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- Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
- With the help of a private detective, Elaine tries to catch the masked criminal mastermind The Clutching Hand, who has murdered her father.
- Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
- Drama involving bull fighter Gayetano and his enamored girl friend Juanita. After a dramatic abduction by jealous rival Manuel, her following faithlessness to Gayetano climaxes with Manuel's death in the arena and her own demise by the hand of Gaeytano.
- A film about family secrets...and deathbed confessions.
- Jean Valjean, a good man convicted of a minor crime, escapes from imprisonment and spends the rest of his life running from the vindictive and implacable man of the law, Javert.
- Robert Macey perfects a telephone which enables the speaker to be seen as well as heard. His friend, Rifflord, advises him to interest Mr. Durling, a capitalist, and gives him a letter of introduction. Meeting the capitalist later, Macey succeeds in securing his financial assistance. About this time, Julian Delatour, a nephew of Durling, comes to visit his uncle and his cousin, Vera. Delatour has led a life of extravagance but hopes to replenish his coffers by a marriage with Vera. She, however, is greatly attracted by Macey and therefore gives her scheming cousin no encouragement in his suit. For revenge, Delatour manages to discredit Macey in the eyes of his uncle, and after a painful scene between the latter two, the inventor leaves the capitalist's house in anger. Not long after, Durling succumbs to heart failure and his nephew gains control of the manufacturing plant wherein Macey's telephones are being made. In order to spy on Delatour's plans, Macey's younger brother, Jean, obtains a position in the factory. He notifies Macey that there is to be a demonstration before Miss Durling, whose assistance is essential to the absolute success of the invention. Macey contrives to be present and causes the demonstration to be a failure. Realizing that he is likely to lose his rights in the apparatus, Macey bequeaths his invention to Vera and then advises her, through a fictitious letter, that he has died and that the sole control of the invention is hers. Macey, disguised, delivers the perfected machine to Vera, but she penetrates his disguise. She does not let him know, however, that she knows who he is. In a note, she is advised that she will be called on the new telephone at nine that night in order to make a trial of the apparatus. About a quarter of nine Delatour calls personally with Redfield, a friend, and they try to persuade Vera to invest in 10,000 shares in a company formed for the exploitation of the new phone. She is suspicious of them and will not accede to their wishes. The two schemers decide to kidnap the heiress and hold her until she agrees to finance them. At this moment, nine o'clock, Macey attempts to call Vera on the telephone and is horrified to see the plotters throw a cloth over her head and bear her away. He hastens to her home but arrives too late to be of assistance. His brother, Jean, however, is on the job and follows the kidnappers to the mountains, where they take Vera in a limousine. Jean manages to drop notes on the way which are found by Macey, who hastens over the trail in his own machine. Seeing that they are pursued, the kidnappers feign an accident. Macey leaps from his machine to go to their assistance and is at once overcome by the schemers. Unconscious, he is placed in the auto with Vera and the door is locked. Delatour then starts the machine and guides it to a steep path down the mountainside. Leaping from the moving machine, he allows it to run unpiloted, hoping that the inmates will be dashed to death below. Congratulating themselves on the success of their scheme, the plotters return to the city where they expect to hold a meeting for the purpose of interesting government officials in the telephone. But they have not reckoned on Jean, who had concealed himself on the top of the auto. Recognizing the danger which confronts the now swiftly moving machine, Jean drops to the driver's seat and succeeds in stopping the auto. He then helps Vera to restore Robert and they, also, return to the city. Hastening to the police, they explain the circumstances, and officers are detailed to return with them to arrest Delatour and Redfield. A messenger is sent in to call Redfield, who is immediately taken into custody. The officers then enter to arrest Delatour, but a sterner justice had claimed him first. In endeavoring to demonstrate the new telephone he accidentally comes in contact with a high power electric current which instantly electrocuted him, thereby bringing to an end an unworthy career.
- Stevens, the bank clerk, is ambitious. His great desire is to become a lawyer. He stays at the bank at night to study, but is unable to take a course at college owing to his poverty. He handles immense sums of money every day and is strongly tempted to steal some, but fights off the desire till one evening when a belated customer comes late to the bank with a deposit of several thousand dollars. He sees a way for his ambition to be gratified and takes the money. His wife refuses to go with him, so he deserts her and his small daughter and goes away. Some time later we see him in a strange town living under an assumed name. His ambition has been gratified and through the good will of the political boss he has been made a judge. He falls in love with the daughter of his friend, the boss, but is deterred from marriage by the thought of his wife whom he had deserted. In the meantime Mrs. Stevens has become destitute and unable to support her daughter. She takes her daughter to an orphan asylum and releases all claim on her. Mrs. Stevens is unable to obtain work and at last is found unconscious and taken to a hospital. Her handbag, containing her identification papers, is lost and picked up by another woman who is in the last stages of exhaustion. The woman succumbs to the cold and on being found is thought to be Mrs. Stevens. Her death as Mrs. Stevens is reported to the papers. Judge Harding (formerly Stevens) sees the report of the death and marries the daughter of the boss. The boss decides to run Judge Harding for governor of the state, but his choice is attacked very strongly by a young lawyer, Norris. The boss and Harding try to buy Norris, but finding that he cannot be reached they decide to "frame up" his sweetheart in order to break his determination to prevent the election of Harding. They get her into trouble and Judge Harding is appointed to try the case. He is conducting the case in a very severe manner with a decided feeling against the prisoner. The superintendent of the orphan asylum has followed the course of the little girl's life and comes to the city to see her. She recognizes Mrs. Stevens as the woman who left the child at the orphanage and takes her to see the trial. As Mrs. Stevens enters she recognizes in Judge Harding the man who deserted her so many years ago. While the jury have retired to settle the case Mrs. Stevens accuses Judge Harding. The sudden excitement causes an attack of heart failure just as the jury return with a verdict of "Not Guilty."
- Jean Valjean, guilty of a minor theft of food, is pursued and hounded for years by a relentless lawman, Javert.
- Without exception this is one of the best offerings of the season. The remarkable acting by Ernest Truex, the delicious humor of the story, the thrills and the rapid action all combine to justify the word "immense" in connection with it. Larry, the telegraph messenger boy, loves little Mame and his attentions meet with favor from the girl until Terry Turk, the light-weight pugilistic champion of Jersey City, steps in. Dazzled by the attentions of this great man, Mame cannot see Larry at all, and accepts the present of a bracelet from the pugilist. Unable to compete with such great wealth, the messenger can only hope for something to turn up which will put a few dollars into his pockets. The Grand Duke Sergius visits the United States and is followed by Anna Karensky, a nihilist, who is plotting his death. The Secret Service being warned of her presence aboard a certain steamship, the police wait for her arrival in order to arrest her. Her confederates in America learn of her danger and a warning is sent to her at the pier to get rid of the bomb at all hazards. The messenger chosen to deliver the message is our friend Larry. The nihilist manages to secrete the bomb in a hat box and to thus get it by the customs officials. She then gives the dangerous bundle to Larry with orders to deliver it to her confederates. Through his ignorance of the contents of the box the boy subjects it to indignities calculated to make one's hair stand on end. He fulfills his mission and then, through eavesdropping, learns that he has been carrying a bomb. Climbing up a fire-escape he manages to secrete himself in the nihilists' headquarters and overhears enough conversation to inform him that the bomb is set for seven o'clock and that one of the nihilists, Ravelli, is a waiter in the duke's hotel and that he is to be responsible for the proper placing of the bomb. Larry is discovered in his hiding place after Ravelli's departure, but succeeds in making his escape. He sets out in hot pursuit of the waiter, but is cleverly eluded. Larry then goes to the Duke's hotel and earnestly tries to see him and warn him but is not permitted to get by the barrier of servants. Finally at only five minutes to seven he succeeds in slipping by and breaking into the duke's apartments, finds him enjoying a tete-a-tete supper with a woman friend. Larry then starts a wild hunt for the bomb to the utter amazement of everyone. Finally he finds the bomb in a covered dish and, charging wildly through the gathering crowd, dashes down stairs and across the street into a park. He has only a moment to spare. Hurling the bomb from him as far as he can, he jumps into the lake to escape the explosion. It comes, all right, but injures no one, thanks to the boy's resourcefulness. The dripping boy is proclaimed a hero, and the delighted duke, not only fills his pockets with money, but, taking from his own shoulders the glittering cordon of the Legion of Honor, places it around the messenger's neck. Meantime Mame has found that Terry's attentions amount to but little and longs for her telegraph boy again. Her longing is increased when she learns of the honors he has gained, but they only seem to make him the more inaccessible. But "Love will find a way," and before long we see the happy Mame wearing the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and the telegraph boy come into his own again.
- In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as to appease the tensions between Catholics and Huguenots. But the marriage of convenience proves a double failure because not only are the newlyweds ill-matched sexually but a horrible killing spree (the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre) ensues as well...
- The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine. Lindey finds himself involved in the plot.
- Three charming sisters vow to one another eternal adherence to the blessing. of single life. Augusta, ring-leader of the three, is particularly violent toward the sterner sex. She looks for a position, obtains several, but resigns them because of the unwelcome attentions forced upon her by various men. Meantime her sister Ethel gives music lessons in their apartment, while Clara, the third sister, a medical student, secures a position as assistant to young Doctor Squibb. In the same apartment house with the sisters lives a girl who is receiving attentions from Carl Waldeck, a young attorney. Her father has forbidden the young man to call upon her. Carl calls upon her one day and barely manages to escape the angry father. He seeks refuge in the apartment of the three sisters and entreats them to permit him to stay there to avoid his pursuer. To get rid of him they make a bridge of their ironing-board. On this he escapes through a window into another flat. The morning after Augusta receives her answer to a position in an office of two attorneys. She makes such a good impression upon Mr. Speck, one of the attorneys, that she secures a position. Here she undergoes the same annoyances that she has received before, which only ends when she knocks the office manager down. This causes him the loss of his position. She is now promoted to his position and requests that her former position be given to her sister, Ethel. Mr. Speck consents. Ethel makes a hit with the office clerk. Clarence Hallroom, a confirmed bachelor. He and Ethel make eyes at one another and are intercepted by Augusta, who asserts her authority and puts a stop to the lovemaking. One day Carl returns from his vacation to his work, and is recognized as the ironing-board tourist. The beauty of Augusta has made a profound impression on him but in seeking to obtain from her a corresponding feeling he receives a rebuff. He decides to teach her a lesson. He arouses her jealousy by a flirtation with Ethel. Augusta resigns her position and leaves and compels poor Ethel to leave with her. Clarence cannot forget her and seeks an excuse to call upon her. Freed from the grim censorship of Augusta, they shortly come to an understanding. A little later Augusta, now returning to her home, receives a call from Waldeck. As she will not admit him by the door, he enters the apartment through the window by means of the ironing-board. His eloquence sweeps away the last vestiges of her old-time man-hate, and she also becomes engaged. That very same day the charming Clara joins the ranks of the brides-to-be becoming engaged to Dr. Squibb.
- An army pilot is on a visit at the home of another army pilot in the neighboured country. He falls in love with his sister. After the outbreak of a war between the two countries, her brother is killed by her friend in a battle, he is killed by some friends of her brother. She engages her with her brother's friend who was there, but then she finds out about that battle.
- Jean Clédat, a young sculptor, has fallen in love with Gabrielle Normand, a painter. Jean's father, who expected him to perform his art in his native town, is surprised not to see him come back after his studies at the Fine Arts Academy, all the more as Marie-Claire, his kind-hearted fiancée, is waiting for him at home. Suspecting a love affair, Clédat Senior comes to visit Jean out of the blue. Not only are his suspicions confirmed but they are even reinforced when he catches sight of a doll in his son's studio. After telling Gabrielle that he will provide maintenance for the "child", he forces his son son to go back home. The only thing is that he is making a mistake : there IS a four-year-old girl, but she is Gabrielle's little sister, not her daughter...
- Robert Daubrais, while in London, learned that his brother died in Paris. He had expected to inherit the bulk of the estate as the only heir, Arthur, was a sickly child. However, another child, Remi, was born after the father's death and Daubrais was furious. Scheming to get the estate, he hired a gangster, Moretti, to kidnap Remi. The child was left in a park where he was found by Barberin, a laborer, and taken to Chavanon. This fact was told to Daubrais. Eight years passed and Remi's mother gave him up for dead. During this time Remi grew up, believing that Barberin's wife was his own mother. One day Barberin broke his arm and decided that he could no longer support Remi, who overheard his foster parents talking about him. He was shocked to learn that he was not their child. Chancing to meet Vitali, a street-performer, Barberin hired Remi out to him. Soon after Vitali was arrested for not having a license and was sent to jail. Remi, left alone with three dogs and a monkey, was forced to struggle for himself. Daubrais' scheme, however, was frustrated, as Arthur, while never robust, still continued to live. While cruising for his health, Arthur spied Remi and his trick animals on the riverbank and persuaded his mother to take them on board. Remi told his new friends of how old Vitali was arrested and Madam Daubrais succeeded in having him liberated. He rejoined Remi, who regretted leaving his friends. So, for the second time, fate separated mother and child. Misfortune seemed to follow Remi and Vitali, for soon after two of their dogs died and they found it difficult to eke out a bare existence. Believing he could do better alone, Vitali gave Remi into the keeping of Garafoli, a rascally Fagin. Seeing Garafoli flog his other boys, he again took Rami with him. His strength was exhausted, however, and one cold night he passed away, leaving Remi alone once more. Madame Daubrais often requested her brother-in-law to try to locate the little boy whom Arthur wished to see again. But Daubrais willed otherwise. He succeeded in finding Remi and told him that Moretti, the kidnapper, was his father. Remi had to keep with a little street gamin named Matteo, who overheard Daubrais tell Moretti who Remi's real parents were. This he told to Remi and the little chums decided to run away. Daubrais told Remi's mother that the boy she sought was dead. But just then Remi and his little friend arrival. Great was her surprise and delight to learn that Remi was her long-mourned child. Daubrais, now unmasked, was driven in anger from her sight. Safe again in her arms after many years of trials and tribulations, Remi vowed that he would never again be separated from his mother. And Madam Dubrais breathed a fervent amen.
- Max discovers that in the same apartment house with him lives a most charming woman doctor. To meet her he fakes a sickness and calls upon her for professional advice. She thumps him, puts her little ear down to his chest, diagnoses his case and prescribes for him. Max departs so full of happiness that he finds difficulty in walking as a sober man should. The days pass and, winning the lady's love, Max becomes married to her. On the wedding night just as they have reached the seclusion of their own room and Max has started to pour out his rapture into her willing ear, the servant hammers at their door. They find that the bride is called out upon a case, so in wedding gown and orange blossoms she leaves the despondent Max to await her return. The time passes and finally she returns, but only for a moment. The servant raps at the door again, and again she must go out to see a patient. The unhappy bridegroom protests in vain. He is sleeping uneasily in his chair when she finally comes back. As they are embracing, the servant raps at the door again, announcing another call for the doctor. The now infuriated Max rushes upon the disturber of his happiness, throws him out of the room and locks the door. A year later the happy husband, bearing a baby in his arms, wanders into the reception room of his wife's office. He finds it filled with waiting patients, all men. He steps into the office and sees the wife of his bosom, with her head at a man's chest listening to his heart. Filled with rage he deposits the baby in the arms of the man nearest him and proceeds to drive every patient out of the house. Thus he is convinced that from henceforth his wife must cease to be an "M.D." and become more of a wife and mother.
- An Indian rajah determines to give the prince, his son, the advantages of an American university education, and brings him to the United States. Arriving at the university town they stop at the hotel there and are immediately besieged by the reporters who scent a good story, especially as it is reported that the rajah brings with him one of the famous jewels of the world, a magnificent diamond. Among the reporters is a young man on his first assignment who at once makes friends with the prince. In the meantime Nell Reardon, the "badger queen," is approached by Moreland, a "gentleman" crook, and threatened with exposure if she does not aid him to obtain possession of the rajah's jewel. She promises her aid and as a first step registers at the same hotel as the rajah, under the alias of the "Countess Mirska." Billy is assigned to interview her. The prince is struck with the woman's charms and persuades Billy to introduce him. At the instigation of Moreland. the woman persuades the prince to show her the diamond. Fearing his father's displeasure the young man secretly takes the jewel from the strong box. Seeing their opportunity, Moreland and Harley, his "pal," invite the prince to have some refreshments at the hotel café and the prince asks to have Billy included in the party. The jewel is passed around and admired. By accident, and while no one is looking, it falls from the case and lodges in the cuff of the reporter's trousers. Later, while in his own room, he discovers it and immediately runs back to the hotel to return it to the prince. Unable to find him, he decides to stay at the hotel for the night, takes a room and throws himself upon the bed, fully clothed. The anxiety of his responsibility preys upon his mind so that his slumbers are disturbed and his rest is a nightmare. In the meantime the prince discovers the loss, tells the crooks of it and they search the café together. The crooks secretly believe each other guilty, but when they tax one another with the crime they mutually prove their innocence. Without saying anything to each other they visit the reporter's home and search his room. Finding one another in the room their mutual distrust deepens. Billy's distraught mind causes him to talk in his sleep and while doing so he drops the jewel over the hotel balcony. It falls at the feet of the prince, but he does not enjoy its possession long. Harley, who has been spying upon him, knocks him out and escapes with the diamond. The further vicissitudes of the diamond are intensely interesting and lead up to the superb climax where the prince recovers it and sees the baffled crook, Moreland, go over the bridge into the ravine below in the trolley car in which he has tried to escape.
- About the daughter of the Borgia, a noble medieval house. From her numerous and unhappy weddings, to the forced monacation, to the will of her family.
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Inter-collegiate eight-oared varsity race of four miles on the Hudson. Won by Columbia. Time, nineteen minutes thirty-seven, four-fifths seconds. New York City, N.Y: Mayor Mitchel presents "Honor Medals" to fire heroes. New York City, N.Y: "Baby Week" prize-winning babies of Greater New York. Salem, Mass: $20,000,000 fire destroys "The City of Witches." Over three square miles in ruin. Twenty-two thousand made homeless by flames. New York City, N.Y: New wireless telephone sensation. Inventor Dr. D.G. McGaa talks from Steamship Tyler, at sea, to New York Herald office. Madrid, Spain: Marriage of Kermit Roosevelt to Miss Belle Willard. Syracuse, N.Y: Golden jubilee Turn Verein celebration.
- Harry Travers falls in love with Margaret Booth, a nurse who is in attendance upon his invalid aunt. Offered a position in the Orient, he decides to accept it. Before leaving he tells Margaret of his love and obtains a promise of marriage. In his new location he speedily forgets the girl. Meantime the aunt dies. Margaret thus losing the friend and the home of years, takes a position as nurse to an invalid army officer. She waits in vain for a letter from her fiancé, who ignores her written pleas to be remembered. Dazed and hurt, she suffers in silence. Later there comes a letter to her ostensibly from her fiancé's employers, telling her of a serious accident which has fatally injured him. She takes this to be true, not knowing that the fickle lover has himself caused the letter to be written. The Colonel she has been nursing falls in love with her and asks her to be his wife. Believing her lover dead, she accepts and marries him and with him and his little daughter lives in idyllic happiness. One day the Colonel's son, a young fellow in the navy, returns to his father's house and at once succumbs to the charms of his step-mother and loves her as though she were really his mother. By a strange chance the step-son, Douglass, has met Travers in the east. He invited him to visit him whenever he returns to his own country. Travers calls at the Colonel's house and meets his old sweetheart. Returning to his hotel, he writes her asking her to meet him. Douglass finds his step-mother in great distress and hears the truth. Seeking out Travers, he demands reparation for the insult offered his father's house and later in a duel stretches him wounded upon the ground. Then, returning to his house, he is the means of reuniting his father and step-mother.
- The Archduke Rodolphe d'Illyrie is secretly united to Countess Sarah Mac Gregor and they have a daughter together. The young woman learns that her father-in-law is potting to have the marriage annulled so she writes her brother to ask him to get rid of the old man. When her letter is intercepted, she leaves her child in the care of farmers near Paris and escapes to America. The Archduke finds the whereabouts of his daughter but he finds the house has been destroyed by a criminal fire and figures that she died. He sets out to find his daughter's murderers and meets the evil Schoolmaster and his friend la Chouette. They actually hide the child, that they call Fleur de Marie, and force her to beg for their profit.
- Max rips his trousers at a party.
- A clever pictorial comedy is this cartoon, which graphically describes the tender love-tale of Julio, a masculine feline, and Romiet, the object of his affections. The howling of Julio is so realistically portrayed in this picture that you will imagine it is the product of the real article. Julio, perched on top of a back-yard fence, sends his unmusical love song in the direction of the home of Romiet, his feline sweetheart. She, reposing cozily on the lap of her old-maid mistress, sighs as the tender strains reach her ears. Her heart bounds as she recognizes Julio's sweet (?) song. Stealthily stealing to the window, she gazes down at him and signals that her only desire is to he perched by his side. But the old maid is wise to Romiet's wishes, and nips her romance in the bud by swooping down on her and removing all chances of her joining her adorer below. Julio realizes that he cannot reach his love, and decides to seek his dinner. Seeing a magpie enjoying a bone, he drives the bird away and captures the trophy. The magpie swears to be revenged. After his repast. Julio returns to Romiet's home, and sees a vendor of toy balloons approaching with his wares. Julio confuses the poor peddler, who loses his grip on the top balloons. Catching the string which ties the balloons together, Julio is lifted into the air, and rapidly rises toward his waiting Romiet. But the vengeful magpie punctures the balloons with his sharp bill, and poor Julio is sent sprawling down to earth. Recovering himself, he flees from the pursuing peddler, who seems determined to take every one of Julio's nine lives.
- The Colonel makes several new acquaintances among the wild animals of Africa. Seeing a huge boulder of strange geological formation, our friend attempts to remove a piece for closer inspection. His attempt is unfortunate, as the boulder proves to be an elephant of short temper. All sorts of funny things happen. The Colonel is the ball in an active game of tennis between the elephant and a mountain goat, but as usual he comes out all right.