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SYNOPSES OF CURRENT PUBLICATIONS'
"THE DREAM LADY;' Five-reel drama. Featuring C ARM EL MYERS. Produced by Bluebird. Author, Margaret Widdemer. Director, Jane Wilson.
STORY : Romance had never been able to find its way into the life of Rosamond Gilbert until she received a legacy from a dead uncle. She sets forth and establishes herself as a seeress, where she is able to bring happiness to many of her clients. And she also finds happiness for herself.
•■HER HUSBAND'S HONOR." Five-reel drama.
Featuring EDNA GOODRICH. Produced by Mutual. Author, Maibelle Heikes Justice. Director, Burton King.
STORY: Nancy realizing that her young husband is in danger and knowing that his employer's wife is in love with him forces from him a confession of the true state of affairs. He intimates ruin unless he is able to secure a contract with the Japanese government for some lighthouses. Having carried on a flirtation with Tato Usaki, chief Japanese Commissioner, she decides to gain her ends through him. It was not, however, quite as easy a matter as it appeared to be.
-MAID O' THE STORM." Five-reel drama.
Featuring BESSIE BARRISCALE. Produced by Paralta.
Author, J. Grubb Alexander and Fred Myton.
Director, Raymond B. West.
STORY: Ariel, who has lived in a small fishing village all her life, realizes that the reason she did not win the love of Franklin Shirley, an aviator, is because she is not his equal. She goes to London determined to win him. She becomes a dancer and again meets Franklin just as his engagement has been announced. Ariel's hope and despair are vividly told and the ending is just a little unexpected.
(Review in this issue.)
"THE DEATH DANCE." Live-reel drama. Featuring ALICE BRADY. Produced by Select. Author, Marie Eve. Director, J. Searle Dawley.
STORY: Flora Farnsworth, a dancer, repulses Boresky, her dancing partner and with the urging of Cynthia Maitland, who endeavors to prevent the marriage of Flora and Philip Standish, Boresky plans to stab Flora at the end of their dance. His success is not what he anticipated and the closing events of the story arc exciting.
"THE GOLDEN FLEECE." Five -re el drama.
Featuring JOE BENNETT and PEGGY I'liARCE.
Produced by Triangle.
Author, Frederick Irving Anderson.
Director, G. I'. Hamilton.
STORY: With th e one idea "build vour own car," Jason, a country genius, travel'
For Your Program
Synopses of the following' plays are given in this week's issue:
All Man.
Beyond the Shadows
Border Segion, The
Death Dance, The
Dream Lady, The
Ghost of the Rambo, The
Golden Fleece
Her Husband's Honor
Maid o' the Storm
To the Highest Bidder
Waifs
Synopses appearing last week:
As the Sun Went Down Back to the Woods By Proxy Cupid by Proxy Fallen Angel, The False Ambition First Law, The For Husbands O.ily Golden Wall, The Locked Hearts *■ Love Watches Miss Innocence No Children Wanted Safety Curtain, The Scandal Mongers Successful Adventure, A
to New York with a patent and falls victim to crooks. He runs across Rose, his sweetheart, and together they go to the slums, where Jason later discovers that someone else is endeavoring to sell his patent. And he finds that the man he thought his enemy is his friend.
"BEYOND THE SHADOWS." Five-reel Drama.
Featuring WILLIAM DESMOND and
JOSIE SEDGWICK. Produced by Triangle. Author, Charles J. Wilson, Jr. Director, J. IV. McLaughlin.
STORY: When Eleanor Wyatt meets Jean Du Bois, her husband's brother, she finds herself very much in love with him. Much of this is inspired because of her husband's brutality. Love for one brother and loyalty to the other makes it very hard for Eleanor to decide which course to pursue, but she finally takes to the one which she believes will make her happiest.
"TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER."
Five-reel drama.
Featuring ALICE JOYCE.
Produced by I 'itagraph.
Author, Florence Morse Kingsley.
Director, Tom Terriss.
STORY: Barbara Preston is about to be evicted because she cannot pay the long overdue mortgage mi the farm which fact she is endeavoring to keep from her younger brother. All of a sudden the iron
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hearted holder of the mortgage, David Whitcomb, decides that he wants Barbara very much and presses her the harder, believing she will yield to his proposition of marriage. But Barbara turns a deaf ear to all his pleas and is finally forced to sacrifice her happiness for the love of her brother. She finds that, after all, there is happiness in store for her.
(Review in this issue.)
"THE BORDER LEGION" Five-reel drama. Featuring BLANCHE BATES. Produced by T. Hayes Hunter. Author, Zane Grey.
STORY: Determined to seek out Jim Cleeve, whom she had once repelled, but whom she loves, Joan Randall sets out for the border. She falls into the hands of a gang of robbers who decide to hold her for ransom. To defend herself from the embraces of Jack Kells, chief of the robbers, she shoots him and then out of pity dresses his wounds. Shortly thereafter Cleeve and a gang of the robbers arrive and this forms the beginning of many complications and thrilling scenes.
"THE GHOST OF THE RANCHO." Five-reel drama.
Featuring BRYANT WASHBURN.
Produced by Pathe.
Director, William Worthington.
STORY: Jeffrey Wall is urged by his grandfather to get out and work and after getting into a fight with a Mexican in an endeavor to rescue a girl from an attack. Jeffrey obtains employment on a ranch and endeavors to lay a trap for the Mexican. His method of disposing of the Mexican and his success in other lines are well told in the concluding reels.
"WAIFS."
Five-reel comedy-drama. Featuring GLADYS HULETTE
and CREIGHTON HALE. Produced by Pathe. Director, Albert Parker.
STORY: A father's pi ans to have a certain young man marry his daughter seem about to come to a head when his daughter runs away and takes lodging in a rooming house. The father sends the young man there. But some times plans go awry and instead of that particular man getting there, another one does and the ending is entirely different from what father had anticipated.
"ALL MAN." Five-reel drama. Featuring HARRY MOREY. Produced by I 'itagraph-. Author, Donn Byrne. Director, Paul Scardon.
STORY: Jorn Olson finds it an easy matter to make a lot of money breaking safes, so he pursues this method until he is injured. He is taken to the home of Belle Foliot, whose husband is serving a penitentiary term. I'elle becomes an accomplice and one night to save Belle. Jorn allows himself to be captured and sent to prison. The ensuing events provide the story with plenty of interest.