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The Golden Goal Synopsis

John Doran, a tough longshoreman, wanders into a seaman's mission and meets Beatrice Walton, the daughter of wealthy shipbuilder Richard Walton, who frequents the slums in search of excitement. Beatrice has John hired at her father's estate, but despite her flirtatious behavior towards him, she fires the sailor when he reveals his affections for her. Determined to win her love and respect, John secures a job in the Talbot shipbuilding yards. With the encouragement of stenographer Laura Brooks, he educates himself and is soon made foreman of the workers and a leader of the union. Mr. Walton, who wishes to acquire the Talbot yard as a part of his trust, convinces Beatrice to lure John to the estate, where he offers him $15,000 to ruin Talbot. John accepts the bribe and organizes a strike that nearly shuts down the plant, but he repents in time to prevent irreparable damage. Talbot and the workingmen forgive John, and he returns to the source of his inspiration, Laura.

Rose of the South Synopsis

Mr. Curtis returns to his Alma mater and regales students with stories about the Civil War, which ended fifty years before. He tells them about his college friends, Dick Randolph and Watkins, who were at first rivals for Marian - who far preferred Dick - and then rivals on the battlefield. Watkins, a Union officer, captured Dick, a Confederate, but Marian helped her sweetheart escape. Watkins and Dick were then wounded in the same battle and died in each other's arms after asserting their friendship and forgetting their past differences. Back in the present, an aged Marian joins the group. She dies while listening to Mr. Curtis, and fifty years after she and Dick had been lovers in the flesh, her spirit goes to join his.