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- Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
- In ancient Athens, four young lovers escape into the woods. Meanwhile, tradesmen rehearse a play. All of them suffer from the shenanigans of mischievous fairies.
- The story of the ill-fated love affair between Marc Antony and Cleopatra.
- Returning to his estate in North Carolina, Judge Slocum Price, a member of Congress in 1830, finds that his wife has taken their child and eloped with David Gatewood; and the domestic tragedy causes him to become a vagabond. Five years later, the judge and his companion (Solomon Mahaffy) on a Mississippi River boat meet a child known as Hannibal, accompanied by Bob Yancy. The judge suspects Hannibal to be his missing son. Colonel Fentress, an outlaw leader, has the boy kidnapped from Yancy, but Hannibal escapes and takes refuge on a skiff; meanwhile, the judge, who has been arrested for innocently passing counterfeit money, escapes, finds Hannibal on the river, and discovers that actually Fentress was the abductor of his wife. Betty Malroy, a friend of Hannibal's, marries Charley Norton, her childhood sweetheart; but Fentress has him shot on their wedding day. Following the rescue of Betty and Hannibal from Fentress, the judge challenges him to a duel. Solomon schemes to go in the judge's place and is mortally wounded; but the judge arrives and shoots Fentress. The judge regains his fortune, and Betty is won over to the affections of Bruce Carrington, who is trapped with her in the rapids.
- On a South Sea island, wealthy hunter Scott Quaigg meets Tiare, the daughter of a drunken Scotsman and a native woman, who happily give permission to marry her. While sailing to his home in New York, Quaigg treats Tiare roughly and throws Captain Croft overboard when he comes to her defense. Quaigg attempts to tame Tiare by exploiting her superstitions and threatening her with the same whip he uses on his pet leopard. Later, Tiare awaits her husband's return from a hunting trip with a gun and fires as a man enters, only to discover that it is Captain Croft, who was saved from drowning. Quaigg finds them together and releases the leopard. However, the beast kills its master before being shot by Croft. Afterward, Tiare and Croft return to the South Seas together.
- Vain and ashamed of their poverty, Sylvia Gray, wife of unsuccessful playwright Henry Gray, elopes with Lennox, a wealthy young man, taking her daughter "Silvery" with her. The child is later taken away by Margy, an old servant, and brought up in another city. Lennox deserts Sylvia and she goes partly insane, finally killing him. Her daughter "Silvery" becomes an artist's model and falls in love with Vanveldt, her employer. Meeting Frankenstein, a hypnotist, whose wife Vivette is intensely jealous of him, Silvery falls under his influence. Meanwhile, Sylvia returns to Gray and finds he has become blind, with no recollection of the past. She uses her utmost endeavors to make reparation for the past in caring for him, and gradually his memory returns. He remembers he has received a large sum of money for one of his plays and hidden it. They find it and Frankenstein, who learns of the treasure's recovery, forces "Silvery" while under his power, to rob the old man. She is about to stab Gray when Frankenstein is killed by Vivette; the spell is broken and all ends happily in the betrothal of Silvery and Vanveldt and the reunion of Mr. Gray and Sylvia, who remorsefully and penitently admits the justice of all her punishment and determines that the past shall be forgotten in the happiness of the future.
- Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On "the ragged edge," he takes refuge in China, where he meets and is nursed back to health by Ruth Endicott, daughter of a missionary. They marry and go to an island in the South Seas where, later, his innocence is proved.
- The scene opens as King Arthur declares the ninth of the tournaments, the prize of which is the last of nine diamonds. Queen Guinevere declares that illness will prevent her attendance and promptly Launcelot declares that he will not enter the lists, supposing that the Queen's indisposition is but the excuse for their meeting. His declaration is received with surprise, for he has won the other tournaments and wields the mightiest lance. The Queen quickly undeceives the sharer of her guilty love and bids him go to the tournament and win. Launcelot rides forth, attended only by his squire, and, coming to the castle of Astolot, demands of its lord a plain shield that his identity may he hidden. He is made welcome and given the shield of Sir Torre whose shield is yet blank, for he was defeated by Launcelot at the last tournament and may not blazon his arms upon his shield until he has achieved a victory. Launcelot leaves his own shield, bearing his device, in the care of the lovely Elaine, who urges him to wear her broidered sleeve upon his helmet when he rides against the others in the lists. Though he never before has worn a lady's gage, he accepts the favor and rides forth, little thinking of the damage he is doing. At Camelot he again defeats all other knights, but in the last encounter he is himself sorely wounded and is carried off the field by the faithful Sir Lavaine. A dagger has been thrust beneath his shoulder and its removal is followed by so copious a flow of blood that Lavaine hurries him to a hermit's cave, where he is cared for. King Arthur has sent Sir Gawain in search of the stranger knight, whose prowess has roused comment and it is Gawain who first brings to Astolot the news of Launcelot's victory and wound. Elaine goes to the hermit's cave, where she nurses him back to health, but Launcelot loves only the Queen and at last he rides away without a farewell. He meant it in all kindness, but he has broken the tender heart of the gentle maid, and on the bed of death she writes him a farewell and "the dead steered by the dumb," goes to Arthur's Court to bear the last adieu. Sadly the Queen places flowers upon the bier and Launcelot, oppressed by grief keeps knightly vigil beside the fragile form, finding there the repentance that in time purged his soul from the crime of illicit love.
- Two little children who think they are very much in love with each other, imbued with their elders' ideas, plan a romantic wedding. The boy, Alvin Strong, confides his intentions to the family's servant Jaspar. Alvin arranges with his sweetheart Jane to elope in the usual way: through a window, with the assistance of a ladder. Alvin instructs Jaspar to hitch the pony to the cart and drive him to Jane's house. He enters into the scheme, greatly enjoying the amusement it affords him. He tries to deport himself with dignity, while restraining his laughter, which almost convulses him. At dusk he drives his young master to the trysting-place where Alvin meets his fiancée, then drives them both hurriedly to the parson's. The good man, entering into the humor of the situation, makes some plausible excuse and the young couple goes away greatly disappointed. Undaunted, Alvin tells Jaspar to drive him to his cabin, where he induces Jaspar's young son to play the parson and marry them. Jaspar's wife, taking it all as child's play, goes soundly to sleep, while Jaspar peeps through the window and almost laughs himself sick. The ceremony over, Alvin directs him to take them to an ice-cream parlor. It is now getting rather late for the youngsters, and both fall asleep over their refreshments. Alvin's and Jane's parents are distracted when they miss them and immediately start searching for them. Finding them in the restaurant, they lift them tenderly in their arms and into their carriage. Alvin wearily shakes his hand in an effort to be gallant. Jane, in dreamland, is driven home and put to bed.
- Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his family and then shakes the rose bushes over their heads, causing the white leaves to fall upon their heads in a shower of rarest sun tints. Again we see Helen a grown-up girl, fresh from the graduation exercises, happy in possessing her cherished diploma. Just as she is passing with some of her schoolmates under the rose bushes, her father, with the remembrance of his daughter's babyhood in his mind, shakes the bushes, while the white petals of the roses drop down upon Helen and her friends. Four years later, Helen's father having died, she sees a magazine article on the country girl's opportunities in the city. She decides to venture forth on her own responsibility to test her own independence and ability by securing employment in the metropolis. Located in the city in a cheap, poorly furnished room, Helen is trying to keep up her courage and content herself with her meager fare and depleted purse. Hearing a knock at the door, Helen opens it, and one of her newly formed acquaintances, a chorus girl, enters. She induces Helen to go to dinner with her. The poor child, conscious of her inferior wardrobe, enters the gilded halls of revelry like a timid fawn. Surrounded by the revelers, who are fast becoming intoxicated. Helen wishes for a chance to escape from the trap which has been set for her. One of the party, a young man names Howard, makes advances to Helen. One of the women takes a bouquet of roses from the vase on the table and shakes the rose leaves over the young man and Helen. Like magic they remind Helen of home and mother, and she casts off the spell which has been thrown about her, denounces Howard and his companions, and seizes her wraps and leaves the place. Howard is nonplussed and offers to bet he will follow Helen and bring her back. He goes, but she will not listen to his invitation to re-visit the restaurant, and tells him to leave her presence. He feels ashamed and avows that he loves her and will prove worthy of her love. Howard returns to the dinner and declares himself a changes man with a fixed purpose to lead a better life, and bids them all good-bye. Howard goes to see Helen, and finally they become engaged to marry, and when the goes home he goes with her. She finds her mother seated in the garden under the roses. Helen introduces her fiancé to her mother. In the last scene Helen and Howard are passing through the rose garden just after their marriage ceremony, clothed in their wedding garments.
- After heavy loss at the gaming table, Edna Marshall exercises her wiles on Mr. Harold Ainsley, an aged and wealthy American gentleman, whom she meets at an afternoon tea. She does not love him, but she must have money. He proposes to her and they are married. After the honeymoon, her husband's nephew comes to visit them at their home, for a few week's vacation. The young wife longs for younger society. She endeavors to arouse the nephew's love for her and add him to her list of conquests. He resists her charms, and in revenge, she tells her husband that she has been insulted by his nephew. Mr. Ainsley, in anger, calls the younger man to account, and accuses him of violating his confidence. The young man declares his innocence and insists that Mrs. Ainsley be called before them. She appears and when she is confronted by the young man, she confesses her duplicity. Her husband repudiates her and his nephew denounces her. She realizes her great mistake when she finds herself cast off by both men. She is overwhelmed with remorse and shame.
- A wealthy young fellow during vacation becomes infatuated with a poor country girl. He is introduced to her father, whom he discovers is an inventor. For the sake of the girl he invests a large amount of money in one of her father's inventions, at the same time knowing it is of no commercial value. In his room that night he writes in his diary about his doings of the day, and also writes down this foolish investment he has made through love for the Swan Girl. He advises her father to send the daughter to the same boarding-school his sister is attending, and the old gentleman acts upon his suggestion. His sister and the Swan Girl become quite chummy, so much so they decide to spend their vacations at her brother's house. The Swan Girl and the young man meet again in his home, and they are mutually delighted. One day while he is away, his sister shows the other girl his room, thinking it would be interesting to her to see a bachelor's room, and they come across the diary. The girl picks it up and finding the article about his foolish investment in her father's invention, she, feeling piqued and embarrassed, packs up and leaves hurriedly for her home, where she tries to forget the young man. He follows her and finds her occupied with the swans as she was when he first saw her. Here he urges her to reconsider her decision to forget him.
- In search of geological specimens, Professor McGill reaches Desert Isle and becomes so engrossed with the many rare scientific possibilities of the place that he almost becomes a native. During his stay, he lives with an old beachcomber, whose daughter, Jean, he finds a valuable assistant in locating many rich discoveries. The girl is without education and the professor teaches her to read and imparts much knowledge during his five years' residence upon the isle. One day he sadly announces to Jean and her parents that he is about to leave them. This is a hard blow to Jean as she has been excluded from the rest of the world all her life, and she feels that she will be deprived of hearing and learning more of the things which she longs for. The professor writes a letter to Robert Wayne, one of his former associates, hoping to lure the young man to visit Desert Isle, pointing out to him that there is a great treasure there which will enrich the finder, supplementing it with a map showing exactly where the treasure is located. Professor Wayne decides to take advantage of this information, and if possible, locate the treasure. He is accompanied by Dr. Blake, who is equally enthusiastic. They both are aware that Professor McGill has always been eccentric, and his sudden disappearance and unknown whereabouts must mean that he is anxious to enrich them with his discovery. The two men arriving at Desert Isle, meet Jean, whom Robert Wayne thinks is the most lovely woman he ever beheld. After many days they fail to locate their quest, but in the meantime, Robert becomes better acquainted with Jean. She fascinates him with her knowledge of things which he believed were only within the range of the college student. His acquaintance with her ripens into love, until finally he proposes to her and she consents to become his wife. While sitting on the beach, they suddenly see a sail far out upon the sea, which fills them with wonder. They are not kept long in suspense. A small boat is lowered from the side of the vessel, approaches the shore and a man jumps from the boat. It is Professor McGill. Cordial greetings are exchanged and Robert Wayne informs him of his failure to locate the treasure. The professor asks him is he does not think he has found a treasure in Jean. She gazes up into Robert's eyes and the look which he returns convinces us that he has found a treasure he prizes above all others.
- The story concerns a mercenary and managing mother and her daughter, Agnes. The young lady loves a youthful doctor, but a match is frustrated by the mother, who seeks to marry the daughter to the highest bidder. The mother's extravagance ruins the father, who, being in ill health, succumbs to heart failure. With poverty staring them in the face, the mother takes Agnes abroad, finally forcing her into a marriage with an Australian millionaire. To do so, the mother intercepts all letters between Agnes and the young doctor, with the result that each feels that the other has ceased to care. The millionaire and his young wife, while on their honeymoon on his yacht, are shipwrecked. He is dealt a terrible blow on the head, and it completely destroys his memory. The young wife is saved and returns to America, while her husband is picked up by a French fisherman. His memory gone, he does not recall his previous existence in America. Agnes and the doctor renew their love affair and finally marry, excellent proof having been furnished that her former husband had drowned in the shipwreck. There is no opposition to the marriage now, as the mother also had perished in the catastrophe. Five years later, the young doctor has become a famous brain specialist. To him, Agnes' former husband comes for an operation in the hope of restoring his lost memory. The two men, never having met, fail to learn they are both married to the same woman. She discovers it, however, and with her happiness at stake, does not tell her surgeon-husband the truth, but attempts to dissuade him from operating on her first husband, fearful that the operation will prove successful and her first husband regain his lost memory and recognize her as his wife. The humanity in the surgeon surmounts his wife's pleas, but the patient fails to withstand the operation and Agnes' happiness is assured, despite the terrible situations which confronted her.
- A young millionaire, Robert Redwin, does not marry because he cannot find any girl who he is sure loves him for himself alone and not for his millions. Redwin gets a tip that coal is to be found in a certain district in Tennessee, and sends Carter, his agent, to investigate and report. Carter finds valuable deposits at Hell's Gap, on land owned by a poor mountaineer and his granddaughter, Josephine Blake. He telegraphs Redwin advising the purchase of the land at a high figure, and himself schemes to marry the girl, so that he may obtain her coming fortune. Josephine will have nothing to do with Carter, although he threatens that she will get no money unless she marries him. The check paying for the land is never sent by Redwin, who meets with an accident just as he is about to sign it. A heavy picture falls on his head, causing him to lose his memory and forget his identity. He disappears and the papers are filled with the sensation of the lost millionaire. Redwin, having forgotten his own name, wanders about the country and leads the life of a tramp. Chance leads him to Hell's Gap, where he meets Josephine and her grandfather, who befriend him. Hearing from Josephine the story of how she almost became rich, recollections are stirred in Robert's mind and his memory returns to him. Before this he has already won the love of Josephine and he determines to find out whether it will stand the test of riches when she becomes wealthy. Robert sends her the check at last and when she joyfully tells him that she is rich, he bids her farewell, saying that he supposes she will no longer want him now that she is rich. Josephine tells him that her love will ever remain the same and goes with him to New York to be married. Robert does not disclose his identity until they reach his home, where they are married in the presence of Robert's mother, who is happy that her son has won the love of a true woman.
- Nicola pays court to Bianca, the daughter of Angelo, who runs the fruit stand where Nicola works--but Giuseppe, a dandy, wins Bianca's affections. Nicola leaves Angelo's employ and by hard work saves enough money to buy his own fruit stand. Angelo is stricken with a serious illness. Bianca is obliged to care for him and their fruit stand is closed, their income stops, and they are in such need that Bianca considers selling her beautiful hair. Giuseppe, still declaring his love, sees the opportunity to make a commission on the sale of his sweetheart's hair and takes her to the hair merchant greedily desiring to profit by its sale. As Bianca and Guiseppe are entering the merchant's shop, Nicola, on his way to close the transaction for his fruit stand, sees them enter. He watches through the window and just as the merchant takes the shears in his hand to remove Bianca's long raven tresses, he rushes into the place, stops the merchant, and denounces Giuseppe. He takes his savings from his pocket and places them in Bianca's hand, telling her to take the money to her father to relieve their necessity. He rushes out of the shop, followed by Bianca, who overtakes him and insists that he take back the money; she doesn't deserve his kindness or love, and now realizes the differences between his true heart and Giuseppe's pretensions. Nicola declares his love and asks her to become his wife. She is only too happy to place her future in the care and protection of the man willing to make such unselfish sacrifices in her behalf.
- An early silent version of Shakespeare's classic comedy of unrequited love and gender bending.
- Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter Nina than to her, Cleo Morin runs away with Henri Mordan. On the afternoon of their elopement, Morin, a ballet master, is seriously injured on the stage, and the doctor tells him that his spine is so affected that he will never walk again. As soon as he can be moved he goes with his daughter Nina to a distant country, where he begins to train her, as it is his intention to have her become a premiere danseuse. Ten years later Cleo, who has obtained a divorce, has become a popular actress. She buys a country home and is attracted by a bevy of admirers, one of whom is Sidney Bretton, who in reply to her inquiry as to what kind of costume she should wear at a masked ball, tells her to go dressed as "The Tiger Lily." He designs such a costume for her and she goes thus arrayed, accompanied by a Bengal tiger she has purchased. Meanwhile, Morin's health makes it necessary for him to go to the same town where his ex-wife is living, and fate has ordained that he take a villa next to hers. Each is unaware of the other. Becoming deeply infatuated with the artist, Cleo casts off her old admirer, Elbert Lamoreaux, who vows vengeance on the man who has supplanted him. One night he sees Nina dancing in the moonlight; leaving Cleo, he becomes acquainted with the girl by performing a slight service for you. Discovering that Sidney no longer loves her, Cleo by subterfuges manages to get Nina, whom she does not recognize as her daughter, to her home, where she begins to caress her in the presence of Prince the tiger, who becomes jealous of the girl. On an unusually hot day, Cleo increases the jealousy of the tiger by waving in front of him a scarf, left behind by Nina, when Sidney comes to tell her of his engagement to the dancing girl. As he is leaving the house he is shot in the back by Elbert Lamoreaux, and falls wounded to the ground. A thunderstorm is approaching and Cleo lets the infuriated tiger loose. He runs to Morin's residence and as he is just about to enter the house it is struck by lightning and set on fire. Regaining his strength, Sidney goes to Nina, who takes him to her father. Meanwhile, the tiger is rushing from room to room in search of Nina. Cleo enters and finds Nina, her father, and Sidney together, but does not recognize her erstwhile husband or daughter. Speaking to the girl, she threatens to have the tiger, which is standing by her side, destroy her if she does not relinquish her lover, Sidney, Morin, recognizing her, shouts: "Do you not know your ex-husband and daughter?" The shock is too much for the overwrought Cleo and she drops dead to the floor. The tiger is shot a moment later by Elbert, who has come for revenge. It is with difficulty that Sidney and Nina get Morin out of the burning house, the flames of which have consumed the bodies of Cleo and Elbert. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- A damsel-in-distress Western melodrama and a stirring picture of railroad construction and the mining country, with a Snidely Whiplash villain performing dastardly deeds, a spunky and gritty Polly Pureheart heroine and a brave Handsome Harry hero...and filled with action, romance, adventure, bravery...and perils.
- A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin. When the sheriff arrives, she gives him whiskey, while secretly removing the bullets from his gun. The sheriff makes advances towards the girl, and the mountaineer defends her. The mountaineer and girl flee from the cabin and escape.