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- With her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not appreciate the young girl's charm and energy. Rebecca must make new friends and adjust to surroundings that are sometimes difficult. But she still finds time to think of numerous ways to help others in her new hometown.
- The matriarch of a poor Jewish family nurtures her talented son's dream of being a great violinist, but as an adult, global events call for him to postpone his dream.
- Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family, who must marry off Kalora, before her rotund younger sister Papova may wed. To remedy this situation, Kalora's father, the governor general, throws a garden party and disguises his slim daughter in an inflated rubber suit. All goes well until the suit ruptures, deflating Kalora to her normal size. Soon after, she meets Pike, an American, and falls in love. Upon hearing of a cure for slimness in America, the governor sends Kalora overseas where she meets Pike again. He follows her home to Morevana, and once it is discovered that he is wealthy, the governor offers the American his prized daughter Papova, only to discover that it is the slim princess whom Pike treasures.
- Destitute, Hazel Farron is offered employment and comfort from bakery owner David Rogers. When Rogers' bakery slips into debt, he collapses from exhaustion and anxiety, forcing Hazel to turn to former admirer Geoffrey Stanhope for financial aid. Stanhope consents in return for a night alone with Hazel, but when she arrives at his hotel room for the appointed tryst, she discovers Stanhope waiting with Rogers and a minister so that Hazel can marry her employer.
- Count Marlin has been asked by the Duchess of Ormonde to visit him at her garden party. Pierre Danton, a prisoner, escapes. He meets Marlin's machine, jumps in, stuns Marlin with a blow, dresses in his domino and goes to the party. Vera meets him and takes him to her boudoir thinking him Marlin. Danton's story interests Vera. She shields him from the police. He tells her that he is the victim of Fate. Vera decides to help him. She gives him a small sum of money. He plays it at Monte Carlo and wins a fortune. When Vera comes to Monte Carlo she finds Danton a new man and loves him but his interest in centered in Bessie Winthrop, an American girl. Fate again turns against Danton and he loses all. He falls and in a bewildered mental condition dreams that he is about to commit suicide when he is stopped by a stranger. The stranger is Fate and he shows Danton in a series of three visions that Happiness is found by Youth in avoiding Temptation, Intrigue and Passion. Danton recovers. He finds his happiness in work in America with Bessie. Vera continues her old life.
- The Uplift Society, with Silas Gilworthy at its head, plans to rid the city of the pernicious influence of the dance parlors. The worst of these is said to be the Purple Lightning Tango Parlor, so-called because of its peculiar light effect. Here the famous dancer, Fifi Melotte, is the star entertainer and leading spirit. Detective Rogers, a friend of Gilworthy's, offers to show him the place and its iniquities, so thinking to aid "the cause," he goes. However, he is an easy victim to Fifi's innocent ways, assumed for the moment, and comes more than once to see her, without the escort of the Uplift Society. The tango parlor is raided, and Fifi and "Uncle Silas," with difficulty, escape a visit to the police court. They "do" Coney Island and have their pictures taken together m a loving pose. Silas is engaged to the wealthy Adelaide Severn, and their marriage is soon to take place. Adelaide is being besieged by the attentions of a bogus Count, who is a friend of Fifi's. The Count has stolen a necklace of matched Pearls and given them to Fifi for safekeeping. Fifi in turn has slipped the mesh bag in which she has placed them in Silas' desk and ask for an explanation. Not knowing what else to do, he tells his fiancée it is his wedding present to her. Fifi comes to the Severn home, where the wedding is to take place, to demand the return of the bag and blackmail him with the loving picture. Silas introduces her as Mrs. Rogers, the wife of his detective friend who has written she cannot come. But complications follow immediately, when Rogers himself arrives on the trail of the Count, whom he suspects of having the necklace, soon followed by Mrs. Rogers. The necklace is stolen from Adelaide's neck, and the person nearest her, whom Rogers has to lock up for safe-keeping, is his own wife. Both Rogers and Silas go to Fifi's room in search of the pearls. Fifi screams, the entire household enters, and Rogers and Silas make a hasty exit. Silas tries to hide in a kimono in the closet, and is discovered. But the pearls are in the hem of the kimono, and the Count tries to snatch it after Silas has taken it off. Rogers arrests the Count, confiscates the pearls in the name of the government, and Adelaide and Silas, forgiving and forgetting, prepare to keep step to the wedding march.
- Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is always after dinner." The Llano Kid, a Texas bad man, flees there from justice. The consul persuades him to play the long-lost son of a Castilian family, and tattoos a coat of arms on the back of the Kid's hand to make the deception complete. The Kid is taken into the household, trusted and loved by the gladdened mother. For the first time he has a home. The romance develops. And when the time comes to rob and flee he has too much manhood to break the loving mother's heart. The surprise comes when it is revealed that the man the Kid killed in Texas was the real son.
- When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell poses as a maid to gain entrance to the household. Soon after, articles begin to disappear and Madge's father, a kleptomaniac, begins to feel guilty, while the groom almost suspects himself. A detective is summoned, but Dougan, pretending to be Cluney, waylays him, pickpockets his badge, and then impersonates the officer of the law. After various adventures, Nell and Dougan make a getaway but, eventually cornered, return to the Carrs and tell their story. All is forgiven and the two couples share a double wedding ceremony.
- To secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position in the Secret Service to apprehend a group of counterfeiters and gain the reward money. Virginia infiltrates Newport society and discovers that Mrs. Palmer, wife of a wealthy resident, is involved with Vincent Cortez, a foreign adventurer. Cortez gives Mrs. Palmer counterfeit bills which Virginia removes from a safe while being watched by Stuart Kent, who is in love with her. Later Kent becomes angry when he sees Cortez embrace Virginia. She leads detectives to a yacht used as headquarters by the counterfeiters. The gang is arrested and she gains the reward. Colonel Harrington, a close friend of the family, explains the situation to Kent, and the couple is reunited.
- Misunderstandings make Captain Holk realize, that his beloved Doris will never become his wife. As she marries another man, Holk marries singing girl Isabella. Her fierce life style makes Holk kill her.