Joseph Levering in The Cup of Chance (1915)

Alice Brady

George W. Howard

Flavia Arcaro

Clarence J. Harris

Jack Evans, ambitious clerk for a wealthy broker, Wilson by name, meets Estelle, a butterfly widow. After several calls a romance between Estelle and Jack culminates in an engagement, which is followed by a hand-to-hand combat bet...

Joseph Levering

The Cup of Chance

Jack Evans, ambitious clerk for a wealthy broker, Wilson by name, meets Estelle, a butterfly widow. After several calls a romance between Estelle and Jack culminates in an engagement, which is followed by a hand-to-hand combat between Jack and Estelle's lover, Brandon, resulting in a serious injury to little Hope, the widows four-year-old daughter. Hope wins the heart of Jack, an incident which helps to keep the new home together after the marriage of the butterfly to the ambitious clerk. Miserable months pass, during which Estelle sees that she made a grave mistake in marrying Jack. Her love for Brandon returns, wine parties are again indulged in. Jack's treasury diminishes, little Hope is led into dangerous influences, and all ends in Estelle taking Hope and eloping with Brandon. By the firelight Jack fondles a toy ship of Hope, dreams of the child he loved and settles back in loneliness. A few years later Jack becomes manager of the firm and the confidante of the owner, Wilson. Hope is now a girl of eighteen. Estelle and Brandon, nearing the margin through their life of sin, bedeck Hope with all the finery possible, anticipating profit through her disposal. Money passes into Brandon's hands from a slaver, who poses as a man of wealth, while the boys who are outdone discover his identity and he is arrested. A theatrical manager, seeing in Hope a possibility for his opera, makes her a promising offer and takes her home. In the home of Estelle and Brandon a fight results, as Estelle claims part of the money given by the slaver. The fight ends in Estelle shooting Brandon and her own death. Hope, accompanied by a mission worker, followed by the theatrical manager, comes on the scene, and Hope sees a new chance for life. She at first pledges herself to the mission worker, but later experiences a revulsion in feeling and becomes "Circe" in an opera. Jack, freed by the death of his wife, Estelle, is engaged to a society girl, but the engagement is broken by the girl's mother, who learns he is only a clerk. On the day of the canceled engagement, Jack inherits the wealth of his aged employer. Hope is true to her "Circe" role, acting the same when off the stage, to the chagrin of her admirer, the theatrical manager. The city rings with the name of "Circe." Jack, not knowing it is Hope, refuses all inducements to meet the famous star. Jack, bored by persistent women, escapes to the seashore. Hope in the meantime has reached the limits of her physical endurance, and a huge cabaret affair ends in her collapse, resulting in her secret escape from the theatrical manager to the same resort at which Jack is stopping. Jack and Hope, neither identifying the other, meet. A romance ends in their marriage and a honeymoon is followed by a great reception when Jack introduces his wife into society. Suspicions are awakened and gossip spreads the rumor that Jack's wife and "Circe" are identical. Hope pines for her old life. The opera company returns with its old manager, the old love of "Circe" awakens, she fits in the role of "Circe" owing to the sickness of the star, while Jack is supposed to be far away. Jack, having suspicions confirmed, awaits the return of Hope and her old lover, and as they revel in Jack's parlor, Jack appears as "Circe's Ulysses." Jack places poison in one glass of wine. Hope, still in her "Circe" gown, is forced to serve the two men at the pistol point. One cup is the cup of chance, the other death. The theatrical manager drinks his death, and Jack leaves for the seashore, giving all to Hope, who collapses. Later, in her wheelchair, Hope sees Jack by the shore. Jack refuses forgiveness. She, in desperation, hands him a picture of herself at the age of four. Her cry startles the nurse; Jack turns to forgive, knowing she is his own "Hope," but the wheelchair accidentally carries Hope over the cliff to her death.

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