A Birthday Turnabout on a Frugal Home Porch
Marcella, unhappy with diamonds, seeks escape after an argument with Bruce. She wanders to a cottage where Babs Binley hosts a birthday porch display of roses and gifts from a loving husband Ned and their child Billy. There Marcella learns fragile happiness comes from simple, meaningful tokens over wealth.
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Bruce
Marcella
Laurel and Daggered Dreams Behind Tenement Walls
Lindell, a displaced woman, moves from small-town happiness to New York toil. After failed searches for steady work she works in a shirt factory and buys a laurel bunch for ten cents from a street peddler. She clings to memory of home as she plans a return with six dollars earned and a one-day break to herself.
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Lindell
Laurel
Long Way Home Ends In Quiet Farmstead Comfort
A weary Lindell walks to a valley station and faints in woods. A strong young man named John West finds her, carries her to his wagon, and brings her to his white farmhouse. Mrs. West welcomes her, urging rest and a hoped for long, happy life.
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Lindell
Father
Miss Prior
John West
Mrs. West
John
Ailing Candace Finds Hope in Unlikely Proposal
Candace, widow and devoted mother, faces ruin as a rubber stock failing prompts anxiety over Gwendolen’s marriage prospects to Bobby Graham. Hubert Leeds unexpectedly returns, offers marriage, and promises support for Candace, Gwendolen, and Bobby, shifting the crisis toward a new union born of love.
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Gwendolen
Mr. Leeds
Bob
Mother
Candace
Bobby Graham
Hubert Leeds
Bobby
Corinne Webster Confesses She Is Not Playing Any More
In Crystal Springs Corinne Webster longs to be a summer boarder and even imagines a pink silk dress and a romance with Dr. Gordon. Her mother scolds yet hints at sending Corinne to Aunt Julia or to Crystal Springs for options. The doctor teases a role as summer gentleman as Corinne and he grow closer in a veiled romance.
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Lindell
Max Prior
Mother
Gwendolen
Corinne Webster
Corinne
Julia
Mrs. Webster
Miss Elliott
Pippy
Crystal Springs
Frenzied Finance and Witty Marital Quips
A collage of comic exchanges about money and marriage. A wife boasts saving $900 on an automobile deal her husband thought he could buy. The bride six months in explores love, fashion, and humor about storms, right hands, weather, and loaves of luck.
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George
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Lindell Prior
Ned
Billy
Laun
By Will Seaton
Marsella
Babs Binley
Babs
Ana
Annette Anger
By Walt Gregg
Aries
Helena Waters
Leeds
Bob Graham
Elsie
Endicott
Corigne
Dr. Gordon