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- Dorothy is a film fan from the middle west, who arrives in Los Angeles to visit relatives. Neal, a cashier of a local bank, is her fiance. She shows such interest in motion picture comedians that he impersonates Charlie Chaplin and visits her at the home of her relatives, wrecking the place and stealing her gems. He is arrested and sent to jail for thirty days, during which time she is cured of her infatuation. When released he returns without the disguise and is accepted on the old footing.
- The comic mishaps of an ambitious literary society that attempts to produce a Roman tragedy written by one of its members.
- Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
- Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
- Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- The freshman and sophomore classes of Barton College get into a brawl over possession of a goat, then decide to settle the dispute with an auto race.
- Nan is the soda fountain queen in Dead Dog. She is in love with Billy, but she got a letter from a New York lawyer saying that she and her cousin, Hezekiah, a New England school teacher, would have to marry in order to share a bequest of some thousands of dollars. Hezekiah was on his way west and because Nan would lose the money if she turned him down, she conceived the idea of rejuvenating the wildness of Dead Dog to frighten poor Hezey out of marrying her. With the scene all set and Hezekiah duly shocked, Nan made her entry, riding her horse up the steps and into the bar. In spite of his terror, Hezekiah was willing to go on with the ceremony, and just as Nan and he were about to say "I do," Billy made his entry and began to shoot up the place. This was too much for Hezekiah, and he started running, caught the observation platform of a train starting for the east.
- An overambitious ringmaster is deviously plotting to have his circus' owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over the whole show. However, World War I intervenes and he eventually aids the Allied cause by joining the German army.
- Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
- A company of barnstormers goes on strike in the middle of a performance and a number of local amateurs are prevailed upon to furnish the show, which they do in more ways than one.
- A wealthy young chap who served in France discovers that the beautiful doughnut designer he fell in love with during the war is running an employment agency for returned soldiers and sailors in his hometown. He puts on the khaki, hurries to the office, and succeeds in obtaining a situation as an assistant gardener for her father. Circumstances force his employer to install him as butler. Green but willing, he seizes the chance to be near his adored one, but almost explodes with jealousy when he finds a rival seated next to the fair cruller composer. There is plenty of excitement for the entire dinner party until the new butler's parents, who are among the guests, recognize him--and the buddy and the fried-cake finisher find that their families have arranged a match between them.
- A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- Walter and his pal discover a neglected baby on their doorstep and take it in. Walter is accused of deception by his girl when he tries to hide the youngster. They participate in the policeman's parade and are compelled to take the baby with them. On his post as traffic cop Walter lays the baby in its carriage beside him and a speeding autoist hooks the carriage in passing. A wild chase starts and the baby carriage becomes disentangled on a railroad crossing. Walter, on the cowcatcher, grabs the baby from the speeding train.
- The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.
- Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
- Perry and Vivian Reynolds are on their honeymoon when Vivian finds Perry with a girl in his arms; he explains that he merely caught her when she slipped, and Vivian is satisfied about his fidelity. Shortly thereafter, Vivian finds Perry with a girl sitting on his lap and quickly decides to teach him a lesson, flirting with everything in pants, including a Scotsman. Perry is enraged and, on the advice of his friend, Geoffrey, boards a small plane bound for Hawaii. Geoffrey follows the plane in a boat, and Perry jumps out, returning to land and hiding in his own boathouse. The plane on which Perry was riding crashes, and Vivian is disconsolate. She later discovers that Perry is alive, and she resumes her mad flirting. A policeman reports that there is a lunatic on the loose, and Perry, disguising himself as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, crashes one of Vivian's wild parties. After some confusion, Perry and Vivian are reconciled.
- A young girl goes off to an all-girl boarding school. Her boyfriend, who can't bear being away from her, disguises himself as a girl and goes with her to the school.
- Three world war veterans waken on the anniversary of Armistice Day to the knocking of an irate landlady who demands her room rent under threat of ejectment. They are further embarrassed at the entirely remote prospect of breakfast. Their plot to break a restaurant window in order to acquire some ham and eggs is thwarted by the untimely arrival of a policeman. The promise of sandwiches and coffee entices them into the Armistice Day parade, but they are ordered to "'fall out'" just before the sandwiches reach them. An ejected bill collector offers fifty dollars for the collection of a bad bill and they thus acquire fifty dollars worth of ham and eggs and also become members of the collection agency staff.
- A couple decides to elope at midnight. Instead of finding his bride waiting for him, the groom finds her father and six policemen. After a wild chase, the would-be groom is finally brought before the judge who pronounces his sentence in the form of a marriage indictment, much to the anger and surprise of the father and joy of the bride. The judge goes still further and sentences the unwilling father to write a big check in favor of the newly-married couple.
- A very hungry Dave Finkel misses his birthday diner because of business. Getting home his wife and friends insist on taking him out to a nightclub instead of letting him eat. His attempts to get something to eat are thwarted each time during the night. Jean Harlow has an uncredited appearance as a girl in the nightclub Dave has a brief conversation with.
- "Willie Dime," a big, bad taxi driver, is very jealous of "Miss Eva" and it burns him up to see any fool Jelly-bean "carrying on flirtatious flirtations with her." He gets madder and "badder" as the story gets "hummier" and funnier, while smooth, suave Florian Slappey gets mixed up in all kinds of complications.
- Jean gets herself expelled from school so she can travel with her grandfather. Grandfather decides he'd rather have a new grandson, so he puts an ad in the paper. Jean decides to apply for the role and confusion ensues.
- Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in Tommy Robbins, who lives in an adjoining bungalow and whose wife Letty is devoted to the cabarets. Harry admires Letty as much as Tommy admires Grace, and suggests to his neighbor that they arrange an exchange of wives. The wives overhear their husbands' plotting to obtain divorces and, still in love with the men they married, conceive a counter-plan of a week of platonic trial marriages. Over the seven-day period, the wives make life so miserable for each other's husbands that the two men gladly return to their respective spouses.
- "Like mistress, like maid," so when Ethel goes away with her parents, her maid Billie proceeds to make a selection from Ethel's wardrobe and "play lady." Just then a young gentleman friend of Ethel's arrives, unaware that she is out of town. He takes the maid for a girl chum of Ethel's and Billie carries along the joke by ordering about the other maid. Harry has tea, loses his heart, makes a date for the next day, and departs. In the neighboring city Ethel meets Harry's father, who tells her that Harry expected to see her at home. Meanwhile, Harry and Billie are playing on the beach. Harry comes to dinner and when Billie sees him she runs through the kitchen into the yard. She is pursued by Harry who tells her that a little matter of social position makes no difference in his love for her. She accepts him and Ethel joins in the best wishes for the happy pair.
- Anne's father arrives at the bank too late to deposit $5,000 in cash which he has just received. He is being followed by Billy, a pickpocket, and is nervous about the money. When he arrives home he hides it in a sofa pillow, but the pickpocket sees where he puts it and determines to get the money. Anne is preparing gifts for a charity bazaar and unwittingly gives the collectors the pillow in which the money is hidden. The maid discovers that the missing pillow contains a huge sum and tells her sweetie, the iceman. He also sets out to get the money. Father then learns of his loss and starts for the bazaar. The iceman and the pickpocket also race for the place and there is a fight to buy the pillows. All four buy pillows, each thinking he has the right one, only to discover that the money is in none of them. Finally Anne learns that the pillow has been sold to her Jimmie, who has given it to his aunt. The four of them dash to the aunt's house where they find that the pillow has been sent to the cleaners and then they stage a sprint for the cleaning establishment. Every pillow in the place is torn to pieces, With the feathers flying everywhere. Father falls into a starch tank and the feathers settle on him until he looks like a huge chicken. But he recovers the money and is chased out of the place, taking refuge on an ostrich farm where he is rescued by Anne from the birds who are picking him to pieces. Then Anne decides to take the money and spend it on her honeymoon.
- As an actor just graduated from a correspondence school course, Walter jumps from an extra to the male lead when the well formed Romeo in the cast falls through a trap door.
- A burlesque on the vampire genre.
- In endeavoring to help a bashful friend, a man becomes engaged to his friend's sweetheart just after he has consummated an engagement with his own "best girl."
- At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
- Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans. At the same time, German agents are looking for the same papers. When Castleback is found murdered in his apartments with Lupin's visiting card pinned to his breast, suspicion points to the master crook. Following Castleback's murder, his secretary and a hotel porter are found dead. By mysterious messages, Lupin informs the public that he is innocent of the crimes, although the authorities believe him to be guilty. Lupin thereupon sets out to solve the mystery himself. By impersonating an officer of the law and dodging his enemies successfully, he aids the police in catching the real criminal and, after making his identity known, escapes the net thrown out for him.
- A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show, and she is to introduce a designer's brand-new sexy teddy. However, the designer's jealous rival steals the garment just before the show. Complications ensue.
- Evelyn's uncle gives a party to announce her engagement to the suitor he has approved, but she decides to elope with Oscar. Oscar pal goes along to help, but his sweetheart sees them and thinks he is the one eloping with Evelyn.
- When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
- Mr. and Mrs. Gordon think their daughter, Betty, must be getting tired of her stay in the country, but Betty is having the time of her life, falling in love with Neal, a young lawyer of the village, and before she leaves they are engaged. Mr. Gordon is a gay old boy who will have no hick lawyer for a son-in-law and sends Neal packing. Back in the village, the justice of the peace has to leave for a few days and has Neal take his place. Mr. Gordon goes out on a ride with another gay dog and a couple of "chickens." They go to the country and are arrested for speeding. It happens to be Neal's district and when Gordon is hauled into court there is Neal presiding. Seeing his advantage, Neal writes a little note to Gordon, "If I can marry your daughter, you get suspended sentence; otherwise, thirty days in jail." Gordon has to admit defeat and gives his consent, knowing he cannot double-cross Neal because of the "Suspended Sentence."
- Young struggling lawyer has to haul a doctor into court with a summons by 3 P. M. or lose his job. Gets thrown out of the hospital in a dozen different ways and finally chloroforms the doctor.
- Jack's honeymoon is interrupted by a letter from a former sweetheart threatening the exposure of a number of ardent love letters unless he remits $5,000. The letter falls into the hands of his wife and they contrive separately to recover the damaging missives. Each disguises as a Swedish servant girl and both are employed by the holder of the letters. They recover the letters after ransacking the house, and make their getaway after a number of exciting and humorous incidents.
- Mr. Brown is jealous, even of the butler, whom he discharges. He has reason, for Mrs. Brown is given to harmless flirtations. Neal is the latest victim and he comes to tell her that he is soon to be married. Mr. Brown phones he will not be home to dinner, so Mrs. Brown says, "Come over, we'll have a little farewell party." Neal agrees. On the street Mrs. Brown meets Billie, who tells her of her engagement, without mentioning Neal's name, as she does not know that Mrs. Brown knows Neal. Meanwhile Brown has heard of a woman who ran off with her butler, and it so works upon his feelings that he decides to go home after all. His wife sees him coming and makes Neal put on the butler's outfit and pass as the new servant. While Neal is having his troubles in. the kitchen, Billie, passing by, decides to drop in. Brown invites her to dinner. Neal comes stumbling in with the first course and is recognized by Billie. Neal and Mrs. Brown are in hot water, but after a lot of explaining they are forgiven on Mrs. Brown's promise to flirt no more.
- Katie is forced by her mother to masquerade as a little girl in rompers in order that she will not "steal" her fat sister's beau. Of course things don't go as mother intended and Katie gets him after all.
- A request from a woman across the hall to a man in the opposite apartment to carry her new dress to the dressmaker's for alterations opens an amusing situation. His wife's appearance on the scene at the moment causes him to make her a present of the dress to avoid arousing her suspicions. This opens the way for some amusing moments.
- Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
- The troubles of a college professor straying from the domestic and academic fold to yield to the lure of a prize fight.
- A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.
- According to the will of a late uncle, a girls' seminary, which comprises the estate, is to be left to one of two cousins, Billy, a sailor, or his cousin, a teacher in the seminary. The one who shows the most aptitude in managing and teaching at the institution will be the heir. Judgment of their respective abilities is left to the professor in charge. Duffy. Billy, the sailor, arrives to take charge for his try at the managing. He is told that his cousin managed the place yesterday and made a one hundred per cent score. Billy refuses to try until he sees some of the beautiful pupils in the gymnasium. So the sailor is put in charge of the gymnasium class and the girls go through some unusual exercises. Then he is put in charge of the class room where he tells the girls lot of funny stories. He is discovered at his playful work by his cousin who reports him to the professor. Billy is relieved of class work and sent to the dining room to instruct the girls in table manners. Billy organizes a symphony orchestra and teaches the girls to sup soup in correct time, tempo and tune. His "orchestra" is doing fine when the jealous cousin again reports him to the professor. The cousin then figures a way to get Billy thrown out. He tells him to assemble the class by ringing a bell-but it is a fire-bell and the firemen arrive. There is a lot of excitement with Billy getting a hose and spraying the firemen, the professor and his cousin and the firemen completing the destruction by trying to spray Billy. Billy is ordered out of the school, but he opens an opposition seminary across the road and gets all the scholars.
- Walter, to win a girl, has to reduce. Finally gets into a corset by means of a flivver and a jack and puts the party on the blink when his stays burst. Giving up reducing in disgust, finds that his girl's fat uncle is for him if he can weigh in at more than his rival and wins by putting flat irons in his clothes and sand in his trousers. Gets uncle's money and all is content.