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The Girl from Montmartre Synopsis

On the Spanish island of Majorca lives the Faneaux family, product of a degenerate English father of good family and a Spanish woman, whom he had not married. Following the father's death, poverty has driven the daughter, Emilia, into shady living and the brother, Rodney, into disreputable adventures. Rodney, tortured by the realization that his life is doomed to be wasted in penury, urges his sister to marry Ewing, a crooked but immensely wealthy film actor. But Emilia rebels and soon afterwards falls in love with Jerome Hautrive, an aristocratic English writer. Rodney and Ewing plan to fleece the Englishman but when Rodney sees in Jerome the man that he might have been, he comes to his side, rescuing him from a dangerous predicament. Thereafter he remains his devoted servant. With the marriage of Jerome and Emilia imminent, the jealous Ewing persuades Emilia that the difference in there social stations will make both of them miserable. Convinced that Ewing has spoken the truth, Emilia returns to her old ways. Jerome discovers her dancing in one of the lowest dives. But still his love burns for her. Thereupon Ewing, in a last desperate effort to make the girl his own, abducts her. Jerome hotly pursues and after a terrible struggle, in which Ewing is wounded, saves her. A short time later Jerome and Emilia are married in England and through the good offices of Jerome, Rodney and an older brother are both settled in positions to which their blood entitles them.

The Lad and the Lion Synopsis

While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a lion and a stowaway named Broot. After Broot commits suicide, Bankinton and the lion are cast adrift upon the shores of Africa where they exist in a primitive state for several months. One day, when Nakhia, the daughter of the Bedouin chief Ali-Es Hadji is out riding, she is beset by danger. Bankinton comes to her rescue and gradually he and the girl fall in love. Ben Saada, the bandit chief, desires Nakhia, and tries to kidnap her. The lion and Bankinton once again come to her defense, and in the ensuing fight, Bankinton is struck on the head and his memory is restored. He then proposes to Nakhia, and the couple set sail to America where they are reunited with Bankinton's family.