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- Phil, as a chap who has imbibed too freely and starts out to visit a friend in a bungalow, supplies all of the comedy. He has all sorts of trouble getting into the house, finally mounting a bus and entering the second story. He is scared by animal skins, skids on the slippery floor and mixes things up generally, in the end he gets on a bus that runs away.
- Cliff vies for Virginia's affections with Eddie, but ultimately she chooses Cliff to be her groom. The newlyweds move in to their new home, but the spurned rival makes a shambles out of the house in retaliation.
- Jimmie has a toothache and no matter what he does he can get the tooth pulled. His sweetheart won't marry him until the deed is done.
- A burlesque on love in the stone age.
- Cliff and Virginia board the train for a vacation at Malaria Lake. Their baggage, including one dog, generally interferes with the Pullman car passengers and they are thrown off the train
- Cliff sees another man kissing his wife, Virginia, and joins the navy. Of course he finds out the other fellow was his wife's brother and he tries to "resign" from the navy but is arrested and taken aboard ship. Wifie, to be near him, disguises as a sailor and come aboard.
- Newlyweds are visited by the wife's relatives who treat the husband with scant respect and make themselves thoroughly at home.
- Cliff and Virginia are the proud parents of a belligerent youngster who, with the neighbor's kid, succeeds in making a mess of himself and everything about the house.
- To escape "porch shieks" Auntie takes her niece Helen on an ocean voyage. They are followed by Herbert and the romance proceeds.
- Cliff and Virginia are sweethearts about to undergo the perils of matrimony, though a loud-snoring father doesn't approve and a mischievous brother makes life miserable for all about him.
- A man takes a trip to a seashore resort with his girl and her fat father, who falls in the water.
- Penniless and without a job, Mortimer has just been evicted from his apartment. When the disorganized Matthew is late again for work, he is fired, and Mortimer gets a chance to take Matthew's place as a truck driver. The optimistic Matthew continues to flirt with his ex-boss's daughter, and he feigns an injury so that he can be near her. Little does he realize that the inexperienced Mortimer is about to affect his life again, in a most unexpected way.
- A burlesque on some of the cheaper cafeterias is attempted in this film with much hilarity.
- There is a domestic squabble between two families living in the same house. The wives have a disagreement and the husbands take it up, finally coming to blows. In the midst of the fight they are flabbergasted to find that the wives are again the best of friends.
- Cliff appears as a chap who is continually getting in trouble and his father hires a fellow to look out for him. In this role, Phil has an encounter with thugs and fares badly. To retrieve his standing he goes into a prize fight, thinking his opponent is a little fellow. He proves to be a big bruiser and Phil is up against it.
- A thoroughly up-to-the-minute prison, operated by electricity, and various humorous attempts of inmates to escape are shown.
- A young lover tries to take his girl and her whole family out in a Ford sedan but it falls to pieces under the strain. A hired car is smashed by a train. A taxi stops on a wharf and father falls into the water. After he is rescued, the party goes off in a motorboat without the youth, who remains to pay the taxi driver.
- A young man wins a flivver for guessing correctly in a bean counting contest.
- Jimmie is broke and in error gets mixed up with a gang and lands in jail.
- A couple of lovers try to escape the wrath of an irate father by means of a taxicab.
- Two married couples attempt to obtain possession of a furnished house that has been willed to the one who first occupies it. In the end, after wrecking the house, they discover that they are in the wrong place.
- An employee is harassed by his co-workers and they even try to steal the company's money, leading to very funny scenes.
- Showing the frantic attempts of a commuter to reach his office on time, only to be continually blocked by heavy traffic and fast-moving autos.
- This film takes place on a steamer and shows the efforts of an irate father to remove his daughter from the attention of an ardent suitor and the equally persistent attempts of the latter to defeat father's plans.
- The familiar topic of a pipe bursting in a bathroom, the plumber making matters worse, and the guests being deluged below.
- A man who is smitten with a pretty nurse and tries all sorts of stunts to become a patient in the hospital, finally succeeds, escapes when he is to be operated upon and, as he is rejoicing, is knocked down and really injured by an auto.
- A hotel's press agent draws the crowds and ruins the hotel with a story about it containing a lost treasure.
- Cliff decides the best thing for his bride to do following the ceremony is to go back to work in order that his taxi bills may be paid. Eventually both wind up at the same party, where Cliff is in arrears for a taxi bill. The driver descends upon the party with his gang and there is a general melee which results in the wrecking of the ball room and most of the occupants thereof.
- A father wants his daughter to marry a scheming Count, but is unaware she has just become engaged to her sweetheart. The sweetheart blowing up Father's car does not help his case.
- An old curiosity shop never did a bit of business until a young man, who has been bequeathed a jardinière by his grandmother, falls in love with the proprietor's daughter and takes upon himself the job of selling out the store. He circulates the report that a treasure is located in the article listed as Number Five. The hat-full of money which the proprietor takes in is burned by a cigarette and when a clerk breaks the jardiniere, which he has received in lieu of wages, it is found to contain a fortune.
- Cliff is a border who cannot pay his room rent. He writes a postal card to himself saying that his uncle has died and left him some money. Thereupon the landlady regrets her harshness and loans him some cash.
- Cliff is a rather thick-headed chap who loves to sleep late and who is in love with Virginia, whose father does not like Cliff.
- The opening scene is the fitting room of Pierre's modiste shop where "gowns make blind men discontented," then the action switches abruptly to "Suicide Alley, so hard-boiled the chickens lay cobblestones." Here Spike Dugan and Cabbagehead Murphy engage in a battle with bricks. Next the hero impersonates a dummy and is lugged around the shop. The fun is certainly of the burlesque sort, with many tumbles and other mishaps.
- A chap is raised by his mother to be a regular sissy, much to the disgust of his father, who is a he-man and the descendant of a long line of "strong-men." Mother comes near spoiling his elopement by making him put on a tiger skin and join with a bunch of girls in nature dances, and the cop finishes the job when he mistakes him for a tramp with whom he has changed clothes.
- How a pouring rain, coupled with the unkindness of his fellow citizens and several unfortunate circumstances, almost succeeded in keeping a chap from meeting his fiancé on their wedding day, furnishes the idea back of this Cameo comedy, featuring Cliff Bowes and Virginia Vance. Cliff starts out several times, but each time gets drenched and has to change his clothes. Then he tries in many ways to enter a bus and always gets the worst of it. Finally he succeeds in reaching the girl by being dumped in the mud at her feet.
- Eddie is the head of a family who claims eight dependents, a wife and seven children when reporting his income tax. In papa's enthusiasm about purchasing an automobile, he forces sixty dollars on a mechanic engaged in "fixing" one, whom papa mistakes for the owner. Before the dumbfounded "fixer" can protest or explain, papa drives the flivver through somebody's back yard, en route for his home. The children are delighted and while their mother prepares for the first country drive, they nearly wreck the "lizzie." Finally, all are safely in and a drive in the country begins. So does the trouble. Meantime, a tribe of policemen pursue what they believe to be a thief. Their pursuit is interrupted repeatedly by laughable and gymnastic accidents. Eventually, papa comes to a closed bridge, decides to drive through the stream, but the bottom is quicksand. It is then a case of "women and children first" and with no help available, the family sees the newly acquired luxury sink out of sight. Every cloud has its silver lining, so when the police arrive, there being no evidence against the fugitive, he is allowed to go in peace, walking the family home - with mother.
- A not over-wealthy young man takes his best girl for a little supper at an ultra-expensive café.
- There is a terrible rain storm with the roof leaking, a trick flivver, the girl who has to be married by a certain hour and her fiance who is quarantined and has difficulties in getting to her in time. Of course, everything comes out O. K., but in the mean-time the hero has all sorts of exciting experiences.
- Disabled automobiles is the subject of this story which opens in an auto dump, over which presides a salesman who "could talk a glass eye to sleep."
- A house-to-house salesman plants mice in residences and then sells the housewife his patent self-filling mouse trap.
- A travesty on the collapsible California bungalow and its leading tenant, the Iowan. The newcomers are ushered into what apparently is an empty apartment. The closing of the door, however, automatically releases beds, tables and other appurtenances necessary to the furnishing of the rooms. A party is given and the guests are knocked about by the rapidly moving furniture each time the door is opened or closed.
- The two sisters who run the boarding house are both in love with Jimmie, the star boarder, but he favors Virginia. The other sister seeks to win him with tough round steak and endearments, but to no avail. The villain then approaches and in usual bewhiskered style makes off with her life savings of $37. Jimmie catches him, and as a reward she gives the young couple her savings and goes to live with them.
- A runaway child wanders into the home of a young man engaged in trying to interest a girl in becoming his wife. The girl mistakes the child's identity. All ends well, but novel situations are introduced, illustrating "dog sense" to an almost unbelievable degree.
- Geoffrey, in his efforts to pursue his suit with Hazel in the silk department, becomes the victim of the masses in one elevator after another, being pushed, mauled, jammed and trampled on by the crowds.
- Abner has just returned from the city where he has been unsuccessful in his attempt to become a grand opera singer. Abner's resumption of the farm chores is marked by a series of mishaps. However, Abner is still strong with farmer Green's daughter, and while the city has ruined his operatic ambitions it hasn't spoiled his dancing a bit. Consequently at the annual barn-dance Abner officiates as the "town pride." Of course, when the pigs invade the barn at the height of the festivities and the hens come home to roost there is considerable rough-and-tumble among the dancers. Eggs dislodged from their positions in the loft come tumbling down and add to the discomfiture of those below. Meanwhile, the village Sheik and Abner have been engaging in a little horseplay on the crowded dancing floor. The end comes when Abner in retaliation pushes the village "terror" against the main prop of the hayloft. The support giving away precipitates the loft full of hay down on the heads of the fleeing dancers. Abner and his girl are left in sole possession.
- A girl's suitor attempts to prove that the "Count," who is his rival, is in reality a crook.
- Cliff is the jockey who rides "Tail Light" to victory in the racing classic, "the Brown Derby." At the beginning of the race a pin cushion belonging to an old lady among the spectators becomes lodged on "Tail Light's" saddle, and its presence there throughout the race produces some amusing results of the slapstick variety.