Grace DeCarlton

A series of flashbacks where a penniless, friendless tramp and his dog relates the story of his downfall due to drink.

On his way to visit his fiancée, the young man saw her on the front steps in earnest conversation with a stranger. The stranger took the girl's hand, mounted his horse, and rode away. Instead of waiting for an explanation, the girl's sweetheart angrily demanded one. Hurt by his attitude, she refused to give it.

The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.

In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge as a maid. In this woodland community, she attends church and the path to Salvation becomes clear to her. Through Mary's faith, the injured folk of the countryside are healed. However, her old employer, whose lustful advances she'd previously spurned, still has designs on her.

A chorus girl in a theatrical show is being pursued by a "Stage Door Johnny" while her somewhat prudish boyfriend tries to "rescue" her from a life in the theater. Old Jane, the show's wardrobe mistress, takes the girl under her wing and gives her advice on how to handle her situation.

Documentary chronicling the career of Grace DeCarlton Ross (1890-1983) from her days acting in silent movies to the 1980s when she was living in Portland, Maine and still dancing in her nineties.