The Masked Ball (1916)

Christopher Race is engaged to take in his Scarlet Runner Ponsonby Fitzgerald, an eccentric novelist, and a party of friends to a ball. The affair as planned by Fitzgerald is to end in a great joke, whereby his party will be awarded the prize for the most sensational entrance to the ball. Christopher looks forward to the adventure as a lark. He receives quite a shock when a revolver is given to him by Miss Dauvray of the party, with instructions to use it if necessary. He begins to suspect that all is not as it should be, and that Fitzgerald and his friends are after more than the prize. At a critical moment of the ball Christopher halts proceedings with a shot, and makes Fitzgerald return the jewels he has taken from the dancers in his act as a highwayman. Fitzgerald makes the best of the situation and the affair is passed off as a joke. Miss Dauvray afterwards thanks Christopher for what he has done and tells him something of her relations with Fitzgerald. Christopher becomes interested, whereupon the girl suddenly changes her manner and laughs, declaring the whole thing, after all, to be a joke.

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GenresAction Short