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- Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
- Jimmy Berry, junior partner in a flourishing business firm, is engaged to Betty Carson. He is taken into confidence by Dorothy Dawson, his partner's wife, who secretly plans to open a business branch in South America. Their secret meetings generate gossip, and Dawson, who is insanely jealous, threatens divorce, while Betty's uncle forbids her to see Berry. Dawson compels Berry to go to South America with him, and the appearance of Dorothy there leads to further complications. When Berry attempts to depart, he is captured and returned, with Dorothy, to the home of Gardez, an importer, who arranges a duel between Berry and Dawson. Dawson is wounded, and again Berry takes French leave, via motor car, but is kidnapped by an outlaw known as El Pavor. After numerous other complications, Berry escapes from South America and returns home in time to prevent Betty's marriage to another man.
- John St. George, who plays "Uncle Tom" in blackface, and younger brother Roy, who plays "Little Eva" in a wig and dress, are the sons of Blanche St. George, owner and leading lady of a repertory company that presents Uncle Tom's Cabin in small towns. Both boys dislike stage life, but sixteen-year-old Roy is particularly sensitive about playing a girl because their train is heading for the Connecticut town where his sweetheart lives, and she plans to see the play with her parents. When the troupe registers at the only hotel in town, John notices his mother's agitation at meeting the proprietor, Mr. Wilson, and the fact that they are served "commercial travelers' meat" at the dinner table rather than the thinner, less appetizing "actors' meat." The reason, he learns, is that Wilson is his and Roy's father, whom Blanche left many years ago to pursue her stage career. John confesses his longing for a real life, but is obligated to stay with his mother until she can earn the money to buy an opera house. At the performance, all goes well until Roy's ascent to heaven on a stepladder, which is jeered by boys in the gallery who realize he is a boy, not a girl. Removing his wig, Roy stumbles and knocks over the ladder, which pulls down the backdrop and brings the play to a crashing halt. Wilson, in attendance, invites everyone to dinner at his estate, and offers Blanche $10,000 to buy the opera house she wants, in exchange for letting him keep the boys. The St. Georges, joined by Roy's sweetheart and her family, sit down for dinner, and all is well.
- Oil man Hugh Stanton embarks on one of his frequent business trips and leaves his wife, Patricia, in the care of Ted and Beatrice Mason. She also spends considerable time with Victor Raymier, the artist who is painting her portrait, unaware that he is a fraud who merely signs his name to the work of a real artist in his employ. One day, Victor persuades Patricia to accompany him to his country home. A storm forces them indoors and the fake artist proceeds to make unwanted advances on Patricia. The Masons come to her rescue, and following their return to the city, Patricia telephones her husband, asking him to come home. He informs her that the proceeds from his new oil well will enable him to be a full-time husband.
- At the outbreak of World War I, Robert W. "Bobby" Jenks enlists in the U.S. Army, and as he is undersized, he finds himself assigned as a cook in the supply department. In the pocket of an oversized shirt, given to him by a practical joker, he finds a letter from Anna May Jackson, a Brooklyn factory girl, who expresses her admiration for big westerners. Bobby begins a correspondence with the girl, exaggerating his muscular development, proposes marriage by proxy, and is accepted. Returning home, he passes himself off as Richard Jenks, the pal of Robert Jenks, her correspondent; then the genuine Richard Jenks arrives, and Bobby induces him to carry out the deception. After many complications, the truth is revealed, and Anna May confesses her love for Bobby, despite his stature.
- A young author of a book containing radical sexual theories Stuart Emmett, is injured when his automobile lunges out of control. He is found by Conscience Williams who takes him to her home, but when her father, a narrow-minded New Englander, reads selections from Stuart's book, he orders the young man out of his house. The couple, who have fallen in love, attempt to communicate through letters, but these are intercepted by Eben Tollman, a wealthy man with an interest in Conscience. When Conscience reads a newspaper story falsely accusing Stuart of scandal, she agrees to marry Tollman. On the eve of the marriage, Marion Holby, the woman linked to Stuart in the slander, comes to Conscience and clears him. The next morning, Conscience discovers her husband drunk and in his hands, the letters that he had intercepted. A scene ensues, and she telephones Stuart for help. During a fight between the two men, Tollman falls into a pool and drowns, freeing Conscience to pursue her true love.
- Lester Crope, who has a penchant for inventing imaginative stories, alarms his village by reporting that the dam above the mayor's house has burst; incidentally he "saves" the life of Catherine Willis, the mayor's niece. The town council sends Lester to Dr. Mills of Boston to be treated for his condition. Now cured, his propensity for telling the truth on all occasions upsets village life: he works in a grocery store and informs customers of stale products; he also ruins a real-estate deal that would have meant prosperity for the town. Dr. Mills states that the only way to return Lester to his former safe tricks will be to arrange that he fall in love. Lester gets a job as railway ticket agent; seeing Catherine, the girl he loves, stepping from a train, he once again gets stirred up to start telling stories of hunting down bandits in Arizona. Once again he is a harmless liar.