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Dir: William Bertram

Episode 1: "The Woman Alone" Horace Kennedy, a successful lawyer, is drifting from his attentive and loyal wife, Mary, for no apparent reason, save that she is fading and he is losing interest in her. On the charge made by Margaret Warner, a struggling magazine writer, Kennedy disbars Attorney Doyle, contending that as a man must protect the honor of his wife and home, so must we guard our courts from prowling jackals. Because of his masterly handling of the disbarment case, a magazine requests Kennedy to write twelve articles dealing with the subject. Mary, his wife, persuades him against his wishes, to write these articles, suggesting that she will take his dictation on the typewriter. She proves an inefficient helper and the first night on which they work she falls and sprains her wrist, making it necessary for Kennedy to look elsewhere for assistance. Margaret, living in a cheap boarding-house is poor, as her short story manuscripts are returned day after day by the magazines. Desiring to help her Kennedy engages her for the work. Doyle, forced out of his profession, continues his work in the field of crooked-stock jobbing, taking the hard-earned savings of the poor for bogus mining stock. The last night of their joint work, Kennedy accompanies Margaret home, but on their way they are caught in an accident. Kennedy escapes injury, but Margaret faints. Calling to her to speak to him, Kennedy, with Margaret in his arms, rushes to a physician. Is the girl he is beginning to love to be thus taken from him?

Dir: William Bertram

A rancher stands up for an employee unjustly accused of cattle rustling.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Wolverine perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: William Bertram

Undercover Texas Ranger takes ranch job.

Dir: William Bertram

After he finds his wife Stella in the arms of ne'er-do-well Allan Standish, Ralph Gordon takes his daughter June out West, where he has extensive mining interests. The inhabitants of Hell's Gulch, who lately have been terrorized by "Rawhide" Pete and his gang of outlaws, elect Ralph sheriff. Standish, whose desertion of Stella has caused her death, arrives in Hell's Gulch and allies himself with Rawhide Pete, while competing with Ralph for the affections of June's governess, Sarah Malcomb. June assists in capturing Rawhide Pete, but Standish escapes and Sarah, moved by pity, agrees to conceal him. Assuming that Standish has again beaten him in love, Ralph catches a train East, but Sarah follows him and becomes June's new mother.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Smoking Trails perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: William Bertram

Little Marie, terrified after her drunken father beats her mother, flees from the house. Finding herself alone after her father is arrested for the assault and her mother rushed to the hospital, Marie becomes attached to a little dog that she finds in the park. The maid who is walking the dog is unable to part the two, and so she brings the little girl home to the Greer mansion where Mr. Greer, desperate for the child that his socialite wife is too busy to give him, insists upon adopting Marie. After Marie's mother recovers, she is reluctant to deprive her daughter of the riches she may inherit, and so obtains the position of governess in the Greer household in order to be near her own child. Gradually, a deep attachment develops between Mr. Greer and Marie's mother. After Marie's father is killed during a jailbreak, and Mrs. Greer, suffering from her superficial existence, commits suicide, Greer marries Marie's mother and the reconstituted family begins a new life.

Dir: William Bertram

When Charles Lind is stricken blind, his brother John takes charge of his business affairs, while his little niece Marie reads his mail to him each day so that he may recite his replies into a Dictaphone. After John confesses that he has lost a great deal of Charles' money on the stock market, the two quarrel, and John nearly strangles his brother. Later, a shot rings out, and John is seen crouching by Charles' lifeless body. Following John's arrest, the detectives guarding Marie's house recognize Briggs, the butler, as a wanted criminal, and when he attempts to escape, they shoot him. Marie, in playing with her uncle's Dictaphone, discovers that his murderer's voice was captured on the recording. Played at the dying butler's bedside, the recording leads to Briggs's confession and John's release from prison.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Daughter of the West perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: William Bertram

Nada Mayhew persuades her sick father to spend a few months in the mountains, where they are mistakenly suspected as being federal agents by bootleggers Bob Clark and Jim Hendricks. Using a map that Nada found, she and her father set out in search of a hidden vein of silver, but they must make a wild ride to Ghost City to escape the gang, who also wish to find the silver. When surveyor Dick Carroll finds Nada in his cabin, Nada assumes that he is one of the gang and ties him up. Jim Hendricks arrives and captures Nada. Realizing her mistake, Nada gnaws at Dick's bonds while Hendricks searches for the map, accidentally drinks poison, and causes a fire in his agony. All three escape. Dick overcomes Hendricks, and Nada and Dick start out in search of the vein.

Dir: William Bertram

Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant. When the circus passes through her home town, Tiny's mother is rejected by her sister Sylvia, thought to be an old maid because of her all-consuming interest in mathematics. Seeing her mother depressed, Tiny convinces her father to join her for her nightly stunt of parachuting from a balloon. While Tiny plays with a precocious black child, her parents' chute fails to open and they die. Thinking herself friendless, Tiny attempts to drown herself, but her dog brings Sylvia and Frank Dodge, who loves her. Sylvia lets her other suitor, Professor Caldwell, who wants her fortune, direct Tiny's upbringing "scientifically," but after Tiny and Frank expose the professor's plot to destroy Sylvia's book on the fourth dimension, because it is better than his own book, Sylvia, who now loves Tiny, accepts Frank's proposal.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Tears and Smiles perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: William Bertram

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Bertram

Secret service man, posing as crook in order to capture counterfeiter, rescues girl from death in stream, but grandfather, recognizing the man as one whom he believes a crook, orders him not to try to see girl again. Crooks steal gold from mine of grandfather and are aided, apparently, by secret service man who desires to learn their secrets. Secret service man finally brings about capture of crooks, making a thrilling jump from cliff into automobile, driven by girl he loves, who is threatened by crook in car with her, in capturing the last of the crooks and recovering the grand- father's gold.