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- StarsRuna HodgesOld Mr. Merton and his cross servant live together in a big mansion. Their chief annoyance is the children who play about the stoop and disturb them. Little Dolly Deane, left alone by her father's death, wanders out into the world and finds her way to M by the death of her father, wanders out into the world and finds her way to Merton's home. When the servant attempts to put her off the stoop, she runs through the open door straight into Merton's arms. She says she is hungry and out of pity they give her some dinner. But she shows no inclination to go and falls asleep on the couch. The sight of the little sleeping child touches a tender chord somewhere in the crusty old bachelor's heart. He decides to slip out and buy her some toys. He meets his servant at the stoop and the two old men laugh at the joke on each other. While they are gone the child wakes up and wanders downstairs. A burglar, entering the deserted house meets the little one who trusts him implicitly, and never dreams of such a thing as being afraid of him. He calls to mind his own baby, long dead, and he sets about to amuse her, innocent of robbing the place. When Merton returns he sees the burglar, and understands that he, too, has fallen under the Baby's spell. He has a talk with him, and makes him promise to live a straight life. The man gives his word, and leaves the house without his tools. The child, tired out after her day, falls asleep again and Merton and the servant creep in and draw the coverlet softly over her.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJ. Warren KerriganCharlotte BurtonJack RichardsonOrris Austin and his wife were visiting the Hope Country Club. Austin merely left his wife sitting alone; he made no effort to introduce her and plainly showed his neglect to the guests around the club grounds. Austin, on the links, tiring of the game, met Jennie Wilton, a widow. They strolled throughout the grounds together and Austin's wife grieved in her heart at the sigh. Her mother, proud of the splendid match her ingenuity had made, watched the proceedings carefully, drinking her wine on the balcony and ever keeping an eye out for trouble. It came when Jack Stanton, bachelor, made a spectacular drive. The ball rolled three hundred yards away and stopped at the lonesome wife's feet. Acquaintance ripened into friendship in an hour. Returning from his stroll with the Wilton woman, Austin saw his wife talking with Stanton; instantly there was a clash. Austin turned upon his wife and the dislike of years focused in a bitter speech. After that he left with the Wilton woman and his lonesome wife, sitting alone, watched through a glass while Austin kissed her in a boat gliding through the trees toward the open lake. A few minutes later Austin made up his mind. Pulling in toward shore, he wrote a note and sent a boy to deliver it to his wife. Stanton, seeing it all, took the note from the servant, and himself carried it to the mother of Mrs. Austin. She read it, smiled, gazed out to sea, and turned happily toward Jack Stanton.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsFred MaceCharles AveryAlice DavenportA society wedding and a colored wedding happen to take place at the same time, the happy couples being bound for the same train. The white people elude their friends, who, by mistake, chase the cab containing the negroes. Their astonishment when the dusky pair emerge from the cab is the climax to a series of humorous situations.
- DirectorCharles M. SeayStarsWalter EdwinWyatt BurnsMary FullerThe village Squire with designs on a village maiden has her suitor falsely imprisoned. " Charles Reade who wrote this book in 1856 so exposed the prevailing conditions in English prisons that he is generally credited with being responsible for the present reforms. Queen Victoria after reading this work, demanded to know if such brutalities were being performed in her name and ordered an investigation which brought about the universally high standard prevailing today."
- DirectorMack SennettStarsMabel NormandFord SterlingJoseph GraybillThree rivals are aspirants for the hand of Mabel. Dad falls asleep in a rowboat and is set adrift by one, who tries to win favor as a hero by rescuing him, using a motorboat going at lightning speed. He is exposed, however, and his work goes for naught, as Mabel clings to the man of her choice.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMae MarshClaire McDowellAlfred PagetA telephone operator hears a robbery in progress over the 'phone and goes in search of help.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsCarlyle BlackwellFrancelia BillingtonWilliam H. WestBecause of his wife's illness, young clerk David Mills is forced to solicit a loan from Grydes, a soulless, unprincipled man devoid of sentiment, with an overshadowing passion for money. Unable to repay the exorbitant interest, David is mercilessly bled into bankruptcy by the human vampire. Ernest Renard and his sister Beatrice, rich philanthropists, seek a suitable person to fill the position of superintendent for a large institution they have founded: a home for crippled children. The scheming Grydes sees the advertisement and makes written application, representing himself to be well-qualified for the position. Renard determines to personally investigate the applicant and visits the town where the loan-shark lives. On his way to Grydes' home, Renard is attacked by a thug and left in a desperate condition. He manages to reach Grydes' house, where the unscrupulous agent, failing to recognize the stranger, shows his true colors by refusing him assistance. Literally thrown out by Grydes, Renard is picked up by David, who helps him home and tenderly cares for him. The developments following the occurrence of this incident, while highly pleasing to David and his wife, as the young clerk secures the position of superintendent, fall with crushing force upon the heartless Grydes.
- StarsKing BaggotJane FearnleyViolet HornerYoung Mr. Newlywed dearly loves his wife but longs for a night at the club, so he has the boy send a telegram calling him to an important business conference. He hurries to the club, where a swallowtail has been provided for him, and he assists at a farewell bachelor dinner. Next door to him live two spinster sisters of uncertain age who are attending a suffragette meeting. A strenuous debate is before the members and they pay no heed to the hour. At last Mr. Newlywed finds that the lobster salad disagrees with him and the plum-pudding sauce has too much brandy, and he must be helped into a cab and the driver starts home with him. The night is dark and Newlywed gets into the spinsters' house and travels laboriously up the stairs, leaving mementos in the shape of shoes and other articles of apparel at every step. He tumbles wearily into the spinsters' bed and is soon asleep. The spinsters see it is three o'clock and start home and are horrified to see the shoes and other articles littering their neat staircase, but thinking it is the work of the man who lives upstairs they enter their room, see the stranger asleep and rush out shrieking for the police. This alarms him and he gets safely into his own house in time to see them return with two sturdy policemen who, finding the flat empty, suspect the old ladies of having imbibed too much and leave in disgust. Mr. Newlywed sees this through the keyhole of his door and is relieved to see the officers leave. And the wonder of it is that the unsuspecting wife slept through it all.
- DirectorRomaine FieldingStarsRomaine FieldingMary RyanRobyn AdairRomanzo Fernandez, a vaquero noted for his bravery, courage and honesty, is appointed Chief of Scouts on the Mexican border, which is infested by Rock and his rustlers. Rock visits Mary Burke's ranch, with a view of stealing her cattle, and incidentally makes love to her. Fernandez appears. Mary has never met him and being attracted by his picturesque costume, asks for an introduction which Rock grudgingly gives, Fernandez being his old enemy. Mary and Fernandez are mutually attracted, much to the disgust of Rock, who later has his rustlers steal a bunch of her cattle, and while she is out riding she accidentally stumbles across one of Rock's camps. She realizes then for the first time he is a cattle rustler. Rock insults her but she gets away from him. He gives chase with some of his men. Fernandez having been warned of the cattle stealing by one of his scouts comes upon the chase, gets the girl under cover in the rocks and requests her to go for help while he holds the rustlers off. The girl secures aid from some prospectors who return and overpower the rustlers. Fernandez, who has been shot requests that he be permitted to smoke a cigarette. With a puff and a smile he sinks into Mary's arms, dying as he lived, "a man."
- DirectorAl ChristieStarsEddie LyonsLouise GlaumRussell BassettNice youngsters Eddie and Louise, of course, love distractedly. They graduate, and Eddie circles Louise with that little band of gold which means so much. Louise goes home to her uncle and aunt, who live in the country, and Eddie goes to visit his uncle and aunt, who also live away from town. The uncles are old friends but are unaware of the young couple's attachment. The uncles have an old agreement whereby the nephew of the one is to marry the niece of the other. The joyful news is broken to the boy and girl, with the result that they write and arrange a meeting in order to escape such a terrible end to love's young dream. The uncles get wind of the elopement and follow. They all meet and the uncles are surprised when they see each other. They agree to fool the young couple and they are parted. Eddie is held closely by his uncle, who tells him the girl he has in mind for him will arrive on a certain day. Eddie is in despair and when the girl arrives they will not look at each other until forced to do so. When they do see who is before them, they lose no time in coming to a clinch and the uncles are proud of their joke and its happy ending.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsBigelow CooperMiriam NesbittRichard RidgelyMr. and Mrs. Wynne are drifting apart after 10 years of wedlock, during which time their common interests have gradually grown less and less. They live in a great mansion--together, but almost entirely on separate lines. Their little daughter Dorothy is the only remaining bond of affection between them. Through her governess' carelessness, Dorothy is badly injured in a runaway accident and is carried home unconscious. As usual, Mrs. Wynne is at some afternoon reception and Mr. Wynne on his own affairs. Upon their return each is informed by the servants of Dorothy's injury, and each hastens to her room. The family doctor, whom the servants have called and who has long known of the Wynnes' strained relationship, of the Wynnes, refuses to allow either of them to enter the sick child's chamber as her condition is critical and requires perfect quiet. For hours the child lingers between life and death, no word coming from the sick room which the doctor and nurse dare not leave for an instant. Unable to bear the strain longer, the parents seek the hall just outside their child's door and meet there. The thought of Dorothy overcomes the mother and she sinks down by the door. Wynne gently lifts her up and for the first time in years each is glad of the other's presence. Throughout the long weary night they sit on the stairs by the child's room, Mrs. Wynne finally dropping to sleep in her husband's arms. With the new day's dawn the crisis is passed and the doctor breaks the news to the pair whose love has been rekindled by their child's suffering.
- DirectorRollin S. SturgeonStarsMajor J.A. McGuireAnne SchaeferGeorge StanleyAnne Stearns has a varied, unsettled life married to a sporting man. Finally Stearns moves her and their child to a Western town where he opens a gambling house. A man of coarse instincts and mercenary nature, he insists that his wife make herself agreeable to patrons of his den and dance-hall to popularize the resort. Their little girl becomes very ill. Stearns insists that she leave the little one and go into the barroom to meet one of her admirers. She refuses, asserting that her child demands her attention. He grabs her, drags her into the saloon, and commands her to entertain his friend. She acquiesces under protest. When the drunken fellow attempts to caress her, she resists him and her husband tries to force her to submit. At this moment, a strange prospector who has entered the room, springs to her protection, knocking down her annoyer and throwing aside her husband. He then escorts her to her home where she finds that her child died during her absence. The defeated gambler follows the prospector. Stearns entirely ignores his wife after this incident and the prospector helps her bury her child and consoles her in her grief. Later the gambler he had opposed in Stearns' place attacks him, and in their pistol duel he shoots his assailant. A drawn jury sentences him to exile and drives him into the desert. Learning of his condemnation, Anne hastily fills a canteen and follows him into the desert, where she finds him already delirious from thirst. He looks at her through his death-palled eyes and she appears to him as a ministering angel coming to cool his parched lips with a cup of cold water. Anne hastens to his side just as he breathes his last and passes into the land of eternal peace and rest. With thoughts of his kindness to her and her child and fearing to return to her brutal husband, she empties the water from her canteen into the sands of the desert, preferring to die beside the man who would protect her rather than endure the insults of a husband who would demoralize and degrade her.
- DirectorHardee KirklandStarsCarl WinterhoffAdrienne KroellJack NelsonLaura Venning in saving the life of Detective Martin's child, wins the friendship of a man of cunning who serves her when she is imperiled through the attentions of an adventuress, who uses her to revenge herself upon Miss Vennlng's brother. Jack Venning in a moment of insane wagering gives a check for $5,000 to secure a gambling debt. The dashing Jack is admired by Mrs. Romano, a society adventuress, a passion that is not reciprocated and turns her fondness to hatred. She overhears Jack's confession to his sister concerning the check and his plea for $5,000 to save him from prison. The hostess of the evening has a pearl necklace of great price that is broken, so she puts it in a crystal jewel box in her boudoir. The wily and revengeful widow gets the necklace and places it in the vanity bag of Laura. The latter, disconcerted by her brother's story is about to leave the house when the loss of the necklace is discovered, and Laura is accused of the theft. The officers, Mrs. Romano adroitly eggs them on and calls Martin the chief of detectives on the case. How he discovers the real thief is one of the cleverest bits of picture work in recent film plays.
- DirectorGilbert P. HamiltonStarsDot Farley
- StarsMrs. Martin J. LittletonStockholm, Sweden: A new sled, driven by an aeroplane motor and propeller, is creating considerable interest. Charlottesville, Va: Mrs. Martin J. Littleton is trying to arouse sufficient public interest in Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, to force Congress to assume ownership, for the government, that it may become a national shrine to the memory of the man who drafted the Declaration of independence. Paris, France: The Colonel of the 21st Colonial Regiment presents the flag to the new recruits. Kara Burun, Turkey: An unending stream of wounded arrives here from across the Istranja Mountains, and embarks painfully in life boats for the Hospital Ship. Karatakeni, Turkey: A sharp skirmish occurs between the Bulgarians and the Turkish outposts. Keokuk, Iowa: The great power developing dam on the Mississippi River between this city and Hamilton, Iowa, is rapidly nearing completion. The work has required $1,000,000 worth of machinery, 650,000 cubic yards of concrete. The power developed will be 310,408 horsepower. Barnegat, N.J: The United Fruit Company's steamship Turrialba goes aground in a heavy snowstorm, losing her rudder and all the propeller blades but one. The sixty passengers are transferred to the Revenue Cutter Seneca.
- StarsGeorge LarkinGuy HedlundEleanor ParkerBilly Sheldon returns from a trip abroad and tries to settle down to work on a picture that he hopes will prove his masterpiece, but is so restless and nervous that when an invitation comes from his old friend Dick Lang to spend a week as a guest at a house-party, he jumps at it and starts to motor out to Dick's home. The day Billy chooses to begin his visit, Grace Ellis, one of the guests of Dick and his wife went out for a ride in Dick's car. When the engine broke down at the entrance to a park Grace, rather than wait, started to walk through, telling the chauffeur to meet her on the other side of the park when he has finished his repairs. Now it happens that Billy's car broke down at about the same time, and as Grace came out of the park and saw Billy standing alongside of his engine, which he had just succeeded in starting, she mistook him for Dick's driver and ordered him home. Arriving at Dick's home Billy insists upon carrying out the joke, with the assistance of the others who disguise him in a masquerade beard and wig, and appoint him as temporary butler. Everything works out as planned until Grace discovers the joke that is being played and spoils it all. How does she spoil it? Why, by falling in love with him, of course.
- DirectorLaurence TrimbleStarsFlorence TurnerL. Rogers LyttonMary MauriceAttractive and pretty, Alice Wentworth, who works in a large department store, very often receives the flattering attentions of the young men who are patrons of the establishment. Possessing that natural vanity of all good looking girls, she becomes discontented with her lot and longs for the ease and luxury of the handsomely gowned and wealthy people upon whom she is obliged to wait. Hector Merrill, a middle aged and prosperous-looking gentleman, who calls with his sister, to make a purchase, is very much taken with Alice and when opportunity offers, he asks her to make an appointment to take a ride with him in his automobile. She shyly declines. Upon leaving the store that evening, she finds Hector waiting for her at the door and he takes her home in his limousine. Pleased with the compliment, she joyously tells her mother, who warns her of the danger of casual acquaintances. To further impress her injunction, she tells her the story of the moth attracted by the glittering flame, falls into it and burned to death before it realizes its danger. Alice, thinking her mother somewhat straight-laced and passé, is piqued and resentful. On two or three subsequent evenings, Hector takes Alice to dinner at a "swell" restaurant, with cabaret attractions. Finally, he takes her to supper and engages a private dining-room, where he very subtly tries to ingratiate himself into her favor and passes her a glass of wine. As she raises it to her lips a moth flutters into the room, hovers about the lamp on the table and falls into its flame. Immediately, she is reminded of her mother's warning. Dashing from the room and into the street, she hurries home. Her mother is anxiously awaiting her belated coming and with a mother's instinct, she recognizes the troubled look upon her daughter's face. Alice falls upon her mother's shoulder and in tears, thanks her for her timely warning, acknowledges that she has learned a lesson she will never forget and always heed.
- DirectorWilliam DuncanStarsWilliam DuncanLester CuneoMyrtle StedmanJeff Scott, a quick and determined fellow, who has been brought up by foster parents unmindful of his father's record, is so outrageously bullied by Sam Carey, that he gets a gun, but declines to use it after having the drop on Sam. The latter, a human hound is not compunctious over plugging his generous adversary, and is sentenced to serve time although his marksmanship is not fatally accurate. After some years' service he escapes from prison, captures Jeff's little girl and leaves a note that he has left her at the mercy of the wolves. Again the blood-blot fills the brain of Jeff and he reaches the man who tried to kill him and then robs him of his treasure. The thrilling fight in which he casts aside the temptation of a gun to evoke vengeance with his naked hands, stops just close enough to the dim border of tragedy to make the over-true tale telling and intense.
- DirectorCharles BrabinStarsWadsworth HarrisMarc McDermottMargery Bonney ErskineWhile their degenerate descendant sleeps, ancestral portraits come alive and admonish him.
- StarsJohn StepplingE.H. CalvertBilly MasonJimmy, the impecunious, arrives at the club, where his fellow members are engaged in a game of cards. He helps himself to a cigarette and borrows a five spot from one of the boys in the same breath. Baxter, a fellow club member, receives a message from the family doctor, stating that he had better return to his home immediately. Arriving at home he sends a message to the boys at the club telling them that the heiress has arrived, and that some of the nice marriageable fellows had better come up and meet her. Enthused with the spirit of being "near uncles," they buy everything from a rattle to a rocking horse, and with the cargo under their arms, swarm in upon the new father. In their excitement they leave the message on the table at the club. Jimmy picks it up and returning to his home, dresses for the unusual occasion of meeting the "heiress." Out of funds, he returns to the club, where he makes a small touch. Returning to his home again Jimmy takes all of his earthly belongings and proceeds to a pawn shop with them. He then calls at Baxter's home and, mistaking the maid for the heiress, invites her out to dine. With his roll of hard earned money he buys the best of everything for her from soup to wine. Mason, one of the club members, sees Jimmy and the girl, and tells Baxter about it. They all go to the restaurant where Jimmy introduces the girl to his friends as his fiancée. Baxter invites them all to his home. The second maid brings in the baby, and the proud father introduces the baby to Jimmy as the heiress, and explains that the young lady Jimmy has been dining with, is his maid. Realizing his terrible mistake, Jimmy dashes madly from the house, leaving behind a heart-broken imaginary heiress, and a hilarious congregation of club colleagues.
- StarsHarry MyersBartley McCullumMrs. George W. WaltersThe story opens showing Dexter Pratt, the village blacksmith, in his early married life surrounded by his wife and children Annie, Tom, and Dick. Herbert, the judge's son who is their playmate, is a thieving, fighting, cowardly boy. Ten years elapse and the mother is dead. Annie is a loving girl and unfortunately she falls in love with the judge's son, who simply plots her seduction. Tom Pratt is suspicions and watches. Herbert, influencing the girl, plans an elopement. He takes his horse to the blacksmith's shop to be shod and then steals off with Annie to have a fake marriage ceremony performed by a college friend, who will pose as a clergyman. Tom discovers the plot and rushes to the father urging him to interfere. The blacksmith drives a long nail in the horse's hoof he is shoeing. Tom then hurries to the scene of the mock marriage but he arrives too late and finds only the counterfeit parson. The judge's son gets his horse and, mounting the girl behind him, starts off. Tom and the father pursue the runaways and the horse going lame, they are easily captured. The truth is exposed to the poor girl and the young reprobate driven away. The blacksmith and his daughter take sanctuary in the church and the vision of the dead mother smiles down through the stained-glass window.
- DirectorCharles FarleyStarsLouise FazendaEdward Martin and Alice, married, start out for Salt Lake with the "Hand Cart immigrants," so-called because a number of the adventurers pushed and pulled their belongings ahead of them on small, rough carts. Edward Martin is made Captain of the train. The Indian tribes are at peace and little Watana and Mountain Pine make love as Watana weaves her pretty baskets. Unfortunately the Mexican raiders are in the vicinity, capturing Indians and selling them into slavery. Watana is seized and taken away and is made love to by the guide. Mountain Pine traces her and rides back and arouses the Indians, who steal up on the marauders and annihilate them. Watana and other Indians are rescued. The Indians are flushed with victory and consumed with hatred for all pale faces. They see the Hand Cart immigrants and determine to attack them. Edward Martin and his followers have had a hard time. The guide is killed by falling over a cliff and the party is lost. Starvation and thirst stare them in the face and the whole party is suffering intensely. Little Watana has had her meed of suffering and determines to try and save the immigrants. She pleads with Mountain Pine and the old chief and they listen to her, and instead of attacking the party decide to help them. The immigrants find water, which revives them and sustains them long enough to allow Watana to bring them provisions. Little Watana is puzzled when Alice kisses her, but she decides that the practice is a good one and imparts the experience to the astonished Mountain Pine, who also thinks it nice.