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- Queen Helen of Troy, in response to her husband Menelaus' lack of interest in her, elopes with Paris to Sparta. Menelaus, egged on by his henchman, starts a war with Paris, finally effecting the return of Helen. The time-honored custom demands that he have the pleasure of killing her, but her seductive loveliness restrains him.
- A crook blackmails a governor because he knows of the governor's wife's dark past.
- Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
- The storyline is loosely-based on Buffalo candy-maker August Merckens' opera-singer daughter Baroness Platon Von Wrangel, who married the Russian leader in the fight for restoration of the Russian monarchy.
- Famed playwright Donald's latest work flopped because fiancée Betty is too unsophisticated to play the lead. It's time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia to travel to Gotham for some experience. However, her next-door neighbors are gangsters.
- Thérèse Raquin (Gina Manès), an unhappily married woman , aided by her lover Laurent (Hans Adalbert Schlettow), drowns her husband Michaud (Charles Barrois) only to find the guilt of her sin is intolerable.
- Sadie Hermann, employed in a big New York fur store, dreams of escaping from the early-morning alarm clock and the twice-a-day subway crush. One night in a subway jam she is catapulted into the arms of Herbert McCarthy, a subway guard. It is love at first sight and Herb asks her to marry him. Then her boss announces she is going to be sent to Paris for a fashion show. Sadie has a problem...marriage or Paris?
- Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
- A man lives alone in the wilderness for years, practically becoming an animal in his mind. When he comes across humans again, they believe him to be a yeti.
- Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe.
- Sari, daughter of Count Thurzo, and son of a shoemaker Franz Pless, both Hungarian, fall in love while they are in the USA. They are about to get married when Sari is called back to Europe, and when Franz goes after her he learns that he must serve three years of military service. Fate makes him serve under the orders of Baron von Heimberg, whom Count Thurzo wants his daughter to marry. That Baron, although already in a relationship with Ilona, wants that marriage and makes Franz his orderly. The Count's announcement of marriage makes Franz assault the Baron, and he is banned as a result. But Ilona has a few tricks up her sleeve.
- A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
- At a fashionable wedding in Venice, Carlotta and Marco, presumably a blind beggar, rob the bridegroom and the bride's father during the confusion that ensues when Carlotta feigns a swoon. Trying to evade the police, Carlotta lands in the gondola of Kenneth Wilson, an American artist. Feeling that Carlotta is reformable, Kenneth advertises for the canal Gypsy, and she calls, but under the domination of Marco. They plot to rob Kenneth of his valuables but are thwarted when discovered by him. Carlotta and Kenneth encounter Jean, the artist's fiancée, who arrives on a surprise visit; a journalist who fancies himself a great lover makes advances to Carlotta, which she avoids by jumping into the canal; and she outwits her pursuers by disguising herself in "borrowed" finery. During the Venetian Carnival, Carlotta and Marco are identified and searched when Jean's pearls are stolen. Later, Carlotta identifies Marco as the thief; and Kenneth, who has been rejected by his fiancée, wins Carlotta's love.
- Johann Strauss returns to Austria in 1848 after a visit to Russia.
- Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'. Mason falls in love Beldans daughter Sally. When Mason also proves to be successful with his performances, Vicarino decides to sabotage his rival. Vicarino orders to steal some cars of Beldan. Mason however, tries to fiend back the cars for the upcoming performance.
- A painter (played by Dieterie) falls in love with the daughter (Deyers) of a neighboring count, causing the girl's stepmother to fly into a jealous rage.
- A Duchess tries to divert her nephew's love from a woman of her own age to a younger girl.
- Ralph and Gaston, two brothers in a circus tightrope act, quarrel over a woman. Ralph stirs up even more tension when he tries to rescue a young female aerialist from the cruelties of her stepfather, the circus' ringmaster.
- This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.