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- Joan Shawlee, the redhead star, plays Aggie Anderson, an American fashion scout who has a genius for getting into trouble. She finds herself involved in several exciting adventures in Paris, Berlin and London.
- The first scene shows a beginner going up in a balloon with a companion. It soon rises to a good height, but the grapnell is trailing and, as the balloon passes over a police station, the point catches through the coat of a constable who is gaping at the sky, and swiftly drags him into the air. In scene two the man in blue is gently dropped, splash, into a canal. Meanwhile the balloon continues its career of destruction and hoists up newspaper kiosks, a perambulator with a child therein, a kennel and its canine occupant, and other articles, all of which fall to the ground and are smashed to pieces. Meanwhile an indignant crowd of injured persons collects. The balloon falls foul of the chimneys on a near-by-house and sends them among the crowd of pursuers, but when it finally grounds they take an adequate revenge on the aeronaut.
- A note is sent to a young man by the parents of the girl with whom he is in love, making an appointment for the signing of the "marriage contract." The note throws the young gentleman, who is seated in his bedroom when he receives it, into an ecstasy of delight and he dances out of the room in highest spirits. His servant picks up and reads the note and is the reverse of delighted at the prospect of having a mistress introduced to the house and his misgivings are shared by a housemaid to whom he shows the note. On the return of his master he hypnotizes him, and, while he is in the trance, changes places with him, he giving his master the duster and making him do the work while he sits in the armchair. When the young man has cleaned everything thoroughly, he brings him round. Later, the young man is seated at dinner with the servant in attendance, when the latter again throws him into a trance and again changes places, eating the meal while the master waits. The climax comes when the marriage contract is to be signed, for under the command of the servant, who is hidden behind the piano, and is, of course, desirous of breaking off the match, the young man behaves like a maniac, jumping on the furniture and upsetting chairs and tables in such a way that he has to be carried home.
- Elinor Clifford comes to Northern Africa in search of romance. Her lover, Bobbie Dampsey, and her friend, Daisy Young, arrange with Bobbie's friend, Paul Ferris, who is to pose as Abd-el-Rawak, a notorious brigand, to stage a fake abduction. Elinor is kidnapped, but their plans go astray when the real brigand turns up. After many hazardous adventures, Paul succeeds in rescuing her and winning her love.
- The story tells of a matador, the leading figure in the Spanish bull ring, whose lady love proves fickle. He finds her in a restaurant with another man, quarrels with the latter, and the two adjourn to the courtyard, where a duel in the Spanish fashion, with daggers and a cloak wound round the arm, ends in the matador wounding his rival. The lady goes off with the wounded man, and the matador despondently takes his way to the ring, and from his dressing room sends a reproachful note to the lady, in which he expresses a fear that his impending appearance in the ring will be his last. This communication the girl tears up, and with her lover makes her way to the ring to see the sport. The following scene gives us glimpses alternately of the girl and her companions watching the bull baiting and of the actual scenes in the ring, which have been obviously taken from a real bull fight, and are a most realistic record of the Spanish national sport. Men with red cloaks madden the bull, lead it round the arena at a furious charge, and then avoid its rush with a quick turn. These events take place in many cases so close to the camera that one can distinguish the features of the men. Following this the picadors, mounted on worn-out horses and armed with lances, take their turn. After the picadors the bandilleros take a turn, plant their spears in the bulls' shoulders, and make way for the matador, the hero of the story, whose place it is to give the coup-de-grace. This hero take his place before the bull, and has raised his sword to give the blow, when the animal rushes at him, with head down, and hurls him into the air. The battered man is then carried to a room outside the ring, and expires in the presence of his repentant sweetheart, who afterwards indignantly dismisses the rival.
- Private Atkins is left in charge of a baby on a seat in the park by his sweetheart, its nurse, and walks up and down with it trying to keep it in a good temper. He shortly spies an officer approaching him, and hastily places the baby in a wheelbarrow, while he stands to attention and salutes. While he is engaged in talk with his officer the park cleaner comes up and wheels off his barrow, without noticing its occupant. Several following scenes show him shoveling dirt on to the infant until it is quite covered, and at last it is thrown on the rubbish heap with the rest of the refuse he has collected. There it is discovered by a policeman. Meanwhile, Atkins has discovered his loss, and he takes another baby from its pram and makes his way back to the seat. Here, however, he meets the policeman with the lost infant, and the consequence is that he has two babies in his arms when his lady love comes back. The nurse whose baby he had appropriated also turns up and between the two ladies he is roughly used.
- In Berlin, Aggie discovers that she has been given some counterfeit notes.