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Learn more- Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter Nina than to her, Cleo Morin runs away with Henri Mordan. On the afternoon of their elopement, Morin, a ballet master, is seriously injured on the stage, and the doctor tells him that his spine is so affected that he will never walk again. As soon as he can be moved he goes with his daughter Nina to a distant country, where he begins to train her, as it is his intention to have her become a premiere danseuse. Ten years later Cleo, who has obtained a divorce, has become a popular actress. She buys a country home and is attracted by a bevy of admirers, one of whom is Sidney Bretton, who in reply to her inquiry as to what kind of costume she should wear at a masked ball, tells her to go dressed as "The Tiger Lily." He designs such a costume for her and she goes thus arrayed, accompanied by a Bengal tiger she has purchased. Meanwhile, Morin's health makes it necessary for him to go to the same town where his ex-wife is living, and fate has ordained that he take a villa next to hers. Each is unaware of the other. Becoming deeply infatuated with the artist, Cleo casts off her old admirer, Elbert Lamoreaux, who vows vengeance on the man who has supplanted him. One night he sees Nina dancing in the moonlight; leaving Cleo, he becomes acquainted with the girl by performing a slight service for you. Discovering that Sidney no longer loves her, Cleo by subterfuges manages to get Nina, whom she does not recognize as her daughter, to her home, where she begins to caress her in the presence of Prince the tiger, who becomes jealous of the girl. On an unusually hot day, Cleo increases the jealousy of the tiger by waving in front of him a scarf, left behind by Nina, when Sidney comes to tell her of his engagement to the dancing girl. As he is leaving the house he is shot in the back by Elbert Lamoreaux, and falls wounded to the ground. A thunderstorm is approaching and Cleo lets the infuriated tiger loose. He runs to Morin's residence and as he is just about to enter the house it is struck by lightning and set on fire. Regaining his strength, Sidney goes to Nina, who takes him to her father. Meanwhile, the tiger is rushing from room to room in search of Nina. Cleo enters and finds Nina, her father, and Sidney together, but does not recognize her erstwhile husband or daughter. Speaking to the girl, she threatens to have the tiger, which is standing by her side, destroy her if she does not relinquish her lover, Sidney, Morin, recognizing her, shouts: "Do you not know your ex-husband and daughter?" The shock is too much for the overwrought Cleo and she drops dead to the floor. The tiger is shot a moment later by Elbert, who has come for revenge. It is with difficulty that Sidney and Nina get Morin out of the burning house, the flames of which have consumed the bodies of Cleo and Elbert. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
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