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A Modern Melnotte (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

A Modern Melnotte (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

John Brice, a young sport and millionaire, aspires for the hand of Betty and is so confident of winning her that he makes a wager at his club that he will gain her favor within a week. Betty Van Allen looks upon Brice unfavorably, and to ...See moreJohn Brice, a young sport and millionaire, aspires for the hand of Betty and is so confident of winning her that he makes a wager at his club that he will gain her favor within a week. Betty Van Allen looks upon Brice unfavorably, and to his mortification rejects him. He cannot understand this attitude on her part, so in order to seek revenge, determines on a plot to humiliate Betty. He has in his employ an English groom of good appearance and education whom he determines to have pose as an English Lord, and inveigles the groom into a plot whereby he will receive a certain sum of money for taking the part of an impostor. Accordingly he supplies the groom with the necessary clothes and funds and introduces him to the Van Allens at a cotillion given by Betty in honor of her father's home-coming. The groom is duly introduced as Lord Carrington, and Betty, impressed by his charming manner and pleasing personality, succumbs to his proposal and they become engaged. John Brice in the meantime is pleased with his accomplishments and insists that his groom marry Betty. The wedding takes place and after they have lived together a short while the denouement comes and Brice tells Betty that she has married his former groom. She, frantic and terrorized, leaves her husband immediately. He has learned to love her, however, and goes away to forget. In the interim John Brice has been working a scheme in stock manipulation whereby he has succeeded in embarrassing Betty's father to the extent that he is nearly bankrupt. Brice makes Van Allen an offer of money in return for certain plans which the Major has. Meanwhile the groom has become interested in oil in a Western city and has made good. Betty is entirely ignorant of her father's shortcomings and has also started divorce proceedings against her husband. Business calls the groom east and prior to his again seeing Betty, he receives a letter from England, his home, which contains good news. He goes to visit his wife and finds her in the library with Brice and her father. Brice has determined upon a plan whereby he will release Betty's father if she consents to marry him after her divorce, and the former groom overhears this conversation. He rushes in and consternation reigns. The father explains the circumstances to the groom, and Betty, upon seeing her husband, again realizes that she truly loves him. She confesses that she does not want to part from him whether he is a groom or no groom. He thereupon takes her into his confidence and shows her the letter he has received from home which discloses his true identity, namely, that he is the son of the Duke of Arylsford, who has been disinherited because of disobedience in his early youth. The letter, however, states that his father on his death-bed leaves his estate and fortune to his son. The groom enables his father-in-law to make reparation to Brice and places his fortune in his father-in-law's hands. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Ray Gallagher The Young Duke of Arylsford The Young Duke of Arylsford See fewer	The Prisoner's Story (1912)
Edna Maison Betty Van Allen Betty Van Allen See fewer	Richelieu (1914)
Bert Hadley John Brice John Brice See fewer	Madam Who? (1918)
Clarence Barr Betty's Father Betty's Father See fewer	Madam Who? (1918)