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- A celebration of working-class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire during "Wakes Week", an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.
- Henri Duschene, a Paris jeweler, becomes engaged to Rose, the dancing queen of the Montmartre cafes. Henri's respectable country uncle is horrified and arranges with the heartless Jeanne to make Henri think that Rose has been unfaithful.
- Tom Devon, known to his society friends as Reginald Briand, is the mastermind behind an organization of gentlemen thieves, which includes Jimmy Stevens and Rudolph Gambier. Jimmy falls in love with Tom's innocent daughter, Gloria, after he rescues her from an embarrassing scene in a restaurant. Tom disapproves of the romance and decides to dissolve the partnership. He pays Rudolph his share of the profits, then tries to dissuade Jimmy from seeing Gloria. Rudolph believes he has been cheated and kills Tom. Jimmy is convicted of the murder, but Gloria is determined to find the real killer. When Rudolph returns for the remainder of the spoils, Gloria poses as a thief and wins his affections, then tricks him into confessing to the crime. Rudolph is mortally wounded by the police, and Jimmy is pardoned by the governor.
- David Ross, a young farmer in a small New York town, becomes entranced with worldly radio personality Maida Vincent. Meanwhile, David's great uncle, Henry Ableton, threatens to disinherit David if his granddaughter, Mary Vaughn, is not contacted within six months of his demise. Maida and her friend, Josie Dare, discover the gravely ill Mary in New York City and write to Henry, unaware that he has since died. When Mary's brother, Thomas, arrives in the city to find his sister dead, he persuades Maida to assume her identity and claim the fortune. Maida falls in love with David during her stay in the small town, and upon discovering that he is the alternate heir, she reveals her true identity. David forgives her and they are married.
- Jerry Thornton is a wealthy playboy whose hobby is fast cars. When his fiancée, Aheila Van Hauten, objects to his competing against professorial drives in the upcoming Speed Classic race, he goes on a drinking and gambling binge in Tia Juana and gets tossed in jail by the Mexican police.
- Bob Stafford, the wastrel son of a wealthy businessman, is disowned by his father for his reckless and irresponsible ways. He changes his name and opens a gym for wealthy young girls, hoping to land a rich and pretty wife. He meets and falls for pretty young Eileen, but a rival soon drives him out of the gym business. He gets a job in an airplane factory owned by Eileen's father, who is soon told by a rival that Bob is really out to steal a new airplane invention so he can give it to his father.
- Among the guests at a garden party are a newly married couple, the husband being attorney to the host. The host informs him that he has arranged for the prison escape of a girl, who is to return to him a considerable sum of money, and enlists the lawyer's aid. The girl is concealed in the host's mansion, causing considerable agitation among the guests. In order to get to the city to collect the money, both men are forced to lie to their wives and thus arouse their suspicion. The pair of wives go to the hotel where they know their husbands are to be found and themselves become innocently involved in the intrigue. A marital mix-up grows into a major turmoil, which is finally settled in a common police court.
- When a mayoral candidate finds out that he will be exposed in a newspaper article, he goes to the political boss who put him up for the job and says he wants to quit. Enraged, the boss pulls a gun on him, and the man promptly dies of a heart attack. The boss stages a fake car "accident" to make that look like his cause of death, but a suspicious newspaper reporter decides to look more deeply into the story. Complications ensue.
- Tom Sheridan, a son of a family of shipbuilders in Newport News, is completing the construction of a new vessel to meet a scheduled deadline. Pete Lardner, the hull boss, conspires with a rival firm and promises to delay the progress of his work to assure the rival a large contract. While Lardner is showing President Harrington and his daughter, Gerry, the dry docks, Reggie, an idle-rich suitor, is endangered, and Tom comes to his rescue. Dad Loring has invented a launching trigger for the company, but Harrington rejects his offer because he once loved Loring's wife, but through the intervention of Hope, Loring's daughter, he is persuaded. In spite of sabotage attempts, Tom uncovers Lardner's perfidy and succeeds in launching the ship. He is finally united with his sweetheart, Hope.
- Tom Stephens, a well-known athlete at a small town college, transfers to Farnsworth University,.. Tom becomes first choice for varsity quarterback; he leads the team to victory and is happily united with Mary and his mother.
- Leone Daingerfield, a ruthless old woman, tries to crush the romance between her heir, Edward Daingerfield, and her granddaughter, Judith, whose blood relationship she refuses to acknowledge.
- A man and woman survive a shipwreck and make it to an African shore. They must put their differences aside to survive. When a man from a nearby ranch finds them, they think they're safe...but are they?
- Jack Banning, a Secret Service operative, is assigned to thwart the activities of a gang of silk smugglers. Disguised as a motorcycle officer, Banning patrols their rendezvous by day, and at night he poses as a crook, "Strongarm Samson." He soon is attracted to Marion Macy, a banker's daughter, also sought after by Courtney, who heads the smugglers; but she recognizes him and informs Courtney that he is a policeman. Banning is captured by Courtney's henchman, Spanish Joe, but escapes; Marion is lured to the hideout, and Dorina, also an undercover agent, awaits the officers while Banning returns to rescue Marion from Courtney's clutches after a desperate battle. The smugglers are captured, and Banning is united with Marion.
- Following the death of Archer Hamilton, Richard Elliott, his best friend and executor of the estate, resumes his boyhood courtship of Mrs. Hamilton, who finds her daughter, Susan, and son, Martin, increasingly unmanageable. When Susan elopes with her sweetheart, Mrs. Hamilton reconciles herself to the situation, but she realizes her daughter's selfishness when she finds herself unwanted in the newlyweds' apartment. Mrs. Hamilton goes to Paris and returns transformed into a vivacious flapper; she pretends to take an interest in night life and appears to such an advantage that she excites the jealousy of Martin's girl, Belle, who has been luring him into a gambling establishment where he has lost a large sum of borrowed and illegally obtained money. Mrs. Hamilton tries to come to terms with Belle's friends; Elliott then comes to her rescue, and taking matters into his hands, he offers Martin a job to pay off his debts and puts Susan in her place. He and Mrs. Hamilton are happily married.
- A struggling fashion designer, living with her sick mother, is offered a job from a philandering theatrical backer. At one of his parties, she's caught in a compromising position by her boyfriend. Will there be a fairy tale ending?
- Jerry, a ne'er-do-well, after losing his latest job, drifts into a cabaret and meets Laura White, a dancer. Hubert Strief, a crooked fight promoter, who also desires Laura, has one of his thugs work over Jerry; as a result the boy shamefully reviews his life--his laziness and neglect of his mother. He obtains a job as helper in Montana Mack's gymnasium and after lengthy training proves himself a skillful fighter; but through the treachery of Strief, he is knocked out and sent to a sanitarium. Regaining his memory, he escapes and thrashes the villains, who are holding Laura against her will. In the climactic fight, Jerry wins the championship and the love of the girl.