- Franklyn Starr, a talented and wealthy young musician, suffers a double misfortune in the sudden loss of his hearing and in the death of his Mother to whom he is deeply attached. He loses his generous, joyous nature and transforms into a gloomy and despondent misanthrope. Sensitive about his deafness, he retires to an isolated home in the country, his sole companion being his faithful servant, and lives the life of a hermit. Wandering in the woods, he is unable to hear the workmen's warning cries and is injured in an explosion, Marjorie Blair, a young society woman, riding nearby, comes to his rescue and aid. Upon his recovery, he and Marjorie have fallen in love and are married. Just when their future looks the brightest, Bobby Delorme, a relative of Starr's, takes advantage of a past innocent flirtation with Marjorie, and creates a situation in which Starr believes that Marjorie has been unfaithful to him. He again becomes embittered.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- Franklyn Starr, a talented and wealthy young composer of music, suffered a double misfortune in the sudden loss of his hearing and in the death of a mother deeply attached to him. Music, his great joy in life, was not taken from him and a complete change in Starr's character developed. Once generous, happy and helpful, Starr now grows sad and despondent. Deeply sensitive concerning his deafness, Starr resolved to leave the city and retire with his devoted servant, Spring, to the country and live the life of a hermit. One day, when tortured by a blacker mood, Starr rushed out of his cabin to seek the solace of the mountains. From the heights on which he stood, he was unable to hear the warning cries of the workmen who were setting off a charge of dynamite and a moment later he was hurled to the road below by a landslide caused by the blast. The attractive Marjorie Blair, a young woman of fashion happened to be riding through this mountain region at the time, and witnessing Starr's accident she rushed to his rescue. At this juncture, the inevitable took place. Starr fell in love with Marjorie, and Marjorie, won by Starr's rich personality, returned that love notwithstanding his deafness. Shortly afterwards Starr married Marjorie and once more the happiness and serenity of former days returned to him. And this happiness would have been permanent if Starr's characterless relative, Bobbie Delorme, had not appeared on the scene, and, taking a mean advantage of a past innocent flirtation with Marjorie, tried to win her from her husband. Mistakenly believing in Marjorie's guilt, and thinking that again he has been robbed of all that makes life precious to him, Starr becomes bitter and misanthropic. In the end, however, he finds that he has been unjust to Marjorie, and this discovery, following close on the recovery of his lost hearing, fills him once more with the joy and zest of living.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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