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- When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
- Henry Groper a struggling Optician, gets married to Eleanor to her Father's dismay. But on their wedding day, Henry is told he has 30 days to make a go of his business or else his Father In-law will set him up in a Rag and bone junk trade to support his daughter. With an early appearance of Danny Kaye as one of Henry Gropers patients.
- Felix saves a girl doll from a dog, and the doll comes to life and falls for Felix. She takes him to Toyland, where he must save her from the designs of the evil Pierrot. As it turns out, though, she's not quite as helpless as she might seem to be.
- Horace Radish wants a drink, but Prohibition is in force. When all his other schemes fail, he heads to the Bootlegger's Haven Hotel with high hopes. But waiting at the hotel is the tough lawman William Allways Tryan, who is ready to toss in jail anyone found with even a drop of liquor.
- Private detectives Peek and Boo handle are hired to handle a divorce case. Their responsibilities include "compromising" the wife.
- The picture opens with a deer nursing her fawns. We see a young deer being fed cigarettes; a raccoon picking the pockets of a man for sugar ; a raccoon carefully washing and eating an egg. Then we have the nocturnal kinkajou, and following that an anteater whose specialized tongue makes quick work of a heap of ants. The anteater carries her young whether she is walking or hanging by her prehensile tail. Looking up through a glass, we see a Pacific pocket mouse eating sunflower seeds. A cormorant swallows a large fish. An iguana kills a vulture after shedding its tail which still wiggles like a live snake. The film closes with a dramatic fight between the iguana and a puma.
- Squabbling brothers-in-law, living under the same roof, argue about everything, but when one accidentally mistakes poison for cough medicine, it may be the big break his brother-in-law was waiting for.
- Al wants to elope with his girlfriend, but her dog Pete disrupts the plan.
- A homeless old couple gain access to a deserted cabin on a moored raft. The husband casts the raft adrift and it is carried down the river which abounds in gorgeous scenery.
- The story deals with a young girl's sacrifice of her one chance of happiness - marriage to a coast guard who has been promised the post of keeper of the lighthouse at Heceta Head provided he marries. The girl cannot give up the idea of caring for her elderly family and so is forced to see her sweetheart happily married to another girl.
- A member of the "Ex-Convict's Club" is seen and heard telling the assembled club members how a certain "Perfect Crime" was committed.
- Niela is tired of her children's hour radio program and with the help of Lee they frame the station's top executive so that she will get a break on a big time program.
- Solly (Solly Ward) is in love with Jane ('Jane PIckens')but Jame's father can't afford a big wedding. So he schemes with Solly's father, his business partner, to stage a big quarrel that will prompt Jane and Solly to elope. Complications arise.
- A patent medicine salesman is mistaken for a noted jockey and forced to ride in a steeplechase, despite his ignorance of horses.
- Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met. He invites Andy out to the house and, of course, he is called away on business and asks Andy to stay and entertain his bride Betty (Ethyl Sykes, which is how she spelled it until some researcher changed it to Ethel), who Andy still hasn't met, although she did dain to stick a hand out of her bedroom door for Andy to shake, as she too has an aversion to pig farmers, even rich ones like Andy who was also the Pig-Calling Champion of Kansas three years running. Betty calls a friend over to take her place. The friend---what a coincidence---is Andy's old girl friend, and she peeks out and recognizes Andy and also a million reasons why she now likes him better than she did. She invites him into the bedroom where she is spread out, wearing silk pajamas, on the chaise lounge and, like Cleopatra, is not prone to argue. Andy, of course, thinks his old girl friend is now his friend's wife. Will Andy yield to temptation despite his fondness for his old friend?
- Vee's auntie needs a chaperone for some teenager girls staying at the family ranch, so they send Torchy. Vee tries her hand at baking a cake, which fails in spectacular fashion.
- A man cannot afford to pay his ex-wife's alimony, so rather than sending him to jail, she shows up at his house and moves in with his new wife. Hijinx ensue.
- This story deals with the efforts of a peaceful old man to get back his store of supplies that have been stolen from him by a man who uses the hills as a place of refuge. Unable to best the man by physical blows, the old man "haunts" him on his march through the sandy canyons and beautiful hills - that is, he follows him and plays constantly upon his nerves by throwing stones down the mountains, disarranging his pack when he isn't looking, until finally his nerves give way entirely and he falls terrified down the Sand Creek Canyon.
- Bob, his girlfriend and her mother are driving through South America. Bob wants to get married at the next town, Los Poach-os Egg-os, where they are currently holding a festival called Dontdoit Day. The road to wedded bliss for Bob and his girl hits a slight bump as his girl catches the eye of a dashing gaucho, and the Mayor, who is the only official in town who can perform the wedding, refuses to do so on Dontdoit Day. In addition, Bob has been the bane of the Mayor's existence since arriving in town, in part since Bob has also cast his eyes on a pretty señorita, who happens to be courted by the Mayor.