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Circus Rookies Synopsis

Francis Byrd (Arthur), is in love with circus acrobat, and daughter of the show's owner, La Belle, and tries to join the show to be near her. However, his rival Oscar Thrust (Dane) is the keeper of a "Man-Eating Gorilla" named Bimbo, who's a featured act. He sabotages Byrd's efforts at impressing Belle, enough so she sees him as a coward. When the circus is travelling by train, Bimbo gets loose, rampaging through the cars, chasing Belle onto a roof , and the engineer off the engine. Byrd manages to stop the train, avoiding what would have been certain doom.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.