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- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Lydia Vengar goes to bed much depressed by her father's refusal to countenance the suit of Raoul Bardy for her hand. Silently three masked men enter through a window. They carry out Lydia, knocking over her new camera in their flight. Webb, a celebrated detective is engaged and, in answer to a letter demanding a ransom for Lydia's return, instructs her father to put a bundle of counterfeit money in a box at the place designated. A dog comes sniffing about, takes the box in his mouth, scampers away and is lost to the pursuers. It is learned that three men took part in the abduction as the camera in falling to the ground took an accidental snapshot. Webb advertises for a butler, feeling sure that one of the three will be sent to keep watch on him and to do worse. In a series of moves Webb learns that the supposed servant actually is a member of the band. The detective foils efforts to poison him and later to asphyxiate him. Supposing Webb to be dead, the crook servant goes to the rendezvous of the gang closely trailed by Webb. Webb enters by means of a rope and going down the chimney is attracted by the sound of voices. Three men are in conference. The late servant is telling his confederates that he has killed off their dangerous foe. Webb emerges the chimney cautiously after two of the men have left the room and creeps up behind the remaining conspirator. In a champagne cooler, the conspirator sees Webb's reflection and turning quickly gets the "drop" on the detective, with the revolver at his hip pointing upward. There is no sound but the conspirator topples over. It was an either revolver which projected from pressure of the trigger. Webb hides the insensible man in the fireplace and searches for the imprisoned girl. Meanwhile the other two conspirators have gone back into the room where their confederate is lying insensible in the fireplace. One throws his cigar into the fireplace. It flames up and the smoke restores the stupefied man to consciousness. The three, thoroughly alarmed, go after Webb, and trap him in the room with the girl. When he pursues an apparent means of escape, they release a trap door and he falls into a well. The water rises higher and higher and it is only by cleverness consummate that he extricated himself. Hiding under the sofa, Webb overhears the conspirators' plans to take the captive to another hiding place. Webb slips out to intercept the chauffeur of the automobile which is to convey them. He overpowers him and after a quick change of make-up, stations himself at the wheel. Feigning accident to the car by a trick, he drives off with the girl, who he restores to her parents. Here he also kills two birds with one stone by unmasking Vengar's supposed servant, who is in reality one of the three kidnappers. With policemen he then rounds up the remaining two.
- The first scenes take us to a temple beside the shores of a sacred river where virgins, clad in white, directed by solemn gray-bearded priests, go through the ritual of the worship of the lotus flower. While the sweet rites of worship are being observed in the temple, a troop of English soldiers, led by Sir Percy Grenville, their commander, approaches the temple. The English party is in pursuit of native hostiles, who have taken a trail leading to the temple. The worship is rudely interrupted by the coming of the English soldiers. Their commander, attracted by a glittering sacred jewel in the head of Buddha, ignores the protests of the priestess and wails of the priest, tears the precious stone from the sockets of the eyeball. Metta, the priestess, and Kassapa, a rich Brahmin, resolve, before the altar of Buddha to recover the diamond of their God at all costs. Sir Percy is recalled to England, and Metta and Kassapa embark on the same vessel. A silent but determined struggle for the possession of the diamond ensues. Sir Percy keeps the sacred jewel in spite of all, and landing in England, promises to give it to his bride on their wedding day. Metta and Kassapa, in various disguises, try to get possession of the diamond, but the precious stone is safely stowed away in the safe of Sir Percy's father-in-law. Metta has now fallen in love with the handsome English officer, and opposes the plan of Kassapa to kill him in order to obtain the diamond. Just as the goblet is taken up by the British officer, and he is about to touch his lips to the rim of the cup, Metta dashes it from his hands. She still however, is determined to recover the diamond, and when on a sailing trip with Sir Percy and his fiancée, the former falls overboard and cannot swim. Forgetful of her love and devotion to the cause of Buddha and at the risk of her life, she jumps overboard and brings Sir Percy safely to the shore. The last attempt is made to get possession of the sacred jewel. Metta and Kassapa, in the dead of night, steal into the room of Sir Percy, and are about to open the safe when Ethel, fiancée of Sir Percy, surprises them. The whole truth now comes out. Metta and Kassapa declare that they have come to recover their god's jewel, and point to the ill-luck that it has so far brought to Sir Percy. Ethel and her father decide to restore the jewel to the possession of the priestess and her companion. Metta, however, bears back with her to far off India, not only the sacred jewel, but a deathly wound in her heart. She cannot forget Sir Percy, and when she is once more within the hollow shades of the temple, she dances with a devotion and fervor which she has never displayed before, for her beating heart tells her that this is to be her last dance before the altar of her God. As she completes the dance her heart fails and she dies.
- An elderly gentleman, a professor and savant, living in quiet retirement, is greatly mystified and annoyed by a nightly visitor, who flits through his study and rummages around his desk. In his growing embarrassment the professor appeals to the police, who make a thorough search of the professor's apartments, but fail to discover even the faintest clue to the solution of the mystery. Thereupon the professor appeals to the master detective, to the brilliant and profound Stuart Webb, who can fathom the motives of men and follow the devious paths of the criminal. At first, however, Webb is puzzled as much as the police were. After much thinking he hits upon a novel plan which he hopes will bring good results. He installs a motion picture camera in the professor's haunted chamber and by a most ingenious device arranges the machinery such a way that the slightest touch of the desk sets off a flashlight and puts the camera into action at the same time. The plan succeeds to this extent. The detective now has a picture of the strange intruder. The latter is revealed by the film as a man with a big beard. Rightly concluding that the man of mystery would want to change his appearance as quickly as possible after being caught by the camera and would therefore go to the first barber shop to effect the change, Webb and his assistant are ready. The mysterious intruder sits down in a chair and when he is lathered and Webb holds the razor poised above his head, Webb's assistant slips the handcuffs on him. Now, the veil of the mystery lifts rapidly. The midnight visitor, it turns out, was not after the professor's desk at all; he was the agent of a foreign government in search of important plans. These plans were in the possession of a famous military engineer, who lived on the floor above the professor. There were secret passages in the old house and in the confusion of the winding steps the thief had mistaken the professor's study for the room of the engineer. The discovery that the whole house was mined, so to speak, with parallel stairs and shafts is brought home to the spectator with unique and startling effect.
- 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?"
- A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes advantage of her amnesic cataleptic state to make believe she has died and take her away from her family. Destiny, though, will make them meet again.
- A young novice leaves the convent for a knight. Unlike the better-known 1959 film "The Miracle", this version is set in medieval times.
- The owner of the great works seen in the film is afflicted with insomnia, and uses chloroform. His daughter, Eva, loves young Dennison, her father's engineer, much to the chagrin of Briggs, the works' manager. The latter uses every endeavor to belittle Ralph in the eyes of his sweetheart, and is present at the inspection of a huge chimney under course of repair. Eva and her father are also present, and Briggs insinuates that Ralph is afraid, when Eva dissuades him from journeying to the top of the shaft. On the way home, Eva's little brother forms one of the party, and Ralph, ever willing, is prevailed upon to procure a ball of cord for the youngster's kite; also the usual modicum of drugs for Eva's father. Briggs, during the absence of the younger man, forces his attentions on Eva while she is boating with her brother, and is repulsed. He evolves a scheme of revenge, and, at night, goes to the shaft, which he ascends from the inside and removes the top series of steps from its walls. On the following morning Ralph is given a letter warning him against Briggs, and in which Eva entreats him not to trust him. The works' manager is standing near and again taunts Ralph with his fear, with the result that the latter decides to ascend the chimney forthwith. Eva and her father arrive to witness the two men nearing the top of the huge shaft, and the girl's fears are soon realized to the full, for a violent quarrel is seen to be going on between the two, A few seconds later and the pulley block and rope come hurtling through space, Briggs having detached them from the cross bar, thus cutting off communication with the ground below. A terrific struggle follows, and the two men are seen at each other's throats on a perilous footing afforded by the brickwork. The brave workmen are making efforts to scale the interior, but are prevented by Brigg's rascally scheme. Ralph suddenly thinks of the cord for the youngster's kite, and is dropping this down when Briggs overpowers him. At last the villain dozes, tired out from his exertions, and Ralph, taking the drug from his pocket, plentifully dopes him, then throws down a note requesting the boy to fly the kite as soon as daylight permits. At dawn the kite is skillfully raised and we see it near the top of the shaft, where Ralph and the now securely bound Briggs are. The latter does not move, but Dennison is too intent upon the kite to notice him. At last the frail messenger of deliverance is within reach, and Ralph takes the revolver from Briggs' side, firing several shots as a signal. A rope is drawn up, and Ralph is enabled to reach the men who have scaled far up the interior of the chimney. He is assisted to earth and is seen to have turned absolutely gray from his trial. Briggs is found to be dead, having succumbed to the overdose of chloroform, Ralph is charged with manslaughter, but is finally acquitted of the charge, and the last scene shows the lovers free at last from care and delivered from a villain's treachery.
- The courage of women is often blind when love speaks. A woman finds herself in this strangest of predicaments; she faces the man whom she promised to marry after having given her hand to another. The deserted lover has the woman absolutely in his power; he is an officer in the Turkish army and the woman has just been brought before him as a captive. He tells her he will keep her in death as he cannot have her in life and prepares to embark in a torpedo boat, taking the woman with him after he had bored a hole in the little destroyer. Death seems certain to the woman, when the loyalty of a poor wretch whom she befriended in distress presents a means of salvation. Omar Bey is the Turkish ambassador at the Court of Greece and Helena, a beautiful Greek maiden, has fallen in love with him. They plight their troth. She is to join her lover in the spring. Alas, before the spring comes, the war spirit sweeps over the Balkans-Greece arms against her hereditary foe and Helena, yielding to the demands of her parents, gives her hand in marriage to Demos, one of her own countrymen and one of the commanders of the Greek fleet. The war goes on week after week and month after month. Helena has joined the army as a nurse and has found contentment in her marriage. It so happens that Helena falls into the hands of the Turks and into the hands of the man she had promised to marry. Relief to Helena seems impossible. The Turkish army is entrenched along the coast and before the Greek vessels can land their troops, Omar Bey will have dragged his fair victim to the bottom of the sea. The faithful servitor of Helena, whom she had years ago saved from an angry mob in Athens, proposes to hide her in a torpedo and to be shot across the waters on board the ironclad commanded by Demos, her husband. Helena does not hesitate a moment. Bravely she allows her humble friend to place her in a torpedo. The friend arranges to have the dangers of death minimized by wrapping Helena in big wads of cotton. The torpedo with its human freight is hurled toward the Greek warship, but it falls short of its aim, dropping into the water. It is seized by Greek sailors. Upon opening the projectile it is found to contain Helena. Helena is united to her husband, while the Turkish officer finds too late that his devilish scheme has been foiled.
- A tragedy about the invention of the videophone.
- Depicts the media story of Count Arthur Hamilton who died in the British castle of Clyde under mysterious circumstances.
- How the fighting spirit awoke in the man who had fainted at the sight of blood.
- George Walser, a clerk in a banking house, lives with his unmarried sister. Through an accident, he discovers that the son of his employer has betrayed his sister, and calls upon the son to demand that he marry the wronged woman. The son refuses. At this the brother, overcome by blind rage, strikes a blow which results in the seducer's death. Walser is arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years in the stone quarries near the Chateau If. Here he becomes acquainted with Adolph Gautier, who had been sent to prison for political offenses. Gautier is enormously rich and for the kindness shown to him by Walser in prison, he makes Walser his sole heir. The estate is one of the richest in France and Walser finds himself in the possession of unlimited wealth. He hears that his sister, who has been the cause of his misfortune, has become a sister in a neighboring convent. He calls upon her, forgives her and intends spending the rest of his life near her. At this time he receives an invitation from a neighboring landlord, whom he befriends in financial distress. The landlord's daughter falls in love with Walser and though he struggles manfully against it, Walser stills the voice of his young heart and becomes engaged to the daughter of the landlord, whose name is Elsie. He invites his fiancée to go hunting with him on his preserves. A former suitor for the hand of Elsie joins the party, and in the midst of their hunt they meet a wild bear. In the scramble for positions of safety, Walser has his clothes torn by the branches. This accident reveals the brand on his upper left arm, G.W. 313, which had been burned into his flesh after he had entered prison. The defeated rival notices the fatal brand and after short inquiries discovers the real identity of Walser, who had changed his name. Walser is confronted with these facts just as he is about to reveal his past to his future father-in-law. The engagement is at once broken and Walser decides to leave the country. Brooding over the terrible revelation which had been hers, Elsie remembers a photograph which her lover bad taken of Walser in the act of helping a poor old woman carry a bundle of wood to her hut. Looking at the picture, she becomes convinced that Walser could never have been criminal at heart, and she hastens to Walser's sister in the convent and from her hears a confession of the truth. There she also meets Walser, who had come to bid his sister farewell. Explanations follow and the happiness of Elsie and her lover are complete.
- Alex Sandow, wrestler and strong man of the circus, holds in his hand a photograph of his wife and himself. The wife, unable to contend with the vicissitudes of circus life, has left him, taking their baby boy, and sacrificing her happiness in the knowledge that her husband had possibilities of a great future as a wrestler. Unknown to his wife and son. Hans, now twenty-one years of age, fate has directed the circus to the village where they are residing. The customary challenge is issued on behalf of the wrestler, and Hans is persuaded by his friends to accept it. Hans is in ignorance of his relationship to his opponent. The bout commences and Hans is severely thrown. With a thud he alights on his neck, and to the horror of the onlookers, he remains motionless. A hasty examination results in the discovery that he is dead. While the unfortunate mother is being summoned, Sandow sees a locket hanging around his victim's neck, and he instantly recognizes it as being a present which he gave his wife. Husband and wife meet, and overcome by the awfulness of the tragedy, Alex Sandow dies of heart failure. The last scene of this touching drama shows the unfortunate widow tending the grave of her dear departed.
- The self-exiled scion of a noble house was called to the home of his ancestors and returns to the wilds of South America disgusted with the thin veneer of civilization