Mary enlists her cousin's help to break her husband of his poker habit once and for all.

Tupper hopes to win a baseball-loving widow's heart by forming his own team.

When a stranger accidentally drops a locket in Judge Jones's pocket, his wife thinks he is having an affair while the stranger thinks he is a thief.

Mr. Burton spends six years abroad leaving his daughters behind. He returns with a new wife but has forgotten that the girls have grown up and might not want a new mother.

Lucie falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.

Betty is in love with her father's secretary, but Daddy does not approve and dismisses him. She concocts a plan to get his job back and be near him without Daddy suspecting a thing.

Becky Sharp tries to scheme and manipulate her way to the top in this early and ambitiously scoped three-reel retelling of Thackeray's Vanity Fair.