Blanche Cornwall

Family drama centering on Winifred's (Marion Swayne) illness from "consumption". (archive.org)

A spoof of Sherlock Holmes who was quite popular at the time. Directed by Alice Guy Blache in the Solex Studios. (youtube)

The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy's roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor's favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave. (imdb)

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. Looks like only the 1st of 3 reels exists today.

Peggy Wilson (Blanche Cornwall) has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She's also inherited the late Robert Wilson's vast fortune, which puts her very much in Mr. Waston's favor. He would like his son, Frank (Mace Greenleaf), to marry Peggy, but Peggy "is not his style" and "her money is no inducement".

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. (imdb)

A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.

Mr. Newlywed will not allow his wife to have a dog. Her uncle, taking pity on her, goes out to buy one. Meanwhile, Wilkens and his wife, butler and maid to the Newlyweds are informed they must retrieve their "secret" child from friends who were watching her. (imdb)

Major Neal disowns his daughter, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. One morning (Christmas), a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway. The hamper contains a baby girl. (imdb)

A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that "Cleanliness is next to Godliness."

Kitty, the six-year-old daughter of Detective Harper, finds a homeless dog. Her mother does not look with favor upon the animal, and is about to drive him away when Harper decides that they will keep the dog. A gang of counterfeiters victimize some storekeepers with bad bills. The storekeepers complain to Captain Matthews of the Police Department, and he in turn notifies Detective Harper by telephone.

A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is not qualified to earn his living. In the meanwhile his wife grows ill, a child is born, and several years after, the man finds himself in narrow straits. He prepares to go out and burglarize a place. His child enters when he leaves his revolver on the table. The child plays with it as with a toy and then innocently removes the bullets.