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Secret Marriage Synopsis

Daughter of a small town police lieutenant, Mary MacLaren tells her story while on the witness stand for drunkenness and attempted suicide. Mary's friend Helen, the daughter of the police captain, persuades Mary to do things against her better judgment. After Mary inadvertently sips spiked punch, she puts the house key in her coat pocket and then loans the coat to a friend who decides to get married at once. The coat is not returned, and without her key, Mary stays out all night. She is caught by the police, led by her father, in a hotel room with a man. Finally, Mary manages to unravel the chain of circumstantial evidence that had threatened her good reputation.

Life's Blind Alley Synopsis

After becoming Adam Keating's partner in a ranching venture, Walt Landis hopes to become his son-in-law as well. Adam's daughter Helen, however, has different ideas, and marries the dissipated Fred Sherwood. Tired of his solitary rancher's life, a disappointed Walt then marries Rose McKee after answering the lonely-hearts letter that she placed in a box of collars. Meanwhile, Adam grows weary of Fred's chronic laziness, and so, hoping that the change of scenery will prove therapeutic, he sends Fred and Helen to Walt's ranch. Thrown together, Fred and Rose soon fall in love, while Helen, bored with her shiftless husband, starts a flirtation with Walt. Then, Rose and Fred get caught in quicksand, and for a moment Walt and Helen, seeing their chance to get married, consider letting them die. They finally rescue them, however, after which Helen and Fred return to Adam's ranch, while Walt and Rose continue their loveless marriage.