- Drama about a divorcing stage couple with a dying son. During the opening night of "Death of Pierrot", she removes the tip on her rapier, but, unknowingly accidentally kills her.
- Robert Robson and his wife are prominent members in a theatrical company, which is joined by Harriet Werner. The three are drawn in the cast for a new play, "The Death of Pierrot," rehearsals for which are being conducted under the supervision of its author, Arthur Lichtinger. Robson becomes infatuated with the new member of the company, and his attentions to her are later the cause of his wife's divorcing him. In the meantime, the injured Alice receives the attentions of the author of the play, and learns to love him. The child of the Robsons becomes seriously ill and calls repeatedly for his absent father. Alice goes to the theater and vainly pleads with her former husband to come and see the boy. Lichtinger, finding the two together, unjustly accuses Alice of trying to win back her husband's affections. The child's condition becoming critical, Alice leaves the theater just before the rise of the curtain on the first performance of the play. In his anxiety for the success of the play, Arthur persuades her to leave the boy and return to the theater to play her part, which is an important one. During the performance word is brought that the child has died. The grief-stricken mother vows vengeance on the callous father, who refused to attend his dying son. To this end she bares the points of the weapons used in a duel scene with Robert in the last act, intending to kill the man, who, to a large extent, has been the cause of her misery. Her plans however, miscarry, and in the course of the duel she is herself mortally wounded. As the play hurries on to a tense and dramatic finish, Alice bravely continues in her part to the very end, finally dying as the curtain falls.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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