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An ordinary man steps out for a five-cent cigar and finds himself in a fight, a chase, and an appeal for gallantry.
A homeless New Yorker tries every trick he can think of to secure a warm winter bed behind bars.
A boarder in mourning attracts a would-be suitor with a tale of a dead count, but wedding plans bring other secrets to light.
An evening with a fashionable café crowd exposes the work of appearing carefree.
On Easter, a weary young worker searches for the holiday’s meaning while his blind father waits at home.
A polished New York lawyer returns to his family farm with an aristocratic wife who has never seen that part of his life.
A celebrated murderer sets himself a difficult New York challenge: finding the detective assigned to catch him.
After a millionaire's proposal is rejected, a stranded young couple challenges his faith in the power of money.
A playwright and his friend debate whether real heartbreak ever produces the grand language heard on stage.
An old shoemaker claims to be the Wandering Jew, and a newspaper editor finds the town’s easy explanation unsatisfying.
Two friends come to conquer New York and disagree about what the city has made of them.
A proud former Confederate officer is offended when an actor turns his old-fashioned manners and clothes into a theatrical sensation.
A tough New York marble-cutter feels unusually restless, but refuses to believe the neighbors who blame approaching spring.
A gifted Southern lawyer is known chiefly as his famous father’s son, even when an important judicial appointment comes his way.
A hotel typist leaves her job to live with a wealthy woman who suddenly decides to spend her millions.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
Two swindlers hire a widow to make their marriage agency look honest, but her own romantic hopes complicate the business.
A homeless former coachman's hope of a small reward leads him into the lavish rooms of a mysterious stranger.
An admiral's first orders bring his little navy into the escape plans of a defeated revolutionary.
An accident brings an unfamiliar immigrant into the orbit of a proud fire company with strong opinions about the war abroad.
A ruined American entrepreneur resolves to celebrate the Fourth of July in Salvador with drinks, gunfire, and new friends.
A salesman discovers that two men who scarcely like each other maintain an extraordinary agreement of friendship.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents, and one day left to buy her husband a Christmas present worth giving.
