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- Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, probably 'Ah. Lève-toi soleil'.
- Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.
- Two lovers have difficulty in spooning without interference and they resolve upon a method to carry on this pleasant occupation without parental interference.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- Romeo Brown and Juliet Smith appreciate the old adage, "True love never runs smooth." Owing to the unfriendly relations of the houses of Brown and Smith their meetings are clandestine and only spasmodic. They are wending their way down the Zigzag Avenue of Shantytown, Wyoming, cooing and nestling words of love, not even to be disturbed by a village dog fight, or warring factions of Brown and Smith until taken respectively over the parental knee. They are for a time separated, but like the proverbial cat, "they come back." The barn dance, Romeo thrown out, contrives to kidnap the fair Juliet by descending from the hay loft by a rope and carrying her off to his enchanted castle, consternation prevails, but they beat the army of the factions to the Justice of the Peace who said, as Shakespeare wrote, "Get home, golding yet and into yer beds, I've married these young 'uns hey mutton heads."
- The advent of the swift-speeding automobile has certainly brought our country cousins nearer to us, and every day we hear of romantic occurrences thus brought about. Your tired business man finds an auto ride into the country his best holiday diversion. In this particular case he has taken his pretty daughter with him, and they are speeding along on a fine stretch of road, when suddenly something goes wrong with the gears, and they are catapulted against a tree, the auto describing half a parabola. In the neighborhood there dwells a youth, a stalwart, big-hearted, loving lad, whose all in life is his mother and their little home. He hears the crash, speeds to the scene and in a short time his strong arms have carried the injured girl to his home, where his kind mother makes her comfortable. She does not suffer long, for by the grace of the able administration of mother and son, she is soon around the house, feeding chickens and enjoying the fresh farm life. Her father would fain remain there, too, but business calls him away, and he leaves his daughter to gather the vigor of the fine air and free life. Since that day he first carried her in, the youth has had that peculiar affectionate feeling for her; in his simple way, he bore it bravely, for he did not know that his ecstatic misery and heavenly heart pain was love. Nor did she, a wealthy sophisticated miss of high social circles, dream that she was gradually being drawn to him, until one day her brother calls for her, to take her home. Ah! The parting is the test, but all she allows herself is to shake his hand and give him a sprig of the many he has gathered for her. We now see her to her fine home, a striking contrast to the humble farm house. Her mind is not at ease; thoughts of him, he is with her always, and finally she writes him to come to town for a visit. He loses no time, this country boy has determined to press his suit, so we soon see him ushered in. But it was not what he thought. Why? This girl is in elaborate evening dress, such as he never saw before; the luxury of the home staggers him. She and her father try to make him feel at home, but cannot. Quietly she slips away, and in a few minutes he is ushered into another room, and there he cannot keep down a whoop of joy as he sees that the elaborately gowned, bejeweled miss has been re-transformed into the rollicking, pinafored, sun-bonneted little lady of his heart. Well, he promptly gets into the shade of that bonnet, and although one can't see their faces, it doesn't take a strong imagination to divine how he stands, or kissed!
- An ill-fated pair of teenage lovers are destroyed by the feud between their families.
- Bumptious attends a theatrical performance which meets with his disapproval. When the curtain falls on the first act Bumptious leaves the theater in disgust, much to the discomfort of those seated in the same row. Bumptious now decides to organize a dramatic club. He selects "Romeo and Juliet" with which to display his talent as an actor. When all is in readiness he books a night at the Town Hall to give the performance. His friends turn out in masses to see him act; but acting is not such an easy matter as it appears to be, and Bumptious finds this out very quickly when everything seems to go wrong. The climax of a number of mishaps is reached in the famous balcony scene while he is making ardent love to the fair Juliet; the entire castle collapses and falls upon him, to the delight and edification of the boys in the gallery. In the meantime Bumptious is having trouble back of the curtain upbraiding the stage hands for their negligence, almost getting into a row over it. Looking through the peep-hole in the curtain he makes the discovery that the theater is empty. This brings him to his senses and he hurries home, where he destroys his playbook and demolishes the bust of Shakespeare, vowing never to act again.
- Oniatare, a young brave of the tribe of the Hurons, and Kowa, a chief of the Mohicans, are in love with Ethona, or "The River Flower," an Indian Princess. The Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. The young brave and "The River Flower" meet from time to time. Kowa notices this and in plaintive song would lure the fair Ethona to him. But it is of no avail. The Great Medicine Man of the Mohicans prescribes rest and a sleeping potion, which she takes and falls into a deep sleep. Both Oniatare and Kowa meet at her uncovered pyre. They fight a duel unto the death. Oniatare slays the older man, and then plunges the dagger deep into his own breast, dropping lifeless. The falling of his body across hers arouses her from her sleep and she awakens to behold his self-sacrifice, a still stronger evidence of his love for her. Seizing the blood-stained dagger from his breast, she thrusts it into the heart which goes out to his.
- Romeo, of the House of Capulets, and Juliet, of the House of Montagues, scorn the family feud of years, and love each other with all the fervor of Veronian youths. The ardent wooer sings his love beneath his lady's window while the stars wink their approval of the lovers' happiness. Juliet's father urges her marriage to Tybalt, a man of his choosing, but Romeo determines she shall not, so together they visit the venerable Friar Lawrence and are secretly united in marriage. Romeo is challenged by his rival, Tybalt, and in the encounter wounds his antagonist, for which he is exiled. Romeo's departure leaves Juliet open to the demands of her father, who insists upon her immediate marriage to Tybalt. In terror she flees to the old Friar, who gives her a powerful sleeping potion, and on the day she is to marry Tybalt, her friends are horrified to see her fall into a deathlike swoon. She is interred in the vault of her ancestors, and Romeo, hearing of her death, returns home, enters the vault and after gazing upon the face of his beloved plunges a dagger into his heart. Juliet awakens to see him expiring, and in her agony seizes the same dagger, inflicts a death-wound, and expires beside her lover.
- Col. Scarem covertly installs a burglar alarm in his house with the dial located in his room. When dashing Fred Fuller comes to elope with his beauteous daughter Bessie, they unconsciously set off the alarm, and the Colonel barricades himself in his room and excitedly phones the Sheriff that the expected burglars have come. A quick-acting posse swoops down and carries off Fred before he can explain, and the belated Sheriff captures Bessie as she comes through the window, thinking she is a burglar. Fred eventually convinces his captors of his identity and ventures back at once to get his little bride-to-be. In the dark he picks up the colored maid and carries her to the Parson's before he finds his mistake. Then he dashes madly back to the house, and just in time, for real bandits have followed the trail of the over-sure Sheriff, and are holding up Bessie and her father.
- 3 men compete for the affections of a country girl.
- Mike Montague and Pete Capulet, how they fought at the quarry. Romeo and Juliet came to the rescue and rode off from the scene of the feud on Romeo's rag wagon. "The hated Montague," roared the Capulets. Believe me, there was some feud.
- Billie himself admitted that Bess was not crazy; she was merely romantic. Her father said that Billie was as crazy as she. Had she been reading "Othello" she might have wanted Billie to black up, but she was reading "Romeo and Juliet," and she wrote Billie that he must either come as Romeo or not at all. Billie just naturally had to see his lady fair, so he hired a costume and went. He told his chauffeur that he would be back in a couple of hours, and the chauffeur knew that that meant three or four, so he started for a roadhouse to cool off. Billie made a rope ladder out of a clothesline and some bean poles, but he had never rehearsed the scene before and he did everything but fly. He flew a moment later when Bess's father discovered him and pumped a load of birdshot into him. He flew as far as the gate, but there was no car there, so he kept on flying down the road, but not rapidly enough to beat out some more shot. He outdistanced pursuit, but it was not his lucky day, for he ran right into another Romeo, who was also the object of pursuit because of his poor performance of the part, and the angry villagers, mistaking Bill for the other Romeo, gave him another good run, until he met the car coming along the road. That got him home without further adventure to decide that Romeo was not for him.
- Ethel is suddenly popular in her boarding-house when the men mistakenly think that her brother is wealthy. Becoming confused by all the attention, she agrees to marry three different men. Each arrives with a minister but Jake, the rich brother of another boarder, takes care of all three and marries Ethel himself.
- Martha was cheerful and stout, and from all appearances, would be able to cook appetizing meals and do a good day's washing, but as far as the boarders in the house were concerned, she was unattractive. Satisfied that she should have a soulmate, Martha writes a letter to herself, purporting to be from a lawyer, advising her that she has been left $10,000 by a deceased brother. At the table the next morning, the men almost break their necks to fall into her favor. She treats them indifferently, stating that the man she marries must be a hero, like the show actor. Waddy, a brass band actor, sees his chance, after Martha has rejected all the rest. Attired in Shakespearean garb, he rushes out to get a minister. Dragging the minister after him, Waddy climbs a ladder to Martha's window. At his approach, she is frightened and the watchdog, always on the lookout for prowlers, gets after the intruder. With characteristic tenacity, the dog holds on until Waddy succeeds in enveloping the animal in a coat and throwing it out of the window. The noise has awakened the rest of the boarders, who rush into the halls and through the various rooms. One unfortunate fellow is shot by an excited fellow-roomer. When the latter sees what he has done, he forthwith shoots his comrade back to life. In the meantime, Waddy has been recognized by Martha, who has taken a position on a chair. Waddy is busy kissing the hem of her skirt. She has accepted him. Just at the critical moment, the crowd of excited roomers butt in and there is general chaos. As the roomers start to congratulate Waddy, Martha makes the startling announcement that she wrote the letter to herself. Waddy is furious. To appease him, Martha tells him she has a few rocks in the bank with which to build a foundation, and shows him a bank book. A few dollars are better than none, so Waddy gladly accepts.
- The Mumford Amateur Dramatic Society stages Romeo and Juliet.
- Shakespeare's classic tale of ill-fated lovers whose deaths bring peace to their warring families.