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- A highly entertaining series of views, beautifully hand colored, depicting magical qualities of exceptional merit. The dice enlarge and open up as huge boxes, from the depths of which there appear the handsome figures of lady dancers clad in exquisite costumes. Will be certain to retain the rapt attention of the entire audience.
- Yvette, the popular favorite of the Italian Opera Company, is in the opening scene of this picture singing Gluck's "Orpheus" when she is suddenly seized with illness, which causes her to fall prostrate on the floor and the audience is completely grief stricken. Some of the more thoughtful ones, however, rushed to her assistance, among whom were the first violinist and the Marquis of Montreville, both of whom prove to be madly infatuated with the cantatrice. The Marquis, realizing the extent of the singer's illness, offers his country estate at the seaside and, inasmuch as her physicians prescribe absolute rest and change of atmosphere, Yvette gladly accepts. During her absence from the opera the first violinist found life quite intolerable. Desiring to see her, he pays a visit to the country estate of the Marquis, only to be refused admission at the door. As a retort to this insult the musician proposes a duel with the Marquis, who, believing it an opportunity to rid himself of the rivalry of the fellow for the hand of Yvette, gladly takes him up. The duel takes place in the courtyard of the estate and results in the death of the violinist. Shortly before his end, however, the latter picks up his violin and draws out the desolate, mournful strains of the opera "Orpheus." The sickly Yvette from her window recognizes the tune and, seating herself alongside of the casement, looks out only to recognize that her musician admirer has been mortally wounded. Yvette passes away in the arms of the Marquis, who has come to claim her as his bride.
- The story opens at the camp of a band of gypsies where an old man is seen driving several children out to beg for him in a nearby city. The little brother and sister in whom we are interested are next seen singing before the dwellings of the city. The boy is a violinist and his sister sings. They are very fortunate in their earnings until a cross doorkeeper, displeased by their music, snatches the violin from the youngster and breaks it open upon the pavement. The children naturally threaten him with revenge. Further angered, he takes them to the police, entering complaint that they are thieves. In the court room their counselor pleads that they are more artists than thieves and beggars. The children give an exhibition of their ability. It impresses the judge so favorably that he dismisses the case against them. The counselor adopts both little musicians and the drama closes showing them both happy in their new home.
- If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
- Winky is on a visit to his aunt, who insists upon his taking a "spring tonic." To get rid of the bad taste, he tries a cigar which proves too much for him. As sick as he is when questioned he maintains that the "tonic" was responsible for his illness. But the odor of the cigar still lingers to convict him and Winky Willy gets his.
- An old fiddler, whose musical efforts are not appreciated by people passing him by the wayside, and who is at the point of starvation, takes refuge in the cathedral. Casting himself down before the shrine of the Blessed Virgin, he implores her succor. He plays his violin before her image that she may judge whether his talents are worthy of appreciation. Miraculously she appears before him and gives him her benign benediction. The poor old man is completely overcome with awe and emotion, but Mary bids him to be of good cheer and to prove her recognition of his sincerity and devotion she presents him with a golden lily. Then she disappears from sight. The old fiddler, in dire distress, takes the golden lily to a goldsmith's to sell it and thus obtain money to buy bread. The goldsmith and his wife become very suspicious as to how the old man came into possession of so valuable an article. They summon the guards who seize the old fiddler and take him and the goldsmith and his wife before the Cardinal. The case is presented to his Lordship who decides that the old man had stolen the lily, which is confiscated to the church. However, in order to give him a chance to prove his innocence, he is conducted before the Virgin's shrine, where he is instructed to play his violin again, so that the miracle may be repeated should the Divine Mary so elect. Then before the Cardinal, monks, friars, ladies and soldiers, the Blessed Virgin once more appears, blesses the assembled throng and once more presents the golden lily to the fiddler with her divine benediction. There is now great rejoicing and the old fiddler is carried on the shoulders of the cheering crowds, as the hero of the miracle of the Golden Lily.
- A temperance lecturer's fiancée learns he has a child by his ex-mistress, and that he is an incurable dipsomaniac.
- Jephthah, the ninth judge of the Israelites, a natural son of Gilead, of the tribe of Manasseh, was expelled from his home by his brothers, at the death of his father, on account of his illegitimate birth. He withdrew to the land of Tob, where he became the chief of a band of brigands. Later on, when the Israelites resolved to oppose the Ammonites, they invited Jephthah to become their commander. He accepted the invitation on condition that he should remain their ruler if he defeated the Ammonites. When setting forth against the enemy, Jephthah, who perhaps feared that the Lord would not favor him on account of his past, made a solemn vow to the Lord that if he returned victorious he would offer up for a burnt offering whatsoever first "came forth from the doors of his house" to meet him. When Jephthah's daughter, and only child, heard of her father's victory and return she rushed to meet him and was the first person to "come forth from Jephthah's house."
- A patriotic short made during the Great War about the hospital care for French soldiers.