Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
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Harry T. Morey as Jack Breen - a Fake Beggar
Julia Swayne Gordon as Lizzie Breen - Jack's Wife & Accomplice
Robert Gaillard as 1st Detective
Dorothy Kelly as 2nd Detective
Mary Maurice as Jennie Corcoran
Joseph Baker as Jack Williams
United States 27 May 1913
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26 November 1913
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met.
13 December 1913
Mary and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. Stanley, the girl's father, suspects the boy of being a victim of the drug habit.
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Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire.
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A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life.
20 January 1913
In The Struggle (Broncho, 1913) a prospector and his son Bob depart from home in the morning, while the wife, at home, offers food to a passing stranger.
01 June 1913
The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”.
29 August 1913
Max is in love with a charming girl, who also is already affianced to another. Does Max despair? Never.
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Dr. Sharp and his wife, Gretchen, live happily together in a little western town until the advent of the doctor's brother, Fred, who comes from the east to spend his vacation near his brother.
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