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- A couple and their young son move into a fixer-upper - which they try to fix up with mostly disastrous results.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two aspiring marksmen take lesson in a shooting gallery with make-believe marshes as the background. Their ability stays at zero while they manager to demolish the shooting gallery. What they have left standing is undone by the man in the studio below them who is trying to attach a gas-light fixture to the ceiling.
- A boy is sent to his society aunt, where his pals join him and make a mess of the place.
- The Duff family shares a duplex bungalow with a police sergeant and his wife. While the Duffs endure a series of trials in making a home and finding ways to relax, the policeman is worried about tracking down Gypsy Joe and his gang. Soon, everyone involved meets up under unlikely and hazardous circumstances.
- Garrett and Ryan are on an adventure to see stars in America but they find a gay bar that slows their journey
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- Business partners each take their partner's wives out for lunch. What could possibly go wrong?
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- A rich father wants to marry his daughter to a fortune-hunting scoundrel. Lena and Al have other ideas.
- 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.
- Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. They start for the place but encounter some rough roads and have to camp for the night. A black bear wanders near their camp and Lou shoots and wounds a black man by mistake, and they make him part of their traveling party. But their cousin, Anita, wants the property for herself and, with several hired-henchmen, sends weird-form after weird-form through the house after the boys arrive. They attempt to escape by diving into a swimming pool which turns out to be a signboard.
- Frances Campbell is a poor girl scrubbing the floors of an office building for a living. Her little brother and her dog help her with her work. She is fired from her job in the office building when she mops the owner's face instead of his floors. Just as she is leaving the building she is stopped by a lawyer and presented with a letter from an uncle in Scotland whom she has never seen and who has never seen her. The letter states that if Francis Campbell is a boy, he will make him his heir. Frances starts for Scotland and arrives at the castle of her uncle, clad in a funny pair of kilts and wearing a mustache in order to make her uncle believe that she is a boy. The uncle receives her with open arms, but Glen, a nephew, is not so well pleased. He knows he will lose the fortune if this newcomer stays. He plots with the butler to scare her from the house. That night all kinds of strange noises are heard. Frances leaves her room and is soon seized by a pair of bony hands and almost frightened out of her kilts. Weird shapes float through the halls, frightening everybody almost to death. Frances, her brother and her dog flee from room to room, but the ghostly figures still pursue her. Her uncle and his secretary hear the noise and come to see what it is all about. Glen and his henchmen try to frighten them also and they are almost paralyzed from fear. When Glen sees that he cannot frighten Francis and her brother from the house, he tries to drown them out with a hose. But Frances turns the trick on them, and they are washed out of the house. Her uncle congratulates her and when he finds that she is a girl, he forgives her and makes her his heiress.
- It is Dorothy's wedding day and the bride, the groom and all the wedding guests are gathered in the church. Earl is lucky man and he has most unwisely chosen for his best man, Glen, his defeated rival in love. There is a hint of trouble during the ceremony, and it appears with a gusto when the couple leaves the church. Glen has employed a strong man to hurl rice at the pair, the rice being in the form of pudding still in the pan. The couple get into a car to drive away. Glen has tied it to a truck and when they start, their auto is pulled to pieces. They finally get started in another car. Earl is so occupied with his newly acquired wife that he fails to see where he is going and runs into a police station where he is fined every cent in his pockets. On foot, they start for their new home. Before they get there, Dorothy's gown is ruined. Arriving at last, they find a telegram waiting for them. It is from the Earl's rich uncle informing him that he is on his way to visit him, and that if he finds him still single he will settle his fortune on the young man. Naturally, Earle is upset having just become a husband. And to make matters worse, the door bell rings soon after they get home, and they look out and find uncle waiting for them to open the door. Dorothy slips into the clothes of a little girl, pretending to be the neighbor's child. She impersonates the child all too well and has the uncle half crazy with her pranks before he is thoroughly convinced that she is just a child. But Glen, the disgruntled lover, appears on the scene and Dorothy is nearly exposed. She uses her wits, and gets even with him until her wig comes off. When the uncle sees how he has been deceived he is furious. But finally he sees the humor of the situation and forgives the newlyweds and promises Earl his share of his fortune.
- Lige is assistant lighthouse keeper, under Phil, the grouchy head keeper. Lige's life is miserable, but he has many dreams, not the least of which is that of himself as the gallant captain of a noble ship with hundreds of women as his admirers. On board a passing ship is Estelle, the Princess of Blahstark, who is endeavoring to escape from conspirators who are trying to abduct her and marry her to the pretender to the throne. The Princess overhears their plot and tries to escape by changing clothes with the Chinese steward of the ship. Then Otto, the pretender, forces his attention on the princess and soon discovers that the princess's clothes are on the Chinese steward. The real princess gets in his way and in his rage he throws her overboard, thinking she is a steward. Estelle swims to the lighthouse and is pulled from the water by Lige, who soon discovers that she is a girl. On board the ship, Otto, through his glasses, sees the rescue and tries again to abduct her. He lands at the lighthouse and Lige and Estelle again escape aboard the ship with Otto in close pursuit. Otto chases Lige into the hold where he hides in a sack. The sack is hoisted to the masthead and when Lige takes off the bag he finds himself on the spar. He gets down all right and lands in Estelle's cabin. The ship runs into a terrible storm at sea. In the midst of it, Lige sends for the captain to marry them, but the seas are so high and the ship rolls so that it is impossible to stand. Lige fixes that by pivoting the settee to the all, and while the ship turns hand-springs over and over, he and Estelle are married by the captain.
- A foreigner with a tenuous grasp of English rides his burro into town just as cattle rustlers are planning to make off with the herd. The stranger helps Al capture the rustlers and rescue a damsel in distress.
- Phil, an American, is in France. and all the Frenchmen are out to see that he is well received. He finally gets a taxicab driver to drive him to a quiet inn. The driver does not get the description of the inn quite correct, for he lands him in the toughest place in the village. "Pierre the Punk" made this inn his headquarters. He has just threatened to marry beautiful Estelle whether father likes it or not. Phil becomes unpopular soon after he arrives at the inn by bumping into Pierre. Pierre starts after him. He manages to hide for a few minutes, but is discovered and chased into the cellar. Here, by a piece of good luck, he defeats the tough man in a rough-and-tumble battle. Phil retires to the upper floor to make love to Estelle. But Pierre recovers quickly and thrusts him away from the girl. In the subsequent chase and battle, Phil wins after a terrific fight. He thinks he has dropped Pierre into a deep water well and is making love again to Estelle when the Frenchman climbs out. Phil disappears down the well with Pierre as the picture ends.
- 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.
- Big Boy's mother takes in washing to make ends meet. An irate customer demands money for damaged clothing, but Mother has no money to give her. Big Boy decides to sell his beloved dog and sets out to find someone to buy him. A few different slapstick adventures follow, culminating in Big Boy and Mutt making a mess of a rich family's home. In the scuffle the boy and the dog are separated, and Big Boy returns home in tears. His mother consoles him, and the door swings open, revealing Mutt.
- "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.
- 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 gang of youngsters proceed to tear up the neighborhood with their mischief.
- Al is a clerk in Zelma's father's grocery store. He thinks she is the gnat's nightie, but he is backward, bashful, he hasn't the nerve of a crippled jackrabbit when it comes to whispering sweet nothings to Zelma. Otto is the village sheik-the best dressed man in town. He makes all the female hearts play a tattoo whenever he airs his mail order suit on the street. Zelma rather fancies the well dressed man-about-town and cheats a bit on Al, for Otto takes her out for a boat ride. Al is much dismayed by the fact that his only sweetie has fallen for the heart-breaker and is bemoaning his lack of courage when Phil, the great hypnotist of the Kerosene circuit, tells him he can fix his weak nerves by hypnotism. With a few mystic passes he imbues Al with more nerve than a sick tooth. Our hero is impressed with the demonstration and borrows a book on the magic art. While delivering his groceries, so interested does he become in the study that he walks over the handrail of a bridge~and when he discovers where he is, falls off and lands in the boat which contains Otto and Zelma. Otto, is ore. AI runs home to get more of the great hypnotic power and when Otto reaches there, he gives him an artistic trimming. Otto, for revenge, plots with Phil to rob the safe in the store. Zelma sees them on the job and tries to get Al to chase them away, but his courage has again deserted him. Zelma snatches the book on hypnotism and success fully hypnotizes Al, and he again has all the world's loose courage. Al pursues the villain. They take to airplanes but Al goes after them. There is a big fight with Al and the two bad men chasing each other from plane to plane until in a grand finish Al's plane takes fire and he jumps. Zelma rescues him with a parachute and while the bad men get their just desert, Al and Zelma come to a well earned clinch.
- A married couple with a toddler bicker about waking up in the morning and who will make breakfast.