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- King Lear decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters. The oldest two daughters fawn insincerely over their father, and get most of his possessions. The youngest daughter, Cordelia, is much less lavish in her displays of affection, and disappoints her father. But events soon lead the old king to find out how each of his daughters really feels about him.
- With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confident that his ships will soon be bringing him great wealth, the merchant willingly agrees to conditions of the loan that put him at great personal risk.
- Ralph Ferris, secretary to Russell Hopkins, a wealthy ship owner, is secretly in love with the latter's daughter, but she refuses his overtures, because he is an employee of her father, causing Ferris to resign from his position. He has a new invention for steamers and an organization is started to exploit it, making a small fortune in a small time. Meanwhile, the Hopkins enterprise is in a bad way, and Ferris offers his wealth if the old man will command his daughter to marry the former secretary. She goes through the ceremony to save her parent, but forbids her husband to allow the word "love" to pass between them. They live this way for some time. It is Ferris's most cherished desire to corner the merchant marine business and starts to effect a combine. One large company wavers at the last minute and things look black for the success of the venture. Ferris is spirited away just before the time to sign the final papers arrives, but gets back at the last minute to prevent his loss. However, the sum of $50,000 is needed to tide him over in the deal, and the wife hands up her highly prized jewels for the purpose of raising the funds. He accepts them and the crisis is passed. Ferris's love for his wife has grown constantly and she finally gives in to her own love for him and they go on a belated honeymoon.
- Romeo, of the House of Capulets, and Juliet, of the House of Montagues, scorn the family feud of years, and love each other with all the fervor of Veronian youths. The ardent wooer sings his love beneath his lady's window while the stars wink their approval of the lovers' happiness. Juliet's father urges her marriage to Tybalt, a man of his choosing, but Romeo determines she shall not, so together they visit the venerable Friar Lawrence and are secretly united in marriage. Romeo is challenged by his rival, Tybalt, and in the encounter wounds his antagonist, for which he is exiled. Romeo's departure leaves Juliet open to the demands of her father, who insists upon her immediate marriage to Tybalt. In terror she flees to the old Friar, who gives her a powerful sleeping potion, and on the day she is to marry Tybalt, her friends are horrified to see her fall into a deathlike swoon. She is interred in the vault of her ancestors, and Romeo, hearing of her death, returns home, enters the vault and after gazing upon the face of his beloved plunges a dagger into his heart. Juliet awakens to see him expiring, and in her agony seizes the same dagger, inflicts a death-wound, and expires beside her lover.
- Driven by his own ambition and by that of Tullia, his stepsister, Tarquin decides to usurp the throne of his stepfather, Servius Tullius, the good old King of Rome. To this end, he solicits and obtains the support of the patrician senators and has the monarch assassinated. Happy to hear the news, Tullia rushes into the regicide's arms, determined to marry him...
- Charles is bidding his wife an affectionate good-bye preparatory to setting out for a short bicycle run. The moment his back is turned Percy calls, but the unexpected return of the husband obliges the lady to hide her visitor in the cupboard. Charles soon goes out again and the prisoner is released. Catching up a white stocking to wipe the perspiration from his brow, he stuffs it in his pocket and takes his departure for the nearest café to get a bracer. There he meets Charles and another friend. To this latter he recounts his adventure and both laugh heartily at the joke. However, Percy is not to get off scot free, for on his return home his wife finds the stocking and naturally gives him a piece of her mind. Percy thereupon sits down and writes a note to his friend, asking him to get him out of the scrape, and the friend shows the letter to Charles, who volunteers to do the trick for him. Charles accordingly calls upon Mrs. Percy with one bare leg and narrates a story about her husband having removed the stocking in the spirit of mischief. Mrs. Percy calls attention to the fact that his other stocking is black and Charles, picking up the white hosiery to examine it, is horrified to find that it belongs to his wife.
- About the daughter of the Borgia, a noble medieval house. From her numerous and unhappy weddings, to the forced monacation, to the will of her family.
- This is the beautiful story of Francesca di Rimini, which is known the world over for the charm of its heroine. Paul falls deeply in love with Francesca, to whom he has been sent by his brother, Lancietto, to propose for him. After her acceptance of the proposal she is accompanied by Paul to her future husband. Paul cannot keep away from the object of his affections, and during the voyage their friendship deepens and ripens into an all-absorbing passion. On the trip there is also a court fool, who, while disporting himself for the amusement of others, is really plotting dark deeds. When the twain arrive at Rimini Francesca cannot repress a shudder of horror at the sight of her betrothed, nevertheless, they are married, and Paul, in order to stifle his love, begs of his brother to be sent on a mission, to which his brother consents. Lancietto's fool, however, has a grudge against his master, and in order to be revenged upon him, and knowing the love that Paul bears to Francesca follows Paul and persuades him to return. This Paul does, and unable to withstand the beauty of Francesca, makes love to her. The perfidious fool now tells Lancietto of his wife's inconstancy, and the latter enters the apartment where they are together and pierces them both with one stroke of his sword.
- Joachim Napoleon Murat, the son of a laborer, who rose to be a powerful aid to Napoleon Bonaparte, and who married Bonaparte's sister, Caroline, was created King of Naples. He was regarded as a usurper by many of the Neapolitans. A meeting of conspirators is taking place in a church. Lots are drawn for the man who is to make an attempt upon the life of Murat, and the die falls upon Perugini, a florist. Anna, Perugini's daughter, is accosted by young bloods and roughly handled. A passing man protects her. This man is Murat, walking incognito through the city. Perugini makes his attempt upon Murat. Murat defends himself, and the florist. is arrested. Anna recognizes in Murat her protector. She is stricken with grief at the thought of her father's fate, and she goes to Murat to ask for pardon for her father. Murat is easily induced to grant the pardon. Captain Renzi is commanded to carry it to the prisoner's inquisitors, and Anna accompanies him. Perugini shows scornful indifference, until he learns that it is due to his daughter's intervention with Murat. Then he passionately denounces her as unworthy of his fatherhood. Anna, thus repudiated, is glad to accept the consolation of Captain Renzi, who counsels her to enter the service of Queen Caroline. She is brought before the Queen, and is made waiting maid. Anna faithfully performs her duties, but she makes a hero of Murat. Murat shows her some favor. Captain Renzi warns the Queen anonymously, and Murat, to dissipate the Queen's distrust, affiances Anna to Renzi. Anna, to escape from the union, returns home, deciding to brave her father's anger. Again she is turned away, but her return has disclosed to her a new plot against the King. The day her father makes a second attempt to thrust a knife into Murat's breast, she flings herself between him and his victim, and receives in her own bosom the death wound. She dies bravely with Murat's kiss of gratitude upon her lips.
- Agesilao Greco interprets a painter who falls in love with a countess but is forced to retire when she has to marry the banker who otherwise threatens to bring the indebted family to the ruin. Passing the fenced gardens and the conventional parlors, we finally get to the armory room, where rivals in love are challenging to blade, in a underhand and cruel game of slaughter.
- In love, although a Cardinal, with the same girl, the beautiful Sancia, as his brother John. Duke of Gandia, Caesar did not hesitate, after an entertainment at the Vatican, to hire bravi, and to have this brother foully done to death, and to be afterwards thrown into the Tiber. For a time the disappearance of John Borgia remained clothed in mystery, but the waters of the river gave up their dead in the very heart of Rome, almost within a stone's throw of the Papal Palace. John's mutilated remains are brought into his father's presence, and Sancia denounces the all-powerful Ceasar as the author of the crime. But if Alexander VI. was at times a powerful ruler, his weakness with his children was complete, and he feared Cesar and also Lucretia, his notorious daughter. Sancia. determined to avenge her lover's death, plans the murderer's undoing. She sends him the following anonymous note:-" A lady who admires and secretly loves Cesar will await him to-night in the Avenue of the Graces." Cesar has his suspicions aroused, yet his fondness for mysterious adventures induces him to cast prudence aside, and, going to the appointment, he falls into the trap laid for him. Thrown into a cell and chained to the wall, he manages to attack his jailer, to overpower the man, and to escape.
- The scenes open with Jesus in the act of performing miracles before leaving Jerusalem with His disciples. He passes through Samaria, where the people mock both Him and His followers, and finally He comes to Jacob's well. Here, wearied with His journey, he seats Himself, while the disciples go into the town to buy food. To the well also comes a Samaritan woman to draw water, end Jesus asks her to moisten His parched lips. The woman at first refuses, protesting that the Samaritans can have no dealings with the Jews, but the words of the Stranger proving to her that she is speaking to the Messiah, she raises her pitcher so that He may drink. She then runs into the city to announce the news, afterwards returning to the well to beg Jesus to accompany her to her own people, whose slower moving feet she has outstripped. Jesus complies, and the Samaritans, whose mockery and incredulity die away on their lips as they perceive the Messiah, acclaim Him joyfully.
- Amelia Ankarstroem, wooed by King Gustavus, hesitates between duty to her husband and her ambition. The King, anxious to know whether or not the woman will accept his attentions, goes to a renowned fortune teller to find this out. While the King is busy in amusing himself, his officers indignant at his conduct decide to punish him as he deserves. Renato, Amelia's husband, and loyal subject to his sovereign, wishing to frustrate their plans, goes to warn the King of his danger, when he discovers his wife's unfaithfulness. Crazy with grief, Renato joins the conspirators and is chosen as the one to deal the fatal blow at a masked ball given in the King's honor.
- Hippolytus, the handsome son of Theseus, the great legendary hero of the Greeks, is beloved by all the women. His father's second wife, Phaedra, is also charmed by his magnificent looks. He, terrified, spurns her, and in his rage treats her roughly. Theseus, who has been at the wars for some years, returns a conqueror, and is met by his son and together they proceed in triumph to their home. Here Phaedra, thinking to be avenged on Hippolytus for his treatment of her, informs Theseus that in his absence Hippolytus had made love to her. Theseus, enraged, curses his son and banishes him from Athens. Hippolytus accordingly starts off in his chariot drawn by three fiery horses. His course is directed along the seashore, but Poseidon, the god of the Mediterranean, in accordance with the curse of Theseus devoting his son to destruction, causes a wave to dash up and frighten his horses, who bolt, with the result that the chariot is overturned and Hippolytus is killed. The crowd, who quickly assemble, place his corpse on a plank and carry it to his father. Phaedra, stricken with remorse on seeing his dead body, declares his innocence, and confessing to Theseus that her accusation was unjust, kills herself at the foot of the bier.