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Beresford, the son of the Earl of Swank, is lost on a desert island as a boy. There he is found by a tribe of baboons and raised as one of them. They teach him the lore of the jungle: mining engineering, stud poker, and hem-stitching. Eventually however he is discovered by an expedition which includes a young lady with whom he falls in love.

A middle-aged couple find their rural lives in disarray when they inherit eighty-nine million dollars.

The economy craze which swept the country as a result of national war activities is satirized in this film. The moral of the story is not to economize unless you are quite sure you can afford it. Elise and Arthur, wife and husband, have novel ideas regarding economy. The wife is a victim of the craze, and, after discharging her maid, she buys all sorts of things because they are cheap, wears abbreviated skirts and loses a fortune in Wall street. When steel goes up, she buys a flock of safety razors to get ahead of the steel magnates. Of course, this sort of economy is expensive, and, when the husband loses his bank roll in a poker game at the club whither he has gone to save money, the climax is reached.

Comedy set in the future (1923) concerning a man's attempt to obtain and keep the last remaining bottle of champagne, after liquor prohibition had been established throughout the world.

In this novel comedy, Irvin Cobb tells his own story on how to reduce.

Eliot Brainard, the Pacifist who gets his eyes opened to the truth at last, is fortunate enough to have a sweetheart who is all for war and her Uncle Sam. She joins the Secret Service and sets out to capture a German spy. The man is working a wireless in an unfrequented part of the country. When he finds that Nan is watching him, the German attacks her. Brainard happens to be in the right place at the right time for once in his life. All the real man in him comes to the surface and he rushes at the enemy and disgraces the breed of Pacifists for ever. After this, there is only one thing he can do to show his cure is complete - he joins the Marines.

This story revolves around a young woman who loses her job and a young man who has been unable to make a success as an art photographer. A fire breaks out in the house where the woman is rooming, and she rushes to the street en dishabille, just as the man appears. Immediately he has visions of a fortune, and persuades her to pose as a wild Greek girl. He has her arrested for performing Grecian dances in the street in her scanty attire. After she is freed, she causes a sensation in a restaurant, and by the next day is headlined in all the newspapers, with the result that the bright young man succeeds in securing a contract for his "star" at a big salary.

The experiences and woes of a young bumpkin who believed he could become another Douglas Fairbanks 'if he only had the chanst.'