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The Girl-Woman Synopsis

Even though she's 17, Belinda is tired of being treated like a small child in the small Southern village where she lives with her father, Judge Lee. Out of frustration, she arranges a "growing-up" party, and makes her appearance dressed "to the nines", in a long, elegant gown with her hair and face all made up. That night an Sanford, an escaped convict, breaks into Judge Lee's home, bent on revenge for the judge having sent him to prison. However, both he and Belinda are in for a big surprise.

The Duplicity of Hargraves Synopsis

Old Major Pendleton Talbot of Mobile moves with his daughter Lydia to Washington, D.C., where he works on his book of reminiscences about Alabama, while Lydia scrimps to keep up appearances. Although the young government clerks ridicule the Major's dress, vaudeville actor Henry Hopkins Hargraves, the Talbots' boardinghouse neighbor, cultivates their friendship and listens attentively to the Major's stories. When a new Southern play opens, the Major splurges and buys tickets for himself and Lydia. Hargraves, playing the lead, imitates the Major's dress, mannerisms, and speech, and delights the audience, while infuriating the Major. He castigates Hargraves, who leaves, to Lydia's dismay. Later, when the Major is broke and refuses to seek a loan, an old slave from the Talbot plantation, Uncle Mose, arrives and gives the Major $300 which, he claims, is payment for a pair of mules which the Major's father gave him. The Major soon finds a publisher for this book, and Lydia gets a letter from Hargraves revealing that he, as Uncle Moses, repaid the Major for his help with the role.