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The Devil's Playground Synopsis

A stenographer who is fond of dancing in a posh Broadway cabaret becomes involved with her wealthy employer. When he attacks her in a roadhouse, she escapes through a window, and soon after, he dies of a heart attack. Meanwhile, the wealthy man's son, who frequents the same cabaret, falls in love with a woman of the world. Bored with her older companion, the woman attaches herself to the boy until his money starts to run low. To hold her attentions, the boy attempts to rob a bank but is arrested and sent to prison for a year. Finally, the woman returns to her old paramour and the boy to his mother.

The Heart of a Gypsy Synopsis

Believing her husband to have died on an allied mission to Russia, wealthy Englishwoman Rosalind Dane devotes her life to her three-year-old daughter Patty. When a gypsy band arrives, Rosalind is strangely attracted to them and permits them to camp on her estate. She falls in love with one of them, Ben Galli, and throws a lawn fete, during which Rowena, a fortune-teller, predicts that there will be a tragic death in her family and that she will leave with the gypsies. During the party, Rosalind's husband Ralph returns with a man who is a secret agent for the Soviets. Ralph threatens to divorce Rosalind and take custody of Patty when he learns of her love for Ben, but Rosalind, who by an overheard conversation has learned that Ralph is in the pay of the Bolsheviks, says that she will kill him before allowing him to have their daughter. Ralph is murdered by the agent for refusing to carry out instructions from the Soviets, and because of Rosalind's threat and circumstantial evidence, she is about to be convicted, when Mario, a gypsy brought to the trial by Ben, testifies to the agent's guilt. Rosalind, who had learned from Rowena, really her grandmother, that her mother was a gypsy, leaves with Ben and the band.