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- Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
- Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang. The villain escapes from prison and makes his way to the railroad station and boards a train where he is tracked by private detectives. When the train stops at a country station, Fantomas alights with the intention of making good his escape, but he finds that he is being followed by two detectives, whom he recognizes. He goes back to his carriage, which leads the detectives to think he is quite safe, but he crosses the train and leaves by the opposite door, jumping into the baggage wagon of the train on the opposite rail. Just at that moment the train moves and a magistrate who happens to have nearly missed the train also jumps into the baggage wagon. Fantomas was who hiding, attacks the magistrate, and after a severe struggle in which he is victorious assumes the disguise of the magistrate and takes his clothes and papers. He continues the journey as the magistrate, successfully rescues certain criminals, who are brought before him to be tried, and manages to blackmail several members of society, with whom he is brought in contact. While here he is recognized by Fandor, the young and clever journalist who happens to come into the district and who has suspicions as to the authenticity of the magistrate. He decides to keep watch upon him. His suspicions are well founded and he identifies the magistrate as none other than Fantomas. After much trouble, he is able to get papers committing Fantomas to prison, but Fantomas' suspecting his immediate arrest, issues an order to the head warden, and tells him that it is Detective Juve's intention to be arrested disguised as Fantomas. The warden is not to tell a soul of the detective's intentional disguise, but is to let him remain in prison until 12 o'clock midnight, when the head warden is to personally release him. The police, not suspecting anything of this, feel quite safe when Fantomas is put in the cell and securely barred and locked. His scheme works favorably and once more Fantomas is at large.
- An American adventuress is loved by an Indian rajah and she happily lives at his court. When a young American artist competes for her affection, the rajah is enraged.
- The story opens with Alan Armadale, Sr., on his deathbed. With him are his wife, his infant son and family physician. They have been traveling but are forced to stop through the serious condition of the senior Armadale. Calling for a lawyer, that his confession may be legal, Armadale tells the following story: At the age of twenty-one he had taken the name and become sole heir to the Armadale fortune. The legal son of the house had been cast out because of disgrace he brought upon the family name. The adopted son falls in love with a Miss Blanchard through her photograph. At the same time he meets a young chap called Inglesby, who in reality is the blood son of the house of Armadale. The two men become friendly, and Armadale, in a burst of confidence, tells Inglesby of his infatuation for Miss Blanchard. Shortly afterwards Armadale is stricken with fever. Upon Armadale's recovery he learns that his friend Inglesby has gone away. The young lover leaves shortly for Madeira, to meet and woo the unknown Miss Blanchard. He arrives at the home of the girl only to learn that Inglesby had been there before, and that the two were now husband and wife. The outlawed son, Inglesby, had recognized the foster son, Armadale, and had, through stealing from him the girl of his choice, repaid in full measure the loss of his own fortune and name. Meeting Inglesby, Armadale learns that he has married the former Miss Blanchard under the name of Armadale, the girl thinking him to be the foster son and heir. The two men exchange cards and a duel is arranged. In the meantime, Inglesby confesses to his wife the truth of his assumed inheritance. The wife accompanies him in quick flight aboard ship. When Armadale arrives at the beach chosen for the duel he learns that Inglesby has taken flight. Quickly pursuing him, in a swift yacht, he arrives to find the ship carrying the fleeing Inglesby, his wife and her young maid, a victim of a big storm at sea. Armadale, in the pursuing boat, gives quick aid to the passengers, rescuing Mrs. Inglesby and maid among the first. Inglesby returned to the cabin to find his wife's jewels. Armadale followed him there, and locked him in the stateroom. Inglesby thus perished. His wife and her maid escape and drop out of the life of Armadale, who marries later and has a son. This is the confession of Armadale. It is followed by his dramatic death. The story then deals with the fortunes of the son of the adopted Armadale, known as Midwinter, and the son of the disinherited Armadale of the earlier story who now enjoys the name of his forefathers as well as Armadale fortune. Legally, Midwinter should have the position. Mrs. Armadale, née Blanchard, has been a party to the crime of her drowned husband in failing to disclose the proper heir to the millions. She is devoted to her son, but endures a fearful menace in the person of a mysterious veiled woman who pays her visits frequently to collect hush money. The veiled visitor is the erstwhile maid who had been Mrs. Armadale's companion on the fateful sea flight when the husband was drowned. Armadale, the son, is out riding one day when he chances upon a stranger, hungry and exhausted. The former takes the stranger into a nearby inn and cares for him. Upon the latter's recovery he tells his benefactor that his name is Midwinter. Armadale gives his name. Midwinter recognizes in his friend the man who is keeping him out of his rightful inheritance, but because he knows, too, of his own father's share in the death of Armadale's father, Midwinter decides to allow his friend uninterrupted enjoyment of his wealth and position. Midwinter becomes a guest in the Armadale home. Mrs. Armadale recognizes him, but fears to make her discovery known. One night, from his room, Armadale sees the figure of a woman dancing gaily and with abandon on the moonlit lawn of a neighbor's home. He is vastly attracted to the girl and makes an effort to meet her. She vanishes however, leaving a gauzy veil in her trail. The following day Armadale calls upon his neighbor in the hope that the fair dancer may have been the daughter of the house. Instead, she is the governess, known as Miss Gwilt. Armadale is deeply infatuated. In the meantime his mother has died, and with her one link that might bind the boy to the secret of his false position. Midwinter in the meantime has discovered that Miss Gwilt is no other than the young girl who acted as maid to Mrs. Armadale on the sea voyage when the deception as to legal rights was practiced. That she is a schemer is plain to Midwinter but Armadale will hear nothing against his promised wife. It is at this point that Midwinter finds his big opportunity to repay to the son the debt he owes him. Midwinter captures the fancy of Miss Gwilt and is caught by Armadale leaving her bed chamber late at night. Armadale is prostrated by the shock. He has recently drawn up his will, preparatory to his marriage, naming Miss Gwilt as his heiress. The woman knows this, and, in one last attempt to gain the wealth she has struggled so hard to win, attempts to poison the sleeping Armadale. Midwinter frustrates her plan and at the same time unveils to the eyes of the believing Armadale the duplicity of his former fiancée. The sound, lasting friendship that springs up between the sons of the two men who had fought and struggled to injure each other, comes as a pleasant climax to the story.
- Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying advertising signs. Fields stalks the streets under an immense restaurant placard, while Bud staggers along announcing a new brand of indigestion tablets. One day they meet. Fields, having been paid a dollar in advance for his services, invites Bud to have a drink. While Fields engages the bartender in conversation, Bud fills his pockets with free lunch. Fields manages to pour down three drinks for the price of one, and sticking a piece of chewing gum on the end of his cane, he succeeds in hooking up again the dollar with which he had paid for the Scotch. Last, but not least, the big-hearted bartender blows them each to a good cigar. Fields and Bud, blessing their luck, retire to the park to enjoy the spoils. Finding a newspaper handy, they read that Lord Swan has won a Fifth Avenue heiress, Dolla Bills, by his wonderful golf playing. Fields lies down on a bench to take his afternoon nap, and is visited by a beautiful dream. He does not win his heiress by golf playing, exactly, but by his skill and bravery in using one of the clubs to whack a bomb planted by two black-handers on the steps of Mr. Moneybags' palatial home. He wakes embracing Bud, who cannot control his laughter. In disappointed rage. Fields pushes his ex-valet off the bench into the lake. As the latter fails to rise to the surface. Fields wanders away, realizing that now he must fight his battles single-handed.
- Plainfield, Vt: The White Blood from the Heart of Maple Sweetness Is Flowing. The tinkling music of tens of thousands of drops of sip from freshly-tapped trees is drumming into hundreds of buckets hung for their reception. San Francisco, Cal: Brother and Daddy Are In the Navy, So the Jack-Tars Stationed Here Take Their Kiddies for an Outing. 500 tots spend a wonderful day at Naval picnic in Golden Gate park. Boston, Mass: Society Women Ride on War Tank. Back Bay society buds ride "Tank-Back" in British recruiting drive. San Francisco, Cal: Why Does California Produce So Many Champion Swimmers? Here's the answer, because the city operates swimming pools exclusively for children, furnishing suits, towels, soap, and other supplies absolutely free. Portland, Ore: When the Smelt Swim in from the Columbia River! Largest run in years causes jolly fishermen to flock to the Sandy River to fill their boats with the toothsome little fish. Detroit, Mich: Secretary Daniels Visits Ford Plant to Inspect Work of New Type Super-Submarine Chasers. Henry Ford promises to turn out the new craft at rate of three a day. Medford, Ore: Fighting Jack Frost. Thousands of gallons of oil are burned nightly in Oregon orchards to save the fruit crop. Chicago, Ill: City Launches Loan to Tune of $20,000,000. Miss Lillian Russell says, "Keep the Glow in Old Glory." San Diego, Cal: Brigade of Liberty Boys Leave Camp Kearney for Ten Days' Hike. Theoretical "Fritzes" will be pursued in extensive field maneuvers by troops of trained men. France: Hun Prisoners March Before French Generals. Allied troops take 600 captives at battle of Burea and Moncel. Subtitle: American troops arrive on the Aisne front. These boys took part in a brilliant skirmish near Chevrigny. France: After Hard Fighting in the First Line Trenches, American Troops Get a Rest Furlough, and Are Welcomed by the Town of Aix-les-Bains.
- James Trevor, on the eve of departure for America to visit an agency, delays his passage on a transatlantic steamship, because of a warning letter received from a friend advising him to postpone his departure because of the jeopardy to ocean traffic at this season due to icebergs. Mrs. Trevor, at a friend's house, meets a palmist then being received by fashionable society. The palmist, for some inscrutable reason, refuses to employ her arts on the palm of Mrs. Trevor. She does, however, agree to an engagement. The prophecy Mrs. Trevor receives is a fearful one, and with sinking heart the wife and mother hear that she is to lose one to her near and dear. Will it he my husband or my son, is the query which reverberates through her brain. Mr. Trevor, seeing an advertisement of the Colossus, the largest steamship in the world which is just about to make her maiden trip, engages passage on her. The lonely wife, her mind disturbed by the palmist's prophecy, writes to her uncle asking him to spend a few days with her to relieve her from her low spiritedness. The Colossus meets the fate of the Titanic, striking an iceberg in the night and sinking into the depths with the majority of her two thousand souls. While Mrs. Trevor and her uncle are at dinner, there is brought a newspaper containing the first announcement of the fate of the Colossus. Strong is the grief of the mother but stronger the grief of the child whose health suffers under the poignancy of the melancholia. Meanwhile, the survivors of the Colossus, among whom is James Trevor, have reached port and to his wife and child the husband flashes the joyous "all is well" telegram. With one terror relieved, there is yet another potential grief seemingly in store for the mother. The palmist's prophecy still haunts her and she fears that inasmuch as her husband has been snatched from the scythe of death, the little son will he garnered in by the grim reaper. The obsession more and more possesses the feminine mind until wrinkles of anxiety come on her face and the light of an unknown terror into her eyes. Mr. Jullien, the uncle, a man of sound judgment and common sense, has little faith in the readings of the palmist and believes that ruse will relieve the worries of the mother by proving to her that the palmist is a mere charlatan. The uncle accordingly writes to the palmist, asking her to come to the hotel for the purpose of reading the hand of his niece, a young woman about to be married. The palmist is somewhat surprised to see the room inhabited by a man and she looks about for the mentioned young woman. None is in sight but through the curtains before a door lending to an adjoining room extends a white, graceful feminine hand. The palmist refuses to perform her reading under such conditions, but the uncle prevails upon her by the argument that inasmuch as she reads the palm, the sight of the other parts of the individual are unnecessary. The moving argument, however, is the presentation of s large fee. The palmist falling into the trap, makes a pretended reading of the mysterious hand, and, utterly contradicting all her dark predictions of a few weeks previous, prognosticates the brightest prospects of great happiness and prosperity of the subject. Better by her own reading the mother, pushes aside the curtain and confronts the dismayed palmist. The uncle then gets into possession of a letter addressed to the palmist which more fully explains her nefarious business, the letter congratulating the palmist upon her use of the "apparent possession of supernatural foresight, which always attracts the many fools who in this trash believe." Her perfidy unmasked, the palmist is sent away discomfited while the relieved mother hastens back to her wounded dove. The father arrives and his presence acts as a tonic most efficacious and the child quickly rallies to bring joy to the household.
- Wichita, Kan: Three are killed and six injured in a collision between passenger and freight trains. St. Petersburg, Russia: The naval cadets parading after the Czar's new decision had been read to them. Washington, D.C: Ty Cobb warming up and Walter Johnson in action, before loving cup is presented to the latter. The Fashion in Paris. New York City, N.Y: Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother of Hurry Thaw, who escaped from the Matteawan Asylum, going to see her son's lawyer. Rome, Italy: Thrilling bull fight is held in the capital. Austin, Texas: Homecoming of the Alumni of the University of Texas. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Paying the last homage to Dr. Pereira, whose life was spent in beautifying the town. American Fashion. Cincinnati, Ohio: Huge cooking preparations are made for 10,000 Royal Order of Moose. Maisons-Lafitte, France: Jockeys and stable boys' annual meeting. Fort Myer, Va: Aviator C. Murvin Wood arrives here after his flight from New York, racing a Pennsylvania express train. Albany, N.Y: Gov. Sulzer preparing for resistance. Paris, France: Grand Prix automobile races. Jersey City, N.J: Huge fire destroys a cooperage plant, causing a loss of $1,000,000. The American Lasso Reaches Far.
- Inglewood, Cal: New aeroplane carries motorcycle. The land machine could be sent for aid if the air-machine were in distress. New York City: New armored car with observation tower. Can also be used for field wireless machine gun or searchlight. Philadelphia, Pa: German sailors removed to Atlanta. 750 officers and men from interned Teuton vessels are sent to Fort Oglethorpe. Philadelphia, Pa: First woman in U.S. Navy. Miss Loretta Walsh has Chief Yeoman's rank, and will serve in recruiting service. Baton Rouge, La: The old gives way to the new. Prison erected in 1822 is displaced by new modern structure. Latest Style in Milady's Footwear: Courtesy of I. Miller, New York. Subtitles: Street boot, field mouse color, new fabric top to match. Gray kid walking pump, suede back to match. Silver satin, beaded evening boot. Patent kid slippers, cut steel buckle. New York City: Boy scouts break speed record. Orders for quick mobilization given at 11 a.m. finds 2,000 boys in camp by 2 p.m. New York City: Flashing the news to Broadway. Behind the scenes of the Great White Way's biggest electric sign. Subtitles: Receiving the News Bulletins. Nearly 3,000 keys, similar to a typewriter, are used to operate this sign; over 75 miles of wire were used in its construction. The entire keyboard is shifted to make the contact which flashes the message to the thousands on the streets. The sign is "set up" from this copy rack. The flash as it appears from the street. Your Country Needs You Now: "The Navy offers exceptional advantages to young men of ambition to serve for national defense." Subtitle: Apply immediately to U.S. Naval Reserve Force, any Navy Yard or Naval Recruiting Station. Annapolis, Md: Middies, 1917 class graduates. Future Naval Commanders receive their degrees. Subtitle: The Bulldogs of the Deep. Cincinnati. O: Taking a long chance. Daredevil does stunts 502 feet above street level. New Orleans. La: Munitions train is wrecked. Freight car lands on top of engine. Two hurt. San Antonio, Texas: U.S. Army conducts important transportation experiment. The 37th Infantry leaves Camp Wilson for a 150-mile trip to Laredo, carrying all equipment by motor and tractor train.
- Two sisters and their father have taken up summer residence in a rural mountain cottage. They receive a visit from their brother and a friend, both custom officers. During the visit the sisters go off for a brisk mountain trot. While gathering wild flowers the younger sister falls into a deep abyss. The event of her rescue is being celebrated in the homely hut, when two mountain officers bring in a long sought smuggler as captive. The two custom officials arraign their prize until two girls recognize him as the daring rescuer. The girls reveal the identity of their benefactor to the brother who, when alone, offers his charge the chances of escape only to be informed that the smuggler-hero steadfastly refuses to implicate the custom officer by escaping from his keeping. He awaits his punishment. What happens to him?
- London, England: King George reviews troops. New battalion departs for the front. New York City: City's adult blind receive semi-annual allowance, Commissioner of Charities Kingsbury will change method of distribution, the blind hereafter receiving check by mail. Salonica, Greece: Colonel Christidoulou, hero of Cavalia, lands his troops here. Paris, France: New styles projected in colors. Paqulu's dresses and mantles shown in the Truffaut Rose gardens. Barnegat, N.J: Army transport Sumner on reef. All on board saved. London, England: The Lord Mayor's Show, 1916. Subtitle; New Lord Mayor, Sir William Dunn. Washington, D.C: Bryan lunches at White House. Paris, France: A new tractor cultivator; It loosens the dirt more thoroughly than the old-style plow. New York City: Seven hundred bike from City College to Yonkers. Health Department commemorates "Walk-to-Work" week. Washington, D. C: Defense Council meets. With Civilian Commission they outline definite plan of procedure. New York City: Hotel Baltimore ice gardens open. Correct skating costumes are worn by girls from the Hippodrome Ice Ballet. Miss Daisy De Witt of the Midnight Frolic wearing a Palm Beach costume. Sacramento, Cal: Work starts on $10,000,000 canal. Governor Johnson drives first survey stake for channel which will connect State capital with Suisun Bay. Ascot Park, Cal: Drivers dare death on speedway. Rickenbacker wins championship sweepstakes race. Havre, France: The British steamer Strathalbyn strikes a mine and goes down in eight minutes. A wreck on the Irish coast.
- Despite the fact that Harold Derwent is a senior at a Divinity School and in love with Faith Willis, a co-ed, he cannot overcome his passion for gambling. He is a fortunate racetrack gambler and pretends to himself that when he becomes a minister he will justify his conduct by giving part of his earnings to the poor. The gambling phase of his character is betrayed to the college authorities by a fellow student, and Harold is forced to leave college. Despite Faith's hope that he will redeem himself, he believes that he is unworthy of her, and goes out into the world alone. Several years later Harold's success in "beating the bookies" has made him one of the spectacular figures of the American turf. He is found at all the race meets, accompanied by Madge a scheming woman, who pretends love for him while he is on the crest of his gambling wave. However, fortune turns against Harold, now known as "Pittsburgh Pa.," and his fortune ebbs away. Madge leaves him. Harold gives the last horse in his string to his faithful jockey and announces that he is through with gambling. At the railroad station he hands all his money in at the window, asking for a ticket for as far as his money will take him. Securing a ticket for Royalton, on the train he meets William Ashton, who is just going to take charge of the "Church of Our Faith" at Royalton. The men are struck by their remarkable resemblance to each. When the train is wrecked the minister is killed. Tempted by the opportunity to get back into the ministry Harold takes the name of William Ashton and becomes pastor of the Royalton church. He receives a letter from Ashton's wife, who had hurried to the bedside of her dying father. Later Faith, who had married Ashton, comes to join her husband, and of course recognizes Harold. For his sake she remains silent, seeming his wife in the eyes of the parishioners. A thief confesses to the minister that he has committed a burglary. Harold goes with him to the hiding place of the jewels and finds them strangely familiar. When he returns the plunder he discovers that the jewels are Madge's. Madge immediately recognizes her former lover. Proceeding to blackmail him, she secures all the money he possesses. Finally she persuades him to bet $15,000 held as a trust fund on a race at the Royalton meet. Harold turns the money over to the jockey, not recognizing his old boy, Eddie. Madge produces a child, which she claims is the son of Harold. The minister does not know what to do, but hones that he will be able finally to purchase Madge's silence by his winnings from the race. His horse loses, the jockey being injured and taken to a hospital. A minister is sent for and Harold responds. He now recognizes Eddie, who tells him that he did not bet the money, but hid it in a stall. Harold recovers the money, and at the same time Eddie's mother comes to ask for the baby which she had lent Madge, the child being Eddie's little brother. Thus Madge is foiled just when she saw her scheme successful. She plays her final card, declaring that the minister and the notorious "Pittsburgh Hal" are one and the same. Faith stands by the man whom the church knows only as her husband, and her word is believed against that of Madge. Faith and Harold go to a distant city and are quietly married. Then they return to the Church of Our Faith at Royalton and continue their good work. Harold having been forever cured of his passion for gambling.
- The metropolis of the South is the subject of this release, and the Traveler takes us through the busy railroad yards and terminals of the most important transfer point south of Mason's and Dixon's line. The extensive manufactures of cotton, fertilizers, patent medicines, car wheels, flour and iron are shown running at full capacity. The huge warehouses for the storage of cotton and tobacco are pictured, and for students of history the existing landmarks that show the vigor of Sherman's siege are very instructive.
- Elsie Green cannot decide which of her two suitors to marry. When she reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Feathertop", she dreams that she is its heroine Polly Goodkin, and this leads to her final decision.
- The life of the Italian painter Lorenzo Ferrari.
- Little does Rev. Martin Preston know when he falls in love with pretty Helen Claude that he must ask her hand of her uncle, Francis Claude, the candidate for congress. Preston is a foundling, and upon that fact Claude bases his refusal when he visits the village where Helen has been visiting. The whole village is talking of the affair, as it even divides attention with the great murder mystery. Judge Green has been murdered. Joe Trimmer, the miller, has been accused and convicted on circumstantial evidence. Mrs. Royal, keeper of the village inn, is extremely friendly with the young minister, and tells him that she will see that Francis Claude gives his consent. She reveals herself to the politician as Grace Goodman, the girl he had deserted in his youth. Mrs. Royal has a daughter about to marry Tom Carroll, a quick tempered young man of the village. To secure Claude's consent, Mrs. Royal reveals to him that Martin Preston is their child, born after he had left her promising to return and marry her. Claude is overcome by this confession. Not only does he write a note to his niece, who has returned to the city, giving his consent, but he also indicates in it that he wishes Preston to inherit his property. He also secretly gives a sum of money to Tom Carroll, since he is about to marry Mrs. Royal's daughter. That very night Claude is murdered in the same manner that Judge Green met his death, being stabbed by an assailant with his face hidden who reaches through the curtains at the window. Mrs. Royal enters the room at this moment, rushes to the window, and sees the minister on the lawn. Immediately she thinks of him as the murderer, seeking vengeance upon his recreant father. She determines to keep the secret, but the struggle is doubly hard since the man her daughter is to marry is accused. The circumstantial evidence is the money Claude gave him secretly just before his death. Even the new residents in the village are wrought up over the affair. Led by Jerry Drake a pleasing fellow who spends his time at the inn, indignation runs high. Finally suspicion even points toward the minister as a party to the crime. Preston is arrested. His mother watches the detectives who have invaded Preston's home. While doing so she sees a muffled figure visiting a dry well and concealing a package. The man is extremely like her son, whom she thinks guilty of murder. She man accosts him, and the grapples with her. Screaming for help, detectives run from the minister's home upon hearing her cries. They seize the man whom they find is Jerry Drake. Evidence of the several murders is found upon him. He is led off to prison. The innocent men are released, and soon wedding bells ring for the two happy pairs.
- Old Jim loses his money in the gambling house of "Doc" Ardini, an international crook. Feeling sorry for the old man, Ardini gives him a job. He will not write his motherless twin daughters that he is down and out. They come to the city to earn their living. Jessie secures a position in a department store, and Mary gets a place in the chorus of a musical comedy. They keep house for their father, who pretends he has honest employment. At her place of business. Jessie is seen and admired by William Stuyvesant, a young millionaire. After meeting her and impressing her with the honesty of his intentions, Stuyvesant asks Jessie to marry him. Before she can reply, word comes that her father has killed a man when the police raid Ardini's resort. Learning of her father's calling and his arrest for murder, Jessie feels she cannot marry Stuyvesant. Without telling him why, she declines his offer and moves to escape his attentions. She merely writes that there is a terrible secret in her life that makes her marriage impossible. She has also kept from him that she has a twin sister who is on the stage. However, Stuyvesant learns her new address. He visits her and persuades her to marry him. Old Jim will not give his right name, and after a trial is sent to prison for ten years under the name of Jim O'Connor. Ardini is imprisoned three months for keeping a gambling house. On leaving prison, Ardini is in need of money. He learns of Jessie's marriage and also that Stuyvesant does not know of old Jim's disgrace and Mary's stage career. Getting Mary under his hypnotic power, he sends her to Jessie for money to keep from revealing the family secrets. Jessie is killed in an automobile accident and her husband is inconsolable. Ardini, under an assumed name, wins Stuyvesant's friendship. He claims spiritualistic powers, persuading Stuyvesant that through him he can see his late wife, Ardini forces Mary to pose at a distance as Jessie. One of the demands he makes, saying it is necessary for the spiritual manifestation, is that all the servants leave the country place the evening Stuyvesant is to be shown his wife's spirit. Ardini then plans to rob the safe in the millionaire's room. Mary rebels against tricking her late sister's husband, and gets word to him of the imposition. The safe is protected by an automatic device that fires a revolver when the combination is tampered with. Unaware of this, Ardini decrees his own death. Mary tells the family secrets to Stuyvesant, who marries her just as soon as he can secure her father's pardon.
- Latest War Pictures: Subtitles: Native Indian troops are being trained for service in Flanders and the Dardanelles. Major Eggleton, R.H.G., is an expert swordsman. Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia (in center) is leading a brilliant campaign against Austria and Germany. Block houses are built at important highway crossings. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard and Penn battle on gridiron. 50,000 football fans see Harvard score twice. San Francisco, Cal: American builders honored at Exposition. Men who rebuilt this city after the earthquake have their day. Subtitles: Bricklaying contest. Senator W. S. Scott, the winner. New York City: Judge Edward Swann, this city's newly elected District Attorney. Petrograd, Russia: The Czar takes chief command of the Russian armies. Peabody, Mass: Children die in school fire. Ruins of building where 21 pupils perished. Cincinnati, O: Latonia cup classic attracts thousands to famous Kentucky track. Subtitle: "Star Jasmine," the winner. Time 3:50:3-5. Naval Militia Gets Flying Boat: Gov. Whitman and many noted men present. Subtitle: Miss Olive Whitman, the Governor's daughter, christened the boat "N-1." San Francisco, Cal: "Harbor Day" makes gay marine pageant. Every type of water craft joins in maritime parade. Subtitle: Crews from the gray warships held spirited rowing contests. New York City: Dario Resta and mechanic, Fred McCarthy, wins Harkness trophy in wild hundred mile race. Subtitle: Average speed 106 miles per hour. Middlesboro, Mass: Mrs. Tom Thumb unveils tablet to her ancestors. Famous Lilliputian on 74th birthday is leading figure at ceremony here. Paris, France: Blessing new auto ambulances. President Poincare attends ceremony before shipping Russian ambulances to the front. New York City: Bazaar de Charite for the benefit of the French wounded is held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Subtitle: Beautiful costumes donated by J.M. Gidding and Co., Fifth Avenue, New York, bring fabulous sums to succor the needy in France. Leytonstone, England: Lady Jellicol opens a rifle range here for the Boys Naval Brigade. Huntsville, Ala: Enthusiastic Jackson Highway Pathfinders arrive here. They receive hearty greetings as leading car crosses Tennessee-Alabama State line.
- The Tango Reaches Spain: Thousands in Barcelona turn out and witness a public exhibition of new style dancing. Ice-Skating Season Opens: Winter, long delayed, arrives in Van Cortland Park, New York City. A New Railroad in Africa: Line from Kenroussa to Kankan is opened with elaborate ceremonies. Martin Harvey off for Canada: Famous English actor given a hearty farewell at Liverpool. "Movies" Now Teach Religion: Pastor Russel, famous Brooklyn divine, opens New York theater devoted to Biblical stories. "Teddy's" Triumphant Pilgrimage: Ex-President Roosevelt is presented with a horse at Buenos Aires exposition. A Torpedo Bicycle: A new wind-shielded two-wheeler is tried out in Paris. Off on a Long Journey: Hamburg-American S.S. "Cleveland" carries 500 passengers from New York to the Orient. A Florida Terrapin Farm: Southerners now devoting much time to producing for the northern markets. Stone Age Relics Unearthed: Workmen in Los Angeles uncover stone bowl of prehistoric age. Great Lumber Yards Destroyed: E.K. Wood Plant, at San Pedro, California, is entirely wiped out by fire. The Beardsley Siege: Mayville, N.Y. man holds off law officers for one week.
- A half reel in which the Mutual Traveler visits New Haven and Hartford, Conn. Entertaining views are shown in each city. The Yale College buildings and the great punch bowl are shown.
- Saunders, Siskiyou's leading Citizen, miner, gentleman and all-around favorite, has Mary Brandon, the daughter of Mathew Brandon, ever since he had come to Siskiyou as a child. And it is not strange that he has, for Mary is a sweet, gentle-mannered girl of nineteen. Together with her younger sister, she keeps house for her father, and furnishes the only spot of light and joy to the hearts of many of the rough, kind-hearted men of the town. Mary knows of Joe's devotion, and loves him too, in her simple, girlish way, until one day Ned Singleton, a young stranger, comes to town. He is a handsome, enthusiastic chap, and he soon wins the love and respect of the entire community. He gains the unbounded admiration of Joe Saunders by catching a Mexican who cheated at cards, and Joe asked him to become his partner. In the meantime, Mary, too, has become interested in the fascinating young stranger. On a prospecting expedition, Joe and Ned find gold, but the younger man falls from a cliff and is carried back to the little mining town unconscious. Due to the tender care of Joe and Mary he recovers his health, but seriously loses his heart to the girl. Mary has grown to care more for Ned than for Joe. On the night of Mary's twentieth birthday, Joe follows her when she leaves the happy party given in her honor, into the woods. He tells her of his great love for her, and asks her to marry him. Mary is forced, for the first time, to confess to Joe her love for his partner. She leaves him, heartbroken and sad, and goes on to keep her tryst with Ned at lover's rock. Joe comes upon them just as Mary pleads with her lover to marry her at once, as he had promised. The big, kind-hearted miner steps in and forces Ned to promise he will marry her at once. In the meantime, Scraggs, the villain, who loved Mary's mother and now loves her, has tried to force his suit. He goes to Ned's cabin, bent upon stirring up trouble, and sees Joe as he rides away after trying to divide up and split partnership with the boy. When Scraggs accuses Mary of being Joe's mistress, Ned jumps at his throat, and in the tussle which follows, he is killed. The villain tears one bloody cuff from his shirt and hides it in the holes of the hearth from which Joe had taken out their strong box before leaving, and runs to the village to say that Ned Singleton has been murdered and that he had seen Joe Saunders leave the cabin. Whrn the men arrive at Ned's shack they find Joe bending over the dead body of his partner. He had returned too late to proffer the hand which he had refused before. At the trial Joe is acquitted. Scraggs is accused, and in the face of everyone Joe marries Mary because he loves her, and to preserve her good name.
- Helen Arthur, petted, spoiled and successful prima donna of the light opera stage, goes to a fishing village to gain color and atmosphere for a new operatic role. She boards at the cottage of a fisher maiden, Nettie Lea. Nettie is in love with a young sea captain, Rex Bristol. Rex falls in love with the prima donna, and rescues her from drowning. Rex's infatuation increasing, Nettie becomes jealous. Helen has come to the village incognita, and when Nettie learns that she is an actress, she turns her out of her cottage. Securing lodging at a nearby hotel, Helen, out of revenge, plans to complete her conquest of Rex. One day while out sailing with him, Helen sings the popular ballad, "The Isle of Love." Her conquest is complete. Rex seizes her in his arms and kisses her. Helen is indignant, then taunts Rex by saying she has been playing with him, acting, all the time. She returns to New York, leaving him a victim of despair. After a successful season in New York, Helen is preparing to start west on a tour. Among her admirers coming to her last performance in New York is John Leonard, a wealthy clubman and yachtsman. Rex is now captain of the yacht owned by Leonard, and goes with him to the theater. He is persuaded to bid Helen good-bye. Hurt at Helen's cruelty when they meet, he leaves her in highest indignation. The following day, as a farewell entertainment to the star, Leonard makes up a cruising party in Helen's honor. Because of an automobile accident, other members of the party fail to reach the boat. Leonard determines to run away with Helen, and orders Rex to take the yacht to sea. When Helen screams, Rex rescues her, but still cannot be convinced of the girl's innocence in her relations with Leonard. Rex is discharged, and is unable to get another ship. Following a nervous breakdown, Helen abandons her theatrical trip and a month or two later boards an ocean liner for a vacation in the Orient. On this same ship Rex is serving as wireless operator. When the vessel is burned, Rex rescues Helen. They reach an uninhabited island, and here again the flirt in Helen asserts herself. Rex, goaded on by her witchery, takes possession of the girl. He uses the authority vested in him as a sea captain, and performs his own marriage ceremony. Helen rebels against her husband's authority, and thinks she hates him. A child is born to them. When a schooner, stopping for Water at the island, offers to take her and her child back to civilization. Helen tells the captain that there is no one else on the island, and she and her baby leave for civilization. Rex is left alone, not knowing what became of his wife and child. Helen goes back to the stage. However, she comes to realize gradually that there is no sweetness in triumph now. The need of a father for her child also drags on her heart. Finally she makes a big resolve and returns to "The Isle of Love,'' where her husband welcomes both wife and child.
- European war illustrated. Latest pictures from the seat of war. In accordance with President Wilson's policy of U.S. neutrality, etc. On the way to Chateau Thierry. Ruins of Penchard. Aviator Andre, intrepid air-scout, is wounded by the enemy. The flower of the English army. A Zeppelin shed is destroyed by shells. Soldiers at the front are merry between battles. The "Camino" sails for Rotterdam via Panama Canal with California's donation of food for the starving Belgians. Sub-title: Mayor Rolph of San Francisco wishes Capt. Ahlin of the "Camino" Godspeed on his errand of mercy. Children of the National Capital hold "A Mile of Pennies" carnival for Belgian relief fund. Sub-title: Dr. Harvey Wiley. New York-Chicago flyer goes in the ditch near Buffalo, N.Y. Sub-title: A freight train laden with grain for warring powers is wrecked near Bethel, Me. Tennessee River improvement delegates urge House Committee to expend $20,000,000 on Muscle Shoals project. Sub-title: Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, who sponsors the movement. Flames sweep over great Edison plant at Orange, N.J., causing $7,000,000 loss. Great manufacturing plant at New York City is destroyed by fire, causing half-million dollar loss. Ever hear of winter baseball? New York's society nines open the season despite wintry blasts. Sub-title: Some of the 400 on the bleachers. A "submarine" designed for pleasure, not for war, is hauled through 'Frisco's streets to the exposition grounds. Historic frigate "Independence," which fought in the War of 1812, leaves Mare Island Navy Yard. Mutual-Keystone stars, Mabel Normand. Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin, are the cynosure of all eyes at 'Frisco Screen Club Ball. Kings and queens of the poultry world hold court at Oakland, Cal., show. Sub-title: Some rooster.
- Uncle Adolph could be very happy with his two young comely nieces, if they but made their eyes behave. Alas the flirtations that they carried on whenever he relaxed in his vigil were such as proved a continuous source of annoyance. Things got so exasperating that poor Uncle Adolph began to look around for a female chaperone for the two jolly though naughty girlies. One night the gentleman-oglers became so bold as to serenade the nieces much to Uncle's chagrin. That was plenty. A chaperone must be engaged, but who? An ingenious moment, suggested his sister-in-law, Aurora, whom he had not seen for more than twenty-five years. She was written to and on she came. But what a surprise to Uncle Adolph; instead of securing the aid of a typical spinster for the office, he found that he had brought a merry, yes flirtatious relative into his midst. Of course the girls were never checked in their flirtations and Auntie even encouraged them in their amusement of this variety, with the result that Uncle Adolph, so deluged with relatives of this kind, was finally forced to change his views and give his sanction.