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The Grey Sisterhood (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Grey Sisterhood (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

The Felborn theater is crowded to witness the first performance of Lord John's play, dramatized from his novel. Opposite the box in which sit Lord John and other guests of the manager are Roger Odell and Maida. Lord John notices a spasm of...See moreThe Felborn theater is crowded to witness the first performance of Lord John's play, dramatized from his novel. Opposite the box in which sit Lord John and other guests of the manager are Roger Odell and Maida. Lord John notices a spasm of pain flash over Maida's face and traces her gaze to a sinister figure in the orchestra. It is Doctor Rabousmeses. Lord John hurries after this person, arriving at the curb just in time to see his automobile roll away, not, however, before Lord John jots down the number of the machine. This is seen by a veiled woman who sits far back in the car. It is the Head Sister. Dr. Rameses and the Head Sister hasten to the former's house, the upper floors of which are given over to the doctor's lectures on hypnotism and Egyptian wisdom, the basement den being the place where he receives the criminals in his employ. Three-fingered Jenny, a trusty confederate of the Head Sister, an inmate of the Grey Sisterhood Home, is waiting there with her son, Nickie, a dumb boy of ten, who is used by Dr. Rameses on special occasions. Jennie and Nickie are given hurried instructions about the night's work. Roger Odell shows Lord John the wonderful mummy case belonging to Matua and the elaborate electric wiring system which surrounds it and prevents theft. As Roger is going away, and Maida will also be out of the house, he confides to Lord John the secret of the valuable curio's safety. He gives him two envelopes, one containing diagrams of the apparatus, the other the printed key to the secret system, one being useless without the other. While Lord John sleeps, after consulting and noting some deductions in his journal, chiefly his suspicions of the Grey Sisterhood, and the eagerness of the head of it to gain possession of the mummy, Sickle slips from under the bed. He cuts on the automobile number noted on Lord John's cuff, his chief object in coming. When Lord John later finds the box under the bed, misses the envelope and sees the severed cuff, he knows he has been tricked, but can do nothing. In the early morning Lord John starts out in his motor to be at the point where he knows Maida will be met by the Head Sister and driven to the home. On the platform he sees a woman whom he recognizes by her garb to be the Head Sister. The wind tosses her veil from her face and she is seen to be wearing a gray mask. Word comes that Maida's train is stalled up the track. Lord John finds Maida troubled by the delayed train and in this condition persuades her to tell him what is and always has been the shadow of her life. Maida concludes her story: Years before, her mother had jilted Roger Odell's father to marry an English Army Officer of whom nothing was known. Three years later the mother returns, dying, and begs Odell to take Maida. As a young girl she is loved by Lieutenant Granville, who is insanely jealous without cause. In the midst of a ball he enters the small anteroom where Maida is surrounded by young men. He then vents bis jealous rage upon the girl, finally sinking into a chair, panting, asking Maida to get his handkerchief where it protrudes from his cuff. Maida draws it out. Granville starts and falls writhing to the floor as a muffled report rings out. Maida tears open his shirt, revealing a revolver with a string leading from the trigger to the handkerchief. The guests burst into the room and Granville's mother accuses Maida of murder. This is her tragic past, and the world has never let her forget it. She is entering the Gray Sisterhood in search of peace. Lord John jots in his faithful journal: "My Maida's sorrows make her mine to save from the Gray Sisterhood, tonight." In the Sisterhood home Maida is asked if the mummy case will come with her trunk. She says it can never be removed from its shrine. Then a light beams from the half-globe of glass, and in the aperture Rameses' face appears. But Lord John had discovered the nunnery and is waiting for just such a contingency in his automobile outside the gate. He assists Maida to escape and then restores her to the Odells. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
William Garwood Lord John Haselmore Lord John Haselmore See fewer	Ruy Blas (1914)
Ogden Crane Roger Odell Roger Odell See fewer	The Flirt (I) (1916)
Stella Razeto Maida Odell Maida Odell See fewer	Memories (1914)
Laura Oakley Head Sister Head Sister See fewer	The Black Box (1915)
Albert MacQuarrie Doctor Ramese Doctor Ramese See fewer	The Viking (1928)
Carmen Phillips Jenny Jenny See fewer	The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921)
Doc Crane L.J. Calit L.J. Calit See fewer	Lord John's Journal (1915)