As in a Looking Glass (1916) Online
Scandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him. Eventually, Lila agrees to marry Andrew, but during their honeymoon, Dromiroff abducts her from the bridal suite. At headquarters, Lila is shot while destroying the documents, and before dying, she telephones Andrew to confess her misdeeds. The conspirators are killed when their car plunges from a cliff.
Cast overview: | |||
Kitty Gordon | - | Lila Despard | |
Lumsden Hare | - | Andrew Livingston (as F. Lumsden Hare) | |
Frank Goldsmith | - | Jack Firthenbras | |
Gladden James | - | Lord Udolpho | |
Teddy Sampson | - | Felice | |
Charles Eldridge | - | Senator Gales | |
Eugenie Woodward | - | Mrs. Gales | |
George Majeroni | - | Dromiroff | |
Lillian Cook | - | Miss Vyse | |
Philip W. Masi | - | Rowell |
According to an item in the February 5, 1916, issue of Motography Magazine, star of this film Kitty Gordon wore "twenty-five marvelous gowns and an imported hat on which there is $800 worth of aigrettes."