A Spring Idyll

The first of six installments in Paula Blackton's Country Life Stories series.

Detective Joe Rock is hired to pursue the villainous Max after her kidnaps new bride Patsy.

The Sultan is not a very happy man. He charges his royal jester to make him laugh before sunrise or die.

An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested....

A young man who falls for a Parisian dancer, but his wealthy family disapproves leading to societal conflict, misunderstandings, and eventual...

When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady, she disguises herself in...

A crooked lawyer sells his car.

The wanton dancer Thais, tries to entice Paphnutius from becoming a monk but fails. He later returns to reclaim her soul and follow in his footsteps....

A woman with a taste for expensive clothing has four nightmares. An impoverished disabled girl sells her hair, a trapper finds he has an unfaithful...

When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is...

A lonely wife becomes obsessed with furs and keeps bad company in an effort to obtain more.

A quarrelling couple are forced to quarantine together after the household maid becomes ill of an infectious disease.