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- Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population.
- Alice Brady writes her brother Will that she is going to visit him. The letter is lost. Will writes his friend Jack Wilson to come over. Alice arrives while Will is away from the house and goes to her room to sleep. Jack, who has looked upon the wine when it was much too red, comes to the house and tries to get into Alice's room. She chases him out and Will comes home to find his friend shivering in the hallway. Jack explains that some woman threw him out of the room. Not knowing of Alice's presence, Will is very much wrought up. He knocks on the door of her room. Alice, thinking the inebriate, Jack, has returned, opens the door and throws a pitcher of water all over Will. Confusion reigns, until matters are straightened out by proper introductions and regrets.
- McGuirk joins a fake detective agency and starts out to detect a crime. Percy Gay loves Byrdie May, whose angry father says him "nay." McGuirk, finding Percy swearing vengeance, follows him, believing he is on a track of an awful criminal. Percy gives McGuirk an awful throw-down from his automobile. That night, when Percy brings a ladder with which to carry away the imprisoned Byrdie, McGuirk is on. He follows Percy up the ladder to Byrdie's room and is promptly knocked unconscious by Percy, who escapes with the girl. Papa May hears the rumpus, and revolver in hand captures McGuirk, whom he accuses of abduction of his daughter. Marching McGuirk through the streets at the point of a pistol, angry papa confronts Byrdie and Percy, who have just been married. They are forgiven and McGuirk gets his.
- Davy Crockett is madly in love with a blonde young lady who also looks good to several members of a ferocious band of Indians that inhabit the backwoods. After a meeting with Davy one day, she is surprised and kissed by one of her red-skinned lovers, which makes her so indignant that she stops to thrash him and is captured by the band and scalped. Losing her fore lock does not seriously injure her health. She escapes to her Davy, and is taken to the hut of his parents and introduced as his future wife. A battle with the Indians follows, in which an intelligent redskin or two secures entrance into the cabin. The lives of all concerned are saved by a bunch of hardtack biscuits aimed at the Indians heads. Wedding bells ring merrily for Davy and the blonde heroine when the scene becomes calm enough to admit a minister.
- Lieut. Carter, on his way home from the Arctic, is entrusted with the skin of a polar bear that was shot by his friend, Capt. Robins, and promises to deliver it to the Walkers, friends of the Captain. The Captain also gives Carter a letter to mail to the Walkers explaining that Carter, who is an eccentric chap, will call on them with the skin. Carter, on his way to the Walkers', is compelled to get out of his automobile, and try to fix same, which has broken down. A lunatic, who has escaped from his guards, comes upon the stalled auto in the middle of the road with the bear skin resting on the rear seat. He conceives the idea of stealing it, and thus effecting his escape. This he does and disappears while the guards come running up to the lieutenant, who has meanwhile discovered the theft, and they all get into the machine, to hunt the fugitive. The lunatic, on his wild rampage encased in the bear skin, comes to the home of the Walkers and is mistaken by them for Lieut. Carter. They entertain him royally, and, though somewhat shocked by his crude actions, let them pass remembering that Capt. Robins had written that he was eccentric. The lunatic takes a violent dislike to the butler and, after many amusing incidents at the dinner table, he chases the butler out of the house and up a tree, his method of attack being none other than the large carving knife. He comes back to the house and when Mr. Walker protests, the lunatic gives him the same treatment as was accorded the butler, only Mr. Walker's place of refuge is the dog kennel. The lunatic again returns to the house and compels Mrs. Walker to be his partner in a real bear dance. Mr. Walker and the butler return and, attempting to remonstrate with the lunatic, are compelled to dance, and a sad state of affairs seem to be in store for them when the timely arrival of the lieutenant and the two guards put an end to the lunatic's wild career, and he is taken back to the asylum.
- George Jones "touches" his Uncle Josh for a thousand dollar loan, explaining that he is engaged to be married. Uncle comes from Cohoes to meet the girl. George persuades his typist Nellie (who adores him) to pretend to be his intended. Uncle likes Nellie and insists that the young couple marry instantly. George arranges with his friend, Ned, to play a fake parson. Ned meets with a funny accident and uncle secures a real minister. George is caught in his own trap and Nellie wins a husband.
- Mrs. Owing is fond of dress, but she cannot pay her bills. The dressmakers, calling to collect from her annoy Mr. Owing at his office. Determining to teach his wife a lesson, Mr. Owing disguises himself as a constable and hires two toughs to impersonate bailiffs. Meanwhile a boy has delivered Mr. Owing's new dress suit to his house. Mr. Owing enters with his fake bailiffs, scares his wife, takes away her clothes, and exits, laughing. Later, wifey penitent promises to be less extravagant, and hubby forgives her. Then he learns that he has given away not only her dresses, but his own dress suit. The joke is on him.
- A costly gem is stolen from a Hindoo idol and brought to America. Introducing numerous startling incidents, including an auto wreck and a leap for life.
- Mike, the farm hand, who is in love with Sally, the farmer's daughter, is relegated to second place by mother who favors Count Dedbroke Tobasce, who happens along with $1,000,000 with which to buy the farmer's property in which he knows there is buried a chest of treasures. He buys the farm, and mother takes the family to the city. In the meantime, Mike finds the letter describing the location of the treasure, digs up the chest, and leaves some gilded stones in its place for the count. Mike goes to the city with his money. Mother apologizes for she learns of his sudden ascendancy into the realms of wealth and receives him with great joy into the bosom of the family as son-in-law.
- After Hank and Yank have parted for the day at their dog-kennel home door. Hank is struck by an automobile belonging to a nervous man named Smith. Hank is taken to Smith's home. He pretends to be badly hurt, and is told to ask for anything he wants. While convalescing, he is rolled into the park by the maid. Here Yank comes upon him. The tramps embrace, and Yank is advised to try Hank's method of obtaining a good meal. This Yank does, standing in the way of Smith's automobile. He pretends to be hurt, is carried to a hospital. The impostor is caught stealing food from another patient's plate by Smith. The latter and the doctor plan a joke. They hold a conference, in audible tones, and the doctor says he will have to amputate Yank's limb. Hereupon the tramp dives from the window. He does not stop until he reaches the kennel where he meets Hank, breathless, too, having been chased by the police for having tried to kiss Mrs. Smith.
- George and Mabel are in love. Mabel's father is opposed to George and his suit. George writes Mabel a letter, asking her to meet him at Darling's restaurant. Father gets hold of the letter, and decides to meet George himself, taking with him a large club. Mabel warns George. George disguises himself as a blonde lady and keeps the appointment. George flirts with father and they dine together. Father is very much smitten, and George steals father's hat. George then runs out on father, who does not know what to make of it until he arrives at home, only to find George and Mabel planning their wedding day. Father raises a row until George threatens to expose his wild actions and career in the restaurant, and father has no other course left open to him than the giving of the parental blessing.
- Bill is a policeman. His sweetheart meets him every morning just as he starts on duty, and the morning kiss puts him in good humor for the rest of the day. By the roadside the cop finds a bathing suit. He goes in for a swim and is just beginning to enjoy the water when he sees a tramp putting on his uniform. He calls to him threatening to arrest him, but the tramp strolls away swinging the club. The cop comes out of the water and has to put on the tramp's clothing. A chase follows. The cop hails another "arm of the law," who assists him, and after a brief pursuit they "cop" the tramp.
- While Ned holds the affections of Alice, her parents favor Percy. To gain their consent Ned induces a fumigating concern to smoke up the house while Percy and the parents are present. Percy, observing the awful smoke, flees, leaving Alice to her fate. Ned, waiting outside, rushes in at the proper moment and saves her. Alice's father, grateful to Ned for saving his daughter, now favors his suit and when Percy calls again he is thrown out.
- The Way Up Film Company send their company south to make a picture, "Agnes' Awful Adventure." The actors wait impatiently tor the new camera man, who in reality has gone to sleep on the way. He is discovered by an amateur photographer who takes the camera and his letter of introduction and goes to the studio where the actors anxiously await him. Of course, the amateur turns the camera backward when he should turn it forward, and he feels called upon every now and then to rescue the heroine from the clutches of the villains. When the film has been developed in the north, where it was sent for finishing the officials are called to witness it. The picture is awful, they discover, and with the president's wire to the waiting company in the south the would-be photographer is sent head first out the window.
- Harry decides to play a prank on his rival, Charlie, so he puts the latter's pipe in the place of the fan Charles has bought their sweetheart for her birthday. Charles discovers the joke. He goes to Geraldine's house. When Geraldine's presents arrive, little sister, being curious, opens the boxes and mixes cards. Geraldine comes in from an auto ride, and opening her gifts, finds Harry's card with Charlie's old pipe. Harry arrives just in time to receive a cold reception. Charles, having discovered Harry's little jokes, comes and receives thanks for a rope of pearls, and takes all the credit coming his way, thinking that they had been Harry's gift. Just as he is the hero of the hour, Geraldine's father comes in and lets it be known that he is the donor of the pearls. Charlie, overcome, faints in father's arms.
- Charlie suffers terribly with attacks of acute indigestion, so his wife sends Morris to the doctor for medicine. Maude, farmer Jones's mule, is sick too, and Jones sends a farm hand to the veterinary to get some medicine. Morris gets the medicine and starts on the way home. The farm hand comes along the road with the medicine bottle in his hand and trips over Morris's wheel. They both fall and mix up their bottles. Charlie is given the medicine intended for the mule and immediately proceeds to kick and tear around. The mule is given the medicine belonging to Charlie and trots out of the barn. Charlie runs out of the house with his wife after him. The mule runs with his master after him. All four come together at a crossing road and Charlie and the mule go off together. After a while they come to Charlie's home where they enter and upset everything. The owner of the mule at length gets control of his animal. The doctor gives Charlie his own medicine and he is restored to his natural self.
- Mrs. Talboys orders a new hat for $149, adorned with beautiful feathers. She tries it on and then goes in to show it to her husband, who almost goes frantic when he hears the fabulous price has to pay for it. Mrs. Talboys decides to go out for a walk through the estate near her home. This estate is the property of Sir Michael McGlug, who is very fond of hunting. Mrs. Talboys stoops down behind some shrubbery and at the same time Sir Michael McGlug alights from his automobile, and thinking the feathers on Mrs. Talboys' hat are the feathers of a mocking bird, he shoots at her. Mrs. Talboys, overcome by the shock, almost faints, and Sir Michael and his valet help her into the machine. He brings her to his home and immediately they fall in love with each other. Mr. Talboys reads of the incident of the shooting and, believing his wife is dead, he leaves the old home. Mrs. Talboys returns, only to find that her husband is gone. Believing he has deserted her, she consents to marry Sir Michael. A friend of Talboys visits him and Talboys tells him his tale of woe, showing him his wife's photograph. The friend next visits Sir Michael and recognizes Lady Audley. He rushes to Talboys' home and tells him of his discovery.
- Jack Dalton and Moses are known as slick professional crooks. They frequent a cabaret in which Lizzie is compelled to dance for her maintenance. Charlie arrives in the "Great City" with his carpet bag. With the idea of being real devilish, he visits the cabaret. He is the source of much amusement to the patrons. When he pays for his unfinished drink, he discloses a bandanna handkerchief in which are rolled a quantity of bills, much to the interest of Dalton and his partner. Dalton, ever scheming, asks Charlie to change a $100 bill. Charlie, believing this to be legitimate, does so. Upon paying for Lizzie's drink he is arrested for handling counterfeit money. During his sojourn in the jail he becomes friendly with his jailer, and in a poker game wins the jailer's watch, his hat, then his coat and finally his freedom. He passes Lizzie's home just as the poor girl is about to be dispossessed. He proposes to her and she readily accepts him. Just as the ceremony is about to be performed Charlie as suddenly called away. Lizzie is heartbroken, but after many amazing incidents, she finds him and they are married.
- Uncle Jabez, whose health is failing decides to go away to the country for a complete rest. Before leaving, he makes his will and encloses it in an envelope on which he writes: "Not to be opened until after my death," and places it in a book on the library table. In another note addressed "To My Anxious Relatives" he writes, "To that one of you who finds my will I bequeath this house and $100,000." On his way to the country his valise, which was carelessly attached to the automobile, falls off unseen by Uncle. Charlie, a passerby, sees it, picks it up and goes home with it. Helen, Jabez's niece, who has made herself mistress of the household, in exploring her Uncle's home in quest of his will, finds the note "To My Anxious Relatives." She starts out to find the will and is soon joined in her search by all the relations, and the chairs, tables, desks, buffets, hat racks and everything that tends to hinder the progress are thrown pell-mell in all directions. In the meantime, Charlie, having been called away on business to the coast, takes Uncle Jabez's suitcase with him. A collision occurs in which Charlie is killed. There being nothing else to identify him except the valise, the newspaper reporters record his name as "Jabez Smart." Uncle Jabez reads of the accident, and knowing his relations better than they think, he decides to return to his home before they find the will. While everything is in a state of confusion at his home, Jabez enters and finds his relatives at their work. They sneakily exit, leaving Uncle Jabez to brood over his wrecked home.
- A tramp steals a fur coat from an automobile. A policeman finds a purse dropped by a lady, and seeing the fine gentleman dressed in fur, thinks the pocketbook must belong to him. As the officer advances to offer the purse, the tramp thinks he is going to arrest him, and starts to run with the policeman following. In order to get rid of the coat, he throws it over a fence, where it lights on the head of a second tramp, who thanks his stars for his good fortune and goes on. The policeman arrives and gives him the purse. Asking no questions he proceeds to have a good time in a saloon, but when he goes out both purse and coat are rudely taken away from him by the owners, assisted by the police. The tramp escapes, meets the first wanderer, and they decide to be partners for life.
- It is all arranged by the mother of "Sir Charles Kerplunk" that he shall marry "Emma." Emma proves not to his liking on first introduction, so Charlie runs out of the house and away from her as fast as he can. At the same time, in the great palace, the "Duke" is seen by one of the attendants dancing with one of the ladies-in-waiting. The attendant tells the Duchess, his wife, who rushes upon her fickle spouse, boxes the lady's ears and bandies the Duke rather roughly. In the meantime, Charles has been found and taken back to the house and Emma. He decides that he would rather die than marry her, so, taking a stout rope, he goes out into the orchard intent on committing suicide. He ties the rope around his neck, but is discovered by the persistent Emma before he has accomplished his purpose, and is taken back to the house and revived. Next day the Duchess decides to leave the Duke. She and her maid steal away to a boarding house which happens to be the identical one that Sir Charles and his valet have hit upon in their flight from Emma. She chooses a room next to the one in which Charles is hiding, and becomes so charmed by the music he is playing on the musical he has brought with him, that she sends for him. The Duchess and Sir Charles see much of each other and fall in love. At length the Duchess' maid goes back to the palace where the Duke is having a glorious time in his wife's absence, and discloses the Duchess' hiding place. The comedy ends with an extraordinary number of laughable situations and with the safe return of each of the runaways, the Duchess to her husband, the Duke, and Sir Charles to his mother and Emma.
- Anna Ward struggles to help her husband Jim, a laborer in a Pittsburgh steel mill, to improve his lot in life. When Jim's friend invents an improved rail-making device, Anna convinces her husband to invest his savings in the machine's promotion and marketing. This proves so successful that Jim is made a director of the steel company, but because of his strong stand on workingmen's rights, the company officials conspire to ruin him. Under the influence of a co-director, Jim resumes his old drinking habit and becomes involved in an affair with a beautiful woman, who induces him to sue Anna for divorce on a false charge of infidelity. Anna refuses to defend herself until the court threatens to take away her son, whereupon she claims that Jim is not the boy's father. Deeply ashamed, Jim confesses everything to the court and is sentenced to prison. After his release, he returns to Anna, just as their son departs to fight in World War I.
- Harry calls on his sweetheart, and unsolicited Lillie proceeds to entertain him by singing and playing the piano. This is disconcerting to Harry and he persuades her to accompany him to the home of their friends, Mae and Joe. Joe and Lillie show a more than passing interest in each other, and Joe schemes to put one over by taking her to a masquerade. Harry learns of this and hurries to the hall with Mae on his arm. He recognizes Joe in the guise of a convict. A fight follows and Joe makes his way through the crowd and runs down the street with Harry at his heels. In the meantime a real convict has escaped and is being followed by the guards. A lively chase follows in which the real convict finds Harry overcome by exhaustion and changes clothing with him. Later, he knocks down a policeman and repeats the performance. Tradesmen, women and children, who are following, land in a heap before matters are finally straightened out and Harry and Joe are carried to a nearby doctor. Well bandaged they return to their loves, but are handed the cold shoulder so they proceed to drown their sorrows together in a way which assures many a laugh to the audience.
- When Henry Howland, the great philanthropist, feels his health failing, he makes his will and entrusts it to his nephew, Walter, to file away in his private safe. Impelled by curiosity, Walter opens the will and discovers that his uncle has cut him off with a mere pittance, leaving the major portion of his estate to charity. He cleverly forges a new clause to the will, and is in the act of substituting it for the original when surprised by his uncle. After a heated argument, Howland dies of heart failure and Walter, panic-stricken, carries him to his own room and notifies the coroner. Later, Walter accompanies Gladys Brooks, with whom he is in love, to the retreat of a Hindoo mystic, a crystal gazer, who bares Walter's life while in a mesmeric trance. Fearful of arrest, Walter escapes from the room and eludes the detectives put on his tracks by the district attorney, who is a rival suitor for the hand of Gladys. After a time he returns and makes a clean breast of the whole affair. The district attorney seeing that Gladys loves Walter, and that Walter is sincere in his desire to start life anew, calls off his detectives and allows the couple to catch the Montreal express.
- Pearl has an awful temper. So has her hubby. Hubby invites some friends to the house. They play poker, leaving Pearl to her own amusements. At 12:30 they are still at it, and Pearl in an outburst breaks up the game, just when Hubby is about to regain his losses. Hubby thinks to frighten Pearl out of her temper by writing that he will shoot himself. Pearl also writes a suicidal note, saying she will drown herself in the bathtub. Hubby goes out but returns only "half shot." Meanwhile the cook has taken a bath and Pearl is unable to carry out her threat. Hubby finds Pearl's note and rushes to the bath room, expecting to find Pearl's dead body. He opens the door very hurriedly and throws the cook into the tub, giving her another bath. The cook throws Hubby into the tub, clothes and all. Pearl enters at this moment and they explain that their suicide notes were mere jests to cure each other's tempers.
- Fred, feeling in a devilish mood, begins to shoot. A bullet goes through the wall into the next room where Tom, who is drunk, has just succeeded in spilling red ink over his face. Fred, running in and seeing the ink, thinks it is blood, hits Tom over the head and puts him in the trunk, then goes out. Tillie, the maid comes in and is in turn hit over the head by Tom, who has succeeded in getting out of the trunk. There follows a series of comic scenes in which everyone connected with the story succeeds in spending a portion of time in the trunk. All ends happily in the end, and the company joins in a drink in Tom's sitting room sitting on the trunk which has been returned after a trip to the forest, to its proper place.
- Charlie and Joe meet. Charlie sees Vivian on another corner and immediately leaves Joe without even an apology. Joe sees Vivian and decides he would like to be one of her acquaintances, so he goes over to Charlie, who of course has to give him an introduction to Vivian much to his sorrow. Charlie is then pushed into the background and Joe has the "floor," for Vivian gives Charlie all of her attention. After Joe leaves, Charlie meets his handsome friend Ned, and is forced to introduce him to Vivian. Charlie is again considered a "back number," and, though he tries innumerable times to talk to Vivian, it is all in vain. They arrive at Vivian's home and, not being invited to stay in the parlor with Ned and Vivian, Charlie goes in search of the maid. He compels her to write two letters, one to Joe and the other to Ned, stating that Vivian will meet them at a certain part of the park at three o'clock. The boys get the note and start out for the trysting place. Meanwhile Vivian and Charlie go off for a picnic. All goes well until the two boys discover that they are both waiting for Vivian and that a joke has been played on them. They go in search of Charlie and when they find him comedy situations develop in rapid succession.
- Eddie visits Mae. While she is entertaining him, Bert, another beau, enters. Both are enraged with jealousy and come to the conclusion that the only way to calm themselves is to fight a duel with pistols and whichever one lives through the combat will be the winner of Mae's hand. The fight starts and is continued over tables, behind chairs, and with bullets flying in all directions. A few go flying into Mary and John's room and Mary, becoming indignant and furious after her mirror is broken, wall paper torn and holes made in the walls and floor, goes in and revenges herself upon the two men, finally assisted by a few cops. A month later, Eddie and Bert, well bandaged, call at Mae's home at the same time. They are ushered into the parlor and Mae soon joins them, bringing with her a handsome stranger. Eddie and Bert all but collapse when he is introduced to them as Mae's husband.
- Irene Latham, daughter of the cashier of the Newton Bank, is loved by Bob Emery, the receiving teller, and Ralph Benson, the paying teller. Irene favors Bob and they are engaged to be married. Maddened by jealous rage, Ralph's main thought is to ruin his successful rival. Bob receives a letter from an old friend, offering him half interest in a mine if he will invest $1,500. Having seen this letter, Ralph takes a package of the bank's money, places half of it on the sidewalk and conceals himself behind a ledge. He sees Bob pick it up. "Spike" Lacey, a burglar, steals Ralph's coat. In the pocket of which he has seen Ralph place the money. "Spike" is accidentally shot, falls in a cave, and dies. Part of the money is found in Bob's trunk and he is arrested and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. Time passes. Irene becomes the wife of Ralph Benson. Bob escapes from prison. Driven by hunger, he makes his way into the home of the Bensons. With a drapery he binds the arms of the woman in the chair, not knowing it is his former sweetheart, Irene. In her struggles to free herself Irene upsets the lamp. When Bob realizes the house is on fire, he dashes through the flames and carries the woman to safety. Bob and Irene recognize each other. Just then her husband and father arrive and Bob flees. Jenkins, the bank watchman, goes hunting and wanders into the cave, where he finds the skeleton of "Spike." In the pocket of Benson's coat he finds the stolen money with the Newton Bank wrapper still about it, Ralph confesses his guilt, is arrested and shoots himself with "Spike's" revolver. Bob is pardoned and marries Irene.
- Pearl is stopping at the only hotel in a western town. Jack and Joe meet her and she flirts with first one and then the other. Each tries to hide the fact of his flirtation from the other. Accidentally they both call on Pearl at the same time, only to find her very much taken up with Chester, a city drummer. Jack and Joe throw Chester out of the hotel, and then leave Pearl, vowing never to see her again, but each tries to steal a march on the other, and visits her again, but she will have none of them, having again taken up with the smart city drummer.