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Polly of the Circus Synopsis

When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley. The two fall in love and marry secretly. But when the news leaks out, the minister loses his pastorate over disdain by the parishioners for Polly's background as a performer. Polly must decide whether to stay with the man she loves or leave him for the good of his calling.

The Challenge Accepted Synopsis

Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston, living in the Blue Ridge Mountains, loves Steve Carey but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. At the training camp, Steve is unhappy and frequently argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. Steve deserts to visit Sally, who quickly accompanies him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.