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- When a Southern belle chooses one suitor over another, the loser plots revenge on his rival by causing him to desert the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
- The mystery surrounding the temple of Buddha which contains many priceless gems attracts the attention of two adventurers. They plan and eventually steal the holy pearl from the head of the idol. Next morning the theft is discovered by the Brahmins, and the high priest curses the thief, calling on Buddha to wreak vengeance on everyone into whose possession the jewel falls. The thieves hasten to Europe to sell their ill-gotten prize and offer it to Degory Priest, a well-known collector of rare gems, for $10,000. Priest invites one of the thieves, a man named Allen, to stay at his home over night and he will buy the pearl and pay for it next morning. The other man. Walker, decides to keep watch and wait in the grounds of the mansion. During the night, the evil influence of the pearl causes Allen to see strange visions. He has a paralytic stroke from which he dies. Priest, who had a motive for inviting Allen to stay the night, visits his room and finding him dead, takes the pearl. Three days later, Priest meets with a fatal accident while hunting. After his death the pearl is handed over to his son and heir, Charles Priest, who has gotten into financial difficulties and is in the power of a money lender named Lewis. Lewis brings pressure to bear on young Priest who, unable to raise the money and under the fatal influences of the pearl, commits suicide, before doing so, telling his wife to rid herself of the pearl which has brought so much misfortune on his family. She consequently sells it to Lewis. Violet Lewis seeing the beautiful gem in her father's possession, asks to be allowed to wear it for one day only at her coming of age reception. He consents, but as a precaution, has it insured for $100,000. At the reception three Hindoo performers give a show in which the famous William Tell shooting act forms one of the items. Instead of shooting the apple, the Hindoo shoots the pearl out of its setting without destroying it. This supposed accident causes a sensation and a scuffle takes place to find the missing pearl. Finally the manager of the insurance brokers, who is at the reception to guard the interests of his firm, finds the pearl, but on close examination discovers it to be a clever imitation of the original stone. And now the question arises, "Who Has the Genuine Pearl?"
- After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- The young man, Roberts, loses his father to a watery death following business failure owing to the treachery of a banker animated by a stated but unexplained grudge. Roberts drops out of sight entirely for the whole of the second part, as the ship on which he is sailing to South Africa is lost, and as reported with all on board, it is fair to assume he has met death until we recognize him in the group at the Cape. The wife back home reads of the disaster and the shock kills her; the baby is adopted by a neighbor. The beginning of the second reel marks the introduction of new characters by reason of a lapse of twenty years. The Roberts infant is now a grown girl, and employed as a dancer. The son of the unscrupulous banker falls in love with the dancer, but owing to the objection by the older Martin the girl decides to refuse a bribe to leave town; she goes anyway. Singularly enough, she sails for the very part of the world where her father is. On the same steamer is a woman, a sort of adventuress, commissioned by Martin to report on the situation at the new gold fields. There are many adventures before Roberts, who for some reason has changed his name to Treberson, now rehabilitated in fortune, goes back to Europe to get his revenge on the man who ruined him. .As a matter of fact, he does no such thing, as the requited love of his daughter for the son of the banker intervenes and all ends happily.
- A documentary exploring the life cycle of caterpillars, from larvae to moth or butterfly stage.
- A documentary on naval activity of American forces in the Panama Canal Zone.
- A nature documentary depicting the variety of changes undergone by plants and animals as the seasons of the year change. A deer is shown shedding his antlers, then growing new ones, while other examples of flora and fauna go through corollary changes.
- A documentary on the effects of raging weather.
- An escaped convict's dying confession clears a clerk convicted for stabbing a banker.
- A documentary travelogue on the people and places of India.
- A documentary travelogue of sights in Scotland.
- This documentary short film from the Great American Authors series depicts events in the life of Samuel L. Clemens, the famed American author best known as Mark Twain. The film also contains a dramatization of Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
- A woman persuades a workman to kill her rich uncle.
- We see Hawthorne's birthplace, in Salem, and then the Salem Customs House where the discovery of some old records inspired Hawthorne to write "The Scarlet Letter." Among other landmarks of Salem is its pride, the House of Seven Gables - the original of Hawthorne's best known work. And here, in a most skillfully managed transition, with the words, "Even in this day it is not difficult to imagine Phoebe Pyncheon . . .," we see re-created the characters of the story, moving among familiar surroundings. There are Aunt Hepzibah who opened her little shop in the House of Seven Gables, and the half-demented Clifford, and Jaffrey Pyncheon, the wicked judge. Quite as naturally as though it were the outcome to be expected from the judge's morning call at the shop, there follows the "big scene" of the story- after which poor Clifford, standing over the limp body of the judge, exclaims: "Let him be quiet What can he do better? As for us, Hepzibah, we can dance now. We can sing, laugh, play, do what we will - the weight is gone, Hepzibah!"
- A short silent film on The Boy Scouts of America.
- A documentary short film detailing life among the peoples of India, focusing on cultural and religious aspects, as well as famous and interesting sites and landmarks.