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At the End of the World Synopsis

Cherry O'Day is the daughter of Terence O'Day, who runs the Paper Lantern Café in Shanghai. She practices her father's philosophy to "play with men to her heart's content but always keep them at arm's length." Cherry has many suitors. She promises to marry a sailor named Donald MacGregor. But when he returns from the sea, he discovers Cherry's father has died. Cherry has married a rich man named William Blaine. A bank clerk named Harvel Allen tries to win Cherry's favor, but he is caught stealing bonds. Then Gordon Deane, a traveling novelist, meets Cherry but is the least interested of her suitors. Deane decides to take charge of a lighthouse on a lonely island, and brings MacGregor and Allen with him. Cherry gets a divorce and seeks Deane on the island. MacGregor and Allen engage in a fight at the top of the lighthouse, and both men plummet to their deaths. Cherry finds happiness with Deane.

The Key to Power Synopsis

Bruce Wendell, the son of West Virginia coal mine owner James Wendell, graduates from West Point and prepares to lead a fighting unit to the front during World War I. As his father lies dying, however, he convinces Bruce to remain at home and guard the mine. Bruce's fiancée Ann Blair assumes that he is a coward and breaks off their engagement, but her brother Bobbie remains Bruce's loyal friend. Meyer, a German agent, persuades railroad president Parrish to refuse to transport Wendell's coal, but when Bruce adamantly refuses to close the mine, the spy's men decide to blow it up. While Ann is being abducted by Meyer, Bobbie is buried in an explosion at the mine. Bruce rescues Bobbie and then sends a plea to Lieutenant Parrish to rescue Ann. Meyer and his gang are captured and Ann renews her vow of love to Bruce.