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- Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- Tarzan's son, Jack, escapes captivity and retreats into the jungle with an ape, where he finds love in unexpected places.
- Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed.
- An old chief of the peaceful tribe of Arapahoes tells a tale of a friend of his youth who was a scout with the famous Seventh Cavalry in Wyoming. A pioneer bound for California with his daughter was attacked by a white renegade and his Indian allies. The "Man Who Smiled" used the strategy of his race and helped to rescue the travelers. He was shot but still smiled and did not give up until the girl was restored to her lover, the First Lieutenant of the Seventh. An interesting story of friendship between Indian and white man in the early days of the West.
- Two prospectors, one the father of Skye "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate. The sheriff also informs Kate that Lightning's father killed her father, and she immediately turns against Lightning. "Powder" Solvang also knows the story behind the knife and the string, and is determined to gain possession of both, even to the extent of making Kate his prisoner in an opium den in Chinatown.
- A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.
- Kid Allen, the daughter of Mate Allen, a drunken ex-sailor, waits every night to take Mate home from a saloon. After Mate beats up saloon owner O'Keefe for trying to kiss Kid, O'Keefe kills Mate. Kid shoots and kills O'Keefe, and then leaves on a pony to get "a education," which her father wanted her to have. When she falls and sprains an ankle, Joe Emory, a sheep herder, nurses her and they fall in love, but she continues her journey. At a university town, cow puncher Nick Horton escorts her to the school, where he fights the president and some students, after being told that Kid is not ready to enter. The president stops Kid and Nick from being arrested, and puts Kid in a boarding school, but after she learns that school will last for seven years, she returns to Joe. As they kiss, they fade into a statue of Cupid embracing Psyche.
- Young Southerners Buck Hineman and Remington Osbury both are in love with the same woman, who promises to marry the one who returns when the Civil War breaks out. On the battlefield, Remington is wounded and left for dead, and Buck returns to marry her. Shortly afterward, Remington returns and contents himself with becoming one of the Hineman family. Years pass and Buck's daughter Luzelle finds herself wooed by two young men, Philip Burwood and Boyd Savely, whose families have been enemies for years. Luzelle's rejected suitor, Boyd, robs the Hineman bank, opens the strongbox containing Mrs. Hineman's papers and tampers with a letter written to her years before congratulating her on the birth of her daughter. The letter, sent to General Buck Hineman on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Philip, gives the impression by the obliteration of a word that Remington is Luzelle's father. The wedding is halted and a duel between the two old men arranged. Each shoots in the air and realizes that neither wants to kill the other. Soon after, the robbery is discovered and the two old friends are reconciled.
- A hypochondriac husband delights only in visits from his doctors and the consumption of gallons of medicine. However, his wife, who has analyzed his sickness as imaginary only, devises a plan by which he is cured.
- A young wife is too fond of the frivolities of life to care about raising babies. But one day she finds herself called upon to help a woman in the street who is taken suddenly ill and is obliged to hand over her baby to strangers. The young woman takes the baby home and cares for it. The old trick of the husband misunderstanding a telephone message, and rushing home with an armful of toys for an anticipated heir, is worked in. The arrival of a nurse on the scene to claim the child leaves a vacuum in the home of the young couple, and the wife's hysteria causes the husband to hunt another baby. He arrives at home with it at the same time that the other child, whose mother is unable to care for it, is returned, causing amusing complications.
- A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.
- A married couple decide to move, as their present house has no floor connection for the new piano lamp. The business of the pair, while getting ready for the moving van, is the broadest kind of farce, the husband falling down stairs with the best mattress and smashing his costliest pieces of furniture in his desire to be of help. On the arrival of the van at the new home, the moving men are called out on strike, leaving the young couple to carry in their belongings. During their absence, the moving van boss sends a new crew to complete the job. They mistake orders and move everything back to the old house.
- A young couple quarrel and make-up and quarrel again and it is here where they determine to save the scandal of divorce by placing a white tape through the house to divide it into two parts, each section of which will be exclusively sacred to the other. In the meantime, an almost invisible Cupid hovers about trying to placate them and a little Mephisto with a pitchfork tries to prod the couple along to more troubles.
- An old chief tells a friendly white man a story of his youth. A white man stopped in the village on his way towards the setting sun. The Indian made him welcome. When he left he took with him the daughter of the chief betrothed to a member of her own tribe. The young brave went in pursuit and rescued the girl before any harm came to her. The old chief knows the story is true because in the long ago he was the young brave.
- As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France, and there meets a young man who has had an affair with a prominent actress. When Ruth and the man return to the US, the actress is outraged that her former boyfriend is now seeing Ruth, and sets up a scheme to frame Ruth for a robbery. However, during the trial certain facts come out that shock everyone.
- A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl." Living in a cave, she learns to read through the kindness of Jason, who is soon killed by the cruel leader, Red Gull. In Red Gull's power, and urged on by Jason's jealous wife, Rose Marie makes her escape in a rowboat, where she is spotted by an aviator flying above the sea. He rescues her, taking her to be cared for at his home where she is well treated. When newspapers report a mysterious shipwreck on Devil's Island, Rose Marie reveals the way in which Red Gull lured ships to their doom there. She guides the authorities to the island, where, after a fierce battle, the thieves are wiped out. Eventually the aviator falls in love with Rose Marie, and "nobody's girl" is somebody's sweetheart at last.
- A girl known as "Boots," who keeps house for a band of crooks led by her kind guardian, Uncle Ben, called "The Lion," demands that she be allowed to accompany them on a burglary. Dressed in boy's clothes, Boots is caught by Mrs. Kathryn Sylvester, a rich society widow, who, upon learning that Boots is a girl, resolves to avenge herself on James Graham, who refused to marry her stating that he wanted no stain on his lineage. She raises Boots in luxury, and at the proper time, introduces her to Graham's son Donald. After Boots endures an awkward two years of study during which she still frolics with her pet pig, she and Donald fall in love. During their wedding, Mrs. Sylvester announces Boot's past to Graham, but Uncle Ben, now reformed, reveals that Boots is really the daughter of Major Richard Harvey, who is present. The happy couple then resume their wedding.
- A story of twin sisters, one of which is the wife of the hero. The other, whom he has never seen, is the wife of another man who finds himself in an equally uneasy situation. An exciting game of cross purposes ends in the divorce court.
- Col. McCoy, the friend of the Indians who knows their sign language, goes to an Arapahoe village to visit some of the old chiefs. He sees a man who talks the Indian language, but who unquestionably belongs to the white race. Years ago a young boy and his sister sought shelter with the Indians after a runaway in which their wagon was smashed and their uncle killed. The girl was kidnapped by a half-breed and rescued by the boy and a young man of the girl's own race who loved her. She married her lover and the boy decided he'd be an Indian brave and remained all his life with the people he had chosen.
- A girl, suffering from amnesia, shows up in a logging-camp in the northwest. There are those who know more about who she is than she does, including why she is there, and the helpless girl is soon at the mercy of the lawlessness in this far-flung frontier. Will some gentleman come to her aid?
- Jack wants to spend their vacation in the mountains and Daisy wants to spend it at the beach in Santa Barbara.
- Bill attempts to win a wager that he, a merry bachelor, can nurse and rear an infant as well as one of the opposite sex.
- Bill doesn't want his son to marry a chorus girl so he goes to the theater to get a look at her. No sooner does he see her than he falls for her himself.
- A young lawyer, just married, attempts to strengthen his finances by undertaking a divorce case. His efforts to plant evidence result in a mix-up between a pair of male and female crooks he would separate, and his wife and himself.
- The adventures of the sporting editor of a newspaper, who, after a tiff with his wife, saunters forth for other experiences and meets the wife of the chief of police.
- Mary Carstairs' father, who has not seen his daughter since he separated from his wife, hires a young man to kidnap her. The youth, who abducts Mary by a harbor, falls in love with her. Before they return to the father's house, the two are wed on a yacht.
- Bill, before his marriage was a "stepper" and believes Molly, his wife, prefers checkers to cabarets. Molly, however, the life of her crowd before her marriage to Bill, believes the same of her hubby. But one night they each go out with their friends of single days and through carelessness each is forced to spend the night in cells. After suspicions, quarrels and threats, each learns the nature of the other's adventure and incidentally their true likes in life, which is decidedly not checkers.
- Neal is a clerk in a shoe store, where the floor-walker strives to win away from him one of the girl employees. She agrees to accompany the latter to a ball and Neal also attends, buying on credit a dress suit for the occasion. Unfortunately, he is discharged after getting into trouble with the floor-walker and the fellow who has sold Neal the garment, on learning of his dismissal, plans to retrieve it. At the ball, Neal is caught and the suit removed. Incidentally, the girl's gown, which was supposed to have been delivered to the home of her employer, is also taken away, and some knock-about stuff results. In the end, Neal's cleverness is appreciated by the store owner, and he is made the manager. The girl is his, of course.
- Marie Eline is a poor and lonely girl who is desperately longing for the love of her life. She hopes to exchange $2 for a chance to have him in her life. However, with only $2 to her name, achieving this dream seems impossible. She comes from a family of extreme poverty, and her parents struggle to make ends meet. Despite the challenges, Marie remains hopeful and determined to find a way to make her dream a reality.
- Bill, a corset salesman, in is love with Molly, but so is the star salesman. She tells them she'll marry the one who lands the position of general manager.
- A newly married couple decide to spend their first Sunday at home. Mr. Newlywed boasts to his office associates of his wife's cooking and they immediately invite themselves for a Sunday dinner. Some friends of his wife decide to make their first Sunday at home anything but a quiet one. They advertise in the papers for a cook, giving the Newlywed's address, with the result that many applicants call for the position. Their cook, thinking that she is to be fired, packs her grip and in a huff leaves them. Nothing is left for the Newlyweds now but to cook their own dinner. The antics in the kitchen and the resulting dinner which is served to their guests are very funny. In the end they all proceed to a lunch counter where they eat a hearty meal.
- The embarrassing marital difficulties encountered by one "Hen" Peck when he becomes involved in the meshes of a net woven by a number of chorus girls and a terrifically bad burglar.
- Millionaire meat packer Peter Cameron, greedy for more money and power, maneuvers an alliance between his daughter Rose and George Gray, the son of Cameron's business rival Max Gray, in order to increase his control of the food industry. George, a lawyer, opposes the trust, and as a result is professionally ruined by Cameron, disinherited by his father, and jilted by his fiancée. Out on his own, George gets a job at a mill and starts at the bottom. When an epidemic breaks out among his fellow laborers due to their eating spoiled meat from the trust, George secures evidence of criminal practices which ultimately brings about the conviction of Cameron and the trust. In championing the rights of the downtrodden, George wins back Rose and reforms Cameron.
- Kate runs a lunchroom, and has trouble with her customers. Bud and Kewpie arrive, and as they have no money they make love to her. She agrees to accept the first one to bring her a ring. Kewpie holds up a stage, while Bud finds a nickel, and wins a large amount in a gambling place. Bud wins out and gets Kate, but Kewpie, in a jealous rage, tells the sheriff that it was Bud who robbed the stage. Bud is led away, and is about to be hanged when the sheriff discovers that the money is Confederate, and all ends satisfactorily. The scene in which Bud is being hanged, although treated in a comedy manner, will be considered unpleasant by many in the audience.