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- We show Lord Nelson leaving the admiralty room where he makes his famous speech and then introduce him with his captains giving the details of that wonderful plan of attack which was carried out to the letter at Trafalgar, the inspirations of the captains and their enthusiastic toast. We are then carried along to the day before the battle when the men are writing their last letters home. Here a beautiful scenic and photographic effect is introduced as the vision of the sweetheart of one of the lieutenants fades into view. This gives an opportunity to introduce that famous episode of the letter in which Lord Nelson called back the mail ship for a single message and which is endeared to the hearts of all those who sail the sea. We are then carried along to the morning of October twenty-first, Eighteen Hundred and Five, when the fleet of the enemy is sighted. The decks are cleared for action and the hoisting of the colors is portrayed with all the solemnity of the occasion before entering the battle. The correct incident of the hoisting of the famous signal "England expects every man to do his duty" is splendidly portrayed and carried out in every detail, and we note the pathetic touch in Nelson's life in bidding farewell to his captains having at the time a presentiment of his own death. We now get to the little human touch in his life and learn the true character of the man, for, in his last entry in his diary before the battle, he makes peace with his maker. And now we come to that wonderful spectacular picture of the real battle of Trafalgar. We see the ships in action, the firing of the guns, the ships caught on fire and then the camera switches to a close view of the deck of the Victory where human life is sacrificed by the hundreds, the fighting top of the Redoubtable, the fatal shot and Nelson's fall. We then see that wonderful character in his death, the solemnity, the beauty and the pathos of it all being carried out by the Edison players in all its grandeur; his farewell to Captain Hardy, the last kiss, the news of the victory and finally his death.
- In furtherance of the will of her father, Irene Bromley is allowed so much annually by the trustee, Sidney Villon, a lawyer of loose morals, but who enjoys a place well up in the list in society. Arthur Colby, a wholesome, straightforward young man, is in love with her, but she treats him indifferently at times. She goes to Villon's office for $10,000. He gives her a check, despite the fact that Holden, his secretary, tells him on the side that she has already overdrawn her allowance, and she goes out reminding him of the dance to be given at the Edgerton home. Rupert Hazard, a struggling inventor, who has been excluded from Villon's office shortly previous, pushes his way into the inner office and scathingly denounces Villon, whom, he claims, stole his invention worth a fortune. At the dance the following evening. Irene, flushed with dancing and in all her resplendent glory and beauty, is seated with Arthur. He proposes, but her chill manner, cleverly affected, freezes the blood in his veins. Later in the evening she gives Villon the same negative answer. Villon, determined to win her, tells her that one word from him and she will he plunged into poverty. His words are heard by Arthur, who happens in conveniently. When Villon leaves, Arthur tells Irene that he heard all, and she gives way to weeping. Arthur leaves, the old clock in the hallway showing the hour to be 12:05. Irene is startled the next morning to read an account of the murder of Villon in his apartment. Colby is arrested for the crime, having been found with a revolver near the prostrate form of Villon. When the jury seems satisfied conclusively that Arthur murdered Villon, Irene is called to the stand. It has been learned from Villon's valet that the watch in the latter's pocket, shattered by a bullet and stopped at exactly midnight, had been in good running order. Very dramatically, Irene tells of her visit to Villon's office the day after the murder, where she learns that Villon has an enemy, Hazard, the inventor. Irene and her lawyer go to Hazard's place at 12 o'clock midnight a day later at Hazard's request. The discouraged inventor tells them how he broke into Villon's apartment and shot the lawyer, later engaging in a scuffle with Colby, who entered a few minutes later. When he completes his story, Hazard is blown to death by a device he had set to go off at midnight. Irene then tells the jury that Colby was with her in her home at the time the watch was shattered in Villon's pocket. Colby is acquitted, after which Irene takes a different perspective of things and Colby's anxiety is brought to an end.
- Jack tells two people, privately, on a blind date that each of them is hard of hearing and wacky hijinks ensue.
- A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
- A factory hires only children, forcing an immigrant family to put their daughter to work. When the girl brings home a foundling, the family gets sends her to work. Little do they know that the girl's father bought the factory.
- The eighteenth day of April, 1775, still lives in the hearts of all loyal Americans, as the birthday of our country. It was the day the first shots were fired against the British at Lexington. Throughout the years of privation and suffering which followed, that same spirit of the "minute men" endured up to the very last, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army on the nineteenth day of October, 1781, American independence was assured. Of all the characters of our Revolutionary period, none is more endeared to all than that of Paul Revere, whose exploit has been immortalized by Longfellow so effectively that the lines of the poem and the incidents portrayed are graven more deeply, perhaps, upon the average American mind than any other character or exploit of our American history. When Revere learned of the British commander's intention of attacking the patriot's base of supplies in Concord, and told his friend to, "Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the North Church tower as a signal light." He little realized that the tiny light would serve as a beacon of liberty for future generations but so it has proven and we follow him today as he clattered along the country-side rousing the men to fight for their life and our liberty and our pulses beat with each stride of the mount.
- Kimura, a drunk and a gambler, has no affection for his daughter Kiku-San, who falls in love with Dick Tower, an American college friend of her brother Okuma. After Suzuki, a geisha house proprietor, meets Kiku-San, he runs up Kimura's bill to such an exorbitant amount, that Kimura readily agrees to give him Kiku-San as payment. Seeing her peril, Tower and his friend Thompson rescue Kiku-San after fighting Suzuki and his patrons. Tower takes her to his home, and because this compromises her, they marry. Kiku-San and Tower are happy until his friends at the American Club snub them. Even Thompson encourages Tower to divorce her. After Tower meets Margaret, a wealthy American widow, he tires of being ostracized, and becomes cold to Kiku-San. Her sadness, conveyed to Okuma, causes him to threaten to kill Tower unless she refuses to go with him to America for Christmas. She does refuse, and Tower sails with Margaret, happy with the belief that Kiku-San wanted the separation, while Kiku-San sits in sorrow among cherry blossom trees.
- Characters from various nursery rhymes sing together.
- We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the vine not only covers the window, but reaches far above the top of the house out of sight in the clouds, and we see Jack start to climb upward. Upon arriving at the giant's castle Jack meets the ogre's wife, who towers majestically above him, and after some parley is invited in, on his plea of hunger. Before he can be served the giant is heard and Jack is hidden in the kettle. The giant comes on and then follows the familiar scenes in which the ogre calls for his bags of gold, his magic harp and the wonderful hen that lays the golden eggs. While the giant dozes Jack takes first one of his treasures and then another and carries them to the top of the vine, where he throws them down toward the earth. But when he steals the harp the giant awakens, follows him and would probably catch him but for the good fairy, who, standing at the top of the vine, trips the giant and makes him lose his footing. Jack arrives safely at the bottom of the vine, shows his mother the treasures and then above them they hear the coming of the giant. Seizing an ax, Jack chops the vine and when it falls to the ground the giant tumbles after it, his immense head nearly filling the stage.
- A Dutch romance. Hulda and Heintz are bashful, giggling lovers, hut their spooning opportunities are few, as well as being forbidden. One day they get a chance to spoon, but the village gossip sees them and hastens to Hulda's mother, exaggerating what she saw. Hulda gets a curtain lecture, but pleads for Heintz. Heintz is then allowed to call. The lovers become engaged. As the wedding day approaches Hulda dons her wedding dress and goes to show it to her lame grandmother, who cannot be present at the ceremony. The village gossip's husband is a dike-tender. A great storm is raging while he lies drunk. The land is in danger of flood. Hulda disappears and the village gossip starts another scandal about her eloping with a minister. When the wedding hour arrives Hulda is missing. After a search she is found, bedraggled and covered with mud. While the dike-tender lay drunk she had been stopping a hole in the dike with her hare hands and thereby saves the country.
- Gertrude Sawyer supports herself and an invalid sister on her wages as stenographer of a large corporation, but her income does not allow her to fulfill her longing to have her sister seek the remedy of the seaside, or to furnish what conduces to quick recovery. Gertrude's employer, Charles Hardin, has a business rival, Joe Elbert, whom he is anxious to crush. Eager to obtain inside information, Hardin so contrives matters that Gertrude quits his employ and secures a similar position with Elbert. She comes to learn that she is supposed to spy on Elbert and keep Hardin informed of his business secrets. Gertrude is thereby confronted with a terrible alternative. She must either pursue course of action that is dishonorable and repellent, or be thrown out of employment, and thus increase her sister's sufferings, both mental and physical. The situation is complicated by the fact that Gertrude falls in love with Elbert, and he with her. Unknown to Gertrude, Elbert overhears a stormy interview between her and Hardin, and he thus learns how she is situated. However, he does not let Gertrude understand that he knows how she is placed, but arranges that she give false information to Hardin, that drives him to the wall and prospers Elbert. Gertrude, not knowing the trick that Elbert has played, and that through her unconscious aid he has won, remorsefully confesses to him, only to receive his assurance that he knew all about it all the time, understands the situation, and does not resent her part in it. An overcast sky now clears, and comfort delayed comes to the lovers plentifully. Its fullest measure is for a while withheld, until they watch with delight Gertrude's little sister playing in youthful abandon with the nurse. The story brings into strong relief the economic necessities and moral pitfalls that beset the girl who earns her living, and is told with a directness that forcibly drives its lesson home.
- A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters First World War. In the course of his experiences in the trenches and being wounded, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
- The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.
- A boy rides in Santa's sleigh for a round the world Christmas Eve jaunt.
- Farm Alfalfa has a pup that causes life on the farm to be far from dull. Enjoying a quiet smoke one day the farmer lays down his pipe. The pup steals it and, taking it under the stoop, smokes to his heart's content, then retreats to the barn. The farmer takes a mallet and runs to the barn in search of his pipe. There he finds the pup chasing the ducks. In turn he chases the pup. He cannot catch him and returns to the barn. There he buys a wonderful game rooster from a neighbor. The rooster gets into a fight with the pup, which escapes the rooster's attacks for the moment. The rooster springs into the pail where the pup is hiding the moment the pup springs out. Thinking that the pup is in the pail the farmer makes a drive and kills the rooster.
- The forerunner of all serials, "What Happened to Mary" was a series of 12 monthly one-reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action. Episode Titles (q.v.): #1: "The Escape from Bondage"; #2: "Alone in New York"; #3: "Mary in Stage Land"; #4: "The Affair at Raynor's"; #5: "A Letter to the Princess"; #6: "A Clue to Her Parentage"; #7: "False to Their Trust"; #8: "A Will and a Way"; #9: "A Way to the Underworld"; #10: "The High Tide of Misfortune"; #11: "A Race to New York"; #12: "Fortune Smiles."
- In Rorke's Drift in 1879, eighty men, under Lieutenants Chard and Bromhead, of the British army, were attacked by four thousand Zulus, and held their pitifully weak position despite the tremendous odds. Our story of the fight centers about the person of Tommy Brandon, a young soldier in the British army. Tommy was very much in love with Grace, the sister of Kenneth Linden, a brother soldier. Since Ken Linden was pitifully weak, Tommy had promised Grace to watch over him, and keep him out of scrapes. Hence, one evening when Ken cheated in a card game, Tommy allowed the guilt to rest upon his own shoulders. His generous effort cost him Grace's affection, as well as the contempt of the entire company. Tommy regained his good name when the Zulus commenced an active campaign. The message of the impending danger to Rorke's Drift was telegraphed to Tommy's company by Grace, who had seen the Zulus massing for the attack. Tommy begged his commander to allow him to ride to Lord Chalmsford for reinforcements. The commander consented and Tommy started on his perilous journey. On the way, he came upon a band of Zulus who had captured the colors from the cowardly Linden. Tommy recklessly charged them, and rescued the flag. Then he continued on his way through the midst of peril, and reached Lord Chalmsford in time to send the relief expedition to the gallant little hand at Rorke's Drift. Meanwhile, Grace had found her dying brother, and had learned from him the full story of Tommy's generosity. At Rorke's Drift, four hundred dead Zulus bore witness to the prowess of the desperate band. Chalmsford's expedition arrived in time to complete the rout of the savage natives, and when Tommy returned to Grace, he came as a hero without spot or blemish on his good name.
- Here is a new and original working out of the slipper plot and Cinderella gets the prince by a route that is delightfully different. We see her, allured by the waves on the beach and secure in her solitude, slip off shoes and stockings to go in wading. And then appears the prince in the guise of a most attractive summer man, and she runs to hide her feet under her skirts, leaving one shoe and stocking on the sands. Embarrassed at her predicament, she disclaims ownership when he offers them, and so with a smile, he goes away with the shoe and stocking in his pocket. Then, to add insult to injury, he tells everyone he meets about his find, and that he thought they belonged to a certain Miss Cinderella, who dodges an introduction to him. Everybody at the hotel asks her about the matter and she grows hot and desperate at having to fib so often. Finally her chance comes. Camp Arcady, where the prince lives, is left alone one day, and she rows across to it, determined to regain her property. But our hero is watchful and returns. Cinderella is caught apparently robbing the camp, and dare not say why she is there. But when the handcuffs are brought from his trophies on the reach pole, she gives up. Then he makes her prove ownership by fitting the slipper to her foot.
- There was no doubt about it that Deacon Billington was an old pinch penny. He had the reputation of being the meanest man in the county and the county was not particularly famous for its generosity. On account of his meanness, everybody was glad when George Splan's mare beat the deacon's in a trotting race. George and the deacon were not very good friends anyway, because George happened to be in love with the deacon's daughter. His defeat aroused the deacon to such a rage that he positively refused to allow his daughter to have anything more to do with George. The deacon's prohibition did not bother his daughter and George to any alarming extent. They saw about as much of each other as they ever had. The deacon did not notice their disobedience because he himself was in the midst of an exciting romance. Engaged one day in the pursuit of an office boy and a black cat who between them had scattered inky cat-tracks over some of his important papers, the deacon had entered the yard of the Widow Divine. His heart was taken captive, and he who came to storm remained to woo. In this tender pastime, he found a dangerous rival in a certain Si Higgins. The widow listening, as was her custom, to conversation on the telephone one day, heard George and the deacon's daughter planning an elopement. Naturally enough, she told the deacon. The deacon at that time was under a slight cloud. He had been engaged to deliver a temperance lecture, but, on account of the unfortunate discovery of a secret bottle of rum on the part of a tramp which served to apprise the shocked village that it had been sheltering a wolf in sheep's clothing, his moral authority suffered severely. The deacon returned home, and threw Splan out. His utter rage may be imagined when, a few days later, Splan eloped with the girl. The deacon chased them to the parsonage and arrived only to find them married. But what hurt him even more than that was the fact that he also arrived just in time to greet the new Mrs. Higgins, formerly the widow Divine. The deacon stormed and raged until Splan showed him a certain paper the deacon's former office boy had brought him. It dealt with a rather shady mortgage transaction, and on sight of it the deacon subsided immediately. His reputation had suffered too much of late to risk any further blows.
- Dyspeptic Daniel is seated in a restaurant where he proceeds to make it uncomfortable and disagreeable for the rest of the diners. Magazines and papers which are handed him as temper emollients, are thrown aside by the irascible Daniel. Finally a copy of "The Animated Grouch Chaser" is placed before him. One glance at the cover serves to supplant clouds with sunshine and Daniel begins to delve into the book. The first cartoon series which meets his gaze is "Jones' Hair Tonic will Grow Hair Instantaneously." We are at once made acquainted with a congenial bald-headed man, who, in his youth, had never been warned against patent medicines, hair restorers, and bust reducers, and our new friend rubs his shining pate generously with the restorer. The result is prodigious. Hair immediately crops out, and following a second application, the hair grows out and down over the victim's face. He resembles the wild man from Borneo under a circus tent when his wife sees him. She shears the hair off with difficulty. By this time Dyspeptic Daniel is convulsed with laughter, He turns a page and finds another series, "A Duckling's Repast." A curious duckling, knowing that it was a cat and not a duckling that was at one time killed by curiosity, swims around a cake of soap which has been left on a stone in the lake. Little Ducky eats the concentrated bubbles and the agony she goes through is cleverly depicted on the screen. Finally, the duckling starts to blow out soap bubbles. Mother Duck is alarmed and to prevent her charge from getting into more trouble, makes a meal of her. Of course, this is only a cartoon and the little duckling will be regenerated soon and entertain us some more. At the conclusion, Dyspeptic Daniel is so elated that he eats everything in sight.
- William Thompson slips away to New York, leaving his wife and daughter to shift for themselves. He obtains a station and finally becomes head waiter in one of the gay restaurants of the Great White Way. As years slip by his daughter becomes star-struck. Harry Valentine, the manager, notices her pretty face and tries to take her from town with him, although he has no position in the company to offer her. This she declines, but when he later writes her that he will marry her if she will come to New York and will also place her on the stage, she decides to leave her mother and accept the offer. Of course, Valentine has no intention of marrying her and when he meets her in New York he takes her for a little supper at the restaurant before the supposititious wedding ceremony and thus Thompson is brought face to face with his daughter. When Valentine writes to an actor friend and asks him to don a minister's garb and come over and perform a fake ceremony, Thompson steps out, confronts the man, tells the girl who he is and offers to take care of her. They go home and come upon Mrs. Thompson where a happy reunion takes place.
- This story is laid in Colorado and deals with the district attorney of a small western town, his daughter and his son, a young man whose weakness is due mostly to his boyish forgetfulness of the duties of life and society rather than to criminal instinct. Seeing an advertisement in the paper of one of the get-rich-quick concerns, and becoming possessed with the desire to make good before his father and sister, he robs his father of three hundred dollars, fully believing that he can return the money in a few days, and also add a great deal more to his income. But ere the money has left his hands, he discovers that the enterprise is a fraud and that his father is now investigating its false methods and is authorized to secure all mail addressed to the company. The boy realizes that his father will discover his theft through this means and so he applies to his sister's sweetheart, Jack Morton, who is a cowboy, for aid. Jack realizes what it would mean to his sweetheart and her father, and to save the family from disgrace, he robs the mail, holds up the stagecoach, and secures the damaging letter. The boy returns the money to his father's safe and all would have been well but for a missing cuff button which eventually places the guilt of the stagecoach hold-up on Jack. He is willing to stand the guilt for his sweetheart's safe, but her brother confesses his crime and Jack is again reinstated.
- Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter Amneris who, captivated by the grace and beauty of the unknown maid, takes her into favor. Radames, a young captain of the king's guards, loved by Amneris, suspecting a rival in her slave, swears to be avenged. Meanwhile war is again declared between Egypt and Ethiopia and Radames, appointed leader of the army by the High Priest of Isis, is invested with the sacred arms and departs to fight the Ethiopians who, headed by their king, have invaded Egypt. Radames defeats them and returns victorious, followed by the prisoners, among whom is the king himself, disguised as an officer. Through the intercession of Radames the prisoners are set free, with the exception of the king who, being recognized as Aida's father, is detained with her. As a reward for his great services Radames is given the hand of the Princess Amneris. The Ethiopian king in his captivity, having noticed the mutual affection existing between Radames and Aida and finding that they have a secret meeting place near the Temple of Isis, forces Aida to obtain from Radames the plan by which the Egyptians are to attack the Ethiopians. Radames incautiously reveals the plans to Aida, but is overheard by Amneris and the High Priest, who are in the temple and who suddenly appear and accuse Radames of treason. He is brought to judgment and condemned to be buried alive, but is visited by Amneris, who offers him pardon from the king if he will renounce Aida forever. He refuses and goes bravely to death. He enters the tomb and as the stone is being slowly lowered, he discovers Aida by his side. She had entered the tomb and has come to prove the depth of her love by sharing his fate.
- Although she loved him with an undying, intrinsic love, Emma Gray, a bookkeeper, would not evince her feeling toward Joseph Ridpath, her employer, a clean, prepossessing young man, who was paying assiduous attention to her despite her comparative frigidity and indifference. She accepts his tokens of regard and respect, as if they were given to her by a lukewarm acquaintance. She maintains this attitude toward him because she fears she will be thought a fortune hunter. Mr. Ridpath has been expecting a large remittance from Joseph Thompson, a businessman, who is usually dilatory in his payments. Emma looks over each mail carefully, but a letter from the debtor is not forthcoming. Mr. Ridpath decides to see Mr. Thompson and collect the money in person if he can. Before he goes, he calls Emma's attention to the new fire alarm which has been installed in the office. While he is gone, Jim Furston, the foreman, asks Emma out to dinner, and when she refuses him, he forgets himself with the result that she rebukes him and strikes him in the face. He swears revenge. Mr. Thompson subsequently calls at the Ridpath office and pays the money to Emma, who gives him a receipt. She hurries to bank but is too late, and returning to the office, puts it into the safe. She turns away to get something and Furston slips in and hides behind the safe. The door is open and he sees his chance. Emma, in trying to reach some flies on a high shelf in the next room, pulls several down upon her head and she is rendered unconscious. Furston goes out, leaving the safe door open, intending to return later with a disguise and a satchel. The night watchman, in making his rounds, finds the safe open and calls Mr. Ridpath's house on the telephone. As the watchman is about to leave Furston enters and there is a hand to hand struggle. Furston overcomes the watchman and as he is about to make his getaway, Emma enters from the next room with a revolver she has taken from her employer's desk. Furston seizes her hand and the shot goes wild, breaking the glass in the fire alarm. The two are struggling when Ridpath rushes in, and after a fierce hand to hand struggle, Furston is overpowered. In the meantime the fire department has been aroused by the alarm in the office and the firemen pour into the office looking for the fire Emma is forced to show her hand and the barrier of indifference which has been separating them is broken.
- Teddie Towns is in love with an attractive daughter of an old gentleman who runs a cigar store, but that worthy gentleman, having the protective instinct of a father, is very much against his daughter having a "steady," and, consequently, Ted is sternly ordered away from the store while having a little conversation with Grace, his sweetheart. A wooden Indian, which stands in front of the store furnishes Ted with an idea and making up as an Indian he takes its place and in this way manages to see his sweetheart. The old man thinks so much of his sign that he brings it into the store every evening, thus Ted is given a chance, to hide the wooden effigy and assume its office. Under these risky circumstances he makes love to Grace almost under the very nose of her sleepy old father. All good things however must have an ending, so one night under these romantic conditions, Grace is sent out on an errand by her mother. The store remains empty for a few moments; a sneak the thief enters and seeing apparently no one about, starts to pilfer the show cases. Ted's wit asserts itself. Forgetting his own position he wrestles with the thief. Help comes quickly and a policeman arrests the miscreant. Grace's father recognizes the manly worth in Teddie and finds no reason why be should not accept him for a son-in-law.