The Awakening of Papita (1913)
Hal Osborn, a cowboy, is engaged to Madge. She is coveted by Mert Sabin, a renegade cowpuncher. As cowboys will do, Hal occasionally frequents the saloon and dance hall, Papita, a dance ball girl, is infatuated with Hal, does not hesitate to show it. Hal is naturally kind to women, no matter who and what they are. He tells her he loves another girl and she, furious at being put aside, follows him to find out who the girl is. She sees him enter the Barton Ranch gate and cautiously creeps behind some bushes and is an eye witness to a scene in which Mert attempts to take Madge in his arms after her refusal to countenance his attentions. Hal arrives in time to fight him off, takes his gun away and sends him about his business. Papita picks up a letter from Hal, which Madge was reading and which she dropped during the struggle, and follows Mert; together they hatch a plot. They forge Hal's handwriting and send a note by a Mexican half-breed to Madge, telling her to beep an appointment at the bridge. Madge, believing the note to be from Hal, rides slowly along to keep the appointment. Passing the saloon, she sees Papita, and speaking a kindly word she throws a flower. Papita takes it wonderingly. She enters the saloon and is grossly insulted by a drunken cowboy. Hal interferes and thrashes the brute and goes. It is too much for Papita. She runs after him and tells him of the infamous plot. They apprise the sheriff and the three of them ride off to the rescue. Madge arrives at the trysting place and is seized by Mert and the Mexican and taken to a deserted cabin. Here Mert tells the girl that her only hope of release is to marry him. The rescuers creep up and the Mexican is overpowered, while Mert pats Madge before him and aims at Hal. Papita sees the danger, and throwing herself before Hal she receives the fatal bullet. She dies happy in the thought that she has righted the wrong.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| David Horsley | Producer |
