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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Beatrix D'Este, a beautiful Italian widow, is loved by Orlando, an Italian nobleman, and also by the powerful Duke of Milan. She refuses the duke, who plots to prove to her that her lover is false. The plot succeeds and she gives her consent to the duke. Orlando, hearing of this, seeks to die, and the young widow is informed that he has killed himself for love of her. She rushes to him, in her bridal robes, and learns from his own lips that she is the victim of treachery.
- An Italian, silent film about the heroic life of Switzerland's freedom fighter, William Tell.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Phaedra, the beautiful wife of the great warrior Theseus, is smitten with a passionate love for his son Hippolytus, who, however disdains her love. In revenge, Phaedra falsely accuses Hippolytus before Theseus of having attempted to make love to her, and he is driven from the kingdom by his father. Soon afterwards, he is killed through an accident to his chariot, and his body is brought home, whereupon Phaedra, overcome with remorse, confesses her sin and strangles herself at the feet of Theseus.
- The man Giovanni is very well drawn and his character interests and obtains sympathy. His employer, Gardoni, who is a widower with a charming daughter, has married again, a young and lovely woman being his choice. She falls passionately in love with Giovanni and finding him indifferent to her subtler advances finally steps over the bounds of propriety heretofore observed and sends him a note, asking him to come and see her in her sitting-room during her husband's absence from the city on business. Giovanni, though he has pretended not to have seen the marks of her favor, heretofore has avoided temptation by keeping out of her company as best he could. The note further tells him to send the clerk out of the office, which be it noted, is in the private residence. Now that same morning before Gardoni's departure he has sent the clerk to the bank to cash a check for 30,000 lire, which sum is placed in the office safe pending the employer's return. Giuseppe plans to make the money his own, and when Giovanni after moments of doubt and decision on receiving the note finally accepts the invitation and sends the clerk out of the office, the intending thief sees his opportunity and does not leave the house at all. Concealing himself he sees the secretary go into the private apartments. The coast clear, with the key Giovanni has left on the desk he opens the safe, takes the cash and then leaves on the errand upon which Giovanni has sent him. Meanwhile Giovanni has had a hard fight with himself against Helena's wiles, but finally flees from temptation, much to her chagrin. When Gardoni comes back the theft is discovered. Detectives are called in and though at first Giuseppe is suspected he proves that he was sent on an errand. His testimony implicates Giovanni, who is at once apprehended, to the misery of his fiancée and the bewildered astonishment of himself. How to save Helena's honor he keeps his lips sealed as to his whereabouts when the money was taken, how the torn note of Helena is found by the chief detective who thereupon sees a light, how the clerk's fingerprints on the safe finally prove his guilt, make a line ending to an unusually fine drama.