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Collegiate Synopsis
The madcap daughter of a millionaire seeks one too many thrills when she makes a dangerous parachute drop from an airplane. Her father orders her to college or to marry a young man who lectures on Success. She rebels and runs off. Pursued, she leaps on a fleet of bathing girls who are competing for a prize. She is adjudged winner and is compelled to appear in a department store window with the college football hero. She promises him to go to college. As he is working his way through she gets a job as waitress. A rich loafer, engaged to the Dean's secretary, falls for her, but she repulses him. He begs the secretary to get him a copy of the answers to the forthcoming examinations, and she does so when he promises to marry her. The girl sees all, but keeps silent. She is locked in her dormitory for betting on her football team. She hears that her sweetheart is barred from the game for cheating, and gets out of the dormitory with the aid of a student. She says she is the guilty party. The boy rejoins the team and wins the game. The other student catches the guilty ones and they confess.
Mary's Ankle Synopsis
While walking along the street one day, Arthur P. Hampton, an impoverished young doctor, and his chums, Stub Masters and Johnny Stokes, are persuaded to part with their last remaining funds by tag day solicitor Mary Jane Smith, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love. Doc's friends then hit upon a get-rich-quick scheme. Knowing that his Uncle George has promised a large sum of money upon his nephew's marriage, they persuade Doc to send out fake wedding invitations naming Mary Jane as the blushing bride. Uncle George, elated at the good news, writes to Mary Jane's aunt, Angelica Burns, an old sweetheart, to invite Mary Jane and Angelica to be his guests on an ocean voyage. Meanwhile, Mary Jane pays a visit to the doctor's office and, upon seeing the wedding invitations, becomes so flustered that she trips and sprains her ankle. Doc comes to her rescue and then begs her to pose as his wife. She agrees, but at ship-side, Stub and Johnnie confess all to Uncle George, who flies into a rage until Doc announces that he and Mary Jane have chosen a wedding at sea.
"Collegiate" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Mary's Ankle" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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