06 Sep 1915
Mortmain
Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the surgeon.
Daring Youth
On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode of living with her husband: only two breakfasts a week together and complete freedom otherwise.
Top Billed Cast
Bebe Daniels Alita Allen
Norman Kerry John J. Campbell
Lee Moran Arthur James
Arthur Hoyt Winston Howell
Lillian Langdon Mrs. Allen
George C. Pearce Mr. Allen
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