Jack Dean

Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. (imdb)

Maida Carrington (Fannie Ward) goes to a city with a gambler (Charles West) but runs away after she witnesses the gambler steal money from Steve Boyce (Jack Dean). The woman takes a job with the Salvation Army and after that she meets Steve again because he now has no money and needs help. They fall in love and Steve asks her to marry him, but Maida thinks she isn't a good match for him because of her past association with the gambler.

When Rose Jorgensen, who lives in a squalid tenement house, hears that her husband is to be electrocuted, she commits suicide, leaving two young daughters, Rose and Norma. Rose is adopted by Judge and Mrs. Keith and brought up in luxury, while Norma is adopted by a neighbor and raised in squalor. Once grown, Norma is noticed by a hypnotist named Calistro who employs her to be his subject.

Fannie Ward plays a society girl who touches our sympathy by her sense and by the suggested backgrounds of estimable character of her actions. We know that the young man she is marrying is a thief. She finds it out the first day of the honeymoon. Tom Forman has the part of the young man and Jack Dean plays his older brother, the hero of the picture.

While the basic plot to this overwrought drama sounds ludicrous enough to modern-day audiences, its most repugnant aspect is having white character actor Tully Marshall play a "voodoo-crazed Negro servant." Mrs. Jackson (Fannie Ward) is unhappily married. Her husband (Hobart Bosworth) is wealthy, but he's also brutal and cruel, so she lavishes her affection on her son, Billy (Billy Jacobs). Mrs. Lenning (Mabel Van Buren), a widow, sets out to destroy the marriage so she can have Jackson.

A woman named Betty (Fannie Ward) is simple and plain, her husband finds that boring and doesn't invite her out. She decides she needs to wear nicer clothes to get the attention of her husband. Suddenly she inherits a large amount of money while at the same time her husband loses all his money in a stock market crash. Her husband doesn't realize she is rich so he goes out to California to sell some of their property to raise some final money.

The story takes place in early 18th century England. Sally Temple (played by Fannie Ward) is pursued by many men. She goes on a series of comedic misadventures, sometimes resulting in becoming somewhat undressed. Eventually she chooses a husband.

In New York, a wealthy stockbroker attempts to seduce the daughter of a former employee.