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The Final Close-Up Synopsis

When Nora Nolan, a poor bargain-basement clerk, faints from the heat, she is told to take a vacation. Reporter Jimmie Norton, the son of a millionaire, witnesses the incident and sends her an anonymous $200 check. Nora stays at a fashionable seaside hotel, where Jimmie happens to be pitching for the hotel baseball team after he is fired from the newspaper. Jimmie is called home just as Nora is accused of looting the bath houses. After she catches Emily Westervelt-Moore, a society girl who covets Jimmie, planting evidence in her room, Nora's money is stolen and she is forced to wash dishes to pay her bill. When she overhears a plan to rob the hotel safe, Nora catches the real thief, Lloyd Gregory, shortly after Jimmie and his father arrive. The elder Norton expresses his approval of Nora as she and Jimmie embrace in "the final close-up."

The Fuel of Life Synopsis

After discovering her husband Roger has been unfaithful to her, Angela De Haven sets out to make all men pay for his deceit. Roger, despairing of ever winning back his wife, sails for the South Sea islands and is lost during the voyage. Meanwhile, Angela establishes a salon where prominent men vie for her attentions. One of the members of her court, Bragdon Brant, controls the Bob Cat mine, but not the railroad extending to it which is owned by Bob Spalding. Brant sends Angela West to buy the controlling interest in the railroad and she meets Bob, who falls in love with her. Angela refuses to marry him and flees after securing control of the road through Bob's partner, Durant. She returns to New York, intent upon ruining Brant, but is prevented from carrying out her plans when Bob appears and forces her to realize the destructive path that her life has taken. Angela then restores the railroad shares to Bob, and thus reconciled, they travel West to spend the rest of their lives together.