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- Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption.
- Spartacus sold as a slave rises up and battles the evil Crassus.
- Count Frederick, while hunting, meets Lucy, the daughter of Masone, a gamekeeper on his father's estate and a tender romance unfolds. Later. Lucy is tenderly rocking the cradle of her baby, dreaming of her lover's return and her approaching wedding, Frederick has confessed to his father and has asked his permission to marry, but the proud old nobleman refuses to let his son marry beneath his station in life and sends him off to France, dismissing Lucy's father from his estate. Lucy and her father journey to Polain where the former game-keeper gets a position in the stable, and after eight years loses it through old age. Starvation stares them in the face and little Tony, the son of Count Frederick and Lucy, is apprenticed to Gaspard, a chimney-sweep, who is buying poor little boys for his work in Turin. In the meantime, Frederick has returned from France and traced Lucy and the boy to Polain, but cannot marry her because of his father's opposition. By chance, Gaspard and his boys pass the house of Count Frederick. Tony, the youngest of the crew, becomes sick and sits down at the door of his father's house. Gaspard finds him and compels the youngster to undertake a job, but Charles, his little friend, meets Tony and offers to do the job for him, arranging to meet him where he was resting. Poor Charles is suffocated in the chimney which Tony was supposed to clean. Meantime the Count has found Tony and discovers that he is his son; he takes him to his father and declares his intention to renounce his title and marry Lucy. The old Count's heart is changed by the noble little fellow and he consents. Lucy and her father, unable to stand the loneliness without Tony, come to Turin to beg Tony from Gaspard, but are greeted with the news that Tony has just been killed. Crazed with grief, Lucy is continually appealing to the chimney in her home to give her back her boy. Count Frederick goes to Polain with Tony, but Lucy does not recognize either. Her poor old father has thought of the novel idea of dressing Tony up as a chimney-sweep. She at last recognizes him and her reason is restored. Lucy and the Count are united and we leave them in the midst of happiness.
- A couple is prevented from marrying by a local tyrant, and they are not reunited until after a number of misfortunes, including pestilence.
- Raffles plots with a number of confederates to obtain money from the Earl of Lazar. Two of the confederates make an attack upon the Countess and her daughter, and Raffles comes to the rescue, and is invited to the Earl's house. He becomes a regular visitor, and uses his opportunities so well that he becomes betrothed to the girl he has " rescued," and one night leads her to the garden. Plans have already been laid, and a band of ruffians leap at the two, blindfold and bind Raffles, whom they leave on the ground, while they carry off the girl and confine her in a cellar, where they divide the jewels she wears amongst them. Then a note is sent to the Earl, demanding that £20,000 be put in the ruins of an old bridge. Raffles offers to accommodate the Earl for half the amount, and it is placed in the desired position. The girl is taken in a motor-car to a street in a distant part of the town and there left. Raffles, who has placed on his finger the ring reserved for him by his confederates. now desires to get out of his engagement to the Earl's daughter, and to this end instructs his typist and confederate to come to the Earl's house while he is there and claim him as her husband. Discovery, however, comes in the moment of success, for on offering the girl his hand in parting she recognises the 'ring, and by this small oversight Raffles finds himself defeated and seized by the police.
- The story relates how Salambo, daughter of Amilcar, ruler of Carthage, and Priestess of Tanit, is the keeper of the Sacred Veil "on which human eyes must not gaze." She falls in love with Matho, a slave, who becomes the leader of a band of mercenaries, fighting for Carthage against Rome. Matho steals the sacred veil and Salambo is ordered by the priests to reclaim it. The lovers meet in Matho's tent and Salambo recovers the sacred veil. Matho is made a prisoner by the Carthaginians through the treachery of Narr Havas, who is rewarded by Amilcar for his treachery by the hand of his daughter, Salambo. Matho escapes from prison and death, and the Oracle of Tanit is made to declare, by the instrumentality of Spendius, Matho's faithful slave, that Matho is acceptable to the God and one day shall govern Carthage. Salambo, who has protested against her marriage to Narr Havas, whom she does not love, is thereupon given by Amilcar, her father, to Matho and the marriage ceremony is celebrated with much pomp.
- Hard pressed for funds in his campaign for Mayor, Jim Creelman does not know where to turn, but Olga Bateman, an actress, who has fallen deeply in love with the handsome politician, offers to loan him twenty thousand dollars to insure his election, hoping that in the end he will marry her. He makes good use of the funds and his campaign is carried to a successful termination. A short time afterwards, however, he meets Miss Syble Chatfield, the fiancée of Estaban DeBussy, the editor in chief of the leading daily paper, and falls desperately in love with her. He wins her away from DeBussy and they are married. In the midst of their honeymoon they are surprised by the announcement in the paper of the loan made to Creelman by the actress Olga, and never repaid, when, as a matter of fact, Jim Creelman repaid the money shortly after his election and obtained a receipt for it. Creelman tells his wife of his old affair with Olga. His wife, believing in his integrity and anxious to help him in any way to defeat the blackmailing scheme to discredit him before the town, helps him to search for the receipt, which had been placed in a black envelope, but they find that it has been stolen from his desk. The revengeful suitor, DeBussy, meets the faithful wife and tells her that the receipt has come into his possession and that he will give it to her if she will come to his house that night. To save her husband's honor she goes, and when she obtains the receipt, in order to preserve her husband's good name, she kills her suitor, after a struggle. Overcome with grief at the unjust suspicions of her husband, and his failure to believe her story, she kills herself as soon as he leaves the house.
- This drama tells a most thrilling story of the daring attempt of the noblest and best of Italian blood, aided by France to throw off the Austrian yoke in the year 1863, and their escape from death through the courage and heroism of a child. The scene opens with the secret meeting of the chiefs of the revolution in an old house. They are receiving the last news from the sub-committees of the other districts before the signal to attack the Austrian government. Rinaldo Ramardo, the private secretary of Prince Paul, the leader of the revolutionary movement is introduced as a new member, he is desperately in love with the Princess Paul, and when his love is repulsed he plots revenge. Prince Paul trustingly shows the new member Rinaldo, the secret exit from the house to be used in case of emergency. Rinaldo, driven by his insane passion, informs the commander of the citadel of the plot against the government. When the conspirators are surprised in their next meeting they make their escape with the loss of only one member, but he unfortunately carries the list of the leaders. They are fill quickly run to earth, Prince Paul among the number. He had trusted for his escape to the secret exit from his house, but the traitor, Rinaldo, has stolen the key. He bids a touching farewell to his devoted wife and little boy Victor. Overcome with grief at the lengths to which his passion for the Princess had driven him, the traitor kills himself and begs forgiveness with his dying breath. The Prince is quickly condemned to death and a proclamation posted in the city announcing the execution of the political prisoners at dawn the following morning when the bell from the Red Tower rings the signal, but on the morning of the execution, little Prince Victor, his son, passes the sentinels, climbs the old belfry tower and swings from the clapper of the citadel's bell, preventing the death signal. He is brought before the Austrian Commandant and pleads together with his mother for his father's life, but without avail. In the nick of time a dispatch is brought in declaring peace between the French and Austrian armies, and little Victor has saved his father's life.
- The story opens with Count Gaston seen on the deck of a boat as a deckhand. Before him passes the vision of his early infatuation for an actress who prompted him to leave his wife and child and follow her to America. She eventually leaves him for another and he returns to his native land and sinks to the lowest rungs of depravity, in which condition he is found by a friend and advised to make peace with his wife. Naturally, his advances are repulsed. His daughter, having grown up, is put in a boarding school, where Gaston goes to implore the Padre, an old friend of his, to allow him just one look at his child. It is arranged that he should take his place in line on Easter Sunday, when a dinner is to be given to the poor, but he must not reveal his identity. The Padre tells him he will know his daughter by a golden cross which will hang about her neck. The child has become fast friends with a little orphan and, on Easter Sunday, when all the other children are passing with their presents, the little waif sits alone and disconsolate. In a beautifully touching scene the daughter takes the cross from off her neck and places it on that of her little friend. Gaston, not having seen his daughter through all these years, naturally mistakes the little orphan for his own flesh and blood. He meets the child regularly after this, until one day she fails to appear, having been taken violently ill. The poor man, in distraction, is finally admitted to the sick room and his grief on seeing the poor child suffering in its last throes is pitiable. The Padre realizes the awful mistake that has been made, but dare not break in on the poor man's misery to tell him the truth. After the death of the child the truth of the situation is gradually brought home to the man, and the wife, realizing that he has suffered, relents, and all is forgiven.
- Robert Clark falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant. He rescues her from her burning home by climbing up between two buildings. When her parents object to his attentions, claiming that his social position is beneath that of the rich merchant, they elope, and a year later, when their baby comes, they are reduced to poverty. Robert continues at his trade, that of a chimney sweep and steeple jack, and undertakes to clean the tallest chimney in the city, when no one else will dare attempt it. He loses one of his scaling ladders just at the top, and hangs, between heaven and earth, while flames and smoke belch from the chimney. His wife manages to repay her debt to him by rescuing Robert from the very brink of death, when all other efforts of the fire department and the city authorities failed. While Robert is ill, following this terrible ordeal, she takes up the burden of his work and by her winning personality wins success as great as his. They come across an advertisement of a circus manager who wishes a ladder trick, and offering a good salary. This they eagerly accept, and work up, between themselves and little Robert, who is now five years old, an unusual and thrilling scaling act. Their success is instantaneous and "The Three Black Trumps" soon become known throughout the country. Fame and increasing salary come to the daring performers. In their journeys they come back to Martha's home town and when the stern but loving father sees his little grandson his heart softens, and Martha and her husband are received back into the home circle.
- Frank Canti, a professional hunter, has had a very bad season. Winter is approaching, and with an old father and two sick children on his hands, he has no money to buy food or medicine. The proprietor of the only hotel in the village, meets him, and tells him that he must have a couple of wild ducks for a banquet, and offers him a large stipend for securing them for him. Canti realizes that the only place to get them is on the preserves, closed to the layman, and to get them he would have to trespass. He is sorely tempted, but refuses. He returns home and is confronted by the doctor, who insists that the child receive the medicine prescribed, so he returns to the proprietor of the hotel and accepts an advance from him, the balance to be paid on the delivery of the ducks. He goes to the Count's grounds, shoots a duck, and is immediately caught by the keeper of the grounds, who is in love with his wife. He is hailed to the police court, where the keeper swears to a charge of trespassing against him. The penalty for the offense is 300 francs, or one month in jail. Police Officer Moretti's term of three years is practically over. During this time he has saved 300 francs, which he has placed in an envelope, and intends using same as a wedding gift to his bride. The hunter's wife calls on him for advice, he having a reputation for big-heartedness, but he advises her that nothing can be done, and takes her to the lieutenant, thinking possibly that he might see a way out of the dilemma, but, instead, the lieutenant confirms what he has already said. He, too, is extremely warm-hearted and generous, and as soon as the hunter's wife departs, gives the policeman five francs to take to her. The hunter is allowed three days in which to decide whether he must serve his term in prison. The time having expired and the fine not paid, Moretti is given a warrant for the hunter's arrest. He goes to the house, and the children, on seeing him, embrace and kiss him. Touched by this show of affection, he hesitates about making the arrest. In the meantime, the lieutenant decides to go to the house himself to see if the policeman is carrying out his orders. As he approaches, Moretti realizes that he cannot carry out his duty, and pulling out his savings, hands it to the lieutenant in the envelope, and tells him that the hunter has decided to pay the fine. Moretti, having sent for his mother and fiancée, returns to the police headquarters and finds them awaiting his arrival. The hardest task of all is now in front of him, that of telling his beloved ones that he cannot go on with the marriage, as he has lost his savings. In the meantime, the lieutenant opens the envelope that has been given to him by Moretti and notices the inscription, "For My Wedding," written on it. The truth of the situation dawns upon him, and out of his own savings takes 300 francs, places it in another envelope, and writes the inscription, "The Hunter's Fine" on it. He goes into the room where Moretti, his fiancée and mother are, drops the original envelope on the floor and calls Moretti's attention to it. Moretti picks it up and at once realizes the generosity of his superior officer. The last scene shows everybody reunited.