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- An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
- With her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not appreciate the young girl's charm and energy. Rebecca must make new friends and adjust to surroundings that are sometimes difficult. But she still finds time to think of numerous ways to help others in her new hometown.
- Ella Cinders, oppressed and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, wins a contest for a film role in Hollywood. When the contest turns out to be fraudulent, she determines to stay and achieve Hollywood stardom the hard way.
- Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.
- The romance, discovery, and rise of phenom boxer Dynamite Dan.
- Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde.
- When Jean Mackaye, a pretty and resourceful young woman, discovers that she has lost her fortune, she dresses in Salvation Army clothing and secures a job in the Bonner home as a Swedish cook. Mr. and Mrs. Bonner, an elderly couple preoccupied with the study of insects, are too busy to notice that their Swedish hired man Oscar is falling in love with Jean. However, Ted Burton, the son of a cranky old millionaire, soon falls so deeply in love with her that he convinces Oscar to resign and applies for the position himself. Burton, Sr., anxious to discover the reason for his son's odd behavior, becomes a boarder in the house. Following a series of adventures in which Jean saves the old man's life, Burton blesses the union of his son and the "Swedish cook."
- Aurora Meredith, the village blacksmith's eldest daughter, is blessed with a natural singing voice. One day, wealthy New Yorker Mrs. Thorndyke visits Aurora's village and, upon hearing the girl sing in the church choir, is so impressed with her ability that she sends her abroad to study. At the end of her third year of studies, Aurora's benefactress dies, and she is forced to accept the aid of Juliantimo, an Italian admirer. After attaining great fame as a singer, Aurora returns to America to escape her Italian admirer's attentions and is awarded the starring role in a new opera. Juliantimo follows her, though, and on opening night he positions himself in a box above the stage, shoots Aurora, and kills himself. She recovers, but loses her voice, and with the loss of her talents, her friends desert her. Lonely, she returns home, where she is welcomed by her family and her childhood sweetheart Phineas Scudder. The traumatic death of Aurora's mother restores her singing voice, but she finally realizes that true love comes but once to every woman, and she chooses to stay in the village as Phineas' wife.
- Young Gloria O'Connell falls in love with her neighbor, James Oliver. She is sent to a small town to stay with her three spinster aunts, while James becomes a newspaper reporter and arranges to write a story on the town and its large old-maid population. James pursues overweight "Hippo" Harger, a rival for Gloria's affections, and challenges him to a duel. When James' newspaper story appears, the disgruntled old maids hunt down the author. In a fit of anger, Gloria decides to marry "Hippo," but James rescues her at the office of the justice of the peace. The youthful lovers continue their relationship with their parents' understanding.
- Hugh Drummond is sent by his father to negotiate a deal with banker Benjamin Way, but upon his arrival, discovers that Way has disappeared. Townsman Steve Rutland, secretly hoping to gain control of the bank's wealth, stirs up trouble until a run on the bank is threatened. With Way's daughter's help, Hugh follows clues to Way's location and is able to rescue him. Hugh then manages to stop of group of construction-camp men from causing a run on the bank. Afterward, Hugh returns to town in time to stop a panic there, and to get Rutland arrested.
- Medicine man Dr. Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still-locked strongbox is opened and the money is missing, and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.
- Police officer Frank Brady is sent on an undercover operation to apprehend a gang of drug traffickers. After he becomes part of the gang, he falls in love with Helen Matthews, a young woman whose uncle is implicated and subsequently murdered. When Frank learns that the secret head of the gang is prominent banker John Kingsley, and that there is a plot to abduct Helen, he warns her by means of a wireless device. She makes her escape in time, Frank has Kingsley arrested, and the two sweethearts are reunited.
- The only key to a young woman's fortune lies in a marking on the leg of a horse called The Ghost of the Gauchos. But the woman's guardian, her uncle, plots to steal her wealth.
- Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures. One of her applicants is a butler, whose employer, Noel Corcoran, also has answered the ad. Noel informs Mabel that Gerald has bet the other members of his club that she will answer no more letters. Angered, she responds to several particularly lurid ones, after which she and Gerald break off their engagement. Having fallen in love with Mabel, Noel proposes and is accepted.
- When the attorney for the Brockton family announces that their wealthy uncle has died, he reveals that, by terms of the uncle's bequest, his money will only go to relatives who are successfully employed. Upon hearing this, his idler nephews hastily select professions, not knowing a thing about them. The various professions include pilot, damn builder, baker and yachtsman. One nephew, George Brockton, who is already employed as a journalist, decides to find out more information by befriending the lawyer's elderly clerk. After other family members fail miserably in their jobs, it is revealed that the uncle is still alive and has been posing as the lawyer's clerk. Impressed that George is the only relative with a real profession, the uncle decides to make him his heir.
- A boy returns to his home town after having been away for years seeking fame and fortune elsewhere. He receives a royal, though disastrous welcome from enthusiastically friendly cronies.
- In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.
- Willis, the foreman of the Saunders ranch, derisively bets Dick Meadows that he cannot ride the wild horse, Killer. Dick succeeds in staying on the bronc and wins a considerable sum from Willis, in whose company he sets out for the town bank. Randall, a bandit hired by Willis, waylays them, but Dick routs him. Willis later lures Betty to Randall's home, holds her there against her will, and sends the bandit for a minister. Betty sends a message to Dick by means of her trained horse, and Dick rescues her, thrashing Willis while she clouts Randall with a chair. The minister arrives, and Dick whispers to him that he will probably need his services in the near future.