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- A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
- Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice, who is taken away from him by Al, who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.
- A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman.
- A female detective goes undercover as a chorus girl to solve the murder of a scientist whose son was threatened with disinheritance for his a romance with a chorus girl.
- A detective's daughter is kidnapped by a gang of counterfeiters led by an evil professor whose son has been sent to prison based on the detective's evidence.
- Olive Sherwood, a pretty western girl living in Omaha, is very fond of finery. Young and inexperienced, she knows nothing of the deeper currents of life, but the refinements of society and its polished exteriors appeals to her strongly, and the crude west does not seem to provide what her fastidious nature craves. Her loving old father sighs over her extravagances, but is too indulgent to curb them, and in order to gratify her expensive whims invests in some Red Star mining stock that West, a crafty, unscrupulous New York broker, induces him to buy. On a business trip to Omaha, West sees Olive, and casts an admiring and covetous eye upon her. Horace Watling, his wife Anna, and their child, Ruth, are firm friends of Olive, and Mrs. Watling's love for clothes creates a strong bond between both women. Mr. Watling, who is a small publisher, is induced to come to New York and establish himself there as a partner in a big publishing concern. Olive envies the Watlings' gay life in the metropolis, so that when her father dies and West advises her to come to New York. Olive is easily persuaded to do so. For a time Olive is delighted with the gaiety of metropolitan society, but she has only one "party gown," and its frequent appearances soon cause sly amusement and concealed scorn. Olive, left in straitened circumstances by her father's death, grieves over her lack of money for pretty clothes. At this juncture West comes forward and tells her that the Red Star raining stock owned by her father has boomed, giving her money in the form of "dividends." Olive innocently accepts the funds, unaware that the stock is worthless. A young clerk in West's office, whose father had been ruined by the broker, watches West's dealings closely, and enters in a diary all the evidence of West's crimes, hoping thereby to finally convict him. Watling, though prosperous, is weighed down by business cares, has little use for the society his wife worships, and secretly longs for the simplicity and happiness of his former life; and little Ruth, who is the devoted friend of Olive, is sadly neglected by her ambitious mother. Mrs. Watling invites Olive to a society circus. Olive has already met her ideal, Richard Burbank, a rich young society man who is weary of the sham and artificiality of the life about him, and who has fallen ardently in love with Olive. He, too, attends the house party, and there declares his love for Olive. Olive accepts him and is very happy. West, who observes a tender scene between the two, is furious with jealousy, and enters Olive's room in a drunken frenzy, telling her that she will be his or he will expose her. Olive stares at him in mingled bewilderment and fright, when another guest suddenly enters the room. West hastily leaves, but later, in the presence of all the guests, and amid the gaieties of the society circus, West denounces Olive, and dramatically tells the assemblage that he has been supporting her, and that she would sell her soul for clothes. In proof of this, he displays the receipt for the clothes she wears, for which he had advanced the money in the guise of dividends. Olive, shamed by the disgrace into which her innocent ignorance and love of finery has led her, is too overwhelmed and humiliated to speak, and Burbank is reluctantly forced, in a bitter moment of doubt, to believe her silent admission of West's claims. During this episode, Watling learns that the Red Star mining stock, in which he had heavily invested on the advice of Olive, is worthless. Mrs. Watling also turns against Olive, who, brokenhearted, returns to Omaha, glad to do the sewing for the neighbors she once despised. When it is learned that the Watlings have lost their fortune, they are shunned, and they too see the hollowness and mockery of society, and decide to return to Omaha and begin life anew. Burbank cannot forget Olive, and with returning love comes the conviction that she is innocent. He goes to West's office, determined to learn where she is, just as West is contemplating a trip abroad on his ill-gotten gains. West tries to escape, but the vengeful clerk aids Burbank in detaining him. The clerk produces the evidence of West's villainies, and the rogue, confronted by exposure and disgrace, and weakened by worry and dissipation, falls dead of heart failure. Little Ruth sees Olive in Omaha, and at once writes Burbank of her presence there. Burbank goes to Omaha, and the lovers are happily reunited. And Olive at last realizes the value of love and the folly of pride in clothes.
- A man and a woman are shipwrecked on a desert island. It doesn't take long before they fall in love and, figuring that they would never see civilization again, declare themselves married and eventually have a child. One day, however, the man's wife--who had been looking for him--finally finds him. Complications ensue.
- Berresford Cruger, junior partner of the New York brokerage firm of Barbury, Brown and Cruger, is left a fortune of 60,000 pounds, by an English uncle, Carew, on the condition that he renounce his American citizenship, become a British subject, and marry an Englishwoman, the money otherwise being assigned to the Archaeological Society of England. Cruger patriotically refuses the fortune on these conditions, when his pretty English cousin, Beatrice Carew, who has been disinherited in favor of Cruger, because of a past romance with an American, suggests to him that they marry, and so keep the money in the family. Cruger's American chivalry, and a strong interest in his attractive cousin are aroused. At this critical moment the disappearance of Brown, with $80,000 which he had had in trust for a Miss Georgia Chapin, is discovered. Cruger and Barbury feel responsible for their partner's defalcation, which adds another incentive to Cruger's consent to a hasty marriage with Beatrice, who immediately returns to England, after both have agreed to leave each other absolutely free. With his newly acquired money Cruger secretly replaces the missing funds, and invests in the Opera House block of a Wyoming "boom" town, proceeding to forget all about it. Later, he and Barbury go to Nice, where Cruger again meets his cousin-wife. Here they fall seriously in love with each other, and many complications, pathetic and comic, ensue. The situation is further confused by the sudden reappearance of Brown, who, it transpires, is the missing ex-fiancé of Beatrice, believed by her to have been accidentally killed. Beatrice is now fully recovered from her love affair with Brown, but his former affection for her is revived when he learns that her fortune, after all, has not been lost. Brown's utter lack of character and manliness is evidenced by his efforts to part Cruger and Beatrice. Cruger realizes that Brown's design is to secure Beatrice's fortune by marrying her himself, and, in a dramatic scene, tells Brown that he had induced himself to marry Beatrice in order to restore Miss Chapin's stolen funds, and that he would consent to a divorce from Beatrice, if Brown would agree to return her portion of the estate in the event that be married her. Brown's ardor cools at this proposal, and he verifies Cruger's scant opinion of him by again disappearing. Beatrice misunderstands Cruger's motive, and condemns him as mercenary. Cruger can offer no defense and secretly bears the pang of Beatrice's innocent misjudgment. Beatrice leaves Cruger in anger and resentment. With a comic irony, the Archaeological Society at this juncture, which has sued to recover the money on the grounds that Cruger was not to share the behest with Beatrice, Carew's disinherited daughter, wins the action, and Cruger and Beatrice are forced to surrender their fortune and are left without funds or resources. With noble devotion, Cruger stints himself to send Beatrice money without her knowledge of the sacrifice, and is himself on the verge of starvation, when joyful word arrives that his Wyoming Opera House lot has really "boomed," and made him $50,000. Meanwhile, Georgia Chapin has learned of his unselfish replacement of her stolen funds, and his sacrifices for Beatrice, with which she loses no time in acquainting her. Awakened to a new realization of Cruger's real worth. Beatrice hastens to him to ask forgiveness, and is received with open arms by her hero, who has managed, through all his difficulties, to regain his American citizenship without losing wife or fortune.
- A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
- Eminent romantic actor Cyril Scott, who won such sensational success in the stellar roles of "The Prince Chap," "The Lottery Man," and other dramatic triumphs, is ideally cast in "The Day of Days" as young bookkeeper Percival, who has led an uneventful life until fate chooses him as the central figure in one of the strangest plots ever woven about the life of the metropolis. Percival finds himself in a series of thrilling episodes that take him from the lowly earth to the high peaks of romance. Louis Joseph Vance based his exciting novel on Oriental fatalism, which assigns to every man his "day of days," wherein he shall range the skies and plumb the abyss of his destiny, alternately its lord and slave. In the course of the story, Percival becomes the hero of a chain of fantastic and fascinating adventures, aids an heiress to escape a villain, finds a card in the villain's hat that sends him to a notorious gambling house, where he breaks the bank, and where, later, an attempt to rob him is frustrated by a timely raid. He effects his escape from the gambling house in the clothes of one of the officers, finds himself in a woman's bedroom, explains his presence by telling her he is after a burglar, his uniform corroborating the story, breaks away and turns up again in a secret dive of the underworld, re-escapes in time to discover the villain's plot to abduct the heiress, confronts the villain in disguise at a fancy ball, rescues the heiress a second time, becomes involved in a fight with the villain's hired gunmen, forces his way into a garage, dashes through the garage doors with the heroine in his arms, makes his way to an automobile and liberty, and in the final chapter thwarts the villain's schemes by marrying the heiress, just as the clock denotes the end of his "Day of Days." The story gets down to the heart of New York, and feels the pulse of the metropolis throughout.
- A Roman gladiator marries a shepherdess, who is horrified by his brutality in the arena, until he is moved by the Christian evangelism of Paul.