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- A charming, attractive woman inadvertently causes a great disruption when she takes a job at a busy office by stealing the attention of all of her male co-workers--except the one she fancies.
- 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.
- A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
- Country girl goes to New York and becomes stage star.
- Jennie Wetherby and her song-plugging husband, Jimmy, agree that if either ever tires of wedded life, the presentation of a bowl of goldfish to the other will signify the end of their relationship. After Count Nevski convinces Jennie that she could be a great lady if she would choose the right husbands, the Wetherbys quarrel and Jimmy gets the goldfish. Jennie successfully climbs the social ladder by marrying Herman Krauss, then J. Hamilton Powers; and she is about to announce her engagement to the Duke of Middlesex when Jimmy achieves success. Their old love wins out, they are reunited with Krauss's help, and the Duke gets the goldfish.
- An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
- Ming Toy, the eldest of Hop Toy's many children, is rescued from the auction blocks by Billy Benson and sent to the United States in the care of Lo Sang Kee. There she continues her interest in western ways and attracts attention of a powerful Chinatown figure, Charley Yong.
- While plotting together to win back their lovers, rich Madeleine and penniless Pierre fall for each other.
- A self-appointed "love expert" tries to play cupid with uneven results.
- Dulcy (Constance Talmadge), a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.
- 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.
- Following a burlesque prologue showing Eve in the Garden of Eden eating the forbidden fruit, Mrs. Orrin, a wealthy, selfish, impulsive widow, contrives to keep her self-sacrificing daughter in her service by marrying her off to Henry, the son of Mrs. Orrin's best friend. The mother's doctor falls in love with Eve, however, and in face of all opposition, he marries her.
- Rosalie and Reginald become acquainted while they are guests at a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, and later they are married. Misunderstandings, aggravated by a case of measles, send the young wife to Reno, Nevada for a divorce. A year later she finds her ex-husband engaged to Marcia Hunter--a match promoted by Mrs. Hunter with an eye for Carter's wealth and social position. Regretting her hasty divorce, Rosalie almost succeeds in winning him back until the Hunters, a poet, and a rejected suitor interfere with her plan. Nevertheless, Rosalie stops the wedding by sending a note to the bishop, telling him that Reggie is divorced. Returning to Reggie, she becomes Mrs. Carter again.
- Capricious Billie Billings determines to marry bashful bachelor Senator Newton of Nevada and succeeds. She discovers on her honeymoon that her husband's secretary "Smith" is actually a woman. When the senator refuses to heed his wife's demands to fire Smith, Billie flirts with a French count and runs away with him to a country inn. The count gets drunk and Billie insists on separate rooms. Billie's friend Dr. Wise arrives at the inn with Smith, her husband and twin children, and Senator Newton. Smith assuages Billie's jealousy and then leaves the senator and his wife alone. The reunited couple depart for a second honeymoon.
- Georgiana Chadbourne is married to a good but dull man. When he dies, she decides to find a more exciting romance, one with a "bad" man. But a case of mistaken identity upsets her plans.
- Lawyer Hanover Priestley plots with his friend Henry Winkley to marry off young heiress Leila Calthorpe to Winkley's nephew, John Warren. When John refuses, preferring to select his own wife, they lure him east by a false report of Winkley's death. Indignant at his rebuff, Leila disguises herself as Perkins, a maid, and romances him, leading him to believe that Aunt Agatha is the heiress. Complications develop, and after saving her from a fire John discovers her identity and agrees to marry her.