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- Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow mesmerist supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the mesmerist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
- An English rich woman travels to Naples seeking distraction. She finds it in her Italian guide, who has such a voice for singing she decides to make him famous, taking him with her to London and offering help for an operatic career.
- A sculptor tries to chop the hands off his wife's pianist lover.
- A soldier captures a German and plays cards with him.
- Radio stars in domestic crosstalk.
- A dramatic radio play where Bransby Williams gives us his brilliant characterisation of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge.
- Two sentimental songs and an impersonation of a Cockney servant.
- Film star puppets including Al Jolson.
- A poacher accidentally kills the husband of the woman he loves.
- A Piccadilly dandy beats a Bloomsbury boxer without landing one blow.
- A neglected woman's lover mistakes a stranger for her husband and bribes him to allow an elopement.
- Old English song scene: "John Peel" "Who's That A-Calling"
- A two-reel melodrama-short of a loved-crazed peasant killing the husband of his former sweetheart only to find out she wasn't all that ready to lose her husband, and she kills the killer. It may have been silent in England, its country of origin, but the actors were speaking in very pronounced British accents when the film arrived in New York.
- Songs: "He Ain't Done Right by Nell" "Masculine Women and Feminine Men"
- Franco-British radio star Yvette Darnac sings "The Man I Love" by George and Ira Gershwin in a short film made by British Sound Film Productions in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A henpecked husband turns on his bullying wife.
- An inept performer tries out at a music hall.
- A work-shy obtains money by repeatedly enlisting in disguise.
- Hi-jinks in a dentist's surgery.
- Puppetry story about Tom Mixup and his horse "Stony".