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The Silent Power Synopsis

John Rollins, an engineer in charge of a hydro-electric plant, welcomes home his son Rob, a brilliant but careless college youth, and persuades Webster, president of the company, to place Rob in charge of a dam construction project. Rob meets Olive Spencer and her brother Jerry; and though Olive is drawn to Rob, she is unhappy to learn that the lake to be created by the dam will flood her old home. Rob's college pals arrive and take him to a party, resulting in his discharge by Webster. Shortly afterward, Webster is found murdered; suspicion falls on Rob, who is arrested and found guilty. At the last moment before the scheduled electrocution, Olive learns that her half-crazed brother, Jerry, killed Webster; and she tries to save Rob. Rollins is obliged to remain on duty and throw the fatal switch. He faints, thinking he has killed his son; but Jerry has atoned by cutting the main prison cable, saving Rob's life but losing his own.

A Sister to Salome Synopsis

When famous opera singer Elinore Duane undergoes an operation on her throat, she has a series of ether-induced visions. In one, she is transported to ancient Rome where she appears as a much-admired woman in love with Paul, a young heretic, and at odds with Lutor, the high priest. To save her love, she poisons Lutor with her ring. After several other visions which involve variations on this love triangle, Elinore awakens to discover that Lutor is actually her doctor, Sascha Jaccard, and that Paul is the son of a friend who has come to visit the recovering prima donna.