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- This picturesque narrative of Spain, from the magic pen of the brilliant writer, Posper Merimee, and set to music by the immortal Bizet, is the subject now presented in film d'art form. Madame Lepanto as Carmen, typifies the description of the Spanish girl. Don Jose Navarro, a Basque, and a Christian of the ancient type, had enlisted in the cavalry regiment of Almanza and was on duty at the tobacco factory in Seville where four or five hundred girls were employed in rolling cigars. As the bell rings for the girls to return to their work the young men watch them as they pass. One, a handsome, merry-looking girl, the beauty of the place and known to all as "La Carmencita," struts by the line of admiring men. Don Jose being a quiet sort of fellow, is not much attracted at first by the saucy-looking beauty, who, not accustomed to being ignored, asked Navarro to give her the chain he is fashioning out of some brass wire. Navarro replied that he could not, as he was making it for a certain purpose, whereupon she took the flower from her month and struck him in the face with it, much to the amusement of all the others. As Carmen passed on. Navarro, when no one was looking, stooped and picked up the flower and put it in his pocket. Two or three hours after this incident a porter rushed into the guard house saying that one of the factory girls had been murdered. With several of his comrades Don Jose hurried to the factory, where he beheld a wounded woman lying on the floor and recognized Carmen in the grasp of five or six of her companions. When the wounded girl beheld the soldiers, she accused Carmen, who stood with a defiant expression on her face. Don Jose's duty was plain: he must arrest the girl. So taking her gently by the arm (she being a woman) he bound her hands behind her and placed her under arrest. The wily gypsy asked her for her mantilla and then started off with Don Jose. On the way she turned and asked him in a childlike tone where he was taking her, Don Jose, determined to do his duty, answered that he was taking her to prison. Upon which she begged and pleaded with him to have mercy. Soon, therefore, when they come to a narrow lane, with one throat of her tiny hand she gives Don Jose a push, and he obligingly falls back and his prisoner hopping over his prostrate body regains her liberty. Navarro is compelled to return to the guard house without succeeding in locating her, and consequently is reduced to the ranks and imprisoned for a month. While he is in prison his keeper comes to him one day with a loaf of bread, which he said was sent him by his cousin. Navarro knows very well that he has no cousin in Seville and immediately suspects that Carmen is responsible for the loaf of bread. As he attempts to cut it his knife strikes something hard and he finds that a small English file has been placed in the dough before it was baked. He also finds two pastries with which Carmen evidently intended him to purchase a civilian's coat, and also a note from Carmen telling him to meet her at Lillas Pastia's. Thanks to the gypsy girl's thoughtfulness, Navarro escapes and finds his love waiting for him at the old gypsy eating house. Well, the end of it all is that Carmen has decided to persuade Navarro to join a band of smugglers. At first he would not listen to it, but finally out of love for the girl he consented. For his devotion, however, the fickle beauty repays him by flirting with other admirers, thus making Don Jose most unhappy. She had at this time become acquainted with a very handsome and skillful picador named Lucas. One day one of his comrades told him that he saw Carmen in a shop with Lucas and Navarro became inflamed and questioned the girl, who confessed her love for the picador, at the same time tearing off her finger a ring Don Jose had given her. The latter, unable any longer to control his rage, strikes her a deadly blow with his knife and then remains with arm uplifted as if turned to stone as he gazes down on the huddled up little figure of the woman he had so passionately loved.
- With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confident that his ships will soon be bringing him great wealth, the merchant willingly agrees to conditions of the loan that put him at great personal risk.
- About the daughter of the Borgia, a noble medieval house. From her numerous and unhappy weddings, to the forced monacation, to the will of her family.
- King Lear decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters. The oldest two daughters fawn insincerely over their father, and get most of his possessions. The youngest daughter, Cordelia, is much less lavish in her displays of affection, and disappoints her father. But events soon lead the old king to find out how each of his daughters really feels about him.
- In a fit of growing madness, Emperor Caligula decides to capture a group of devout Christians and feed them to the lions. Young Egle catches the Emperor's attention and he bids her become his wife.
- Richard Francis, cashier of the Security Bank, sat alone, long after business hours, in his cage, the rays of the electric light above his head forming the sole spot of light in all the pitchy blackness that surrounded him. Frowns of perplexity and wrath played alternately on his forehead as he gazed on a note held in his hand. The note was a confession of attempted misuse of the bank's funds which the banker's son left with the old cashier to convey to his father on the next morning, and the banker's son was the man to whom the cashier's daughter had given her heart. Francis pocketed the note and took it home. The next noon, when Harry Morrell, son of the president of the bank, saw his father at luncheon he discovered that the note had not been delivered. He could not bring himself to the point of confessing his guilt. Gambling and carousing, these had been the causes of his financial transgression. He rushed to the bank to learn from his prospective father-in-law that the note had not been delivered, that he had taken it home by mistake and left it there. The cashier desired to see Morrell at his home. In his mind he had a scheme to assist the young man to remove the blemish from his name. Morrell, not waiting to answer, dashed out of the bank and made for the Francis home. Entering softly, he made his way to the library undetected and began feverishly to ransack the desk. In the midst of search he heard a step. In a jiffy he had the tell-tale note in his hand and started to rush from the room. It was Mabel, his intended, who blocked his way. Not waiting to explain and wishing to impress on her his unworthiness in a decisive manner, he knocked her brutally to the floor and fled. The cashier, alarmed by the young man's state of mind while in the bank, hurried home to find his daughter unconscious. He telephoned this bit of news to the Francis home, where the butler gave it to the younger Morrell as he entered. His father entered shortly after and Harry, unnerved by his act of desperation in felling Mabel, confessed all. The banker laid his hands on his son's shoulders, "You have wronged the girl more than me. Ask her forgiveness and make amends, and then come to me. I have lost my boy but have gained a man for a son." And Mabel, receiving the penance of Harry later, felt that the one who had wooed and had struck her to prevent his one unworthy act to come to her knowledge was worthy to be her husband.
- A tragedy based upon a happening in Italian history in which a young and beautiful widow marries the faithless Duke of Milan. To save a friendly chevalier, the duchess makes a false confession, but her sacrifice fails in its purpose, and after the young fellow has paid the death penalty, the returning executioners find that the shock has caused her death also.
- Romeo, of the House of Capulets, and Juliet, of the House of Montagues, scorn the family feud of years, and love each other with all the fervor of Veronian youths. The ardent wooer sings his love beneath his lady's window while the stars wink their approval of the lovers' happiness. Juliet's father urges her marriage to Tybalt, a man of his choosing, but Romeo determines she shall not, so together they visit the venerable Friar Lawrence and are secretly united in marriage. Romeo is challenged by his rival, Tybalt, and in the encounter wounds his antagonist, for which he is exiled. Romeo's departure leaves Juliet open to the demands of her father, who insists upon her immediate marriage to Tybalt. In terror she flees to the old Friar, who gives her a powerful sleeping potion, and on the day she is to marry Tybalt, her friends are horrified to see her fall into a deathlike swoon. She is interred in the vault of her ancestors, and Romeo, hearing of her death, returns home, enters the vault and after gazing upon the face of his beloved plunges a dagger into his heart. Juliet awakens to see him expiring, and in her agony seizes the same dagger, inflicts a death-wound, and expires beside her lover.
- In love, although a Cardinal, with the same girl, the beautiful Sancia, as his brother John. Duke of Gandia, Caesar did not hesitate, after an entertainment at the Vatican, to hire bravi, and to have this brother foully done to death, and to be afterwards thrown into the Tiber. For a time the disappearance of John Borgia remained clothed in mystery, but the waters of the river gave up their dead in the very heart of Rome, almost within a stone's throw of the Papal Palace. John's mutilated remains are brought into his father's presence, and Sancia denounces the all-powerful Ceasar as the author of the crime. But if Alexander VI. was at times a powerful ruler, his weakness with his children was complete, and he feared Cesar and also Lucretia, his notorious daughter. Sancia. determined to avenge her lover's death, plans the murderer's undoing. She sends him the following anonymous note:-" A lady who admires and secretly loves Cesar will await him to-night in the Avenue of the Graces." Cesar has his suspicions aroused, yet his fondness for mysterious adventures induces him to cast prudence aside, and, going to the appointment, he falls into the trap laid for him. Thrown into a cell and chained to the wall, he manages to attack his jailer, to overpower the man, and to escape.