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- The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband. In an ironic turn of events, he winds up squiring rich old women around Paris' nightlife, becoming the kind of gigolo from which he tried to save his mother. Things take a turn for the worse when some family friends from back home turn up in Paris and see what has become of him.
- A young woman visits her archaeologist boyfriend at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
- Paula (Jacqueline Logan), a leopard trainer known as the Leopard Lady, is hired by police to join a circus and investigate a series of thefts and murders. She discovers that Caesar (Alan Hale), a Cossack, owns an ape trained by him to be a vicious killer. At first the Leopard Lady hesitates to expose Caesar because he once saved her life. Later, when the ape almost kills her fiance, she reveals the truth and sends for her chief to make the arrest.
- A beautiful young Mexican girl marries an Arizona sheep rancher and returns with him to his ranch, where he lives with his elderly father. The father, not used to sharing his son's attentions with anyone, takes an instant dislike to the new wife, and proceeds to make life as miserable for her as possible, including trying to turn his son against her. When a drifter shows up looking for work, the old man sees his chance.
- Jim Warren, a crook, is married to Norma, but there was a flaw in their marriage papers and he must marry her again to protect their unborn child. He returns home and gives her some money but it has been stolen and she is sent to jail as an accomplice. To get her out, he is forced to marry another woman and Norma, thinking Jim has deserted her, marries Phil Powers, and gives birth to Jim's daughter. Years later, Jim meets his daughter in the midst of a blackmail scheme against Norma over her earlier imprisonment. The daughter shoots the blackmailer, and Jim takes the blame.
- John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn to have his way. He then departs for his palatial doghouse at the Livingston estate. Meanwhile Maggie is brokenhearted and also finds that she is in a "family way", and gives birth to a pup she names Hank. Maggie tells Hank to find his "human", and departs the scene. Hank goes to the park, meets a "human" named Mary Kelly, who is a homeless waif and sweetheart of poverty, and the two adopt each other. Later on in the park Paul comes strolling along with his "human", John. A child falls into the lake and Paul and Hank team up to save her. This leads their "humans" to strike up a conversation, and the male human falls in love with the female human, and takes her home to meet his aristocratic mother and expresses his desire to marry Mary. John's mother is having none of this and objects strongly, especially since neither Hank nor his human, Mary, have a pedigree. But of course John's mother does not know that Hank is Paul's illegitimate pup. Also John's mother has other plans for him which include his marriage to Cecile Adams, who has a high-society pedigree but does not have a dog.
- Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced. The gangsters compel Smoke, accompanied by Patsy, to drive a getaway car, promising enough money to replace the neighbor's car. The gang robs the bank where Smoke's father is employed, and they shoot Thatcher in making their getaway. Forced to leave his father wounded in the street, Smoke makes a wild drive through the city, ending up at the police station. He is rewarded for "capturing" the crooks.
- Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
- Roxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embrace of another woman, Roxanna leaves England and goes to visit her friend Betty in America. There she tells people that her 'beloved' husband is dead. Betty's friends take to Roxanna, especially Ned, for whom Betty has strong feelings. Further complications arrive in the presence of John Clayton, who has followed Roxanna and now pretends to be the Duke of Morebay and another potential suitor for 'widowed' Roxanna.
- Margie Dolan, a ticket agent in a steamship office, dreams of endless pleasure and adventures abroad, while her sweetheart, Dan Morley, a drugstore owner, is devoted to his business and his eventual marriage to Margie. When the horrors of commuting become unendurable, Margie suggests they take a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls, but he is shocked at her extravagance; as she boards an ocean liner on a business errand, Margie decides to stowaway, and when discovered she is put to work in the linen room. Dunrock and Yvonne, an unscrupulous pair who plan to relieve Finch, an oil millionaire, of his fortune, hire Margie as a companion to Finch. On the Riviera, Yvonne becomes jealous of Dunrock's attentions to Margie, provoking a riot that culminates in the arrival of Dan, who promises the terrified Margie a fine honeymoon.
- Kate Jones and Becky Finkelstein are manicurists who decide to go overseas and entertain American troops during the Great War. Clark Jackson, a wealthy playboy, and William, his valet, are members of the A.E.F, and William becomes the top-sergeant in their unit. Evelyn, a friend of Clark's, also goes to France as a Red Cross nurse. They all meet, and Kate and Becky both fall in love with Clark. Kate is jealous of Evelyn, but, unknown to any of them, Evelyn loves an American aviator. When the Armistice finally comes, two of them have died in the war, but the others are all reunited.
