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Desert Blues Synopsis

Cliff is a Jack Tar on shore leave in Egypt. Having left the U.S.A. he is looking for a dryer country and finds it in the desert. He is out riding on a camel when he meets Virginia, the daughter of Professor Newton, who is trying to find the knee caps of King Tut's first wife. While Cliff is entertaining Virginia by playing on an Egyptian tootle-pipe, Chief Alababa, head of the Desert Brigands, decides that Virginia is just the girl he needs to become Mrs. Alababa No. 43. Cliff has just mastered "Red Rot Mamma" on the pipe when the chief snatches Virginia from his side. Cliff gives the war cry of the gobs and a quartet of Jackies join him. They trace Alababa to an underground tomb and when they finish with Alababa and his gang the tomb has several more permanent residents, and Virginia is safely on the way to a future with a husband on the bounding main.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.