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- Mr Petterson arrives at Hotel Electric, only to be met with one surprise after another: From clothes hanging themselves up, to people who keep ending up in the wrong rooms entirely.
- The actor Felix Brolle is in love with the young Countess Vibeke. But she is already promised to Baron von Stern. However a medium and magician, Malakias Hansen, interfers.
- Walther and his young wife, Leonie, are both great favorites of the stage. In spite of the great difference in their ages they are very happy together. During a gala performance in which Leonie plays "May," and Walther "Faust," a young actor in the company, Charles Lacour, who is seated in the actors' box, falls in love with Leonie. His passion leads him to enthusiastic applause. His ardor is noticed by Dora, the actress to whom he has been very attentive. After a reception that is given the players behind the scenes, the manager invites them all to a public. In the midst of the gaiety, Walther falls and breaks his leg. The doctor is hopeful of a complete recovery, but to the actor it means that his career is over. Walther's despair increases as the months pass. He is deeply disturbed by Lacour's attention to Leonie and believes that she baa encouraged him. Many disagreeable scenes are enacted between the couple. Leonie realizes all that Walther suffers and excuses him, but it is difficult for her to refuse the attentions of Lacour. At the theater, Leonie and Lacour are to act together, A revolver, which is to be used in the play, is placed on Lacour's dressing table. The jealous Dora sees this and also Lacour, when he gives Leonie a bouquet. Dora goes to Lacour to remind him of their past relations, but he spurns her. She resolves to be revenged. Walther is in his wife's dressing room when Leonie enters with Lecour's flowers. There is a scene when the husband picks up a note which drops from the bouquet and reads, " - Better for us both to make an end of it than to live on in this way." He seizes a revolver and rushes to Lacour's room, where he finds Dora. While waiting the manager enters. During the interruption Dora changes the two revolvers. Lacour soon after comes in, takes the loaded revolver and hurries to the stage. Dora sees that her revenge is at hand. The accident occurs on the stage. Lacour shoots Leonie. The theater is thrown into confusion. The manager rushes for Walther, who in his excitement leaves the compromising note in the dressing room. Dora finds the note and gives it to a detective, who arrests Lacour, Leonie, though seriously wounded, recovers. During her convalescence, Dora visits her and tells her of Lacour's arrest. Walther and Leonie have a stormy scene. "I have never deceived you," Leonie cries, "It is your duty to save Lacour from suffering punishment for a crime he has not committed." The husband promises to do all that is in his power. Dora, overcome by remorse, goes to the judge and confesses. Lacour is released. He meets Leonie for a last farewell. Walther is present and perceives where his duty lies. He writes a note to Leonie telling her that he and not Lacour must say, "Farewell." His note ends, " - I have no right to be in your way. I set you free."
- The beautiful Lejla, daughter of the horse dealer Wulff Heyner, gets a lot of attention from her surroundings, as a rider but also for her frivolity.
- Lucille Brown, an actress, accepts the attentions and professed love of Lord Morton. Her happiness in their association is soon dissipated, when he brusquely leaves her at the birth of their child. The unfortunate girl finds that she is unable to give the baby proper care, and at the same time continue her work at the theater. She places the boy in the care of a Mrs. Smith. Lucille then decides to go to America. In New York she has the good fortune to apply for work at a theater where the leading lady has just been taken ill. After a short rehearsal, in which Lucille convinces the manager of her ability, she is permitted to appear as "Camille." Her first performance is a huge success, and she is engaged permanently to play the part. Meanwhile, at Mrs. Smith's, Lucille's son dies, but it la decided not to inform her of this, but to substitute Mrs. Smith's son in his stead. By doing this Mrs. Smith and her mother continue to receive money from Lucille for her child's care. As the years pass Lucille's desire to see her son becomes so strong that she resolves to go to England to see him. On the trip she renews an acquaintance with a Mr. Morrison, a rich Englishman. Arriving at Mrs. Smith's, Lucille finds that "Willy," her supposed son, has grown to be a very ill-mannered and insolent boy, and that the Smiths are unable to control him. Sad and depressed, she leaves for London. In London Mr. Morrison gives a brilliant flower fete in her honor, and asks her to be his wife. Lucille, not knowing what to do, consents to marry him, but she remains silent on the subject of her affair with Lord Morton. Time passes, and their daughter, a child of about nine years, finds them closely together. During this time "Willy," the son, has become very vicious, and his companions are of the lowest sort. He manages to find out that Lucille has been sending money to Mrs. Smith for his support. Being in trouble with the police, he determines to put this knowledge to his advantage. Lucille receives a letter from him demanding money. She goes to a disreputable resort, which he has named as a meeting place. Here he taunts her with the fact that she is his mother. She begs and implores him to leave the place and to lead a different life. He takes her jewels and money, but will not consent to reform. Time and time again, she is forced to meet and to give him money. Her husband becomes suspicious and employs a detective to follow her. In despair Lucille visits Mrs. Smith's seeking advice and help. Arriving there, she finds that the police are again in search of "Willy." As she leaves, the detective who overheard her conversation with Mrs. Smith, appears and compels Mrs. Smith to confess that "Willy" is not Lucille's, but her own son. Hounded by the police, "Willy" goes to Lucille in search of refuge. He breaks into the room where she sits at the bedside of her little daughter. During the argument between Lucille and "Willy," the girl runs to her father and tells him of the horrid man who is with her mother. Morrison seizes a revolver and rushes into Lucille's room. He and "Willy" fight and "Willy" is mortally wounded. The husband, believing he has killed his wife's lover, is dumbfounded when the excited woman exclaims, "It was my son." At this moment the detective brings in Mrs. Smith, who breaks away from him, throws herself at "Willy's" side, crying, "No, it was my son."
- A deformed person with nervous anxiety is looking out to sea, evidently awaiting the arrival of someone. He is a cripple, and presently we become aware that he is the despised member of a band of brigands, and is watching for their return. They arrive in their boats headed by their dreaded chieftain, Beppo. They are in a bad humor, and the unfortunate cripple is kicked and cuffed for no reason, except that he cannot return the blows of his tormentors. The reason is that one of the band has been captured, an insult and indignity that Beppo cannot and will not permit. He determines to rescue his man. Bernardi, the chief of police, is a man of strong will power and determination; he has made up his mind to rid the country of the gang of thieves and malefactors, of which Beppo is the chief. But they are elusive, nobody knows where their haunts and huts are. They disappear like magic at the slightest alarm. Bernardi sends out his scouts, and turns from the weary, disappointing details of his official duties to the society of his beautiful, loving wife and joyous play of their little golden-haired daughter. The latter is scarcely more than a baby, but her intelligence is far beyond her years, and it is evident that she is the apple of her father's eye, and that her mother worships the very ground on which she treads. While standing at the gate, the brigand prisoner is brought along the road, under strong escort. Appealingly he raises his handcuffed hands to Bernardi, who turns away in contemptuous disgust and hurries his dear ones away from the brigand. That night Beppo and his band make an attempt to rescue him. In a human pyramid they form themselves against the prison wall beneath their comrade's cell. A rope is passed from hand to hand, and the attempt is almost successful when they are heard. They are seen and they flee in dismay, leaving their comrade in the hands of the police. There is a fresh pursuit, and again it proves futile. Beppo escapes. He escapes to return to the house of his arch-enemy, Bernardi. A rope is thrown over the balcony and an agile brigand climbs it in a twinkling. He enters the child's bedroom. The mother shrieks and stands paralyzed with terror. She cannot move a muscle. The child is snatched away, and the gang retreats to their island. From there a message is dispatched and delivered to Bernardi by a blind child, a messenger who cannot describe the features of his instructor; if the prisoner is not released in three days then the child shall die, grinds his teeth in impotent rage and instructs his men to make fresh efforts. Time drags on, and Madame Bernardi reaches the limit of her endurance. Having procured the keys, she enters the prison intending to release the prisoner, thereby saving her child's life. Her husband interferes and reproachfully leads her away. The three days are passed. The unhappy mother lies on a bed of sickness, and the brigands cast lots to select the man who shall take the life of the sweet little girl. The cripple draws the fatal lot, and is left to seek his victim and do the deed. The cripple enraged because of his ill-treatment at the hands of Beppo and his crew, resolves on a very different course of action. He hides the child in a part of the rocky cliff that surrounds the island, a part inaccessible except by means of a rope, and makes his way to Bernardi, to whom he offers to deliver his daughter on receipt of $2,000. Bernardi takes valuable securities, hastens to the bank, draws the money, hands it to the cripple and in an incredibly short space of time is seen clambering up the face of the cliff with his beloved child in his arms. Father and daughter lie concealed on the island, while the cripple sends a telegram to the police. They come in force and kill and capture most of the gang. Beppo escapes, but comes to grief with his cripple-enemy. The two roll, twist, turn, clutch at each other's throats and plunge over the precipice to the sea and rocks below. While Bernardi takes his child home to the mother, whose grief is soon changed to rapture, as she clasps her treasure to her breast.
- Carl Lind is a passionate gambler who is about to lose everything he owns. His friend Emil Werner is, however, cold and calculating. When he meets Carl's young and pretty wife Else, he becomes completely obsessed with her.
- Pauline returns home late after a ball. She is quiet so that she will not awaken the lordship. In bed she fall asleep and dream the sweetest of dreams. About not having to get up in the morning and take care of her usual chores.
- Lieutenant Curt Stoffeldt is in constant money difficulties. Every day that passes it becomes worse and worse. Just as he has become engaged to the beautiful Alice Brandit everything seems to combine to crush him. He writes to his old friend, Otto Storm, and asks for his help. Otto Storm is ready to help his friend and introduces him to a money lender, Creutz, from whom Curt gets a loan. Creutz is very affable towards Curt, and even invites him to dinner. But his kindness is only intended to get the young officer for a son-in-law. He tries his very best and is ably assisted by his daughter, Sarah, but Storm, who is secretly in love with Sarah, is pleased to note that Curt, happy in the affection of his fiancée, Alice, does not take the hints. After having gotten in the power of the note broker Creutz, Curt's money matters have gotten in a still worse state, and one day. when he is on the brink of bankruptcy, Sarah makes a final effort to capture him. She writes him a letter in which she offers to pay all his debts if he will wed her, but Curt declines her offer with thanks. His last hope now is to win the first prize (20,000 dollars) in the coming great race, and he has the advantage of being considered a sure winner. He does not even fear his own friend, Otto Storm. But the jilted Sarah desires revenge. The day of the race arrives, and before the start Sarah steals into the stables to carry out her wicked deed. But Alice, who on a former occasion having seen Curt and Sarah together, suddenly gets an inspiration; she suspects Curt of having a liaison with Sarah. She follows Sarah to watch her movements, and is horror-stricken to find her engaged in cutting the saddle-girth on Curt's saddle. Her first thought is to shout, but suddenly she gets an idea. She hides herself in one of the boxes and when Sarah has finished her work she comes out of the box and exchanges Curt's saddle with the one lying next to it. This belongs to Otto Storm. She then returns to the enclosure. The race begins and the public follows Curt with strained eyes, who, as usual, is leading, Suddenly a scream from the densely packed onlookers is heard. An accident has happened. Otto Storm has fallen with his horse and is being led to the ambulance. Sarah, who, horror-stricken, has seen the result of her wicked deed, hurries to the scene, where she finds Storm, who through a wonderful fluke of luck has only been slightly wounded. She throws herself at his feet and begs him to forgive her. Alice also has come, frightened because of what she has done. But Storm cannot withstand the pleadings of the girl he loves, and finally the two young ladies are conciliated. Just then a great shouting is heard from the enclosure. Curt has won the race. With a wreath of laurels around his shoulders he is receiving the cheers of the frantic public. He has saved his honor, and now he can pay his debt.