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- A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
- Bobby is playing sick to get out of some work his mother has told him to do. He is in bed and the doctor is visiting him. His mother and two nurses are also in attendance for Bobby is the son of the richest family in town. But Bobby is all boy-and out on the lot near his window his boy friends are playing base-ball. Bobby is their pinch hitter, but can not get out to play. The score is tied and the team needs his services and they get a message to him. Bobby gets out of bed, still in his nightgown, races to the plate, swings and knocks a home run and keeps on running back to his bed. The doctor come's in again and notices his heavy breathing and declares that he is in a serious condition. Again the score is tied and again Bobby sneaks out to make the winning run. This time some jealous rival throws a tomato which splatters Bobby's face with the juice and when he gets back in bed the doctor declares that he has the measles. The kids outside continue their game until the ball is finally knocked through the window. "Pal" is sent in to get it but fails-and the kids stream in to recover the ball. They are discovered and quarantined in the house. As Bobby is not sick, they plan a wonderful time. He proposes a Charleston contest and the kids don the clothes of the grown-ups and have their party. Then some one proposes a bathing party in the big bathroom. The bunch disport themselves in the spacious tub until they are discovered. Then it is noticed that the "measles" have all washed off of Bobby's face-and the kids are sent home, sadder and wiser.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
- A rich father wants to marry his daughter to a fortune-hunting scoundrel. Lena and Al have other ideas.
- Garrett and Ryan are on an adventure to see stars in America but they find a gay bar that slows their journey
- A gang of youngsters proceed to tear up the neighborhood with their mischief.
- Al takes the Overland Limited for the open spaces and on the way encounters the girl, who is much sought by a pair of yegg-men, who would capture her and hold her until her father delivered to them the deed to the rich mine he owns. After much horse- play in which Al thwarts the villains after they have taken the girl, it all comes out right in the end.
- The modern story is the opener, which tells of Clarence, a jelly fish type of young man who is bashful and timid. At the Governor's party he tries to please the host's daughter, but only manages to make himself ridiculous by his awkward actions. He almost ruins the party, and the Governor in disgust declares that his daughter will never marry such a jelly fish. Then Clarence's aunt champions him, and proudly tells the assemblage that Clarence's great grandfather was a bold, bad pirate. Here the story takes up the pirate sequences, which are well handled, both in scenic qualities and acting The exploits of the pirate in subduing his mutinous crew single handed are full of clever comedy stunts. It is an extravaganza of the musical comedy variety, and the pirate atmosphere is realistic and entertaining. Fred Pangborn is featured, and does his best work in the pirate sequences. The kick come when the aunt concludes her story which has changed Clarence into a regular he-man. He asserts himself, clears the room with a handy sword, and kidnaps the daughter.
- "Big Boy" and his brother, Jackie, are very hungry. There is nothing to eat in the house. Their mother, a wash-woman, is very poor and has no money to buy food or to pay the rent. Jack and "Big Boy" go out to play. They manage to get some coal for the stove and put it in the kitchen. Then they go to the grocery store where Jack works, delivering bundles, to pay a long due grocery bill. "Big Boy" meets Bonnie at the grocery store and starts a flirtation with her. Bonnie is a little rich girl but she finds the attentions of the poor boy quite acceptable. "Big Boy" makes funny faces and cuts up generally. But he nearly wrecks the store in his efforts. Then to make had enough worse, "Big Boy" climbs into the meat display window after his dog and gets thoroughly spanked by the grocer for his efforts. Jack is told to watch a baby in a buggy. The baby crawls out of the carriage to play with "Big Boy" while Jack ties the buggy to the pet dog. A cat comes along and the dog chases it. The grocery keeper and the mother of the child miss the buggy and start a frantic search for it. They enlist the aid of all the police as the search goes on. The dog pulls the buggy all over town, finally landing in a lake. While the frantic mother and groceryman scream for help, "Big Boy" and the baby are looking for the mother. The mother offers fifty dollars reward to anyone who will save her baby. Consequently, when "Big Boy" appears with the child, she gives him the money. "Big Boy" pays the groceryman and the landlord what his mother owes them and he and Jack go out and purchase the makings for a big feast with the remainder of the money.
- "Big Boy" is the neglected child of the family. While his fat and pampered brother is eating a huge breakfast, "Big Boy" is trying to get more milk for him. He is on his way home from the grocery carrying the bottle when he drops and breaks the milk bottle. "Big Boy" knows that he dare not return home without the milk. He sees a billboard of a cow and thinking it is the real thing, procures a milk bottle and tries to induce the cow to give him some milk. A miracle apparently happens for the bottle is filled with a white fluid which looks like milk but is really paint spilled by men who are painting the back of the sign board. The child hurries home with his filled bottle. The fat brother drinks the contents greedily and is surprised when he discovers it is paint. Mother declares that "Big Boy" shall be sent to bed and that he will not be allowed to go to the circus with the other of the children. "Big Boy" goes to his room. In a moment he gets an idea, climbs down a ladder and is soon on his way to the circus. He lands on a toy automobile and goes rushing through traffic, finally arriving at the circus where he tears through the tent and into the middle of the ring. He is chased out by the ringmaster. He tries again to get into the show and again is chased out. The third attempt succeeds when he hides in a barrel. But it is the barrel which is used in a juggling act, and "Big Boy" is whirled around until he is dizzy. The ringmaster again ejects him. But he enters again and is thrown to the shoulders of a trio of acrobats. The crowd cheers and "Big Boy" takes a bow--only to wake up and find that it was all a dream. But mother relents and takes him to the circus.
- A bug exterminator mingles in high society.
- Louise gets hired as a maid for a swank society party, but the it's really a set up for a bunch of tough jewel robbers. She gets hold of the swag and a big slapstick chase along a highway and beach ensues.
- During the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper invention.
- Jack was a great help to his mother. He watched the baby while she did the neighbors' washings. ---Then he delivered the washing while mother hunted up more trade. Between deliveries Jack was captain of the East Side Base-BaIl Team. He was captain because he owned the ball. The score of the big game between the East Side and the West Side teams was forty to nothing in favor of the East Side when the game was called on account of darkness, but the West Side hadn't been to bat yeti But Jack's mother decided that her family was too large to be supported by the washing business and Jack was taken to an orphan asylum along with his dog. The dog wouldn't stay out of the asylum and Jack wouldn't stay in. The superintendent sent for the best dog-catcher in town, determined to put Jack's dog under the sod. But the canine catcher had more trouble catching Jack's dog than he would have had catching an eel in a barrel of oil. The dog thought of more ways to outwit the dog-catcher than there were fleas on his back. Jack finally liberated the captives in the dog-catcher's wagon and then the fun started in earnest but Jack saved the entire lot and took them home to his tired mother. Next day Jack was reading the paper when he saw a lost and found advertisement announcing a big reward for the return of a lot of dogs lost from a kennel. Jack recognizes the rescued dogs as the missing pets and returns them to the owner and the reward he gets enables him to buy his mother a new cuckoo clock, a new washboard-and a Rolls Royce.
- A boy is sent to his society aunt, where his pals join him and make a mess of the place.
- The De Peysters start on a fishing party with a pair of gallant suitors offering their flivvers as a means of conveyance. Eventually they arrive at their destination where Lige's rival attempts to run off with Daisy in a fast motor boat. He is pursued by Lige and the girl's parents and manages to effect a rescue after much discomfort to himself and other members of the party.
- Cliff is the wealthy cousin from the country and with the wealthy aunt visits the house at the height of the dance. The Rubes are shocked by the exhibition they witness, but a dash of liquor served in their punch soon has them striving to outdo the most expert exponents of the Charleston and eventually they carry off the prize.
- A millionaire, alone in his big house except for his servants, receives a letter notifying him that his grandson, Big Boy, has been cared for by a poor family ever since his birth and that the law now demands that he, as the only living relative of the child, assume the care of it. The rich man protests, but it is the law, he sends his chauffeur and his secretary-butler for the infant. Big Boy is found at the widow's home, surrounded by his friends, the widow's children. When he is told that he must go to his grandfather's house to live he is heart-broken. He kisses all his playmates farewell, not forgetting his animal friends-the cows, chickens and the pigs. It is a real blow when he is told that he must leave Mutt, his dog, behind. But Mutt outwits everybody and steals a ride on the top of the big car. He is discovered and thrown off, only to catch a ride on the rear bumpers. When they arrive at the millionaire's home, the dog is thickly covered with dust and soot from the exhaust of the car. Big Boy angers his grandpa first by accidentally stepping inside his silk hat. Then he gets tangled up in the hat rack and has to cry for help. The millionaire regards the child coldly but is very nearly won by Big Boy's smile when the dog enters. Mutt jumps into grandpa's lap, covering him with dust and soot, and then chases the parrot all over the house. This soon has the house in an uproar and throws his grandfather into a terrible mood. Big Boy follows him, tracking soot and mud all over the rugs and carpets, throwing the servant into a rage. But again the millionaire's heart is softened by the child, and the picture closes with Big Boy safely established as a member of the household.
- George has an idea he is an actor but somebody threw an egg. And now he is being thrown out of the last theatrical agency, he is broke and has his dwarf to feed, in addition to himself. They find a place where "all you can eat" is served for 25 cents. George has that amount and so he dresses the dwarf up like a baby and goes in. All goes well until George begins flirting with "Toy," the waitress. While he is doing this, the "baby" starts to grab his food and otherwise to forget that he is an infant. Consequently both are thrown out and warned to stay out. Then he disguises himself and puts the dwarf in a dog costume. He gets plenty of service but the dwarf, now disguised as a dog, starts a riot when he uses a gas hose to draw the soup from George's plate. In the resultant fight, the disguise drops off George and he is recognized. Both are kicked out, and fall into a dog catcher's wagon, the fake dog being taken for a large-sized stray dog.
- A young man is the victim of a plot to deprive him of his inheritance by having him committed to an insane asylum. There he meets and falls in love with a pretty nurse and, together, they foil the scheme.
- The nervous victim of a guitar-strumming fiend sails for Hawaii to get away from the source of his irritation, only to find him occupying the adjoining cabin on the cruise.
- Rival schools meet to bury the hatchet with a conciliatory dinner party. Things do not go as planned, escalating into an epic snowball fight.
- Mrs. Morton, a tireless bargain hunter, hires a young man to act as chauffeur, gardener, butler, and valet to her husband. He takes the job to be near his sweetheart, next door.
- Two employees of a drum manufacturer cause havoc when they visit their boss's country estate.
- The opening is novel and consists of a flirtation between a man's suit of clothes and a lady's dress hanging on a clothes line. Then a little shirt appears and calls a large house-dress to see the flirtation. The house-dress grabs the suit by the collar and the scene continues with Billy being yanked into the house by his wife. Cast out by his wife Billy is seen in a set that looks like a burlesque on the frozen north. Lige, dressed as a cowboy, tries to comfort him. Suddenly a nearby clump of trees part and disclose - the theater manager who tells the boys to get a move on and get the theater lobby fixed up in a hurry, because the owner is coming that evening.
- The chief attraction at a cabaret is Marcella, the dancing girl. She makes a hit with Jack, a millionaire so old he is in his second childhood. George, the waiter, also has an eye on Marcella. The millionaire sends a note to the girl asking her to elope. The waiter intercepts the note and thinks it from Marcella. He scribbles a line on the note saying she should hide in her trunk and he will smuggle her out of the cafe. Marcella gets the note and is amused. She tosses it away, but it falls in the millionaire's lap, who thinks he is to hide in the trunk. Meanwhile, George incurs the wrath of the proprietor by smashing a tray full of dishes, and is chased into the vaudeville act, "Sawing a Woman in Two." In his haste he climbs into the box which the professor is sawing. He eventually eludes the proprietor, and thinking Marcella in the trunk, he loads it on a truck. There is a wild ride until the truck, which is loaded with dynamite, hits a handcar. After the explosion George finds that the millionaire is the occupant of the trunk.
- "Poodles" is the handy man around a circus. He drives stakes, waters the elephants, shovels sawdust and does most of the work, but whatever he does, incurs the wrath of Glen, the hard-boiled boss. He carries tent poles and only succeeds in knocking Glen down with them. When Glen chases him he crawls under the side-wall of a tent and an elephant kneels on him. When "Poodles" catches a glimpse of himself in a distorting mirror belonging to a side-show, he thinks he is crushed all out of shape. Glen volunteers to stretch him out and does so by putting a noose around his neck and fastening one end of the rope to an elephant. Then "Poodles" sees himself in another distorting mirror and thinks he is stretched out to a giant's size. George and Lucille are partners in a riding act. George wants more money and threatens to desert the show unless his demand is granted. Lucille refuses to strike and during an argument, a flatiron drops on her head. "Poodles" finds her woozy from the blow and volunteers to do her riding act for her, although he knows less about a horse than an Arab does about polar bears. He dons the rider's costume, gets into the ring and climbs aboard the horse. George recognizes him and when Poodles comes for rosin to put on his feet, George substitutes grease and the would-be rider slips and slides all over the horse's back. Poodles rides the horse and saves the show. But he is so dizzy he doesn't know the difference between an imitation horse and the real thing, and he gallops off the lot on the fake animal.
- A wealthy lady is most anxious about her little dog, which she treats as a baby, sending him out for an airing in a baby-carriage with a nurse-maid. The dog gets loose, and the carriage rolls into the lake. Cliff, who is strolling in the park, flirts with the nurse, gets in bad with a cop, and finally dives into the lake and rescues the pet dog, but in getting back to the dock, drags the lady in the water with him.
- A couple of buffoons are fired from their jobs. An employment agency sends them out as interior decorators. What could possibly go wrong?
- A man rises to a day in which everything seems to go wrong. He handles it all in good humor, but does he have a breaking point?