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- When Jane is abducted by Arab slave traders, Tarzan comes to her rescue, only to see her kidnapped again by Queen La of Opar. To save Jane, Tarzan must battle both the queen's minions and William Clayton, who seeks Tarzan's family title.
- The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.
- Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of his "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and he and Mary wind up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
- The cyclist is dispatched upon an important errand, and his humorous and alarming adventures by the way form the subject of this series. Misadventure follows misadventure with great frequency, but the cyclist comes up smiling every time, mounts his machine, and again resumes his journey. Accidents which would maim or kill an ordinary mortal serve only to spur him on to fresh exertions in a mad search for physical inconveniences and dangers, which always present themselves. It may indeed be predicted of the hero that he will either die peacefully in his bed or end his career through slipping on a piece of orange peel, or swallowing a pin. Only an ordinary and simple ending would be appropriate after such a strenuous life. Certainly he will never be hanged or drowned. He charges at full speed a horse-drawn tram car, and is upset. He attacks the double windows of a corner shop, to falls into a basket of eggs on the other side. He bodily upsets a donkey, cart and driver. He is precipitated into and disorganizes a party of men and women enjoying refreshment at an open-air café. He is thrown into a deep excavation in the road, and, colliding with the parapet of a bridge, is thrown over and falls forty feet into a swiftly flowing river, to be fished out and remount his machine. Finally, he appears in full view of the audience, a sorry spectacle of mud, eggs, water and other accumulations, but wearing a grin of triumph which augurs well for his future.
- Jeanne Doré's profligate husband is hopelessly addicted to gambling, and is threatened with expulsion from his club because of his heavy indebtedness to another gambler member. Confessing his disgrace to his wife (Mme. Bernhardt), she offers to save him from disgrace by selling her jewels. With the money thus obtained he goes to his club, determined to pay his debts and live up to the pledge he has made to his wife to gamble no more. However, the lure of the roulette wheel overcomes his resolve; he loses all his money on "just one more turn of the wheel," and rather than face his disgrace, commits suicide. Left with her young son to support, Jeanne Doré is forced to sell her remaining possessions and live as best she can until her husband's uncle takes pity upon her and buys for her a small stationery shop in Paris. Here mother and son prosper until the boy reaches early manhood. One day he falls suddenly and violently in love with a married woman, who comes to his mother's shop to make purchases. An intrigue with the unscrupulous female leads the young man to murder the same uncle who had befriended himself and mother. The youth, with the assistance of Jeanne Doré, makes good his escape. Well clear of immediate capture, the boy comes back to the scene of his crime and succeeds in his efforts to once more affect a liaison with his mistress. By accident he is discovered and captured, thrown into jail, is tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to the guillotine. Even in these desperate straits he seeks to gain some response to his affection for the woman, who promptly spurned and repudiated him. He prevails upon his devoted mother to become a messenger in his service and her appeals, likewise, fall upon deaf ears. Instead of telling the boy that her quest has been fruitless, Jeanne Doré goes to the prison herself, on the evening before the boy's neck is to be given to the knife, and poses as the woman he had expressed himself, to his own mother, as the one he most wished to see. The boy goes to the guillotine, and the final scene depicts the devoted mother in the extreme agony of watching, from a window across the street, the execution of her son.
- 1. The Duchess of Montpensier meets the fanatical young monk, Jacques Clement. 2. She receives a message telling of the murder of her brother. 3. Henry of Navarre overhears the duchess incite Clement to kill Henry III. 4. Henry III is depressed because of the plot against him. 5. The Duchess of Montpensier threatens Henry III with vengeance. 6. The king prepares against an attack. 7. Henry of Navarre advises the king to flee. 8. Partisans of the duchess storm the castle. 9. Clement receives the message, "It is time to act." 10. Henry III designates Henry of Navarre as his successor.
- When the police attempt to capture Sam Slick, a noted criminal, he treats his pursuers to a series of surprises that quite take their breath away, both literally and figuratively. Something unexpected happens every minute.
- Frank Pryor, an ambitious young reporter is assigned to investigate a mysterious suicide club called the "Friends of Plato." He "gets busy" immediately and persuades his friend Mr. Davis to introduce him to the club. The president of the organization places before him a set of rules which declare that each member shall agree to put an end to his life when it shall be so decided by lot. Pryor willingly affixes his signature to an application for membership. It happens that a meeting is just about to be held to decide who is to be the "fortunate one." Pryor and the others group themselves around a table while the president proceeds slowly to deal out a deck of cards to the members, who, with bated breath, hesitate to examine them for fear they shall draw the fatal Queen of Spades. Round and round go the cards until finally Frank draws the fatal card. The other, after congratulating him, quietly file out of the room, leaving him a pistol to do the deed. The affair now appears very serious but he cannot escape. His consternation is increased by the appearance of four masked figures who peer in at him through the barred windows. When he has about given up all hope, Mr. Davis and several friends come and rescue him from his terrible plight.
- At a court gathering at Greenwich, in 1532, Sir Thomas Wyatt reads some verses to Queen Catherine. Henry VIII, hearing that the Queen has found a new lady-in-waiting, visits the assembly to inspect the new beauty. Finding that Anne is in love with Wyatt, the King asks his jester to spy upon the couple and report to him. In the gardens that night, Henry succeeds in talking for a few moments with Anne and learns definitely of her love for Wyatt. He orders her to repair to the castle at Windsor, where he organizes a hunt in her honor. Incidentally, he presents her with a beautiful pearl necklace. Wyatt, seeing the pretty bauble, reproaches her with encouraging the King. Missing Anne from the hunt. Herne, one of his henchmen, plays upon his jealousy by showing the King the two lovers seated under a tree. That same evening when Anne and Wyatt return to the castle, the King banishes Wyatt from his court and threatens Anne with the same treatment. The young lady's answer is to let her head fall upon the King's shoulder. All the castle soon hear of the King's new favorite. Queen Catherine shows her hatred of Anne in many little ways and the King soon divorces her. Anne's hour of triumph has come, although darkened by the apparition of the demon Herne, who reveals her doom, the scaffold. Nevertheless, Anne is secretly married to Henry VIII and becomes Queen of England. Two years of bliss follow for Anne. Then to court comes Jane Seymour. The new beauty soon attracts the attention of Henry VIII and Suffolk, the King's evil genius, observing that she has fascinated his master, contrives a secret meeting between them. Anne detects the rendezvous and expresses her horror to her lord. This, however, merely serves to infuriate the fickle King and he asks Suffolk to help rid him of his Queen. This is brought about by Suffolk, who, knowing the love Wyatt had borne Anne, brings him to a room in the castle occupied by Anne. In this way Anne is arrested and taken to the tower prison. Several days later, although protesting her innocence, Anne is tried by twenty-six peers, all instruments of the King. She is sentenced to die and on May 19, the sound of a gun notifies him that a second Queen has gone.
- The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
- Orphan Mary Lord, the ward of Sir Arthur Stanhope of Parliament, is attracted to Philip Carmichael, a young politician, who ignores her and goes through a supposedly mock marriage at a wild party with actress Sheelah Delayne. Years later, Philip falls in love with Mary, now married to Sir Arthur, who dies from a stroke when he sees Philip and Mary together. Remorseful, they try to keep apart but eventually marry in France. Later, Sheelah confronts Philip with their son and proof that they are married. When Philip is arrested for bigamy, Mary testifies, to her humiliation, that she and Philip are not married, and then disappears. After her son dies, Sheelah goes to France as a canteen worker and finds Mary wandering in a daze. Feeling pity, Sheelah has her marriage annulled and sends for Philip. When Mary hears soldiers sing a song she used to sing to Philip, she recognizes Philip and they resume their marriage.
- The theme of this picture is somewhat original, and well worked out. We are shown the interior of a humble cottage in France. The bereaved father is himself sick and feeble, and the son maintains both father and sister. A military official comes to claim the young man for army service, and, of course, turns a deaf ear to the expostulations of the father and daughter, who are being deprived of their breadwinner. Consternation seizes the little family, until the girl is seized with a bright idea. She cannot earn a sufficient living for her father and herself, but she can take her brother's place in the ranks of the army. She persuades them to let her try the scheme, and after an affecting farewell, we see her attending at the military headquarters on the appointed day. She is passed as her brother, though one or two of the soldiers throw curious glances after her. The scene is changed to a battlefield. The girl is sent out as a spy, and is captured and is led out to be shot, but the General of the force has his suspicions aroused, and prevents the execution of the sentence. He offers the girl brutal love, and she takes advantage of this to make him intoxicated. She kills him, and escapes in his cloak with the plan of campaign. She returns to her own lines, is presented with a medal and receiving a wound in a subsequent engagement, goes home to father and brother to be welcomed with great rejoicing.
- Suzanne Daubray, whose brother went off to war, is courted by the Prince of Sylvania who is engaged to Princess Sonia.
- The ex-President's party arrived in Cairo from Luxor at 7:30 in the morning of March 23, and from that time on the operators were kept mighty busy following His Honor, "The Strenuous," about the streets of the curious and metropolitan city of the desert. Mr. Roosevelt was intensely interested in every phase of life around the city; and in the course of his stay, besides being entertained by the Americans in Cairo, and by the Khedive at Ahdin Pamee, he visited the Sphinx and pyramids. Elhazar University, a Mohammedan institution, where he saw old men and boys squatting in the tiled court as they swayed in rhythm to their chanting of the Koran, proved very attractive to the tourist. He also visited a Moslem Mosque, Al-Azhar, where the entire American company were forced to don commodious yellow shoes, as the feet of infidels are not permitted to desecrate the Mohammedan floors.
- An animated stick man has a series of unlikely adventures, taking a trip in a balloon, being swallowed by a giant fish and menaced by a magic pig.
- At the wedding of Miss Anna Page, Sir John Falstaff notices that Mistress Page and Mistress Ford possess certain means. The owner of the Garter Inn is asking for his money. Falstaff, whose pouches are lean, covets the fortune of the ladies and feigns to fall in love with them. Falstaff writes two love letters to the fair ladies, using exactly the same words. Mistress Page and Mistress Ford speak to one another of Falstaff's letter in the relation of the Knight's effrontery arouses the anger of the two ladies, who agree to encourage Falstaff's proposals with the idea to wreak revenge upon him. Mistress Quickly bears a message from Mistress Ford to Sir John, who immediately goes to the rendezvous, but Pistol and Num, companions of Falstaff, inform Ford. Falstaff is amorously speaking to Mistress Ford when one knocks at the door and the squire lets himself be hidden in a basket, which is thrown in a pond. Ford, who has been unable to find Falstaff the first time, waits for another occasion, which comes soon after, for Mistress Ford, wishing to see her ridiculous lover after his unexpected bath, calls him again to her home. During the second visit, the husband suddenly returns, thundering, and Mistress Ford pretends the bulky man of Falstaff to be her chieromancer. Ford, who is forbidden this woman to enter his house, belabors the unlucky knight, who reveals himself much to the amusement of the whole company. Mistress Ford and Mistress Page then explain to their respective husbands the scheme for getting rid of Falstaff, and they obtain their pardon, while Sir John, ironically saluted by all, retires.
- This subject illustrates the pathetic attachment that exists between a dog and his blind master. The latter being sick, the dog is sent with a message for the doctor. A lady sees the dog with his note, reads it, takes it to the nearest physician who calls upon the blind man. The dog takes a prescription to the druggist, returns to his master, who dies soon after. After the burial the dog lies on the grave, refuses food and pines away, finding death upon the grave.
- Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.
- A band of European renegades, calling themselves the "Golden Beetle Clan," infest the province of Alinangoor in British India. One day their leader, Raymond, is informed by Singhar, one of the band's Hindoo spies, that an Englishman by the name of Norton, by whom Singhar has been engaged as body servant, is scouring the country in search of George Surrey, son of a wealth Englishman, who has disappeared some time before. Both the elder Surrey and the lad's sweetheart, Nellie, are nearly frantic over the absence of any word from him, and the father has offered a cash reward of $100,000 for the return of his son. Norton, so Singhar reports to Raymond, recently shot an eagle which carries, tied to its foot, a desperate appeal written in blood upon a piece of cloth. The note reads: "I am held a prisoner in the Temple of Kali and facing death. Come quick," and is signed "George Surrey," Raymond immediately understands the importance of this bit of information. To make the acquaintance of Norton, to discover the prison in which George Surrey is held by the fanatical worshipers of the Hindoo goddess, to rescue him, to take him back to England and secure $100,000 reward; that is the program. Singhar introduces Raymond to Norton as a guide who will lead them to the ruined temple. This he does, but as soon as it is definitely established that George is indeed a prisoner in the ancient structure, Norton is attacked and overpowered by the members of the clan, buried alive waist deep in the desert sand and left a prey to the ferocious beasts and birds of the region. After he has left Norton to his fate and rescued Surrey from the hands of the fanatics, Raymond notices that the young fellow almost exactly resembles one of the most reckless of his own followers, a chap by the name of Lang. He immediately conceives a plan even more daring than the first, to hold George a prisoner in his command and go to England with Lang and present him as the son of the wealthy Mr. Surrey. In this way he hopes to gain possession, not only of $100,000 but the entire inheritance of the heir to the Surrey millions. So George once more finds himself a prisoner, this time in the hands of the famous "Golden Beetles." Raymond and Lang arrive in England. The elder Surrey and even the beautiful Nellie are deceived by the remarkable resemblance of Lang to the long-lost son and fiancé. In the meantime, Norton is discovered and rescued by some native hunters, just as he is about to be attacked in his defenseless position by a number of vultures. After a time he learns what has happened to Surrey and succeeds in rescuing him. They are pursued by clansmen, and after a long running fight elude their enemies and reach the coast, where they take to the sea in an open boat. A storm comes up and they are cast upon the rocky coast of a barren island inhabited only by ferocious wild beasts. Many times their lives are threatened by lions, but by husbanding their ammunition, they are able to fight them off until a sail is sighted and they are rescued from the island by the boat crew of a liner bound for England. Arriving in the mother country they are again set upon by the agents of the clan, but after a series of adventures succeed in reaching Surrey's home just in time to prevent the marriage of Nellie to Lang, whom she believes to be George. After a sharp battle between the "Golden Beetles" and the police, the renegades are captured and brought to justice.
- The only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play performing a scene from his most famous role. It is accompanied by a sound-on-cylinder recording of Coquelin's voice reciting one of Cyrano's speeches.
- Bassanio meets his friend, Antonio, a merchant of wealth and influence in Venice and tells him of his love for Portia, a rich heiress dwelling in Belmont. Bassanio wishes to woo the beautiful lady, but is without means and requests Antonio to lend him the required sum. The latter, whose fortunes are invested in cargoes upon the high seas, regrets that he is unable to assist him, but offers to stand security for Bassanio with the money-lenders on the Rialto. The two friends then go to the house of Shylock. a Jew of great wealth, and make known their wants. Shylock is unwilling at first, because he knows of Antonio's uncertain ventures, but finally agrees to advance three thousand ducats for three months, on condition that Antonio sign a bond stating that if the money is not paid when due, the lender is entitled to cut a pound of flesh off Antonio's breast. Bassanio then visits Belmont, but must wait his turn while other suitors pay their respects. According to her father's will, Portia must be won in the following manner: Each suitor is to make his choice of one of three caskets; one made of gold, another of silver, and the other of lead. He that selects the one containing her portrait is to be rewarded with her hand in marriage. Two haughty suitors, the Prince of Morocco and the Prince of Aragon, select the gold and silver caskets in turn, and are unsuccessful. Bassanio wisely chooses the leaden casket, which proves to be the one containing her portrait. His gallant bearing has already won Portia's heart, and not long afterwards, their nuptial rites are solemnized. The celebration is hardly finished, however, when Bassanio receives a letter from Antonio stating that his ships have been lost at sea, and the bond declared forfeited. Bassanio straightway hastens to Venice, where he is just in time to attend the trial of his friend and hear the plea of the Jew, who scorns the offer of repayment and cruelly demands his pound of flesh. As the trial proceeds, the case appears to be going against Antonio until the appearance of a young lawyer named Balthasar, who has been sent as a substitute to defend the unfortunate merchant. When Shylock is about to have his due, Balthasar points out that if in the cutting of it he shed one drop of blood, all his properties will be confiscated according to the law of Venice. Infuriated, Shylock is obliged to renounce his inhuman claim. Later, Bassanio and Antonio discover to their great surprise and delight that' their unknown deliverer has been do other than Portia herself in disguise.
- June Dew, a pretty Indian maiden, is betrothed to Red Hawk, the bravest warrior of the tribe. Seated Bear, another brave, also loves the dark beauty and his savage heart is inflamed with jealousy at the success of his rival. One day he surprises her alone and forcibly carries her off to his canoe. Red Hawk appears just in time to see the act, and springing into the stream soon overtakes his rival. A desperate struggle follows in which Red Hawk's arm, strengthened by the "Great Spirit," mortally wounds his treacherous enemy. Red Hawk and the maiden return to the village and the wounded Indian painfully makes his way to shore, where he tells a greatly distorted story of Red Hawk's crime. The accused warrior is ordered before the great chief White Eagle, and the death sentence imposed: "He that kills a brother must die. Twelve moons hence his spirit shall join that of the dead warrior." Red Hawk's heart is filled with bitterness and he leaves his tribe to join the army of the pale faces. His bravery in surmounting indescribable difficulties to destroy a mountain bridge, thus checking the advance of the enemy, gains him the high regard of the army, but his happiness is short lived as he remembers the sentence and returns to his tribe to pay the debt of a red man's honor. With his beloved June Dew he is taken to the funeral pyre and their souls go forth to join the Happy Hunting Ground of the "Great Spirit."
- Arthème loves playing the clarinet. He plays it in the streets, in the park, in the streetcar (at least when he does not miss it!). When he unfortunately walks under a piano clumsy removers are hauling, the heavy instrument falls down on him and he swallows his clarinet. A lot of people try to extirpate the protruding instrument but they all fail. Three farriers finally succeed in making him return to his former self.
- The "Evil Spirit" feels dull in his realm and resolves upon enjoying himself on earth. He leaves his depths and begins his vacation, playing numerous pranks upon humanity. Finally he invades a wedding party and carries away the bride. He is followed by the entire company, and after exciting incidents, escapes to his dark realm with the bride.