Madge Evans – MRQE

The Tunnel

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

Classmates

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

Duncan, the son of a village postmaster, is in love with Sylvia, daughter of a rich and snobbish family. He enrolls at West Point but ends up having a fist fight with Sylvias other suitor, Bert, his classmate at the academy.

Piccadilly Jim

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jim’s father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father’s hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics ‘Rags to Riches’ which is based upon the Pett’s. But this upsets the Pett’s so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

Pennies from Heaven

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy’s welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.

Sporting Blood

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

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

Husband and Wife

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

When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments. He is joined in these plans by one of the bank’s directors, but when Doris unknowingly snubs the director’s wife, he pulls out his aid. Dick finds himself in serious trouble, and then Doris leaves him after an argument. She is about to leave for the Orient with her daughter Bessie, a friend, Mrs. Prescott, and an admirer, Patrick Alliston, but they are stopped at the station because Dick is believed to be with them. He isn’t, and his difficulties drive him to an aborted suicide attempt. Doris finally wakes up to what is going on and reconciles with Dick. The bank examiner looks over the books and helps Dick get back on his feet, much to the director’s chagrin.

Sinners in Paradise

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

The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.

Moonlight Murder

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.

Exclusive Story

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

A reporter and his newspaper’s attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Men Without Names

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.