- Billy works as a waiter at a sleazy bar and grill. Going for a walk in the park he meets a society girl talking to a French count. Indifferent to the count she is smitten with Billy and invites him to a society party at her home there he meets a rival for her affections played by Babe Hardy. Billy has to leave the party to return to work. The party guests decide to go "slumming" and chose the dive that Billy Works in. Everything ends in unresolved chaos.—edalweber
- Billy, the waiter in Mack's Café, has high ambitions. While he chases the tall glasses of foaming brew for his customers, his mind is filled with visions of fair dames clamoring for a nod or smile from him. As a waiter in a cheap café he is decidedly a frost, his only asset being an ability to handle rough patrons. During his leisure hours he wanders through the park flirting with the girls. His flirtations with the sweetheart of the Count get him in bad, and he is invited by the Count to indulge in a duel to the death. Billy espies Ethel struggling with two ruffians who have beaten up Babe. Billy routs the thugs and escorts Ethel home. Ethel's ma is one of those grand dames whose first question to all strangers is, "Where is your family tree planted?" When she gives Billy the once over, Billy feels like an angleworm on a hook, but he comes back strong and flashes the Count's card before mother's eyes. The card wins Billy an invitation to Ethel's reception, much to the chagrin of Babe who is jealous of him. At the reception Billy gives a fine imitation of how to behave in society. Just when he is having the time of his life, Billy remembers that it is time to be back on the job, so without even pausing to say goodbye, he is on his way to the café. The wine he consumed during the reception gets in its work, and Billy is in wrong more than ever. Babe has learned that Billy is an impostor, and he has discovered the café where he works. With the desire to show up his rival, Babe invited Ethel and other guests to go on a slumming trip and escorts them to the café. The first Billy knows of Ethel's presence is when he attempts to take her order, and then tries to pass himself off as a guest. This strategy is frustrated by Babe, who openly denounces Billy and in the mix-up that follows Billy not only gets the gate from Ethel, but a trimming from Babe as well.
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