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- Although separated at birth, Siamese twins Fabien and Louis de Franchi remain united emotionally. One day, Parisian Emilie de Lesparre arrives in their Corsican village with her father, and both brothers fall in love with her. Louis goes to Paris to study law and sees Emilie often, but Emilie loves Fabien who has remained in Corsica with their mother. While attending a dinner given by another admirer of Emilie's, M. Chateau Renaud, Louis is drawn into a duel with Renaud and killed. Back home, Fabien senses what has happened and journeys to Paris to avenge his brother's death. After he kills Renaud in a duel, Emilie finally confesses her love to Fabien.
- When a new reformist mayor refuses to cave to corruption, his opponents plot terroristic reprisal. Their efforts go awry in very goofy ways (including some wild stunts). This rambunctious comedy from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios features his stars Charles Murray as a scheming campaign manager and Louise Fazenda as the the fiancee he unwisely scorns in favor of the mayor's daughter. Initially released as BOMBS!, it is presented here in a retitled 1920 reissue print. - Dennis Harvey
- A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
- Collier has been attending art school with Mae and she favors him rather than Belmont, who is the choice of her father for her. Jumping into the car, while Belmont is underneath, Collier lakes the girl to the school. Later Frank Opperman, father of Mae and Belmont arrive at the school. Mae introduces her father to Collier, but the older man has no use for the art student. There is an elimination contest on. Belmont has painted a better picture than Collier, but the latter switches a cartoon of Belmont that he has made for Belmont's own excellent picture. Opperman is mad when he discovers the trick, while Belmont and Collier have a fight over the matter. Next day there is a prize painting contest on Opperman's estate. Collier leaves his easel and brush to take a walk with Mae. A cow switches her tail in the paint and then on the canvas, making a very creditable painting of a tree. It takes the prize over Belmont's work. Then Belmont finds out how Collier's tree was painted and makes a kick. Collier shows his indifference by hanging the prize on the cow's tail. Mae is invited to take another auto ride by Belmont and she accepts at the instigation of Collier. Dressing up her black maid, Mae sends her with Belmont. At the parsonage Belmont carries the maid inside and is intending to force her to marry him, thinking all the time it is Mae. When he discovers his mistake, he hurries back to the Opperman mansion with the maid running behind. Meanwhile Collier has tried to elope with Mae, been shot at by Opperman and finally stuck in a chest, supposedly dead. Mae gets Collier out of the chest and they start for the justice of peace to get married. On the way they see Belmont coming with his auto. Collier gets Mae to lie down in the middle of the road with paint on her breast and a knife stuck under her arm. Belmont stops to look at the woman and picks up the knife. Collier runs out from behind a bill-board charging Belmont with the murder of Mae. Belmont runs away with a crowd at his heels led by the black maid. After two attempts at getting married have been foiled, and Mae has been taken home by her father. Collier is almost hopeless. Then he sees a motion picture company, who are filming a marriage scene. A ministerial acquaintance of Collier stands by. Collier has a brilliant idea and enlists the minister and company in his aid. Disguised as a groom, he gets Mae to consent to stand up with him, while Belmont is induced to act as father of the bride. The minister performs the ceremony. When Belmont finds out how he has been tricked he is furious. Later he appreciates the humor of the situation and congratulates the couple.
- After her family is financially ruined in a lawsuit by John Rutherford of Wall Street, Carol Raymond leaves Virginia to set matters straight. Three weeks later, after marrying Bruce Armitage, the now deceased Rutherford's nephew and heir, Carol tells her father the story in a letter: When she arrived, she succeeded in making Armitage fall in love with her. However, Armitage's twin brother, Alan Rutherford, and an adventuress lured her to a roadhouse. After she drank much champagne, Rutherford, appearing as Armitage, attempted to assault her until she threatened to jump from a balcony. When she saw both Rutherford and Armitage together, she learned that it was the disinherited twin brother who pursued the suit. She then married Armitage. As she finishes the letter, Rutherford, after binding Armitage in the cellar, enters her bedroom, but Armitage escapes just in time to save Carol from Rutherford's embrace.
- John Adams is working his way through college. Jane is the little slavey in his boarding house. John at first has no idea of falling in love with Jane, but she is completely gone on him from the beginning. In fact, he has his eyes on Ethelda Rathbone, a young college girl. There came a time when John wanted to attend a ball at which Ethelda was to be present, but he hadn't a dress suit. Jane chanced to become aware of this, and with her scanty savings rented him one. Of course she couldn't tell him she did that, but she pretends that it was left there by a former boarder. So he goes to the ball. But boys will be boys, and his classmates rip the coat up his back, and he is compelled to come home without having seen Ethelda at all. Jane takes the suit back to the dealer, unaware that it is ruined. When the dealer discovers it, he demands payment. There follows a scene in the street in which she is humiliated. It was then that old Frederick Verstner, the town photographer and a man of considerable means, came to the crowd. Hearing her pitiful story, he made good the amount to the dealer. Shortly after this, Jane went to Verstner's to have her picture taken that she might give it to John. A newspaper in New York was offering a prize for the most beautiful photograph of a college girl, and Verstner's was crowded with girls from the school. Verstner took a picture of Jane, and, by loosening out her tresses and placing something filmy about her shoulders, he made her look beautiful. Through a course of circumstances, and without Jane's knowledge, this photograph is sent along with the others to the paper. And it wins the prize. Jane is, of course, as much surprised as the rest. And so is John. Verstner adopts the girl, educates her and makes her the most popular girl in the place. And then comes a great awakening for John.
- An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her. Although Ethel, who was unconscious, confesses to protect Roger, whom she thinks is guilty, Roger is sent to prison, and Ethel goes to a California mission. Upon his release, Roger is disowned by his father. He goes to Arizona, and after buying a copper mine, becomes the leader of the independent owners opposing the trust. After Roger instigates reforms favoring the workers, the trust reveals Roger's past. Meanwhile, Jarvis, the Carr butler, who became a gardener at the mission, gives Ethel a confession of murdering Evans, before he dies from injuries suffered in a tornado. After Ethel clears Roger's name with the confession, Roger, with the help of his stenographer, Mary Tompkins, reveals a strike leader as a tool of the trust. Roger is elected to Congress and takes Mary as his wife.
- Shortly before her marriage to Howard Hollister, socialite Laura West meets Stephen Rhodes, who introduces her to the cult of the East Indian goddess Gaia - the personification of Nature, the Eternal Mother. Though Laura is fascinated, she shies away from Rhodes's efforts to initiate her and make her his earthly personification of Gaia. Laura and Howard marry, and they spend happy newlywed days, but Laura's continued interest in Gaia and frequent daydreams of herself leading the cult upset Howard, who angrily urges Laura to return to reality and her work in the tenement slums. Falling asleep after their quarrel, Laura dreams that she becomes queen of the cult - richly adorned and ardently worshiped. She comes to realize that Rhodes's purpose is his own sensual gratification and decides that life is no longer worth living. Rhodes's attempts against the life of her child cause Laura to awaken, screaming. After she awakens, Howard comforts Laura, who assures him that her only desires are motherhood and his love.
- After a foreword introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, young shipping clerk Jim O'Neil is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. Celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes New York's first female juror. Although Jim pleads innocence, he refuses to elaborate until his sweetheart Helen testifies that Knox raped her when she pleaded for Jim, who was fired unjustly, to be reinstated. Jim testifies that he intended to kill Knox but found him dead already. During an angry all-night deliberation, the jury remains deadlocked 11-to-1, with Grace voting against a guilty verdict. In the morning, when she learns that her sister Edith has died, Grace confesses to killing Knox for seducing Edith and failing to honor his promise of marriage. After the foreman reminds the jury of their oath to keep their proceedings secret, they agree not to reveal Grace's story, and vote to acquit Jim.
- Lew Fields and his wife, Alice Davenport, are living in an apartment house, of which Lew is the janitor. They are visited by Joe Weber, who is the brother of Alice. Joe eats everything in sight. Alice wants Joe to have the best as her guest, but Lew is unsympathetic. Lew gives Joe a broom to sweep the halls and Joe is so awkward that he trips himself up and knocks Lew down. This angers Lew, who grabs the broom and hits Joe on the head. Joe waddles away as fast as he can but can't escape the hail of blows from Lew, until Alice sticks her head out of the apartment to see the excitement. When she sees Joe getting the worst of it, Alice runs up to Lew and nearly gets knocked down by a chance blow. This infuriates her and she slaps Lew's face right and left till he begs for mercy. A tenant sends a call to the janitor to take a package to the beauty parlor run by Mlle. Fashionsky (Mae Busch). Lew goes there and becomes fascinated with the charming proprietress. Mae is a little coy but Lew is very persuasive and puts his arm around her waist. Alice thinks Lew ought to be back and hunts him up. She is furious when she finds Lew sitting on a sofa with the beauty specialist. She does not wait for explanations from Lew but rushes back to her apartment. She calls up the police and says there has been a murder committed at her address by Lew. She then discharges a gun, lies down on the bed with it beside her and her face smeared with catsup. Lew comes in a little later and the police run in and arrest him as they think he has killed Alice. Lew protests vigorously but is hustled off to the police station. A doctor is called in and he makes an examination of the supposed dead woman. As he is testing her heart action she suddenly jumps up. After some time the woman explains the reason for her attempt and she goes down to the station and gets Lew out. Joe has got tired of dusting and beating rugs and enters the beauty parlor. By mistake he gets into the dressing room. The women make ludicrous attempts to escape and fall over each other, and Joe is also anxious to get away but only manages to trip them up. Just then someone starts to play the piano. A disappointed suitor of Mae Busch, the proprietor, has attached a bomb to one of the keys. When this key is played, the piano is blown through a skylight and lands in a pool where pretty girls in tights are bathing. They are nearly drowned but are aided in the rescue by Joe and Lew. They congratulate each other and are congratulated by the fair bathers for their rescue work. Alice admires them as a pair of heroes and it ends with all living happily together.
- When Mary Graham's old school chum visits, Mary's husband becomes infatuated with his wife's guest and soon openly avows his love for her. Mary is powerless to stop the affair and confides to old friend James Livingston the expected arrival of their child. Hiding her pregnancy from her husband, Mary goes to the country, where her son is born. Learning that Robert is intent upon filing for divorce, Livingston demands that the unfaithful husband repay some notes which Livingston holds. Robert is unable to pay, and Helen threatens to leave him. In contrast, Mary offers to sell her jewels to help her husband, forcing Robert to realize her true worth. He begs his wife's forgiveness, and they are joyfully united as Mary proudly introduces her husband to their son.
- Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go. In the mountains, Jesse meets Kate Trevor, an opera singer who moved there to help her alcoholic husband who abuses her. After Trevor drowns trying to cross a river when he sees Jesse and Kate together, they marry, have a child, and are happy until Polly and Brooks arrive. Kate and Jesse separate, but when Jesse learns that Brooks is attacking Kate, Jesse fights him. Polly shoots Brooks, but before he dies, he reveals that Polly was married to another man when she married Jesse.
- Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army officer, Capt. Fraser. While traveling by ship to France with her father, she meets Count von Schulling, a German diplomat who is an acquaintance of her father. Von Schulling falls for the pretty young Adele. While in France, Adele organizes a rescue party to save Capt. Fraser, who has been on a secret mission behind enemy lines and has been wounded. In a twist of fate, Adele finds the wounded Fraser and takes him to a hospital, but Count von Schuling, who has also been wounded, is placed in the same room as Fraser. When the hospital is overrun by German forces, Adele is placed in a delicate position by von Sculling: either spy for the Germans or Fraser will be shot.
- A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
- A powerful contrast of two kinds of women, opposite in their moral code and way of living, yet extremely alike in the dominating sex impulse.
- Helen Rowland is unresponsive towards her rich husband Henry and spends most of her time at social events. Henry agrees to give financial assistance to young clergyman John Sterling for his missionary cause if Helen can become interested in Sterling's work in the slums. Helen becomes so interested in Sterling's mission work that she admits to Henry that she is in love with the clergyman. Henry then insists that Sterling arouse Helen's hatred. Sterling feigns drunkenness and Helen is so disgusted that she hurries home. Henry is remorseful about the scheme, but confesses he did it out of love for her, and so Helen discovers, finally, that she loves her husband.
- A first aid "fiend," who spends her time at Red Cross meetings learning how to bandage the injured, applies her knowledge in the first practical instance with disastrous results.
- A rancher hoards his money until he has a vision of himself alone in old age. He decides to put his money to use and buys Liberty Bonds.