The Jade Necklace (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Jade Necklace (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Dorothy Desmond, an inexperienced Kentucky girl whose father, an editor, had been shot at his desk by a political opponent and whose mother had dropped dead of shock, found herself left virtually penniless. She believed she had a gift for ...See moreDorothy Desmond, an inexperienced Kentucky girl whose father, an editor, had been shot at his desk by a political opponent and whose mother had dropped dead of shock, found herself left virtually penniless. She believed she had a gift for writing and came to New York to seek a position on a newspaper. She was assigned to Chinatown to get an opium-den story. She missed her escort and bravely and foolishly went to Chinatown alone. She yielded to a Chinese man's invitation to enter his shop and inspect some beads, and he was about to attack her when a storm of revolver shots broke, starting a tong war. At the crack of the first pistol the Chinese shopkeeper desisted from his evil designs and shoved Dorothy into a secret room, slammed shut the door and locked it from the outside. She was mad with fear as through the deadening walls came the sounds of the shooting. Then the shots ceased as suddenly as they had begun, and she heard faintly the gongs of police ambulances and patrols. Had she been liberated she would have seen white-jacketed emergency surgeons and orderlies picking up dead and wounded Chinamen and putting them into the wagons, while blue-coated officers with busy clubs rounded up other Chinamen, dragging them from all sorts of odd holes and corners and packing them into patrol wagons. "Worst tong fight in years," a sergeant observed pleasantly to a newspaper man. "Seven dead already, and some of the wounded sure to die. These Chinks shoot mighty straight for heathen. In the dark, too. What always puzzled me was how one tong could spot the other tong when they get mixed up in one of these nasty little wars. All Chinks look pretty much alike to me. You can never find out what started one of those shooting festivals. They won't tell a white man a thing. We can take our fill of guessing, though. Maybe it was a woman taken away from a member of one tong by a member of another. Maybe it was opium, maybe, you can think up a whole lot of maybes if you try, but what's the use?" Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Earl Metcalfe Actor Actor See fewer	Ignorance (1916)
Helen Greene Actress Actress See fewer	Bab's Diary (1917)
Zena Keefe Actress Actress See fewer	La vie de Bohème (1916)

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