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- A betrayed Fenian is sheltered by a priest, escapes jail, and poses as a corpse at a wake.
- In an East Side tenement there lived an old couple. The husband was a cigar maker, but becoming feeble from age, he is discharged. Back to his cheerless home he comes, where his faithful wife tries to buoy up his spirits. The old man realizes however, that he has lived out his usefulness and appreciates the reality of a future of absolute want, short though it may be. The awful aspect quite undoes him, and he is taken seriously ill. It is indeed a house of sorrow. No money with which to buy food or medicine, the poor couple resort to pawnshops to raise a little money on their household effects, they both being too proud to ask aid from anyone, and there were those in the house who would have been glad to do it. There is a young settlement doctor who administers to the wants of the infirm, but he is kept in ignorance of this case, so the old man goes unattended. A pretty little slavey, who works about the house is the first one to know of the poor couple's sad plight. She in her innocent way has fallen desperately in love with the young doctor, who though meeting her often as he comes and goes, is quite unaware of the interest he has excited. The sincere girl decks herself out in her best dress hoping to fascinate him, but sad to relate, he doesn't notice it. While thus attired she hears the sorrowing of the poor woman, and is moved to a determination to help, but how. She has nothing to spare herself. An idea! And though it hurts her she takes to the pawnshop this one best dress and raises fifty cents on it which she forces the poor woman to take. This is real charity. At length, when her husband is sinking slowly, the poor woman rushes to the City Charity Society. Here we find the red tape of charity. They must make rigid investigation for fear they may give aid to the unworthy. Well, by the time they get through their investigation, the poor man is dead. At this moment the young doctor just hears of the case and learns through finding the pawn ticket the slavey drops, what a jewel in the rough she is, as contrasted with the other women of the Charity Society. Consequently, the girl has made a stronger though mute appeal to him than did her efforts when togged out in her finery.
- The classic story about the jealous and evil queen who tries to kill the beautiful maiden by giving her a poisoned apple. Snow White falls into a deep sleep and can only be awakened by a kiss from a prince.
- Harry Townsend, a young stock broker, is in love with the pretty daughter of James Petersby, a Wall Street magnate, and as Harry is a very promising young fellow, he gives his consent to the match. Harry, however, is hard hit by the panic, and loses practically all. This changes the color of things and the young lover is forbidden the wealthy man's house. Despairing, he goes to look for employment, and in answer to the "ad" of a detective agency, he finds the chief an old friend of his, hence he gets the job. He then goes to see his sweetheart to inform her of his success, but the father catches him and puts him out, suspecting they are planning to elope. Petersby then writes a letter to the Mellon Detective Agency to send to his house a reliable strong woman as guard and companion for his daughter whom he suspects is bent on eloping. This happens to be the agency with which Harry has connected and he prevails upon the chief to be allowed the assignment. He then procures the wardrobe and shaving off his moustache appears at the Petersby mansion the most attractive looking damsel you would meet in a day's journey. Now Mary is rebellious and the fact of being watched is extremely repugnant, so she avows that no woman shall watch over her, but she cannot help herself for she cannot stir without having the lady from Mellon's at her side. That she hasn't recognized her is due to the fact that she has never looked at her, her aversion being so intense. Finally she bursts into tears of anger and then Harry discloses his identity. They, however, carry on the little farce, and the father becomes quite smitten with the fair stranger. Besides flirting with him he gives out valuable stock tips, which Harry makes good use of and recoups his fortune. Thus far, everything goes well, but the old gent is getting serious and suggests that they elope. "Good Heavens!" so Harry exclaims to Mary, "Hurry up: If you don't elope with me, your father will." So away they go, just as papa enters ready to fly with the fair charmer. Learning of their departure, he follows and traces them to Harry's rooms where he is prevented from entering while the marriage ceremony of his daughter and her lover is performed. There is nothing left but to make the best of it, which he does, realizing what a fool he has made of himself, and this is the only means of relieving his own embarrassment.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- The very first Spanish full feature-length film is based on musical composed by Enric Morera on a libretto by Francesc Pujols i Morgades, based on a work by Víctor Balaguer premiered on October 7, 1922 at the Tívoli Theater in Barcelona. The action takes place around the Catalan gang in the seventeenth century; it is a story of impossible love between "nyerros" and "cadells" that culminates with the execution of the titled protagonist.
- A laundryman ties the lieutenant and girls in a sea cave. They are saved by sailors and shell the town.
- In the bar-room of Lonely Gulch an actor is entertaining the cowboys by showing them various impersonations, when the mail arrives, and he receives a letter from his sweetheart to the effect that she has got hold of an easy mark, a ranchman from Lonely Gulch. The bartender also receives a letter from the ranchman asking him to tell the boys that he is returning the following day with a bride who is an actress. The next morning the ranchman and his bride arrive on the coach and are given a great welcome. On the solicitation of his bride he offers the actor employment on his ranch and he accompanies them there. A week later the ranchman, with the cowboys of whom the actor is one, start off for town, but the actor, pretending his horse has gone lame returns to the ranch, and getting back there, makes love to his sweetheart. The ranchman, who is suspicious, also turns and quietly follows and reenters the ranch. We next see the ranchman and his bride come out carrying a body and taking it to and hiding it in a cave. He then goes to the bar-room and announces that he intends to sell his ranch and go east. He soon arranges a deal with a neighbor and they go to the ranch to close it. The sheriff, who was in the bar-room, is, however, suspicious and, together with two deputies, follow at a discreet distance. On their road they hear a voice calling for help and finally locate it in the cave. Here they discover the body, still living. Meantime the ranchman and the purchaser have come to a final understanding as to the sale of the ranch, and the papers are just being signed by the ranchman and his bride, when the sheriff and his deputies enter with the real ranchman, and at the point of their guns tear off the disguise from the false ranchman and disclose the familiar face of the actor, who is arrested and taken away. The bride begs forgiveness, but is ordered to make herself scarce.
- At the opening of the story we find Alice Paulton incurring the extreme displeasure of her father by rejecting the suit of the favored young man of her father for one of her own choice. Determined to marry this man she is disowned by her father, and so leaves his roof and is married. Mr. Paulton, being a widower, at first grieves over the loss of his daughter's love, but later becomes a monomaniac, money being his only thought, and to hoard this his only aim. He becomes a veritable tyrant, grinding his debtors most unreasonably. Thus things go on for several years. Meanwhile a girl child has blessed the young couple, and at the end of ten years the young father is in the last stage of consumption, with little strength left to work. Dire poverty reigns in the household, and in desperation the wife goes to her father to implore his aid. He is now in the extreme of money madness, and almost throws her from his house. The worst is to come, and it comes soon; the young father dies. Here the poor woman is left destitute, with her little girl to care for. Her attempts to secure employment are in vain and starvation stares them in the face. But the little child has faith in prayer. The old man's temper has now gotten worse and his niggardliness more excessive, until finally he sells his home that he may add the returns to his hoard and moves into cheaper quarters. Fate leads him to engage the squalid room directly above his own daughter and granddaughter, although he is quite unaware of it. He is at a loss to find a place to hide his money until he espies a stove-pipe hole in the chimney wall. This he reckons a safe bank, so here he keeps it. On the floor below we see the poor woman despairing, until when she leaves for the next room, the child kneels and prays for aid. At the same moment the old man is replacing his gold in his chimney bank, and shoving it in too far, down the chimney it falls, striking the fireplace below and rolling out in front of the kneeling child. She at once believes it came from the Heavenly Father, and so kneels in thanksgiving. The old man becomes a raging demon at the loss of his money, and when the janitor directs him to the apartment beneath he bursts in and snatches the money from the child's bands. The confusion brings in the mother, and a recognition occurs. The old man is adamant, however, and still refuses aid to his daughter. While in the hall on his way to his own apartment, the thought of the little child on her knees praying with such faith impresses him, and changes his entire nature Well, he returns to his daughter and granddaughter for good.
- Close to Elverhøj lives the superstitious farmer's wife Karen with her daughter Agnete. Agnete and knight Ebbesen love each other, but to their great sorrow, Ebbesen is promised away to the noble-born Elisabeth Munk. But not everything is as it seems.
- The gold-crowned fields of yellow, teeming with sparkling Autumn dew, furnishes a background for planning of life's young and with the too frequent result of blasted hopes. Sallie is a conventional country lass yet in her teens, who was fond of her childhood sweetheart, Jasper, but one night a hunting party, finding their auto short of gasoline, drew up to the little farm house and asked for accommodations until they could send to the city for gasoline. Jim, the spokesman of the party, being more friendly, as it was he who first met Sallie in the corn field and through her directions found the father and bargained with him to pull his machine to the farm house for the night. Sallie entertains her guests with the family organ and soon all repair to their rooms, except Jim, who had quietly arranged to meet Sallie outside, presumably to take a smoke before retiring. They are seen strolling in the moonlight. A little band of gold is placed upon her finger and to the simple country girl a new life has opened up, and Jasper is no longer a serious consideration in her mind. On taking his departure the next morning, Jim presses firmly in her hand a note giving his city address and saying he would return and ask her father's consent for her hand. But Jim was an adept at making promises and equally so in breaking them and was in two months' time married to his fiancée in the city, and poor Sallie was to him as a page torn from the calendar of remembrance. She runs away from the quiet little home to the big city and tries to find Jim. Finding his address, she is informed he is not in the city. She patiently awaits his return, her money almost gone. Upon her return to the office, she finds him in and a smile lights up her troubled face, but only doomed to gloom, for she is confronted by his wife and faints from the shock. Upon being revived she wends her way to the public park to seek solace in silence and solitude. Jim, joy riding, is attracted and hastens to aid the suffering woman, when he discovers it is Sallie. Remorse is plainly visible in his face as the poor confiding girl is borne away. The scene carries us back to the little farm, where ma and pa are sitting alone, waiting and praying for their little girl until restless slumber had closed their eyes.
- About the dangers luring in the jungle of the big city, Copenhagen.
- Consul Bjørn is urgently called to a company meeting in the city. He rushes off leaving his wife Ingeborg alone in their villa. The thief that has lurking outside the house enters through a window. The first thing he sees on is a large portrait of the consul. He eyes the face, discovers a resemblance and decides to become the consul.
- Mrs. Walton is one of those jealous-natured women who misconstrues every act of civility on the part of her husband towards any one of the female sex. In truth, she has no grounds for such feelings, as Mr. Walton is the most devoted of husbands and the kindest of fathers. Every trivial matter that can be construed circumstantial is the food for a quarrel. These quarrels are always in the presence of their little ten year old daughter. So frequent are these discussions that the child, though young, begins to fear for the future. The worst comes when one evening a party of lady friends call on Mrs. Walton; one of them deliberately tries to elicit Mr. Walton's attentions. He quite innocently and courteously acknowledges her, what he merely assumes cordiality. However, Mrs. Walton's eye is ever on the designing lady, and foolishly imagines her husband attracted. After the visitors have departed there is the worst storm yet, and a separation seems inevitable. All this transpires with the child as a witness. Next morning Mrs. Walton packs her trunk and leaves a note to her husband on the breakfast table to the effect that she is determined to begin divorce proceedings. The little one now intervenes, but with poor success. Young as she is, she appreciates the enormity of the affair and is at a loss to prevent it. While she is sitting pondering at the table, an article in the newspaper concerning a Black Hand kidnapping strikes her gaze. The very thing! Supposing something could happen to her, everybody would become alarmed and excited and mamma and papa would no doubt forget their own differences in their efforts to lift the veil of mystery from her. Fine! She at once puts the scheme into effect by writing a letter to her mamma and another to her papa ostensibly from the Black Hand to the effect that she has been kidnapped. Dispatching the letter, she goes to hide at her aunt's home. Arriving at her aunt's house, she finds the place vacant, the aunt having moved. There is nothing for her do put to stroll and kill time. This she does, but wandering so far she loses her way, and falls into the company of some poor but honest folk. Telling them her address, Jimmy, the newsboy, volunteers to escort her home. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Walton are thrown into a state of wild excitement and in their endeavors to locate their missing child forget all else. Hither, thither the search is made, but in vain, and they are both on the verge of mental collapse, when the little one, escorted by the gallant newsboy, enters. She then makes clear the reason tor her escapade. The parents now realize how foolish they have been and what their little tot has taught them.
- Bella is a dancer in a music ball at Butte. She is pretty, light-hearted, and yet possessed of a refined nature that commands a respect not looked for in such surroundings. Strolling through the city park one morning, she steps on an uneven spot in the path and turns her ankle. Her cry of pain brings to her aid Howard Raymond, who assists her to her home. Bella's demure manner and pretty face appeal to Howard, and he realizes it is a case of love at first sight. Bella, herself, is deeply impressed with the young man the accident has caused her to meet. However, she realizes her position and dissipates all serious thoughts on the matter. Howard, who is a newspaper artist and an enthusiast in all respects, tells his fellow artists of his love for the unknown girl. They, being used to his impetuousness, simply smile. On this occasion he is in earnest, and hastening back to the girl's house, he surprises her in her dance hall attire. This she explains by making him believe that she is a member of a traveling dramatic company. Well, it is the old story. The accident was simply a trick of Cupid to bring two hearts together, and they are betrothed. They exchange photographs, and when he shows her picture to his friends they recognize in it the dancing girl. So they go to the girl and ask her to give him up. This she is loath to do, admitting that while she has danced at the hall, the work was detestable. Finding her unwilling to repulse his suit, they tell Howard of her calling, which he does not believe, and knocks one of them down for what he regards an insult. The girl, however, in honesty enters and admit the truth, taking the artist to the place where she works. What a blow to the poor fellow, and he turns from her with a crushed heart. Cut to the quick by his repulsion, she tells him that although she has been forced to earn a living in this fusion, she is through with it all, and while her soul is pure she will leave it. The sincerity of her tone softens the young man, and turning, he takes her in his arms. His friends smile derisively and leave the hall. Two years later the artist's two friends are sitting in the park, when a young couple pass pushing a perambulator containing a baby. One of them exclaims: "Look! Raymond and the dancing girl. Well, I'll be mowed!"
- A man takes the blame for a maid who steals a necklace, but denounces her when she weds another.
- Assisted by her maid, a woman undresses. Lying half naked on her bed, she reads and tosses around.
- Paul and Jeanne are devoted lovers and meet on the balcony of their homes, which are side by side. The affair does not meet with the approval of Jeanne's papa, a retired colonel, who drags his daughter from the balcony. Balked of a personal meeting with his divinity, the young man tries to convey a note to her, and drops it, as he imagines, in her shoe. Unluckily the note falls into the colonel's boot by mistake, and the latter is amazed by the sudden affection of his daughter, who tries to persuade him not to go out. He insists, and accompanied by the girl, ventures into the street. The lover's efforts are now all directed towards getting hold of the boot with its incriminating contents. He bribes a water cart driver to pour a flood over the old man's foot. The latter refuses to take off his boot, and so, disguised as a bootblack, he attempts to get the boot off, only to have his face blackened. Success is secured with the aid of two friends, who, disguised as Apaches, seize the colonel and take the boot off by force. The young man rushing up in the guise of a rescuer receives the old man's hearty thanks and the hand of his daughter.
- The bunting party is divided into two contingents, one of which pursues the wolves on horseback with a set of dogs, whilst the individual members of the second party remain on the outskirts of the wood with the attacking dogs held in leash. These dogs, of the greyhound type, are of a mixed English and Russian breed, and as the wolves are driven out of the wood, they dash forward to attack them. Fearless of cruel fangs, they will spring at a wolf and bear him to the ground almost before their masters have time to reach the spot with their lassos in their hands. Another second, however, and the beast will be captured; a wedge is then forced between its teeth, and in the evening, together with several other captives, it will be brought back, still living, amidst the joyous barking of the dogs, and the rattling of sleigh bells, and the shouts of the hunters.
- The film refers to the creation of the Argentine National Anthem whose lyrics were made by Vicente López y Planes in 1812 while the music was composed by Blas Parera in 1813.
- Three boys sneak away from their mother and steal a boat. They wind up adrift at sea. Their father goes looking for them. He and several fisherman take a boat out and rescue the boys.
- But when he refuses to tip the assistants at the fancier's sales room they lay a scheme for revenge, which takes the form of a practical joke and supplies the onlookers with much merriment.
- Joe Stevens came out west to court fortune prospecting in the mountains. He has met with more than fair success and writes his wife that she might join him as soon as she could. Wishing to surprise him, she and their child appear before him unannounced. On the day of her arrival a party of Indians from a reservation nearby visit the village to procure supplies. Among them is a little Indian girl, who, being an unfavored child, is very roughly treated by her mother. The poor tot has never known a kind word or attention. Approaching the cabin of Stevens, the little Indian beholds Joe's child playing with a very pretty doll. The doll fascinates the Indian girl and Mrs. Stevens persuades her daughter to give it to her. This act of kindness, the first the poor little child has ever experienced, so overwhelms her with gratitude that she is at a loss to know how to express it. However, her little heart pulsates with a new energy, and she leaves her new found friends all aglow with thanks. Meanwhile, the Indians have been making a round of the stores and one of them is assassinated by a drunken rowdy. The Indians, vowing vengeance, return to the reservation with the lifeless brave. A council of war is held, during which the little one appears with the doll in her arms. One of the Indians seizes this effigy of a while baby and hurls it over the bank, and when the girl climbs down and regains it she finds it hopelessly broken. Heart-crushed, the little one buries it in true Indian fashion, and as she is prostrate before the tiny pyre she hears the noise of the war dame. Hastening to the scene she realizes the grave danger of her first and only friends, and runs off to warn them. She isn't any too soon for the infuriated Indians are starting out. Joe dashes through the village arousing the inhabitants, and although the redskins have devastated and burned outlaying properly, they meet with powerful resistance at the village proper and are driven off. Everyone is loud in their praise for the little Indian child and are anxious to know her whereabouts. Alas, they will never know, for the little one, wounded during the conflict, has just strength enough to reach the little grave where she falls making it a double one, and her pure soul parts with the little body sacrificed upon the altar of gratitude.