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- An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.
- The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
- An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.
- A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
- Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
- A small town girl dreams of movie stardom. A switched photo wins her a movie contract. Arrivng in Hollywood, she is assigned to the props department. Her parents visit and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
- The story of a producer's troubles in selecting and "making" a new juvenile star. The opening is in Mack Sennett's private office, with Sennett himself interviewing directors, actors, would-be comedians and lions. A director tells him of a child he has seen and is told to sign him up. After much trouble this is done and the kid becomes a star.
- A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
- Mack Sennett comedy short-subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and Limburger cheese.
- A misogynist Fire chief counsels his nephew to avoid matrimony at all costs. Uhe love-struck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel.
- Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
- All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
- When a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiancé is very displeased. Then the orchestra leader finds out that the hotel flower girl is really a rich heiress, and he shifts his attentions to her. Now the flower girl's boyfriend is unhappy, and soon there are even more complications.
- A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
- A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize: a complete wardrobe. Later, the clerk mistakes the manager's wife for his own and sets out to avenge a kiss he sees them exchange. A trip to the hospital later, the shoe clerk still has an eye for a peach.
- A shady stock broker become pawn of a wealthy scoundrel who wants to marry his beautiful daughter, until the janitor catches wind of the scheme to marry off the girl and rushes to save her.
- Alice Day is the pretty maid who wins the heart of Danny O'Shea, a young artist who motors down to Petersboro to paint the scenery. Danny falls in love with Alice at first sight. but the course of true love is sadly disrupted by the pranks of Alice's young brother Eddie Quillan, and her father, Joe Young. Father orders Danny to leave his house and arranges to send Alice to visit her aunt in the city to save her from the perils of Petersboro. Aunt Barbara has a beautiful daughter. Thelma Parr, who, she hopes will marry the wealthy young artist--Danny O'Shea. Thelma is to pose for Danny and Aunt Barbara suggests that she take her little country cousin, Alice, with her so that Thelma may shine by contrast. When Danny recognizes Alice, however, Thelma and everything else is forgotten. In the meantime, Alice's father finds a picture of Thelma and Danny in a city paper, and realizes that he has sent his daughter right back to Danny. He and Eddie start immediately for the city and rush to Danny's studio. On his way into Danny's apartment, Eddie is intercepted by a bevy of pretty girls, who surround him, and in this unexpected predicament is discovered by his frantic parent. After rescuing Eddie from the sirens, Joe rushes into Danny and Alice, after a lively scene, falls into the pool. Danny and Alice make their getaway, calling back to the old man in the water-- "If you think Alice and I aren't going to be married, you're all wet!"
- Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
- Film director Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.
- Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
- A salesman brings his girlfriend to a party given by the aristocratic company owner. The salesman's gauche efforts to impress annoy everyone, but his girlfriend catches the eye of the owner's son.
- Henpecked husband Harry is coerced by a good time pal to go on a clandestine double date. Of course, no good will come of this, as they encounter streetwalkers, bumpy roads, and a couple of toughs previously jilted by their dates.
- A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the man's good fortune. He manages to get a chance to hypnotize the winner and then takes his ticket, after which he disappears. When the man wakes up and realizes his ticket has been stolen, he sets out to find the phony "professor" and reclaim his ticket.
- Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
- An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
- The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry. Roach, however will not have his daughter marry a lowly farmhand, although Louise loves the farmhand. It's also rent day, and their landlord - the mortgage holder of the farm - is making his rounds to collect the moneys. He uses his position of power to garner sexual favors from women in return for non-eviction. Having never met Louise, the landlord immediately falls in love with her, who he too wants to marry. Louise hatches a plan to throw off the landlord's unwanted advances. That plan has unintended consequences. Add to the mix Louise's fear of mice, the landlord intercepting an important letter to Roach, a collar salesman and his missing infant son, and it becomes unclear who Roach will allow marry his daughter and if she will get married at all.
- Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turoin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
- The stranger from the city starts the trouble. One innocent country maiden is ignored, another is wooed. The father of the unlucky girl, who already has a perfectly good sweetheart, favors the city chap to save the old home. The unwilling bride puts the veil on the willing bride. Then it passes back and forth several times until the city chap and the favored lover aren't quite sure which girl is which. Of course true love triumphs in the end.
- A doctor and an undertaker form a partnership and get more business through the alliance, but one or the other loses his wife in the business rush.
- As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself comes with an "engineering" job with the city. But it's sanitary engineering, and while our street sweeping hero tries his best, he just can't avoid making enemies. When he stumbles into the midst of a lively Chinatown tong war, it's Harry's bravery that saves Natalie and wins the day.
- Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.
- An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
- A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way with her. She's actually the queen traveling incognito, which the loyal residents recognize. The cross-eyed baron keeps getting caught trying to get into the queen-then the inn keeper's wife's bedroom.
- Two men appear at the country club with blackened eyes. Seeing a story of a rescue by an unknown hero in a newspaper, each tells his wife that he was the hero. The members of the club are shown the new issue of a motion picture news reel. It depicts a raid by the Purity League and both "heroes" are seen being thrown out in the fracas. And then the riot begins. The second half of the comedy deals with somewhat slapstick doings on a polo field.
- A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
- In old California, Don Fernando and Don Diego hope to consolidate their adjoining ranches by betrothing their children, Ramón and Dolores. However, Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranch, and Dolores is interested in Pancho, a toreador. When Suzanna learns that she and Dolores were switched in infancy, making her Don Diego's actual daughter, she keeps silent. Ramón finally rebels and steals Suzanna from the altar as she is about to marry Pancho. Following the necessary explanations, Ramón marries Suzanna and Dolores marries Pancho.
- A wacky bunch of explorers go to the "I'm Gagging country" (reference to Ingagi, released the same year) to make an African picture on a Gorilla and his girl.
- Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
- When his son breaks of his engagement after falling for a trapeze artist, the father decides to see the temptress who has ensnared his son for himself--and he falls for her, too.
- As both the local photographer and the sheriff, Harry must track down an arsonist and deal with his un-photogenic in-laws.
- A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than in getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
- Into the love and adventures of the young couple Conklin is injected by fortuitous accident. He gets the credit of a heroic rescue really performed by a life-saving dog. He is nothing more or less than a short-changing conductor on a surface line of cars. He loses ground when this is discovered and decides to send the bridegroom a poisoned bottle of wine. The bridegroom sends a note of thanks, saying that he and the bride will drink the wine on their wedding trip. Adventures thereafter hinge on Conklin's frantic efforts to reach the train on which the bridal couple are traveling. The chases of this train by his car and an ambulance would make the most lurid melodrama thrilling. It is partly trick work, but it is of a very high order, preserving the illusion of reality to a thrilling degree. The farce is replete with comic incident, professional in its thoroughness and activity from start to finish.
- The fun centers around a street car conductor who, though badly in debt and engaged to a fair damsel, succumbs to the wiles of a cabaret vamp. She leads him a merry chase, winning a diamond ring partly paid for and a car owned to some extent. But love's sweet dream dissolves when rain falls and car wrecks, forcing man and maid to splash home through mud ankle-deep.