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Heart Strings Synopsis

Pierre Fournel is a violinist living in a Canadian village with his sister, Gabrielle. Gabrielle is tricked into a mock marriage by Rouget, but she keeps the matter secret from her brother. Two New Yorkers, Kathleen Noyes and her fiancé Rupert Blake, arrive in the village, where Kathleen takes an interest in Pierre. Blake tries to discredit him. Pierre discovers that his sister has a child, and takes her and the child to New York. Unable to sell any of his compositions, Pierre takes a job in a café, where he is discovered by Kathleen. She invites him to play at her home. Blake directs Rouget to steal Kathleen's jewels, and Gabrielle is blamed. To protect his sister, Pierre declares that he stole the jewels, and Kathleen refuses to press charges. Eventually, Pierre learns the truth about the Rouget's shame marriage and compels Rouget to marry Gabrielle. Kathleen and Blake are about to be married when Rouget exposes Blake. Kathleen then seeks forgiveness from Pierre.

The Rose of Blood Synopsis

After the death of Princess Arbassoff, Lisza Tapenko, a governess in the household of Prince Arbassoff, fills her place in everything but name. When the prince refuses to marry her because of the difference in their social positions, Lisza's former lover, Vassya, urges her to join the cause of the revolution. Smarting under the prince's refusal, she does so and leaves for Switzerland, the headquarters of the revolutionaries. The prince eventually yields to his son's pleas for Lisza's return and agrees to make her his wife. As Princess Arbassoff, Lisza still continues her activities with the revolutionaries, assassinating government officials and leaving a red rose on each of her victims. Torn between her love for the prince and her love of Russia when the revolutionaries order her to slay her husband, Lisza's devotion to the cause triumphs and she dynamites her house, meeting her death along with the prince's.