George Reehm

Set in the small town of Riverdale, Defying Destiny opens with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue) being scarred while saving the life of his sweetheart Beth Alden (Irene Rich), whose grateful father (James Gordon), president of the local bank, offers him a job. Middle-class Jack becomes head teller, joins the country club, and plans to marry Beth, but his upwardly mobile behavior stirs resentment. When he's falsely accused of embezzlement the town's upper crust turns its back.

A comedy about Willem, who goes out hunting; his friends decide to scare a him with a bear suit.

Instead of paying his landlady, a man invites a seamstress out for dinner. To tease him her colleagues appear uninvited at the restaurant. When the bill comes it is huge and costs the man all of his money, his watch and other belongings, while the seamstress doesn't even want him to walk her home. He goes home penniless and his landlady does not let him in: he has to sleep outside.

Robert, the judge's son is a vacillating young man. Helen, his father's ward, is devoted to him and he sincerely desires to make her his wife. An old flame, Dorothy Deane, an actress, writes him asking him to call and say good-bye, prior to his nuptials. She is playing with a great success at a city theater and he calls on her in her dressing room, where he meets a merry company and all repair to a roof garden. The judge and Helen happen to attend the performance.

Mrs. Hanson reminds hubby that it is her birthday as he is about to leave for his office. On the way he stops in a jewelry store, and purchases for her a silver mesh bag, which he sends home by a messenger. When Mrs. Hanson receives the bag she cannot resist the temptation to show it to her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Jones, who at once becomes jealous.