A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find themselves on the brink of breakdowns. A greedy agent who has admired the playwright's previous work will stop at nothing to secure the play for himself.
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Ruth Roland as Sylvia Smalley
Ed Brady as Leroux
William Conklin as Charles Edmay
Lucy Blake as Alice Mason
Makoto Inokuchi as Togo
United States 31 August 1917
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01 October 1917
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17 March 1917
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04 February 1917
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15 October 1917
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16 September 1917
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19 May 1917
Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him, unaware that he is constitutionally incapable of fidelity.
01 November 1917
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow.
30 April 1917
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29 September 1917
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26 November 1917
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