- A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.
- At the opening of the piece we see Miss Lawrence setting out to attend a moving picture theater, accompanied by a woman friend and her two children. At the theater is being shown "Mysterious Mystery," the present play. With the two kiddies sitting on each side of her, Miss Lawrence, with no one recognizing her, watches the play as it develops to this point. However, as she entered the theater she was observed by a strange man who has displayed an officer's badge. He has phoned for help, as is shown in the cut-backs. As the film play progresses inside, a machine with another man and a chauffeur arrives and stops down the street a short distance from the theater. Then the stranger approaches Miss Lawrence and asks her to come out as there are friends who wish to speak to her. As she approaches the machine a rug is thrown over her head and she is pushed into the auto. When the rug is removed Miss Lawrence finds herself in a private asylum though she does not recognize the place. She is disrobed and a peculiar dress and hat are given her; she is left a captive in a padded cell, the walls of which are covered with posters of her own self. To the room there is only a single barred casement window; there appears no means of escape. Frantic, Miss Lawrence throws herself on the bed and cries. On the exterior of the building we observe a lunatic dressed as a ham actor with the proverbial long hair and frock coat. He slips up to the barred window, climbs along the stone ledge and loosens two bars; he enters with one of the bars as a weapon. He attempts to kill Miss Lawrence. There is a fight. Miss Lawrence successfully defending herself. She does this by making the crazy actor believe he is the hero in the play and not the villain. Using this argument she induces him to assist her to escape. A rope is made from the bed clothes. Before she climbs down she gives the crazy actor the iron, saying that it is the gun. and compels him to stand guard. However, before she reaches the ground she is nearly shaken from the rope and barely escapes. Once on the open road, Miss Lawrence seeks aid from a farm house. Yet, to her dismay, she is rebuffed. She tries at the station. The stationmaster locks her in a room and telephones the asylum for the guards. Miss Lawrence has been mistaken for a crazy girl, closely resembling her and one who imagines that she is Miss Lawrence. On the road back to the asylum Miss Lawrence, with the guards, meets the crazy girl in question. She is leading dogs and with them is only too anxious to return to captivity. She recognizes Miss Lawrence after a careful examination. And it is the first sign of sanity that the girl has shown in months. Miss Lawrence is given her clothes and offered profuse apologies. The superintendent assures her that if she will make a few visits to the asylum the crazy girl can be cured. As she departs Miss Lawrence consents. With all haste Miss Lawrence returns to the theater, the last scene of "A Mysterious Mystery" is being projected on the screen; this is Miss Lawrence leaving the theater with the friend and children.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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