Gladys Brockwell – MRQE

Conscience

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth’s history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, and then kneels and repents.

So Big

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband’s futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls “So-Big.”

The Drake Case

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house

The Home Towners

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend’s wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend’s money, and almost wrecks their romance.

The Woman Disputed

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.

Lights of New York

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Man, Woman and Sin

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man’s affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.

7th Heaven

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

The Satin Woman

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dorothy Reid — who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport — was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.

Long Pants

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla… but instead, Harry’s first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a “fast” woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.