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Find the Woman Synopsis
Clancy Deane, who leaves her home in Ohio for a career on the New York stage, makes the acquaintance of the Webers, tools of Maurice Beiner, a blackmailer operating under the cover of a theatrical agency. While in Beiner's office seeking an engagement, Clancy witnesses his being stunned by a fall over a table. She leaves by a window, and on the fire escape she encounters Mrs. Carey, who wants to secure some letters. When Beiner's murder is investigated, Mrs. Carey is implicated but is released after examination. Judge Walbrough is knocked out by an unknown assailant, whose fingerprints are identical with those on the knife that killed Beiner. Following numerous complications, Don Carey, a dissolute alcoholic who kills himself, is revealed as the murderer. Clancy marries Philip Vandevent, and Judge Walbrough wins Sophie Carey.
Everybody's Girl Synopsis
Florence is a little milliner who shares a room in "Brick Dust Row" with Ella, a fellow worker. It is all the home she has and the girls have to receive their company in the parks because there is no reception room, the millionaire owner of the Row having sublet the parlors. They see no harm in chance acquaintances. Then Florence meets Blinker, and real love comes into her life; but Blinker learns of what to him seems her promiscuous acquaintances and makes it plain that he cannot marry such a woman. There is a fire on the excursion boat on which they are traveling, and Bill, a gun-packing husky, who has constituted himself Florence's champion, saves them both. Then he learns Blinker's attitude, and a visit to the young millionaire owner of the Roy shows Blinker that his own greed is basis for Florence's actions and a changed Row is Florence's wedding present. - Moving Picture World 1918.
"Find the Woman" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Everybody's Girl" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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Find the Woman