- Powerfully built Greek Philip, falls in love with Toinette, a French girl whom he meets when she is injured in an auto accident. Later, as a result of the accident, she is hospitalized and operated upon and then recovers. A hospital attendant misinforms Philip that Toinette has died, however; and the Greek, keeping a pledge to his love, continues to sing beneath her hospital room window every night at midnight. Meanwhile, a gang has been terrorizing a park near the hospital, and one night during a confrontation with the police, the leader is knifed and taken to the same doctor who has arranged for Toinette to enter the hospital. While at the hospital, the leader recognizes Philip as the person who slipped him a pack of cigarettes when he was hospitalized earlier, during Toinette's stay. The gangster informs Philip that his love is alive and well. The Greek rushes to Toinette, who had been told that Philip had returned to Greece, and the lovers are reunited.—Pamela Short
- Philip, a Greek, works in a rolling mill. Near at hand is a small restaurant where Philip and other mill hands eat. They are waited on by a little French waitress with whom Philip falls in love. Being in poor health, however, she refuses to accept him. She leaves a note for Philip and goes to the home of a girlfriend in a nearby city. Philip follows, finds his love and, seeing she is too ill to work, engages rooms for her and himself in a neat rooming house. He gets work on the docks, when a sculptress, having seen and admired his strength, gets him to pose for her. At the studio he comes in contact with the husband and friends of the sculptress, among them "The Little Red Doctor," who asks why a big, strong man like Philip does not get suitable work, instead of posing. Philip tells of his sweetheart and the doctor insists upon seeing her. He tells Philip it is imperative the girl go to a hospital, and she is taken to one. Philip calls each day to see her. A gangster, injured in a fight, makes trouble one day in the hospital because he cannot get cigarettes. Philip gets some and has his sweetheart's nurse smuggle them to the gangster. Later the gangster learns who it is that is smuggling in the smokes and never loses his interest in the girl. Philip and the girl had seen "La Boheme" together. So every midnight he steals beneath her window and plays softly on his flageolette. Going to the hospital one morning, Philip is informed that his sweetheart died during the night. The big Greek starts in to muss up the hospital, is arrested and sent to jail for two months. Released from jail, Philip hurries to his old rooming house and takes both the rooms he and the girl occupied, hoping some day she may come back to him. He also continues his nightly playing in the park. An old professor of languages, seeing him one night, learns his story. The professor recalls the story of "Orpheus," who lured his sweetheart from Hades by his playing. Some gangsters, headed by Piney the Rat, attack the policeman one night, but he beats them off with Philip's aid. Later one of the gang recognizes Philip, the gang is called, and Philip is attacked. Friends of the sculptress, the doctor one of them, hearing the row, hasten to the rescue. The battle ends with the police in control and Philip and Piney badly hurt. The doctor attends the wounded men and takes the Rat to his house. The Rat plans to stab Philip as the one who beat him up. He asks for a cigarette, gets one like those the girl used to slip him and becomes Philip's friend. The sculptress, having gone to the hospital to find the girl, learns she really recovered. The girl and sculptress by appointment meet the Rat that evening and the gangster recognizes her as the one who got him those nice smokes. The girl, being told that Philip had returned to Greece, became a probation nurse at the hospital. The professor sends for Philip and when he comes he is told the girl is living. The two are reunited.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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