In His Double Life, A celebrated painter with anxiety issues finds that his valet has suddenly passed away after an illness. Seeking to insulate himself from the public, he tells a visiting physician that he is the valet instead of himself. The doctor pronounces the artist dead, and in the eyes of he world, he is gone. He then takes on the identity of his former servant to begin a new life.
His Double Life
When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane (Barrymore), the trader who crippled him, a Limehouse magician named Phroso (Chaney) vows to get even. West of Zanzibar
West of Zanzibar
I feel like the Emperor Nero when Rome was a very hot town
Father Knickerbocker, forgive me, I play while your city burns down
Through all its night life I fiddle away
It’s not the right life, but think of the pay
Someday I will bid it goodbye, I’ll put my fiddle away and I’ll say
