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- Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- Tarzan's son, Jack, escapes captivity and retreats into the jungle with an ape, where he finds love in unexpected places.
- Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed.
- Two prospectors, one the father of Skye "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate. The sheriff also informs Kate that Lightning's father killed her father, and she immediately turns against Lightning. "Powder" Solvang also knows the story behind the knife and the string, and is determined to gain possession of both, even to the extent of making Kate his prisoner in an opium den in Chinatown.
- A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.
- An Indian woman relates the story of her son who was a half-breed. He is beaten and tormented by everyone but a white girl who loves a trader. She is betrayed by the trader, and when her small brother discovers her trouble he tells the half-breed. The girl kills herself, but the trader accuses the half-breed. With everyone attacking him, he makes his way to the trader, avenges the girl and dies.
- Col. McCoy, the friend of the Indians who knows their sign language, goes to an Arapahoe village to visit some of the old chiefs. He sees a man who talks the Indian language, but who unquestionably belongs to the white race. Years ago a young boy and his sister sought shelter with the Indians after a runaway in which their wagon was smashed and their uncle killed. The girl was kidnapped by a half-breed and rescued by the boy and a young man of the girl's own race who loved her. She married her lover and the boy decided he'd be an Indian brave and remained all his life with the people he had chosen.
- When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell. Finding them in an embrace forced by Brockwell, Stephen denounces Julia and leaves. After losing his fortune in the market, Stephen refuses Julia's offer to sell her jewels, and stays away for one year, while she opens a successful millinery store and has a baby. Despondent, Stephen decides to shoot himself, but when he hazily imagines Julia entering and catching his dead body, he drops the gun and decides to renew his life. After Jonathan Cosgrove, a friend, gives him $5,000 and a room in his home, Stephen discovers Brockwell in Mrs. Cosgrove's bedroom, forcing himself on her. Stephen hurls Brockwell through the window and then, to save Mrs. Cosgrove's reputation, allows Jonathan to think that he is the guilty party. After Mrs. Cosgrove discovers that Brockwell is a forger, she confesses to Jonathan, and arranges a meeting between Stephen and his wife and son that ends happily.
- Barbara Leland enters her beloved horse Vivandiere in a race at Beaumont, but is warned off the course because the stewards consider the animal dangerous. Trainer Sale Kernan is suspicious of the decision, as horses owned by the shady Classon, Barbara's trustee, always seem to get the best start. When Sale voices his suspicions, however, he is warned off by the stewards, who are indeed under Classon's influence. Desiring to start anew, Sale leaves for Florida, and is surprised to find Barbara and Vivandiere aboard the same boat. A fire breaks out aboard, but Sale is able to rescue Vivandiere, and a grateful Barbara hires him as the horse's chief trainer. Although the meetings in Florida are unregistered, they are controlled by crooks working under Classon, and Vivandiere loses his first race through their influence. Sale is determined to try again, however, and the horse wins the next race. Although Vivandiere's victory is disputed, one of the judges helps Sale, and soon the crooks and Classon are exposed. Classon commits suicide, leaving Barbara bankrupt, but she gladly turns to Sale for comfort.
- A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.
- A hypochondriac husband delights only in visits from his doctors and the consumption of gallons of medicine. However, his wife, who has analyzed his sickness as imaginary only, devises a plan by which he is cured.
- George and his pal determine to assist "Uncle Abie" in the sale of his cigar store. He has a customer who will buy if the business is good, and the two young men make business very good by assuming disguises in rapid succession, making a purchase in each. They eventually become a trifle tipsy on Uncle's private stock, and meet with many adventures on their way home.
- A youthful husband is enthusiastic about cards. His wife catches him making arrangements to attend a poker party, knows that he is fibbing when he offers a lame excuse, and plans to get him to stay home more often.
- A newly married couple decide to spend their first Sunday at home. Mr. Newlywed boasts to his office associates of his wife's cooking and they immediately invite themselves for a Sunday dinner. Some friends of his wife decide to make their first Sunday at home anything but a quiet one. They advertise in the papers for a cook, giving the Newlywed's address, with the result that many applicants call for the position. Their cook, thinking that she is to be fired, packs her grip and in a huff leaves them. Nothing is left for the Newlyweds now but to cook their own dinner. The antics in the kitchen and the resulting dinner which is served to their guests are very funny. In the end they all proceed to a lunch counter where they eat a hearty meal.
- Bill, before his marriage was a "stepper" and believes Molly, his wife, prefers checkers to cabarets. Molly, however, the life of her crowd before her marriage to Bill, believes the same of her hubby. But one night they each go out with their friends of single days and through carelessness each is forced to spend the night in cells. After suspicions, quarrels and threats, each learns the nature of the other's adventure and incidentally their true likes in life, which is decidedly not checkers.
- A married couple decide to move, as their present house has no floor connection for the new piano lamp. The business of the pair, while getting ready for the moving van, is the broadest kind of farce, the husband falling down stairs with the best mattress and smashing his costliest pieces of furniture in his desire to be of help. On the arrival of the van at the new home, the moving men are called out on strike, leaving the young couple to carry in their belongings. During their absence, the moving van boss sends a new crew to complete the job. They mistake orders and move everything back to the old house.
- Returning from a conference with the White Men in Washington, the Medicine Man of the Arapahoe brings with him two hats, the hat worn by the white men in war and a top hat, which he and the Indians believe to have wonderful powers. While the Medicine Man is displaying his possessions, his daughter accidentally shoots an arrow through the top hat, and he promises her to the first man who asks for her. The Weasel speaks first and in spite of her protest, she is given to him. But her lover threatens the Weasel and he agrees to give her up. Her father refuses to take back his word, but the girl proves that the Weasel is a thief and the lover mends the top hat, so he takes back his word and the girl and her lover are united.
- The trials and tribulations that would follow in the wake of enactment of the Blue Sunday laws are humorously portrayed. The incidents take place at a small town hotel where the sheriff, a supposedly pious soul, but in reality a "hootch-hound" himself, tries to enforce the blue laws to their fullest extent and puts a ban on practically all human liberty. Finally the indignant inhabitants take the matter into their own hands and banish the sheriff and his co-worker, the hotel keeper, to some other locality, speeding them on their way in coats of tar-and-feathers.
- A freckle-faced youth grows weary of being the pampered offspring of a millionaire family and finds an ingenious way of realizing his ambition to become an amateur detective.
- Bunny is a young dentist, and his rival in love is an osteopath. They have adjoining offices, and their work on several patients is amusing. The girl they both love has a bad tempered father, who throws everything within reach at the two suitors. Nothing avails until Bunny turns on the laughing gas in his office and gives the girl's father his first laugh in twenty years. Then everything turns out all right.
- A young wife is too fond of the frivolities of life to care about raising babies. But one day she finds herself called upon to help a woman in the street who is taken suddenly ill and is obliged to hand over her baby to strangers. The young woman takes the baby home and cares for it. The old trick of the husband misunderstanding a telephone message, and rushing home with an armful of toys for an anticipated heir, is worked in. The arrival of a nurse on the scene to claim the child leaves a vacuum in the home of the young couple, and the wife's hysteria causes the husband to hunt another baby. He arrives at home with it at the same time that the other child, whose mother is unable to care for it, is returned, causing amusing complications.
- Carter has the role of a small-town mechanic who claims that he can fix anything.
- A girl, suffering from amnesia, shows up in a logging-camp in the northwest. There are those who know more about who she is than she does, including why she is there, and the helpless girl is soon at the mercy of the lawlessness in this far-flung frontier. Will some gentleman come to her aid?
- An old chief of the peaceful tribe of Arapahoes tells a tale of a friend of his youth who was a scout with the famous Seventh Cavalry in Wyoming. A pioneer bound for California with his daughter was attacked by a white renegade and his Indian allies. The "Man Who Smiled" used the strategy of his race and helped to rescue the travelers. He was shot but still smiled and did not give up until the girl was restored to her lover, the First Lieutenant of the Seventh. An interesting story of friendship between Indian and white man in the early days of the West.
- Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued them around the world. Threatening to shoot them, George extracts a confession from Sinclair, once George's friend, that a group of George's Wall Street associates had conspired to ruin him. They made it appear to Lucy that George was having an affair with the notorious Sylvia De La Mere. After Lucy saw Sylvia embrace George, she despaired and left with Sinclair, who said he loved her. George lets them live, and he returns to New York, where, with the help of Sylvia, who now loves him, George terrorizes the group. One by one he leads them, and then Sylvia, to either financial ruin, disgrace, or death. When George learns that Lucy is no longer traveling with Sinclair, and that she has never even kissed him, he locates her, forgives her, and takes her back.
- The hero, jilted by his best girl, tries various methods of getting rid of life, but is frustrated at every turn. Finally he lands in jail and is noticed by a pretty philanthropist who gives him the position of butler in her home. After various amusing incidents in connection with a call by one of the girl's admirers, the butler suddenly finds himself heir to a million dollars and wins his benefactress for his wife.
- Bill doesn't want his son to marry a chorus girl so he goes to the theater to get a look at her. No sooner does he see her than he falls for her himself.
- A girl nicknamed "The Weed" lives with her foster parents in their mountain cabin and frequently visits a nearby health resort to sell milk and eggs. On one of her excursions, she befriends a cantankerous old millionaire, George Bassett, who later bequeaths to her his entire estate. Ralph Long's car plunges down an embankment, and he is dragged from the wreckage and looked after by the Weed, who soon captivates him with her charm and ingenuousness. While he is in the hospital, however, the lecherous Kenneth Stewart snaps a photo of the girl swimming in the nude in a mountain pool and hangs an enlargement of it in his club. He once attempts to enter her room but she bolts him out. Through a neighbor, Ralph learns that Stewart is actually the girl's father, whose abandonment of his wife soon after the Weed's birth led to the woman's death. Ralph confronts Stewart, and the latter, deeply ashamed, leaves town. Ralph resolves to keep the truth from the Weed and proposes to her.