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- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison.
- The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
- Novelist April Poole reads her new book to Kerry Sarle, her publisher and sweetheart, and to Ronald Kenna, her editor. The story begins at a masked ball, where April meets Kerry and recognizes master thief Kenna. April retrieves a note discarded by Kenna and learns that he intends to steal the Mannister diamond. Meanwhile, the Earl of Mannister, hoping to end his daughter Diana's relationship with an impoverished American artist, orders her to deliver the jewel to her mannish female cousin, Clive Connal, in South Africa. Aboard the train, Diana persuades April to assume her identity. Eager to foil Kenna, April complies. When Kerry overhears a struggle in April's stateroom, he rushes in and ejects Kenna. In gratitude, April reveals her identity and mission. After Kerry receives a note from April that asks him to take the trunk to Clive, April disappears. Disconsolate, Kerry delivers the trunk. When Kenna and his cronies locate it, April springs out, pistol in hand, and captures them. As she concludes her tale, April embraces Kerry, who accepts the story.
- While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
- This is a clever comedy production in several scenes. In the opening scene the hired man is complaining to Farmer Jones that the woodpile is being depleted by thieves. Farmer Jones decides to adopt drastic measures and loads one of the sticks with dynamite. In the next scene a colored deacon, one of the shining lights in the African Church, is seen making away with the wood. The next scene shows the home of the deacon, where he is taking his comfort at the kitchen fire, while his wife is busy with the washing. The loaded stick is, of course, put into the fire, and there is a terrific explosion and the building is ruined. Farmer Jones and his man appear at the critical moment and the colored thieves are given a punishment they will not soon forget.
- A man seems to be at the races, rooting for his favorite number.
- A small boy is sent from the table because his mother expects a caller. He slyly comes back and creeps under the table, where he pins his mother's gown to the tablecloth. When the caller arrives she arises to meet him and pulls the cloth with its burden of dishes to the floor.
- This is one of the most exciting and at the same time one of the most laughable subjects ever made. A lunatic confined in a barred cell, labors under the delusion that he is the Emperor Napoleon. In the first scene we see him in an altercation with his keepers over the quality of food furnished him. The keepers set upon him and beat him unmercifully and leave him unconscious. He comes to and determines to escape. Wrenching a leg from a table he bursts the bar of a window, smashes the glass and crawls out. The next scene shows him dropping a distance of 30 feet to the ground below. He picks himself up and starts off at a run. The faces of the keepers appear at the cell window for an instant, but quickly they come running out of the main entrance to the asylum, and start in pursuit of the escaped lunatic. Then follows a series of thrilling and ludicrous chases through the mostly picturesque scenery. The lunatic is cornered on a bridge over a waterfall, but manages to overcome the keeper and hurls him into the rapids below. In another scene he crosses a torrent on a slender wire cable swinging loose above it. Time after time the lunatic succeeds in circumventing his keepers. Finally, however, he tires of the chase and is seen running back to the asylum. He leaps the 30 feet back to the window and when the keepers, all blown and covered with mud, rush into the cell, Napoleon I, is calmly reading a newspaper.
- In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclosing the model curled up in a recumbent position. She slowly arises as if awakening, and gracefully assumes the final position of the pose.
- A handsome young couple are playing the old game of "Cat's Cradle" with a piece of string and using it as a pretext for exchanging kisses. It does not always work, so they abandon the string and take their kisses in the normal way. Figures are large and the action very good. Photographic quality very high.
- A female crook is dragged in by two policeman to be photographed. The camera dollies in to show her making faces.
- Captain Leyton treats his son, Boy, harshly to eliminate every weakness, but he is so overjoyed at Boy's courageous defense of the character of his sweetheart, Minnie, that he has a heart attack. Before he dies, Leyton charges Boy with avenging his mother's desertion of his father for another man. Boy finds his mother; discovers the other man to be Leyton's first mate, Morgan; hurls Morgan overboard; and returns to marry Minnie.
- Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed later by later two others, comes into the office seeking a job. The manager hands each a box with a costume in it and points to dressing rooms. Each of the women has a different reaction when she discovers the nature of her costume, and the busy manager has a distinct response to each of the women as well.
- Alphonse and Gaston are in a Western saloon and are forced to dance by a cowboy, who urges them on by shooting at their feet.
- This is very piquant and amusing. At first we see the widow weeping for her dear departed, whose picture she is sadly contemplating. In comes her maid with a card. The widow brightens up at once. She rapidly dries her eyes, powders her nose, surveys herself in the mirror, and then gaily receives the caller, a young man. The change in emotion is exceedingly effective.
- Clive Herbert, the Duke of Cheshire's younger brother, about to leave England to relieve his boredom, falls in love with Helena, the unhappy Duchess of Harwich, who was forced to marry a corrupt duke to save her father's name, but the rogue treats her cruelly. Although she loves Clive, Helena will not leave with him because she does not want to sully this love. When Harwich returns from France, where he was treated for paralysis brought on while forcing his attentions on Helena, he maliciously taunts Helena and Clive. After Clive's brother dies, Clive becomes a duke and a member of the House of Lords and nearly marries American heiress Cornelia Kirby so he can keep up the family estate. Harwich dies without leaving Helena anything, but after Cornelia's Chicago sweetheart Howard McClintock takes her back and Clive becomes the Ambassador to the U.S., he marries Helena.
- Three Sunday school teachers try to instruct the workers at a Chinese laundry. After Sunday school, the workers lure the teachers to an opium den. The men are arrested in a police raid
- A painted sign and a tired pedestrian are the mirth producers of this picture, which opens with the placing of the sign on the outside of a grocery store. A gentleman, tired with his walk, seats himself, his back leaning against the sign, and on his resuming his travels, it is seen that the sign has been transferred to his back and he becomes the object of much amusement to the passers-by. It is his ill luck to pass a school house at the hour the children are going home for lunch and for a few minutes his life is made unbearable. The children follow him in droves until he finally discovers the cause of their merriment and, taking off the coat, makes his escape by using his feet to good advantage.
- American ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard warns that Germany will rise again to power and an attempt at world domination unless safeguards are taken, in this documentary-style propaganda drama.