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- An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
- The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York City. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he starts to pursue beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt, who is courting her. Crane's harsh, small-minded approach to teaching also turns some of the villagers against him. Soon, many want to see him leave the village altogether.
- Princess Mary of Burgundy, traveling in disguise using the name of Yolanda, attends a silk fair and falls in love with Maximilian, who has disguised himself as a knight. Later Maximilian is framed and imprisoned by conspirators, but is saved by Mary. She and Maximilian plan to wed, but when the Swiss threaten Mary's father, the duke, with war if the marriage occurs, he arranges a marriage for her with the mentally unstable Dauphin of France. Maximilian determines to rescue her from marriage with the dauphin--even if it means war with the Swiss.
- Margaret has given up her stage career to marry inventor Jerry Benson. Jerry fails to impress oil executive William Graves with his idea, but Margaret has better luck when she catches Graves' attention and she both makes the sale and becomes the object of Graves' obsession. Profits from the invention make the Bensons wealthy; however Graves schemes to steal Margaret from Jerry by swindling them out of their money and getting Broadway floozy Gloria to break up their marriage.
- A young man (Rawlinson) spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl (Bow). She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by a letcherous Adventurer (Williams). The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards niagra falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart. Their mode of rescue, a rope ladder hung from an airplane. They are reconciled and the letcher gets his dues.
- Nerve lands "Rainbow" Riley a job as cub reporter on the Louisville Ledger. His first big assignment is to cover a feud in the Kentucky mountains between the Ripper and White clans. Thinking that the assignment is in the nature of a vacation, "Rainbow" provides himself with athletic equipment. Arrived at the scene of the hostilities, "Rainbow" is forced to declare his ability to use a boomerang as a weapon of defense instead of a sawed-off shotgun. Because "Rainbow" is in love with Alice Ripper, the village belle and sweetheart of Tilden McFields, known as the "killer" of the Ripper clan, he antagonizes the Rippers. Conversely because he cannot fall in love with Becky White, who loves him, he incurs the enmity of the White faction. Both sides set out to exterminate him. He elopes with Alice, sending a telegram to his newspaper stating that there is unprecedented danger in the mountains. The lovers, however, are captured by McFields, who releases "Rainbow" upon the girl's promise to renounce him. Later "Rainbow" rescues Alice by taking a precarious swing across a deep ravine on the end of a cable wire. Trapped by enraged feudists of both sides, "Rainbow" keeps them temporarily at bay by giving them a fusillade of golf, tennis and base-balls. Meanwhile the telegram telling of the unprecedented danger has been interpreted to read "president in danger," and the militia, and the air force hasten to the scene succoring "Rainbow" and Alice in the very nick of time. "Rainbow" the cub, returns to his paper not only with the biggest scoop of the feud that the paper has ever had, but also with the adorable Alice.
- A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, rare cinematic gem based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel of the same name.
- A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
- While anchored down on a small New England port, on shore leave, Bilge Smith, a sailor, meets Connie Martin, the village dressmaker. Upon leaving, Bilge promises to return to Connie.
- Duncan Irving, Jr., a poor boy from a small southern town who loves aristocratic Syliva Randolph, receives an appointment to West Point. In Duncan's final year Sylvia's cousin, Bert Stafford, also enters the academy and resents having to take orders from upperclassman Duncan, whom Bert considers his social inferior. Duncan finally strikes Bert in retaliation for his many insults and consequently is expelled from the Point. When Bert is lost in the jungles of South America, Duncan heads an expedition to rescue his enemy, who finally divulges the truth. Duncan is reinstated at the academy and marries Sylvia upon his graduation.
- Eric Fane is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States.
- Young Italian flower vendor Tony Gillardi (Richard Barthelmess), makes a poor living when compared by his mother with her favorite, his brother Carlo. Only his little Irish sweetheart, Mollie O'Connor (Dorothy Gish) believes in him. Carlo's source of income, however, is not within the law, for he is dominated by gangster Nick Di Silva, who operates a Chinese theater as a front. Rather than hurt his mother's feelings, Tony takes the blame for a robbery Nick and Carlo committed. After serving a term "up the river," Tony finds out that Carlo is still under Nick's domination and sets out to get him. In a fight between Nick and Tony, Nick accidentally shoots Mamma Gillardi. Nick falls to his death while escaping, the mother recovers, and Tony and Mollie marry. While making a trip around the Battery to Coney Island with Mollie, Tony comes to see, once again, the beauty of his city.
- The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him know it. He is so smitten that his works suffers to the extent that he is soon just a hobo drifting along the open road. When he again encounters Dorothy, she gets him a job as a salesman with her father's light-and-power company, and proves to be a a real "live-wire" salesman. He is then put in charge of the lighting in an amusement park being built under Dorothy's supervision, and trouble comes many directions, guided by Dorothy's cad fiancée who wants to make the stock in the project worthless so he can buy it cheaply.
- A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel general and falling for the general's daughter.
- Mimi, known in the Latin Quarter as "The Mad Dancer," poses in the nude for sculptor Verlaine. When her father later commits suicide, she goes to the United States to live with his family, but she is insulted by them for having posed for Verlaine. Mimi soon walks out and goes to live in Washington, where she becomes engaged to Keith Arundel, the son of a United States senator. Verlaine appears in Washington for the official unveiling of the statue for which Mimi posed, meets Mimi again, and unsuccessfully attempts to force her to marry him by threatening to reveal that she was the model for this statue of "the mad dancer." Mimi later enters Verlaine's room and smashes the head of the statue beyond recognition. When the mutilated work is unveiled, the sculptor in his fury relates Mimi's history to the assembled guests. Keith knocks him down. Senator Arundel later bribes Verlaine into publicly retracting his statement, and Keith and Mimi are married.
- A jealous politician tries to force a woman to marry him by framing her father for a crime.
- An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to poison the independent milk supply.
- Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
- Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bootlegger, is killed by federal agents. She falls in love with Tom, one of the family's brothers, but another brother, the violent and brutal Lem, decides he wants her for himself, and beats Tom badly. What the girl doesn't know is that it wasn't the feds who killed her father--it was Lem. Complications ensue.
- When Violet Kingston is attacked by tramps, wealthy socialite Mark Cameron comes to her rescue. Sylvester Hatch, the Kingstons' social-climbing landlord, does everything in his power to further a romance between them, hoping to gain acceptance in high society. Mark eventually asks Violet to marry him but she refuses. Sylvester then proposes to Violet, and her avaricious mother insists that she accept. On the day of the wedding, Mark learns of Violet's plight and takes her to a justice of the peace to be married. Soon after, Sylvester is found dead and Mark is arrested for murder. However, the real criminal is quickly discovered and Mark is set free to begin a belated honeymoon.
- Tommy Burke, an easy-going young plumber, is left a brown derby by his recently deceased uncle. The derby is said to bring good luck to its wearer, and it's not long before its powers apparently start paying off--Tommy finds himself engaged to a pretty young girl from a wealthy family. However, things aren't quite the way Tommy thinks they are.