Rosemary Theby – MRQE

Long Live the King

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

A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?

Shame

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

William Fielding, a young widower, is living in Shanghai with his little boy, David. A young Chinese woman looks after the child, and Foo Chang, a trader, lusts after her. Because he believes she is David’s mother, he kills Fielding. Fielding’s faithful secretary, Li Clung, takes the boy to San Francisco to be raised by his grandfather. As an adult, David (also played by Gilbert) fights against opium trafficking with Li Clung’s help.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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

In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain’s classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur’s court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.

The Drunkard

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

The Fatal Glass of Beer

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

The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that “ain’t fit for man nor beast.”

Kismet

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

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

Fifth Avenue Models

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

A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves

Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter, Lorna, marry Waki, a native leader, although Lorna loves Lloyd Warren. While in search of a doll for his other daughter, Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he does not recognize. A chance encounter with Faulke, however, reveals the trader’s evil doings and Lorna’s identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.

Fightin’ Mad

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

Returning to his father’s cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send him to an old friend who commands the Border Police in Texas. On the way he meets Peggy Hughes, accompanying her Uncle Graham, a customs inspector, and he retrieves her hat from the rails of a train. At the headquarters, numerous scrapes and fights win him the admiration of, and friendship with, the men. Lazaro, a Secret Service agent, invites Mrs. Graham and Peggy, who are staying at the border station, for an automobile ride, and they are captured by bandits and held for ransom. Bud and his pals deliver the ransom and discover that Lazaro is the bandit chief. Lazaro refuses to release Peggy, but a jealous rival, Nita de Garma, causes his downfall and shoots him as the Border Police arrive to rescue the party.

Upstairs and Down

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

Alice Chesterton is described as a “Baby Vamp” by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at the Ives’ Long Island house party, then encourages Terence O’Keefe, a playboy polo player from Ireland, to rendezvous with her in the city; they are seen together at the “Midnight Frolic”. Because of this, Mrs. Ives convinces Alice’s newly-arrived sister Betty to look after Alice.