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- Baby Peggy grinds an organ to help a poor blind man. Then a wealthy woman rescues Peggy. The lady gives a party and Peggy copies as much of the Egyptian dancer's scanty costume as she can. Her foster father is shocked and opines that Peggy is going to be too much trouble. But Peggy shows who is going to be boss, and all ends happily.
- Baby Peggy as the mischievous child of doting and fussy parents.
- The adventures of a group of children while running a miniature train.
- When Baby Peggy closed her little eyes, little did she realize that the same night she would capture a bold, bad burglar. Her toys and balloons met the burglar every way he turned until at last he ran into the wall, stunned. A passing policeman took him with him, and Baby Peggy closed her eyes to sleep her Beauty Sleep. The next day her suitors called - one at a time. When Harry called he was thrust into the closet when James rang the front bell. James, too, was thrown into one of the obscure corners of the house. This continued in turn as Henry and David each paid their respects with a call on their little "sweetie." But when Chauncey called in his Packard car Peggy was ready to go out, and she did. Then the rivals discovered each other - and then the fun began. When Peggy's folks returned home they found their place looking like - well, you know. Peggy's return home was far from triumphant, but she was saved from a sound spanking by the return of the officer who had Peggy's reward for capturing the burglar.
- Mr. and Mrs. Sweettooth were basking in the sunshine in Goofers Park. Their neighbors were having, a friendly spat in another part of the park. Philip de Glass the neighbor, had a hobby all his own of which he is about to par-take, when a policeman comes along and helps the good cause along. Both wives tire of sitting and start scrapping with their husbands. The husbands run away and both meet at the lake, where a pretty nurse girl starts a flirtation with them. She runs to the lake and tells them that the one that recovers the rose which she has thrown into the lake, can have her hand. While they are both straggling to get the rose, the cop, who is the nurse-girl's regular sweetheart, comes along. Great excitement follows and the cop throws them both out of the park. They land on a flivver which drives them right into a huge explosion and they go up into the air. In the meantime, the wives have made the acquaintance of Prof. Jim-Jam, whose specialty is shimmie-shaking. He has a class of beautiful girls whom he is supposed to introduce to a well known dancer that afternoon. He demonstrates to the wives a few steps and makes them eager to learn the new dance. The Powder Puff High School pupils are already in costumes awaiting for the big fete of the afternoon. They are prettily draped in veils, etc., and then some, when Philip De Glass and his friend land in the park near (where the girls are awaiting the arrival of the Professor and his friend. They discover some animal skins and when they find that their clothes are torn to pieces, they don the animal skins and then go out to the lawn, and the girls thinking they are the new Professor and his guest, proceed to entertain them with fancy steps. They are having a glorious time when suddenly the real Professor and the wives appear on the scene. Lots of funny situations follow and pretty effects are seen on the lawn.
- Open up with Al Alt, dancing instructor, coming in on a train with a bunch of showgirls and the backer of the show, Maryland. The conductor comes around for the tickets and when they can't show the tickets he throws them off. They go to the beach and Alt is teaching them some new steps. Alt sees a very pretty girl sitting on the bench, so he starts performing before her. Another fellow comes along and wants to make a hit with the girl, so he starts performing to outdo Alt. They soon find that they have been performing in vain, as the girl is blind. The hotel on the beach has not been doing very much business - the owner sees the girls and decides to put them in to run the hotel and in that way draws the crowds. When the hotel owner has enough money he tries to escape, but Alt and the girls get him. They get on the train again and meet the same conductor who threw them off before and when he sees them he is ready to throw them off again, but they jump on him and take some tickets from him.
- Arthur is a much-abused foster child who is forced to do nearly all the work, not only around the house but in his adopted father's garage as well. A man informs the foster father that the boy is heir to a million and for a brief space nothing is too good for him, until it develops that the chap is an inmate of an asylum for the insane.
- The love affairs of a fat garage proprietor who finally wins the tiny lady of his choice in a reckless automobile race.
- This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
- Merta and Bud were two great big grown up kinds, claiming as their parents, a four-foot Daddy, and a three-foot Ma. However, they do not escape spankings, etc., from their Dad, who was a near relative of Simon Legree. Buddy catches Dad making love to the nurses and then the fun begins! The nurse had a better half, like all nurses. The better half invites Dad and Bud to come to his beauty parlor to be improved upon. They go there, are given some nice gentle massages by the chief bully, Blue, the colored heavyweight champion of the town. When they get through with the treatments, they don't know whether they are on the head or feet. Like all country towns there was a circus, and while Mert and Bud are chasing each other in and out of the tents, they accidentally chase through the lion's cage and leave the door open. The lions escape and some of them find their way into the Beauty Parlor, where several damsels are indulging in the Fountain of Youth, etc. A little colored boy, the mascot of the Parlors, tries to escape the lions and hides in a filing cabinet, but Mr. Lion manages to open the drawer. Picky escapes through the transom of the door, but not before another lion has discovered him. He is chased for miles and miles by the wicked lions. He gives them the slip and is calmly eating pumpkin pie when his Dad, Blue, arrives. All ends in a happy peaceful way; the lions fall into the tank in the beauty parlor and sink to the regions below.
- The boys are spending their vacation on the farm of their hard-hearted Uncle, who is a radio enthusiast, with a dislike for dogs and children. Naturally, their pranks irritate him, especially when listening in on his radio apparatus he hears the boys instructing Brownie to swipe some pies off the kitchen window-sill. Uncle starts out to punish the boys, but finds that it is more difficult to catch them than he expected, especially since Brownie seems to have human intelligence in preventing the grown man from getting near enough his pals to do them harm. The boys and the dog find new friends, who join in their fun, with the result that the vacation is a success after all.
- Jackie and Brownie assist in a shoe store, waiting on customers and afterwards deliver the day's sales. At a home where a wedding is in progress, the dog retrieves the groom's lost collar button and later intercepts a note he is passing to a former sweetheart. The bride gets the note and the wedding trip is off. The dog and the youngster finish the cake and good things and the next morning pay for their rich repast - in castor oil.
- As Caesar and Marc Antony in the movies, the rivals fail and after various other crimes they land in the home of their mutual sweetheart. Father appears with a gun, but they escape by borrowing the girl's clothes.
- Owata Hobo is a poor friendless tramp on the road to nowhere. In his travels he comes upon poor little orphaned Louise crying as if her heart would break. She explains that she is on her way to a farm and that she has been robbed by three bandits. Owata Hobo captures the bandits and gives Louise back her valuables. He carries her bags to the farm where she gives the farmer a letter of introduction and is immediately hired. Owata Hobo is so smitten that he works for nothing at the farm. The farmer who is a tyrant beats and mistreats poor Louise. He sends her to fetch to fetch a pail of water. While getting the water she discovers an artist painting a landscape. He asks her to pose for him which she does. In the meantime, Hobo has his troubles with the scarecrow and the farmer. Charlie brings a bouquet of flowers to Louise while she is posing. The artist takes the flowers from him, gives him 50c and tells him to beat it. The farmer discovers Louise posing and drags her back to the farmhouse. He starts to beat her when Hobo comes on the scene. He jumps on the farmer and knocks him out, grabs Louise, puts her on a buck-board and they race away. The artist has witnessed their escape, and follows in a racing car. The buck-board overturns and they are both pretty badly hurt. The artist takes the girl and rides away with her. Charlie gets up, shakes the dirt off himself and travels along his lonely way to nowhere.
- A flapper and her favored beau try to get rid of another suitor through a series of spooky sequences calculated to chill the ardor of the bold rival.
- Charley and his new bride have a house, but no food nor money. He tries to steal some milk form the neighbor's porch, but the attempt fails. Even though he does not known how to drive a car, he manages to get a chauffeur's job with Mrs. Armstrong Butt, who, known to him, is his wife's mother. This does not work out well for Charley, on the job or at home.
- Brownie proves himself the friend and ally of Bobby, several pounds lighter than his heavy opponent, Vernon, who tips the scales at 275 and who challenges him to a fight in the ring for the hand of Ena, as well as for her homestead. Brownie proves how a brindled pup may be a most unfair referee as he continually steps in to ring the bell and save his friend from being knocked out.
- Lee is the village fireman, whose checkers come before the town fire. However the man whose place is burning figures if Lee doesn't come to his fire he will take his wheeled restaurant to the fire chief. And he does. Lee's firemen are the finest the county can boast of - the two of them. When it comes to finding the hydrant they can't do it - just because some careless automobilist placed an ash can over it. The village belle is wooed by Lee and the town sheriff, but Lee seems to be holding the winning hand. He invites Bartine to have dinner with him on the back part of the engine, to which a coffee urn and a cake oven is attached. A roaring fire causes Lee and his faithful followers to go to the rescue, but an untimely explosion brings the house down - in the words of the actor - and Lee's lone rival and himself bring themselves from under the debris.
- A superstitious suitor is out-witted by his rival with the assistance of Brownie who is up to all sorts of tricks.
- Charley and his wife, a childless couple, receive word that his mother-in-law is coming for a visit. He has written her of their two children, for want of something to write about. The mother-in-law arrives, muscular and mean. She wrecks his car, orders him around without mercy and takes possession of his house. She is anxious to see the children and he is afraid to tell her the truth, so he goes out and kidnaps a pair of the neighbor's kids. The mother-in-law gets so impatient with waiting for him that the wife goes out and kidnaps a pair. While mother-in-law is making much of the children, Charles returns with his two pickups and, failing to lie out of the dilemma, orders his mother-in-law to leave the house. She bats him around at will until seen by a policeman outside. Then she forces her son-in-law to appear to be socking her and has him arrested for attacking a defenseless woman. As the cop is ringing for the wagon the beaten husband explains that the big dame is his mother-in-law and the cop, deciding that he has been punished enough, lets him go and chases the mother-in-law.
- Everybody was talking about poor Minnie because she couldn't shimmies. So poor Minnie buys a book that guarantees to teach you how to shimmy. She puts a piece of ice down her back and lo and behold she is an expert at "it". Hubby has to do all the k.p. work, mind the baby, feed the cows and chickens and everything while wifey shimmies. The yearly train arrives, bringing with it a theatrical troupe,who stop at the hotel conducted by Minnie. The vamp of the troupe, looses no time in winning the affections of "hubby", but is foiled by "Bob" the clever dog, who always has his mistress's interest at heart. He pulls Minnie by her skirts into the room where the vamp and hubby are making love. Hubby disappears under the bed but "Bob" goes after him and forces him out. "Bobby" does some clever work; he minds the baby, and is general housemaid in the hotel. He discovers hubby and the vamp making love under the table with their feet. He bites Hubby's foot. Hubby accuses his neighbor of stabbing him in the leg with a fork. An argument follows, during which "Bob" gets away with the sausages. Everybody chases "Bob", and he leads them a lively chase.
- Buster and his dog Tige go on a dangerous destructive joy ride in a toy fire truck. Later, they find themselves in danger on a high-rise construction site.
- A boarding house slavey yearningly follows a chorus troupe.
- Buddy's parents are poor, so he decides to go out and make the family fortune. He takes with him his friend Bubbles and they start out. They travel in a boxcar and when the baggage-man sees them there is a chase. From the boxcar they jump into a van and after they are chased by the van driver they jump on an automobile in which a moving picture star is driving to the studio. They get inside the studio and after the gateman finds out that the star doesn't know them, there is another chase and they are thrown out of the studio. They pose as dummies and are taken in the studio. They get into a lot of trouble as they interfere with the different directors on the sets. One of the directors is in need of a colored boy as the one he has been using can't do the work, so when he sees Bubbles he puts him to work and Bubbles does his part so well that they want to sign him up immediately. Buddy acts as his manager and at times gets temperamental as to letting Bubbles do certain things. Bubbles finally becomes a big star with Buddy as his manager and the family fortune is made.
- The picture opens with Brownie in a tuxedo, eating an elaborate meal and finishing with the proper use of his finger bowl. It is all a dream, however, as he is but the assistant to an itinerant glazier who ties a stone to Brownie's tail and has him break show windows for his master to repair. The glazier combines business with a clothes cleaner and Brownie with his mud-smeared tail, rubs up against people and brings in plenty of business.
- When the wealthy society woman has her beautiful pearls stolen she hurries to the newspaper office to have a notice of reward printed immediately. The editor offers to make the first reporter who brings in the details of the robbery and recovers the pearls, an editor, Baby Peggy, as the boss' stenographer, hears this and decides to be the one. She procures some male attire and a false mustache. Leaving the office, she sees two of the regulars just going off in a flivver. She jumps in the rear seat, unnoticed and by punching first one and then the other leads them to believe that the other is getting too fresh. They have words and finally get out to settle the matter, fistically. Our heroine seizes the opportunity and drives away in the car while the men are fighting. She arrives at the home of the society woman and questions the butler. His actions convince her that she is on the right track and after being thrown out several times she reenters in a new phonograph cabinet being delivered. While in the cabinet she gets the goods on the butler and rushes with her story and the pearls to the office where she is made editor and has them all jumping at her command.
- Old "Pop" Walker owned a farm, two babies, a wonderful dog and other interesting things. Bud the grandson, and Merta the granddaughter made things pretty lively for "Pop." Their dog "Brownie " see sawed for them all day long. When the postman came Brownie jumped off the see-saw and sent the two or them spinning through the air. "Brownie" always up to mischief, steals the food from "Pop," Bud is accused of it and is given a severe spanking. A letter arrives for "Pop" advising him that he has been made the sole proprietor of the "Lily White Cafe," owing to the death of his uncle John Barleycorn. They pack up and venture forth to take possession of the Cafe. There the girls shimmy and dance for old "Pop." He makes Bud the cook. Merta attempts to sing for the audience, but they all run out. The manager orders her under the sink with her pipes. The manager and head waiter plan to rob "Pop" of the money they have taken in. Brownie overhears the plot and steals the money from the Manager. The Manager and the head waiter go outside thinking they have the money, and throw bombs into the cafe to blow it up. Brownie runs after the bombs and puts them underneath the box on which the two thieves are sitting. The bombs explode and knock the two crooks into smithereens. Brownie brings the money to "Pop" and a happy ending follows.
- The story of a bad organ grinder, a life saver, a pretty girl and her baby sister. A dog takes an active part in the final rescue and helps save the child from the fleeing kidnapper.
- The story of a little bellhop and her adventures in a big hotel.
- Alice is the daughter of a fisherman. She gathers herring to support her family. Alice's folks are worshipers of the cuckoo clock. Even the dog bows his head in prayer when the cuckoo cuckoos. Joe, a sailor, loves Alice. He calls on her at midnight, and takes her to a cabaret. While there, a sea captain falls in love with Alice, and strange things come to pass when Alice sees the hula hula dancers. Joe takes Alice home under great difficulties Alice and Joe are happily married and are proprietors of a lunch room. Undaunted by his previously unsuccessful attempts the sea captain is still bent on possessing Alice, and lays his plans to kidnap her. Alice is kidnapped, and is placed on a sea going vessel. Just as Joe comes home. He pursues the yacht with his billowy sail boat. Just as he is about to catch the vessel he is lassoed and left mercilessly to drown. Instead, Joe pulls himself up on the rope and outs his way in through the boat. Meanwhile, Alice is having her troubles trying to keep the captain out of her stateroom. Joe rescues Alice, and there follows a lively boat chase with marines, patrol boats, etc. Alice and Joe manage to destroy the lighthouse in which the captain and his crew sought to shelter themselves. A novel ending follows.
- A street urchin is trying to survive on her own, getting into mischief along the way.
- Little Jack is sent to the market by his mother to sell the old cow and while there turns it over to an unscrupulous person for a bag of beans. When Little Jack arrives home the mother, upon seeing what Jack has received for the old family cow, throws the beans into the back yard. The next morning a big tree, reaching into the skies, has grown where the beans were thrown. Little Jack climbs this tree and reaches the kingdom of the terrible giant. After a series of very dangerous adventures, Little Jack kills the giant.
- A spoof of Bizet's Carmen. Somewhere in Spain, a young girl gets the better of the neighborhood boys, then, dressed as a fashionable senorita, visits a club where a boy is demonstrating a tango. She joins him to the enjoyment of the spectators. In act 2, she's dressed as a matador and presents herself at the arena to General della Bambinodi Carradavadoves, a man who knows bulls. She fights one and finds that her sword isn't strong enough to stab him. In the excitement, the General falls from the stands, and he and the child must face the brute. Is there an escape?
- A dentist proceeds to get patients for his girl's father by causing people to fall using banana skins.
- Buddy, a homeless orphan, is the life of the old orphanage where Sadie and Ella are both in love with him. Ella tries her best to take Buddy away from Sadie. The time comes when Buddy leaves the orphanage and the two brokenhearted girls are left behind. While Buddy is making his way through life as a very fine caddy on the neighboring golf links, Ella and Sadie are adopted by respectable families. It is while Buddy is in the act of stealing a pie that he again meets Ella, but fate is kind to him and he once more finds Sadie, who wins over her foster-mother to adopt Buddy also.
- Buster throws baseballs at Tige who sticks his head through a hole in a sheet and dodges. The butler investigating, chases Tige and puts his head through the hole to find out what is wrong. He finds out. Buster and Tige flee from the angry butler, Buster taking refuge in a trunk. Mrs. Jane calls, bringing Mary and her baby brother, who drills through the trunk with a brace and bit which gets hold of Buster's pants and tears them off. The children are left in the house to play while Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Jane go out. Buster and Mary play bake shop, mixing a sack of flour into dough and adding much yeast, while the baby is placed in the cupboard where he locates and demolishes quantities of jam. The dough rises high and explodes in the dog's face. Tige afterward treads in the mass and then runs around the house trying to get rid of the big chunks of dough that cling to his feet. Darkness comes on and the kids are paralyzed with the fear of ghosts. The parrot gets caught in a sheet and flies through the air trailing the sheet. Fleeing from the "ghost" the kids run into everything in the place, tipping over and breaking the furniture until the family returns and finds them among the wreckage.
- Peggy runs her father's cafeteria in addition to helping her father with his dental parlor next door.
- Dick starts a rather violent flirtation with Molly in cave-mannish fashion by picking her up by means of his telescoping rumble seat on his roadster and dates her up. He, being the chauffeur, ought to know better, but he makes the mistake of his life by using his device on his own boss, and she fires him and Pal, his mate. Pal evades the dogcatcher by several artful ruses. Dick has trouble getting Molly on the phone to break his engagement, and gets ensnared in a spring, but eventually, assisted by Pal, rescues her from drowning. He and Pal go to a studio and cause havoc by breaking into scenes during the shooting of films, but eventually they land jobs with the producing company.
- Lee plays the part of a gentleman, but the bottle on his hip attracts a crowd. With the aid of a rubber tube they manage to siphon off a good part of the liquid which they discover in the end to be brass polish. Lee then removes his high hat and puts on his chauffeur's cap and polishes the car. He then drives his girl to a party where the star attraction is a prize fight. The champion, however, has one weakness. He is unable to retain his emotions when he hears "Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight" played on the violin. When the girls rave about the champion Lee decides to put up a fight. The bell saves him several times and the rubber ropes manage to keep him in the ring. Just as he is about all in the violin plays the song and the champion is knocked out.
- A lady and her husband are employed by a theatrical agent, when the lady falls heir to the estate of a circus owner. The estate proves to be a troupe of lions, who create considerable trouble from the moment they arrive in the house.