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- Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Dr. Buggs, a bachelor and collector of bugs, is engaged to be married. A beautiful woman, the Baroness Stoloff, wanted by the police for the theft of a royal ruby, calls on Buggs with a rare specimen. While the titled crook is there, Buggs' fiancée and her aunt call and, suspecting that all is not right, the aunt starts to snoop and finds her suspicions justified. As she does so, the police arrive on scene - a wild scramble follows and in the end the Baroness is arrested and Buggs' fiancée, enlightened by his story, forgives her jealous outburst and happiness again reigns.
- Balkan Country in which this story is laid, is governed by an elderly widowed queen whose will is of iron. She has a very soft spot in her heart for the Crown Prince Alexis who will eventually succeed her. Alexis is a hefty laughing cavalier who is an all-round sport and the finest shot in the country. Alexis has been officially betrothed to the Princess Elena of Avonia by the old queen. He has never seen her, nor has anyone else in the country besides the old queen. One day the news comes that the Princess is staying at Castle Anuscheff, just like an ordinary school girl on a vacation. The minister informs Alexis that he must go to the castle to pay the Princess a formal visit. The Prince sends his aide, Dimitri, to the castle with a letter announcing his impending visit. The next day, Dimitri rides out through the country. Near the castle he sees a wonderful looking girl riding on horseback. He is instantly smitten by her and tries to race with her. Not succeeding in out-distancing her, he pretends to fall from his horse. The dark-haired beauty turns around at his cry of distress and returns to help him. He stands upright, looks at her and says, "thanks; your eyes are really brown-that's all I wanted to know." The girl, nettled by the impertinence, whips up her horse and gallops off. Arrived at the castle Dimitri sends in the letter from the Crown Prince. He is presented to two girls, one a blonde and the other a brunette. The brunette is the one with whom he tried to flirt in the forest and she is announced as the Princess Elena. Her blonde friend is the Countess Vera Anuscheff. Dimitri feels that he is falling in love with the officially announced bride of the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince arrives and they hold an informal dance. Dimitri sweeps the Princess off her feet with an impassioned declaration of his love. The Prince who has been dancing with the little blonde has seen nothing of what has occurred and he suggests a sleigh ride. He makes Dimitri, drive the blonde while he takes as his partner, the little brunette. A terrific snow storm arises and the Prince's sled overturns. As they are quite close to the inn, the Prince takes the blonde there; they go to his private rooms. After a moment, the Prince comes up with a warm drink for her and tries to calm her. She bursts out with "I'm worried about the Princess Elena." The Crown Prince is mystified; she rattles on. "I'm not the Princess. I'm Countess Vera Anuscheff. The Princess was so nervous about meeting you for the first time, that we changed names for one day and this is what has happened." In the Castle Anuscheff a similar explanation is taking place. Dimitri realizes that the girl whom he loves is not the princess and that she is lost somewhere in the snow storm. He drives hurriedly off. The Prince who is angry at being fooled tries to make love to Vera. She puts up a fight but the Prince is relentless. Dimitri enters in time to save her and she cries to be taken away. Dimitri challenges the Prince to a duel but the Prince has him put under arrest. Next day Dimitri is condemned to death. The Princess on learning the story from Vera, pleads with the Prince to grant a respite. He agrees to give one hour of freedom on Dimitri's promise to return promptly. Vera. persuades him to run away and he is torn between his love and his word of honor. In the Castle, the Princess turns on the Prince and accuses him of having played the part of the coward. Vera enters and tells them that Dimitri has run away. The Prince sneers and Dimitri walks in, confessing that he could not go back on his word. The Crown Prince offers to duel Dimitri, and pistols are chosen. Dimitri flings off his coat and removes a cigarette case from his breast pocket. This is the case that the Prince had given him for having saved his life. Dimitri will not use it as a shield and he removes It. Alexis follows the gesture and repents. The Prince shoots but only hits the pendulum on the clock. The sentence is revoked and the picture ends with Dimitri and Vera dancing their way thru the dark and empty ball room, to the strain of their waltz which is played for them by an old violinist, who is on his way home.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- Two playful young ladies make the acquaintance of two idle sons, who follow them, persistently forcing their way into a dancing academy, much against the dancing master's will. One of them gets a bright idea, and with the help of two pieces of mirror and a long pipe making a periscope, watch the dancing lessons. They are much interested in the dance of the seven veils, when the dancing master spies the periscope. He comes down, scares Monte away, and takes his place beside the unsuspecting Joe. Joe finally evades him, the two again resume their persistently in forcing their way into the place, assuming two suits of armor, being brought to the academy. Queer things follow rapidly on top of one another, winding up with the two running, as the picture fades.
- Magnolia Milkshake wants to help the war effort to compensate for her husband who is exempt for being overweight. She tries to join the Red Cross, then the rifle corps.
- Jackie and Tom are assistants in a nursery. Their job is to take care of the babies which tired mothers leave there while doing their shopping. Their duties are numerous, for the nursery is equipped with cubby-holes in which each baby is stored and a machine which bathes and dresses the infants. -The Mayor lives next door to the nursery and the noise and the tricks which Jack and Tom play on him annoys him so that he decides to spend the rest of the summer at Restwell Springs. Hardly has he become settled there before the nursery forces, accompanied by a few of the babies, arrive on the scene. Jack and Tom don't lose any time in starting mischief. Finally the Mayor in desperation calls the council together and proposes an ordinance prohibiting babies being born under twenty years of age. Their deliberations are interrupted by the kids, who have succeeded In substituting a hornet's nest for a roast and the hornets successfully break up the meeting. The Mayor chases the kids into the woods. Determined on revenge they procure a bear skin and attempt to frighten the Mayor who sees through the trick and lays for them with his cane. But a real bear emerges from the woods and chases the Mayor back to the hotel. The sick guests of the sanitarium suddenly regain their health and discard wheelchairs and crutches in a wild scramble for safety. The bear follows and soon clears out the hotel. Jackie and Tom are enjoying the fun hugely when the bear catches sight of them. They climb into their daschund-o-mobile but the dog refuses to pull until he sees the bear headed for them and then he dashes off down the road at express-train speed.
- The burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is suffering. He hangs out a "man wanted" sign and awaits results. A knock comes on the door and in walks an old lady. With her is her son Lloyd, who applies for the job as soda-jerker. He is accepted, dons his apron and starts mixing the drinks. As a soda-counter man, Lloyd is a total loss with no insurance. He tries to copy the artful style of his fellow workers at the fountain but only succeeds in spilling the drinks all over the place. He has little better luck serving the food orders. A patron orders a stuffed tomato and Lloyd, watching his co-worker tries it himself. He stuffs it with everything behind the counter until it is stretched all out of shape. When the customer sticks it with his fork, it explodes in his face. For this Lloyd is taken from behind the counter and set to work in the gymnasium as an instructor. He tries to teach the class a lesson in Indian.club work but makes a mistake with his orders and the entire class is knocked out. When he tries to show them how to perform on the flying rings, he puts them all into a state of horror by his healthy swings which carry him out of the window high over the city below. The proprietor comes in just in time to see Lloyd do something more foolish than ordinary. He gets sore and tells Lloyd that he is going to give him boxing lessons. On the floor above a lady is taking exercise and jumps up and down. Her weight dislodges one of the globes on the light in the ceiling below, just above the head of the gymnasium proprietor. Just as Lloyd swings, the globe hits the proprietor on the head, knocking him out on his feet. Other globes fall until the burly instructor is completely out, and Lloyd is hailed as the gym champion.
- Prince Arthur is in love with the fair princess Lena. He asks for her hand, and is accepted. Zamaliel, supreme monarch of all that is evil, decides to come upon earth from the lower regions to prey upon mankind, in his peregrinations, his first victims are the joyous Prince Arthur and the Princess Lena. His evil eye covets the beauteous damsel, and he begins his cruel machinations to accomplish his selfish purpose. Fantasma, the fairy queen, Queen of Good and Light, whose realm is not far distant, has her subjects safeguard the lives of young lovers. They observe Zamaliel's coming upon earth with two of his infernal sprites, quickly the news is sped to Fantasma. All Fairyland is in a turmoil, and the Queen, with her retinue, goes forth to protect the Prince and princess and pay Zamaliel his deserts. We follow Arthur through his wanderings over hill and dale, and finally to his descent beneath the sea, before he rescues his betrothed. Fantasma has created Pico as Arthur's companion in the rescue, and with their faithful goat, they pass through many and varied experiences. Good finally triumphs over evil, and we see the two lovers sailing away on the Sea of Happiness.
- Mickey invites the gang to hunt for 'wild animals' on his farm. The fun is interrupted when the kids come across a real bear.
- Paul, a novice at paperhanging, makes a rush job of decorating the drawing room, including the windows, of a fashionable family.
- There's excitement as well as humor galore in this Vitagraph one-reeler which has to do with the adventure for food of two penniless wayfarers who appropriate a stuffed bear skin and then, with one disguised as a performing train, they work the dear old change. The discovery of the fraud eventually involves them in a made medley of events from which they emerge, exceedingly willing to leave the Mudspring the City of their funny tragedies.
- Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
- The opening of the picture is an interior, the Niblung castle, ancestral home of Siegfried. We see the old King, his father at a table with many of his roughly armed retainers around him. The Hero enters, salutes his father and converses with a harper who sings of Kriminhilde with whom Siegfried falls in love although he has never seen her. The following scenes show his setting out for the court of the lady's brother, King Gunther; the reception; his view of the lonely Kriminhilde, and of his acceptance of a dangerous adventure he must undertake before he can win Kriminhilde. On his way Siegfried frees Mime, from the nymphs, and in gratitude the gnome gives him a sword with which Siegfried is enabled to breathe the fire enchantment which surrounds Brunhilde, the beloved of Gunther. He brings her to Gunther, but now she is in love with her liberator and she becomes consumed with jealousy when she is repulsed by Siegfried. In revenge thereof, she conspires with Hagen, the villain, against the happiness of the two lovers. Kriminhilde's army enters. Siegfried, while out hunting, is slain and the two conspirators take refuge in Burgundy,where Kriminhilde with an immense horde, finds them. The Burgundians are overcome and their castle burnt. The vengeance of Kriminhilde closes the picture.
- A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
- A burlesque of the popular stage drama, Salome, and Bronson Howard's Civil War drama, Shenandoah. An inept theatrical troupe present the two dramas to a bucholic audience.
- Alice is the daughter of a fisherman. She gathers herring to support her family. Alice's folks are worshipers of the cuckoo clock. Even the dog bows his head in prayer when the cuckoo cuckoos. Joe, a sailor, loves Alice. He calls on her at midnight, and takes her to a cabaret. While there, a sea captain falls in love with Alice, and strange things come to pass when Alice sees the hula hula dancers. Joe takes Alice home under great difficulties Alice and Joe are happily married and are proprietors of a lunch room. Undaunted by his previously unsuccessful attempts the sea captain is still bent on possessing Alice, and lays his plans to kidnap her. Alice is kidnapped, and is placed on a sea going vessel. Just as Joe comes home. He pursues the yacht with his billowy sail boat. Just as he is about to catch the vessel he is lassoed and left mercilessly to drown. Instead, Joe pulls himself up on the rope and outs his way in through the boat. Meanwhile, Alice is having her troubles trying to keep the captain out of her stateroom. Joe rescues Alice, and there follows a lively boat chase with marines, patrol boats, etc. Alice and Joe manage to destroy the lighthouse in which the captain and his crew sought to shelter themselves. A novel ending follows.
- Jimmy is the unwitting messenger sent for a quantity of high explosives.
- "Coyote" Crosby, owner of the "Big Star" ranch is in a feud with "Horned Toad" Smith, an Arizona bad-man, who claims Crosby's house is on his land, "Horned Toad" draws first and kills "Coyote" The first news of the killing reaches Dorothy Stewart, "Coyote's" niece and Teddy Crosby's cousin, and she sends for Teddy to inform him that "Coyote's" will specifies that they must marry to inherit the ranch. This pleases Teddy, who now receives word from two lawyers, Teck and Kikal, executors of his uncle's will, to meet them at a hotel, These men are crooks and try to frighten Teddy so that he will sell the ranch cheap. They tell him a wild and weird take about "Horned Toad" and Teddy, all his life aching for such an experience, refuses to sell and declares he is leaving on the first train for the West. Paprika, a black-eyed, young woman, who has a claim against Teddy's uncle, comes to New York to force Teddy to settle with her. She just misses him at his apartment and goes to Dorothy*n home, where Herbert Wendling a fortune hunter and suitor for Dorothy's hand, learns enough from Paprika to allow him to intimate to Dorothy and her mother that Paprika has been mixed up in Teddy's life, Dorothy refuses to believe the story, but her mother is skeptical. When they hear from Herbert that Paprika went West on the same train with Teddy, they immediately start for the ranch to protect Dorothy's interests. Arriving in the feet, Teddy starts looking around the town, in his evening clothes, in which he was dressed when put on the train by his intoxicated friends, and wine a full outfit of Western togs from a cowboy who in turn dons the formal costume. Teck and Nikal have informed "Horned Toad" that Teddy is wearing evening clothes, "Horned Toad" finds the cowboy with the said outfit and is about to shoot, but the cowboy is too quick and Teddy barely saves "Horned Toad's" life. Neither knowing the other, Teddy and "Horned Toad" become bosom friends. Upon finding Paprika comfortably settled at the ranch, Dorothy, her mother and Herbert are about to leave for the East, when "Horned Toad's" gang raids the place. Herbert is frightened and in attempting to hide, becomes involved in a ludicrous situation with Paprika. Teddy seeing this and learning of the suspicion against himself, turns the tables on Herbert. It is the Fourth of July and Teddy insists on going to town for fireworks, ignoring the warning from "Horned Toad" that the ranch must be surrendered in twelve hours. Teck and Nikal plot to get Dorothy to sign over her interest in the ranch, and to have "Horned Toad" kill Teddy. They send a gang of Mexicans to capture Dorothy; they storm the house and, discovering the wine cellar get very drunk. Pedro, the leader steals Dorothy, while Herbert flees and goes to tell Teddy of the trouble. Teddy rescues her in a spectacular manner, but they are captured by "Horned Toad's" men, Teddy is tied to a tree and "Horned Road" heats a branding iron to brand him. Dorothy is allowed to return to the ranch where she tells the cowboys of the incident and they swoop down on "Horned Toad's" men, but are held at bay. The Mexicans go to Teck and Nikal for their money and, upon being refused because of not delivering the girl, they mob the lawyers, who take refuge in jail. At daybreak the cowboys defeat "Horned Toad's" gang and, to their surprise, find "Horned Toad" wrapped in a blanket playing poker with Teddy. Teddy has won all "Horned Toad's" clothes and his claim to the Big Star ranch. Teddy likes "Horned Toad" and gives him the job as foreman of the ranch. Teddy and Dorothy marry and also do "Horned Toad" and Paprika, who formerly were sweethearts. Herbert speeds Eastward, very glad to be out of the terrible West.
- Al takes the Overland Limited for the open spaces and on the way encounters the girl, who is much sought by a pair of yegg-men, who would capture her and hold her until her father delivered to them the deed to the rich mine he owns. After much horse- play in which Al thwarts the villains after they have taken the girl, it all comes out right in the end.
- Joe, the new boy in town, is initiated into the gang's secret club. But the proceedings are interrupted when a couple of auto thieves hide out in the kids' meeting place.
- To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a trumped-up charge made by some stock swindlers. Aunt Pearl would like Bonnie to marry small-town capitalist Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie is in love with young lawyer Art Binger. Binger eventually effects a release from prison for Mr. Day just at the height of Bonnie's business career.
- Napoleon, divorces Josephine and weds an Austrian Princess, but Josephine, still faithful, saves him from the plotting of De Beaumont.
- Betty leaves the child at the County Orphan Asylum while she delivers the weekly laundry to the bachelor's home. But the kid escapes and slides down a chute from the second story landing in the basket which Betty is dragging along behind her. At the bachelor's the baby is turned over to Brownie, the valet, who gives the baby a bath, filling the small tub with water and placing a screen around the outdoor bathroom. Later the baby roams out into the street where she is picked up by an officer. Brownie saves his little playmate as the baby is about to be placed in the wagon and taken to the Children's Society Home, by substituting another baby who looks like his pal. Betty and the bachelor find Brownie coming down the street with the baby. The child says that she wants the man for a a daddy, and with Brownie tugging at his trousers' leg and the baby 'pulling "at his coat lapel, he could hardly resist, and the baby's wish is granted.
- This subject opens in a girls' boarding school with scenes of the girls doing the Charleston. Gale Henry is the school mistress and throughout the picture she is kept busy disciplining the pupils. She also protects them from male admirers, and animals which have escaped from the zoo. To add an atmosphere of terror to the comedy, lightning and heavy storm scenes are flashed every few feet throughout the entire picture.
- Pansy Pickles was the step-daughter of Peter Pickles who kept the most fashionable boarding house in Corncob Corner. He had ambitions of either sending Pansy to school or marry her off so that he could live comfortably from his son-in-law. Pa Pickles receives a letter from some attorneys stating this his step-daughter's uncle died and left a vast estate but that Pansy was not mentioned in the will. At and the same time the school teacher who taught Pansy her P's and Q's, received a letter stating that his inheritance was being shipped by express. The station agent hears of this inheritance and knows right well old Pa Pickles will favor the school teacher. He takes a bank book from one of the men, crosses out the name and puts his name on it, adding several figures too. Pansy goes off to school, but when teacher calls the roll, Pansy is not present. He sends a notice to her Pa, who searches for her, finds her sitting in a tree reading a book. He throws a stone at her and she falls right into the school room under the spanking machine. She, in turn, throws the teacher under the spanking machine and the poor fellow has matches in his pocket, that burn and blaze like fury. Pa Pickles finds the bank book with the station agent's name on it and decides that Pansy shall marry the agent. Some one put's Pa wise that it isn't his book at all, and the agent is thrown out. The wealthiest man in town is at the wedding and offers his son as a groom, the minister sets them up again and just as he's about to pronounce them man and wife, Pa discovers that the bridegroom isn't worth a cent, and he too is thrown out. Pansy is thoroughly disgusted now and changes place with another girl who has come to the wedding. This time the school teacher is pronounced bridegroom and they are married. His inheritance comes at the same time and to Pa's dismay he finds it is a pig, he is just about to murder the teacher he discovers the change in brides. Pa gets a bridegroom whom Pansy likes and they are married with a whoop and hooray.
- Louis Rousseau believes that the technically perfect music of his violin student, Tom Richards, lacks a soul because Tom has not suffered. Therefore, he convinces Rosalie Anjou, whom Tom saved from apaches and now loves, that she must dance at the notorious Moulin Rouge to earn the money Tom needs for his lessons. While keeping Tom ignorant of her activities, Rosalie becomes a great success and is selected Queen of the Moulin Rouge. Rousseau takes Tom to the coronation and, as he hoped, Tom denounces Rosalie and pours his pain and rage into his music. Rousseau confesses his scheme and Tom rushes to the banks of the Seine just in time to save Rosalie from a watery grave.
- The in-laws drop in on happy newlyweds and leave them to babysit their nephew, the eponymous pest,
- The King of a small principality dies, and upon consulting the records in an effort to find the next in line to assume the throne and marry the pretty princess a picture of a man in uniform is found, with a brief record of his fighting achievements. The address is somewhere in America and a cablegram is dispatched forthwith. The uniform that they thought designated a soldier was deceiving, for the original of the portrait is now found to be a policeman, with a wife and several children. Upon receiving the cablegram, however, he beats it to a liner to hasten to claim the throne. A young reporter with whom he has had several quarrels takes the same boat to visit the principality ad joining the one which has summoned the policeman to take the throne. They do not meet on the boat, but each finally arrives at his destination. The two principalities are in a state of war, and Eddie, the reporter, and Lee, the policeman-heir to the throne, are immediately involved in a series of court intrigues. Just at the moment that Lee is about to marry the princess and thus secure his right to the throne, his wife and children, who have followed him on the next boat, appear and hustle him away, while Eddie, who has fallen in love with the princess, marries her and is crowned king.
- A satire on the film "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin."
- Bobby is trying to sell flivvers in Scotland and he hasn't any more chance of selling a car than he has of selling foot-warmers on the Sahara. But he keeps trying. While driving along the road he sees Frances dancing and does a rubberneck stunt. Before he can get his eyes back on the road he bowls Over MacTarnish, the richest man in the neighborhood and his only prospect for a sale. MacTruck, seeing Bobby talking to Frances, and being jealous of the salesman, fixes Bobby's car so that it will not steer or stop. Then he tells Bobby that MacTarnish wants to buy a car. Bobby asks Frances to come for a ride with him and when he gets started they go for a wild jaunt, finally landing, car and all, in the halls of the Mac Tarnish castle. The old man is furious but Bobby still tries to make the sale. He is finally thrown out of the castle. MacTruck conceives another scheme to get Bobby in bad. He tells the young salesman that MacTarnish is very fond of the MacRuff clan and dresses Bobby in the MacRuff plaid. Bobby goes to see MacTarnish again. The MacRuffs and the MacTarnishes are rival clans and Bobby is once more thrown out bodily. A member of the MacRuff clan, seeing Bobby tossed out, tells his brother clansmen that the MacRuffs have been insulted and they grab their trusty broad-swords and go to annihilate the MacTarnishes. They invade the castle, and the old man and his henchmen are in a bad fix when Bobby thinks up a scheme to save them. The old man forgives him-but refuses to buy a car when he sees that Bobby is going to marry Frances-he'll use Bobby's car.
- Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.
- When the local territory strikes an oil boom and Molly Vernon and her mother are about to become rich, Bud Harris, in love with Molly, leaves for other parts. When the oil bubble on the Vernon property burst, he returns to find the place encumbered with debt. To pay it off he enters a horse race. Bush, who holds the mortgage, is trying to foreclose, having secret information about the land. He conspires to keep Bud out of the race and lays heavy bets, knowing that Bud is the only formidable rival. Four men jump on Bud as he leaves the Vernon home at night. They take him to a secluded cabin and lock him in. However, Bud's horse finds the place and breaks down the door. When the race is about to start, Bud rides up and flabbergasts the opposition. After a thrilling ride, he wins the race, at the end of which he pulls Bush from his horse and administers a sound thrashing. Subsequently, oil seepage is found on the Vernon ranch and the boom is on again, with Bud and Molly happy together.
- Bobby and his sweetheart are hungry - and broke. At their boarding house, Bobby figures out a way to steal some food but the landlady quickly puts the kibosh on that and chases them out of the house. Walking down the street, Bobby is caught by a hook and hoisted ten stories above the street before he falls on a pile of mattresses a salesman is demonstrating. He give Bobby $50 for helping make the sale, and Bobby and his honey go to a diner and order $50 worth of wheat cakes.
- A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces. A crane carries a large piece of the generator over to the rest of the machine, and the men guide it down to assemble it. The crane brings two other pieces to the machine and lays them down where they belong.
- The Count of Liverac, a descendant of a very noble family has been so reduced in circumstances that he can only call his title and his good looks his own. During this critical period he receives a visit from a certain Mr. Griffard, a gentleman burglar by profession, who knowing well the count's financial difficulties makes him a proposition that if, by his aid, Liverac succeeds in marrying Fernanda, the young and beautiful daughter of a rich banker, he, Griffard is to receive $250,000. In a fit of depression, Liverac signs the paper, accepting the terms. Griffard immediately starts to work his schemes, and manages to have Fernanda's horse which she rides each morning doped. Consequently, there is a runaway, and Liverac, through his gallant rescue, becomes acquainted with Fernanda and her father. After a brief courtship the Count marries the banker's daughter. The honeymoon trip of the young couple is interrupted upon receipt of a telegram informing them that the old banker has been attacked with a mysterious illness, thus necessitating their immediate return. This is another part of Griffard's plan but Liverac is unaware of it. Little does he realize that this human bird of prey is cunningly waiting to seize his victim. The banker dies, and the count, who really loves Fernanda is very happy. Unfortunately, this is of short duration, for Griffard, thinking the time now ripe, pays him a visit demanding the money promised him. Liverac succeeds in ridding himself of his tormentor after promising to go to him the following day. He takes his wife to the home of some friends living in the country, but even there he is menaced by the claws of the vulture. At last he determines to secure the com promising papers from Griffard, and calling at his home he succeeds in doing so, but he is again outdone by his persecutor. Pushing a little button on his desk, Griffard informs his men in an adjourning room and when Liverac is about to leave, he is seized, securely bound, and locked in the cellar. He is then informed that within an hour his wife will no longer be in existence. Taking Liverac's car, Griffard and his men start for the country where Fernanda is staying. Meanwhile, the count vainly tries to loosen his bonds. At last he sees a lighted candle and burns the ropes which bind his hands. He also sets the house on fire, and is almost suffocated with smoke, when, with an almost superhuman effort, he at last breaks open the door and gets into the open air. Finding his automobile gone he has almost given up hope, when looking up to the heavens, he sees an aeroplane about to descend. Rushing to the spot, he promised the aviator $500 if he reaches the house before the auto All is now ready and they start on their journey. At first, there is no sight of the auto, but at last it appears a mere speck on the horizon. Little by little they gain on it until they are directly over it, and soon they leave it far behind. The count finally reaches his wife, and taking a revolver they go to a room in the cellar, where, with the doors barricaded, they await the arrival of Griffard and his band; they are not held in suspense long. The sound of fire arms alarms the police and they arrive at the scene Just in time. Griffard and his men are no more. Liverac, who has been wounded, recovers quickly under the loving care of his wife, and as the fairy story ended, they lived happily ever after.
- A couple of auto enthusiasts advertise their desire to own a car in the newspaper. A lawyer of dubious standing persuades them to purchase his vehicle. He then orders his henchman to lie underneath their car and sustain not too serious injuries when the nuts drive over him. The lawyer convincingly disguises himself as a police officer with a mustache, but the husband uncovers the plot by ripping off the hair piece. The lawyer kidnaps the wife, but after a car chase, the husband rescues her.
- Harry Sweet in the story is an outcast from society, as he is a ne'er do well. He rents a room where Gale Henry is a landlady. He is unable to pay his room rent. Instead of paying his room rent with money he earned. Someone was always selling him something on his way home to pay the rent. Finally, the landlady threatens to put him out of the house, but as she goes to notify him, she hears an attorney reading the will of his grandfather, who has left Harry Sweet a million dollars. From then on he is chased by women, and his landlady Gale Henry in particular, all of the women trying to marry him.
- A farm woman's two sons leave home to earn money to prevent a foreclosure. Algy goes to the city, and the other son goes to a mining camp. Algy gets a job as a bank guard, but accidentally locks the bank president in the safe, thinking he's a bank robber. The foreclosure is delayed long enough for the other son to return home from the mines with the news that he has struck it rich and can pay off the mortgage.
- A disgruntled workman recruits his fellow rail workers to overpower their supervisor and derail an oncoming train.
- We start with the birth of two children "the whole wide world apart," one in a swell house in Washington Square, the other in the slums of New York. We see them on their third birthday; Bob, the rich little boy, surrounded by the presence of love and care ; Jenny, the poor little girl, stealing an apple from a fruit stand. We see them getting their education^ Bob, under the care of a private tutor and Jenny learning to read through stolen glances at the Police Gazette. When they are grown up, Bob Van Dyke and his sister, Beth, now orphaned, are caught in the whirl of a gay social life and are spending the fortune left them by their parents. Jenny, left alone in the world, has been adopted by Dugan, an old crook, who stands in the place of a father to her, and who makes use of her in his illegal calling. The young cracks-man, Kelly, suggests to Dugan that they burglarize a house in Washington Square by putting Jenny through the basement window and have her open the front door for them. Jenny is captured by Bob and is about to turn her over to the police but in questioning her, sees through her girlish beauty, a soul struggling for expression and he determines to try to save her. Jenny, never having heard of right and wrong, is fascinated by the rich young man and when he leaves his money on the table and says that he will go upstairs "until he hears the front door close behind her", she realizes that she has found someone in the world who will trust her. She is about to go when she sees Bob's photograph on the table. She is tempted to steal it but hesitates and leaves fifty cents, her whole fortune, in place of the picture. She then goes out and shuts the door and facing her crook companions, announces that she is going to live straight. Back in the tenement home, she packs her small bundle of clothes and leaves. Two years pass, during which time Jenny has succeeded in making herself an expert dressmaker. She lives alone in a little room and, inspired by Bob's photograph and the memories it recalls, has grown to worship the young man who trusted her, although she has not seen him since. A strike is called in the dress factory and Jenny is let out of work. She saves a little newsboy who has stolen money and who is being pursued by the police and is able to reform him. Penniless, Jenny is finally thrown into the street with her goods and chattels. In the meantime, Bob and Beth have speculated with what is left of their fortune and while down town to pawn some of his sister's jewels, Bob finds Jenny and takes her to his home to have her make clothes for his sister. While there the love of the two young people grows and the difference in their stations is apparently insurmountable. Bob's speculations go wrong and he is tempted to use money belonging to their old nurse. Jenny overhears their plan to use the money and pleads with Bob^not to do this thing for if the speculation goes wrong, he will be a thief. Bob is deaf to her entreaties and puts the money in the safe. Jenny sees her ideal tottering and induces Kelly to enter the house and open the safe for her. She then takes the money and hides it. The next morning the loss is discovered. Detectives find Jenny's finger-prints on the safe and she is arrested but will not tell where the money is, preferring to go to jail rather than let Bob do anything dishonest. Bob realizes this and promises to go straight. Jenny steals away as Bob awaits the impending smash. Bob and Beth are forced to live in a small Harlem flat and Beth marries her wealthy young lover from the smart set . Bob realizes that he had happiness in his hand and let it go and hunts up Jenny. He sees that class does not count and, in spite of Jenny's protests, takes her in his arms.
- Bobby is a sandwich man who is in love with Vera Pretty, a motion picture star. The story concerns his efforts to get into the studio to see her. He succeeds several times, each time butting in on the scene and being thrown out. The picture that Vera is making is about an escaped convict. In a nearby prison a convict is about to be executed. He make his escape and Bobby buys his convict suit from him in order to get into the picture with Vera. The guards capture him, believing him to be the escaped convict. He finally escapes from them and flees to Vera and begs her to save him. He again butts in and as this is a scene that the director is trying to take for some time and he does it so well, the director offers him a leading part in the next picture. He is delighted but when Vera says no one shall play the lead except her husband, he goes back to the prison to be executed.
- Pollard as the dentist gets the wrong hand bag by mistake. When he reaches his office he discovers that the contents, which are bottled goods, have very nearly leaked out. As his clients are very few and far between he walks through the offices of his tooth-pulling competitors with the open bag, with the result that his own office is soon overflowing - with eager, clamorous patients.
- Harry is in love with the daughter of an executor of an estate who has been threatened by some crooks. Harry comes to the house and accidentally opens the safe and a bag of money falls out. Cops on the trail of the crooks chase him all over town. The crooks come to Harry's place and start to divide the money. Harry finally subdues as the cops arrive and he gets his sweetheart.
- A millionaire, alone in his big house except for his servants, receives a letter notifying him that his grandson, Big Boy, has been cared for by a poor family ever since his birth and that the law now demands that he, as the only living relative of the child, assume the care of it. The rich man protests, but it is the law, he sends his chauffeur and his secretary-butler for the infant. Big Boy is found at the widow's home, surrounded by his friends, the widow's children. When he is told that he must go to his grandfather's house to live he is heart-broken. He kisses all his playmates farewell, not forgetting his animal friends-the cows, chickens and the pigs. It is a real blow when he is told that he must leave Mutt, his dog, behind. But Mutt outwits everybody and steals a ride on the top of the big car. He is discovered and thrown off, only to catch a ride on the rear bumpers. When they arrive at the millionaire's home, the dog is thickly covered with dust and soot from the exhaust of the car. Big Boy angers his grandpa first by accidentally stepping inside his silk hat. Then he gets tangled up in the hat rack and has to cry for help. The millionaire regards the child coldly but is very nearly won by Big Boy's smile when the dog enters. Mutt jumps into grandpa's lap, covering him with dust and soot, and then chases the parrot all over the house. This soon has the house in an uproar and throws his grandfather into a terrible mood. Big Boy follows him, tracking soot and mud all over the rugs and carpets, throwing the servant into a rage. But again the millionaire's heart is softened by the child, and the picture closes with Big Boy safely established as a member of the household.
- Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
- Larry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- A large bucket full of molten material is poured into a large container, possibly a mold, by a group of men using machinery. Some other men stoke the fire under the container. When finished pouring, the men lift the bucket up from the container and take it away on a crane. Two men put prods down repeatedly into the container, while others lay covers on top of it.
- Dorety is president, treasurer, bookkeeper and general all-around man of his bank. It wasn't much of a bank, as banks go, but it did boast of the smallest, neatest little porter in the 48 states. It happened to be the one thing that made him a papa-his Baby Peggy. While father was busy juggling the books, little Peggy was rolling the dice with her assistant the black porter. While they were all busy at their individual jobs, in walks a freak Jesse James. He takes the bank's money and escapes. As he does so, Baby Peggy catches a glimpse of his face. In her wanderings at the sea shore, Baby Peggy comes to a large umbrella under which the bank robber is reading an item concerning bank robbery that mentions the robber had overlooked a huge booty. Baby Peggy recognizes the thief, overhears his remark that he is going back to get what was overlooked. So Peggy runs back to the bank, calls the police, and sure enough the thief is again cleaning up, but through the quick thinking of his little daughter, father's vast fortune is saved.
- Fernie Schmidt lived with her father and mother in back of their delicatessen store. Fernie hated delicatessen--and still more disliked the two rooms in which they lived. She felt that she could never invite friends to visit her in such a "smelly" home. Pop Schmidt didn't understand the young girl's need for a nicer home, and although Mom did, she couldn't persuade Pop to make the change. Pop had it all planned that she was to marry Peter Halitovsky, who sold sausages. Then, at a dance, Fernie met Jack Dugan. It was a case of love at first sight. But Fernie couldn't bring Jack home to meet her parents, because of those two ill-smelling rooms back of their business. So, when he returned home from the dance, Po, who had been inflamed by Peter's recital of Fernie's rejecting him, demanded why she hadn't brought her new friend home. She explained that she couldn't bring him to such a place. Infuriated, Pop put her out of his home. Fernie went to work in a department store. Her affair with Jack progressed, and one Sunday, at a picnic, he proposed. He was going to buy a business, he explained, so he would be able to take care of Fernie. Fernie accepted Jack. That same night, she went home to dinner at Pop's invitation. He had finally decided to buy a new home, but back of his decision lurked a wish for Fernie to marry Peter. Peter proposed, and Fernie was about to reject him, when Jack appeared unexpectedly. When he told her that he had bought a delicatessen store, Fernie was happy that she could help him. Pop and Mom were immediately won over by Jack's manliness, and Mom began to plan the wedding.