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- Herodias, spurned by Egyptian prince who is in love with Salome, has him secretly thrown in dungeon next to the Baptist. Herodias threatens to kill her lover if Salome does not ask for death of the Baptist.
- Gunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business, raising and selling reindeer. He doesn't like the business and isn't suited for it, but he gives in and takes over. However, when he is badly injured one day in an accident while driving the herd over the frozen Arctic and sustains some serious head trauma, his family fears that he may be permanently mentally damaged and they may lose both Gunnar and the family business.
- The "Custard Cup," a cluster of tenements surrounding an oval courtyard, is home to the widowed Mrs. "Penzie" Penfield, who cares for the building and her three adopted children. Among the colorful tenants are Frank and Gussie Bosley, a secretive couple involved in a counterfeiting operation. When Alderman Curry hosts a boat excursion for his constituents, Frank accidentally sets the vessel on fire while attempting to destroy the phony bills in his pocket. After the passengers are rescued, Penzie is accused of passing counterfeit money. A detective proves her to be an unwitting victim, and the Bosleys are apprehended.
- The adventures of Phineas Fogg the 3rd, grandson of the famous globe trotter of Jules Verne fame, in his effort to go around the world in 18 days to get proxies from widely scattered stockholders of an international fuel company, which is headed by Fogg's sweetheart's father. Unless Fogg obtains the proxies in time, Brenton, the vice-president, will seize control of the company at the next Board meeting which occurs on the 19th. It is then the first of the month. Brenton wagers Fogg $100,000 that he cannot make the trip in time.
- In Paris, France, famous artist Robert Stevens falls in love with Mrs. Marion Trevor and follows her to the U.S., where they plan to marry. Marion's brother, Dick Van Vleck, becomes infatuated with Lottie, who is modeling for Robert. However, Dick returns to college and abandons Lottie, who then drowns herself in the ocean. Robert is accused of betraying the girl, prompting Marion to break their engagement. In addition, he is falsely accused of theft, resulting in a two-year prison term. The artist joins several inmates in a prison break and saves the life of the state governor before escaping. Afterward, Robert lands on an island, where he prevents a shipwreck and nurses an ailing lighthouse keeper back to health. Although he receives a pardon, the despondent artist becomes a drunkard. One day, Marion and the governor enter a barroom to find Robert painting her portrait on the floor. The lovers are reconciled and find happiness together.
- An amiable couple (Lupino Lane) (Alberta Vaughn) buy a trailer and start out on a camping vacation, only to be joined at the last minute by the wife's family. The husband remains friendly, even though all the work and few of the comforts are left to him. After many comic situations the husband rescues his wife from a western-style attack by a gang of bandits and receives a reward for their capture.
- Oswald Lane is welcomed by his hometown as a war hero and enjoys recounting his adventures to anyone who will listen. He accepts an invitation to stay in the home of his rather colorless brother, Andrew, and is soon not only making love to Martha, the Belgian maid, but is also finding Andrew's wife, Hester, receptive to his flirting. After stealing money entrusted to Andrew by his church, Oswald is on his way out of town when he passes a school fire, rescues several children, and is himself seriously burned. Andrew offers his own skin for grafting, and Oswald directs Hester to return the money.
- A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
- Captain Leyton treats his son, Boy, harshly to eliminate every weakness, but he is so overjoyed at Boy's courageous defense of the character of his sweetheart, Minnie, that he has a heart attack. Before he dies, Leyton charges Boy with avenging his mother's desertion of his father for another man. Boy finds his mother; discovers the other man to be Leyton's first mate, Morgan; hurls Morgan overboard; and returns to marry Minnie.
- Prospector Abner Hall disappears and "Smoothe Joe" Holler warns Sheriff John Wallace to abandon his search for Hall. Meanwhile, Etta Smith comes to the Nevada town in search of her long-lost brother and is also kidnapped. John finds Hall and Etta in the hands of Holler, who reveals an incriminating incident in John's past. But Harry Elliott exonerates the sheriff and reveals him to be the brother of Etta, who is happy in Harry's arms.
- One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.
- Fireman Dan McDowell has been taking care of the fire horses for many years, but when the department becomes motorized, the beloved horses are sold off. Efforts to train Dan to drive the new fire trucks fail, and he's forced to retire.
- Jim, a boy who has always played second fiddle to his elder brother, Herbert, gets a chance to be a hero when, to protect his mother and sweetheart, Polly, he holds a murderer at bay with an unloaded shotgun. (Herbert took the shells when he went for help.) Eventually Jim faints, and Cragg, the killer, overpowers him. Simultaneously, Herbert returns with help; he takes all the credit and makes Jim look like a coward. Later, Jim proves his courage when he saves Polly and overpowers Cragg, now an escaped convict. Herbert bows to Jim and returns to college.
- Riley Sinclair sets out to kill the three men who left his brother, Hal, to die in the desert. One of the intended victims, Sam Lowrie, commits suicide, while Riley kills another in self-defense. During his pursuit of the third man, Ed Sanderson, Riley meets schoolteacher John Caspar, but soon discovers that his new friend is actually Virginia Cartwright, a woman on the run from her cruel husband, Jude. After both Jude and Ed are killed in a fight, Virginia is free to marry Riley.
- Cowboy Bill Moreland meets and falls in love with Janet Ainslee, a stranded actress. He sells his prize dogs to pay her way back to New York City and eventually follows her. Later, Bill rescues Janet from a producer who is willing to advance her career in exchange for her virtue. Bill and Janet marry and return west.
- John "Jack" Norton (Jack Mulhall), before the war a society playboy and fop, returns from the trenches of World War One a two fisted American who finds his father, Raymond Norton (William Welsh), in jail, charged with theft of funds from the bank in which he was the president. The money, placed there by the American authorities for the Kingdom of Thorwald, and Princess Elise (Margaret Livingston), is on the way to collect it. John lets his father think he is still the playboy he was before the war, but secretly dons his old 'Doughboy" uniform and sets out after the gang that framed his father.
- Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots two ruffians, but Andy is hailed as the hero and made a deputy sheriff. He is sent to capture Overland Pete and his gang. Scared, but game, he starts out and accidentally brought face to face with them, wins out and makes good. He also wins the love of the sister of one of the crooks, returns home with his bride, and whips the bully who taunted him as being yellow. - Moving Picture World, 1923.
- Guiding two covered wagons along a desert trail, Duke Steele meets and befriends Sam Le Saint, a mysterious hermit who is searching for a former partner who destroyed his home and ran away with his wife and infant daughter eighteen years earlier. Later, the two men ride into a mining camp controlled by Silver Sleed, who runs a gambling place. Duke is smitten by beautiful young Nola "Luck" Sleed, and learns that she is the gambler's daughter. Silver Sleed also happens to be the man that Sam Le Saint is searching for. Sam, who is dying, kills Sleed, and Duke learns that Luck is Sam's long-lost daughter.
- Randolph Adams, a medical student, and his friend, Ned Hastings, have lost their way while on a hunting trip in the north. In a cabin which they enter by chance, Adams' medical skill is called upon to save a sick child. In response to Noah Redstone, the master of the cabin's, question, "Why do you go about killing things when you can spend your time saving human lives?" a change comes over him, and realizing the thrill of being able to relieve suffering, he decides to devote his life to the work. Later he enters the Red Cross service in France,leaving the children's hospital he has erected in the care of a friend. He is reported dead, and his wife is about to accept Hastings' offer of marriage when Adams appears on the scene, having spent some time in a hospital abroad recovering from an injury. Just at the moment his mother is pronounced dead from an automobile accident. But refusing to give her up without effort, he hurriedly puts a new respiratory invention to work and succeeds in saving her life. The story closes with a happy reunion.
- Prospector Harry Farley returns from Alaska to find that his sister, Helen, has gone to New York with Florence, her blind daughter, after being deserted by her husband, Richard Norman. Under the name of Sidney Heaton, Norman has married Blanche Maberly and fallen in with a bootlegging gang while succumbing to the blackmail of Dick Watkins. Helen dies, Heaton kidnaps Florence, but Harry tracks him to the Adirondacks.
- Reever McCall, an infamous forger, is on the run from the police with his daughter Saidee. He asks his friend, a former criminal named Steve Cline, for help. Cline, whose brother was killed by William Mallory, the detective chasing McCall, agrees. Several years later, while serving as a nurse during the war, Saidee falls in love with Phil Logan, a patient of hers who is also the son of the governor of her state. After the war Mallory, now a big shot in state politics, gives a banquet for the Governor. Mallory discovers Saidee's identity and demands that she marry him in exchange for keeping quiet about her past. Complications ensue.
- Glory and John, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend Polly Love, incites the London populace against John, claiming that John has predicted that the world will end on the eve of the Epsom Downs Derby. John goes to kill Glory to save her soul, but instead she convinces him of her love. Confused, John wanders into the street, is mortally hurt by an angry mob, then marries Glory before dying in her arms.
- A young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be repaid, and she--not liking to ask her husband for money--writes a check on her husband's account. When he discovers that his wife has written a check to another man and not told him, complications ensue.
- Believing her husband, Laurence Teck, (Maurice B. Flynn) to be dead in the African jungle, Carol (Mary Miles Minter) marries musician David Verne (Casson Ferguson). Laurence does come home, but, thinking it best for Carol, he returns to the jungle. The shock kills David, and Carol sets out in search of Laurence, has many adventures, and finally finds him with the friendly native king who saved him.
- Joel Shore is made captain of the whaling schooner formerly headed by his courageous and admired brother, Mark, who was lost at sea. Accompanied by his bride, who suspects Joel to have a cowardly heart, they set sail for a whale hunt.
- Billy Winthrop is in love with Beatrice Forbes, who is engaged to Ernest Peabody, a reform candidate for mayor backed by Billy's father. When Billy learns that Peabody has betrayed Violet Gaynor and plans to double-cross Mr. Winthrop, he exposes the candidate with the help of Mitt Deagon and wins Beatrice.