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- On the Spanish island of Majorca lives the Faneaux family, product of a degenerate English father of good family and a Spanish woman, whom he had not married. Following the father's death, poverty has driven the daughter, Emilia, into shady living and the brother, Rodney, into disreputable adventures. Rodney, tortured by the realization that his life is doomed to be wasted in penury, urges his sister to marry Ewing, a crooked but immensely wealthy film actor. But Emilia rebels and soon afterwards falls in love with Jerome Hautrive, an aristocratic English writer. Rodney and Ewing plan to fleece the Englishman but when Rodney sees in Jerome the man that he might have been, he comes to his side, rescuing him from a dangerous predicament. Thereafter he remains his devoted servant. With the marriage of Jerome and Emilia imminent, the jealous Ewing persuades Emilia that the difference in there social stations will make both of them miserable. Convinced that Ewing has spoken the truth, Emilia returns to her old ways. Jerome discovers her dancing in one of the lowest dives. But still his love burns for her. Thereupon Ewing, in a last desperate effort to make the girl his own, abducts her. Jerome hotly pursues and after a terrible struggle, in which Ewing is wounded, saves her. A short time later Jerome and Emilia are married in England and through the good offices of Jerome, Rodney and an older brother are both settled in positions to which their blood entitles them.
- 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.
- Eddie takes Alice and Ruth to a show with money which belongs to Joe, Alice's father and his employer. The show, a typical melodrama, has for its leading man an old friend of Alice and Ruth. He invites them out after the show, but has mislaid his money so Eddie has to pay the bill. He calls up Joe and tells what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and get out the window. Joe and Eddie finally catch them and the game is up.
- 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.
- 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.
- An intense rivalry exists between the post-man and the leading soda clerk of Hay Centre, who are suitors for the hand of the prettiest girl in town. An automobile race, agreed upon as a method of deciding to whom the lady is to give her hand, has a number of intensely humorous complications. The mail-man loses out and the final fadeout shows the happy victor riding off triumphant with the girl.
- 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.
- Jimmy, arriving in the town, which is unable to keep a sheriff in office on account of the villainous doings of the villain, gang leader and his band, takes delight in beating up the villain, the latter attempts to kiss the girl against her will. She appeals to him to take the Sheriff's job and he does so. At first it appears as though he may join his predecessors, but the tide of battle turns in his favor; he beats up the villain; scares the gang out of town and settles down in earnest to his job. His plans to marry the heroine are frustrated, when she turns up with her husband-to-be-who proves to be no other than the previous gang-leader. Jimmy, unable face the happiness of the two, turns his sheriff's job over to the reformed gang-leader and leaves the town.
- Larry, the stage hand, invariably is missing when there is work to be done. But when he's missing things run smoothly. Inadvertently, the rug is unrolled, on the stage and he appears, the stage manager loses control of himself and upsets Larry and everything else, including a can of gun powder which he is gallant enough to carry for the leading lady to her dressing room. The stage hand disobeys the rules of the house and lights a cigarette, dropping the match in the string of gunpowder. The explosion eliminates the seat of the stage manager's ample trousers. Striving to change to another pair he rushes into the dressing room of the chorus, from which he is rapidly thrown out - out onto the stage in his checkered lingerie. To escape his retaliation Larry nails the manager down the basement, but opens a stage trap by accident. The primadonna in the midst of her act is precipitated from the stage down into a cask of black paint. Larry seeks safety in the loft from which altitude he manages to ruin all the acts on the bill. When the star calls for artificial fog, he gives him a barrel full of it and wrecks the show. They all strive to get after him, but Larry comes out victor as the picture fades.
- Bobby Dunn has been shipped out of one city by the sheriff, for the reason that he absolutely refuses to work and is therefore considered undesirable as a citizen. He arrives in a mail sack and the sheriff immediately tries to see to it that he gets work, but Bobby is successful in eluding job after job until finally, in his attempt to escape, he lands in a training camp where a heavy-weight. prize fighter is getting ready for a championship battle. The fighter, badly in need of sparring partners, takes Bobby on and knocks him out with the first punch. While out, Bobby dreams that he is so successful that he becomes the fighter's manager and trains him for the fight. The fighter has a very attractive sister with who Bobby falls in love. On the day of the fight the fighter falls and breaks his arm and Bobby says that he will go into the ring in his stead. He does, when to his horror he finds that his opponent is the official who has been causing him so much trouble. He gets very much the worst of the fight until he succeeds in grabbing a hammer and stuffing it into his glove, promptly knocks out everybody in the ring and the entire audience. The girl, very much impressed, embraces him and he wakes up to find that it was only a dream and the disgusted sheriff puts him back in the mail sack and ships him back to the city from which he came.
- 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.
- "One Stormy Orphan" concerns the adventures of a child abandoned by its mother on the steps of a church on Christmas Eve. She leaves the baby in a basket and the scene fades out with the people leaving the church and paying no attention to the "Orphan." The scene fades back as a title indicates that twenty-five years have passed and the baby, now grown to manhood, still occupies the basket and the church-goers are still passing him by unnoticed. A policeman tells him that he has been there long enough and to move on, which he does. He sees a bed for sale in front of a furniture store and lies down there, but cannot be comfortable, he has grown so used to the basket. Finding a basket of clothes a Chinaman has left and crawls in, and the Chinaman takes him back to his laundry where he makes him work. The Chinaman has also adopted an orphan white girl and of course she and Bobby fall in love with each other. After many adventures when Bobby upsets the plans of the villain who also wishes to marry the girl, all ends happily.
- 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.
- On Christmas Eve a husband is sent out by his wife to pick up a Christmas tree, but it turns out to be more of an adventure than he bargained for.
- A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
- Brushsky, the famous color slinger, guards his prize model from the other artists. She is stolen and sent to the Model Supply Company, Joe and Monty, two ex-porters, importing artists' models, finds it somewhat difficult to fill a regular customer's order, when they receive a letter from Brushsky offering a large reward for the return of his model, who he describes as having a birth-mark on her left shoulder. In their eagerness to read the letter, they tear part of her description off, which the janitor sweeps away. They go out hunting for the model, with the birth-mark on her left --? Secure the aid of some crooks. Some models, in their recreation hour, are supplied with heart-shape beauty marks -- the latest from Paris -- and stick them on their arms and legs. The crooks and their confederates steal the models and bring them to Monty and Joe, where the beauty marks are discovered to be court-plaster. The angry artists have trailed their missing models to Monty's and Joe's studio, and start after the two for vengeance. Meanwhile the missing model has been brought to the studio, and having a great love for the water has jumped into the swimming tank, Monty and Joe in order to avoid the mob, jump into the tank, discover the model. Some one pulls up the stopper, and the three are carried out to sea. Now there enters into the plot a German mine. The three swim to the mine and board it. Our destroyers, searching for the missing water-bomb, discover and fire at it. The three are blown to land, at Brushsky's feet, Brushsky enthuses over the return of his prize model and hands Joe and Monty the reward, thanking them heartily.
- Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight. The sheriff and his deputy had the habits of Jesse James, and he also robbed the country by teaching school. The weekly train was the town's only sport. The engineer knew Weazel Bend- so he didn't even hesitated. They had a nice soft mattress on the station platform to catch the passengers that chanced that way. But one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties-teaching school. Her sweetheart Hiram Biff, had followed her, how ever, riding on his nerve and the engine rod. "Big Kick Kitchen," was the place where society mixed soft drinks with hard fists. Even the bad guy, Pineapple Pete, didn't look so hard, sipping a soft drink. However, looks are not everything. Pineapple decided to pay the bank an unofficial visit to draw out some cash he had never deposited, but he was interrupted by our friend the Sheriff, who demanded half of the loot. Everything was going lovely, when who should appear but Hiram. He rounded up the crooks in fine shape, grabbed the money with one hand, his girl with the other and they both grabbed the first train going the other way.
- 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.
- A King proposes to the pretty princess, but she rejects him and chooses a man from his photo and a brief record of his bravery. He is an American policeman with a wife and family. A reporter covering the story complicates matters.
- When the wealthy society woman has her beautiful pearls stolen she hurries to the newspaper office to have a notice of reward printed immediately. The editor offers to make the first reporter who brings in the details of the robbery and recovers the pearls, an editor, Baby Peggy, as the boss' stenographer, hears this and decides to be the one. She procures some male attire and a false mustache. Leaving the office, she sees two of the regulars just going off in a flivver. She jumps in the rear seat, unnoticed and by punching first one and then the other leads them to believe that the other is getting too fresh. They have words and finally get out to settle the matter, fistically. Our heroine seizes the opportunity and drives away in the car while the men are fighting. She arrives at the home of the society woman and questions the butler. His actions convince her that she is on the right track and after being thrown out several times she reenters in a new phonograph cabinet being delivered. While in the cabinet she gets the goods on the butler and rushes with her story and the pearls to the office where she is made editor and has them all jumping at her command.
- Larry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- It consist of a series of scenes depicting the life in the old west. Cowgirls bucking contest, Cowboy bucking contests, Steer roping and bull dodging, Cowboy and Cowgirls relay races, Indian Pony and relay races, Stage Coach races, [Indian] races, Cowboy and Cowgirl standing races, the riding of wild bulls, fancy roping, Maverick races and all the sports of the range, the cow camp and Indian village.
- 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.
- Mother cries as her three hundred pound baby departs for town to see his sweetie. His tears begin. They fill his pockets and wash his face clean. The dog also weeps. In town he is wedged between two autos. Walking away, his rival discovers his auto tire attached to Charlie's back. He snatches his property away. The men almost battle. Once in his sweetie's home, Charlie attempts to make himself at home. Chairs collapse when he sits on them. Tables crumple when he leans on them. Everything goes to pieces when it comes in contact with him. His rival leaves a beauty parlor- and hands each one of the four charming beauty specialists a coin - which proves to be a milk check. When he returns, later, they toss him out on his ear. Arriving later in the day, the men fight a duel for the fair lady's hand. They shoot each other up. Meanwhile, the butler proposes and is accepted. The rivals sadly witness the ceremony thru a window. Falling backwards together from the shock, they regain consciousness in a mud puddle.
- The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.