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Ranger of the Big Pines Synopsis

Virginia Weatherford returns home after leaving the Western town of Sulfur Springs ten years earlier. She is shocked to discover that her mother, who operates a hotel with a rough clientele, has become as hardened as her tenants. Virginia soon falls in love with Ross Cavanagh, a forest ranger who reconciles her to her new life. However, Ross runs afoul of cattle baron Sam Gregg, who resents the new government tax on cattle grazed on public land. Sam orders his men to persuade Ross, by whatever means necessary, to ignore the tax. After Pinkie, a waiter at the hotel, overhears Sam planning an attack on the ranger, Virginia comes to Ross's aid, along with a wanted criminal who confides in the ranger that he is Virginia's father. Sam is defeated in the ensuing battle, which also leaves Virginia's father dead. Ross returns to the East, taking Virginia and her mother with him, but continues to keep the dead man's secret.

Sadie Goes to Heaven Synopsis

Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker, so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Welland Riche. The latter has left earlier in the day on a trip, so when Sadie and. her dog, George Washington Square, who has been her companion in the hamper trip, are dumped down the clothes chute of the Riche home while concealed in the basket, they find easy access to the upper regions of the mansion and then, indeed, Sadie thinks she is in heaven. Sadie soon is discovered by the servants, but they believe she is just another of Mrs. Riche's fads when she tells them she is there to stay. Believing Mrs. Riche as desiring that the best of care be given the child, Sadie is dressed in rich garments and is much at home until Mrs. Riche returns. While the servants' explanations have been made, Mrs. Riche, in the meantime having been won over by the child's beauty and sweet manners, decides Sadie may remain. But the tenement child's happiness is short-lived when George Washington Square appears upon the scene. Mrs. Riche orders that the pup be removed and tells Sadie that, instead, she can play with the Riche collection of Poms. Not so for Sadie. She informs the wealthy matron that she wouldn't give up George Washington Square for all the heavens and that if G.W.S. cannot remain she will go. So hugging her doggie close to her she returns to her worried mother with the explanation, "I have been to heaven, but they sent me home because they didn't like my dog."