Romance of Sunshine Alley
Directed by Scott SidneyJimmy Mullen, a bootblack, secretly admires Mary Denton, a factory girl of Sunshine Alley. He rescues her from a gang of loafers, putting up a fight with the ringleader. The fight is witnessed by Bill Cross, a fight promoter, who is always on the lookout for new material, and sees a wonderful future in Jimmy. Jimmy is arrested and when Mary explains to the judge why Jimmy was fighting, the judge paroles Jimmy in Mary's care. Mary has an invalid mother, for whom she is very anxious to buy an invalid's chair. Jimmy, when approached by Bill Cross to go into training, breaks his promise not to fight, so as to get money to help Mary buy the chair for her mother. The fight is witnessed by the judge who sentenced Jimmy. When Jimmy is brought before him for having broken his parole he remembers the arduous fight that Jimmy put up. When Bill Cross explains to the judge that Jimmy went into the fight just for the money because Mary needed it. He sentences Jimmy to either marriage with Mary or ten years in jail.
