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- The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
- After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
- A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, rare cinematic gem based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel of the same name.
- This was originally a segment of "The Kate Smith Evening Hour" that was put on as a summer replacement show. This live show featured Cicero Sweeney, the owner of a general store in a small town, his grandson, Kippy, and Kippy's mother Marge. The episodes featured stories about the main characters and the people of the town.
- Look before you leap, at hasty conclusions. Nell is a sweet girl and Bob is a good fellow; Nell is a typical Texas girl and Bob is a comparative newcomer to the west. Well, anyway, Bob falls in love with Nell and they are engaged. Bob's sister Helen writes a note to Bob that she is coming to the Tall Grass Country to see him. He gets the letter at the post office, reads it and starts for home. At a corner of the road a woman appears, frightens Bob's horse, and in controlling it, his sister's letter signed, "Yours with love, Helen," drops to the ground. The woman who so suddenly made her appearance in the road is an old fried-egg-faced gossip. She picks up the letter and hustles back to town to put Nell wise to Bob's perfidy. Nell takes the bait and Bob is "in bad." The old mischief-maker tells Nell that Bob is bringing the eastern girl to his shack and she saw them coming down. Sure enough Nell sees Bob caressing the girl as they are driving along together. Helen is delighted with Texas and likes to rove about its fields and prairies. One day she goes out in the tall grass and wanders a long distance away. A careless hunter shooting game sets fire to the grass and Helen is surrounded by prairie fire. Nell sees the fire, gets her spy-glasses to bring the scene closer and recognizes Helen in the midst of the flames. Revenge is now struggling with the more noble inclination to rescue the girl who has stopped between her and Bob. She rushes from the house and across the country until she comes to Helen, half carries and half leads her to safety while she herself falls fainting at the edge of a stream. Bob gets anxious about Helen's absence, sees the smoke and flames of the burning grass, fears the worst and arouses the cowboys who all start out to find the missing girl. They find Helen, take her to her brother's cabin where they revive her. She tells about Nell and again they go back over the trail to rescue Nell. Bob discovers her unconscious at the river's edge, carries her to his home where she recovers. She shrinks from Bob and tells him to declare his love for the girl from the east. Bob begins to see the lay of things and tells Nell that she is slightly mixed in her conclusions: taking Helen by the hand, he relieves Nell's mind by introducing his sister to her. Nell is dazed then looks foolish and saves herself from further embarrassment by throwing her arms about Bob's neck and receiving the comfort of his loving embrace.
- About 1722, Spain, in her command of Texas (named from a confederation of Indians, who called themselves Tejas), established the Franciscan mission of San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo). Around this mission was built the pueblo (village) and presidio (barracks), which formed the nucleus of the present city of San Antonio. In 1824 Texas withdrew from Mexico and formed a separate republic, and the Mexican general Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, was sent to force her back into allegiance. At San Antonio in 1836 Col William B. Travis was in command of the fort. With him was Col. William Bowie, David Crockett, Lieut. Dickenson and a small force. He received word that Santa Anna, at the head of a Mexican army of several thousand, was advancing to take the city. Travis dispatched a message to Gen. Sam Houston for aid, sending Lieut. Dickenson and taking his force of 140 men and women of the city, among whom was Dickenson's wife, Lucy; he retired to the Alamo. On February 23, Santa Anna sent a message to surrender, and upon the brave refusal of Travis, he attacked the place. Travis held the Alamo until March 6, 1836, his little force constantly diminishing. On that day, when all seemed lost, Travis drew a line with his sword down the center of the room and asked all who would die with him to cross to his side. All crossed save one, Rose, who announced his determination to try to escape. He succeeded in leaving the building but was never heard from again. A breach was made in the wall by the cannon of Santa Anna, and the Mexicans entered to find all the men dead except Travis and four companions. These were immediately slaughtered on the spot, and Lucy Dickenson, with two other women and three children, were all to leave the Alamo alive.
- Lawrence Westbrook, banker and club man, neglects his business for pleasure. His daughter, Lillian, is in love with Harold Routledge, a poor artist. The Count de Carojac also loves the banker's daughter. To make Harold jealous, Lillian flirts with the count, which causes a severe quarrel between the lovers. John Strebelow, a friend of the family, suggests that the tired banker and his family join him in a visit to his bunting camp in the Maine woods. While hunting, Strebelow injures his hand. Lillian, with the quick wit of a woman, washes and bandages the wound, awakening love within John Strebelow's heart. To save the name of Babbage and Westbrook, the banker pleads with his daughter to marry the rich John Strebelow. Loving Harold Routledge, but remembering the wish of her dying mother, she makes the sacrifice. Sis years later, Strebelow is living happily in Paris with his wife and child, Natalie. He meets Harold Routledge, now a famous artist, and invites him to call. The sight of Lillian awakens the old love. The count, seeing a chance to be revenged, insults Harold Routledge at a reception of the American Embassy. A duel is arranged in which Routledge is killed. Strebelow swears revenge upon the death of his friend, and for his wife's honor, later kills the Count de Carojac. The belief that his wife still loved Harold Routledge causes a separation between them. Strebelow tells of his great love for Lillian and vows to return as soon as Lillian proves that her love is true and sends for him. The sweet, imploring letters of his daughter, Natalie, bring a reconciliation between husband and wife, which is again broken, owing to Lillian's ignorance of the contents of these letters, which had been dictated by Aunt Fannie in the hopes of affecting this reconciliation. When the bonds of love seem to be broken again, Natalie shows Strebelow a letter written by her mother, the last appeal causing a final reunion.
- Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying advertising signs. Fields stalks the streets under an immense restaurant placard, while Bud staggers along announcing a new brand of indigestion tablets. One day they meet. Fields, having been paid a dollar in advance for his services, invites Bud to have a drink. While Fields engages the bartender in conversation, Bud fills his pockets with free lunch. Fields manages to pour down three drinks for the price of one, and sticking a piece of chewing gum on the end of his cane, he succeeds in hooking up again the dollar with which he had paid for the Scotch. Last, but not least, the big-hearted bartender blows them each to a good cigar. Fields and Bud, blessing their luck, retire to the park to enjoy the spoils. Finding a newspaper handy, they read that Lord Swan has won a Fifth Avenue heiress, Dolla Bills, by his wonderful golf playing. Fields lies down on a bench to take his afternoon nap, and is visited by a beautiful dream. He does not win his heiress by golf playing, exactly, but by his skill and bravery in using one of the clubs to whack a bomb planted by two black-handers on the steps of Mr. Moneybags' palatial home. He wakes embracing Bud, who cannot control his laughter. In disappointed rage. Fields pushes his ex-valet off the bench into the lake. As the latter fails to rise to the surface. Fields wanders away, realizing that now he must fight his battles single-handed.
- Robert Clay, an adventurous mining engineer, disrupts the plans of a South American revolutionary.
- A staged Wild West kidnapping goes awry when the cowboys accidentally capture an actress who uses her acting skills to turn the tables on them.
- Paula Castellar owns two gambling places, one a disreputable den on a back street of an American city, with an underground passage to a more fashionable resort. Finding that her fading beauty is causing her to lose patrons in her fashionable gambling hall, she secures Doris Fenwick to preside at the gaming table. Doris is rescued from a suicide's death by Paula just after she has pawned a diamond necklace, received at her room in the hotel by mistake, and lost the money at cards. Paula redeems the necklace, which she recognizes as once having belonged to her. Putting the necklace back in its original package, she seeks the woman to whom it belongs. At sight of her Paula recognizes the woman is Theresa Castellar, now a woman of fifty and a morphine fiend. She doesn't reveal herself to Theresa, but in her own mind goes over the events which led to the loss of the necklace years ago. Theresa had fallen in love with Paula's husband. Upon being repulsed her love had turned to hate and she had caused the Ace of Death to be given him at a meeting of patriots, sworn to sacrifice their lives for their country. Having taken the forced card, Paula's husband had gone out to his death. The card had been given by a gambler named Belton, who was under Theresa's influence. After the death of Paula's husband the two had fled from Central America, where she and her husband then lived. First Theresa had set Paula's child adrift at sea and robbed her of the precious diamond necklace. After recovering from the shock of these several misfortunes Paula had gone to the United States and haunted its gambling houses in the hope that she might find Theresa and Belton. She now determines to use Doris to revenge herself on Theresa. Belton, who is still with Theresa, becomes a frequenter of the gambling house and falls madly in love with Doris. Paula plays upon Theresa's jealousy, and by a message which seems accidentally to fall into her hands Paula lures Theresa to the gambling house just after Belton has been dealt the Ace of Death. At last the two are in Paula's power. Just as Paula has declared that either Theresa or Belton must die, leaving the choice to them, Doris enters, wearing a locket which had been about her neck when she had been set adrift at sea. Paula recognizes that the girl is her own daughter. Overjoyed at finding life yet has happiness in store for her, she allows Theresa and Belton to escape the doom she had planned. However their freedom was brief, as Theresa, a few hours later, while crazed because she cannot secure the drug to which she had become addicted, kills Belton and then herself. Paula closes her gambling houses and determines to live the rest of her life for her daughter.
- In the mountain wilds of Tennessee there is no end to the manufacture of moonshine whiskey. Whole families live on this nefarious trade and many of them die by it. The men who work at this business are constantly hunted by United States revenue officers as violators of the law for manufacturing of liquor without a special license. The "Mountain wife" loves her husband and stands by and shields him from his enemies, the officers; when they are on his track she hides him, then throws them off his trail, giving him time to escape in the mountain fastnesses, as we are shown in this interesting and thrilling picture. The revenue men are hunting their man and meet an adventurous artist who joins them in the search. They come onto their quarry while he is busy at his still. He is seized and held at bay by the artist. A boy who is a friend of the moonshiner happens along and distracts the attention of the artist from the distiller who, taking advantage of his chance, snatches the gun from the would-be hero, turns it on him and escapes to his home. The detectives make a direct line to the moonshiner's home; his wife hears them and hides him in the cellar, hiding herself in the garret. The officers come, and no trace of their man and leave, all but the artist, who says he will stay and watch for the reappearance of the fugitive. He hides behind a barrel. The husband and wife come from their hiding places; the courageous artist confronts the husband with a pistol. "Hands up!" he says, but does not count on the wife who "swats" him in the face with a pillow; and again the hunted one gets possession of the pistol, gives it to his wife, and she holds the amateur detective in durance vile while her husband escapes to the mountain fastnesses. Now she does something that requires pluck and determination: she makes the daring chap mount a horse and, straddling another, she compels him at the pistol's point to ride to the railroad station, embark and decamp for foreign parts a defeated and wiser man. She returns to her home, sends word to her husband that the coast is clear and tells him to come back to the cabin to help pack up their belongings that they will depart from the country and begin life anew. The picture closes with an indescribable tableau of natural splendor, the escape of the man and his mountain wife to a place where they can work at an honest trade and live a good life free from offense to God and man.
- The members of a Pittsburgh family are trying to break into society through the million dollars obtained by their father's selling his business to the Steel Trust. They move to New York, establish themselves in a Fifth Avenue residence, and backed by the father's money endeavor to penetrate New York society. The mother in her ambition engages a bogus French nobleman to teach herself and her daughters the French language. This Frenchman is in reality one of a group of crooks. The elder daughter at Durland's meets a young riding master named Fitzgerald, and it is a case of love at first sight. The young riding master is in reality Lord Fitzmaurice, son of an old English family. The younger daughter is desperately fond of John Willing, who has been her father's manager in his Pittsburgh business and who has been established in the bank that her father presides over in New York City. The family decides to make a trip to England. Just before they leave, the French teacher is given a check for $75 in payment for his lessons and he in connection with the other two members of his band raises this check to $75,000 and gets it cashed while the Pipps are on the liner bound for Europe. John Willing and young Fitzmaurice meet and learn of each other's feelings towards the two Pipp girls. Willing suspects that the check is bad and gets in touch with Mr. Pipp by cable. On learning that the check is a forgery, he engages Pinkerton to assist in recovering the $75,000, and young Fitzmaurice decides to accompany them. Mrs. Pipp has a letter of introduction to Lady Viola, the mother of young Fitzgerald, and the Pipps go to her home for a visit. Pinkerton and the two young men arrive in England shortly and also go to the Fitzmaurice home. The young Lord gets his mother and the servants to keep his identity a secret and many tine scenes of mistaken identity and cross purposes are the result. The crooks are finally located in Paris and the Pipps, accompanied by Pinkerton, go there. Two of the band try to steal a valuable tiara from Mrs. Pipp, and one of them. Count Charmarot, attempts the life of Mr. Pipp with poison thinking that with him out of the way there is an opportunity for him to make love to and marry the impressionable Mrs. Pipp. Pinkerton, with the assistance of the French Prefect of Police, blocks their plans and brings about their arrest. Mrs. Pipp, realizing the mistake she has made, begs Mr. Pipp to take her back to Pittsburgh. The love affairs of the young people are successfully carried on and end in happy marriages.
- Cabel Davis, a miserly old skinflint, holds a mortgage on a house belonging to Samuel Perkins, and is scheming to buy it cheap. Perkins is poor and has a handsome daughter, Mary. Davis calls and insists on the payment of money due and Perkins tells him he cannot meet the obligation. Davis leaves, threatening him. The old miser conceives a cunning plan to prevent the mortgaged house from being rented, and makes visits to the old house, using a sheet and emitting hideous noises to convince the villagers that the house is haunted. The place is visited by several, who go away terror-stricken, as the old miser takes a black cat up through the cellar-way and shows it through the window. In the meantime, Milton Dawson, a young station agent, meets Mary Perkins and falls in love with her. He learns from the people in the village that the Perkins house is haunted. He decides to do a little investigating, and trails Davis to the house and sees him enter through the cellar. Young Dawson follows and sees the old villain drape himself with a sheet and step out on the roof. He follows and finds Davis on the roof with a crowd below, scared out of their wits. The old man appears with the sheet draped about him. Dawson steps out, and grabbing him, snatches off the sheet and exposes the fraud to the gaze of those horrified below. Davis is brought down on the sward and confesses his nefarious scheme, and is despised by all his neighbors. So penitent is he that he writes a release of the mortgage in the presence of the crowd when in danger of bodily injury. Dawson takes the paper to Perkins and astonishes him by his revelations. He is very grateful and summons Mary and it is all explained to her. Dawson is not satisfied with thanks and takes the shy young girl in his arms and she is not offended.
- An Indian Princess is decoyed by a New York tourist from a small isle in the South Atlantic to Broadway where she dances in native costume in a café. Castelene becomes the petted favorite of Claud Dixon, Ned Astor, his millionaire chum, and their gay crowd. From this life she is rescued by the old captain of the ship in which she made her flight from her native island. He takes the girl to a quiet sea town in New England, where her romance turns to tragedy. Castelene returns to the isle in the Far South and seeks Lisa, her native lover. She discovers that during her absence Lores, a native girl, has been trying to win Lisa away from her memory. Lores recently has been stricken with leprosy. She believes that this calamity has befallen her as a punishment for trying to steal away the love of another woman. Now she turns about and assists the princess in wreaking revenge upon her betrayer in New York.
- John Burton met Bessie Fields on her way home one day, and was for making love to her right then and there, but for the interruption of Crazy Joe, a half-witted boy, who always seemed to get in wrong. Burton was incensed, and, although Bessie protested, applied his whip to the demented boy, when Steve Ross, Bessie's sweetheart, happened along and rushed to the boy's rescue. Steve saw that Burton's attentions were not welcomed and ordered him off the scene. Next day, both went to Mr. Fields, and proposed for Bessie's hand. When Burton learned that Steve had been accepted, he rushed from the house, fired back upon it, and fled. Of two shots spent, one hit and killed Mr. Fields. Steve, who was nearby, shot at the fugitive, but missed him. Burton hastened to a saloon, but missed him, were gathered, and hatched a plot to accuse Steve of the crime on circumstantial evidence. The sheriff was called and decided that Steve was guilty. But Burton was not satisfied. With his friends, he raided the jail, and made away with Steve, with the intention of hanging him. Meanwhile, Crazy Joe, in his ramblings, discovered a bullet lodged in the casing of the door, which had not penetrated the house. With this bit of evidence, Bessie, to whom he imparted this news, rode like mad to free her lover, as only one shot had escaped from Steve's revolver. The sheriff joined in the ride to save a life. Steve was already roped about the neck when they arrived. Happiness was his, indeed. But who was the guilty one? A hasty examination of the guns on those present, disclosed the fact that the bullet corresponded with those used by Burton. He shrunk beneath their gaze, which was evidence enough for cowboys. Steve was given freedom, Bessie happiness, and Burton jail.
- Casey was a strong man, sure, for his size; he could lift more than any man at the quarry. He was a brave man, too, was Casey, and often vowed that nothing could get the best of him, but when that rousing jumping nerve wrecking ache implanted itself in one of his teeth it floored him in the first round. He was crazy with pain, he gyrated, howled and nearly rent rocks in twain in his agony. At last the foreman took pity on him and helped the helpless strong man to a dentist. Casey's teeth had roots, well, those of an oak tree must have been pygmies compared with them. The dentist tugged and pulled, he used larger and larger forceps, while Casey howled and yelled and vowed, when he had a chance to vow, that he was being murdered. Casey squirmed and pulled and kicked so that the dentist was finally reduced to his only alternative. Casey must take gas. He inhaled with the depth and strength of an elephant. Unconsciousness stole upon him swiftly and Casey slumbered and dreamed. The dentist began to make love to his pretty assistant, he forgot all about the patient and Casey filled so with gas that at last he floated upward, punched a hole in the ceiling, and drifted away but just as he began to sweetly drift he came to with a yell. The dream was over and the tooth was out.
- If John was half the man that Molly is, she and her father would have been a great deal better off. Molly by her industry and ambition has saved up five hundred dollars to go to college and complete her education; she is very proud of her achievement. John is a young fellow with extravagant idle notions, who refuses to hold his jobs as a skilled mechanic and insist upon spending his time in rambling and dissipation. Molly loves her brother and tries to induce him to mend his ways and make a man of himself. Molly's father, who is editor of the local paper, starts a journalistic campaign against the gamblers, and they decide to get square with him by ruining his son John. They draw the boy into a game, win his money, and get him to forge a check on the bank of San Antonio. The leader of the gang of gamblers starts early the next morning to get the check cashed. John hears of it, and in remorse attempts to kill himself, but is prevented doing so by his sister Molly, to whom he confesses his wrongdoing. She takes her college money, jumps on her horse and reaches the bank in time to deposit the money in her brother's name, saving him from arrest and imprisonment. Her brother wakes up to a sense of his smallness, resolves to make good, gives Molly his note for five hundred dollars, and starts at work again to redeem the past and make a man of himself.
- Mary is from Boston, and she doesn't just take to the cow punchers as she would to the "rah-rah boys" of the Hub. Bill, who is a fellow of no small caliber, is looked upon by his companions as a sort of leader, feels a little miffed, but acknowledges she is the real goods and has some occasion to feel proud of herself; at the same time he won't stand for her snubs. The punchers await developments and make up their mind what can't be cured must be endured. The Captain, a classy chap, from a neighboring ranch, puts in his appearance, and asks Mary to go riding with him. She agrees, and they start on a wild ride across the country. Some distance from habitation, they are attacked by Indians. The Captain and Mary stand them off for a long time. The Captain takes Mary's skirt, hat and coat, makes a dummy of them, fastens it on her horse's back, and starts the animal on a run. The trick works and the Indians start in pursuit. The Captain goes for help, but the cow punchers, led by Bill, see the Indians, get after them, and soon capture the band. They recover Mary's clothing, and go in search for her. They find her behind a hill, and, after a little communication back and forth, she gets her skirt and comes over to the punchers with outstretched hands, and thanks them with apologies for her coldness to them. She warmly and admiringly looks into Bill's honest face and tells him he is her hero and a man after her own heart.
- Shopgirl Lucille Ryan is an easy target for playboy James Lambert's wolfish charms. Succumbing to Lambert's promises to make her his wife, Lucille soon discovers that she's expecting. Soon after, Lambert casts her aside for socialite Irene Wallace. Lucille, reading the announcement of Lambert's wedding in the paper, rushes to the altar and denounces him as her child's father. The ceremony is halted, and later Lambert accepts his responsibilities by marrying Lucille.
- A man tries to get rid of a pair of boots, but no matter what he does, they keep coming back to him.
- Frank Gray, a young lawyer, fails to establish a practice in his native city and decides to go to Idaho and make a fresh start. After hanging out his shingle in his new field of operation he hustles for a clientèle, which is not as responsive as he had hoped, and awaiting results he accidentally comes in touch with a case of a young girl, Mary Norris, who has served notice on a saloon-keeper not to sell her father, who is an habitual drunkard, any more liquor. The saloon man tears up the notice, snaps his fingers in her face and asks her who would he fool enough to prosecute the case for her even if he did sell her "old man" more booze. Frank Gray jumps up and says, "I will prosecute the case." The dispenser of liquid refreshment defies the law; the young attorney makes good and "puts it all over him." Mary Norris induces her father to leave the place and while escorting him home she accidentally fails over a cliff and is hurt very badly. Her father thinks it was all his fault and. after rushing to her aid, makes a pledge never to drink again and he keeps his word. Mary and her father are very happy in the betterment of things and the young lawyer who always thought her attractive does not hesitate to show it and Mary holds him in marked favor. The frequenters of the saloon and the proprietor, "Bud" Sykes, have a secret meeting and conspire to kidnap Gray and make him stop the prosecution of Sykes. An old squaw whom Gray befriended overhears their plan and tells Mary about it. She notifies the sheriff and he, with a posse of citizens, makes a hurried ride, followed by Mary, to the old quarry where the desperadoes have suspended young Gray over its rocky sides trying to induce him to consent to give up the case against Sykes. They start a fire under the rope attached to Gray and tell him if he does not agree to their demand before the fire burns through the rope he will fall to his death. He refuses to quit the case and declares he will fight it, if he can, to the bitter end. The sheriff and his men arrive at this point, arrest the villains and save young Gray. Mary cheers and encourages him with her words and presence. At last, "Bud" Sykes is convicted of his offenses through the prosecution of the attorney and everybody is happy. Frank Gray asks Mary to marry him and her father readily gives his consent. All hands give the young couple three hearty cheers and Gray not only wins fame but one of the best women in Idaho.