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The Beloved Adventurer (1914)
Character: N/A
In Chapter 8, "A Partner To Providence", His lordship rides a train that is mistakenly rerouted into a headlong collision into another engine, with the well-worn Lubin train crash footage ensuing. He's pulled out of the wreck and recuperates with a rural family. He recuperates enough to win a fight with a crook at the end.
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A Child's Devotion (1912)
Character: Diane Lane - The New Mother
A melodrama about a boy who initially wants nothing to do with his stepmother.
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The House of Mirth (1918)
Character: Gertie Farish
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
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The Stolen Symphony (1912)
Character: Helen Landis
A beautiful story of a poor young musician who has composed an exquisite symphony. Adjoining his squalid quarters is a room occupied by a young lady of good family, but impoverished. She can hear the wonderful strains of the symphony played by the young musician and becomes first interested in the music and then in love with the composer. Together they plan to apprise the world of the genius. One evening, as a renowned musician is leaving a concert hall, after one of his great successes, the young composer throws the score of the symphony into the carriage of the great musician.
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The Last Rose (1915)
Character: Carlotta Valondi
Carlotta Valondi, an Italian opera singer, is the idol of her friends. Angelo, also a singer, asks her to marry him, but she clearly shows that she is bored with him. He rents a house in the country, next to the rectory where the young minister, John Converse, and his old maid sister, Matilda, live. John meets Carlotta and they become friends.
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The Preacher and the Gossips (1912)
Character: Ellen Greenwold
The Rev. Frank Speakman has been to a rural congregation, and is entertained by the members. He is considered a fine catch matrimonially and the ladies set their caps for him. A pretty little milliner is among the contestants and the new minister cannot be blamed for favoring her. The widow with whom the new minister boards, finds an unfinished letter which really is being written to Speakman's sister. The sister's name is Ellen and the milliner's the same, so the letter is an excellent weapon in the hands of a gossip.
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A Timely Rescue (1913)
Character: Lottie Daly
John Bronson, Mr. Daly's farmhand, has ambitions and decides to go to the city. He breaks the news to Mr. and Mrs. Daly and their daughter Lottie. They do their utmost to dissuade him from his purpose, but John has made up his mind to go. He gets employment in a department store. Soon he is promoted to a slightly higher position. He has become neglectful of his country friends, and Lottie waits in vain for an answer to her letters.
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The Temptress (1911)
Character: Aileen
Lottie Briscoe sees her boyfriend taken away by a scheming woman who defies her father's wishes and pushes back with an attempt to poison him. A detective, Curtis Cooksey, is called in to investigate.
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The District Attorney's Conscience (1913)
Character: May Mason - the District Attorey's Wife
Tony Gazeco, one of the workers in the factory, is an anarchist and agitator. Being of excitable nature he is looked upon by the other men as a leader and during the lunch hour makes impassionate speeches. Will and May Mason passing in an auto are witnesses to one of the tirades and going to the office of Fred Jackson, the owner, tell him of the probable strike...
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