Richard Walton Tully Productions

The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.

The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.