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A Nymph of the Foothills Synopsis

While camping in the mountains, city-bred Ben Kirkland meets mountaineer's daughter Emmy Chaney, and the two decide to marry although her father wants her to marry his hunting partner, Jeff Crandall. When Emmy's father threatens to kill Ben, the young lovers hastily marry and move to the city. Meanwhile, Ben's friend Tubby, while hunting with Ben's gun, discovers Mr. Chaney's body and flees, believing himself a killer. Ben departs on a business trip, and in his absence his snobbish relatives force Emmy to return to the mountains, where she learns that Ben has been accused of her father's murder. When Ben arrives looking for his wife, he is arrested. At the trial, Tubby is about to confess his guilt when an old hermit reveals that Jeff committed the crime. The lovers reunite and resume their happy marriage.

The Goose Girl Synopsis

Count von Herbeck, chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps it a secret because of his high ambitions. His dying wife writes him a letter urging him to make their young daughter a great lady. To this end, he arranges to have Torpete, a gypsy, to kidnap Gretchen, the daughter of the GRand Duke. He takes the coat and locket belonging to the little Princess and then sends his own daughter, Hildegarde, away. During the abduction of Gretchen she is wounded in the shoulder by a bullet. Fifteen years later Von Herbeck tells the Grand Duke he has found the Princess, and produces the coat, locket and Hildegarde as proof. Meanwhile, the real Princess has been abandoned by the gypsies and adopted by peasants, and has grown up as a "Goose Girl." The young King Fredrick of Jugendheit is officially betrothed to the fake Princess but he does not wish to marry a woman he has never met. He disguises himself as a Vinter and travels around the countryside, meets the Goose Girl, and rescues her from the insulting attentions of a vicious Count, and longs to marry her. But since he can not marry a peasant, true love seems doomed. Or does it?