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The Marriage Circus Synopsis
Madeline "busts" Ben's heart when she turns him down at the church for another beau. Ben, in order to blot out the blighty past, does a "Ben Hur" with a couple of horses. The wedding party pursues him in several cars during the course of which the bride is stolen by another admirer. It so happens that Ben's horses collide with the taxicab in which reposes the abducted damsel and he unconsciously effects her rescue.
An Amateur Devil Synopsis
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.
"The Marriage Circus" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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