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- Heartbroken over her parents' breakup and recovering from a car accident, Jane becomes increasingly suspicious of her mother's charming new boyfriend.
- Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
- When Danielle reunites with her high school boyfriend, she is shocked to learn how far he's willing to go to keep everything alive.
- A college Principal objects to a nightclub opening near his campus.
- True crime documentary telling the story of the murder of Donegal mum-of-four Dolores McCrea. Family members, detectives and forensic scientists tell the story of cold-blooded murder and the man who nearly got away with it.
- A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
- Biography of the famous German actress Renate Mueller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
- Secretary Phoebe Weyms is in love with her ad-agency boss, Gordon Crouse, but he doesn't give her the time of day. To attract his attention, Phoebe contacts the Navy Recruiting Station, and offers to unmask at a gigantic recruiting rally, the two mystery girls who sing on the "Blind Date" radio program. Crouse is irate at this and tells her that the "Blind Date" girls, Brenda and Cobina, are clock-stoppingly ugly. Phoebe suggests that two of the agency models, Jerry Gilbert and Kitty Leslie, pose as the two singers while Brenda and Cobina do the actual singing behind a curtain. Brenda and Cobina agree--under the condition that they must be supplied with sailor boyfriends. Led to believe that B&C are Jerry and Kitty's voice teachers, the Navy commander sends sailors "Hambone" Skelly and "Daffy" Dill around to act as Brenda and Cobina's escorts. But Brenda and Cobina elope with their sailor escorts, and Phoebe is left with two masked "Blind Date" singers--who can't sing.
- When Popeye forgets to send Olive Oyl a valentine, she takes a Valentine's Day Sweetheart Cruise, convinced that she'll find her "Mr. Right" there.
- 'Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo' goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo. In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these women share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. Since 1940, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has held an annual 'Prison Rodeo'. Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it's one of the last of its kind - a relic of the American penal system. Prisoners compete on wild-broncs and bucking bulls, risking life-long injuries. For inmates like Danny Liles, a 14-year veteran of the rodeo, the chance to battle livestock offers a brief respite from prison life. Within this strange arena the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud.
- Tom, the young captain of robbers, and his sweetheart, Clara, are living in a small cottage in the wood. She is his good spirit. When his wild companions are coming for him, she always tries to dissuade him from joining them in their lawless doings, and she never lets him go till he has promised her neither to kill any human being nor any animal. One member of the band, the spiteful Jim, is in love with Clara and bores her with his tiresome declarations of love, in fact one day be sneaks away from his comrades, who are just going out plundering, and returns to Tom's cottage in order to make love to Clara, but as she again refuses his brutal caresses energetically, he leaves her, threatening both her and Tom's lives. His threat soon becomes serious, as he walks straight to the nearest prefect of police, to whom he betrays all his companions and offers to guide the soldiers, who are sent in pursuit of the robbers. In a hollow way in the wood the soldiers hide themselves while Jim steals away, and when the robbers unsuspectingly come strolling uphill, they plunge straight into the lion's mouth. It now comes to a close fight between the soldiers and the robbers, during which two of the latter are killed by the soldiers bullets while Tom, after a desperate combat, is fettered and carried away along with two of his companions. Clara, who in a mortal fright has followed the wicked Jim, unfortunately is too late to warn her friend, but she now catches sight of the fleeing Jim. She lies down behind a tree root in wait for him, and by the time he is quite near to her, she jumps forward and stops him with her revolver. When the rascal realizes that he is lost, he tries once more to kiss her, who by her faithfulness towards her friend, has turned himself into a miserable traitor, but he again fails, for Clara is a good marksman, and her bullet kills him. Clara now has avenged herself and Tom, who however is lying in the jail upon a bundle of straw with his hands tied behind his back, while the soldiers are keeping watch in the adjoining room. Yet this hindrance is of no consequence to Clara, who has but the one purpose of releasing her friend. With a basket full of bottles containing narcotics she is admitted into the guard room. The soldiers get drunk, Clara steals the keys and sets her lover free. They both succeed in escaping through the guard room but in the street they are discovered by an officer and a soldier, and although Clara attacks the enemy with the courage and wildness of a tigress, she at last must save herself by taking to her heels. At dusk Tom, in close custody, is carried out into a carriage with his bands still tied behind his back, in order to be taken to the prison in town, but he does not get as far as that. Clara lying on the highroad behind a heap of stones in wait for the carriage, and when same approaches, she springs forward, mounts the carriage steps, seizes the soldier by the throat, till he has lost consciousness, then she throws him into the carriage and releases Tom, with whom she flees into the wood. At a lake she washes the wounds of the half-unconscious Tom who by her help drags himself along to a farm, where Clara threatens the farmer into giving her two horses and after a wild ride, during which Tom is hardly able to keep himself in the saddle, the two fugitives reach their cottage. Shaking with excitement and exhaustion they enter their home, where Tom sinks into a chair, while Clara kneeling before her wounded friend tries to console and encourage him. The pretty picture of a faithful wife's devoted love is, however, abruptly disturbed by a strong noise outside the house. The poor lovers full of despair start to their feet, and at the same moment the shutters are burst open by the soldiers' guns. Once more Clara makes an attempt to save her friend, and the fist soldier who enters the room is killed by her bullet, yet the superiority is too overwhelming and a few bullets make an end of the faithful lovers' struggle. Even at the moment of death the brave Clara uses her last strength to drag herself on toward the dead body of her friend and press a kiss on his pale lips. -- The Moving Picture World, April 4, 1908
- A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage on her road to fulfilling her dream is the entrance exam to the ballet school in Gdansk. To make it there in time, she escapes from the orphanage, taking newly hired educator Kordula with her. They travel all the way across Poland, hiding from the police and meeting people who help them in need.
- A Mexican spitfire romances an American soldier to make her Mexican lover jealous. When the lover is about to kill his rival, she convinces him it was all a joke and the two reconcile.
- While working in a defense plant, Patsy (Merkel) is rendered unconscious-or at least, more unconscious than usual. While knocked out, she dreams that she's a fearless detective, teamed with tangle-tongued Parkyakarkus on the trail of bank robbers.
- On September 12, 1940, when they took the field for the first time, the Rangerettes made history, and changed the future of football halftime entertainment across Texas and the United States.
- A squaw man learns that his sweetheart back east is coming to visit him and he drives his squaw out. She in retaliation, visits her tribe, tells her story and the white girl is captured by the Indians and the squaw man is notified that she will be killed. He succeeds in rescuing her, but is pursued by the Indians. After many thrilling adventures the pair finally escape.
- The opening scene discloses the front of the village post office in a small western town. A lady, whose dress is something more elaborate than the village of Mustang usually affords, comes from the post office reading a letter. A cow puncher, leathery featured and with unkempt clothing, notices her, and when she walks leisurely away, he follows carefully after her. In a strip of woods he overtakes her and attempts to force his attentions upon her. She repels him, but he seizes her in his arms and presses a kiss to her lips just as Jesse Farson, another cowboy, comes on the scene. The lady explains that she has been insulted by the "greaser," and the latter is forced to beg the forgiveness of the lady. After the "greaser" slinks away, Farson lifts his hat and volunteers to escort the lady to her home. This is the beginning of the complications that follow. Jesse Farson is engaged to a winsome little western lass, but his meeting with the lady whom he has addressed as Miss, has changed his feelings. Meetings between Farson and the lady guest at the "Bar Q" ranch become more frequent, while Jesse suddenly discovers that he has lost all love for Jennie, the western girl. With a heavy heart he calls on the latter one evening and asks her to return the ring. The little girl, who is almost broken hearted, gives it to him and Jesse turns away. The lady guest at the "Bar Q" has enjoyed the new sensation of bringing this uncouth western lad to her feet. She has permitted him to make love to her and has even promised to be his wife. The "greaser," who has had in mind the insult he received from Farson, waits patiently the time for revenge and the opportunity finally arrives. Finding the lady of the "Bar Q" strolling through the woods one day, he follows her and watches her drop a letter from her hand. When she passes out of sight he slips up cautiously and picks up the letter. It reads: "My Darling Wife, Hope you are enjoying yourself on that dull little western ranch, and I am anxiously awaiting your return home. Your affectionate husband, Harry." The "greaser," with the letter, steals off through the woods, mounts his horse and rides off toward Jennie's home. When he arrives he shows her the letter and tells her he can offer proof that Jesse has been completely captured by the eastern lady and that they are planning an elopement. He intimates, too, that Jesse is aware of the lady being married to an eastern man, as the letter points out. The two ride to the wooded trysting place, toward which the "lady of the Bar Q" was walking when the greaser obtained the letter. When they slip quietly through the woods they come upon the lovers. The greaser endeavors to win Jennie, but she declares that she loves Jesse despite his shortcomings and will endeavor to win him back. The next morning she mounts her horse and rides over to the "Bar Q." The lady receives her coldly at first, but when she has heard the little girl's story, she becomes thoughtful and finally resolves to help her in winning back the deserter. The next morning when Jesse calls on his new sweetheart he surprises her, as he thinks, in a drunken condition, and puffing a cigarette. Jesse is disgusted and finally rushes out of the room, while the lady sinks back in her chair, relieved and happy in the thought that the trouble she has caused has been corrected. Jesse is sick at heart when he thinks of his having forsaken his little Jennie for this vile woman. He desires to make amends and rides slowly to Jennie's home. It is his intention to offer his abject apologies and beg her forgiveness, then to leave the country for good, but when he mentions this last feature in his plan of redemption, she turns to him with a little cry and stretches out her hands to him. Jesse understands then, with a glad cry, takes her in his arms, vowing never more to forsake her.
- Betrayed by a man when she was a naive young girl, Honore hates all men and takes her revenge on every man she can. When she meets General Durand, the uncle of her betrayer, she sees a chance to ruin his whole family. Durand falls in love with her and proposes, and she sees her plan for revenge about to come to fruition. Then she falls for a young French soldier who knows nothing about her past. Complications ensue.
- Singer struggles to make her new nightclub succeed in a naval port after her partner leaves with the funds but not the bills.
- A girl uses her arm to bar the door against soldiers seeking her lover.
- A middle aged screenwriter struggles to produce his first film. His broken romantic comedy turns into an oddball ordeal requiring rewrites and consultation meetings with his only trusted confidant, Brad "The Duck" Pitt, a plastic chlorine-tablet-carrying pool accessory. While their leading lady try's to find true love before she turns 40, her sights set on "Mr. Right Around The Corner", nothing goes quite as planned.
- Katelyn is a cosplayer ("costume player") who dresses up as her favorite superhero, Trinity Infinity, for a comic book convention. While faking a flying shot for a television news crew, she has an accident, and when she returns to consciousness she believes she truly is Trinity Infinity. Katelyn's friends Silvia and Lily--who each take turns dressing up as Trinity Infinity's sidekick, the lovable rogue Element 47--recreate scenarios right out of the pages of the comic books in order to get Katelyn through her daily life: going to the ATM is hacking a weapons console, driving a friend to a job interview is capturing a supervillain, and going to work is an undercover assignment. Paul has an unrequited crush on Katelyn and helps by donning the costume of Necrocide, one of Trinity Infinity's rogues' gallery. When Paul's jealous ex-girlfriend Morgan gets into the game by dressing up as the arch-nemesis The Wretched, that's when things spin out of control.
- Nell, a little city waif, is selling papers on a street corner. She begs of Mr. Livingston to buy a paper. He pushes her roughly aside and her papers are scattered on the sidewalk. Dick, a messenger boy, happens on the scene, picks up Nell's papers and in his boyish way tries to comfort her. We next find Mr. Livingston at the home of Edith Travers, a wealthy society girl. He proposes his love for Edith, but she refuses him. A little later we find Livingston in need of ready money. He conceives the idea of sending Edith a note, signing the name of her brother, who is out of town, telling her that he has returned in trouble, and for her to send at once all the money she has to a deserted house on a lonely country road. He comes to her home in advance of the note to see how his scheme works. Edith is in great distress on reading the note and phones for a messenger. Dick is sent to answer her call. She gives him the money to take to the directed spot. Little Nell, on passing Edith's home selling her daily papers, sees Livingston hurrying away in his auto, suspects something is wrong, and climbing on the back of the auto rides away. Dick is speeding along the country road when he is overtaken by Livingston in his auto. The auto collides with the messenger boy and Dick is thrown to the ground unconscious, Nell still clinging to the auto. Livingston takes the money from the messenger, puts it in his overcoat pocket, placing the coat on the rear seat of his auto, and as he speeds away little Nell jumps from the car, taking Livingston's coat with her. Dick revives and Nell gives him the money. They return to Edith's home with it. Dick and Nell by this time have fallen in love with each other, and five years later show them coming from the little church around the corner happily married.
- Jack, one of the cowboys on Circle L Ranch, is in love with a neighboring ranch girl, Lucy, and he starts out on his piebald broncho to see her. Leaving the horse on the road he and the girl wander away through the forest. Meantime a ne'er-do-well, Dick Dazers, coming along and seeing the horse, mounts and gallops to the crossroads, where he arrives in time to hold up the coach as it comes along the rough road and separates the passengers from their money and jewels. His horse, however, runs away back to its master, and Jack finds it where he left it. Suspecting nothing he starts on his way back, and arriving at the crossroads sees there a black mass dropped by Dick; he is handling it, wondering how it came there, when the sheriff and his posse, accompanied by an Englishman, who was a passenger on the coach and who had given the alarm, arrive on the scene. Everything points to Jack as the guilty one, and he is bound and led away. On the way they pass Lucy, who does not believe that Jack could he guilty of such a crime. She seizes the Englishman's horse while he is getting a drink and gallops back to the Circle L Ranch and tells Jack's friends. They follow and catch up with the sheriff's party just as he is about to lock Jack in the calaboose. On hearing the evidence things look black against Jack, and they ride homeward to consider what is best to be done. Meantime the Englishman in his wanderings meets Dick, who again tries to hold him up. At this moment Jack's friends come along and capture him and lead him to the sheriff. Lucy tells the sheriff that she believes Dick is the man who really held up the coach, and asks to be allowed to act as his jailer so that she may find out. The sheriff finally consents to her plan, which we will not divulge here. We can assure you it was a very novel idea, and worked out to perfection, with the result that full evidence of Dick's guilt was obtained, and Jack was freed through the efforts of the girl he loved.
- Documentary on Ireland's Rock Band Horslips featuring interviews with Bono, The Edge, Pat McCabe et al
- Jack Ferris has gone west to take possession of his uncle's mine, the sole possession his relative had to leave. It is a lonely situation for a young man used to the life and bustle of the city, but Ferris bravely sticks it out, sustained by the thought that he is working for the little girl "back east." He is rejoiced when a letter comes that tells him he is to receive a visit from Agnes and her father: the latter coming west to look into some investments. The thought that the lonely little cabin will be informed by her presence delights him. But a telegram follows the letter telling him that her father is injured and cannot come. Jack works at the baffling rock that hides from him the pay streak he knows must be there somewhere. A blast does not explode and Jack rashly goes back to see what the matter is before waiting a proper time. The fuse is still burning, but it bums slowly, and just as the young miner bends over it flashes up, the force of the explosion throwing him down the face of the cliff. The mass of debris that follows crushes his foot badly and he is unable to free himself. Shooting his pistol into the air to summon help, the intense pain causes him to faint. But the shots have been heard and help soon comes. He is taken to the cabin and made as comfortable as possible while his friend rides for the physician. In the delirium of pain Jack, tossing upon the rude couch, sees himself and the girl of his dreams go through the meeting that he had so fondly planned. She comes into the cabin to receive his welcome and he kneels beside her to tell again the story of his devotion. Then the vision fades and he awakens to the realization of the pain at his heart that is even more acute than the ache of splintered bone and bruised muscles. The doctor comes and binds up the injured member, applying soothing lotions and cooling ointments, and leaves him in a more natural sleep. Meantime Agnes and her father arrive at the nearest station, her father's injury having proven less severe than was supposed, and the chum who has helped Jack happens to be at the station to direct them to the little cabin. He procures a conveyance for them, and Jack's joy when they enter may well be imagined. The aching foot is forgotten as he kneels beside the girl he loves and tells her that the unfortunate blast disclosed the high grade ore for which he had searched so long.
- The team partnership of Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, their friendship, the films they made together, friendship after film work, his death.
- A photographer has trouble posing a sailor and his girl.
- Marjorie Wayne, the new school-teacher, comes to town and boards at the same ranch where Broncho Billy is foreman. Broncho Billy falls in love with her winsome ways and proposes to her. She tells him she does not love him, but expresses a wish that they be good friends. Her sweetheart from the city comes to the ranch and she marries him, much to the chagrin of Broncho Billy. Not long after the wedding, Steve gets into bad company and is persuaded to join in stealing some horses. He is captured by a posse, who are about to make short work of him, when Broncho Billy, through his love for Marjorie, holds up the posse and allows him to escape.
- Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the shooting he hastens to her home and tells her he has shot a man, but does not know who he is. Shortly after the remainder of the gang of outlaws arrive and, to learn the direction Broncho went, tell her it was her father who was shot. She then tells the direction of her sweetheart's flight. A few minutes later her father comes home and she realizes her mistake. She dashes after the gang and by a short cut heads them off, and tells them that Broncho is hiding in her home. They return, giving Broncho plenty of time to escape.
- The cow puncher of the story is a splendid type of the young western ranchman who has incurred the enmity of a renegade Indian horse thief by running him down and bringing him to justice. The Indian, full of revenge, attempts to strike at the cowboy through his sweetheart, and the girl is captured and taken into the Indian camp. The cow punchers get word of it, however, and there is a horseback chase which will delight all lovers of fine horse flesh. It is useless to say that the cow puncher's sweetheart is saved and that the Indians got their deserved punishment.
- Jim Morris, a young prospector, plans a trip into the great desert to search for gold. Before he leaves, Morris places an engagement ring on the finger of Mary, his sweetheart, and she promises to await his return. Two months later Jim befriends another young prospector, whose water supply has given out, and learns he is returning after a fruitless search for gold ore. Jim now shows him Mary's picture, writes her a letter and Wells promises to deliver it for him. However, Wells falls in love with Mary and, as the weeks go by, they become good friends. At length Wells wins her consent to give up Jim and go with him. Leaving a note for Jim when he returns, Mary goes with Wells back into the desert. Later, Jim returns and discovers the situation. Heart-broken, he returns into the "land of dead things" to fight it out alone. Meanwhile, Wells loses his way in the trackless sands and he and Mary have but one canteen of water left. A few hours later the last drop only remains and Wells, crazed with the heat and terror, drinks the precious fluid, deserts Mary and staggers on. Brooding in his camp, Jim suddenly hears faint cries out on the desert, investigates and finds Mary lying half-dead in the sands. He revives her and she tells her story. With half-drawn gun Jim starts to lead her to his camp, when suddenly they stumble over the dead body of Wells. Providence has stayed his vengeance, and Jim kneels with Mary and gives thanks for the opportunity of starting life anew once more with her by his side.
- An artist while sketching in the woods one day is set upon by a band of brigands and taken prisoner. His little sweetheart wonders sorrowfully why her lover stays away from her so long until a youth comes to her and tells her the news of the artist's capture. The girl makes up her mind immediately to disguise herself as a boy and join the cutthroat band. She bravely goes to their camp and offers her services. As a test of her courage she is blindfolded and handed a dagger and told to stab a man who is tied to a tree. They lead her to the tree and she makes the fatal thrust, thinking herself a murderer. She is greatly relieved, however, when the bandage is removed from her eyes to find that it was all a ruse to try her courage and that she had sunk the knife into the bark of the tree instead of into a human breast as she had thought. Complimenting her on her bravery, the brigands now look upon her as one of their own. Watching eagerly for an opportunity to speak a word in private with her lover in order to plan his escape, fortune favors the girl when one day she is told to keep an eye on their prisoner. They go off together, she pretending all the while to dog his footsteps while the others are about. When her chance comes she lets him flee and then runs breathlessly back to the camp to tell the men their bird has flown. She accompanies them as they hurry after him and manages to throw one of them over a precipice while she outwits the others and after an exciting chase she joins her lover and they hasten away to safety.
- Mary loves Jack, a hard-working young man of good impulses, and their future happiness seems assured. Suddenly she is made very unhappy by her discovery of Jack's intemperance. She reasons with him and he promises to reform and tries hard to keep his promise, but bad company leads him astray and the engagement is broken. Jack wanders away and becomes a tramp, while Mary learns to love rising contractor Jim and they marry. Time passes and Jim is awarded a large contract out of town and goes away, taking Mary with him. Jack, the dissipated, rejected love, while resting with some of his tramp cronies in a shanty, overhears the husband, whom he has never seen, tell an assistant that he is going to the bank for a large payroll. This arouses the greed of Jack and the tramps and they arrange to waylay Jim and get the payroll. Jim gets the money and leaves the bank for the works. Jack places the tramps in ambush and scouts off to give the signal for Jim's approach. While he is making a detour of the hole he comes upon Jim's cabin and decides to rob it. While so engaged he is interrupted by Jim's wife. He is about to silence her when he recognizes her as his former sweetheart and learns she is the wife of the contractor his gang are waiting to rob. He decides to save him and by a clever scheme he frightens away the thugs, and wins the gratitude of the husband who gives him a good position.
- Out in the desolate desert towns of New Mexico, there is many an honorable citizen whose life is haunted by a rash deed of youth or early manhood. Some deed that made him a fugitive from his native heath and drove him into the frontier wilderness of the far West. Even there, sometimes the law ferrets him out and drives him further and further from civilization with never a chance of reparation. So it was with Dad Boulter, the much loved old justice of Crazy Gulch. For years he has lived there with his daughter, the pride of the gulch, and then one day there came to him a letter from the East, warning him that the next mail would carry a letter appraising the community of his folly. Disgrace and ruin were approaching the little western home, so acting upon an impulse of self-preservation, the old justice buckled on his pistol and rode to the outskirts of the town, held up the stage and confiscated the mail bag. The fatal letter was destroyed and the justice fled before the pursuit of the young sheriff and his posse. It happened that the sheriff was betrothed to Nell, the daughter of the justice, and the strong struggle between love and duty, when he realized who his fugitive was, makes an intense dramatic situation. The justice was wounded in the chase and staggering into his hut, he bade his daughter bind his wound and hide him from the posse. The loyal girl hid her father under a bundle of clothing and admitted the sheriff. Her ruse was a failure and the presence of the old man was discovered. It was apparently all up when the clever girl proposed that the father be allowed to marry her to the sheriff before being taken away. With a little persuasion, the sheriff consented. For want of a wedding ring, the girl proposed the use of the sheriff's handcuffs. When the unsuspecting sheriff was off his guard, the girl seized his gun, clamped the handcuffs on his wrist and hers and bade her father run. The old man got away safely, and the sheriff, realizing he had been outwitted, turned to the girl and folding her in his arms, said, "You win."
- Haley has decided that she won't bring another man to the annual family holiday get-together unless he's 'the one'. She is tired of being the only girl with a different guy on her arm in every family picture. She wants her guy, her permanent life partner and she's vowed to not waste anymore time in relationships that aren't 'going somewhere'. Then Haley meets Cole, a guy that's been through a tough breakup and is fairly comfortable with his single status, unsure if he'll ever love again. But things start to heat up pretty fast and Haley wants to know if there's hope for a future. Cole just wants to avoid getting kicked out her bed while calming the waters and not committing to a 'relationship'.
- The proprietor of the only garage in the village was not popular, because he seemed to have only one idea in mind, that of raising the price of gasoline. He controlled all the supply of that valuable fluid and every time he thought of it he boosted the rate a nickel or so. The disliked man had a daughter, who had a sweetheart. He was a young man who came to the town and started a photograph gallery, but met with little success. True, he made a hit when he took the garage keeper posing in the midst of motor cars, but unfortunately he set the place afire. With local customers he was also unlucky, for somehow the pictures he took were always out of focus, and so badly distorted that customers would never pay for them. Hence, within a short time the sheriff took possession of the photograph gallery. The young man called upon the girl and told her his career was over. While she was trying to console him her father entered and ordered the young man away, saying that no man who does not work "can court my daughter when gasoline is selling at 90c a gallon." The young man admitted the truth of the argument and was just about going away when he chanced to look through the window and saw that snow was falling, so he turned upon his father-in-law-elect and said resolutely: "Listen, a job awaits me; I will become a snow shoveler." And he did. In any line of business the energetic man can make good. The snow shoveler worked so enthusiastically that within a few hours he became a foreman, much to the joy of the other laborers in his gang. In the meantime the garage keeper was in trouble. A poor widow and little child had endeavored to buy some gasoline and had been rudely repulsed. She sobbed out her sad story to several young men, and they determined to make an example of the wicked garage keeper. They found him in his home and would have made him swallow his own gasoline had it not been for his daughter. The girl went to the roof of the building and attracted the attention of her sweetheart by hitting him with a snowball. He came to her rescue and the intruders were vanquished in hand-to-hand combat. His narrow escape taught the garage keeper the wickedness of his conduct, and he voluntarily reduced the price of gasoline so low that the poorest widow in town could buy all she wanted of it. In addition, he permitted his daughter to marry the man of her choice.
- A young girl in a small western community receives a legacy of five thousand dollars' worth of government bonds. A gossip neighbor calls upon the girl and, after a bit of questioning, learns all the details. Bursting with importance, the gossip tells the news to everyone she meets. A couple of rough characters hear of the girl's wealth, go to her home, and take the bonds from her, making good their escape. The girl communicates with her sweetheart, a deputy U.S. Marshal, who follows and finally corners them in an out-of-the-way log house. By a clever bit of strategy, the marshal manages to arrest one of the thieves, but is shot from behind by the other. When he regains consciousness he again takes up the trail. This time he is aided by several brother officers and a posse of cowboys. After an exciting chase, the thieves are run down, and the bonds recovered. As the deputy marshal returns the bonds to the girl, he takes occasion to impress upon her mind the fact that she needs protection: She comes around to his way of thinking and the happy pair start to town for a marriage license.