit is finally touched by Richards, and success as a writer at last comes to the erstwhile minister. With renewed popularity, Louise, who has wearied of her husband, sets a trap to again catch Richards with her wiles, but he proves himself strong, and is rewarded by the love and devotion of Marna. Alford, the factory owner, succumbs to heart failure just before Baker comes from prison to kill him because he was the cause of the strife and tragedy at the mill.
- When neglected wife Blanche Probert reminds her husband Fred of their theater engagement one evening, he insists that he must work, and she invites his friend Edward Martindale to take his place. Later that night, Edward tries to kiss Blanche just as Fred returns home, and although she is innocent of any wrongdoing, her outraged husband divorces her. Fred rears his son Fred, Jr. while Blanche takes custody of little Edith, and there is no contact between them for 14 years. Having run out of money, Blanche is forced to become the proprietor of an elegant gambling establishment, "The House of Mirrors," which is frequented by Fred, Jr. as well as Edward's son, Tom Martindale. The young men are introduced to Edith as "Mr. Brown and Mr. Jones," and soon, both are in love with her. When Fred asks Blanche for Edith's hand, she recognizes his ring as the one she had given her husband years before. Fred visits Blanche, who still maintains her innocence, and after Edward confirms her story, the Probert family is reconciled and Edith becomes engaged to Tom.
- Hundreds of years ago the daughters of the High Priest Yuma were appointed as guardians of the sacred Scarabee Ruby, which hung around the neck of their god. One of the daughters aided her lover to steal the sacred jewel, and her sister, trying to prevent the theft, was mortally wounded and was discovered dying at the feet of the god by her father, who in his grief and rage pronounced a terrible curse upon the sacred jewel, decreeing that into the body of the possessor should enter two different spirits, those of purity and evil, which should always be at war. Peter Sylvester, a rising young doctor, calls for his fiancée, Mona Dorsay, and the young couple start off on a shopping expedition. Noticing a curious jewel in a curiosity shop, Mona takes a great fancy to the trinket, and Peter buys the Scarabee Ruby and presents it to Mona. That night, after retiring to her room, Mona is disturbed by the evil spirit. A terrible change comes over the young girl's face, and catching up a cloak, she goes forth into the night towards another existence, returning at the break of day. She is awakened long after her usual time by her mother, who is astonished that she had slept so long; the evil spirit has fled and Mona is once again her natural self. Quite unconscious of the night's happenings, she apologizes for her late appearance. Some nights later Mona, led by the evil spirit, becomes a member of a notorious gang of thieves, and her beauty proves an excellent snare for wealthy foreigners. Dancing one night in a hall which she frequents, she is seen by Peter, who is astounded by what he thinks a wonderful resemblance. His suspicions are dispelled next morning by Mona's fresh and charming appearance. However, gazing at her photograph later in the evening, Peter's doubts return as he fancies he sees the picture change to that of the dancing girl. That night, owing to Mona's influence Mr. Phillips, a wealthy traveler invites the gang to supper; the police are, however, on their track, and one of the gang is a spy. Peter comes to the same restaurant, and is now certain that this is really Mona, and despite her denials, makes an attempt to rescue her. A serious fight ensues, and in the melee Mona escapes and is driven away in a taxi before Peter can prevent her. Next morning Mona and her mother are surprised that Peter does not pay his usual visit, and send their servant to inquire. Hearing that he has been injured in an accident, the two ladies go to call upon him, and, again bewildered by Mona's apparent innocence, he keeps the doings of the night a secret and explains that his wounds are due to a motor accident. Acting on the spy's information, a plan is formed by the police to arrest the notorious gang, and that night, a raid is made on a flat. Mona, who has joined them as usual, escapes although she has been slightly wounded in the neck, and a journalist, who is among the party, succeeds in getting a flashlight photograph of her. Next morning a full report of the raid appears in the newspapers, accompanied by the photograph of Mona, and both Peter and his father are again convinced that their suspicions are correct. Mona, on waking discovers the wound on her neck, which puzzles her greatly. When shown the newspapers, she is at first amused by the resemblance to herself, but when reading of the fugitive's wound, which appears to tally with her own, she becomes disturbed and vaguely alarmed. Believing this to be a case of somnambulism, Peter and his father decide to watch her, and take up their positions outside her room. When she attempts to leave to go forth on her nocturnal wanderings, she is prevented, and becoming hysterical, faints, and Peter's father, then notices the inscription on her necklace, which reads, "Unless it shall become dust, the Scarabee Ruby will always divide the body of the wearer in which two different and opposing spirits shall manifest themselves." Now the mystery becomes clear, and Peter and his father carefully destroy the jewel, and Mona's mind is set at rest by a report in the newspapers, which announces that the girl whose photograph appeared the day before has been arrested. This has been inserted by Peter, and believing that she has lost her Scarabee Ruby, Mona is made quite happy by the presentation of a prettier pendant by her lover.
- An American adventuress is loved by an Indian rajah and she happily lives at his court. When a young American artist competes for her affection, the rajah is enraged.
- Isabel 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.
- Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying advertising signs. Fields stalks the streets under an immense restaurant placard, while Bud staggers along announcing a new brand of indigestion tablets. One day they meet. Fields, having been paid a dollar in advance for his services, invites Bud to have a drink. While Fields engages the bartender in conversation, Bud fills his pockets with free lunch. Fields manages to pour down three drinks for the price of one, and sticking a piece of chewing gum on the end of his cane, he succeeds in hooking up again the dollar with which he had paid for the Scotch. Last, but not least, the big-hearted bartender blows them each to a good cigar. Fields and Bud, blessing their luck, retire to the park to enjoy the spoils. Finding a newspaper handy, they read that Lord Swan has won a Fifth Avenue heiress, Dolla Bills, by his wonderful golf playing. Fields lies down on a bench to take his afternoon nap, and is visited by a beautiful dream. He does not win his heiress by golf playing, exactly, but by his skill and bravery in using one of the clubs to whack a bomb planted by two black-handers on the steps of Mr. Moneybags' palatial home. He wakes embracing Bud, who cannot control his laughter. In disappointed rage. Fields pushes his ex-valet off the bench into the lake. As the latter fails to rise to the surface. Fields wanders away, realizing that now he must fight his battles single-handed.
- Saunders, Siskiyou's leading Citizen, miner, gentleman and all-around favorite, has Mary Brandon, the daughter of Mathew Brandon, ever since he had come to Siskiyou as a child. And it is not strange that he has, for Mary is a sweet, gentle-mannered girl of nineteen. Together with her younger sister, she keeps house for her father, and furnishes the only spot of light and joy to the hearts of many of the rough, kind-hearted men of the town. Mary knows of Joe's devotion, and loves him too, in her simple, girlish way, until one day Ned Singleton, a young stranger, comes to town. He is a handsome, enthusiastic chap, and he soon wins the love and respect of the entire community. He gains the unbounded admiration of Joe Saunders by catching a Mexican who cheated at cards, and Joe asked him to become his partner. In the meantime, Mary, too, has become interested in the fascinating young stranger. On a prospecting expedition, Joe and Ned find gold, but the younger man falls from a cliff and is carried back to the little mining town unconscious. Due to the tender care of Joe and Mary he recovers his health, but seriously loses his heart to the girl. Mary has grown to care more for Ned than for Joe. On the night of Mary's twentieth birthday, Joe follows her when she leaves the happy party given in her honor, into the woods. He tells her of his great love for her, and asks her to marry him. Mary is forced, for the first time, to confess to Joe her love for his partner. She leaves him, heartbroken and sad, and goes on to keep her tryst with Ned at lover's rock. Joe comes upon them just as Mary pleads with her lover to marry her at once, as he had promised. The big, kind-hearted miner steps in and forces Ned to promise he will marry her at once. In the meantime, Scraggs, the villain, who loved Mary's mother and now loves her, has tried to force his suit. He goes to Ned's cabin, bent upon stirring up trouble, and sees Joe as he rides away after trying to divide up and split partnership with the boy. When Scraggs accuses Mary of being Joe's mistress, Ned jumps at his throat, and in the tussle which follows, he is killed. The villain tears one bloody cuff from his shirt and hides it in the holes of the hearth from which Joe had taken out their strong box before leaving, and runs to the village to say that Ned Singleton has been murdered and that he had seen Joe Saunders leave the cabin. Whrn the men arrive at Ned's shack they find Joe bending over the dead body of his partner. He had returned too late to proffer the hand which he had refused before. At the trial Joe is acquitted. Scraggs is accused, and in the face of everyone Joe marries Mary because he loves her, and to preserve her good name.
- Robert Gray, a brilliant young lawyer, who has just been elevated to the bench, is greatly in love with Eloise, daughter of Reverend Morgan Landman, rector of the village church. Though well beloved by his flock, the rector has one failing, an ungovernable temper, which is evidenced when he discharges his coachman for a trivial offense. Unknown to anybody excepting the rector, Abel Harrison has a mortgage on the rector's home. James Harrison, the son is also in love with Eloise. When James proposes to Eloise she refuses him, and he taunts her with loving the judge, who has never asked for her love. The rector, coming on the scene, canes James. James induces his good-for-nothing brother Luke to take a job at the rector's left open by the discharge of the coachman. Emboldened by his successful career, the judge proposes to Eloise and is accepted. They are about to be married when James Harrison comes to the judge and demands the arrest of the rector on a charge of murder. James says that the rector murdered his brother Luke, and produces numerous witnesses with seemingly conclusive proof. Much against his will, the judge is forced to issue the warrant and hear the case. The rector is found guilty of manslaughter and given a long term by the judge. Meanwhile, in order not to hinder his career, Eloise refuses to marry the judge until her father is vindicated. James finds that he holds a mortgage on the Landman home, and turns Eloise and her brother Harold out of the house. Judge Gray tries to raise a loan to help Eloise, but the banker to whom he applies is the father of the girl. Alice Ward, whose advances the Judge had received coldly. She blocks the loan. Five years later, James Harrison, now a church warden, is haunted by memories of the rector. Thinking he sees the rector in his old pulpit he drops the collection plates and falls unconscious to the floor. The ordeal affects his mind and body. Meanwhile Luke, the good-for-nothing brother, is discharged from prison, where he has been serving a term for a minor offense. Luke is in the power of an evil man who demands money. Luke tries to raise money from his brother at whose house he is staying, concealing his identity from everybody, but his brother, James. Refused by James, Luke puts his room in disorder, leaving bloodstains everywhere, thus manufacturing evidence of a probable murder. The old servants take the story to Judge Gray, who orders the arrest of James Harrison, At the trial the jury failed to agree. The old servants came and asked the judge to go to the home where they were haunted by strange noises. The judge finds Luke Harrison there hiding in a closet. "It is Luke Harrison," cries the judge to Harold Landman, "Then your father and James Harrison are innocent men." The appearance of Luke in the flesh automatically brings about the release of the rector. His story causes the conviction of James Harrison. The rector is reinstated in his position in the church and in the hearts of his parishioners. Eloise and Judge Gray are married by the rector a few days later.
- Washington, D.C: President Wilson reviews old Confederates parade. Cheering thousands greet old veterans in gray. Subtitle: Many of the old boys insist on shaking hands with Mr. Wilson, much to the discomfort of the police and secret service men. President Wilson and official Washington honor Old Glory. Los Angeles, Cal: "Leo" has the toothache. Mamaroneck, N.Y: Fair graduates at the Merrill School, Ex-President Taft is guest of honor. Subtitle: John R. Freuler, president of the Mutual Film Corporation. Boston, Mass: Boston and Detroit ball players show patriotic spirit. Red Sox and Tigers have a military drill and buy Liberty Bonds. Los Angeles, Cal: A new speed machine. Barney Oldfield's novel "Egg Demon" is demonstrated exclusively for the Mutual Weekly. Subtitle: Barney expects to smash all world's records; it is claimed the car will develop a speed of 200 miles an hour. New York City: What the men are wearing. Courtesy of Nat. Lewis, haberdasher, New York. Subtitles: Rainproof sport suit for outing (posed by "Bobby" Watson). Shepherd plaid motor suit by Balote. Pongee silk motor coat, cap to match. Inglewood, Cal: Girls train for air service. Society girls flying corps will do coast patrol duty. Somewhere in France: German prisoners in the rear of the French lines. Subtitle: Types of German prisoners. Cosey Beach, Conn: Girls' pole vaulting record broken. Miss Mildred Carl does 7 feet 2 inches. Seattle, Wash: "Bone-dry" law goes into effect. Final rush for booze packages. Protracted drought strikes this state. High-powered moisture now under the ban. Subtitle: In West Virginia you are allowed one quarter of booze per month. Bootleggers do a thriving business until caught, then their stock is destroyed. Denver, Col: Final tribute to Col. W.F. Cody. Body of famous scout rests in tomb overlooking the plains he so loved in life. Paris, France: A French view of our German spy problem.
- Colonel Seldon loved Belle, his adopted daughter, much more than he loved his worldly sister, Mrs. Preston. Belle was the ray of sunshine who was brightening his declining years. Mrs. Preston made much of him, but the old gentleman was far too wise to be unaware that her interest was more in the wealth he would leave than in his own comfort and happiness. He had a genuine affection, however, for his nephew, Montague Preston, and his greatest wish was to see Belle and Montague man and wife. Preston had more ambitious plans for her son. Yet with all his love for Belle, Col. Seldon did not make his will in her favor. It was always something he planned to do the next day. When death found him, Belle had not been protected. Reared in a life of luxury, Belle found herself in a single day swept from her proud position as mistress of Col. Seldon's household, and made to feel the humiliation that only the pride and arrogance of such a woman as Mrs. Preston could heap upon her. Col. Seldon's sister became head of the house. She knew her son's fondness for Belle, and manifested her displeasure. She wished him to marry money. Her own daughter, Anna, she was willing to sacrifice by marrying her to Ashley Callum, a social waster. Social position could be gained thereby, but her daughter loved Phillip Morris. In seeking to thwart her son's love for Belle, Mrs. Preston found an unexpected ally in Belle herself. Both Belle and Montague had been reared in luxury. Belle saw that a union which brought only poverty, since Montague was entirely dependent upon his mother, could bring no happiness. So she decided upon revenge. Learning of Anna's love, Belle aided the girl to elope with Philip Morris. The news of Anna's elopement rendered Mrs. Preston seriously ill. Urged by Callum, Belle agrees to steal the box of stocks and securities Mrs. Preston has locked in her bedroom. Callum has promised to marry her as soon as they are safe from pursuit. He tells the distraught girl that the fortune is really hers by rights, since her foster father had planned to leave his wealth to her. Belle obtains the box, takes it to her room, and prepares to escape with Callum. Wishing to take something as a remembrance of Col. Seldon she goes to the library for a book he had giver her, "The New Adam and Eve," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. While waiting in her room Belle falls asleep. And then begin her experiences as the new Eve. Her astral body deserts its human envelope and wanders through the world with the astral body of Montague. They have loved in the flesh, but the conventions and limitations of civilization have prevented their union. Now as hindered spirits they see the true relations of life. Hand in hand they wander in happy companionship through a deserted city and comment on the uselessness of many things which civilization has taught us are essential. What holds Belle-Eve longest is the statue of a little child. Without knowing what influences her, her awakening maternal instinct makes her exclaim, "I wonder if we are alone in the world. This lovely little form, did it ever breathe? Or is it a shadow of something real?" Not as Eve is Belle destined to know the answer. Her time in spiritland is up. Her lesson has been learned. At dawn the first thing Belle sees is the box of securities. Transformed by her journey into the world where values have their true appraisal, Belle sees the enormity of the offense she has been saved from committing. Quickly she restores the valuable papers to their proper place. Montague also has learned his lesson. In the astral body he has found that happiness does not depend upon wealth, position or power. Waking, he determines that Belle must be his wife, no matter how much she fears poverty. To his great joy he finds her ready to listen to his suit. Yet poverty is not their lot, for Mrs. Preston never recovers from the shock occasioned by Anna's elopement. At her death they receive the fortune Col. Seldon had meant should be theirs.
- A stolen mummy's ring brings death to all who acquire it until it is returned to its owner.
- Proud of his Knickerbocker descent, the Elder Van Kortland is ashamed of his son, Philip, for having adopted the stage for a profession. Although Philip is famous as a Broadway Star under the name of Edwin Hargrave, his father begs him to give up the stage and marry the daughter of an old friend. Hargrave refuses to give up his life-work or to marry a girl whose name he does not even know, much less a girl whom he has never seen. He departs on a western tour. While playing a week in a western city he meets and falls in love with Doris Morton, not knowing that she is the girl his father hoped he would marry. Her father, not knowing that Hargrave and Van Kortland are one and the same, tells Doris he would rather see her dead than married to an actor. Philip and Doris elope and are married. Philip and his wife go to Chicago, where he is booked to play several weeks. Here she falls ill, and the actor learns that long and careful nursing will he required to restore her health. He watches over her until his own health is wrecked from his stage work and sleepless nights nursing her. While building up his own constitution, he becomes a victim of narcotic drugs. Leaving Doris in charge of a nurse, Philip continues his tour. When this ends he accepts a position as leading man of a southern stock company to get money to pay the expenses of his wife's long illness. Marion, daughter of the manager, falls in love with him, not knowing that he is married. His mind clouded by a drug, Philip wanders into a Chinese Opium den masked as a curio shop. Here Marion follows him. Philip pretends he is buying a bracelet. This he gives her to allay suspicion, but later she finds him smoking in a back room. Trying to get the actor away from the den, she puts her diamond ring on his finger, coquettishly telling him it is in exchange for the bracelet. Finally curiosity overcomes her, and despite Philip's objection she tries opium smoking. Philip's senses are deadened by the drug and he does not know the effect it has on her until he awakens the next morning to find Marion in a nearby bunk. Realizing the situation, Hargrave resigns from the company as soon as he has safely led Marion from the opium den. Marlon sees the note to her father which says Hargrave, as he is known, must rejoin his wife in Chicago. Her love turns to hate. When Philip reaches Chicago Marion has him arrested for stealing her diamond ring. Mentally irresponsible because of his drug habit, Philip cannot make the fight that he should. He weakly pleads guilty, despite his duty to his wife, so that Marion, whom he considered had been kind to him, should not be compromised because of her visit to the opium den in an effort to save him. The convicted man is sent to a convicts' camp. Here Doris visits him. She arouses the passion of Clark Porter, a "Trusty" who secretly supplies Philip with morphine when told that Philip will be free as soon as he is cured of his craving for narcotics. Through trickery Porter gets an account of Doris' visits to the camp into a blackmailing society paper, making it appear that she is coming to see him. Doris is thereafter refused admittance and Porter thinks to win her when his short term expires. Doris disappears and leaves no trace of her whereabouts, her story not having been believed. When her baby son is born she does not communicate with her husband or her family. Because of the story in the society paper, Philip thinks his wife has deserted him. When he leaves prison he goes into business forsaking the stage. Finally he establishes himself in the city where Doris is living, her son now old enough to contribute to her support by selling newspapers. On the night of a benefit performance of "Ingomar," the hero is taken ill. The elder Van Kortland, who is visiting his son, suggests that Philip play the part. He does so on short notice. Doris is in the audience and recognizes him. Already Philip has been drawn to the little newsboy, his own son, and it is through giving the lad tickets that Doris happened to be present at the performance. On the way home from the theater, Doris is recognized by Porter, now a tramp. He follows her and forces his attentions upon her. The boy, seeking help, appeals to Philip and the elder Van Kortland. They rush to aid the boy's mother, and are overcome with surprise to learn that the woman is Doris. Philip forces a confession from the tramp, thus learning of his wife's innocence. The two are reconciled, and Philip's father is so softened that he even agrees that his grandson may follow the stage as a profession without protest.
- Despite the fact that Harold Derwent is a senior at a Divinity School and in love with Faith Willis, a co-ed, he cannot overcome his passion for gambling. He is a fortunate racetrack gambler and pretends to himself that when he becomes a minister he will justify his conduct by giving part of his earnings to the poor. The gambling phase of his character is betrayed to the college authorities by a fellow student, and Harold is forced to leave college. Despite Faith's hope that he will redeem himself, he believes that he is unworthy of her, and goes out into the world alone. Several years later Harold's success in "beating the bookies" has made him one of the spectacular figures of the American turf. He is found at all the race meets, accompanied by Madge a scheming woman, who pretends love for him while he is on the crest of his gambling wave. However, fortune turns against Harold, now known as "Pittsburgh Pa.," and his fortune ebbs away. Madge leaves him. Harold gives the last horse in his string to his faithful jockey and announces that he is through with gambling. At the railroad station he hands all his money in at the window, asking for a ticket for as far as his money will take him. Securing a ticket for Royalton, on the train he meets William Ashton, who is just going to take charge of the "Church of Our Faith" at Royalton. The men are struck by their remarkable resemblance to each. When the train is wrecked the minister is killed. Tempted by the opportunity to get back into the ministry Harold takes the name of William Ashton and becomes pastor of the Royalton church. He receives a letter from Ashton's wife, who had hurried to the bedside of her dying father. Later Faith, who had married Ashton, comes to join her husband, and of course recognizes Harold. For his sake she remains silent, seeming his wife in the eyes of the parishioners. A thief confesses to the minister that he has committed a burglary. Harold goes with him to the hiding place of the jewels and finds them strangely familiar. When he returns the plunder he discovers that the jewels are Madge's. Madge immediately recognizes her former lover. Proceeding to blackmail him, she secures all the money he possesses. Finally she persuades him to bet $15,000 held as a trust fund on a race at the Royalton meet. Harold turns the money over to the jockey, not recognizing his old boy, Eddie. Madge produces a child, which she claims is the son of Harold. The minister does not know what to do, but hones that he will be able finally to purchase Madge's silence by his winnings from the race. His horse loses, the jockey being injured and taken to a hospital. A minister is sent for and Harold responds. He now recognizes Eddie, who tells him that he did not bet the money, but hid it in a stall. Harold recovers the money, and at the same time Eddie's mother comes to ask for the baby which she had lent Madge, the child being Eddie's little brother. Thus Madge is foiled just when she saw her scheme successful. She plays her final card, declaring that the minister and the notorious "Pittsburgh Hal" are one and the same. Faith stands by the man whom the church knows only as her husband, and her word is believed against that of Madge. Faith and Harold go to a distant city and are quietly married. Then they return to the Church of Our Faith at Royalton and continue their good work. Harold having been forever cured of his passion for gambling.
- Ethel is suddenly popular in her boarding-house when the men mistakenly think that her brother is wealthy. Becoming confused by all the attention, she agrees to marry three different men. Each arrives with a minister but Jake, the rich brother of another boarder, takes care of all three and marries Ethel himself.
- Uncle Adolph could be very happy with his two young comely nieces, if they but made their eyes behave. Alas the flirtations that they carried on whenever he relaxed in his vigil were such as proved a continuous source of annoyance. Things got so exasperating that poor Uncle Adolph began to look around for a female chaperone for the two jolly though naughty girlies. One night the gentleman-oglers became so bold as to serenade the nieces much to Uncle's chagrin. That was plenty. A chaperone must be engaged, but who? An ingenious moment, suggested his sister-in-law, Aurora, whom he had not seen for more than twenty-five years. She was written to and on she came. But what a surprise to Uncle Adolph; instead of securing the aid of a typical spinster for the office, he found that he had brought a merry, yes flirtatious relative into his midst. Of course the girls were never checked in their flirtations and Auntie even encouraged them in their amusement of this variety, with the result that Uncle Adolph, so deluged with relatives of this kind, was finally forced to change his views and give his sanction.
- Helen Arthur, petted, spoiled and successful prima donna of the light opera stage, goes to a fishing village to gain color and atmosphere for a new operatic role. She boards at the cottage of a fisher maiden, Nettie Lea. Nettie is in love with a young sea captain, Rex Bristol. Rex falls in love with the prima donna, and rescues her from drowning. Rex's infatuation increasing, Nettie becomes jealous. Helen has come to the village incognita, and when Nettie learns that she is an actress, she turns her out of her cottage. Securing lodging at a nearby hotel, Helen, out of revenge, plans to complete her conquest of Rex. One day while out sailing with him, Helen sings the popular ballad, "The Isle of Love." Her conquest is complete. Rex seizes her in his arms and kisses her. Helen is indignant, then taunts Rex by saying she has been playing with him, acting, all the time. She returns to New York, leaving him a victim of despair. After a successful season in New York, Helen is preparing to start west on a tour. Among her admirers coming to her last performance in New York is John Leonard, a wealthy clubman and yachtsman. Rex is now captain of the yacht owned by Leonard, and goes with him to the theater. He is persuaded to bid Helen good-bye. Hurt at Helen's cruelty when they meet, he leaves her in highest indignation. The following day, as a farewell entertainment to the star, Leonard makes up a cruising party in Helen's honor. Because of an automobile accident, other members of the party fail to reach the boat. Leonard determines to run away with Helen, and orders Rex to take the yacht to sea. When Helen screams, Rex rescues her, but still cannot be convinced of the girl's innocence in her relations with Leonard. Rex is discharged, and is unable to get another ship. Following a nervous breakdown, Helen abandons her theatrical trip and a month or two later boards an ocean liner for a vacation in the Orient. On this same ship Rex is serving as wireless operator. When the vessel is burned, Rex rescues Helen. They reach an uninhabited island, and here again the flirt in Helen asserts herself. Rex, goaded on by her witchery, takes possession of the girl. He uses the authority vested in him as a sea captain, and performs his own marriage ceremony. Helen rebels against her husband's authority, and thinks she hates him. A child is born to them. When a schooner, stopping for Water at the island, offers to take her and her child back to civilization. Helen tells the captain that there is no one else on the island, and she and her baby leave for civilization. Rex is left alone, not knowing what became of his wife and child. Helen goes back to the stage. However, she comes to realize gradually that there is no sweetness in triumph now. The need of a father for her child also drags on her heart. Finally she makes a big resolve and returns to "The Isle of Love,'' where her husband welcomes both wife and child.
- An absorbing and beautifully illustrated story of man's progress and civilization up to the present time in spite of Satan's efforts.
- Richmond, Va., is undoubtedly one of the best advertised cities in the United States, its name being heralded throughout the land since the Confederacy made it its capital and the Federal battle cry became. "On to Richmond." Hence it is of interest to managers of motion picture theaters to learn that the Gaumont Company will show Richmond in its "Sea America First" series. Among the panorama views are Capitol Square, the Capitol and State Library. Battle Abbey, the spot where the first iron foundry in America was established. The battlefield of Gaines' Mill, the battlefield of Seven Pines, and the Post Office and its environs. Places of ante-bellum interest shown in this release include the home and school of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, the graves of John Tyler and James Monroe, Presidents of the United States; Gamble's Hill, which John Smith marked as the site of Richmond in 1607, and Washington's Headquarters. The Civil War is brought vividly to mind by pictures of tho Confederate Veterans' Home, home of General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate Monument, and monuments to Generals Lee and J.E.B. Stuart, and to Jefferson Davis, the Confederate Museum, and many sites and relics of that period.
- Little does Rev. Martin Preston know when he falls in love with pretty Helen Claude that he must ask her hand of her uncle, Francis Claude, the candidate for congress. Preston is a foundling, and upon that fact Claude bases his refusal when he visits the village where Helen has been visiting. The whole village is talking of the affair, as it even divides attention with the great murder mystery. Judge Green has been murdered. Joe Trimmer, the miller, has been accused and convicted on circumstantial evidence. Mrs. Royal, keeper of the village inn, is extremely friendly with the young minister, and tells him that she will see that Francis Claude gives his consent. She reveals herself to the politician as Grace Goodman, the girl he had deserted in his youth. Mrs. Royal has a daughter about to marry Tom Carroll, a quick tempered young man of the village. To secure Claude's consent, Mrs. Royal reveals to him that Martin Preston is their child, born after he had left her promising to return and marry her. Claude is overcome by this confession. Not only does he write a note to his niece, who has returned to the city, giving his consent, but he also indicates in it that he wishes Preston to inherit his property. He also secretly gives a sum of money to Tom Carroll, since he is about to marry Mrs. Royal's daughter. That very night Claude is murdered in the same manner that Judge Green met his death, being stabbed by an assailant with his face hidden who reaches through the curtains at the window. Mrs. Royal enters the room at this moment, rushes to the window, and sees the minister on the lawn. Immediately she thinks of him as the murderer, seeking vengeance upon his recreant father. She determines to keep the secret, but the struggle is doubly hard since the man her daughter is to marry is accused. The circumstantial evidence is the money Claude gave him secretly just before his death. Even the new residents in the village are wrought up over the affair. Led by Jerry Drake a pleasing fellow who spends his time at the inn, indignation runs high. Finally suspicion even points toward the minister as a party to the crime. Preston is arrested. His mother watches the detectives who have invaded Preston's home. While doing so she sees a muffled figure visiting a dry well and concealing a package. The man is extremely like her son, whom she thinks guilty of murder. She man accosts him, and the grapples with her. Screaming for help, detectives run from the minister's home upon hearing her cries. They seize the man whom they find is Jerry Drake. Evidence of the several murders is found upon him. He is led off to prison. The innocent men are released, and soon wedding bells ring for the two happy pairs.
- Maud was married to a very well educated man, who had drifted down to the lowest depths and had become associated with several men of very bad character. On the day the story opens Ralph Ansell, her husband, returns, followed shortly after by one of his original friends, who proposes that they should commit burglary and endeavor to obtain some very valuable jewelry, which he has located in a wealthy residence. Maud, hating the life that she is being forced to lead, decides to leave her husband and go away. The poor girl wanders about homeless and is taken care of by some nuns, who train her as a nurse. Meanwhile Ralph Ansell and his friend, Joe Carter, in the act of committing the burglary are discovered and traced to their hiding-place. A desperate encounter follows. Ralph is shot by the police while trying to swim the river, and Joe Carter is caught and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Maud is not aware of these facts, and some years later, while nursing the Earl of Bracondale, she reads the news of the release of Joe Carter, and the history of the case is revived and mention made of her husband's death. At this time the Earl of Bracondale has become infatuated with Maud and proposes marriage. While they are spending their holiday at the Seaside. Ralph Ansell, who is supposed to have been fatally shot by the police, but who had cleverly escaped, recognizes his wife. He follows her and endeavors to blackmail her. He is successful in forcing her to make an appointment at midnight, when she promises to hand him over her jewelry, as she had no actual money to give him. By curious coincidence, Joe Carter had that night intended to burglarize the place, not knowing who resided there. He breaks into the house and is disturbed by footsteps. Hiding behind the curtain, to his astonishment he sees Maud enter the room, followed immediately after by Ralph Ansell (whom he thought dead) and notices the passing of the jewelry. A dispute arises between Maud and Ralph and he is about to kill her. This is too much for Joe Carter (who had always had a secret love for Maud) and in a fit of desperation he shoots his late co-partner in crime. Realizing that he has aroused the household with the noise of the revolver, he begs Maud to accept the revolver and suggests that Ralph was killed in self-defense, he escaping unknown. The family believing this "The White Lie."
- Bizzy Izzy is in the cloak trade. Although Muggs, his cloak model, is not unattractive to him, she is the cause of his losing a lot of business. Being homely as mud, with a figure like a toothpick, she fails to display to advantage the garments in which she parades for the delectation of the buyers. At last, Izzy's office manager persuades him to advertise for a beautiful model. Maisy, fair of form and face, answers the ad. She has been having trouble with her husband, who cannot see but that her last year's hat is good enough for another season, and the rebellious young wife is delighted when Izzy selects her out of the multitude of applicants. Frank, Maisy's husband, finds a clue in the newspaper from which she has torn the advertisement, and buying another copy, discovers Izzy's address. Rushing to the cloak maker's establishment, he demands his wife. Izzy's protestations of ignorance are of no avail, for Frank suddenly spies on the table the source of all his troubles. "Whose hat is that?" he cries. "It's yours for a dollar," rejoins Izzy, always with an eye to business. Frank leaves in disgust. On the stairs, however, he hears Maisy's voice. Rustling back to thrash Izzy, Frank finds that again his recalcitrant bride has given him the slip. An hour later he has the pleasure of rescuing Maisy from an embarrassing position in a restaurant, where Izzy has left her to pay the bill. They are attacked on the sidewalk by Izzy, who has equipped himself with boxing gloves, putting a horse-shoe in one of the gloves for luck. By mistake, the cloak-maker places an uppercut on Maisy's jaw instead of her husband's. Muggs and her brother happen along, bent on revenge. They have Izzy arrested. Maisy goes home with her spouse. And Izzy is compelled to give Muggs back her old job.
- Inglewood, Cal: New aeroplane carries motorcycle. The land machine could be sent for aid if the air-machine were in distress. New York City: New armored car with observation tower. Can also be used for field wireless machine gun or searchlight. Philadelphia, Pa: German sailors removed to Atlanta. 750 officers and men from interned Teuton vessels are sent to Fort Oglethorpe. Philadelphia, Pa: First woman in U.S. Navy. Miss Loretta Walsh has Chief Yeoman's rank, and will serve in recruiting service. Baton Rouge, La: The old gives way to the new. Prison erected in 1822 is displaced by new modern structure. Latest Style in Milady's Footwear: Courtesy of I. Miller, New York. Subtitles: Street boot, field mouse color, new fabric top to match. Gray kid walking pump, suede back to match. Silver satin, beaded evening boot. Patent kid slippers, cut steel buckle. New York City: Boy scouts break speed record. Orders for quick mobilization given at 11 a.m. finds 2,000 boys in camp by 2 p.m. New York City: Flashing the news to Broadway. Behind the scenes of the Great White Way's biggest electric sign. Subtitles: Receiving the News Bulletins. Nearly 3,000 keys, similar to a typewriter, are used to operate this sign; over 75 miles of wire were used in its construction. The entire keyboard is shifted to make the contact which flashes the message to the thousands on the streets. The sign is "set up" from this copy rack. The flash as it appears from the street. Your Country Needs You Now: "The Navy offers exceptional advantages to young men of ambition to serve for national defense." Subtitle: Apply immediately to U.S. Naval Reserve Force, any Navy Yard or Naval Recruiting Station. Annapolis, Md: Middies, 1917 class graduates. Future Naval Commanders receive their degrees. Subtitle: The Bulldogs of the Deep. Cincinnati. O: Taking a long chance. Daredevil does stunts 502 feet above street level. New Orleans. La: Munitions train is wrecked. Freight car lands on top of engine. Two hurt. San Antonio, Texas: U.S. Army conducts important transportation experiment. The 37th Infantry leaves Camp Wilson for a 150-mile trip to Laredo, carrying all equipment by motor and tractor train.
- Old Jim loses his money in the gambling house of "Doc" Ardini, an international crook. Feeling sorry for the old man, Ardini gives him a job. He will not write his motherless twin daughters that he is down and out. They come to the city to earn their living. Jessie secures a position in a department store, and Mary gets a place in the chorus of a musical comedy. They keep house for their father, who pretends he has honest employment. At her place of business. Jessie is seen and admired by William Stuyvesant, a young millionaire. After meeting her and impressing her with the honesty of his intentions, Stuyvesant asks Jessie to marry him. Before she can reply, word comes that her father has killed a man when the police raid Ardini's resort. Learning of her father's calling and his arrest for murder, Jessie feels she cannot marry Stuyvesant. Without telling him why, she declines his offer and moves to escape his attentions. She merely writes that there is a terrible secret in her life that makes her marriage impossible. She has also kept from him that she has a twin sister who is on the stage. However, Stuyvesant learns her new address. He visits her and persuades her to marry him. Old Jim will not give his right name, and after a trial is sent to prison for ten years under the name of Jim O'Connor. Ardini is imprisoned three months for keeping a gambling house. On leaving prison, Ardini is in need of money. He learns of Jessie's marriage and also that Stuyvesant does not know of old Jim's disgrace and Mary's stage career. Getting Mary under his hypnotic power, he sends her to Jessie for money to keep from revealing the family secrets. Jessie is killed in an automobile accident and her husband is inconsolable. Ardini, under an assumed name, wins Stuyvesant's friendship. He claims spiritualistic powers, persuading Stuyvesant that through him he can see his late wife, Ardini forces Mary to pose at a distance as Jessie. One of the demands he makes, saying it is necessary for the spiritual manifestation, is that all the servants leave the country place the evening Stuyvesant is to be shown his wife's spirit. Ardini then plans to rob the safe in the millionaire's room. Mary rebels against tricking her late sister's husband, and gets word to him of the imposition. The safe is protected by an automatic device that fires a revolver when the combination is tampered with. Unaware of this, Ardini decrees his own death. Mary tells the family secrets to Stuyvesant, who marries her just as soon as he can secure her father's pardon.
- Tobias Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London, reacts to seven memorable scenes featuring medieval weapons and armor and rates them based on their historical accuracy.
- New York City: Old Dominion Line steamer "Hamilton" severely damaged by a collision with a stone pier at Sandy Hook during a terrific storm. New York City: Girls in the white goods trade joining the great garment workers' strike. Philadelphia, Pa: The annual New Year's Mummers' Parade. Pittsburgh, Pa: The Ohio River sweeps through the city. The railroad yards and business section inundated. New York City: J. Pierpont Morgan, and the heads of the Stock Exchange at the funeral of James R. Keene, the well-known financier and sportsman. New York City: M. Andre de Fouquieres, the French nobleman, who is now giving lectures at Maxine Elliott's Theater on "Heroism" and "Dandyism." San Francisco, Cal: Olympic Club's Swimming Contest in mid-winter. A dip in the sea at the Golden Gate. Baltimore, Md: Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, receiving the National Guard officers of his state. Salem, Ore: Trusted convicts prove worthy. Governor West, of Oregon, as an experiment, allows penitentiary prisoners to work outside the walls, without guards. It is a success. Ellis Island: Castro, the stormy Petrel of the South and the Northern Broom. The Fashion in Paris and New York. France: The Greyhound Club of France. Powerful coursers with the hares in speed. Constantinople, Turkey: Funeral of the patriarch, Joachin III. Paris, France: Four-footed police. Useful auxiliaries against the Apaches. Nuremberg, Germany: The flames destroying the Art Gallery. A great loss financially and artistically. The Balkan War: The embarking of the Greek troops. The disembarking of the Bulgarian artillery. The triumphant entrance of the Greeks into Salonchi. Princes Boris and Constantin. The spoils of the war. The cruisers of the Great Powers watching in the bay. Valley of Strouma. In flight before the Bulgarian Invasion. The Servian Infantry advancing on the conquered countries.
- Being in Mr. O'Flaherty's debt to the tune of $25,000, Montrose sends him a check for $10,000, and states that the rest is more than made up in value by three race horses which are in training at Sam Piper's. O'Flaherty sets out to assume ownership and at once succumbs to the charms of Sam's eldest daughter Viola. Knowing, however, that he will have a better chance of winning Viola's regard if his horses do well in a coming race, he takes care to superintend everything the horses do, and meanwhile makes violent efforts to captivate the fair Viola. As it happens the horses do well, and O'Flaherty seizes the opportunity to make a proposal to the trainer's daughter in broad daylight. His address is rudely interrupted by the sudden appearance of Viola's fiancé, a well-known jockey just returned from his successes in England, and the unfortunate O'Flaherty, realizing that a woman's affection is a fickle thing, decides henceforth to pay attention entirely to his horses.
- Strangers in Boomopolis are a great curiosity; arriving in town, Cissy and Jerry have everybody agog. They take a cab and drive to a large building placarded "To Let." Here the owner meets them, and Cissy and Jerry pay the rent in advance from a large roll of bills. While Cissy engages the owner in conversation, Jerry hooks the money from the landlord's pocket. The newcomers go to the only hotel. As the bellboy is about to leave the room, Cissy hands him a $5 bill. Buttons, in his excitement, trips over the traveling bag, and Jerry gently reclaims the five-spot. A few days later a sign is hung out on the rented building, stating that Cissy and Jerry will pay cash for every cat delivered to them. All kinds of felines are brought them, for which they give 50 cents a head. Meanwhile, the wily urbanites have sent to the city for 600 rats. These are uncrated by night, and turned loose in Boomopolis. The next day cats are in great demand. Cissy and Jerry announce that they will furnish choice mousers at $15 dollars apiece, and ordinary cats at $10. The rush on cats is great, even at these prices. That night Cissy and Jerry leave town. Coming across a stray cat, they claim him as a pet and christen him "Cash."
- "The Margrave's Daughter" reveals the story of a young girl whose love for a nobleman is strenuously opposed by her father, the margrave, a title of nobility corresponding to the French marquis. The two lovers, despite the father's disapproval, attempt to elope from the castle, only to be frustrated at the postern portal. The lover, after a combat with the margrave's knights on the bridge crossing the moat, is finally captured and condemned to decapitation after being adjudged guilty of treason. On the day of the execution the nobleman and his father confessor are slowly led to the platform where the executioners, with their axes and the death block, are awaiting. The margrave, his courtiers and their retinues are in the box overhead prepared to witness the young nobleman's death. A surprise is in store when the priest and the proscribed one reveal their identity, the priest as the young lover, the doomed martyr as the margrave's daughter, she having changed clothes with her lover quite unknown to all. The margrave is baffled as they embracingly kneel side by side and lay their heads on the block together. The stay of execution is ordered and instead the ardent couple is proclaimed man and wife.
- John Carstairs was much agitated when he read of a "society burglar" who had been making wholesale inroads upon the rich homes in the vicinity. When he showed the article to his daughter, Diana, and his son, Jack, Diana proposed that they give a house party and hold a burglar hunt. Two of the guests at the house party were Larry Hunter and Cyril Cadwalader, rivals for Diana's hand. Jack Carstairs, on mischief bent, sent notes, purporting to come from Diana, saying to each that she feared the other was the "gentleman burglar." So each was eager to catch the other red-handed. Jack left a note on the door saying, "I am going to rob this house tonight." Its discovery caused great confusion. That night John Carstairs locked up all the jewels of the guests in the family safe and mounted guard himself, armed with everything from a gun to a watchman's rattle. But Jack, while his father slept, rifled the safe and concealed half the jewels in Hunter's pocket and the rest in Cadwalader's clothes. When the robbery was discovered both Larry and Cyril were bent on fastening the crime on each other. But both were discomfited when jewels were found in their pockets. The crowning discomfiture came when they found that a third suitor for Diana's hand was the favored one. Jack had his fun all right, but he got a whipping.
- Young Mary is indeed a pretty, winsome little damsel, but somehow or other she has never fallen in with the right fellow. This is probably due to the life of isolation that she leads, away off in her country home town. During her vacation she evolves an original scheme to make known her wishes by writing the following on a newly laid egg: "I am young, pretty and rich. I want to marry a nice young man." To this she signs her name and address and awaits further developments. After many, many incidents, the egg is finally served, hard-boiled, to three young gallants in a town restaurant. The one who reads the mission on the egg, notifies the rest and the three start off in hot pursuit. The address takes them to a time-known mansion, under the grape arbor of which they discover an old maid, of whom they inquire for "Mary." She very exultantly informs them that that is her name, whereupon two of the three make their escape, the last being held in her clutches. He produces the egg, believing that it must be a mistake, but she informs him that she is the authoress of the letter on the egg, which was written thirty years ago, when both she and the egg were fresh. The dismay of the young gallant is, however, turned to exultation when old Mary introduces a most charming young niece, who accepts the obligation of marrying the handsome young man whom her aunt has corralled.
- Persistent misfortune followed John Briton, a florist who had a fair business. More than once his wife's brother had helped him over a stile, but business was none too good, and try as he would, Briton found it impossible to keep his head above water. He got seriously behind with his rent, and, although his landlord exhibited much patience in granting him respite, his patience was at last exhausted, and he placed the matter in his lawyer's hands. In his extremity, Briton wrote to his brother-in-law, stating that unless he came to their assistance once again, they would be sold out. Verder, the brother-in-law, was a miserly person, and when Briton followed closely upon the delivery of his letter, he refused to render him any assistance. Exasperated at his relative's refusal, the florist left the house in a rage and was overheard by his neighbors to make threats against Verder. Angered by Briton's appeal to him, Verder was not in a good mood when a tramp called and asked his assistance. The tramp put his case plausibly, but he made no impression on the hard heart of the miserly Verder, who ordered the man off the premises. He went. Curiously enough, in the course of the morning, the tramp called at Briton's house, and the florist, in spite of his own sorrow, and the black outlook that threatened the happiness of himself, his wife and child, assisted the man as best he could, and his little daughter, seeing that the man needed boots, gave him a pair of her father's. Later on in the day, the body of Verder was found at the entrance of his house. News of his death spread quickly. Footprints had been discovered by the police. The size and style of the footprints corresponded to Briton's, and he was arrested. The child was quick-witted and remembered her gift of the boots to the tramp. This she explained to the police, and after diligent search, the tramp was discovered. But he stoutly maintained his innocence until the little daughter of the accused man made a desperate appeal to him to save her father. Then the callousness of the man broke down, and, in confessing that he had struck down the miser, he showed that all feeling of chivalry was not dead in him. The confession was sufficient to clear Briton.
- Jones, provision dealer, is in search of a fittingly appetizing name for a new delicacy he is about to put on the market. The Italian word for butterfly, "Farfaletta," appeals to him much more than any other and, with boundless enthusiasm over such a happy name selection Jones invites the members of his club to attend a banquet on "Farfaletta." The wife happens to come upon one of these invitations and she immediately begins to suspect the worst, namely that "Farfaletta" must be the name of some immoral actress with whom her husband has become enamored. After agitating herself and her mother up to the point of frenzy, she learns that Farfaletta is, after all, only a kind of macaroni.
- A canal picture depicting the joy followed by despair of desolate loneliness on the part of a waterman. While plodding his weary road in harness drawing the heavy canal boat along the waterway, the waterman meets his love. They marry and enjoy the ceremonies that a wedding on a boat roof can only make possible. The pair feast beneath the starry sky until the bride persuades her happy husband on the night of their wedding day for a walk on the moonlit shore. Midst the happiness of their embraces she suddenly dies. The husband has her clad in her wedding gown and wearily plods his way, dragging the cumbersome boat down the canal.
- Two young lovers are married and entertain their friends at the wedding reception, where one of the young ladies loses a ring. The young bride loses her garter just at this time and, picking it from the floor, runs out of the room to adjust it. Her husband alone sees her, and suspects that she has stolen the ring. That night, after the guests have departed he accuses her and leaves the house in rage. Returning next morning, he finds his young wife gone to her old home, and that one of the servants has found the ring in a corner. He is overcome at realizing the cruelty of his mistake, and hunts his dainty young wife up at the home of her mother. At first she refuses to extend him forgiveness, but later gives in and brings happiness to both hearts.