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A worldly houseplant watches a struggling young singer and wonders why she treats its leaves with such affection.
A newly penniless man meets a terrified vagrant who expects to become rich the next morning.
A struggling typist finds a small, private universe in the star she watches through the skylight of her attic room.
A man searching for his poor widowed sister encounters several New York detectives with very different methods.
A snowbound ranch house becomes less safe when two restless men pursue a stranded schoolteacher.
A tailor’s apprentice spends his wages to impress a political boss, setting off a study of who admires whom.
An acting troupe takes its dispute over a failing comedy scene to the police station—and performs it for the desk sergeant.
A talkative ten-dollar bill follows the pleasures, prejudices, and moral judgments of the New Yorkers who spend it.
A sheriff finds two friendly Americans who fit the same fugitive's description, and neither offers to clear up his problem.
A shopkeeper’s long-interrupted marriage complicates two new declarations of love.
Two struggling women share a makeshift stew, while a mysterious stranger arrives carrying the one ingredient they lack.
Two young working women pursue very different futures in a city where wages, style, and marriage all promise escape.
A millionaire's son wants to repay the people harmed by his father's fortune; his socialist friend insists it cannot be done.
Two strangers seeking unpredictability agree to dine without money and gamble on who must face the consequences.
A writer asks New Yorkers what their city would say if it could speak, but everyone has something else in mind.
A mountain couple arrives at a makeshift court demanding a divorce, only to discover that separation may be harder than marriage.
In a quiet Peruvian port, two expatriates build a romance around the secrets that drove them from home.
A humorist must finish three newspaper jokes while holding his feverish wife's hand.
A lovelorn hermit's ten years of solitude are disturbed by a fashionable young visitor and an old friend.
A grieving Irishman treats a palmist’s predictions as a treasure map and pursues the stranger meant to bring him luck.
A boy and a burglar know exactly how their encounter is supposed to go—and have complaints about the script.
A self-assured judge of human nature refuses a suspicious bargain on his way home.
Two working New Yorkers spend a week pretending to be wealthy guests at a Broadway hotel and find an unexpected kindred spirit.
Every Thanksgiving, a wealthy old man takes a homeless stranger to dinner, preserving a private tradition neither can bear to break.
