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- Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.
- World War hero James Lewis MacFarlane, tired of being shunted from one government hospital to another for a wound that will not heal, runs away when he learns that he has but a year to live. He is befriended by The Bee Master, who is ill and soon dies. Jamie inherits half of the estate and apiary, with the other half going to "Little Scout," an 11-year-old girl who dresses as a boy. He marries a girl about to drown herself because she is to bear a child out of wedlock; his "wife" disappears immediately afterward, leaving a note signed "Alice Louise MacFarlane." With the aid of a neighbor, Margaret Cameron, Jamie soon recovers his health. He is notified that his "wife" has given birth to a son, but when he arrives at the hospital Jamie discovers another woman wearing his ring. She dies, and Molly Cameron (Mrs. Cameron's daughter), the girl he really married, appears and confesses that she married Jamie to get her sister Alice a wedding ring and a marriage certificate to protect her reputation. All ends well, and Jamie remarries Molly.
- A saxophone player Clyde, who busks on the San Francisco Bay waterfront. One night, he meets Flowers, and teaches her to dance, but finds that "Blackjack", the leader of a ruthless gang, is also in love with her.
- A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, might not have occurred at all.
- Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by his sweetheart, Joan, and her father, Jingles Wellman, formerly a clown, Burke prepares for a sabotage of his machine by syndicate hirelings. In the midst of a great battle the riot squad arrives to arrest the troublemakers, and Burke and his sweetheart are left in happy possession of their roller coaster.
- American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment. Adele saves him from capture on the condition that he pose as the model for one of her works. Adele and Jean fall in love, finding happiness with each other until Marie, Jean's former love, insults him by telling him he is no better than a rich woman's lap dog. Jean returns to the underworld and becomes involved in a gang war with a rival gang, the Wolves. Looking for Jean, Adele goes to a cafe he is known to frequent, where she is abducted by the Wolves. When Jean comes to rescue her, he is also captured. The Wolves heat knives with which to torture the reunited lovers, but before they can be used, the police arrive and open fire on the Wolves' hideout. During the excitement, Marie, who has joined the Wolves, repents of her hate and releases Adele and Jean. They jump from an open window just as the hideout is destroyed by artillery fire. Jean decides to repent, and the lovers look forward to a romantic future together.
- Colonel Lotovski rapes the Innkeeper's wife and blinds him. 6 years later, his crime may be punished.
- A Duc's daughter learns her rescuer killed her brother and betrays his plan to save the queen.
- about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again. He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden.
- Tom Markham is the foreman of an Arizona dude ranch. He travels to the "big city" for a meeting with the ranch's owner, George Brooks, after which he will accompany Brooks' daughter Ellen back to the ranch. Brooks tells Tom about the Regent diamond, a valuable stone that Brooks has set in a ring for Ellen. Ellen's friend Rodney Stevens hears about it. Stevens, who is actually the boss of a bandit gang, has his men steal the diamond, but Tom manages to get it back. Stevens doesn't give up, though, and hatches a plan that will get him back the diamond and frame Tom for stealing it.
- Bill Duncan returns to his home town and conceals his identity because of a longstanding feud with the Flynne family. However, he is soon found out and arrested for the murder of rancher Red Flynne. The dead man's estate has been bequeathed jointly to Rolfe McPherson, his foreman, and Helen, his daughter, who believes that her father wished her to marry Rolfe, unaware that he plotted the murder. After Bill escapes, Rolfe's housekeeper discloses her employer's guilt. Rolfe kidnaps Helen and rides for the Mexican border, but Bill comes to the rescue, brings the villain to justice, and wins Helen.
- Tom McCall, a deputy marshal, is detailed to hunt for narcotics smugglers and heads into the California Sierras where he buys an old white mule for $10 and goes to work for Ruth Martin, the owner of the Lazy M.
- A young waif (Frankie Darro) runs away from a harsh orphanage in order to join the circus.
- A young stockbroker is in love with a nightclub entertainer he loses his job and the girl at work one night obtains some information about money making stocks And passes it on to her boyfriend he then uses this information in the stock market
- Two orphans, a near-blind architect, and a kindly young secretary form a makeshift family as they overcome financial hardships, while also thwarting the designs of both a loutish suitor and a persistent truant officer.
- Roaming cowboy Bart Andrews is arrested for vagrancy by a sheriff who needs men for the state road gang. On the way to jail, the sheriff stops off at a rodeo, allowing Bart the chance to ride a wild bronc. Bart tames the horse, and, at the urging of some cowboys, the sheriff allows Bart to go to work on the Lawrence ranch. Bart falls in love with Jean Dawson, the ranch manager's daughter, and prevents the theft of a trainload of cattle. Later, Bart surprises the foreman in the act of robbing the safe at the express office; the men fight, the station agent is killed, and Bart is accused of the crime. He frees himself, brings the foreman to justice, and reveals himself to be the real owner of the Lawrence ranch.
- Anne, a boardinghouse worker in New York's tenement district and an inveterate daydreamer, is rescued from the abuse of neighborhood hoodlums by Wellington Kingston, a society man who returns her to Mrs. Finney's boardinghouse in his Rolls-Royce. When she is goaded by a drunken guest into attending a society ball, Kingston relieves her embarrassment by introducing her as Princess Anne, visiting incognito; but Madeline Sheivers, angling for Kingston, maliciously exposes Anne. Mrs. Finney, enraged by her associating with the rich, turns her out; she accepts a cafe job, leaves it when a customer makes unwelcome advances, and becomes a model at the Fifth Avenue establishment of Theodore Chappell, who is tiring of the attentions of Madeline. Anne stays over at Rebecca Morgan's apartment and invites Kingston to dinner; making his departure, he sees Madeline shoot Chappell. Anne tries to assume the guilt, but Johnny, a cabdriver friend, convinces the police of Madeline's guilt. Kingston and Anne are happily united.
- An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
- Tom and Tod Pembroke are the twin sons of Jefferson Pembroke, a Virginia Bishop, and are divinity-school students. Tom is serious and Tod carefree and adventurous, and both are in love with Ruth Featherstone. Tod is expelled from the school and, seeing that Ruth loves Tom, he sets sail for China. Five years later, Tom, a missionary, and his bride Ruth are on the way to establish a mission at Paroa, in the Java Sea. En route, Tom catches island-fever, and their vessel is captured by a pirate calling himself Captain Blaze Devine. The latter is really Tod Pembroke, but his heavy beard makes him unrecognizable, but he recognizes his brother and Ruth. Devine learns of his brothers mission, shaves his beard and sails for Paroa, and poses as his ill-brother. "Bully" Rawden, the island trader opposes the building of a mission, but Tod whips him in a fight, and holds services that night. Marietta, Rawden's daughter, falls in love with him, but Tod, unable to reveals his true identity, has to conceal his feelings for her.
- Helena Brice (Alberta Vaughn), daughter of John Bryce (Charles Hill Mailes), an airplane manufacturer, breaks off her engagement to Bob Kenwood (Thomas Wells) when he refuses to to enlist in the war. John Bryce soon finds his mansion converted into a recreation center for soldiers and is forced to move to a hotel until the troops leave. Each soldier considers Helena his sweetheart, since she gives them all autographed photos, and she is later forced to send a blanket refusal to their respective proposals of marriage. Bob enlists, but Helena returns his ring when he is detailed to factory duty. To evade her suitors, Helena claims to be engaged to Spike Murphy (Syd Crossey), the beau of her maid Daisy Dooley (Babe London) whom she believes to be dead, but he appears to claim her. Bob pursues them in his roadster, followed by Bryce and Daisy. In a final free-for-all, Daisy subdues Murphy and Bob wins Helena.