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- A girl who is loved by a young peasant is courted in song, as is her friend the widow. At the widow's house gather the girl and the boy and the widow and her suitor, and a double betrothal is settled.
- In Scotland, an exiled girl saves the king from outlaws.
- A series of twelve short films based on the twelve signs of the Zodiac, one for each month, titled chronologically from "People Born in January" to "People Born in December." 2-strip Technicolor sequences show the flowers and birthstones of each month.
- This Traveltalk visit to China starts in Beijing, which at the time was officially called Peiping. Called the Imperial City, it consists of four separate districts. One of these is the famous Forbidden City, domicile of the Emperor. Later we take a train trip to see a portion the Great Wall.
- One of the "Famous Melody Series," with sound-on-disc, produced by James A. Fitzpatrick and distributed by Pathe Film Exchanges Inc. This one finds the usual star, Peggy Shaw, as the dancing-partner wife of an Apache dancer in an underworld dive in Paris. She is loved by a crippled violin player, whose death is caused by her husband who has thrown him down in a sub-cellar. Shaw is at his side when he dies, while her husband dances with another partner on the floor above them. Running through the films is a song played by the violinist.
- A Traveltalk visit to Portugal's autonomous island group in the Atlantic Ocean. We learn that many of the things associated with the islands were actually instituted by British explorers who visited the island several hundred years before the Portuguese. This includes embroidered fabrics, wicker chairs, and the islands' world famous wine.
- An elderly Franz Liszt (1811-1886), living in a monastery, recalls his lost, unrequited love on his birthday.