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- Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
- A comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world.
- The story of the enmity of two manufacturers-competitors. In the fight against his competitor, one of them shows such diabolical sophistication that the tempter serpent himself would envy him.
- Prince Heinrich and Herbert Prince, a journalist, are very similar in build and facial resemblance, although neither is aware of the fact. Therein lies the secret of the memorable day the journalist enjoyed. Prince Heinrich, bored over billiards in the officer's quarters of his regiment, discards the game to take a brief nap, the journalist was involuntarily (at first) feted in his stead. Herbert has been granted leave of absence, and, before departing from his duties, persuades his friend. Bob Garrick, to accompany him. While Bob is busy packing, Herbert shaves off his moustache. It is then that the resemblance to Prince Heinrich is most marked, particularly as both Prince and journalist affect monocles. But neither Herbert nor Bob is aware of the resemblance and do not reckon when en route for the distant city of Waldeck that they are marked out for the distinction that awaits them. The solitary passenger who shares their compartment, a tubby smiling little individual, is the first to mistake the identity of the journalist. Seeing a photograph of Prince Heinrich in his newspaper, he promptly concludes that he is facing the prince traveling incognito. Elated over his discovery he notifies all passengers and soon the journalist and his companion are the object of many courtly bows and courtesies. For some time they both imagine they are surrounded by lunatics, but when Herbert is addressed as the Prince, it at length brings enlightenment to their understanding. Councilor Hall, their little associate, wires the mayor of Waldeck of the impending arrival of the Prince and counseling an official reception. When Herbert and Bob observe all the civic dignitaries awaiting them, and entering into the spirit of the jest of mistaken identity, they decide to go through with what has been thrust upon them without seeking. Herbert acts as though of manner born; his majestic mien and urbane courtliness impressing all with whom he comes in contact, albeit Bob, for the nonce acting as his valet, has occasionally to resort to strong measures to keep the Prince up to concert pitch in maintaining his august position. From the railway station, Herbert and Bob proceed with ceremony to the hotel, where apartments have been arranged for their reception and where everyone, from proprietor to call boy, shows the greatest deference to the pair. They manage to retain their gravity till they reach their apartments and then they can contain themselves no longer. Their merriment is suddenly checked. A deputation headed by the be-whiskered mayor enters upon them, soliciting the honor of their presence at a banquet. The pair accept and have a gay time, although Bob's enjoyment is tinged with a little bitterness in that he has to act throughout as the Prince's private valet. Herbert shows strong partiality for the corpulent mayor's winsome little daughter, and while the company is enjoying the wine and walnuts, he makes the most of his opportunities to improve his acquaintance. He is caught in the act of a kiss and as a compensation to the mayor for his injured feelings, promises to confer upon him and his companion. Councilor Hall, the coveted order of the Golden Eagle. While their enjoyment is at its height the real Prince Heinrich reads in his paper of his own visit to a nearby town and the cordial reception given by its inhabitants. At a loss to understand what it means, he telephones to the hotel Waldeck and is told the Prince is still there. Eager to learn the facts of the case, he summons his aide-de-camp and they speed to Waldeck. Upon reaching the hotel he finds the room to which the Prince has returned and proceeds thither. The mayor and Councilor Hall are wakened from their maudlin state at the sight of Prince Heinrich and at a respectable distance follow in his wake, expecting dire consequences will be the outcome of the masquerade on the part of the men they feted. Herbert, too, is aghast at the appearance of the Prince, but when he explains that he entered involuntarily into them through being mistaken for the Prince, with the view of getting excellent copy for his paper, the Prince joins in Herbert's laughter to the discomfiture of the two officials. To save the dignity of the civic pair, the Prince endorses the gift of the order of the Golden Eagle, and after saying a kindly word to the mayor's daughter (whose faith in Herbert is still unshattered) he also confers a decoration upon Herbert, conditionally he says with a laugh, that Herbert, in future, wear a moustache.
- When the actress Asta Leonhard and two friends visit the princess Spinarosa to persuade her to sponsor a charity event for a sick artist, the prince himself opens his eyes to the beautiful Asta. He does not know that she is allied with the dangerous player Thomas Buckle.
- Hakon Berg is " the first lover " at one of the theatres in the capital. He is a talented young man, and his handsome appearance makes him popular among the ladies. Minna, the only daughter of the rich director Brammer, is one of Mr. Berg's sincerest admirers. Soon the young people meet, and spend a beautiful summer evening together. When Minna's father discovers that an actor is making love to his daughter he gets very angry, but she will not give him up, and at last she elopes with him. They both get an engagement at a theatre in a country town, and one day Director Brammer finds them there, but father and daughter again part in anger. Three years later Berg is on a sure road to destruction, and his faith in his own greatness and wonderful ability grows with his mental and bodily decline. He will never listen to instruction any more, and one fine day he is turned away from the theatre because he, in front of the director, flatly refuses to play the part that is intended for him, and even tears it to pieces. After five years Berg is a perfect wreck, only keeping up life by singing in the yards. One evening the unhappy couple go home together. He is very disappointed, and, letting his rage fall upon her, he shakes her and pushes her all along the street. Neither of them notices an old gentleman, who has been watching the poor unfortunate couple sadly. When they come home to their wretched rooms, Berg becomes insane. He puts a gold paper crown on his head, and with madness in both look and manner he begins to play King Lear. But his wretched, worn-out body cannot stand so much excitement. He gets a convulsive fit and drops down dead. While Minna flings herself down on the bed of her sick child, the door opens and her father appears. It was he who watched them going home, and he followed his daughter in order to save her from further misfortune. Minna draws a long breath of release, and father and daughter are united.
- In the hope of becoming rich and famous, Walter Fabre, a medical student, devotes all his time to study and refuses the invitation of his fellow-students to join them in merry-making. Walter falls asleep and dreams that Mephistopheles appears and tells him that he can make his fame and fortune by giving him the power to foretell the death or recovery of a patient; in the event of death Mephisto will appear at the head, and in case of recovery he will appear at the feet of the patient. To prove his superhuman power he tells Walter that he will save the life of the King, who has been given up by all authorities. Walter gains admission to the King's bedside and while diagnosing the case. Mephistopheles appears at the foot. The King recovers and Walter becomes famous. Sometime later a beautiful young Baroness and her mother are out driving and the latter is fatally injured in an accident. The young Baroness, Ida Shinting, summons Walter and when he arrives at the bedside he sees Mephisto at the head, and knows the meaning thereof. He is so charmed with Ida's beauty that he beseeches his master to spare the Baroness's life. Mephisto agrees, but warns Walter that in return he will someday take from him his dearest. Ida and Walter are married; five years later their little daughter is taken seriously ill. Finding Mephisto at her head Walter tries to thwart him by turning the child around. Again Mephisto takes his place at the head. Then the father, trying to cheat him again, places his daughter in a chair. She dies, however, and shortly after the funeral Walter himself becomes sick; he discovers by his head Mephisto, who says that he has come to exact punishment for the attempts Walter made to deceive him. Walter awakes with a start, and realizing that fame and wealth are not the only things in life, merrily joins his colleagues.
- A gang of conspirators see in an advertisement "Governess wanted, apply etc." an opportunity of practicing blackmail. One of the number dresses up as a governess, and armed with testimonials of spurious excellence, succeeds in getting the position. Shortly afterwards, the employer receives a note threatening that if he does not put 200 pounds outside his garden gate, his child will be dead before night. The father promptly calls in Sherlock Holmes, who puts a dummy envelope at the appointed place and hides, with the father, to see what happens. The governess soon creeps to the gate and puts a note there too. When she has gone, this is opened and found to contain a warning to the gang that Sherlock Holmes is on the track off and telling them to fetch the child. The child is stolen, it being made to appear that the child has fallen in the river. Holmes meanwhile examines the governess' bedroom and finds shaving tackle there, and he hides her razor. He then wires to the police, but in his enthusiasm beards the miscreants himself unaided. They overpower him and tie him to a tree with a bomb, actuated by a time fuse, close to him. However, Holmes manages to wriggle out of the bonds in time to save himself, the police arrest the conspirators, and Holmes takes the child home. The final scene discloses the identity of the governess by tearing the wig from her head.
- During a hike, Erik and his younger brother Olaf come across Mrs. Willing. She has just lost her son and the meeting with Olaf raises a thought. 18 years later, Olaf is about to become a doctor and newly engaged. But then he meets the circus girl Annie and falls in love with her. But his brother Erik is also in the circus company.
- In this comedy the story discloses that Clara, a stenographer is in love with Lionel, one of the clerks in the office in which she is employed. While absent from the office to attend to certain duties in the works, Clara takes possession of Lionel's typewriting machine and finding paper already adjusted, writes him a message to the effect that she loves him and will meet him in the park at 8 o'clock on the same evening. While passing the desk each of the four clerks in the office pick up one of the sheets, for it has so happened that Lionel was about to make five copies of a letter when he was summoned to the works. When quitting time arrives the clerks make inroads upon the petty cash box and prepare themselves to meet Clara in the park. The boss also gets one of the copies and hastens to keep the appointment. When he arrives, Lionel and Clara are making love and the clerks are standing in the background filled with envy and jealousy. The boss decides that, he is not the chosen one and beats a hasty retreat and the disappointed clerks soon follow his example. Fatty, one of the clerks, hires a carriage with the intention of asking Clara out for a ride, but at the crucial moment Clara and Lionel take possession of the carriage and all ends merrily.
- After months of secret toil by day and by night, Gar El Hama perfects a means by which to escape from prison. He succeeds at last in removing a slab from the floor of his cell and drops through a shaft to the engine room below. There he overpowers the engineer, dons the latter's clothing and is passed by the guard at the door on the pretense of going for oil. Free again, he sets out for a new adventure. Disguising himself, he attends a reception given by Consul Johanna. Meeting the Consul's daughter, he decides to abduct her and demand ransom. During the reception he examines her apartments, unlocking a window, and returns in the night, entering through this window with his assistants, and takes her aboard the schooner owned by him and his pirate gang. He then sends an unsigned letter to the Consul, stating that his daughter, Katherine, will be held until a ransom of $25,000 is placed at the foot of Victoria Monument, naming a time when it should be placed there. Katherine's fiancé, Lieutenant Erskin, sets out to find her. He is told by pilots that a girl was taken aboard a mysterious schooner the night before, so he charters a tug and goes in pursuit of the schooner. Gar El Hama and his gang arrive at Snake Island and take Katherine to their headquarters there. She escapes from the headquarters but is recaptured on the island and taken on board Gar El Hama's private yacht. Lieutenant Erskin and his friends arrive at the island, attacking the pirate gang. Gar El Hama escapes through an underground passage and Erskin, as he gropes his way through the dark tunnel in search of Gar El Hama, is captured by the latter and taken to the yacht also, and is bound and locked in a stateroom. He finds a lighted lamp with which he burns the ropes, and forcing the door, sets himself free. The pirates neglected to take his revolver, so he goes down to the engine room, locks the engineers in a closet at the point of his revolver and overpowers the fireman. He pours water on the fire and removes parts of the engines, disabling them, which brings the yacht to a standstill. He does this, knowing that his friends are in pursuit, in order that they may overtake the yacht. He steals up behind Gar El Hama, overpowers him, and then finds Katherine in the cabin. He seeks to defend her and himself from the pirates, but when Gar El Hama recovers, he and his men recapture and make prisoners of them both. Soon, however, Erskin's friends arrive, attacking and capturing Gar El Hama and the pirates, rescuing Erskin and his fiancée. The yacht is towed back by the tug, Katherine is restored to her home, and Gar El Hama is thrown into prison again.
- Erik, the son of Count Bille, and Eva, the winsome daughter of Lawson, the surveyor on his estate, are lovers. Count Bille is fond of worldly indulgences, but, at the same time, is quietly submissive to his sister, Ulrica, a termagant. The count, prompted by his sister, tries to effect an alliance between his son and Lady Vera Torp, daughter of his friend, but Erik has ideas of his own on the point and shows a marked preference for Eva. Aunt Ulrica observes Erik go off to meet Eva, and sends the count after him on horseback to put an end to their romance. Erik informs Eva of his father's plans and his determination not to submit to them, but as they are riding together along a country road they meet Eva's father, and he informs them that he has just left the count, who has forbidden the girl to meet his son again. The next day Lady Vera calls at the house, and the count and his sister contrive to leave Erik alone with her, in the hope that the plans for their union may mature. Instead, Erik confesses to Vera his love for the surveyor's daughter, and earnestly pleads with her to help him by telling the count that Vera herself has no wish to marry Erik. Vera consents. The count arranges a shooting party, and after which we are led back to his domicile, where a reception and dinner is held. There is a portrait of a woman in white on the wall of the hall which attracts unusual attention, and when it is mooted that a legend attaches to it the count is sought out to explain it. The white lady, he said, was an ancestress who loved a youth from whom she was forcibly parted by her father, and on the day of her loveless wedding with a man whom her father had selected for her, she suddenly died, dressed in her bridal robes. "The legend goes," concludes the count, "that the white lady sometimes steps down from the picture to meet her lover." Lady Vera seeks out Erik to tell him that the legend of the white lady has given her an idea by which she hopes to further his suit with Eva. At her dictation Erik dispatches a note to Eva asking her to come to his home the next morning in company with her father. Immediately afterwards Vera explains to a number of her male friends staying at the count's house and secures their consent to help in the conspiracy in which she is engaged. They proceed to indulge with the somewhat inebriated count and contrive to remain with him while all the rest of the hunting party depart. In the meantime Vera and Erik, by bribing one of the servants, secure the keys of the tower in which the heirlooms of the aristocratic house are treasured, and, after a short search, find the identical garments worn by the white lady when her portrait was painted. Vera dons these while Erik covers the portrait with black velvet, and two of the conspirators at the same time buckle on the mail armor which has been placed on either side of the portrait. Vera then takes position in the frame. The count is brought down from his bedroom when all is ready, and is installed on two chairs in front of the picture. At the stroke of twelve Erik and the two companions who have carried the sleeping count downstairs make a noise from an adjoining room, and cause the count to wake. Vera slowly descends and the count visibly quakes with fear. She leads him to an adjacent table and demands him to write his consent to the marriage of Erik and Eva. As soon as he has signed the paper and Vera has taken it, he makes a bolt for his room, and fancying that he is pursued by the ghost of the white lady he strikes out blindly as he goes along. Aunt Ulrica, who has entered the gallery to discover the cause of the noise which had awakened her, receiving a blow in the face which, in the morning, is revealed through a discolored eye. At breakfast Ulrica's appearance with this discolored eye causes such mirth that all the young people, one after another, have to leave the room, and when the count is left alone with his sister he is subjected to a curtain lecture which makes him shake like a jellyfish. In accordance with the letter received from Erik, Eva and her father call at the count's home in the course of the morning. Aunt Ulrica sweeps majestically by with her nose in the air, and the count plainly shows his disapproval of their visit. The fact that he has given his consent to their marriage in due legal form overnight is brought to his attention, and he wavers; then Vera pleads with him for the young lovers, and he relents, giving them his benediction. Vera then takes the count aside to explain the conspiracy overnight, and the count, who has up till now been mystified by what he thought was a bad dream, hut which he failed to reconcile with the fact that he had written his consent to Erik's marriage with Eva, fully enters into the spirit of the joke, evidently forgetful of the reckoning which Ulrica may be expected to exact.
- Kitty Bey, a dashing young woman, is the cause of all the trouble. She thinks she loves Miller, the first officer of the Nina, and with the consent of the owners of the vessel accompanies him on one of the trips. While on board Kitty attracts the attention of the captain, and she loses no time in playing her arts upon him. Old Graves, the boatswain, is a man with an eagle eye and when he locates Kitty in the captain's cabin, Miller is notified and there is a sensational scene, in which the first officer attempts to shoot his fiancée and his commanding officer. Miller is placed under arrest and upon arrival at the nearest port is sentenced to a long term. In the meantime Kitty Bey has married Captain Fisher and all goes well until she is introduced to Henry Brandt, the ship owner. Her arts of witchery again come to the surface and she accompanies the ship owner on board a launch moored to the wharf in the rear of Captain Fisher's residence. Boatswain Graves is on the job again and notifies Miller, who has just been released from imprisonment. The latter boards the launch without attracting attention and turning on the power, heads out for sea. When the couple emerge from the cabin they are confronted by Miller, with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a revolver. He has removed the plugs from the bottom of the craft and she is slowly filling with water. It is not the life of Brandt that he is after, but that of the faithless Kitty. The ship owner, however, is doomed to share the general fate and the three sink into the deep just as the launch containing Captain Fisher and his friends reaches the spot.
- A newly married wife is in great grief at the death of her only child. One day she and her husband call at a cottage for refreshment during a walk and there see a child whose features bring back to the mother's recollection the child she has lost. The peasant woman is persuaded to allow the visitors to adopt the child, first making a tattoo mark on its arm. Twenty years elapse, the peasant woman dies, and one of her daughters by chance gets a situation in the house where her adopted brother is living with his foster parents. There has been staying in the cottage home another brother, who is the scapegrace of the family. He enters the house where his sister is employed for burglarious purposes. His brother whom he does not know has just come in and grapples with the intruder. The burglar is just about to shoot when he sees the mark of the other man's arm, and knows that they must be brothers. Gratitude that he has been saved from committing fratricide overcomes him, and the brothers embrace, after which there is a general reconciliation.
- This is another drama of Indian life. It shows Young Deer and Red Moon playing cards, and because of cheating, a quarrel follows, which leaves Young Deer the victor, but a sentence is passed by the Chief, who is Red Moon's father, that Young Deer be tied to a wild horse and the animal let loose. The horse and his burden are seen by some cowboys and girls, and one of the latter rescues Young Deer. The Indians then manage to capture the girl. When her horse returns to the ranch minus its rider, much distress is shown, but Young Deer promises to bring her back. He comes to the spot where the Indians took their prisoner and sees there a knife, which he leaves and conceals himself. One of the Indians has returned for the weapon, but Young Deer overcomes him, and after attiring himself in in the Indian's garments goes to their camp. Here he finds the girl, stuns the guard and starts away with her. They are followed, however, by the Indians and a most exciting struggle takes place on a cliff. Just at the right minute when things look pretty dark for Young Deer, the cowboys come to his aid, the Indians are repulsed and everyone made happy through Young Deer's bravery.
- Dr. Warren, a reserved man of a seemingly stern, cold nature, which is roused only in behalf of his loved profession, is an army surgeon, stationed in India. In the pursuit of his duties, he leaves his beautiful, pleasure-loving wife, Alice, to her own devices. Captain Richard Alston, a handsome young officer, tries to make up for the husband's neglect by paying the pretty wife decided attention. Dr. Warren's suspicions are aroused, but at this juncture he is called away by an attack of plague at the river camp, some distance away, where a serum that he has discovered is demanded to stem the death rate. Dr. Warren works heroically among the wretched huts of the natives, nursing the sick and burning down the hovels to prevent the spread of the infection. In her loneliness, Alice sends for Captain Alston. On the road he encounters a child stricken with the plague. Alston puts the little one on the saddle before him and gallops away toward the hospital. When later he arrives at the Warren villa he reels with an awful sickness; the deadly infection has overtaken him. Alice, horrified and distressed, suddenly discovers a note to her husband, advising him of the plague at the river camp. This is her first knowledge of the reason for his absence, and suddenly she realizes that it is her husband she fears for most, and loves most, after all. At this moment the Indian servant announces the approach of Dr. Warren, returning after successfully accomplishing his surgical labors. Alice drags Alston into an adjoining room and goes to meet her husband. The doctor wonders at her nervous, frightened manner, when there is a sudden crash in the next room. The doctor rushes in, his terrified wife following, and finds Captain Alston prostrate on the floor. Alice springs between the angry husband and the helpless officer. Dr. Warren pushes her aside, and going into his laboratory, selects a revolver from the wall. As he turns to go, Alice confronts him and forcefully reminds him of his duty as a soldier and a surgeon. Torn by conflicting emotions but moved by his sense of professional duty to suffering humanity, the doctor hesitates only a moment. Forgetting all other impulses, he treats and cures the stricken captain. After Alston recovers, he goes to the doctor and promises to do whatever may be asked of him as atonement. The doctor asks him to promise to leave the country forever. Then, turning to his wife, he tells her to choose whether she will go with the captain or remain with him. Alice, now awakened to the full nobility of her husband, asks him to let her remain. The doctor, too, realizes his neglect of Alice, and husband and wife are at last united on the basis of a greater understanding and a truer and more abiding bond.
- James incurs the enmity of his uncle. The reason for this is because the young man hesitates to marry Olive von Silberstein. He loves a distant cousin, Edith, but Uncle Richard is adamant and insists upon having his way. In his dilemma, James consults his friend Horne, of the detective department, and the latter frames up a scheme to clear the atmosphere. The detective borrows a photograph of James and places it in the rogues' gallery. Then he instructs a sergeant of police to carry to a reception on that same evening the police hook and it is shown to Olive, who is greatly shocked when she recognizes her intended as the handsome young gentleman designated as Convict 337. An added shock is supplied to the assembled company when James is identified as the perpetrator of a capital offense. Horne, the detective, has arranged all this, and he does not confide in James until matters begin to look serious. At a dinner party he is prompted how to play his part and he gives the impression to the guests that he is a madman and bent upon doing away with Olive and many other diners at the table. The ruse works so splendidly that James is looked upon as a gloomy criminal and in the garden he chases her in the guise of a bloodthirsty monster. In the meantime the love affair of James and Edith is progressing favorably and when the Silbersteins decide that James is an undesirable citizen, they make a hurried departure with their daughter and all ends happily.
- A pretty farm yard scene opens this subject. The farmer's daughter has two admirers, one a farm laborer, employed by her father, and the other, a young man neighbor farmer of good financial standing. The father is in arrears with his rent, and the rich young suitor to his daughter offers to get him out of the difficulty, providing he will give him his daughter's hand in marriage. The father consents, hut the girl soon shows her objection, preferring the love of the laborer. The rejected suitor, in anger, enters the farmer's barn, intent upon revenge, and accidentally sets fire to the structure. He tries to throw suspicion upon the farmer, but two tramps point out the real culprit, having seen him enter the barn. The young laborer re-enters the employ of the farmer, whom he assists financially with the winnings of a large lottery and later marries the daughter.