Mrs. Burlingame (uncredited)
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Party Guest
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Miss Wexley
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Mrs. Leach (uncredited)
Alice Sycamore, la única persona con un poco de cordura en una familia llena de lunáticos, se enamora de su jefe, Tony Kirby, que pertenece a una familia muy rica y muy cursi. La diferencia entre el estilo de vida y la mentalidad de ambas familias se agudizan cuando los padres de él van a cenar a casa de ella, y la cena termina con la llegada de la policía y la detención de todos los presentes, acusados de anarquistas.
The Matron
A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
Elderly Woman
A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.
Matron
Melodrama judicial que se desarrolla nada menos que en la ciudad de Praga –en realidad en los estudios de la Paramount–, donde Rudek Berken es un duro fiscal que cierra un café en el que se practica la prostitución, y envia a prisión a la mujer que la regenta. Sin embargo, Rudek no puede evitar sentirse atraído por la hija de la madame, por la que llega incluso a cometer un asesinato accidental al protegerla de las garras de uno de sus viciosos pretendientes.
Nina Bronson
A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
Alice Challice
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
Mavis Dale
William Dale, a servant for Lord Barradine, marries Mavis, a maid. Dale wants to move up in life, and with Lord Barradine's influence, becomes district postmaster. When he vents his anger at a soldier however, Dale is in danger of losing his job.
Mrs. Shanks
A farmer in Illinois played by Lionel Barrymore is recruited by Abraham Lincoln to pose as a copperhead during the Civil War.
