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- Young Lenore Vance, loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father. She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her eccentric chemist uncle. She later becomes the person of interest in the murder of her father, being labeled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". When Dr. Richard Taunton meets Lenore at a party thrown by Millie Brown-Potter, he becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from himself and Mrs. Potter, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself, and makes the discovery that he Uncle is the one who killed her father. The police are notified, but they discover that he has committed suicide upon arriving at his house. It is later revealed to the audience that the entire story is in a book that Lenore is reading.
- Monty appears as a chap whose prospective father-in-law, to find out the stuff of which he is made, sets him out to peddle an encyclopedia which no one else can sell.
- Former playboy Victor Olney becomes jealous of his wife's love soon after he and Constance are married. He is especially hostile toward Clint Mowbray, a former suitor. When Mowbray implies that there was an affair between Olney and a dancer who was injured at Olney's bachelor party, Constance leaves her husband to nurse the girl back to health. Olney's mother-in-law convinces him that Constance was not unfaithful. They are reconciled when Olney goes to Constance and it is ascertained that there was nothing between him and the dancer.
- Unable to pay the extra fare, The Girl--returning home after failing to make good in the city--bundles her pet dog to look like a baby. On the train the dog is mistaken for a kidnapped baby, and The Girl is left with the real baby. The presence of the baby coupled with the extraordinary explanation causes The Girl's guardians to doubt her and the town to ring with gossip. The original kidnappers, who have followed her home, attempt to retrieve the baby, and The Girl, discovered fainting in the arms of The Man who befriended her on the train, is turned out of her home. The Man loses his job for shielding The Girl. Just as they are being marched to the outskirts of town to be tarred and feathered, the guardians arrive with the real parents to claim the baby. The Girl marries her protector.
- Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.
- A blacksmith's helper in Hickville gets kicked in the head by a horse and rendered unconscious. He dreams he goes to the city and learns a thing or two. Returning to Hickville, he is in the process of modernizing the town when he wakes up.
- Young society girl Joyce Lyndon is engaged to energetic Grant Garrison, who lures the judge's daughter to a roadhouse for the night and meets his death at the hands of an abandoned wife. Joyce escapes in fright and meets Martin Antrim, who protects her in exchange for an introduction to her circle of friends. Antrim elicits a confession from Garrison's widow, and Joyce recovers an incriminating handbag from the innkeepers when they attempt to blackmail her.
- Sid smith aided by his dog chase away all the suitors of Duane Thompson. He proposes to her and she says she will never marry any man until he has his own home. So he promises to build one. He buys a lot on the edge of a cliff and with the help of another man starts to put up a ready-made house. After a great deal of trouble the flimsy house is finally erected and a minister is brought to the house by Duane, the bride. Just after the ceremony is performed the helper accidentally pushes the house over the cliff.
- Sid arrived home in wee small hours on top of hansom cab with lot of boisterous companions from party. Old man refuses him admittance and he gets a linen duster and goes down to waterfront deciding to leave. On board liner, girl there also. Seasickness and gags attendant thereon. A whale is sighted, excitement; storm at sea and ship explodes. Sid and girl on crate in ocean-crate has silk hats for which Sid's father is agent. Pelican is pulling the crate along. Land on island. Cannibals. Step on stones which are cannibals heads - buried in ground. They arise and surround girl and Sid, Pelican interferes with savage about to shoot Sid and they get away. Finally return to civilization after hats have made a hit with savages. Sid forgiven and all ends happily.
- Monty makes a fortune selling fake hair restorer and then elopes with the store-owner's daughter and the money.
- Sid is in love with a girl whose father thinks that Sid is not worthy as a husband because of his timidity. Therefore he decides to test his courage by refusing the hand of his daughter until Sid has proved his valor in the hunting of big game. The father sends Sid on a hunting expedition with a friend who is famous as a hunter. They go into the woods where Sid shows plainly the fact that he is a novice but by strange set of circumstances or perhaps through luck alone, he comes out much better than his companion. Going home, he claims the girl and marries her.
- Monty is in love with a certain damsel whose hand is sought by a sea captain. Poor Monty is shanghaied, but, once on board, he strikes up an acquaintance with the fake gorilla to the extent that the two "team up" and undo the cap'n and his wild crew. But cap is an elusive bird and flies to a waiting bride, chuckling the while that defeat is not yet. Ah, but his goofus had not figured on the Lochinvarian tendencies of our hero, who ups and steals the bride; thanks to the "gorilla."
- Sid arrives home from college, meets father and mother. Lot of gags where he kisses baggage men in excitement and shades hands with man giving traffic signal, copy, etc. Takes family home in Ford and sees girl and falls out of oar. Dogs and chickens rush to greet him at home and a lot of fun at supper table. Goes out to get a chicken for dinner but has tough time, chasing hen up street. In pool room his worthless brother playing pool. Goose lays egg on table in place of ball-egg hit by cue lands in eye of village slicker. Gang beats up brother. Sid tries to get him home through window with rope. Girl appears. Brother revives and drags Sid from upper window. Lot of mishaps and he finally takes the family and girl away happily in the car.
- A man boards the train with neither fare nor ticket, but grafts his way easily enough, until a pretty young woman hands over her dog to his charge.
- Geraldine Brent, a tomboyish girl, is separated from her mother and taken east by wealthy relatives. In her absence, her mother is dispossessed and sent to the poorhouse. "Gerry" learns of this action, unmasks the culprits--mortgage-holder Masters and oilman Colonel Pettijohn, who have discovered that the property is rich in oil--and puts matters aright.
- Joe comes to the rescue of his sweetheart's father (who is going broke in the hotel business) with a clever scheme for attracting guests.
- The boy is dressing for his wedding and the girl is waiting for him with her family. Just after shaving he accidentally puts hair grower on his free and his beard grows immediately. After vainly hunting for a barber, he mistakes a dentist for one. The dentist gives him laughing gas. Then no matter what happens, the boy laughs. He finds a barber and while he is being shaved, the barber thinks he is flirting with his wife. The boy goes to the girl's house, still laughing and the he is late, he makes no apology. The father requests him to leave. He goes back to his apartment and meets the barber and his wife. A row ensues and the barber taker his wife to a cafe to which the girl and her parents have gone. Finally the boy also comes in and sits with the barber's wife. The barber beats the boy up and a reconciliation is reached between the boy and the girl.
- As the winner of a popularity contest, Sid goes to Hollywood, where he has some difficulty getting into a moving picture studio.