The Temptress (1911, Essanay Film Company, Chicago)

Lottie Briscoe sees her boyfriend taken away by a scheming woman who defies her father's wishes and pushes back with an attempt to poison him. A detective, Curtis Cooksey, is called in to investigate.

Musical accompaniment by Greg Pane.

[jellywhipper]

Thanks so much for the upload! My grandmother knew Lottie as a child. Lottie and her mother were boarding at a theatrical boarding house in Boston managed by my great great grandmother. Lottie and my grandmother were the same age, both born in 1883, contrary to some sources that show Lottie's birth as 1870. Very few of Lottie's film survive.

[Psilanderfan]

It’s great to see early film star Lottie Briscoe 🌹as the heroine in this Essanay short! Before now, I’ve only watched her in two Lubin shorts with Arthur V. Johnson: A Child’s Devotion (1912) and The District Attorney’s Conscience (1913).
By any chance, do you have any surviving films with Essanay star Edna Mayo🌹?