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- Spartacus sold as a slave rises up and battles the evil Crassus.
- Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption.
- Mr. Robb, a wealthy gentleman, has unearthed a well-preserved statue, which turns out to be of great antiquity. He presents it to the National Museum. Mr. Walls, a rich American, offers £2,000 for it, but is refused. Raffles, as a connoisseur, obtains entrance to Robb's house, where he leaves on a table a case of cigarettes, which he has prepared with opium. Mr. Robb is going away, and asks for a number of policemen to be sent to guard the treasure and convey it to the museum. A detachment is sent, and waiting, grow rather tired, and help themselves to the cigarettes, and are soon unconscious. Raffles and his confederates enter, rolling a large barrel containing a block of stone the same weight as the statue. The latter is placed in the cask, and the stone takes its place in the case. Mr. Walls bribes the guard of the train in which Ganimard and his assistants are carrying the case containing the supposed statue. The guard drops the case from the van, but Ganimard sees the action, and seizes Walls, who is carried off to prison. Ganimard proudly carries the case to the Government offices and opens it, disclosing only a stone. In prison Walls receives a letter from Raffles telling him that the case will fail, and telling him to call on Raffles if he wishes the statue. Raffles has a replica made of the statue, and when Walls calls sells it to him as the original for £5,000.
- Polidor scores at the expense of the stout lady who has previously been his victim. This lady, now his mother-in-law, is distressed at the jubilation which Polidor evinces when his wife sets out on a visit. She will not let him eat a hearty meal. and is shocked when he wishes to play the piano, and at last so exasperates him that, still further tantalized by a letter from his friends of bachelor days asking him to entertain them, he decides on a plan to rid himself of her. A letter to the military authorities telling them that a soldier disguised in woman's clothes is concealed in his house, brings a squad of men to the house, who forcibly seize and carry off ma-in-law to the barracks. Polidor welcomes his friends, who enjoy a riotous meal, and are making merry, when mother-in-law reappears. The party scatters like lightning, and Polidor flees before the infuriated lady, when at last, however, he artfully leaps behind two wire mattresses in the bedroom and mocks at her helplessness.
- The story relates how Salambo, daughter of Amilcar, ruler of Carthage, and Priestess of Tanit, is the keeper of the Sacred Veil "on which human eyes must not gaze." She falls in love with Matho, a slave, who becomes the leader of a band of mercenaries, fighting for Carthage against Rome. Matho steals the sacred veil and Salambo is ordered by the priests to reclaim it. The lovers meet in Matho's tent and Salambo recovers the sacred veil. Matho is made a prisoner by the Carthaginians through the treachery of Narr Havas, who is rewarded by Amilcar for his treachery by the hand of his daughter, Salambo. Matho escapes from prison and death, and the Oracle of Tanit is made to declare, by the instrumentality of Spendius, Matho's faithful slave, that Matho is acceptable to the God and one day shall govern Carthage. Salambo, who has protested against her marriage to Narr Havas, whom she does not love, is thereupon given by Amilcar, her father, to Matho and the marriage ceremony is celebrated with much pomp.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- This drama tells a most thrilling story of the daring attempt of the noblest and best of Italian blood, aided by France to throw off the Austrian yoke in the year 1863, and their escape from death through the courage and heroism of a child. The scene opens with the secret meeting of the chiefs of the revolution in an old house. They are receiving the last news from the sub-committees of the other districts before the signal to attack the Austrian government. Rinaldo Ramardo, the private secretary of Prince Paul, the leader of the revolutionary movement is introduced as a new member, he is desperately in love with the Princess Paul, and when his love is repulsed he plots revenge. Prince Paul trustingly shows the new member Rinaldo, the secret exit from the house to be used in case of emergency. Rinaldo, driven by his insane passion, informs the commander of the citadel of the plot against the government. When the conspirators are surprised in their next meeting they make their escape with the loss of only one member, but he unfortunately carries the list of the leaders. They are fill quickly run to earth, Prince Paul among the number. He had trusted for his escape to the secret exit from his house, but the traitor, Rinaldo, has stolen the key. He bids a touching farewell to his devoted wife and little boy Victor. Overcome with grief at the lengths to which his passion for the Princess had driven him, the traitor kills himself and begs forgiveness with his dying breath. The Prince is quickly condemned to death and a proclamation posted in the city announcing the execution of the political prisoners at dawn the following morning when the bell from the Red Tower rings the signal, but on the morning of the execution, little Prince Victor, his son, passes the sentinels, climbs the old belfry tower and swings from the clapper of the citadel's bell, preventing the death signal. He is brought before the Austrian Commandant and pleads together with his mother for his father's life, but without avail. In the nick of time a dispatch is brought in declaring peace between the French and Austrian armies, and little Victor has saved his father's life.
- Polidor wins the friendship of an elephant whom he liberates from a splinter in his foot
- A couple is prevented from marrying by a local tyrant, and they are not reunited until after a number of misfortunes, including pestilence.