Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink sing "Der Erlkönig", "Trees" and "Pirate Dreams".

Vienne, en 1914. La famille von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg est au bord de la ruine. Seul un riche mariage pourrait sauver la dynastie. L'avenir de la famille repose sur les épaules du prince Nicki, un officier cynique et débauché. Tandis que la mère de l'aristocrate se met en quête d'une épouse, celui-ci continue à mener une vie de plaisirs. Au cours d'une de ses sorties, Nicki rencontre Mitzi, une harpiste issue d'un milieu pauvre. Les deux jeunes gens tombent amoureux. De leur côté, les parents de Nicki ont conclu un accord avec un riche industriel : leur fils épousera Cecelia, la fille infirme du bourgeois...

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.

Frequent comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Attractions shown include the U.S. Battleship "Oregon", the Australian convict ship "Success" (complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked Iron Maiden), the world's tallest flagpole (251 feet), the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Universe (with sunken garden) and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit Frisco's still-under-construction City Hall, accompanied by Frisco's then-Mayor James Rolph Jr. Also appearing in the film is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink.