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- Australia Prepared highlights the country's contributions to the First World War, beginning with the recruiting of soldiers after war is declared. Segments include: footage of troops training at Liverpool Camp, NSW; the manufacture of rifles and ammunition; shipbuilding at Cockatoo Docks; and the production of khaki soldiers' uniforms.
- Jimmy Barton's city editor handed him a newspaper clipping with the heading. "Indian Prince at Biltmore; Rajo Jaibel arrives from Calcutta." Jimmy was told to interview the man, but the Prince refused to see him. While he was talking to the clerk, another Indian arrived and was escorted to the Prince's room. A bellboy got Jimmy into the adjoining room, where he heard the Prince, his caller, and several other Indians discussing a plot to secure possession of a stolen idol and to "avenge Buddha." The only definite information Jimmy got was the address "220 Pelham Road," and the fact that something was to develop that night. Jimmy returns to his office, defeated. While he is pondering, Beatrice Fairfax enters. She has just received a letter from a girl who tells her that her fiancé has quarreled with her father, and asks if it would be right for her to elope. She signs the letter "Dorothy McRay. 220 Pelham Road." Jimmy and Beatrice note the address and start off to investigate. The scene shifts to the McRay home and shows the quarrel between Don Jordan and Dorothy's father, Christopher McRay. Jordan threatens the older man and is ejected from the house. Dorothy goes weeping to her room. McRay, alone, opens the door of a vault and brings forth the Stone God. He alone knows the combination of the vault. The inner door of the vault connects with an automatic revolver, so that if any other person, without the proper precaution, enters the vault, he will be greeted with a storm of bullets. McRay's memories take him back to his bridal trip. The scene shows him with Dorothy's mother in India. In a jungle temple, his bride sees an image of Buddha, and longs to possess it. McRay offers to buy the god from the priest, who ejects him from the temple. A fight follows. That night McRay returns to the temple, overpowers the priest and steals the stone god. The priest, Ali Rajo Jaibel, takes an oath that Buddha will be avenged. The scene again shows McRay in his library, haunted by his memories. With a sigh he returns the stolen god to the vault. He closes the door but does not lock it. As he emerges, Rajo Jaibel, who has gained access to the house, slips from behind a curtain and stabs him. He leans over the prostrate form and tells him he is the priest from whom the god was stolen. Ali opens the door of the vault. There is a fusillade of bullets and Ali drops dead inside the vault. With his last strength McRay staggers over and closes the door. Then he drops dead on a couch. While this tragedy is ending, Don gains entrance to the rear of the house to Dorothy, who agreed to elope with him. Hearing the shots in the library, he hurries there. The only thing that meets his gaze is McKay lying dead, and on the floor a knife. A maid hurries in, rushes screaming from the room and summons help. Don picks up the knife and is gazing at it in horror, when the police arrive. With them come Beatrice and Jimmy, who have just reached the house. Don is arrested for the murder, despite the protests of Jimmy and Beatrice. Jimmy learns of the rendezvous of the East Indians and hurries there with Beatrice, satisfied that through them the mystery can be solved. The plotters are assembled and are listening to a recital of the tragedy by one of Ali's aides who accompanied him to the McKay residence and has returned. As they stand at the door, a look-out traps them. They are hurried into the adjoining room. One of the Indians is left to guard them while the others decide how they are to be killed. Jimmy overpowers the guard, takes his turban and mantle, and passing their excited companions, unlocks the door. Then he and Beatrice make a dash for liberty. They escape after a fight. Jimmy and Beatrice again reach the McRay home just as Don is being taken away to jail. Jimmy halts the police with the announcement that the real murderer can be found in the vault. When the door is opened, Ali is lying on the floor dead. Don and Dorothy are reunited.
- An American millionaire's daughter saves a Ruritanian prince from kidnappers.
- A rich artist changes places with a dead valet and weds a poor woman, only to find his valet had a wife and sons.
- Van Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the Koh-I-Noor II , the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments
- Newspaper man Jean Bazard and Lawyer Alphonse Carrel are rivals of the beautiful Rose Legrange.
- The young poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. However, there was one witness to Hendrik's misstep, the old sea captain Van Oort, but for the sake of Hendrik's old mother he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie, the housekeeper of the miser Van der Meulen. Van Oort, one of the miser's few friends, is also trying to win Annie's affections - in vain. One evening, when he sees Annie and Hendrik embracing, Van Oort, in an access of jealousy, reminds Hendrik of what he knows about his past as a poacher.
- A girl advocate foils a Jewish usurer's claim for a pound of a debtor's flesh.
- A girl wins her rival's fiancé with a fake marriage announcement.
- Attorney Krogh and his wife, Gerda, are distraught about their only son, Kai, a wastrel and never-do-well with no aim or direction in life.
- A society cracksman is caught when his dying victim pulls out his glass eye.
- A squire jails a vicar for debt and fakes a marriage to his daughter.
- An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
- An editor gambles his life on a draw of cards with his wife's lover.
- An idiot heir helps a wounded prince save the princess from forced marriage to a usurper.
- The Uplift Society, with Silas Gilworthy at its head, plans to rid the city of the pernicious influence of the dance parlors. The worst of these is said to be the Purple Lightning Tango Parlor, so-called because of its peculiar light effect. Here the famous dancer, Fifi Melotte, is the star entertainer and leading spirit. Detective Rogers, a friend of Gilworthy's, offers to show him the place and its iniquities, so thinking to aid "the cause," he goes. However, he is an easy victim to Fifi's innocent ways, assumed for the moment, and comes more than once to see her, without the escort of the Uplift Society. The tango parlor is raided, and Fifi and "Uncle Silas," with difficulty, escape a visit to the police court. They "do" Coney Island and have their pictures taken together m a loving pose. Silas is engaged to the wealthy Adelaide Severn, and their marriage is soon to take place. Adelaide is being besieged by the attentions of a bogus Count, who is a friend of Fifi's. The Count has stolen a necklace of matched Pearls and given them to Fifi for safekeeping. Fifi in turn has slipped the mesh bag in which she has placed them in Silas' desk and ask for an explanation. Not knowing what else to do, he tells his fiancée it is his wedding present to her. Fifi comes to the Severn home, where the wedding is to take place, to demand the return of the bag and blackmail him with the loving picture. Silas introduces her as Mrs. Rogers, the wife of his detective friend who has written she cannot come. But complications follow immediately, when Rogers himself arrives on the trail of the Count, whom he suspects of having the necklace, soon followed by Mrs. Rogers. The necklace is stolen from Adelaide's neck, and the person nearest her, whom Rogers has to lock up for safe-keeping, is his own wife. Both Rogers and Silas go to Fifi's room in search of the pearls. Fifi screams, the entire household enters, and Rogers and Silas make a hasty exit. Silas tries to hide in a kimono in the closet, and is discovered. But the pearls are in the hem of the kimono, and the Count tries to snatch it after Silas has taken it off. Rogers arrests the Count, confiscates the pearls in the name of the government, and Adelaide and Silas, forgiving and forgetting, prepare to keep step to the wedding march.
- A judge tries a man for his own crime but confesses in court when a gypsy makes him 'see' events.
- During a jewelry-store holdup, 6-year-old Millicent Hawthorne, the neglected daughter of a wealthy socialite, falls on her head and is carried home to be reared by Mother Gumpf, the leader of the thieves. The fall cost Millicent her memory, but at night she dreams of her former high-society existence, while during the day she works for Gumpf as a pickpocket and later becomes a cabaret dancer. A friend of the Hawthornes sees Millicent perform, recognizes her, and reports back to Mrs. Hawthorne, who has vowed to be a devoted mother should she ever find her daughter. Finally, after the Hawthornes rescue Millicent from Kraft, the lecherous cabaret manager, an operation restores her memory, and she delights in the love of her long-lost mother.
- John Ashton, a young mechanical engineer, is completing the plans of a new submarine. The government is interested in his work, and he has promised to have it done by the tenth of the month, which gives him only six days in which to complete it. More and more he has been resorting to whiskey to keep his brain active. Robert Gray remonstrates with him, but to no avail. His fiancée, Grace Sealey, telephones him and urges him to attend a dinner party on the ninth. He accepts, though against his will. He falls asleep and dreams that he prepares to attend the dinner; he is still intoxicated when he arrives. Grace's father at once breaks off the engagement, and he leaves the house in disgrace. He goes home and finishes his plans on the morning of the tenth, and then, still wearing his evening clothes, wanders out into unknown streets. He goes into a saloon on the waterfront and drinks until he is insensible. There he is noticed by the captain and mate of a freighter, and shanghaied on board the vessel. When he comes to his senses he is far out at sea, and is told that the cruise will occupy six months, but that he may have all he wants to drink. At the end of the cruise Ashton and the captain, coming ashore, take a farewell drink together. Meg, a human derelict, attracts the captain's attention, and he attempts to force his attentions upon her. Ashton comes to her assistance, angering the captain, who gets two stevedores to attack him. Meg takes him to her own meager quarters and takes care of him. Gradually she induces him to stop drinking. Passing the building where he formerly had his office, he sees Franklin Darrow, a government engineer, and Gray, and hears them speak of Grace's wedding. She is to marry Wilfred Carleton, a broker, thinking Ashton dead. The news sends Ashton back to drinking heavily once more. But Meg learns of his real identity and helps him to win back his self-respect. They are married and Ashton's ambition returns. He resumes his work and seeks out his former friends. But Meg is unused to the new life. Her husband's work takes him more and more away from her, and she decides to take radical measures. Since he fell in love with her when under the influence of drink, she induces him to drink again, preferring his society in idleness and sordid surroundings to his neglect in luxury. The new plans for the government's submarine are made while he is intoxicated. They are wrong, and the crew of the first boat launched is drowned. Meg confesses what she has done, and takes the blame on herself. He flies at her throat, and waking up, knocks over the things on his desk. His original plans are as yet unfinished. He puts from him "the devil at his elbow," whiskey, and he and his fiancée have an early marriage, with the promise of a life full of achievement and ambition that is not clouded by an enemy which steals away the brains.
- Dorian Keene, a broker, who has lost most of his money in Wall Street, and his wife, Florence, dissatisfied with her lot, wants a divorce. Out of his great love for her, Dorian agrees to allow her to have it. While the papers are being prepared Sanders, Florence's god-father, confesses to Dorian that he has misappropriated funds belonging to Florence. He fears an exposure, since she is getting a divorce, and may demand an accounting. Dorian promises to do what he can to protect Sanders. They go to Dorian's hunting lodge, where Florence agrees to meet Dorian with her lawyer. There Sanders weakens and tells Florence of the missing funds. She turns upon him in a violent temper. A maid hears them quarreling and soon afterward hears a shot. Hurrying into the room she finds Sanders dead with a bullet wound in his temple. She tells Dorian that Florence has killed Sanders. In his devotion to his wife, Dorian takes the blame for the crime. Then he escapes in an automobile. Down the road Dorian encounters a highwayman who holds him up, takes his clothing and the machine, and leaves his outfit with the bewildered broker. Further along the road the automobile goes over a steep embankment and the car is burned. The body of the highwayman is charred beyond recognition, and everyone thinks it is Dorian. Dorian, penniless, wanders to the water front in New York, intending to take a ship for Europe. There he learns that Henry Morgan, a fellow broker, who was instrumental in making Florence dissatisfied with her lot, has bought his old yacht, the Sea Gull, and is arranging for a smuggling expedition. Morgan has lost nearly all his money, and, in desperation, has taken a contract to smuggle Chinese into this country for a thousand dollars a head. Dorian succeeds in getting a job aboard the yacht as a stoker. The yacht puts to sea, and when some distance from land, meets another vessel, from which the Chinese are taken aboard. As the yacht nears New York, Dorian, after many thrilling incidents, gains control of the wireless apparatus, and notifies the Federal authorities of the smuggling scheme. A revenue cutter meets the yacht and the captain and crew are arrested. The captain names Morgan as the man higher up. Meanwhile Morgan has been pressing his suit with Florence, who, believing her husband dead, has agreed to marry Morgan. Instead, he urges her to come to him without a ceremony. Florence then spurns him, and realizing his true nature turns her thoughts to Dorian. Then the government agents call to arrest Morgan, and at the same time she learns that her husband is alive. Florence sends for Dorian, welcomes him home, and together they tear up the papers for the proposed divorce, which she has kept in her possession.
- A cashiered cardsharper turns highwayman and proves a Lord posing as an apprentice was framed by his cousin.
- Documentary on Gallipoli Campaign.
- The Prime Minister's wife helps acquire shares in the Suez Canal.
- Actress Dora marries journalist Gustav and lets down her art. She helps him in his political career but finally leaves him and commits suicide.