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A Sister to Cain (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

A Sister to Cain (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Yvonne Ismay and Iona Page are two dancers in the same company. Yvonne is the hail-fellow-well-met kind, while Iona is of the deceitful sort. Reporter Tom Marston is in love with Yvonne, but she wants nothing to do with him, being ...See moreYvonne Ismay and Iona Page are two dancers in the same company. Yvonne is the hail-fellow-well-met kind, while Iona is of the deceitful sort. Reporter Tom Marston is in love with Yvonne, but she wants nothing to do with him, being infatuated with millionaire Donald Phelps. Phelps takes Yvonne to the Japanese Palace after the show, where the proprietor, Hashiwa, sees her and is attracted to her. At a dinner party one night, Iona is present and her demure way attracts Phelps, much to Yvonne's anger. Phelps finally throws Yvonne over for Iona, an action which makes the former jealous, so with the help of Boggs, a wardrobe lady at the theater, she keeps tabs on Iona's correspondence. One night, she learns that Phelps has asked Iona to marry him prior to an important and immediate business trip of his, and he asks her to meet him at the Japanese Palace after the show. Furious, Yvonne goes to the meeting place to find Iona alone in the room. There is a quarrel and Yvonne, getting the worst of it, stabs Iona with a hat pin. Frightened, thinking Iona dead, Yvonne goes to leave the room and faces Hashiwa, who has witnessed the performance. He says he will take care of Iona and say nothing if Yvonne will come to him when he calls her. She is too frightened to do anything but promise, so Hashiwa lets her go while he goes to Iona. Phelps, arriving a little late, receives a message purporting to be from Iona, telling him she cannot meet him that night. Piqued, he leaves and sails for Europe the next day. Marston goes to Yvonne, hoping for a clue. She, crazed with fright and remorse, will tell nothing, hut he finally manages to get from Boggs the news of the meeting at the Japanese Palace. Hashiwa denies all knowledge of the disappearance, but Marston, not satisfied, goes to the police, who raid the place. That same night Yvonne is handed a note from Hashiwa telling her to come that night. Yvonne goes to the Japanese Palace. Hashiwa seizes her, and there is a struggle. The police arrive and raid the palace. Hashiwa drops Yvonne and leaves the room to face Marston and the police. Iona tells how Hashiwa kept her a prisoner in the Palace, and bitterly upbraids Yvonne for her part in the performance. She adds that if it had not been for Yvonne, she might have landed "that old fool." Donald, reading of Iona's disappearance in the papers, has returned to America. He arrives at the door of the room in time to hear Iona's remark concerning himself, and the subsequent conversation. As Iona goes to leave she faces Donald, and tries to pull off some of her baby tricks again, but he is wise. Hashiwa is taken off. Yvonne is repentant of her treatment of Marston, who forgives her. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Helen Wolcott Yvonne Ismay Yvonne Ismay See fewer	Diane of the Follies (1916)
Evelyn Page Iona Page Iona Page See fewer	Jackstraws (1916)
George Routh Hashiwa Hashiwa See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)
Ben Hopkins Hoppy (as Benjamin Hopkins) Hoppy (as Benjamin Hopkins) See fewer	Whither Thou Goest (1917)
Melvin Mayo The Millionaire's Friend The Millionaire's Friend See fewer	The Death Warrant (1914)
Gene Liserani Dancer Dancer See fewer	A Sister to Cain (1916)
Dorothy Dufee Dancer Dancer See fewer	A Sister to Cain (1916)
Jay Morley Tom Marston Tom Marston See fewer	The Little Boss (1919)
Allan Forrest Donald Phelps Donald Phelps See fewer	Pampered Youth (1925)
Adelaide Bronti Boggs - The Wardrobe Woman Boggs - The Wardrobe Woman See fewer	Saved from the Harem (1915)
William Spencer The Police Sergeant (as W.J. Spencer) The Police Sergeant (as W.J. Spencer) See fewer	Peggy Leads the Way (1917)