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Crinoline and Romance Synopsis

Raised in a secluded area of North Carolina by her grandfather, Colonel Charles E. Cavanaugh, Miss Emmy Lou lives in ignorance of the outside world. She ventures out of her narrow valley to visit Mrs. Kate Wimbleton, and despite her outdated style of dress, she is a great success with the young male guests, especially Davis Jordan and Augustus Biddle. Emmy Lou immerses herself in the modern world during her stay with the Wimbletons, then returns home upon learning that the colonel is ill. Her two suitors follow, and Emmy Lou is unable to decide between them. Colonel Cavanaugh stages a duel, loading each of the pistols with blank cartridges. Augustus cheats, compelling Emmy Lou to choose Davis.

Burning the Candle Synopsis

Beneath the moonlight of the southern skies Molly Carrington, daughter of the south, pledges her heart and hand to "Jimmie" Maxwell on the eve of the young man's departure to New York, where his knowledge or cotton has won him a good position in a cotton broker's office. They are married and depart for the metropolis. Due to Maxwell's transition from his calm and uneventful home life to the maelstrom of worldly battle, he succumbs to liquor's lure, and from a stalwart husband is dragged to the depths or Demon Rum's depravity. He loses his position and Molly leaves him, returning to her southern home. As a "down-and-outer" Maxwell sees in a Mobile paper a rumor that his wife plans to divorce him and marry his former rival. Alfred Lewis. His smoldering love for Molly flares up to expose vividly the curse which drink has placed upon him. Maxwell throws off his alcoholic yoke, becomes a man again, and wins back his position. He finds Molly waiting for him the first day he enters the office.