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- A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her.
- 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.
- A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
- A young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.
- Two schoolmates, a boy and a girl, experience a variety of adventures with a dog, a horse, a monkey, and various other animals.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
- A man buys his first car and celebrates by taking his family and the neighbors to the country for a camping trip. In hindsight, this was a terrible idea.
- A gang of youngsters proceed to tear up the neighborhood with their mischief.
- The burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is suffering. He hangs out a "man wanted" sign and awaits results. A knock comes on the door and in walks an old lady. With her is her son Lloyd, who applies for the job as soda-jerker. He is accepted, dons his apron and starts mixing the drinks. As a soda-counter man, Lloyd is a total loss with no insurance. He tries to copy the artful style of his fellow workers at the fountain but only succeeds in spilling the drinks all over the place. He has little better luck serving the food orders. A patron orders a stuffed tomato and Lloyd, watching his co-worker tries it himself. He stuffs it with everything behind the counter until it is stretched all out of shape. When the customer sticks it with his fork, it explodes in his face. For this Lloyd is taken from behind the counter and set to work in the gymnasium as an instructor. He tries to teach the class a lesson in Indian.club work but makes a mistake with his orders and the entire class is knocked out. When he tries to show them how to perform on the flying rings, he puts them all into a state of horror by his healthy swings which carry him out of the window high over the city below. The proprietor comes in just in time to see Lloyd do something more foolish than ordinary. He gets sore and tells Lloyd that he is going to give him boxing lessons. On the floor above a lady is taking exercise and jumps up and down. Her weight dislodges one of the globes on the light in the ceiling below, just above the head of the gymnasium proprietor. Just as Lloyd swings, the globe hits the proprietor on the head, knocking him out on his feet. Other globes fall until the burly instructor is completely out, and Lloyd is hailed as the gym champion.
- 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.
- Mona Lisa loves Piero, who is badly in debt. A wealthy man assists him and threatens to withhold his money if Piero does not marry his daughter. Piero marries the latter, telling Mona his marriage will not interfere with their love. Seven years pass - Mona is married to a man much older than she. She discusses her love and marriage with her cousin, and claims that married love can not endure unless it is founded on respect, and the cousin doubts if marriage can be successful if founded only on respect. Piero calls and says he has always regretted, and she claims she has never ceased to regret. They plan to elope. The cousin overhears the conversation and runs to tell Piero's wife. At midnight, Piero enters and finds a muffled figure awaiting him. As he is about to leave with this woman, he is confronted by his wife. He explains he loves Mona, and tears off the cloak. It is not Mona Lisa but her cousin. In the corner they see Mona. She asks Piero if he thinks she planned this for revenge or that her cousin tried to save her from herself. She tells him he will always wonder. When her husband returns with Da Vinci, they find Mona Lisa seated with an enigmatic expression on her face. Da Vinci decides to sketch her portrait saying that generations will wonder what that smile means.
- 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.
- The wife and doctor of a hypochondriac come up with a creative way to cure him of his malady.
- 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.
- Jack takes the overgrown juvenile "Big Boy" with him when he goes to play with the other kids, and tries to get rid of the bumble-prone "Big Boy." However, the latter keeps turning up like a bad penny. At the "Beezer Club," "Big Boy" is too large to get inside the door. A storm comes up and the club-members are trying to get the roof papered before it hits, but a herd of goats eats it as fast as they put it on. Later, "Big Boy" breaks a store window and has to leaves his dog as payment.
- A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
- Bobby's marriage to his employer's pretty daughter depends on the successful demonstration of his ability to handle plumbing, which he knows nothing about.
- A surprise engagement party is an additional surprise when the bride-to-be brings home her leading man. This comedy of errors leads to a pie fight on the set.
- In 1830, a train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for most of them, but the real challenges come when the train is ambushed by Indians.
- "Old-fashioned rancher father Pop Martin wants his wayward daughter Marje to marry foreman Jim Brady just as soon as she leaves the finishing school he has sent her to make her behave herself. Marje prefers dashing young cattle inspector Frank Thornby and runs away from school. Jim finds Marje and brings her home. Pop is waiting for his disobedient daughter. Marje has a lot of explaining to do, and a lot of cajoling if she's to marry Frank instead of Jim. A slapstick battle of wills follows between Pop and Marje."
- Although his parents have warned him to stay away from the movies, our hero winds up acting in a costume picture, doubling for comedian Lloyd Hamilton.
- A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
- Felix goes to a fortune teller and then an astrologer to learn his future.
- Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
- Two Scotland Yard detectives travel to New York to investigate the "Fuzz-Faced Phantom": a strange entity who seemingly has the power to cause bizarre, surreal incidents.
- Glenn (Glenn Tryon), is trying to get into a secret fraternity in order to impress his girlfriend, Fanny (Helen Mann). But his rival is the president of the fraternity and has some very special plans for Glenn. The latter soon finds himself crooning a love song to two tough policeman. and being instructed to convince his blond sweet patootie, Fanny, that he prefers a brunette sweet patootie.
- A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny stories? And who is in the tower?
- A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.
- "Ham", an effeminate man-child who skips around chasing butterflies with a net, is forced to go on a camping trip to "make a man out of him".
- Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
- The children of the orphanage are elated over the outing, given to them by Mrs. Bullock, a rich lady charitably inclined. She doesn't know what she's undertaken, though, when she volunteers to be chaperone and guide to the youngsters on their sea trip. She loads them all in her auto, and when she comes to count noses she finds that the party has been swelled by the addition of several miscellaneous animals, pets of the children. She orders them all left behind. But "Pal" decides that he wants an excursion, too. At the dock the kids get into mischief. Pal shows up on the dock and he is thrown off, chased off and locked off the boat, but that does not discourage him. Before the boat sails he climbs the hawser and makes his appearance when the ship puts to sea. The life on the bounding main seem to incite the kids to more mischief, and things are going merrily when a wild flying fish comes aboard and forms an attachment for "Ginger." The rest of the gang go to the rescue with fire-axes and water pails. When the flying fish is finally chased back to the waves the cabins of the ship look like they had been visited by the big wind of 1889. To keep the kids quiet a, traveling man kindly offers them the contents of his sample cases to play with. It is a good thought--except that the cases are full of fireworks and the kids think it is Fourth of July. Rockets ricochet through the cabins. Roman candles roam through the portholes; pinwheels puff and firecrackers crack, until the Captain takes a hand and puts the entire gang to work cleaning the decks. It's been a great day for the orphans, but a greater one for Mrs. Bullock and the ship's crew.
- Bing Crosby meets one of his fans, who won't believe it's him.
- A married couple with a toddler bicker about waking up in the morning and who will make breakfast.
- Felix, bawled out by his wife and told to get some money creates ingenious methods for bringing money home.
- The ape girl quite a looker goes dancing and tree-swinging through the jungle. She encounters Farmer Al Falfa and his sidekick and conquers him, turning him into her husband.
- A taxi dancer on a beach vacation pretending to be from high society meets a wealthy bachelor, unaware that her jealous fiance has followed her.
- A Terrytoons animated short. A grandfather (dog) tries to rock the three boys (pups) to sleep and shared a story of his days as a fisherman.
- 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.
- The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.
- Stage star Carter DeHaven seemingly transforms himself into a series of silent-era screen stars including Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Roscoe Arbuckle, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, and Jackie Coogan.
- The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.