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- Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him. She plans to report him to the police, but, seeing that he intends to reform, she remains with him and saves him from being shot by a jealous countess.
- The story of a young woman who agrees to marry a man for his money, but is thwarted and ends up marrying another for love, only to discover a secret.
- New York broker Bruce Corbin comes to Kentucky to force Allan Pomeroy, whom Bruce can prove is a forger, to give him his daughter Ruth in marriage. Even though she loves Spencer Vail, Ruth agrees, and despite Pomeroy's death, they wed. Ruth soon discovers that Bruce, to avenge his father's death in a feud with the Pomeroys, married her so that she would be childless, thus ending the Pomeroy family. Because Bruce was born during a thunderstorm, he temporarily goes insane whenever he hears a thunderbolt and forgets his actions while affected. Knowing this, Ruth seduces him during a storm, the night before he is to leave for a year. Later, when Bruce sees Ruth's child, he starts to choke it, believing it to be Vail's, but Ruth stops him by telling him of the stormy night. After four years in a distant marriage pass, Bruce loses his fortune because of another thunderbolt. Ruth leaves, but later they are reconciled because of the child.
- Society girl Diane Drexel invites her friends to see a screening of Carmen in which they have acted. She then tells the projectionist to show her original film, Stranger Than Fiction . This film then unfolds the following action: When the lights are turned up the guests find they have been robbed by the "Black Heart," head of a notorious gang, who have left their familiar mark. Diane declares that she will not marry her indolent fiancé until he has tracked down the robbers. In the slums, Diane meets The Shadow and through him learns that Dick is endangered; with his help she joins the gang. Following a series of escapes, climaxed by an airplane stunt in which the "Black Heart" is forced to his death, the lights flash on and Diane informs the guests that this is her idea of how motion pictures ought to be made.
- Mary Grant, a convent girl, goes to Monte Carlo, and because of her winnings becomes the center of attraction. Prince Angelo Della Robbia falls in love with Mary, and introduces her to his brother. Prince Angelo, whose bride turns out to be Mary's friend Marie Grant, who had run away from the convent with a married man, Mary moved by her schoolmate's pleas, keeps her secret. Idina Bland, however, enraged at Prince Angelo's marriage, exposes the scandal. In the absence of Prince Vanno, Marie falsely asserts that the story is not hers, but that of Mary Grant who, by her silence, seems to admit guilt. Mary leaves Monte Carlo, but an old friend, Molly Maxwell, arrives and exposes the truth. Prince Vanno goes in search of the innocent Mary, arriving in time to save his love from adventurers who are attempting to steal her wealth.
- Compelled to leave England to escape the notoriety following her involvement in a divorce scandal, Gaenor Lisle meets and falls in love with Peter Garstin. They are wed, Peter knowing nothing of the scandal in which his wife was involved. In Paris, Peter encounters a friend who mentions the affair, but when Peter confronts Gaenor with the accusations, she refuses to defend herself and runs away to England. While crossing the channel, Gaenor encounters Craven, the man who permitted her to be unjustly named as correspondent in his divorce suit. While trying to escape him, she is seriously injured and taken to the hospital by Craven, where Peter, convinced of his wife's innocence, locates her. Determined to clear Gaenor's name, Peter follows up on various clues until he finally locates Craven and obtains a confession that Gaenor is guiltless.
- Finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses. Also affected by the business failure is James Edgerton, who is in love with Diana. Employed by wealthy E. H. Rivett to stage a fashionable party, Diana encounters Colonel Carew, who harasses her with questions about a murder in Reno which has clouded her name. Driven from the party by his questioning, Diana is pursued by Carew to her apartment, followed by Mrs. Wemyss, a widow jealous of Carew's attentions to Diana. Diana's good name, her love, and her honor are at stake until Edgerton comes to her rescue, forcing a full revelation of the Reno affair and clearing the path for a union between Diana and her benefactor.
- Salesgirl Marion Hoyte, unlike the other members of her family, seeks to better her situation; hence, when she accidentally becomes acquainted with young architect James Lodge, who clears her of the charge of stealing a customer's purse, Marion accepts his attentions. Leroy, a suitor for Marion, and her sister Bertha object, but Marion soon becomes engaged to James. Shipley, a financier, plans that James will marry his daughter, Gwendolyn, and will be engaged to plan the new state capitol building; but when Marion and James are married, Shipley withdraws his support and Marion is snubbed by James's social set. Determined not to ruin her husband's career, Marion arranges a fake elopement with Clifford Trent. However, Marion learns that James has been injured in a western mining camp, soon she goes to his aid; and through this twist of fate their love is reawakened.
- Margot Hastings, the lovely wife of a handsome but needy inventor, Dick, is the latest prey of Lothario financier, Slater T. Holcomb who may be persuaded to produce some of her husband's inventions. Holcomb promises Margot jewels and riches if she will be agreeable. She manages to keep her distance until he invites her aboard his yacht, where she makes him realize how contemptible she regards his behavior. Claire Bodai, the financier's girl, jealous of the young wife, goes to Dick, informing him that his wife has been unfaithful. But the contrite financier reassures Dick that his wife not only is faithful but has made him, Holcomb, see the foolishness of his ways. Dick then receives financial backing.
- When wealthy socialite Dick Cunningham insists that prominent actress Nancy Bradshaw give up her career to marry him, she reluctantly consents. Several years pass, Nancy bears a child, and Dick becomes attracted to Lila Grant, Nancy's theatrical successor. When Dick accompanies Lila to Mexico, Nancy replaces her on stage. Upon his return, Dick upbraids Nancy for reneging on her promise to leave the theater, but Nancy turns the tables by confronting him with his betrayal. They agree upon a divorce and Nancy is able to retain her child and her career.