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- The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- Dick Blair, the idle son of millionaire parents being born with a "silver spoon in his mouth" like many another of the "Idle rich," abuses his opportunities and becomes in early manhood, a dissipated man about town. In spite of repeated warnings and also threats of disinheritance, he continues in the "pace that kills" until his father, realizing that unless the boy is thrown upon his own resources and made to feel actual want, he would go to an early grave, finally drives him from the home that had sheltered him since childhood, and orders him to make his own way in the world. His new life begins when he saves from drowning the daughter of a famous banker and modestly disappears after the heroic deed. In answering an application for a private secretary, he finds his employer to be the father of the girl whom he had saved from drowning. The daughter of the banker recognizes Dick as her rescuer and the banker takes a special interest in him. Dick's sterling qualities eventually win him a junior partnership with his employer and also the hand of the girl whom he rescued from a watery grave. Proud of his wife and the position in life he has attained, he calls upon his father and a happy reconciliation follows.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- Sherlock Holmes is in make-up a lifelike presentment of Conan Doyle's famous character. A Count, who feels that his end is near, makes a will in favor of his wife, and it is deposited in a safe. The noted criminal, "Dr." Morse, is masquerading as the Count's medical attendant, and determines to get possession of the will. He therefore takes a wax impression of the keyhole of the safe, sending the skeleton key to a woman accomplice who is nursing the Count. When the Count's death occurs, the nurse quickly secures the will and hands it to "Dr." Morse when he arrives in response to an urgent message. The loss of the will is soon discovered, and Sherlock Holmes is consulted. He observes an emissary of "Dr." Morse's outside his chambers, so gets a friend to go out dressed as himself (Holmes), thus throwing the watcher off the scent. The Countess meanwhile drives away in her carriage; she is pursued in a motor car by Morse and his confederates, captured after a valiant defense by her coachman, and taken to a lonely cottage. Here she is bound and placed in charge of a horrible little hunchback, whom Morse tells to kill her on the stroke of midnight unless other instructions are received. Then Morse goes to Sherlock Holmes' chambers, and makes a forcible entry. Holmes is there and holds him up. Morse laughs, and says if he is not back at the cottage in half an hour, the Countess will be killed. So Holmes lets him go, and accompanies him. A trap to kill him fails, and the Countess is saved from death. Morse escapes by throwing pepper in two police constables' eyes, but is captured eventually, through going out of bravado to Holmes' rooms.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- One of the first epics on the History of Movies, it tells the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris seduces Helen, queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, city state of his father, King Priam. The Greeks declare war against the Trojans, and after ten years of siege finally manage to invade the city with a wooden horse.
- Poor Major Wright was feeling thoroughly out of sorts, for of late, Hiram Ciders, the town constable, seemed to be making considerable progress in his courtship of Miss Judith Mullen. But could the Major have read the wealthy spinster's feelings aright, however, he would have found no cause for alarm, for so busy had the good lady been in looking after her niece, Flossie, that she had found little time for aught else. Not that "auntie" had any objection to Dick Morgan, as her niece's suitor, but she considered the girl too young to wed. Indeed, so closely did she keep watch on Flossie, that Dick, coached by the girl's governess, determined to put an end to their stolen meetings by boldly proposing for his sweetheart's hand. To Dick's consternation, "auntie," wishing to frighten away the young man altogether, pretended that she believed he was proposing to her, nor did she dismiss the boy until she had given him two very uncomfortable hours. Dick's turn for revenge came, however, when he met "auntie's" two admirers, and told each that the other had just proposed to the fair Judith. The result was a quarrel, ending in Major Wright challenging Hiram Ciders to a duel. Dick and James Hurley, who had been asked to act as seconds, had no intentions of having any bloodshed, and therefore carefully extracted the real cartridges from the combatants' revolvers and replaced them with blanks, then, sending a note to Miss Judith Mullen of her admirers' intentions, mentioning the time and place, they calmly awaited the appointed hour. Not so, Hiram Ciders, for Major Wright was far too good a shot to permit him to be calm. Nevertheless, owing to James Hurley's vigilance, the shivering constable was unable to slip away, as had been his intention, and was led pale and trembling, to the "field of honor." While the backs of the group were turned, he made a wild dash for liberty, so that when "auntie" arrived, she found only the hardy old Major. And so pleased was that lady at her hero's gallantry, that she promptly accepted him then and there, and Dick instantly seizing the favorable moment, was at last overjoyed to receive "auntie's" consent to his marriage with her niece.
- A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
- A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- A young artist is a great lover of the beautiful, and has a natural horror of anything repulsive. He fails in love with a girl who satisfies his artistic requirements. The Girl's father, a worldly wise inventor, does not approve of his daughter's choice. He realizes that the young artist has many limitations, and doubts if he will make his daughter happy. The girl, when told of his fears, at first laughs them to scorn. Then she begins to doubt herself. Finally, a chance comes to test the father's theory. There is an explosion in the laboratory, and the girl, in trying to save her father, is badly injured. The artist hurries around to the house, and finds that the girl he loves is disfigured for life. She offers him his freedom and returns him his ring. The young man is not of the stuff of which heroes are made. His love cannot survive the loss of the girl's beauty. He takes the ring and hurries away. And the fears of the father are proven. As time rolls on the artist finds that he cannot forget the girl he once hoped to wed. Gradually he forgets her beauty, and thinks more and more of her character and mental attributes. Humbly he returns to the house, and again pleads his suit. At first the girl repels him, finally she consents to take him back. She is heavily veiled when they meet, but she does not raise the veil, neither does be ask her to. Her physical appearance is of no importance he tells her, and so far as he is concerned, this is the truth. For he is no longer the artist, he is the sincere lover. Still wearing her veil, but her beauty regained, the girl accompanies him to the altar. When they return to his studio, the veil is lifted, and with a radiant smile she goes to his arms.
- In the eastern part of New Mexico is locate the little mining town of Gatlach. There, however, we find an active mining camp dependent largely upon the famous Gatlach mine for its existence. Living in the camp we find Florence, who is loved by Jake. Florence, too, loves Jake. A new superintendent arrives to take charge of the mining property. The new arrival meets Florence and the man and girl fall in love. Discontent among the Mexican and half-breed miners develops. They mutiny, coming to the office making demands which the super promptly refuses and orders them from the place. The ruffians withdraw to arm themselves and then plan an attack upon the office and the death of their boss. Jake overhears the plot, and while he has no love for Harry, determines for the sake of Florence to save them. He rushes to the office and warns them just as the mob appears. They are pursued and finally take refuge in a narrow pass. With only one horse, escape for the party is impossible. Jake forces Harry against his will to take the horse and Florence and escape. They depart seeking aid, which is found in the shape of a troop of cavalry out scouting. Thus reinforced, they rush back to Jake's aid, but too late, he has fought his last fight and given up his life for those dear to him.
- "A Revenuer!" The one word that strikes terror to the heart of the moonshiner. So that a stranger who wanders too near the vicinity of the illicit distiller is apt to receive a gentle warning in the form of a bullet that he is on dangerous ground. It was one of these "warnings" that Frank Parmeley had received from the Nelsons, father and son, when Nelson met him and after satisfying herself that he was not a revenue officer took him to their cabin, dressed his wounds and was about to advise him to profit by the lesson when she became aware of a face in the window. It was that of her sweetheart. Jack Geering, although this she did not learn until he came to her aid in preventing her brother Jim from again firing upon the retreating form of the stranger. As a result of his interference, however, Jack was ordered from the place, but this did not keep him from calling whenever he found the coast clear. Nance would not have had him otherwise, still the young mountaineer's masterful manner of wooing led her to believe he might think her too easily won, and as a consequence, when a few days later he attempted to put his arm about her the girl feigned anger and ran into the house. This piece of coquetry, however, came near turning out rather seriously. for at that moment Frank Parmeley appeared with a book and a box of candy for the young lady, but upon meeting the stern glances of Jack hastily remembered a previous engagement, while Nance, humiliated and angry at his cowardice, threw his presents after him. This little incident had consumed so much time that Bob Nelson now returned to find Jack again upon his premises, and, although he was allowed to depart with merely another warning, Nance knew from her father's tone that this would be the last. It was small wonder then that she turned pale with excitement when a couple of days later she beheld her father and brother gazing earnestly through the spy-glass and getting their rifles in readiness. As her father passed into the house she managed to slip the glass from his pocket and as she looked her worst fears were realized! It was Jack, coming up the mountain! When her father had looked a few moments before, it had not been Jack, but Frank Parmeley he had seen. Ignorant of this, Nance grasped the rifle which stood by the porch and with a rock quickly knocked off the hammer, rendering the weapon useless. Then when her brother appeared she distracted his attention while she took the revolved from his holster and tossed it into a clump of bushes. And this was very fortunate for Frank, for scarcely had Nance started down the mountain to warn her sweetheart than the valley man came strutting on, but seeing the Nelsons' intention, although they were powerless to harm him until they could get into the house for other weapons, he took to his heels and only stopped to beg protection of the lovers. Being assured that he was not a revenuer and not wishing to see innocent blood shed, Jack commanded the terror-stricken man to lie down while he fired a shot in the air, and as the father and son came hurrying up declared that they had arrived too late. It so pleased the Nelsons that Jack had sided with them that they at once gave him their hands and all enmity was at an end, while Frank, as soon as they were safely out of sight, lost no time in making good his escape.
- The dissolute Emperor Heliogabalus dresses as a woman, and looses lions among his guests.
- Features a chronological parade of major events and battles of the American Revolution, with a side-plot emphasis on the emotional stress of a patriotic American girl, played by Dorothy Gibson) in love with an English army officer. She remains faithful to the cause of independence, and marries her sweetheart after the war.
- Frank Perry, a lover of pretty Lettie Blair, leaves his home town to take a good position in New York. He becomes acquainted with Alice Neilson, a beautiful singer, whose lover has deserted her for another woman. Broken-hearted, the poor girl attempts to commit suicide by inhaling gas. Frank rescues the girl and she falls in love with him. Poor Lettie, neglected by her sweetheart and believing him ill, comes to New York in search of him, accompanied by Rubian Fax, a friend, who discovers Frank's infatuation for the singer. In a powerful scene the country girl pleads with the singer to give her back her sweetheart. The other girl, remembering the anguish she suffered when she was deserted, nobly sacrificing her own love, makes Frank believe that she has deserted him and she goes away. Brought back to his better self, Frank returns to his first love.
- A great number of prognosticators often terrify us with visions of what will be when women shall rule the earth, and the time when men shall be subordinates and adjuncts. It is rather a fine question to decide, for chivalrous men, anyway. Today, with the multiplicity of feminine activities and the constant broadening of feminine spheres, it is difficult to predict to what height women will ascend. In the Solax production of "In the Year 2000," the release of Friday, May 17th, a serio-comic prognostication is unreeled on the screen with such magnetic force, charm and rich imaginative detail that one is compelled to accept the theories advanced on their face value. The conditions are reversed. Women in this film are supreme, and man's destiny is presided over by woman. No attempt is made at burlesque, but the very seriousness of the purpose of the theme makes the situations ludicrous.
- When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- A young woman forced into servitude by her family gets more than she bargained for when her fairy godmother magically permits her to go to the royal ball.
- A sensational detective story, founded on the romance of Leon Sazie. The noted criminal who terrorized all Europe is shown in these three Zigomar reels in a dramatic and intense struggle for supremacy with Paulin Broquet, the celebrated detective, who takes the two in the most varied and finest resorts. It is literally a chase through the entire continent, with Broquet now having the upper hand and again Zigomar in its possession. Zigomar is the leader of a band of men who persist in plundering rich and poor. They know Broquet is on their trail and set a trap for him. However, he escapes, and in the melee which follows, when he nearly captures Zigomar, the latter also flees. A wonderful feature of this production is the "Will o' the Wisp" dance which the noted dancer, Esmée, performs at a ball in the Moulin Rouge in Paris. The festival begins by a magnificent procession, in which the dancer is carried in a litter, bedecked with jewels. In the succeeding darkness, tiny flames light up and Esmée appears clad in white veils. She appears in the semi-darkness as a white apparition. Then the dance becomes gayer, the dancer turns faster, like a flower with changing colors, and finally sinks exhausted to the floor. There are effects of colored light in this picture that never have been seen before. Immediately following there is a scene of great contrast when Zigomar sets fire to the place and the scene ends in wild disorder.
- The story depicts a youth at the crossroads of life, listening to the call of the church, renouncing love and worldly pleasure which beckon him and consecrating himself to the priesthood. It shows a woman of the world with ideal, pure-hearted love within her grasp, surrendering her lover to a sanctified existence.
- Here is the heart-rending narrative of Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, and his strenuous courtship, the quilting bee, the village dance, the bragging of Ichabod and the true love of Katrina and Brown Bones, and finally the merry prank by which Ichabod is pursued by the Headless Horseman with a pumpkin lantern in his hand.
- Carl Wagner's good wife was dying. His heart bled at the thought of losing her, his life-long loyal helpmate. And his opera was almost completed, after spending months of weary hours to make it perfect. A pretty daughter tried in vain to brighten the overhanging gloom. Finally the composer, after a superhuman effort, and with a soul filled with sorrow, finished the last act of his score and hurried away to the impresario for a hearing. Here he was assured of an immediate reading and the return to his humble tenement was made with a much lighter heart. The doctor paid another visit to his patient and left a prescription to be filled. Carl reached home and realized how much depended upon the medicine ordered to possibly save a life most dear. Taking his cherished violin, the only article of value remaining, he rushed off to the pawnbroker and negotiated a loan. Meanwhile, the sad-faced patient and tender wife and mother quietly passed away, breathing a prayer for the future of her husband and child. The doctors say something snapped in Carl Wagner's brain when he entered that room and saw his wife lying there cold in death. At any rate, they gently led him away to a quiet sanitarium, where, for days, he stared vacantly into space and never uttered a word. The opera was passed on favorably. Word was sent to the musician's home and Alma went to the impresario's in answer to the summons. A reigning prima donna, then starring at the opera house, refused to go on at the last moment. Alma heard the controversy as she sat waiting. Then she thought of her musical education, of the poor old man in the sanitarium and bravely volunteered to understudy the prima donna. In a night she rose to fame. The metropolis was at her feet. Then came offers of marriage. At the stage door she was besieged by admirers. Even the manager proposed. How she met these advances and ultimately fell victim to a brave man's devotion, after a wild ride with a designing scoundrel, is only equaled in interest by the experience of Carl Wagner returning home after being mentally made sound.
- An ill-fated pair of teenage lovers are destroyed by the feud between their families.
- Dora, a pretty milliner, longs to own an Easter bonnet for sale in the shop where she works. Agnes Brown, a haughty heiress, buys it, however, and the milliner makes a duplicate, to wear, while the other is sent to the wrong house. She is accused of theft, and it is in the extrication of the poor girl from her troubles by Jack Barlow, a wealthy young lawyer, engaged to Agnes that the romance develops. It is the story of a rich girl who loses her sweetheart by her disdainfulness and conceit.
- When Uncle Bill passed away in the little cabin out west, all his old comrades and friends mourned his death, especially his little pal, "Kid," whom he loved as his own child. Before he died, the old man entrusted to "Kid" the delivery of his will to his niece Kittie in New York. This will disinherits an ungrateful nephew and leaves the old man's wealth to the girl. The nephew, learning of his ill fortune, tries to marry Kittie and when she refuses, carries her off to the rendezvous of the "Silk Mask Band," where she is finally traced by "Kid" and his pal "Kit" who have reached New York with the will. By a clever ruse, the boy hero places a decoy and rescues Kittie, the Silk Mask Band escaping in an auto, which, owing to a disengaged brake, plunges into the Hudson river.
- Aria is the daughter of a gifted but poor musician. A baron, while riding past Aria's home, is thrown from his horse and injured. The nobleman is cared for by Aria and her mother. The first person to meet the baron's gaze when he returns to consciousness is Aria, and it is love at first sight between them. In the governor's suite is his secretary, who is in love with Aria. He is rejected by Aria and he leaves the house. The baron, longing to again see the musician's daughter, becomes her father's pupil. The king writes the governor, informing him that his son, the baron, must marry at once a duchess. The secretary tells the governor that the baron will not consent to forming such an alliance. The governor hastens to Aria's home and there finds the baron and hands him the king's letter. The baron tears it up. The governor then gives the secretary carte blanche to plot against Aria. The first step of the secretary is to obtain the aid of a gay young count who also admires Aria's beauty and would give anything to have her in his power. Then the father and mother of Aria are arrested and placed in the public pillory and Aria is told that the only way she can have them set free will be for her to write and sign a certain letter. She is summoned to appear at a court ball. It is intended by the plotters that Aria shall show great fondness for the count and ignore the baron. She is then to be given drugged wine and carried away by the count. However, the duchess's maid and the baron's orderly are sweethearts and through the maid the orderly discovers the nature of the plot and warns Aria not to drink the wine. During the ball, the letter which Aria wrote is dropped, picked up and shown to the baron, who is thus led to believe Aria false and he upbraids her before the whole court. Aria is unable to defend herself. Later, the baron, driven to desperation, visits Aria for one last interview before taking his life by means of poison. While he is talking with her, the orderly enters and substitutes for the poison the narcotic formerly intended for Aria. The baron drinks the supposed poison. Aria drinks it also. Then believing herself to be dying, she tells the baron the truth respecting the letter and he begs to be forgiven for his unjust suspicions, the two then become unconscious and are discovered shortly afterwards by the governor and his suite who come in search of the baron. Aria's father and mother who have been set free, arrive at the same time. Everyone believes the young couple to be dead. The orderly explains to the governor and Aria's parents how he substituted a narcotic for the poison and the lovers are finally resuscitated.
- Carrol Morten, a young society man, disappointed in love, becomes a woman-hater. To get away from women he visits the ranch of an old friend, "Pop" Lamed. Enter "Pop's" pretty niece also for an unexpected visit. Morten snubs the girl, who has fallen in love with him. While out riding Morten is captured by some bad Indians and in the struggle to save his life Morten kills one of the Indians. The band carry Morten off to torture him by fire. The girl sees the Indians capture Morten and after a thrilling ride pursued by an Indian, the girl reaches the ranch house and tells of Morten's plight. The brave girl leads eight white men to where Morten, bound to a tree, is about to be burned to death. The white men arrive just in time and with a few well-directed shots, drive off the Indians and rescue Morten. In the last scene the woman hater realizes that all girls are not alike, and he breaks his vow.
- In the mysterious depths of the sea lives a world unknown hitherto to us. This film shows us this intimate life, the vulgar lobster and the crab, swimming amidst the rocks; some curious and horrible fishes; the temporary tenant of empty shells; the sea spider; the Midas turtle and the water caterpillars; the admirable Japanese fish, all this wonderful world of the ocean's depths.
- A wealthy ship owner cared for but two things in life, his gold and his daughter. But his selfish love of the girl led him to frown upon her suitors, while his greed for gold induced him to follow a niggardly policy so far as his ships were concerned. He insured them, it is true, but he begrudged the money he spent for repairs. He looked at it from the viewpoint that sailors were cheap, and could more easily be replaced than the money of which he was so fond. Therefore, when one of his captains insisted upon repairs being made, he was gruffly rebuffed. The owner told him that he could sail the ship as it was or hunt another job, and the captain decided to stick to the ship, hoping that things were not as bad as he had imagined them to be. For the captain was married, although the fact had been kept a secret. His bride was none other than the daughter of his employer, the miser ship owner, and they were waiting for a favorable chance to break the news to him. The girl wanted to sail with her husband. He refused, but did not tell her the real reason, as he knew it would frighten her, and cause the time on shore to be days and nights of dread. But the girl refused to accept his commands, and secretly stowed herself away on the ship, revealing herself when the ship was out at sea. The captain was glad to see her, but his joy was mingled with forebodings. He knew that he had an undermanned, leaky ship, and that the chances were only even that the he would reach port. When the father found a letter from the girl, telling him what she had done he broke down completely. He had never worried about his "coffin ship" before, but never before had the only person he loved been aboard one of them. The blow that he had expected came, for the ship was reported lost with all on board. And the old man realized that his niggardliness had lost him something that he would have given all his wealth, miser though he was, to retain. He neglected his business, he grew to hate his once beloved gold, and at last, half demented, decided to end his life. The vision of the daughter, for whose death he was responsible, was constantly with him, and he decided to die as she did, in the water. He went to the dock from which her ship had sailed, and gazed down in the cool depths. There was oblivion. On land was only sorrow and remorse. He was about to leap overboard when he heard excited cries. Looking up he saw some people landing from a ship nearby. One of them was his daughter, or else it was a vision. But he decided to approach anyway. It was no vision, but a living, loving daughter, who flung herself into his arms, and rained kisses upon him. Her husband was with her. They had been rescued after a harrowing experience in an open boat at sea. They did not have a chance to ask the father's forgiveness. He humbled himself to them and diffidently asked them to accept his love. He realized that the tragedy was due to him and him alone, but determined that the lesson he had been taught would never be forgotten, and that he would do his duty to the men who risked their lives to bring him wealth and never count the cost when human lives were at stake.
- Thompson picks up an artificial curl dropped by his wife's French maid. Thinking it is his wife's curl he kisses it and is discovered in the act by Mrs. Thompson, who is very pretty and very jealous. She thinks that he is in love with some other woman and she arranges a meeting with Madame Clairo, a fortune teller, with the hope of learning who the other woman is. Thompson finds this out, and he bribes Madame Clairo to let him wear her robe and take her place at the séance. "Wifie" enters and Thompson gives her the time of her life. After several screamingly funny scenes Thompson says he will show his wife a spirit picture of the man who loves her best. He removes the mask, puts his own face through a picture frame and his wife is convinced. Meanwhile, in another room we see Madam Clairo receiving a message warning her to flee, as the police are about to raid the place. Clairo goes out and the police enter and arrest Thompson's wife, who faints. Thompson comes out. The police arrest him and are about to take him away, when he pulls off the mask and the laugh is on the cops. The wife goes away without seeing her husband, and the last scene, where Thompson's wife begs him on her knees to forgive her for her jealous suspicions, is a farcical gem.
- The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming. Hal Benton, an easterner, rides on to ask his way to the hotel, where he is stopping with some friends, among them his fiancée, Veda Mead, and her father. Knowing that the Indian ceremonies will interest his friends, Hal obtains permission to come the next day and bring his friends. The Chief calls Morning Star, an Indian maiden, telling his son that she is to be his squaw. Silver Water is pleased with her. The next day Hal Benton and his friends arrive. While the others inspect the camp, Veda Mead amuses herself with Silver Water and ere long is thoroughly infatuated with him, while the Indian's vanity is touched by the attentions of the society coquette, and he promises to meet her the next day. Their little tete-a-tete is cut short by the entrance of Morning Star. The next day they meet and, after coquetting with Silver Water until he forgets his Indian sweetheart, the eastern girl gives him her calling card, upon which she writes "To my Indian Hero" and asks him to call upon her in the east. Several months pass, and Hal Benton and Veda Mead are preparing to wed, when a letter arrives addressed to Mr. Mead from Silver Water, telling him that as he is in the east, he will do himself the honor to call upon them that evening. To Veda, who had been reading of the Indians' lives and customs after her meeting with Silver Water, the news is very terrifying. Recalling how she played with him, she fears that he may now make trouble. She goes to the veranda and sits down to think over the situation. Suddenly she sees Silver Water in full war-paint and feathers coming up the steps, he sees her and advances. Touching her upon the shoulder, he beckons her to follow. She obeys. As they reach the garden be tells her of his love, reminds her of her promises when they last met and insists upon her fulfilling them now. She cries out, and her cry brings Hal. Silver Water tells Hal why he has come for Veda, and Hal agrees that she must go with him, but Silver Water is not satisfied. He throws down his knife and insists upon Hal fighting with him for the girl. At a given signal, both men start for the knife. The Indian secures it and soon kills Hal, then, throwing his blanket over the terrified Veda, he drags her off to his camp and commands her to fetch and carry and cook his meals. Veda sinks to the ground as Silver Water stalks off, but no sooner has he gone than Morning Star slips out from her tepee and, creeping down upon Veda, raises her knife to strike the girl dead. Just as the knife descends, Veda forces herself to rise, only to find herself in Hal's arms on the veranda, for the young man has been trying to awaken her to tell his sweetheart that their Indian friend, Silver Water, has arrived, and at that moment stands beside them in the most correct evening dress. At the first glance she gives him, Silver Water realizes that it would be impossible to ever win the white girl, so leaving her with Hal, he tears up her card and returns to the blanket and Morning Star, his sweetheart, before he has learned the white man's ways.
- Two old businessmen quarrel over a deal, and when it is learned that their respective son and daughter are in love, there is strenuous objection on their part.
- (Part One) The first scene shows us the outer court of the temple in Egypt, in the year 350 B.C. Here Amenartas, the Pharaoh's daughter, waits to meet her love, Kallikrates. He has just taken the vows, becoming a Priest of Isis. She urges him to renounce these vows and flee with her from Egypt. We next see them during the sacrificial ceremony in the temple. The young priest goes about his sacred office constantly feeling the eyes of the woman he loves upon him. At the close of the ceremony he can resist her appeal no longer and they make their escape. They leave the city behind them, and on the desert meet some friendly Arabs. The young priest is weak from fasting, and his wife secures for him the camel owned by an Arab chief, so that they may continue their journey. They thank their Arab friends, leave them, and on foot make their way to the water's edge. After traveling "twice twelve moons" they land with their infant son on the coast of Africa, near a rocky precipice, known as the Negro's Head. In her cave in the hollow mountain, "SHE," the white witch of Africa, who has learned the secret of eternal youth, sees the approach of the Egyptian, by her magic power. "SHE" determines that he is the perfect man, that "SHE" will have him bathe with her in the fires of eternal youth, and together they will rule the world. "SHE" summons him. In his camp in the desert the messengers of "SHE" find Kallikrates, his wife and child, and bring them before "SHE." "SHE" shows the Egyptian the fires of eternal youth and offers him her love, but when he remains true to the love of his wife, "SHE" strikes him dead. His wife, Amenartas escapes with her child. At the riverbank, the wife embarks with her child, whom she calls Tisisthanes. She swears that this child shall return and avenge his father's death, or if not he, his male descendants. Over the smoldering fires of eternal strife "SHE" tries in vain to restore the vital spark to the body of the man she loved. Unable to give her loved one life, "SHE" has his body mummified by a marvelous process, which makes him look as though he did but sleep. Beside her dead love, "SHE" weeps and prays, that though "SHE" cannot restore him to life, some day, though it be in the remote centuries to come, her love will be reincarnated, and return to claim her. (Part Two) We now see a room in England, in the year 1885 A.D. Holly, an Englishman, whose face is so ugly that it has won him the appellation of "the monster," receives, by the will of his friend, the fortunes and custody of that friend's son, Leo Vincent. This child is the direct descendant of the Priest of Isis, whom "SHE" destroyed centuries before. With the child, is sent a letter of instructions and an antique chest. The letter explains that Leo is to open the chest on his twenty-fifth birthday and follow the instructions it contains. Through the ages '"SHE" waits beside the body of her dead love, still praying for his reincarnation and return. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo opens the chest and finds in it the story of his ancient ancestor and the information that although many men of his family had spent their lives in seeking "SHE." None of them had ever found her. Leo also finds instructions to carry out the work, to seek "SHE," learn her secret of eternal youth, and then destroy her. Leo determines to set out on the mission. Leo and his guardian, Holly, approach the shores of Africa, and note the strange rock, the Negro's Head. "SHE," in her cave, sees in a vision, Leo approaching. He strongly resembles his ancient ancestor, and "SHE" firmly believes he is the reincarnation of her ancient lover. "SHE" sends for him. Through rocky caverns Leo's boat glides up the river toward the hollow mountain. At an ancient landing place, now fallen into ruins, Leo's boat is stopped by a tribe of natives, who pay allegiance to "SHE." They blindfold Leo and Holly and lead them to the cave of "SHE." "SHE" welcomes Leo as her lost love. He tells her he has come to destroy her, to revenge the death of his ancestor. "SHE" gives him the knife from her own girdle and. baring her bosom, bids him strike. Before her unveiled beauty, Leo is powerless to destroy her. "SHE" then bids him follow her and leads them through a strange passage. In a rocky cavern "SHE" shows Leo the mummy of his ancient ancestor, and so like is it to the young Englishman, that he feels he is gazing upon himself. "SHE" then destroys the mummy as she feels she has found her living love. "SHE" leads Holly and Leo over a rocky precipice to the cave containing the "fires of eternal youth." "SHE" begs Leo to step into the flame so that he, too, will never die. Leo fears to take the step. To encourage him "SHE" steps first into the flames. The quality of the fire has changed in the centuries since "SHE" last bathed in them. "SHE" suddenly shrivels up before the eyes of the astonished men. "SHE" grows suddenly old, until she resembles an ape. With outstretched arms, and a cry to Leo not to forget her, "SHE" dies. Holly and Leo, half crazed with the terrible sight they have witnessed, find their way back to the native village. They are directed, by an overland route, as to how they can leave the country and they do so. Safely returned to England, Leo, whose golden hair has been turned white from his horrible experience, destroys all records of "SHE," the mysterious. His family has been avenged.
- Desperate Desmond wants beautiful Rosamond, and wants her at any cost. He's desperately in love with her, which fact causes him to do desperate deeds. At the psychological moment, he abducts her with the aid of two minions. Claude Eclaire, Rosamond's hero and sweetheart, manages to train the villain, and, after some thrilling adventures, saves the girl and with her bravely plunges into the sea to escape Desmond and his myrmidons. The desperate fellow, however, pauses just long enough to curse the luck and then starts in pursuit with Gomgotz and another wild man from Borneo. Despite the brave efforts of both Claude and Rosamond, the hunters gain ground, or rather, water, for the scene is laid over the briny wavelets. The fugitives soon repair to a semi-submerged, friendly house. There, from the chimney top, they bold the fort. Unable to make any headway, Desperate Desmond conceives and executes a diabolical plan. He puts a bomb in a box, lights the fuse and sends it by the water route on its errand of destruction. Luck does not relish being cursed, and smiles upon the lovers. The faucet is open and the sink running over. The box with its smoking burden tries to navigate under the sink, but the falling water holds it there and renders the bomb harmless. Claude captures the bomb, relights it and, thus armed, turns the tables on his pursuers. With his beloved Rosamond he leaves the enemy stranded and boards the ship to freedom and happiness. Desperate Desmond, defeated and crestfallen, swims back to the ship, but the anchor is as far as he can go, curse the luck!
- A Mormon missionary seduces and kidnaps an attractive young woman, forcing her to accompany him to Utah to become one of his wives.
- Knud, a vicar's son, meets Magda, a piano teacher, on a tram. He falls in love with her and introduces her to his parents. She refuses to go with them to the Sunday service and convinces him to go to the circus with her.
- Mrs. Neville is the neglected wife of a rich old man. Things come to a climax at a reception given by them, and she yields to the pleadings of an impassioned admirer and decides to elope with him. Twelve o'clock is the appointed hour. In packing up her clothes she finds a bundle of old love letters, and looking them over revives tender memories of her courtship. Weeping bitterly, the appointed hour is forgotten. Her husband gets wind of the contemplated elopement, and armed with a pistol he cautiously enters her room. The pathetic figure of his sobbing wife brings to him a realization of his neglect, and when she confesses and pleads for forgiveness he takes her tenderly in his arms and tells her that it is he who should ask her pardon, and with a full understanding and renewed love, the two look brightly forward to the future.
- Only two years in the Land of the Almighty Dollar, and Mariangelo Pinozzi and his good wife, Francesca, are the happy owners of a busy fruit stand, which unfortunately comes under the notice of the Black Hand Society. Unless Mariangelo contributes the large sum of money thrice asked by the dreaded bomb throwers, he and Francesca will journey forth to that undiscovered country whence no traveler ever returns. As time is nearly up, poor Pinozzi grows frantic with fear. Mutt and Jeff approach. They have a whole dime to spend, they also have a well-developed case of "appetitis." The bananas look very inviting, and they are very filling. With a "lead us to them" rush, the hungry twain swoop upon the gesticulating Sicilian. As the bananas do the disappearing act, Mariangelo gets an inspiration. Will Muitt and Jeff take charge of the fruit stand for one week, or two, or longer, eat all the fruit they want and take all the receipts? Will they, huh? So, while Mr. and Mrs. Pinozzi scamper to safely, Mutt and Jeff take possession of the business. The Black Hand cannot be trifled with; Mariangelo has not "come across" and the kidnappers get to work. Mutt and Jeff are soon captured and taken before the Presiding Bunch of Crooks, who fail to find any resemblance between Mutt and Jeff and the Pinozzi couple. Peeved over this measly trick, they force "the long and the short of it" to join the "ranks." This is done, with the aid of numerous stilettos acting as accelerators. The police have been over-active of late; why not blow up Headquarters? Lots are drawn and the fatal slip of paper goes to Mutt. Luckily for him the Chief of Police has heard of this Black Hand meeting and sends out a number of his best men to corral the entire outfit. After a nice mix-up, Mutt, Jeff and the Black Handers are taken to Headquarters. Jeff is recognized as an old time friend of the Chief, who treats him to a good cigar, while poor Mutt goes to a dark dungeon because the tell-tale slip of paper is found on him. Alas. Poor Mutt.
- Bright Eyes, an Indian Maid, marries a white trapper. He leaves her alone with an infant. Not knowing what to do, she returns to her tribe, leaving her babe on the bank of the river. She is received back in the tribe and when the squaws are sent for water the babe is found. She, keeping the secret, asks to be allowed to raise the babe, which is granted. After twenty years, Stalwart Brave, the papoose, contests for the chieftainship in the lariat duel on horseback. He defeats the champion and becomes the White Chief. He falls in love with the old chief's daughter, but is denied her. The brave he defeated, for revenge on the old chief, lashes him. Panther leaves her in a rage, vowing revenge, is rescued by the White Chief and wins the girl.
- Bill McCurdy, an outlaw, brings his second wife, a refined woman, to [his] ranch. Here, they meet Pat McCurdy, a brother of Bill, who reprimands Bill for his duplicity. The shock is too much for Bill's second wife and she collapses. Meanwhile, Pat has informed Bill's first wife of her husband's wrongdoing, and together they ride to Bill's ranch, where they are told that the doctor who attended her has escorted her to the home of her friend, the U. S. Marshal. A few minutes after the arrival of the doctor and Mrs. Mary McCurdy, Pat and Bill's first wife come upon the scene. Bill is about to shoot his lawful wife when the outlaws stop him and lead him away. The doctor and Mary plight their troth and soon are married.
- Two well-to-do brothers, Tom and Jerry, have been associated in business for years, and the affection existing between them is something remarkable. Through the loss of his wife, Tom is given to melancholy and shows sign of a mental breakdown. This culminates in a complete aberration when his only daughter elopes with a young man from the Golden West, who has been visiting relatives in the vicinity. Jerry receives a letter from his niece in her new home and he decides that a change of scene would be beneficial to Tom's condition. They go west and are discovered in their western home having brought family jewels, heirlooms and the proceeds of the sale of their eastern property. An adventuress known as "The Badger Queen" in league with a desperado, has been doing the Lady Raffles act along the borders of New Mexico and Arizona. It is a singular method they adopt to secure hush money. She secures lodging at ranches and then disappears. Her paramour threatens exposure and is usually bought off. They play the same game upon the unsuspecting brothers and make their "getaway." They are, however, under suspicion and the sheriff soon rounds them up and recovers the loot, bringing them back for identification. This leads to the happy reunion of the family. The sight of the daughter and her little child happy in the love of her husband and his mother brings a ray of reason to Tom's mind and he eventually is restored to health and his reason returns.
- Realizing that she is about to die, the mother of Claire Lenoir writes a pathetic letter to her sister, Mme. Drouard, who is a widow and lives with her only son, Louis, a workman in the mines. She implores her sister to take care of her daughter. The mother and son are inclined to welcome the poor child with tenderness. Louis is deeply impressed with the charm of his cousin. He has a friend. Charles Marcourt, a miner like himself. He, also, is charmed by the beauty of Claire. Although he is confident of Louis' love, he cannot resist the impulse. He makes love to her in very ardent manner, asking her to marry him. She repulses Charles. Louis will be her husband. The engagement day arrives. Charles cannot endure the happiness of his rival. Suddenly he rises and goes in the direction of the river. He wants to die. Claire pursues the young man and reaching him at the water's edge, stops him from carrying out his fatal intentions. In a sisterly manner, she pleads with him. Louis observes them while thus engaged, and misjudges the presence of his betrothed near Charles. Jealousy arises between the two men and a spirit of hatred is engendered. The hate engendered in the hearts of the two rivals continues to the bottom of the mines. The company's engineer, in making his daily tour of inspection detects the presence of fire damp and warns the workmen to leave the mine. He further advises them against opening their lamps. Following his departure, the miners are shown leaving the mine. However the two rivals engage in an altercation and in the struggle which ensues a lamp is broken. A terrific explosion follows. Louis is uninjured but Charles is rendered helpless. Louis picks up Charles and desperately struggles on in an effort to reach a haven of safety. The frantic miners dart here and there through dark passages and holes, while many are overcome and left dying behind. Louis is impeded in his progress by the helpless burden he carries and makes little headway. Suddenly an underground lake bursts through the shattered walls of the mine and the passageways are flooded with water. The only opening to the stairs is cut off by the deluge before Charles and Louis can escape and they are left alone with the rising tide. The wounded rival is tenderly supported by Charles who, swimming through the muddy water, succeeds in reaching a ledge where for a time they are safe. Meanwhile the town is thrown into confusion. The dead and wounded are placed in one of the buildings nearby and there tears of joy for the living mingle with grief-stricken sobs of anguish for the dead. Claire and her aunt are among those who search the faces of the dead. The engineer bravely volunteers to take a body of men to the bottom of the mine. After penetrating many dangerous passageways the engineer finally reaches the walled-in cavity where Charles and Louis were last seen. Here they begin to dig. Louis and Charles, deprived of food and water are becoming slowly exhausted. Suddenly a faint tapping sound is borne to their ears and a wild hope that rescue is near at hand takes possession of them. With all his remaining strength, Louis picks up a piece of timber and pounds on the walls of their prison. Then they wait for an answer. They hear the responsive signal of the rescuers. In vain does Louis implore his dying friend to bear up a little longer. Charles has passed to the Great Beyond praying that Louis might be saved. The rescuers approach nearer and nearer the imprisoned miners. Meanwhile Louis is becoming weaker and weaker. No longer is he able to answer the signals of the engineer. Outside, the rescuing party finally succeed in breaking through the wall. The engineer is the first to crawl through the opening and by the light of his lamp finds their task has been for naught. Charles and Louis are still in death. Sadly and reverently their brother miners remove the bodies to the surface where they are tenderly laid in the chapel surrounded by lighted candles and flowers. Carefully the sad news is broken to Claire and her aunt. At the little chapel all is still and quiet save the sobs of the sorrowing. Here the young orphan comes to mourn those who loved her too well. The engineer tenderly assures Claire of his respect and friendship and she feels a sense of protection stealing over her as she looks into his brave and honest face. That he proved a loyal and devoted husband to the orphaned girl in after years is a fact no one can deny.
- The Grays are called an ideal couple and while the husband is a salaried man, his wife has met socially Mrs. Ward, a leader of the smart set and by her is asked to join a bridge club. At first Mrs. Gray loses a few dollars at cards, and frightened she tells her husband, promising never to play again for money. But Mrs. Ward comes for her in an auto, and flattered by her attention, she goes with her to another bridge party. Here she loses so much money that she is afraid to tell her husband, and when the woman demands payment of the debt, Mrs. Gray turns to Hall, asking him to lend her the money, and compelling him to take a pearl necklace, an heirloom, to keep until the sum can be paid back. This Hall does because he is in love with Mrs. Gray, but when he tells her so she is indignant. Then Hall tells her the necklace is valueless, and merely an imitation, and that unless she will consent to elope with him he will tell her husband everything. Thereupon Mrs. Gray does the right thing herself; she tells her husband, and they start anew.
- The film starts with a view of Santa Catalina Island, "Magic Isle of the Pacific," whose wonderful mountain grandeur is far-famed, but seldom seen by the average American. Here is the clearest water in the world and many sights to amuse and interest even the most jaded traveler. An extraordinary view of seals basking on the rocks off the island is next seen. Then follows a visualization of more than fifty feet of the ocean's bed, showing the remarkable submarine growth, a kelp, octopus, many varieties of coral and fish. This scenic also contains an exceptionally fine view of the Pacific fleet in annual maneuvering off Los Angeles. The fleet contains the battle-scarred cruiser Raleigh, the cruiser Colorado, the flagship California, the South Dakota, the gunship Vicksburg, the Oregon, the cruiser Cincinnati, several war tugs, supply boats and finally the entire torpedo fleet.
- The experiences of a tramp who is the sole survivor of a wreck, and is accepted as king of the natives on the island on which he is stranded.
- Bonnie is the daughter of Peter Watson, a fisherman, who derives a comfortable living for himself and family from the historic waters of old Monterey Bay, on the California coast. Watson has chosen as a husband for his daughter Tony Laredo, who, with no apparent vocation, lives a life of ease. Bonnie, however, is in love with Ned Raymond, a young fisherman, and this love is returned with interest. Ned is suspicious of Laredo, and discovers him at the illicit traffic of opium smuggling. While spying upon the smugglers at work in their den he is attacked from behind, falls from a cliff, is carried to the den and left still unconscious. He soon recovers, however, and surprising Laredo at work in the entrance to the den, takes him captive. Watson, who has gone out in his boat to fish, is delayed, far beyond his usual time of return, and his wife is greatly worried. Leaving Bonnie to guard the prisoner, Ned and Mrs. Watson go to the shore, and discover Watson, his boat capsized, battling with the waves. Two men have just landed on the beach, and Ned, jumping into the boat, commands them to make haste that they may save the drowning man. After a strenuous battle with the waves, Watson is rescued more dead than alive, rowed to the beach and carried to the cottage. With the application of restoratives he soon recovers, is told of the smuggling operations of Laredo, and in gratitude to Ned, who has rescued him from a watery grave, calls Bonnie, places her hand in that of Ned, and bids them be happy.