Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 2,001
- The scene is laid in one of the trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company and the young factor, Malcolm Young, loves Utoka, the pretty daughter of the chief of a nearby tribe. Jules Laprese also loves the girl and the half-breed hates Malcolm as much as he loves the pretty Indian maiden. Only Utoka's watchfulness saves the young factor's life on several occasions and this loving care is relaxed only when Jules brings her a letter and photograph which he has stolen from the factor. The picture is that of a beautiful young white girl and the loving message that accompanies it leaves small room for question of the factor's lack of good faith. Utoka is prostrated by grief and Jules leads her father to believe that a more serious wrong has been wrought by the head of the trading post. With his braves the old chief captures the factor and drags him, a prisoner, to the camp where Malcolm is put to torture before the fire is to mercilessly end his sufferings. Meanwhile Utoka, who cannot believe her lover guilty, seeks the post and discovers what has taken place. With the good father, the missionary who keeps pace with the advance of the Hudson Bay posts, Utoka returns to the camp and saves the life of the factor. He proves that the letter was from his sister and not from some sweetheart in Montreal and the half-breed is made to suffer punishment for the affront he has put upon the tribe.
- Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
- Don Devereaux, returning suddenly to the home of his fiancée for a pair of forgotten gloves, is shocked to find her in the arms of another man. His faith in women destroyed, he becomes a woman hater and his dislike of the sex causes him to seek the west where on a ranch of his friend Jenkins, he feels certain that the hated sex will not be seen. He is delighted to find that even the cook is a man on the Jenkins ranch and he is enjoying himself mightily until he encounters Emily Grey, who owns the ranch adjoining the Jenkins place. Several times incidents force Emily upon his attention and at last when he loses his footing and slips over a precipice it is Emily who discovers the body of the unconscious man on a ledge far below and when she had summoned help, it is Emily who, because of her lighter weight, makes the descent and fastens the rope about the still form. Shock and exposure have brought on a fever and again it is Emily who nurses the sick man through the weary watches of the night and brings him back to health and strength. And finally it is Emily who brings back to him his faith in love for he finds that he is again assured that true love is the most precious gift if only love be true. It's a pretty western story with beautiful scenic settings done in splendid photography.
- Evelyn, in order to care for her invalid mother and young sister, for some time has been a cabaret performer at the restaurant of Brady, a dissolute and repulsive brute, who has taken a fancy to the girl and, in order to secure a firm hold upon her, has advanced her money. Worn out by her battle, Evelyn goes one Sunday morning to a village near the city to seek repose and, in the absence of the organist of the village church, volunteers to take her place. She meets Abner Duncan, comparatively young and wealthy, but through training a stern Puritan. Unconsciously they fall in love, but neither realizes this for some time. Evelyn continues to come to the village and is presently the subject of gossip, as she discloses nothing whatever concerning herself, and even Duncan in his narrowness has not faith enough in his own heart to accept her. Evelyn ceases to go to the village, and Duncan begins to realize that without her his life is sad. Evelyn has been told by the doctor that the only hope of saving her mother's life lies in sending her to the south within two months. Evelyn attempts to borrow the necessary money from Brady, but he refuses, telling her, however, that he will make her a wedding present of $1,000. Duncan is a large contributor to the Society for Moral Uplift, and is appointed a member of the investigating committee, which is looking into the matter of cabaret shows. On his first tour of inspection, Duncan sees Evelyn and is horrified. Thereafter he sternly attempts to put the girl out of his mind, but fails. At last he yields to his love and determines to marry her. Going to the city, he seeks information at the restaurant, and is directed to the apartments upstairs. Here he finds Evelyn, and recklessly declares his love. Evelyn pulls aside a pair of curtains and discloses the repulsive form of Brady, sprawling in a drunken stupor. She tells Duncan that his awakening is too late, that for a week she has been the wife of Brady. Crushed, Duncan stumbles away. Evelyn smooths out and re-reads a crumpled telegram from her sister in the south, which tells her that, after all, her terrible sacrifice was in vain, that her mother died that morning.
- The Russian Czar sends his trusted confidant, Michael Strogoff, to warn his brother the Grand Duke of a Tartar rebellion that will be led by Feofar Khan and Ivan Ogareff. Calling himself Nicholas Korpanoff, Strogoff poses as a trader to journey to warn the Grand Duke. On his way he meets Nadia Fedorova, a young girl trying to join her father Wassili, a political activist who has been exiled to Siberia. Strogoff is captured by the Tartars, who don't believe he is a trader and threaten to torture Strogoff's mother Marfa unless he reveals his true identity.
- Two members of the Never-Drop Aero Club claim that they can reach the moon by the aeroplane. They get an astronomer to get his telescope out and see how the conditions are on the moon. He comes on with a big telescope and looks through it, finds everything in fine condition from earth to moon, so the party start out. As they rise and turn upside down then right side up, they start on their journey to the moon. They pass over a busy city, knocking down buildings and chimneys. After passing over the city they come in contact with the planet Saturn. Bump it, encircle it, and then on their way to the moon they ride through the air and see an old man coming out of the planet Mars. The anchor on the aeroplane accidentally catches the old man by the neck and carries him off. The old man tries to get away, and he sees Halley's comet coming along and he grabs hold of the tail of the comet and goes away. One of the men in the aeroplane sees him and takes out a lasso. With a couple of swings he catches the old man around the neck and drags him behind. At last the moon is reached. The man in the moon opens his mouth and they all go in. The party drop from top of the moon all in a heap. They get up, look around and a large bird comes in and lays an egg larger than itself and flies off. The travelers put the egg on a fire, which is burning nearby. The egg cracks and a lot of little birds are hatched. Suddenly a strange animal comes on the scene and eats the little birds one by one. The animal fills up and bursts. Another enormous crazy-looking animal comes out of the cave and chases the men off the moon into the sea.
- Tillie inherits her aunt's fortune.
- Fidgie is happy as soda dispenser in a drug store and might have gone on mixing drinks forever had he not met Marion. It was love at first sight on his part, and he makes an impression with his delectable soda, but Marion's mother hurries her out. Fidgie tears off his white coat and scampers down the street in pursuit. At the Hotel de Riche he contrives to get the number of their suite and boldly demands a job as bell boy. Fidgie is downcast at the manager's refusal, but bribes a bell boy to feign illness and Fidgie takes his place. He outdistances all the boys in their dash to answer the first call to 214, Marion's rooms. He joyfully assists her in ministering to her mother, who is ill, and again, when Count Dandrough, who is pressing his unwelcome attentions upon the girl, is entertained at dinner by Marion's mother, Fidgie disguises himself with a dinky little mustache and a waiter's apron, and serves the meal. He deftly strips off the Count's toupee and serves it as soup. The Count is more than ever repulsive to Marion and she almost refuses to accompany him downstairs to the hotel dansant. Fidgie then dons the evening clothes of a guest and mingles with the dancers, on the lookout for Marion. His perfect bearing awakens no suspicions in her mother's mind and Marion dances away with her bell boy sweetheart. Their brilliant dancing evokes enthusiastic applause and Fidgie is in a dream of bliss when the irate guest, bereft of his evening togs, exposes Marion's dancing partner as a mere bell hop. Fidgie dashes out, with everyone in pursuit. He races upstairs and through corridors, only to find refuge in the elevator with Marion. They descend to the lobby, elude the mob which tries to intercept them, and finally Fidgie gains his first kiss from Marion as they meet around the corner.
- "Never part with this cross; it was your father's." These were the last words of Paul Darner's mother as she placed the cross about his neck. A few months later the young clergyman accepts an offer to take a parish at Glenwood, with an invitation to make his home with John Temple, a wealthy churchman. There he meets Iris, daughter of Temple, and Mary Gray, her cousin. Mary immediately falls in love with Paul, but the latter soon becomes infatuated with Iris, though she is very indifferent toward the young clergyman until she learns from the dashing widow, Mrs. Brunton, of Mary's love for him. Iris then determines, as a matter of conquest, to win the minister. When Paul declares his love for Iris, Temple readily gives his consent. Through the persistent pleas of the lively widow, Iris is led to accept her invitations as of old, and it was due to her failure to return home at the proper hour on one occasion which prompted her father to go in search of her. Instead of Iris being at Mrs. Brunton's home, he found her at a fashionable café, inebriated. Taking her home, they are met by the clergyman-husband, who now learns for the first time of his wife's weakness, but promptly forgives her upon her promise to break from Mrs. Brunton and her set. Later, when Paul decides to visit Dr. Banks at his old home, Iris takes advantage of his absence by giving, a card party to Mrs. Brunton and her friends. Wine flows freely. Paul returns unexpectedly and discovers them. A violent quarrel ensues, resulting in Iris leaving and going to Mrs. Brunton's. All efforts to bring her back are futile. Iris goes from bad to worse. A rejected suitor, Clifford Moore, is a steady visitor at the Brunton home. Paul grows desperate at his wife's absence and, in a fit of despondency, tears away his holy vestments, but when he attempts to destroy the cross, Mary prevents. Completely crazed, Paul grabs a bottle from the sideboard and drains it. Unnerved by what he has witnessed, the father, John Temple, falls dead. Later Paul meets Clifford in a gambling house and, accusing him for his wife's desertion, attacks him, declaring that he "will kill him." The men are separated and Paul put out. Clifford leaves the resort, a heavy winner that night, and is followed by Cardwell, a gambler and crook, who waylays, robs and murders him. When the crime is discovered Paul is readily suspected, arrested and tried. Many witnesses testify to hearing Paul's threat at the gambling house. All hope vanishes until Mary Gray, regardless of public opinion, swears to Paul's presence in her own home the night of the crime. Her story is proved and Paul is finally freed, just as word comes that Iris is dying in an old tenement basement, where she has taken refuge. Mary and Paul arrive at the bedside just as Iris is breathing her last. A few months pass. Mary is now a nurse in a hospital. Paul, repenting for the life he has been leading, calls upon Mary, who returns to him the cross upon hearing him declare that he is going to preach in foreign lands and wants her to accompany him as his wife. Convinced of his sincerity, Mary capitulates, and with Paul in full vestment once more they journey onward, placing their trust in "The Power of the Cross."
- Bob and Lena want to get married, but first they have to get around the objections of Lena's father.
- Although an advertisement for this film appears in Moving Picture World on 17 January 1914, no film bearing this title was ever distributed at this time. The film was condemned by the National Board of Censorship as "inflammable" because of the battle scenes and the subversive tone of Capitol versus Labor. In June 1914 the negative and all release prints were destroyed in a catastrophic explosion and fire in the film vaults at the Lubin plant in Philadelphia.
- The wild man is not wild, at least when he starts out to be. Nothing could be less suggestive of wildness than the fun-loving college boy who is induced by his chums to turn professional freak. There is a circus in town and when the boys find a masquerade suit dropped by some guest at a ball just closing about sunrise they conceive the idea of getting one of their number up in the wild man suit and selling him to the circus proprietor as a side show attraction. Jim Hanley is something of an athlete and shines in college theatricals, so he is appointed the wild man while another chap assumes the role as manager and starts off for the circus to negotiate with the proprietor. The man who owns the side show is quite willing to buy a wild man or anything else that will add to the daily receipts and expresses a desire to see the freak. The boys go back for Jim and presently make their appearance on the lot towing the wild man along on a chain. He is pretty convincing looking wild man to an outsider but the old showman knows a lot about the manufacture of Egyptian mummies, three legged boys and things like that and it takes him just about 1/27th part of a second to determine that the boys are trying to have some fun with him. A wild man with burnt corked hands and a white face isn't regarded in show circles as a strictly high grade wild man suitable for a forty-car show, and the manager decides that since the boys are looking for fun he will see to it that they have all they want. Taking Jim into the tent he sends back word that he will try out the freak at the matinee and make the purchase if the audience finds the new attraction to its liking. The others go off in gleeful anticipation of the fun they are going to have at the afternoon show guying Jim, but they are denied this little amusement for as soon as Jim is inside he is thrust into an empty cage and is given a gorilla for company. This is rather more than he bargained for and so Jim goes away from there with some difficulty and in a great hurry. The gorilla is about three feet behind him as he makes the start but he gets a better lead once he is in the open and heads for the dormitory. Terror lends wings to his feet and he makes all sorts of short cuts, through windows, over pedestrians, street stands and whatnot until he distances the gorilla and panting and worn out arrives at the college. Not until he reaches the room does he feel safe and recites the story of his perils to his chums. But the gorilla is not through with him yet, for a hairy face appears at the window, as uncouth form tumbles through the sash and as the boys are about to give themselves up to a painful death the gorilla removes his mask and with the proprietor's compliments explains that the wild man's wildness is not of the proper sort to make him acceptable to a circus management. It's about as good a laugh as you've had lately and we've been generous with laughs at that.
- The governess takes the little girl for a walk. While sitting on the water's edge the little girl walks away to the hot-house, where she falls asleep. As soon as the governess misses her little charge she gives an alarm. Father and mother and all the servants start on a search. A colored man who stole chickens which he carries in a sack is approached. Thinking his theft has been discovered, he runs away and is chased by the crowd and cornered. When the chickens are found he is given a good trouncing. A fat colored woman does not fare any better. Two tramps who stole a dog meet a like fate. When the searching party gives up all hope the gardener discovers the little girl asleep in the hothouse and carries her back to the arms of the delighted parents.
- Father takes a dislike to Jack Kendrick and forbids him the house, his hopes and his right to happiness. Jack tries to conquer by politeness, but politeness is wasted on father, who has his mind made up that Kendrick is about the last person he wants for a son-in-law. Several times father catches the lovers spooning and then, of course, the lovers catch it. Jack plans an elopement and bribes the parlor maid to take the note to Laura. Just to kink up the course of true love father sees the passage of the note from Jack to the maid and fires the maid off hand. That means another girl in her place and Jack sees the butler leaving the house for the advertising agency with the want ad. That gives him an idea and he heads for the costumers. It is an easy matter to obtain a woman's wig and the dress and hat to go with it, and Jack makes a rather attractive woman. He is not beautiful in an artistic sense, but he has a regular eye and a winning smile, and once the moustache is taken off he looks the part. The moustache is not a very large one, but it gives him a pain to remove it because it's the best that he could do and it took him quite a number of years to do even that. Laura is worth the sacrifice though, and off go the few tiny hairs while Jack heads for the house. He is first on the ground and father, who is still something of a gay old boy, gets the idea that he is going to like the new girl better than he did her predecessor. Laura is consulted but her approval is purely perfunctory and presently Jack is wielding the duster that is the badge of his office. His trouser legs betray his identity to Laura, who is delighted with the success of his scheme, and they are wrapped in a fond embrace when father's step is heard in the hall and they separate. Father is well pleased to find that Laura approves the new girl and he beams his pleasure. Later he boldly proposes marriage and is not a little surprised when told that he must first marry off his daughter. This seems rather an unusual demand but by this time father is very much in earnest and he signs a formal note authorizing Jack Kendrick to marry his daughter. Jack rushes off with the note and father is still more surprised at the haste, for he has been cheated of the betrothal kiss. He hurries after his fiancée and is superlatively surprised to find his daughter kissing the maid with a fervor that renders strange the girl's refusal to marry until Laura is first disposed of. Blindly he ratifies the announcement of the engagement and is shocked when they tell him that he is not going to marry. To make the matter clear Jack removes his wig and discloses the smiling countenance of father's pet aversion. Father is disposed to rescind his consent, but Jack suggests that the tale, backed up by the written evidence, will make a good story for the club and father wilts. After all it is some consolation to have a son-in-law more clever than he looks and a bless-you-my-children closes the story.
- At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jealous husband, forcing dad to buy his way out of trouble.
- Engineer's daughter Mabel Green is in love with the superintendent's son Harry. Worried over finances and the fear of losing his home, the engineer takes several drinks on his way to work, leaving the saloon a bit unsteadily. He argues with his foreman, who fears to take the engine out. The superintendent overhears their dispute and discharges the engineer. A fight ensues, in which a policeman is badly injured. The engineer is tried and is sent up for a long term. Harry, meanwhile, has done his utmost to influence his father on the engineer's behalf, but the superintendent orders him to mind his own business. When Harry begs his father to save Mabel's home, the superintendent, sick of the whole affair, threatens to cast his son off if he sees Mabel again. Harry promptly marries her. His mother would take Mabel to her heart, but the superintendent sternly forbids it. Harry gets a position as towerman, Harry and Mabel welcome a baby daughter, and they are very happy. The superintendent suffers remorse, but refuses to relent. His wife secretly visits the little family and one day is followed by her husband. There a reconciliation is effected and the superintendent hurries off to the tower to tell his son. Meanwhile, the engineer has been released, and swears vengeance. He reads of a special trip the superintendent is to make over the road and finds he just has time to carry out a scheme of destruction. The superintendent takes Harry's wife and daughter with him on the trip. A siding on a hill switches down by Harry's tower onto the main track, and the engineer plans to send the empty freights on the special's track to meet and wreck it. He binds and gags Harry in the tower and throws the switch. When the engineer realizes who the tower man is he takes fiendish delight in explaining what is to happen. Harry tries to tell him of his secret marriage and that his daughter and granddaughter are on the train, but he cannot get the gag off. The engineer leaves, releases the cars and rides down on them. At the main track he jumps off. Harry has managed to get the gag loose and to silence his shouting the engineer rushes up in the tower. Harry compels him to listen and the man realizes what he has done. They rush from the tower and stop an automobile. A race begins between the motorcar and the freight cars. They get to the siding in the nick of time and throw the switch. The last freight car just passes the front of the engine and the special comes to a stop. The men and Mabel crowd from the car and Harry is made a hero. The engineer holds back, brokenhearted, until Harry draws him forward and the reconciliation is made complete.
- Bob Fulmer lives in the mountains with his sister Joy. The Civil War is at its height, and 16-year-old Bob is anxious to join the Southern forces, but because of his youth and ill health, Joy has prevented him. Unknown to Joy, Bob steals away, and joins a band of guerrillas under the command of Webb. Joy accidentally runs into Lieutenant John Gladstone of the Union force and helps him bandage his slightly-wounded arm. assists him in bandaging his slightly-wounded arm. In time, Bob becomes a successful scout for the guerrillas, and Gladstone receives an order to go on a special mission to capture the "boy spy." He learns the locality of the boy's home and establishes a camp. Again he encounters Joy, and rescues her from insult at the hands of one of his men, but he does not guess that she is the sister of the boy he is trying to capture. Joy learns Gladstone's mission. She warns Bob of his danger, but does not tell him of the presence of the soldiers, Gladstone, seeing Joy often, finds that he has fallen in love with her. She in turn confesses her love for him. Joy has steadfastly refused to allow Gladstone to accompany her home, always disappearing from him like a sprite when she leaves him. Finally, however, Gladstone tracks her to the cabin. That night Bob arrives, sent by Webb to find the camp of the Union soldiers. He meets her near the cabin and shows her a false mustache he has made, so that no one will suspect him of being the "boy spy." Gladstone, coming to the cabin, sees Joy pleading with Bob to go, and mistakes it for a love scene. Too honorable to watch them through the window, he raps at the door. Frantically Joy forces Bob into an inner room, and opens the door. Gladstone demands that she tell him whom she is concealing. She denies that there is anyone there, but Gladstone opens the door, and discloses Bob. To save her brother from capture, Joy tells the lieutenant that the man is her lover. He turns without a word and leaves the cabin. But now Bob knows that the Union soldiers are near, and he determines to find them. Joy rushes from the cabin, trying to warn her lover. Joy overtakes the lieutenant, but Gladstone refuses to listen to her. As she is pleading with him, they hear shots. Gladstone rushes off toward the sound of firing, and finds the "man" from the cabin, shot by his men and dying. Joy follows him. As she bends over Bob, he raises himself weakly, pulling off the disguise. Then Gladstone understands. He has found the boy spy. The next morning Gladstone prepares to return to his duty. He is leaving Joy alone in the mountains. Then comes the news; Lee has surrendered at Appomattox. With the reunion of the nation, a life of happiness opens before Joy and Gladstone.
- During a rehearsal of his new play, Peter Richards recognizes in Mary Walters a well-known leading lady of 20 years before. She has met with reverses and is now employed as wardrobe woman in the company which is producing his play. On opening night, the play is a failure, and the manager who financed it decides to take it off immediately. Mary Walters is the only one in the theater who has feeling enough to show sympathy for the author in his misfortune. An extra girl's chance remark gives Peter an idea for another play, which he writes and calls "Granny," and he has enough confidence in Mary Walters' ability to offer her the leading part, which she gratefully accepts. Confident of its success, Peter's ambition is to produce "Granny" at the same theater where his former play met with such complete failure, but the manager refuses to produce it and Peter is forced to sell his home in order to secure enough money to put on the play. During his days of trouble Peter sees Mary's worth and as he walks with her to the theater on the opening night, they pass a quaint little church and Peter asks her to share the future with him, no matter what the night may bring them. Mary consents and they enter the rectory and are quietly married, after which they go to the theater for the opening performance. Peter's judgment is vindicated and the play is a hit.
- Mrs. Casey plans a surprise party for her husband. He comes home drunk and starts a fight with the party guests.
- Following a prologue which shows that animals frequently desert their young, a jilted prehistoric suitor murders the child of the woman he loves. During the age of the Roman Empire, a soldier has a brief affair with a shepherdess, and long after he has left, she has their child. The shepherdess looks for the father, but returns brokenhearted after finding him with another woman, and then dies while saving her child from a poisonous snake. During the Elizabethan era, a wayward son seeks spiritual redemption through war, and is killed in battle. In modern times, a young, impoverished husband refuses to start a family, despite the pleadings of his wife. Then, when he finally starts earning enough money to consider children, his wife has an accident that makes it impossible for her to become pregnant.
- Ethel Gerhart has long been jealous and envious of the popularity of Norinne Lucas, who is unselfish and winning in her ways. When the two attend the same private school their respective dispositions quickly gained the same reputations that they had at home. Finally Ethel conceives a plan to discredit Norinne: She contrived that a sum of money should be taken from a girl's room and hidden among Norinne's belongings. When it is discovered, of course. Norinne is in disgrace and expelled. Ethel takes good care that the scandal was spread at home through the agency of her mother, who was a past mistress of the art. The truth is finally brought out by a young evangelist who is attracted to Norinne. He preaches a sermon which powerfully effects Ethel. She jumps up hysterically and declares her sinister plot. Norinne becomes the minister's wife.
- Believing that he loves her, when in reality his attentions to Tilly are merely to spite his enemy Sykesy, Patsy continues to urge his suit with her instead of with Jane. Sykesy attacks Patsy on the veranda of the hotel and is thrown over the railing to the roadway, severely injured. A warrant is sworn out and after an exciting chase he becomes mired in a swamp and is captured. But the vengeful Sykesy, preferring to take the law into his own hands, refuses to prosecute his rival, who is discharged by the magistrate, while Jane locks Sykesy in his room to prevent his threatened murderous attack on her beloved Patsy. Sykesy climbs from his window, armed with a club. Jane discovers him and warns Patsy to flee. This he does, taking the compliant Tilly with him, instead of rewarding Jane for her persistent love of him. The runaways hurry away on a motorcycle. They are pursued by Uncle Grace and the constables in an automobile. Finding themselves in danger of capture, they leave the motorcycle, take to the river in a canoe and are capsized. They obtain dry clothes from a farmer. Still resolved to carry out the purpose of their thoughtless elopement, the two set out in their uncouth and ill-fitting raiment borrowed from the farmer's wife, and believing that there is something suspicious about their behavior, both clergymen and justice of the peace refuse to marry them. So they take refuge in a country hotel in separate rooms, Tilly assuring Patsy that their escapades are a foolish mistake, and that she has quite repented of her desire to marry him. Meanwhile the pursuit of the fugitives has been much alive, and seeing that they are certain to be captured, the faithful Jane, mounts a horse, sets out for the hotel where their whereabouts has been located by the constables, warns Patsy, places him on her horse, and he eludes pursuit by concealing himself in a cornfield while the repentant Tilly is taken home convinced that Patsy was never intended to be her mate.
- Viola Vincent and Winthrop Hagen are society parasites living through high class crookedness. Hagen's passion is jewels; Viola's blackmailing. They secure invitations to a society weekend party. Viola finds immediate prey in Henry Blackstone, a diplomatic agent connected with the foreign service. He is at love with Helen Royerson, the daughter of Senator Royerson, at whose house they are all staying. Hagen takes a fancy to Helen and also is deeply fascinated by a set of jewels worn by one of the women. He learns that every night they are deposited in the safe in the library. Helen, thinking only of Henry, becomes jealous of Viola, much to that lady's amusement. The affair culminates when, to get certain papers from Henry, Viola writes him to meet her at a certain place and reminds him of certain jewels that he had promised her in a moment of moonlight fancy. Henry decides to see her and squelch her once for all. On the way he meets Helen, and Viola is left to wait alone. Winthrop waits until the house is quiet and then gets to the safe. In doing so he finds a wallet dropped by Henry. In order to divert suspicion from himself, after securing the jewels, he leaves the wallet by the open safe. Meanwhile, Viola, thinking Henry asleep, goes to his room to secure the papers, knowing he leaves on the morrow. Henry is dozing in his chair and awakes. Viola, in her awkward predicament, says she came to see him. He tells her she must get out of his room. Helen hearing a noise goes downstairs, discovers the robbery and finds the pocketbook. She recognizes it and believes Henry the culprit. Going back upstairs she surprises Viola coming from Henry's room, and her disillusionment is complete. The next morning Helen tells Henry she knows all and returns his wallet. He doesn't understand and she reminds him of what she saw at his doorway but does not explain about the robbery. Royerson discovers the robbery and tells his guests that they must submit to a search as the house was locked on the inside. Hagen has entrusted Viola with the jewels and pretend righteous indignation. Helen demands that Henry confess and save her guests from insult. He can't understand so she tells of discovering the robbery and the wallet. Henry is hurt and angered but produces the pocketbook for identification. The letter from Viola is found, and read. Its reference to jewels completes the evidence against him. Helen further complicates matters by accusing Viola of getting the jewels when she was in Henry's room. Hagen learning for the first time of Viola's pilgrimage fears for the loss of the jewels. Despite Viola's indignant denial she is searched and the jewels found. Henry stands convicted. The Senator telephones to Henry's chief and he is called to surrender his mission. He leaves after the Senator's refusal to press a charge. Hagen meets Viola outside and refuses to go with her preferring the society of Helen. Viola, desiring to right matters and implicate Hagen tries to get back to the house but the servants refuse and thrash him until he confesses. The Senator explains to the guests and Henry and Helen are quick to readjust their relationship.
- Jack Lowe's fiancée, Ann, worships romance. A few days prior to her planned marriage with Jack, Ann is visited by her cousin, Nora, who brings along her chum, Dick Rogers. By this time Jack has determined to disillusion Ann, realizing that if she does not get the silly idea out of her head, their married life will be seriously marred. Jack goes to Nora for advice. Nora has been secretly in love with Jack all along. Also Dick has developed an affection for Ann which he is trying hard to conceal. Nora, delighted at the opportunity of giving Jack "advice," suggests that he arrange to have Ann kidnapped from the marriage altar in a highly romantic way by a handsome masked highwayman. She suggests that Dick play the highwayman, and take Ann to the country home of Dick's Aunt Amelia and there keep her imprisoned until she is disillusioned forever about romance. The affair is carried out as planned. As time passes, Jack begins to worry. Instead of the letters begging for his help that he had expected from Ann, he receives only subtly worded messages which convey the impression that Ann is not only enjoying her romantic experience, but is falling in love with her abductor. Jack, realizing he is not yet Ann's husband, becomes desperate, but Nora is secretly delighted. While Ann and Dick make constant love under Aunt Amelia's chaperonage, Jack develops more and more tenderness for Nora. But his desperation as concerns Ann grows worse and worse when he receives a wire from her reading: "I am in love. What shall I do?" Jack wires back "Wait for me and sit tight." While he makes a mad dash for a train, taking Nora along with him, Ann obeys Jack's telegram to the letter and "sits tight" with Dick on all occasions. The presence of Ann at Aunt Amelia's home fans into a flame the almost extinct love-fire of two old hayseeds boarding at Amelia's, Hy and Jed. They play checkers constantly to see which of them shall win the fair lady from the city. One day, after they have come to blows following a heated argument as to their respective claims upon Ann, they look through the window and see Ann being married to Dick. Jack's former fiancée has not only been unchanged by her severe lesson, but has proved herself a stronger advocate of romance than ever by marrying the handsome young chap who was employed by Jack to abduct her. Jack and Nora, meanwhile, arrive breathless in the little rural village to learn from the Justice of the Peace that Dick and Ann are just being married. Nora and Jack hurry to Aunt Amelia's, where the wedding is just being completed and a big barn dance about to start. After the ravings of Jack and the hilarity of the others have subsided, Ann suggests a way out of the difficulty by having Jack marry Nora, just what the foxy little Nora had been wishing for.
- If love be true love will find a way. Neville Sterling by chance encounters Martha Bartlett as she is leaving the box factory where she finds employment. He is deeply impressed by her beauty and seeks to make her acquaintance but Martha fears that no good can come from the friendship of a man of wealth and a poor working girl and though he protests the honesty of his intentions she gently repulses him. He procures suitable clothing and disguised with a beard he seeks and obtains a place in the same factory in which she is employed. Their friendship soon quickens into a deeper passion and all is going well when a fire breaks out and Neville rescues Martha, who is overcome by smoke while trying to save her chum who has fainted through fright. He is badly cut and worse still his disguise is penetrated but Martha realizes at last the true depth of love he has to offer and her hand and heart are the reward of his bravery.