Van Dyke Brooke

Conscience

More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror...

Captain Barnacle's Legacy

Captain Barnacle receives a letter telling him that Mr. Markham, a South African whose life he saved some years...

The First Violin

Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theate...

Straight Is the Way

Bob Carter and "Loot" Follet, are two thieves who locate themselves in the unused part of the New Hampshire hom...

The Vavasour Ball

The dramatist’s wife pawns her necklace when her husband tells her he cannot afford to buy her a new gown for t...

Lulu's Doctor

Magde leaves her fiancé Lewis in order to take care of Lulu, the child of her deceased sister, in New York. Aft...

For Love and Glory

Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father objects. Later th...

Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers

A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.

The Spider's Web

Banker Graham Lawlor is convinced to invest in Silver Shield Mines and becomes president, unaware that promoter...

The Son of Wallingford

A young man's journey into adulthood, love, and ambition, inspired by a serial by George Randolph Chester explo...

The Helpful (?) Sisterhood

Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

Some Good in All

John Lane is a prosperous businessman, a widower, who lives in a large house with his seven-year-old daughter B...

On the Pupil of His Eye

The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The other members...

For the Honor of the Family

On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, resolved to...

Ida's Christmas

A poor young girl finds a purse and returns it to its owner, who decides to reward her honesty.

The Show Girl

Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to...

What Women Want

During World War I, Francine D'Espard, a young French woman, meets William Holliday, a U.S. Army officer at the...

The Leading Lady

"The Irish Washerwoman" is to be produced by Manager Mathew Talon. The cast is all engaged but the leading lady.

The Peacemaker

Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins

Noah Clayton, an old coster, who has made a bit of money, lives with his daughter Liza. He is very cranky and v...

She Came, She Saw, She Conquered

Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain small village...

The Old Silver Watch

Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Frank a silver...

The Foster Child

Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and their home...

Under the Daisies

A critic, John Mears, retreats to the countryside to recover his health and learns of a legacy tied to his bach...

The Mouse and the Lion

John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get...

Dr. LaFleur's Theory

Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that.

The Passionate Pilgrim

An innocent man goes to prison for obstruction of justice when his wife refuses to reveal that her father was k...

The Wooing of Winifred

In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.

The Wooing of Winifred

In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.

A Friendly Marriage

A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her...

The Sleep Walker

A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.

Father's Hatband

A short comic film in which Sam and Doris use the hat of Doris’ father (a manager) to send letters to each othe...

The Bond of Blood

Former actor Holden attempts suicide out of despair but is rescued and offered a small acting role. During a re...

The Moonshine Trail

After her father and two brothers are killed, Cynthia and her mother go to New York, where Cynthia gets a job i...

Captain Barnacle's Waif

Tommy is bright and good-looking and he attracts the notice of a lady in a London slumming party. While she is...

Sawdust and Salome

A rich swell travels out West to escape marrying a social climber. There, he meets and marries a bareback rider...