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- A beautiful singer goes to Paris, marries unhappily, wins fame and fortune through her voice and finally achieves happiness for herself.
- The Alligator Farm is a very interesting picture; thousands of little reptiles, about six inches long, are climbing over one another in the improvised pond. Next we see them three or four feet long; they are wicked looking things, but the keepers handle them without fear. When handled, the alligator will try hard to give the keeper a bite, but the man is too quick, taking the top and under jaw between his hands be quickly closed the wicked looking mouth and then he will in sport pull the reptile's tail as it tries to scamper into the pool. One big fellow is probably eight feet long. The keeper gives him a jolt, but the crocodile is sleepy and in a few seconds is again innocent of all that is going on in the farm.
- Peter Mullaney, the son of Irish immigrants living on the East Side of Manhattan, has one ambition in life: to become one of New York's Finest. He goes to the Police Training School and is about to be rejected for not meeting the height qualification when he demonstrates his prowess in a fight. The commissioner then decides to give Peter a chance to make the force, if he scores well on the written examination. Peter declares the Tropic of Capricorn to be in the Bronx and fails to pass; the commissioner, however, allows him to wear the uniform for one night in order not to disappoint Peter's girl, Judy McNulty. Walking the beat with Officer Gaffney, he becomes involved in preventing a robbery, during which Gaffney is shot. Peter comes to his aid and captures the robbers, being himself hurt in the process. In the hospital, the commissioner, on account of his bravery, pins a shield on him, and Peter and Judy make plans to be married.
- The black capes is a nickname for the students of Coimbre who fight for their freedom. Pedro de Abrante is the leader, determined to avenge the death of his father, shot by Police lieutenant Don Diego de Albuque. He loves Rita whose father, a former farmer, helps him. Don Diego manages to capture Pedro, but he is rescued by the black capes. Don Diego perishes in a fire. Pedro and Rita are united by the old farmer.
- Jim McMorrow and Bill Mullaney become close friends during the fighting in France, and Bill asks Jim to look after his family if anything should happen to him. Bill does not return from a patrol in no man's land, and Jim goes to the Mullaney farm, taking care of Bill's wife, Mary, and old Mother Mullaney, who dies shortly after Jim arrives. Jim and Mary are left alone on the farm, and the neighbors begin to gossip. Mary decides that she and Jim must be married, but Bill reappears on the eve of the wedding, telling of his capture by the Germans. Jim quickly realizes that Mary still loves Bill and reluctantly passes out of their lives, finding a cup of gall where he expected a wedding feast.