- Viola Donizetti emigrates from Italy to the United States, running away from her father and the fiancé he has chosen for her, determined to rejoin Tony, her sweetheart. Unable to find Tony, however, Viola begins a relationship with the wealthy Collingswood, but leaves him when she discovers that he has a wife. Then, Viola finally locates Tony, with whom she makes plans to get married. Before the ceremony, they check into room 47, while Collingswood, obsessed with Viola, goes to the hotel and moves into room 48. He writes a suicide note citing his failed affair with Viola as the reason for his actions and then shoots himself. When Tony reads the note, he decides to leave Viola, but the priest who has been summoned to perform the ceremony persuades him to forget about the letter, and then, finally, Tony and Viola marry.—Pamela Short
- Viola, an orphan Italian girl, lives with her uncle who abuses her and wants to marry her to a moneylender to whom he is in debt. She is in love with Tony, a youthful companion, who goes to America. He tells her that as soon as he can be will send money for her to come after him, and they will be married. He sends her the money, and on the eve of her forced marriage to the moneylender, she runs away and sails for America. Tony has been sent west by the automobile firm by which he is employed, and Viola is met by his cousin who tells her Tony has been killed in an accident. He starts to make love to her himself. She resents this and, after a struggle, gets away and meets Beppo, an old organ grinder, whom she had known in Italy. A few days later Beppo is killed by the automobile in which Sharpless and his son, Godfrey, are riding. They learn his address from a card on the organ, take him home, and Viola, heartbroken, explains that he was her only support. Godfrey admires her very much, and Sharpless, feeling a moral obligation, offers her a place in his home as maid. Tony returns from the west and is told by his cousin that Viola has run away. Collingswood, the Sharpless lawyer, has trouble with his wife, and one evening at the Sharpless home, he is attracted by the beauty of Viola. Godfrey has hidden in a closet in Viola's room and attempts to assault her as she is preparing to retire. She fights and strikes him with a vase. Fearing she has killed him she rushes to the room where the men are and tells the story. Sharpless goes to look after his son, and Collingswood soothes the girl. Sharpless orders her from the house, saying that Collingswood will supply her with money until she can obtain other employment. In the quarters which Collingswood has provided for her, he calls one evening and while he is there, Mrs. Collingswood and her maid come in Viola learns then, for the first time, that Collingswood is married. Mrs. Collingswood's maid has found a bill for expensive jewelry given to Viola and the wife threatens divorce. Viola leaves her beautiful surroundings, gets a place in an automobile accessory store, where Tony meets her. The old love is renewed and a date for the marriage set. Tony engages the bridal suite in a hotel, No. 47, and Collingswood. in despair over her approaching marriage, decides to kill himself and implicate her. He has learned the hotel to which Tony has gone, and engages No. 48. There he shoots himself, leaving a note saying that any reason for this act will be given by the woman in 47. Viola hears the shot, calls the hotel office, and a hotel man and a reporter come up. The latter gets Collingswood's letter, goes to Room 47, sees Viola, shows her the letter, and sees the marriage license. As he begins writing, Tony comes in with the minister, and in a violent scene, she rushes into Room 48, seizes the revolver, and just as she is about to shoot herself, Tony takes the revolver away. The minister succeeds in inducing the reporter to refrain from printing the story. The Collingswood death is declared a case of suicide and Tony and Viola are married.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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