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- Hayes and Polly arrive at the beach with their son, Belmont, to spend their vacation. Father is looking forward to a gay time and starts right in flirting with girls in the lobby of the hotel. He is whisked away by Polly but returns to find his son and Mae, the bathing instructor, together. From now on complications pile up with great rapidity. Hayes attempts to keep his son away from Mae; Polly tries to keep her husband away from Mae; and Belmont does his best to escape being snared by Blanche Payson, the girl of his parents' choice. Before the general explanation at the end nearly all the principals have received a good wetting in the ocean.
- Doc Saunders, an alcoholic, leaves his little daughter Mayme in the care of his sister and goes West to start a new life. In the little town of Sago, Doc becomes an avowed prohibitionist, thus earning the enmity of Art the saloon keeper. Back East, Mayme grows to adulthood and marries reporter Jimmy Baggs who has just been hired by the newspaper in Sago. When Jimmy begins to drink heavily, Mayme appeals to the town doctor for help. Doc Saunders, recognizing her, chooses not to disclose that she is his daughter, but instead invites them to move into his house for treatment. Jimmy reforms until one day he is sent to the saloon to get a statement on the liquor question for his paper. When Jimmy returns home drunk, Doc, enraged, invades the saloon brandishing a gun and shooting wildly. Doc is arrested and tried, but pronounced not guilty by a jury that sympathizes with him. With Art's power finally broken, Doc confesses to Mayme that she is his daughter, and the family sees an end to their troubles.
- When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in court, the boy's mother asks the judge for mercy, but he refuses. In retaliation, the family kidnaps the judge's young daughter and raises her to be one of their own, schooling her in the ways of crime. One day she steals a valuable pin from a young American artist; he catches her, but an attraction develops between them--and her "Apache" family is not happy about it.
- Dummy inventor Samuel Tinker has just developed a new life-sized mechanical dummy. He and his partner, Peter Clay, modeled the dummy after a janitor in their building. While the inventor's daughter is in love and engaged to Clay, the janitor pines for the daughter. A misunderstanding breaks up the partnership, and Tinker forbids his daughter from marrying his now ex-partner. But the daughter hopes a possible lucrative purchase of the dummy from a vaudeville company will be the impetus for her father and Clay to mend their differences, and for them again to be married. The janitor, who sees this rift as an opportunity, hatches his own plan to be near the one he loves, the plan which involves him taking the place of the dummy. Not wanting to blow his cover, the janitor keeps on masquerading as the dummy even after the sale to the vaudeville company. A life-like dummy with a mind of his own on the loose has its own consequences.
- When a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. He gets far more than he bargained for when a beautiful Irish colleen catches his eye.
- A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner collector. Great preparations have been made to receive the distinguished visitor. The only drawback to the welcome is the sour music dispensed by the police band. The musicians are sent upstairs in the police station to practice some more, and here they are found by Gribbon's associates. A quart of chloroform poured into the base horn stops their discords and while they are asleep the crooks exchange clothing with them. During the interruption Gribbon has begun his collecting by attempting to rob the safe of the richest man in town. Woodward telephones for the police and the crooks respond. They suggest that he wait until the culprit has the money, which can be used as evidence. Gribbon is then arrested by his own men. Woodward, suspicious after a long wait, again telephones to the station and is answered by the real police, who have revived. Their pursuit is complicated by the fact that they are wearing the clothes which belong to the pursued. A combination of thrills and laughs brings the picture to a close.
- A young girl, Rose Eastmen ( Besie Love ) lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. Lacking education, both Rose and her Uncle are susceptible to the socialist ideas of writer Rudolph Creig. One day Rose encounters Jack Steven's the wealthy son of the publishing house, working on his car. She believes he is a common laborer, and begins seeing him. Through her exposure to Jack, Rose begins to realize the rich are not such an abominable people. Rudolph has also reached this conclusion after learning Steven's has published his book. Now with a hefty royalty check and success, Rudolph is able to marry Rose.
- The schemes of Slim and Glen to secure dogs to sell and the task Hal has to win Peggy against the opposition of her father. In order to accomplish this he goes into picture-making. Later in the game Glen becomes a candidate for the girl's hand and is progressing, as far as father is concerned, until a certain forgery is disclosed. A duel is fought, and many other surprising incidents happen that make the calcium light too strong and revealing for the comfort of either Slim or Glen to stand.
- Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, ignorant of her flock, makes love to her and is accepted. She sends for the children and they arrive just as the ceremony is finished. As she proudly introduces them to their new father, Foy dashes out and drives away in the wagon which has brought the children. In his escape he crashes into the rig of a clown who is coming to tell Polly that she is the rightful owner of the circus. Mother and children reach the scene of the wreckage, and Foy is severely beaten up by his wife. She desists only when interrupted by the clown, who shows her the paper that proves her ownership of the show. In her joy she drops the paper and starts to kiss her children. Foy reads and then changes his attitude. The reunited family start to rejoin the circus. Back on the lot, Polly discovers that a farmer's wife has eloped with Arling, doing her act. She discharges both and in the argument that follows Foy takes all the burden of settlement and sends the other, except the farmer's wife, away. As he is trying to urge her to return to her husband that worthy appears and starts shooting. Foy's wife, thinking he is untrue to her, tries to cut off his retreat. Arling turns the lions into a cage in which Foy has taken refuge, just as the cyclone hits the tent and sends him sailing through the air in the cage with the lions. He finally reaches ground safely by using bunches of toy balloons which the cyclone blows his way. Back on earth, Arling gets the fate of a villain, and married couples agree to bury their differences.
- Arthur Worden, who runs a mission on San Francisco's Barbary Coast, is derided by chorus girl Freda Maxey when he asks her to attend services. These two meet again on board a ship when Freda is bound for Europe and Warden is on his way to the Orient to "save souls." There is a shipwreck and both are washed ashore on a distant and isolated island. Many days of close companionship erases the antagonism between the self-righteous preacher and the brazen dancer, and finally love blossoms between them. The preacher, believing it to be nothing more than primitive passion, fights an inward struggle, until the appearance of another castaway forces him to recognize the pure love that has developed between them.
- In days of old when knights are bold, a Game Old Knight seeks the royal castle of King Mike the Thirteenth in quest of romantic adventure. The King bids the Game Old Knight marry his elder daughter, the Ugly Princess, but the Game Old Knight refuses as he casts loving eyes upon the younger daughter, the Pretty Princess. The King, enraged, orders the Knight and his valet thrown into a dungeon and tells the executioner to sharpen the axe for decapitation. The Knight and the valet pass through several chambers of horror and meet the executioner, who sees them gloatingly. The Ugly Princess, however, secures their reprieve. Subsequently they are placed on a swiftly moving treadmill where they have to race for life to avoid being impaled on gleaming knife-blades behind and in front of them. Again the Ugly Princess comes to the rescue. She stops the old mill wheel by attaching her body to the spokes, which drag her round and round until her weight causes them to quit moving. In the melee the King and his court all receive a ducking in the mill pond. Robbers attack the castle, but they are defeated. In the end the Game Old Knight, in recognition of the Ugly Princess saving his life, marries her anyhow.
- Jess Vance and her father are homesteaders in the Northwest. For some time land-frauds "engineered" by a "ring" controlled by Senator Hoyle have been going on. Francis Ames, a lawyer, is sent by the government to investigate. The homesteaders endeavor to see Ames, but by the manipulation of Senator Hoyle are prevented from doing so, and they feel that Ames has double-crossed them. Jess boasts bravely of what she would do if she found one of the "dummies" on her claim. Ames learns that one of Hoyle's henchmen has arranged to send dummies to the timberland to "establish a residence" and cinch the ring's claim to the township where Jess lives. Ames stating that he is going east, follows the dummies. Jess meets Ames on her claim and orders him off. He refuses to leave and at the expiration of three days Jess again orders him off, and when he still refuses she shoots him, inflicting only a slight wound. Meantime his secretary, Stanley, meets Cora Abbott, a former friend of Ames. She obtains information that Ames is laid up in his cabin and reports to Hoyle. He tells her to "get something" on Ames. She goes to the woods, and to Ames' dismay insists that she has come to nurse him back to health. In the meantime Jess, feeling sorry for him, has bandaged his wound. He learns of the contempt in which he is held by the settlers. Cora, to get rid of Jess, tells her that she and Ames are engaged. Ames asks Cora to leave, which she does, after a stormy scene, but she bribes two forest scouts to burn Ames' cabin on the night the settlers have decided to burn the cabin of the jumpers. Ames, hearing of the proposed attempt to drive out the jumpers, leaves his cabin in charge of a half-breed. When Jess is told of the burning of Ames' cabin, and the finding of a charred body, she is broken-hearted, and to forget her own heartache offers to go to Portland to see if anything can be done toward the settlement of the homesteaders' wrongs. She is granted an interview with Ames, and there are two very surprised people when Ames sees his forest girl and Jess discovers that her jumper and the despised Ames are one and the same. Later she gladly gives up her homestead rights to become Ames' bride.
- Bidding goodbye to his fiancée, Evelyn Haselton, Harry Littlejohn goes West to seek his fortune, where he contracts pneumonia and almost dies. Dr. Jim nurses Harry back to health and the two men become fast friends. Later, the doctor travels to the East to visit a dying friend, falls in love with the ailing man's daughter and marries her. When the newlyweds return home, Harry is shocked to see that his friend's new wife is Evelyn, but respect for the doctor prevents him from revealing their former relationship. Because Doctor Jim's work keeps him away from home so frequently, Evelyn imagines he no longer loves her and agrees to elope with Jack Monroe. Harry discovers their plans and shoots Jack but is mortally wounded in the struggle. The doctor thinks that Harry was the culprit but learns the truth as his friend is dying. Evelyn accepts her husband's forgiveness, and they begin their marriage again.
- A man assumes the double life of city editor of the newspaper by day and the role of "Swami Swobodi," crystal gazer, by night to fool his wife and the public.
- Fred Mace as a burly janitor, Marta Golden as his wife, and Harry Gribbon as an artist, have some exciting times in "A Janitor's Wife's Temptation." Mace is sitting down to breakfast on a big piece of beefsteak, when Marta Golden is called to the dumbwaiter. Gibbon is famishing and motions his distress to the woman. She sends Mace out to beat some rugs in the hall and sends the steak up to Gribbon. Mace is furious on his return, but is diverted by the landlord who sends him out to clean up the house. Then the landlord demands rent from Gribbon, who is unable to pay. Gribbon goes out in the hall and gets Miss Golden to elope with him taking a sum of money from the landlord's strong box. Mace is arrested for the theft and is jailed. On the plea of his little daughter, Mace is released. He and the child pass a cabaret, Mace sees Gribbon and his wife within. He is refused entrance in front but gets in by way of the kitchen. There is a great overturning of tables and smashing of dishes, when Mace sees Gribbon and starts in pursuit. It finally ends with their meeting on the roof. Mace is thrown through a glass dome and lights in a fountain where he bobs up and down like a rubber ball on the stream of gushing water. He is finally rescued by the police who put a table under him and he rolls off on the floor. Then the Keystone police are seen hanging in the air supported by the table upheld by the fountain. The picture ends with the arrest and discomfiture of Gribbon and the reconciliation of Mace and Miss Golden.
- Murray and Miss Fazenda live in a house adjoining the home of Booker and Miss Davenport. Next door lives Miss Rogers, a manicurist, with whom Trask, a barber, is in love. Murray is making ardent love to Dora when the barber calls. With the implements of his trade in his pocket, Trask chases the trespasser all the way home. Here Murray finds how the barber felt when he found another paying court to his sweetheart. For, in the Murray home the head of the house discovers Booker, whose flirtatious efforts are finding cordial response from Louise. Two hitherto happy homes are thus broken up. Murray goes home to his mother while Booker is locked in his sleeping room without his clothes. The train on which Murray had planned to leave town is wrecked, but Dora has prevented a catastrophe. On his way Murray has met her. He has forgotten all his troubles when Trask again appears. The interloper is for the second time sent on his way. Force of habit takes him home. His reception is similar to the first return. Booker, believing that his neighbor has been killed in the wreck, has escaped in his pajamas and is consoling the supposed widow. After a chase over nearby roofs the air is cleared of misunderstanding.
- Powerfully built Greek Philip, falls in love with Toinette, a French girl whom he meets when she is injured in an auto accident. Later, as a result of the accident, she is hospitalized and operated upon and then recovers. A hospital attendant misinforms Philip that Toinette has died, however; and the Greek, keeping a pledge to his love, continues to sing beneath her hospital room window every night at midnight. Meanwhile, a gang has been terrorizing a park near the hospital, and one night during a confrontation with the police, the leader is knifed and taken to the same doctor who has arranged for Toinette to enter the hospital. While at the hospital, the leader recognizes Philip as the person who slipped him a pack of cigarettes when he was hospitalized earlier, during Toinette's stay. The gangster informs Philip that his love is alive and well. The Greek rushes to Toinette, who had been told that Philip had returned to Greece, and the lovers are reunited.
- "A Modern Enoch Arden" returns to his home to find his wife married to another man. He recognizes his wife, but doesn't give himself away to her. Viva Edwards, as the wife, has married a lawyer named Mack Swain. He cleverly rescues his own child from a runaway motorboat, and then finds out that the tramps with whom he is associated are going to kidnap the child with the connivance of Swain and at the instigation of a grafting lawyer, Hank Mann. He reveals his identity to his former wife and tries to convince her of the villainy of Swain. She does not believe him and when she sees him near a tree, where some money was to be paid, accuses him of being in the plot. He afterwards squares himself by making a daring rescue of the child by entering a hut, just before it is blown up with dynamite. His wife takes him back and Swain goes to jail.
- Just as the local movie theater is about to begin showing a picture, the star of the film arrives to see the movie himself. On screen, the star must rescue his girl from danger. In the theater, the star finds that not all of the audience admires his acting as much as he does.