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- StarsWallace BeeryGertrude ForbesRobert BolderMrs. Strong, by reason of a good right arm, is absolute manager of her husband and his finances. While on a shopping expedition she collides with a passerby, spilling the contents of her purse. After they are restored to her, she misses her husband's pocketbook, and thinking the gentleman who bumped into her took it, she gives chase and succeeds in taking a pocketbook away from him. She relates the incident to her husband. He discovers his purse on the dresser. The restoration of the pocketbook to its rightful owner is very amusing.
- StarsCharles J. StineRuth HennessyWallace BeeryMr. Dippy and his daughter Ruth are both very fond of the water and spend a good deal of time at the beach. Ruth meets and falls in love with the handsome lifesaver, and he falls an easy victim of her charms. Father Dippy also succumbs to cupid's arrow and becomes madly infatuated with Miss Fascination. When father sees Ruth and the life-saver together he flies into a rage and takes her home. A day or two later Mr. Dippy and Ruth are again at the beach. Mr. Dippy sees Miss Fascination and she takes him canoeing. The canoe is overturned and Mr. Dippy, who is unable to swim, calls for help. Mr. Life Guard and Ruth go to his assistance. The novel way in which the pair force him to consent to their marriage is extremely funny.
- StarsWallace BeeryCharles J. StineGertrude ForbesMr. Phil Culture provokes his friends by boasting of his remarkable strength and physical perfection. In order to get even, four of his friends decide to play a joke on him. One at a time they meet him and each man tells Mr. Culture that he looks ill. By the time the fourth man greets him with the same information, he is so worked up that he is really beginning to feel ill, and presently has to be assisted to his home, where he is put to bed and the doctor called. His friends waylay the doctor and let him in on the job. Mr. Phil Culture "comes to," however, when he overhears his friends talking and laughing about him. His strength returns, and getting out of bed, "cleans up" the bunch.
- StarsMinor WatsonDolores CassinelliWallace BeeryJack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the street, he is overjoyed to find his friend is acquainted with her, but furious at Tom's failure to introduce him. Knowing that Edith's family are in need of a butler, Tom proposes to Jack that he apply for the job, just for a lark. Jack does, and just to see him "buttle" is a picnic. He gets in wrong with everybody but Edith's father, who discovers that "Wilson," their former butler, is young Mr. Fuller, one of the richest bachelors in town. Edith and Jack run to each other's arms.
- StarsBilly MasonDolores CassinelliWallace BeeryRay and Roy Cheep are both in love with the charming manicurist, but each is unaware of his brother's "affairs." The lady, however, encourages both of them. The two boys are hard up, but live in hopes of their rich uncle loosening up with a substantial allowance. Finally the uncle tells them that he will give $1,000 to the one who marries first. They each go off for a license and a minister, but when they arrive at Miss Charmer's house they find her about to go out with uncle. The next day then each receive a check for $1,000, which helps to console them for the loss of the charming lady.
- StarsRobert BolderDolores CassinelliBilly MasonDad answers the advertisement of a rich young widow who wishes to marry, but when she calls on him he does not like her appearance and pretends insanity in order to get rid of her. He's taken to a sanitarium. The widow, however, was only "made up" to look old and homely, and when she removes her disguise, the son immediately falls in love. He calls a minister and they are about to be married when dad, who has escaped from the sanitarium, comes in bringing with him a newspaper man. The widow and reporter recognize in each other a childhood sweetheart, and leaving the dumbfounded father and son, take the minister and go off to be married.
- StarsMinor WatsonRuth HennessyGertrude ForbesVivian breaks her engagement to Frank when she hears he has lost all his money. Frank is forced to look for a job and has a mighty hard time of it. He meets his iceman, Bill, who tells him he can get a job with him. At a picnic Frank meets Bill's sister, Betty, with whom he falls in love, and eventually marries, when by a turn of the market his wealth is restored to him. When Vivian and her mother learn of Frank's good fortune they call on him, but great is their consternation and disappointment when Frank introduces them to his bride.
- StarsCharles J. StineDolores CassinelliWallace BeeryTom Brown cannot persuade his wife to go calling with him. Mr. Jones, an intimate friend, is disappointed at not finding Brown home, and invites the latter's wife to take a sail with him. She accepts his kind invitation. Brown has an enjoyable afternoon, and just as he is about to return home meets Mrs. Jones, who has missed the last boat to the resort hotel. He obligingly consents to take her home. Can you imagine the discomfort of all parties mentioned when a terrible rainstorm comes up, and they are forced to land on an island?
- StarsBilly MasonRuth HennessyWallace BeeryBilly is in love with the dentist's pretty little assistant, but is greatly distressed his uncle, on whom he depends for a generous allowance, absolutely refuses to allow him to marry. Uncle develops a bad toothache, and while at the dentist's falls desperately in love with Ruth and decides to marry her. He tells Billy that he no longer objects and he may marry whom he wishes, and he will do the same. Billy rushes joyously to Ruth and they arrange to marry that afternoon. On the way out they meet uncle and when he learns that they are on their way to be married he is furious and threatens to disown Billy and cut him off without a cent. This threat immediately puts an end to their marriage intentions, and Ruth dejectedly goes back to the office, where she finds the dentist overjoyed at her return.
- StarsWallace BeeryBilly MasonAnnie EdneyProfessor Smithy, a physical culture expert, and his assistant, Swifty Sam, prepare to give a blowout for some chorus girls of the Gaiety Theater. The professor's wife being away, gives them an opportunity for having a grand old time. The girls, however, refuse to go to the Smithy home unless some female member of the family be present as chaperone. Smithy bribes the butler to wear his wife's clothes, and they make him up as a grandmother. The party is in the height of its sereneness, when wifey returns unexpectedly, demands that the butler return her clothes, dons them, and enters the gymnasium, where the party is indulging in a hilarious repast. Smithy recognizes his wife immediately and makes a break for the door, but she gets him, and gently but firmly thrusts him into the bathtub filled with cold water. The whole affair being cold, the guests leave in an unexpected manner.
- StarsBilly MasonRuth HennessyCharles J. StineJoe Cutup, a stenographer, working for O.U. Grouch, flirts with Bess Busybody, a typist across the court. Joe places a card in the window with his telephone number on it, requesting her to call. She calls him, but is cut very short when it happens to be Grouch that answers the phone. The janitress, a messenger boy and others, seeing the card fall easy victims, and call the number, and each time Grouch answers the phone, becoming more furious every time it rings. At last he calls the telephone manager and secures the phone number that had caused him so much trouble. He gives the party on the other end of the wire particular trouble. One word leads to another and the two men arrange to fight it out on the roof. O.U. Grouch and I.R. Stem, Miss Busybody's employer, are settling their difficulties, while the two stenographers sit in the office window and watch them. They both lose their positions. Many comical situations are brought about, while the two are looking for employment.
- StarsWallace BeeryBilly MasonLeo WhiteMiss Muchmoney and no face, has a strenuous morning with the ice man, milk man and grocery man. She cannot understand why they are not captivated by her charming face or the fact that she is the possessor of $100,000. Applicant number one from a matrimonial bureau calls, but leaves rather hurriedly when in the course of the visit he discovers that her hair is false. Upon the arrival of applicant number two, she locks the door, but when she sings to him, her voice is so terrible he exits through the window. Is Miss Muchmoney disheartened by her failure to win a husband? By no means. She inserts an "ad" in the newspaper, stating that she will give $5,000 to the man who will marry her before twelve o'clock that day. Laborers, coal men, milk men, porters and tramps swarm in upon her on all kinds of conveyances. She picks out Johnny Fresh, a cute young thing, and marries him, much to the disgust of the others. But when she raises her veil, Johnny makes a bolt for the door, with his bride in hot pursuit. Into the lake Johnny goes, but Mrs. Fresh will not be cheated out of her long-sought-for husband. So she goes after him and "sweet love" is rescued to be preserved and cherished by his bride.
- StarsWallace Beery
- StarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneLeo WhiteJim Foley is a splendid fellow, but his huge feet, which are almost as large as his heart, are continually getting him into trouble. Jim takes his best girl, Beverly, to a dance and waltzes all over her new gown, tearing it in several different places. Beverly tells him she has had enough of him. Bob White, Jim's rival, sees a chance to win the girl's heart and asks her to accompany him to the matinee. Beverly accepts. Incriminating notes, embarrassing predicaments and clever situations keep the comedy in this story hot from beginning to end.
- DirectorE.H. CalvertStarsFrancis X. BushmanRuth StonehouseWilliam BaileyA lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.
- StarsRobert BolderAnnie EdneyHarry NortonMr. Simp is subservient to all his wife does or says, and as his wife is a militant suffragette, Mr. Simp is a firm adherent to the cause. He receives a letter from Mr. Charles Trouble, telling him to meet that gentleman, as he would like to talk business with him. The excruciatingly funny incidents that develop out of his "looking for trouble," will keep an audience convulsed with laughter.
- StarsWallace BeeryBilly MasonLeo WhiteWillie Brace. Harry Bitt and Johnny Argue are three typical hall-room boys. One bright sunshiny afternoon they meet three pretty society girls, and protect them from the insults of a tramp. The girls show their appreciation by inviting the boys to attend the charity ball. The boys are delighted, but money is scarce with them and they haven't any dress suits. An idea then occurs to one of them to rent the necessary outfits, but the night of the ball only one suit is delivered, so the three boys have to take turns in wearing it. They are not all the same size, so the dress suit hangs peculiarly funny on their figures. They manage to have a fairly good time, but in the morning, when the suit is called for, it is in a ruined condition. Elsa Seam saves them from embarrassment when she tells her father, the owner of the dress suit renting establishment, of the brave deed accomplished by the trio. Mr. Seam hastily dispatches a boy to the home of the three, where they are presented with fashionable evening clothes. So you see it pays to be a hero, sometimes.
- StarsWallace BeeryCharles J. StineMrs. Manly and Mrs. G. Howe Wise are close friends and sisters in the same Suffrage Legion in a small town, but Mrs. Manly makes a legal error by marrying a second husband before she had been duly set free from the first. When the two husbands meet and find the duplicity of the woman in question, they take the matter to the police for settlement. Being accused of bigamy, Mrs. Manly decides that it is best to take flight. Her suffragette sisters take up a collection and she escapes the law and all pursuers. Many years later, her friend. Mrs. G. Howe Wise, is surprised to receive a letter from Mrs. Manly, stating that she is sending her baby to Mrs. Wise to raise, and she not having any children of her own, is at a loss to know exactly how to prepare for the coming event. But she goes shopping and buys everything imaginable for an infant. However, her surprise is great when the "baby" arrives and she finds all her plans have been mislaid, for the new arrival is truly "some baby" and upsets the household arrangements to an amazing degree.
- StarsWallace BeeryRuth HennessyLeo WhiteThomas Terpin, James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring housebreaker, whom the police are powerless to capture. Jack makes a wager with Terpin that he can rob and get away with it. Terpin takes him up and agrees to pay a forfeit of $100 if Jack returns to the club within three hours with something valuable he has stolen. The adventures he has are screamingly funny and the climax comes with most amazing and amusing results.
- StarsRobert BolderFrank OwensWallace BeeryGrass County went "dry" and as a consequence so did Hollow Center, which was located in Grass County. The drug store was owned by Doctor Perkins. Just before the county went dry a temperance society was formed in the Center and great rivalry existed between Deacon Carpenter and Doctor Perkins for the presidency. As election day approached, the Deacon seemed to be the most likely candidate, and as day by day he gained new friends and supporters, his stock in the heart of Widow Green went rocketing, where before it had been very below par, owing to the bullish tactics of Doc Perkins. The Deacon was never much on looks, but he realized that he must keep up appearances before the widow. His beauty had one drawback, his hair. Then the crowning sorrow of his life came: his hair began to fall out, and as his hair decreased in quantity so did the love of Widow Green for the Deacon. He kept more and more to himself, while Doc Perkins, campaigning about town in great style, gradually won over the greater majority of the people. In the meantime the Deacon was trying everything known to the scientist of hair (the barber) in the village, but to no avail. Then the Deacon found a city newspaper and discovered in Aunt Jane's "Beauty Column" a remedy for falling hair, but one of the principal factors was "Whiskey!" Now the Center was dry, and he running for the office of president of the temperance society was known to be a temperance man. But he must have the whiskey, absolutely, but how was he to get it? To go to Doc Perkins and ask for whiskey spelled ruin. No, he could not do that. Ah, he had it, he would bribe Beavens, the driver of the stagecoach, whose daily ride took him over to Tree County, which was "wet." So Bevans went, but on his return journey he picked up Doc Perkins.. Deacon Carpenter was anxiously waiting for Beavens. Beavens arrived and slyly slipped the bottle to the Deacon. This action was seen by the Doc. He thought a lot, but said nothing. Deacon went home and prepared his tonic. Then he went to the meeting which was to be held in the town hall. He went and the smell of whiskey accompanied him. So it was that when he got up to speak a strange rustling sound seemed to take place in the hall. A little breeze stirred, and carried on it a very distinct smell of "licker." Doc Perkins smelled it and so did the rest. Doc Perkins found out where the smell came from. Poor Deacon was ousted and ostracized. The Deacon wended his way homeward and the scent clung to him. He passed two tramps who were disgusted with the dryness of the town. The Deacon passed, but the tramps followed. He arrived home swearing vengeance. He would be handsome in spite of all these adversities. That the lotion was doing its work there was no doubt, for the Deacon found no hair on his coat; so he gave his hair another dose. He then turned round. When he turned round again he saw a retreating band attached to a retreating arm, which belonged to an about-to-retreat tramp. The Deacon gave a shout and the chase started. They passed the meeting house (the meeting had just let out). The good people of the town were horrified to see the Deacon pursuing two tramps with the whiskey. The tramps escaped and were later found intoxicated. They vindicated the Deacon. The election and also the Doc's wig came off. The Deacon won the election and also incidentally the Widow Green.
- StarsBilly MasonBeverly BayneWallace BeeryBeulah Crane, a student at boarding school, becomes very much interested in a young fellow she thinks is a doctor. The girls of the school finally capture "Swifty" Cleff and introduce him to Beulah, who falls desperately in love with him. She tries all kinds of different ways to again see her sweetheart and each time Miss Boan, the lady principal, interferes. Finally, Beulah plays sick and the girls rush for the "doctor," bring him into the room and leave him with her. A few moments later the girls return, and he tells them he is a piano tuner, not a doctor. He is mobbed. Beulah again frames another stunt and the piano tuner gets into the school. This time, however, when he leaves he takes Beulah as his bride.
- StarsWallace BeeryJack Hastings writes a letter to his sweetheart, Kate, to come to his assistance as Count Caesar de Valdez, a Bolivian merchant, is arriving from Europe with three shiploads of rye, and threatens to "bear the market." Upon the Count's arrival he finds a letter from Jack, asking him to his apartment. The Count calls and is held by Jack and Kate under the pretext that the place is a sub-quarantine station. They pretend that the Count is ill, take his temperature and force him to bed. To their great embarrassment the Count tells them that his ships are loaded with rice not rye.
- StarsWallace BeeryRuth HennessyThis is a pleasing story of a young married couple, who are the victims of a boarding house. They decide to move, to keep house for themselves, and a week later we find them in a cozy flat in the suburbs. Mrs. Hunter has an irresistible desire to purchase everything for the apartment at a "bargain," and many humorous incidents occur on this account. The climax comes when she finally purchases an oil stove, which not only smokes up the whole apartment, but finally explodes. They decide that although boarding costs more, it is cheaper in the end, especially when the home is run by an inexperienced housekeeper.
- StarsEddie RedwayWallace BeeryLouise WillisDan Ryan and Fritz Noodle, two would-be politicians, succumb to the charming mannerisms of the Widow Guggenheimer. The widow is undecided which one she shall select for a husband, but finally tells them she will marry the one who wins the election, the office to be that of Chicken Coop Inspector. There is much surprise and humiliation on the parts of the candidates when neither is elected. The widow solves the problem, "I will marry the man who is the best wrestler; arrange for a bout and I shall be the prize for the winner." The match is fought and Ryan is the victor. He is about to claim the widow for his own, when the real husband, supposedly dead, returns and ousts him, a knockout finish to Ryan, who had nearly been killed in the wrestling match to win the widow. A sad fate for one who had worked so hard for a prize.
- StarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneBaby Marie GereghtyHis greatest fault was drink. His wife had pleaded with him time and time again to leave the terrible stuff alone. One night he left his home, went to the club and proceeded to get "filled." Late that evening or in the wee small hours of the morning, he took a machine to go home, but failed to get inside and fell into the slushy street. A cabby nearby volunteered to take him home, but Robert was determined to drive the horse himself, and he did. He blocked the traffic and had a terrible time. When he arrived home he found a note to the effect that his wife had deserted him, but his child was there, so he knew she was not far off. He promised her, however, that he would never drink again and, when you witness this picture you will agree that he never will.
- StarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneRuth HennessyRuth, a young manicurist, is desperately in love with Jimmie White, a mechanic. Ruth's friends make fun of her beau, as he is uneducated both in the matter of clothes and diplomacy. Jimmie comes into some money through a patent and, Ruth with the idea of getting back at her friends, proceeds to make Jimmie over. She even selects the clothes he is to wear, and gets him "all dolled up." Her principal tormentor, Minnie, the beautiful hairdresser, is surprised and captivated at Jimmie's appearance, and determines to win him. She eventually does, but only temporarily. Ruth shows White the error of his ways and he begs forgiveness. She takes him back and all ends happily.
- StarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneEddie RedwayMrs. Wallace Williams is much given to conversation and, when she and her husband have a word battle, she of course wins out, making her husband exceedingly cross. That night, Williams dreams that his wife received from a sorcerer powders of laughter and love, while he is the happy possessor of silence powders. A burglar gets into the house and complicates things by getting some of the love powder, while Mrs. Williams gets the silent powder and Mr. Williams the laughing powder. Williams awakens while in the act of strangling the burglar in his dream, and finds the cat in his hands. Husband and wife adjust things and all ends happily.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperStarsWallace BeeryEddie RedwayRuth HennessyJames Finney, a would-be actor, is discharged from the Gaiety Theater and thrown bodily into the street. He succeeds in securing a position with a motion picture concern as leading man. The new surroundings, the absence of an audience and the camera pantomime him. His blunders will cause a great deal of laughter, and the exciting chase that follows is indeed one of the most comical ever registered on film.
- StarsRuth StonehouseFrancis X. BushmanRapley HolmesBecause her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a director, in order to sulk and give vent to her feelings. She and her father have many tilts over her stubbornness, and Jane is perpetually victor. Her father discharges the flirtatious hospital superintendent one day, and that worthy leaves, taking with him the entire staff and leaving the hospital isolated and cut off from the world. That evening, the "red-haired person," the new superintendent, arrives and his experiences with the hungry patients, not to mention the bad-tempered Jane, serve as a background for a most delightful little comedy. Suffice to say, Jane, for once in her life, meets her match in the "red-haired person," but she rather enjoys being bossed, and an ultimate midnight episode in which she is the moving factor, brings father, the next morning at dawn with three autos loaded with assistance, only to burst in on the greatest surprise of his life. But we'll not discuss it here.
- StarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderFred KingsleyFarmer Stebbens and his son, Hiram, attend a convention in New York City, and while there become acquainted with two chorus girls, who lead them a merry chase, which costs the two rubes considerable. Mrs. Stebbens writes a letter to her husband to hurry home to feed the cows and chickens, but hubby thoroughly enjoying himself, calls her on long distance, telling her to do it herself. The following evening, the two men with the chorus girls are having the time of their lives in a prominent café, when wifey walks in and starts a lot of trouble. forcing her husband and son to return to the country, where she stands over them with club in hand, singing "This is the life."
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneGabby Gus made the town regularly every month. He was a swell guy and thought he could cop most any Jane that he took a liking to. Clara Louise Willoughby, a farmer's daughter, with a pretty face and figure, took the salesman's eye. He looked the old gent up in Dunn and Bradstreet and discovered that the old boy was worth some coin. Then he set his traps for the daughter. Dad, however, sent her away to boarding school and when she returned she was the swellest peach in the orchard. They all fell for her. Gus hastened to her home, where he discovered she was some lemon when it came to the country stuff, that she was a real highfalutin society butterfly now, and her aspirations were higher than a poor hick drummer. She made him feel awfully small.
- StarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneLeo WhiteArgentino Boldo has a valuable book in his possession that Texas Tommy, Hesitation Nell and One-Step McGinnis desire to appropriate. The hero. Prancing Daly, and his sweetheart, Tango Kate, try to prevent the intruders from stealing the book. The tangoists have a lively time, which brings about many comical scenes. The action is great and the story unusual.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinLeo WhiteMrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram from some friends that they will arrive in the city in time for luncheon. Jim, the hired man, tells her of a good Swedish cook and Mrs. Highstrung sends him post haste after her. The new maid absolutely cannot rook, and the meal she prepares arouses the ire of Mrs. Highstrung, who attempts to discharge her. The antics of the cook trying to evade the mistress and her guests are screamingly funny.
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsBeverly BayneWallace BeeryLeo WhiteHe was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon. He tried to stop the traffic and the crossing policeman raised a beautiful billiard ball on his ivory dome. His wife tested the new china, she got with coffee certificates, on his head, and it was a whipped Napoleon that begged for mercy. He certainly had met his Waterloo. The situations are screamingly funny.
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsWallace BeeryLeo WhiteRobert BolderBuchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn things. Father becomes peeved when he receives a bill of expenditures a month later from his son, amounting to two hundred and fifty dollars. The old man decides to investigate things, and the following day finds him at the university. Hazing compared to the rough treatment father received at the hands of the college boys was like a social four o'clock tea. What they didn't do to father wasn't worth doing, so the elderly gentleman decides to take his son back to the farm. The story ends with Buchanan hoeing the corn field in the blistering sun.
- StarsWallace BeeryHarry DunkinsonCharlotte MineauMr. and Mrs. Skidoo receive a letter from Lord Bunkum, saying he is coming to pay them a visit. They decide they do not wish to see the Lord, so they leave, telling Sweedie to inform his Lordship they have been called away. Meantime a tramp finds the Lord's letter, which Mr. Skidoo has dropped, and decides to impersonate Lord Bunkum. Sweedie, at the time, dresses up as Mrs. Skidoo. Then things begin to happen. After a screamingly funny dinner party the Skidoos return home and Sweedie and the bogus lord land in the duck pond.
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderEddie RedwayThe coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel. He books up with a Foxy Manager. They arrange to pick out Soft Ones to begin with and work up to the championship. They find a Has-Been. After the Coming Champ and the Physical Wreck sign articles, they begin training. Although the coming champ was satisfied his hard Punches would kill the poor old Has-Been, he begins to worry. When the battle opens the Has-Been does a marathon in pursuit of the Coming Champ. The Coming Champ was doing fine work until somebody turned off the Sun-Light.
- DirectorDavid KirklandStarsMax AsherBilly FraneyBobby DunnMrs. Murphy, the wife of a butcher, and Mrs. Schultz, the wife of a grocer, gossip across the way. Mrs. Schultz invites Mrs. Murphy over; they get into a friendly conversation which develops into a quarrel. Their husbands have a card game in back of the store. Schultz finds Murphy cheating. This starts a fight, the neighbors getting articles thrown. They send in a riot call to the mounted police. The Schultz's and Murphy's throw eggs and meat back and forth while the police are on a mad chase to reach them. When they arrive, instead of stopping the fight, they find themselves between a storm of eggs and ham and make a hasty retreat, letting the bunch fight it out.
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderMildred ConsidineThe Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But the Napoleon of finance reckons not with the Man with the Funny Puzzle, the Fruit Vender, the Insurance Agent with the Flowing Vocabulary, and last, but not least, with Rube. After two busy hours one letter is started. It's a gay life and about noon Mr. Busy Business is making fine headway. The Rube is the last straw. He demands to be shown the gay White Light and to Revel in the Ecstasy of Chop Suey. The Busy Business Boy gives up the Ghost and, with the Rube in tow, starts out on the cocktail route. It's a busy finish. Moral: Work is a Snap but Intermissions play Hob with the Nervous System.
- StarsWallace BeeryLeo WhiteCharlotte MineauMr. Rhyme, a poet, is distracted at his work by the different noises in his home. To cap the climax his aunt arrives, bringing with her all her pets. She also brings "Sweedie," her cook, who insists on fighting, and a general free-for-all battle occurs into which pie throwing and rolling-pin combats enter. Sweedie finally wrecks the place completely, driving the poet from the house and finally taking possession.
- StarsWallace BeeryHarry DunkinsonSadie PearlThe boy has a camera and snaps Sweedie, the cook, while sitting on the bench in the back yard. Later he takes a picture of his father while sitting on the same bench. He forgets to turn the film in his camera, so gets a double exposure, giving the effect of Sweedie sitting on his father's lap. The young rascal shows the picture to his mother. She proceeds to upbraid her hubby, who is unable to explain himself. He does not recollect sitting on Sweedie's lap. After causing a fight between his parents, the kid shows the freak picture to the ice man and milkman, who are fighting for the hand of Sweedie. They both start in search of their supposed rival, and naturally wipe the floor with him when he comes in.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinBetty BrownSweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself. He decides to discharge her, but finds it rather difficult. After being handled like a rag doll, he goes to his friend for help and is overjoyed when told he might have their maid, as they are leaving for the country that evening. When Mr. Prim sees the maid, he is delighted. She is smaller than himself. After hiring a taxi and buying her flowers and candy, he takes her to his home where, to his dismay, Sweedie greets her with open arms, exclaiming "A bane sister." Sweedie has found her long-lost sister and they walk out arm in arm, leaving Mrs. Prim to do the cooking.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperStarsWallace BeeryRuth HennessyLeo WhiteThe plumber, a powerful fellow, decides to give up his trade and become a soda fountain clerk in order that he may compete with the small, well-dressed clerk, his rival, for the hand of little Miss Moffett. He eats more than he sells, but the proprietor is afraid of him and dares not discharge him. It happens that the stylish little clerk brings little Miss Moffett in the ice cream parlor for refreshment, and when the plumber serves him with a castor-oil sundae he becomes peeved. An egg throwing contest then ensues in which the plumber proves to be the best marksman.
- DirectorE.H. CalvertStarsFrancis X. BushmanBeverly BayneLester CuneoA young woman's father arranges a loveless marriage for her to a banker to whom he owes money, but she is eventually reunited with the man she truly loves.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinLeo WhiteSweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is the most popular lady on the floor. She has never been on roller skates before and finds it rather difficult to keep her feet. Her two admirers get into a brawl as to who shall skate with her, and it is about to be settled when the police force, headed by Sweedie's employer, enters. The "would-be" society lady is frantic over the loss of her jewels and orders Sweedie arrested. A stubborn resistance is then put up by the husky cook, and everybody gets his share of the knocking about that follows.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinRobert BolderSweedie's father is the owner of a grocery store, and Sweedie takes care of the trade while father plays checkers all day. She is in love with a member of the police department, and at every possible opportunity slips out and holds hands with him. One day while her father is very much interested in a checker game, two burglars come in and carry away every article in the store, including the chairs on which the players are sitting. Sweedie makes all the noise possible, but fails to arouse the checker fiends. The burglars bind her and place her in the wagon with the stolen goods, where she is found by the police. They all then give chase to the thieves and capture them.
- StarsWallace BeeryChick EvansLeo White"Chick" Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the cook for a family of "get-rich-quicks" and treated very roughly until she receives a letter telling her that her uncle has left her an immense fortune. She is then handled with white gloves. To be a society lady she must wear fine clothes and play golf, so they dress her up and take her out to the golf club. Here she meets "Chick" Evans, and he proceeds to try and teach her to play golf. He has very little success as Sweedie breaks all the clubs and insists on swinging on the ball like she was knocking a "home run." She finally gives the ball a terrible wallop and in following it causes a great disturbance among the other players. A riot call is sent in to the police station, and in the meantime Sweedie has ordered her fortune delivered at the golf club. The fortune arrives and much is her disgust when she finds it only to be cigar coupons. The police arrive and a generous rough-house takes place.
- StarsWallace BeeryLeo WhiteRobert BolderHenry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Sweedie. One day while Danny is peeking in the window at Sweedie, he sees her reading a letter and immediately takes it for granted that it is from Henry. Instead, it is a notice from the landlord requesting her to pay her rent. Sweedie rushes out to find Henry and while she is gone Danny steals into the room. When Sweedie and Henry return, Danny slides into a hole in the mattress for a hiding place. Sweedie then sews up the mattress unaware that it contains a man. After it is all mended, Henry and Sweedie are horror-stricken when the mattress starts to move. They call the police and all give chase. At the station when Danny is extracted from the mattress Sweedie falls into his arms.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinLeo WhiteSweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the class after fighting with several of the members and goes home, where she fills the bathtub with water and proceeds to learn to swim. After the water is knee deep in the room, she also practices a little fancy diving. By this time the plaster has begun to fall on the floor below, where a card game is going on. The members of the family rush upstairs and find Sweedie having the time of her life. A riot call is sent in to the police, and when they arrive they find Sweedie holding off the entire family with a club. They all then chase her out of the house and finally capture her in the lake.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderHarry DunkinsonSweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it all. He is prevented from taking this awful step by a stranger in the city, who goes to the buxom Sweedie, after making the rescue, and tries to make himself a hero in her eyes. He fails to show his bravery, however, in rescuing Sweedie sometime later, when she has hooked a big fish and is being dragged out in the lake. He calls the police and a chase in the motorboat ensues, in which they catch up to Sweedie and assist her in pulling in her large catch. The hook breaks and the monstrous fish gets away. Angry at their interference, Sweedie dumps them all in the lake and sallies forth to again try her luck.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsWallace BeeryLeo WhiteBetty BrownKrautmeyer owns a bakery while Schmidt runs a delicatessen store next door. They fight continually and when each receives a letter informing him that he is nominated for alderman, war in general is declared. Schmidt has a greater following that Krautmeyer, until the latter promises to serve beer to his listeners. Schmidt is then left alone. After carrying on a bitter campaign, they are told that their nomination was a mistake. They then decide to be friends and become partners in a department store. It is not long before they are again in a heated argument, so they draw a line and each agrees to stay on his side. This plan works until their "lady love" arrives, then hostilities are resumed.
- StarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderCharlotte MineauBessie and the hair dresser have a quarrel, so she writes a note to the tailor, telling him that she will dine with him that evening. Sweedie, the laundress, who is desperately in love with the tailor, hears of the dinner engagement and writes a letter to him, saying that she is going to drown herself in the dye vat. After rigging up a dummy resembling herself, she sticks it head first into the vat. She then leaves, but returns shortly after in a man's attire, telling the tailor she is Sweedie's brother. He weeps and wails, declaring that if Sweedie were only alive he would marry her in a minute. Sweedie then pulls off her disguise and the tailor falls in a dead faint.
- StarsWallace BeeryLeo WhiteRobert BolderSweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German. Sweedie is then determined to wed the other suitor. Next day Sweedie's choice appears at her home disguised as an actor. Immediately her parents are all eyes for the actor and declare that he is the one man in the world for their daughter. The justice of peace is summoned, and, not until the ceremony has been performed, does the father discover that he has been deceived. A call is sent in for the police and when they arrive Sweedie shows her prowess as a battler in a free-for-all fight.
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsHarry DunkinsonGerda HolmesLeo White#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing Craze.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinCountess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works. Sweedie finds the card. Next day an invitation to a ball to be given by Mr. Wealth is delivered by Sweedie by mistake. She has an idea; she will go to the ball and pretend to be the countess. The night of the party, Sweedie arrives at the Wealth home accompanied by a waiter from her place of employment. She is introduced to the waiting guests as the Countess Von Swatt and in the middle of the introduction, stubs her toe and falls down the stairs. She is paid great attention by all present and they insist upon her demonstrating the latest dances. Sweedie and the waiter are in the midst of the "Sweedish" tango when the real countess arrives. After seeing her the pair make a rush for the door, but are captured and spend the night in jail, Sweedie happy that she was a countess for a while anyway.
- StarsWallace BeeryCharlotte MineauBen TurpinSweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it. He raids the house in an effort to get his money, and as a result Sweedie is fired. Short of money and out of a job, the husky cook takes the donkey to the county fair where she hopes to win a few cash prizes. The donkey fails to take any blue ribbons, so Sweedie removes a ribbon from one of the prize horses and is caught in the act. She then ties her pet in a racing car and starts around the race track with the police in hot pursuit. She is finally brought to a halt when she drives the machine into a tent. Here an explosion takes place which completely wrecks the machine.
- StarsWallace BeeryWhile Sweedie is studying her war map in her grog shop, two bums enter the place and start drinking wine. When Sweedie asks them to pay for it they dash out of the place. She calls the police and they pursue the bums. Sweedie is outdistanced in the chase and thought she saw the police enter a certain house, so she rushes in. She discovers her mistake when she sees that she had interrupted a marriage ceremony. All the guests pounce upon her at once, but the bridegroom protects her. The wedding is completely broken up and the bridegroom leaves the place with Sweedie. They proceed to Sweedie's grog shop where they discover that the bums have returned and opened up all the faucets to the wine barrels. She finds them hidden in a corner, so drags them out and a battle royal takes place in wine up to their knees.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinHarry DunkinsonSweedie is the scrub lady in the theater. She makes eyes at the stage manager and the hypnotist and is put out of the theater for being so impertinent. Next day while she is out feeding her chickens, she falls asleep and dreams that she has been left an immense fortune by her uncle and that the stage manager and the hypnotist are rivals for her hand. The hypnotist makes her the prima donna of the world and uses his hypnotic influence in keeping his rival out of Sweedie's sight. Finally one day the stage manager sees his chance and pushes the hypnotist into a trunk and locks it. The hypnotist by a few simple motions makes his escape, then lays in wait for the stage manager. Meanwhile Sweedie comes along and is in the act of caressing the hypnotist when she awakes and finds a goat in her lap instead of her ideal.
- DirectorRichard Foster BakerStarsWallace BeeryBeverly BayneRapley HolmesRube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.
- StarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderBen TurpinMr. Von Crooks and his son are in love with Madame Double X. One night Von Crooks, Jr., elopes with her and then writes to his father to forgive them. He refuses and cuts his son off without a cent. Madame Double X quarrels with her husband over a millinery bill and he chokes her until she promises not to buy any more expensive bonnets. She goes to his room while he is asleep to get revenge. Her husband lets out a yell which the police hear. They find Madame Double X with a turkey feather. The police believe the victim was tickled to death. At the trial plenty of liquor is served, and in the midst of exciting evidence, Von Crooks runs in and falls into his wife's arms. The courtroom is turned into a battlefield as she fights her way to liberty.
- StarsWallace BeeryBetty BrownBen TurpinThe Newlyweds read in the newspaper of an ideal automobile trip which only costs $12. Mr. Newlywed decides to take a few days' vacation and enjoy the outdoor air, not feeling that he can afford a more expensive vacation. They pack a camper's outfit on the car and start out. First a farmer demands that they pay $10 for ruining his grass with a fire. Next they are arrested for speeding and fined $15. At last they find an ideal spot, but no more than get their tent set up when a farmer comes along and tells them to come across with $10 or get out. They give up the money. That night they are visited by a huge snake, and then comes the mosquito family. They try to smoke the pests out and set fire to the tent. They flee outside and find themselves in a rain storm, so are forced to retire to a farm house where the children have the mumps. After spending the night there they start for home. The car breaks down and the repair bill is $75. They wind up by both catching the mumps.
- StarsWallace BeeryCharlotte MineauBen TurpinMrs. Goodheart, a charity worker, comes home one evening very much discouraged as she is unable to get even a small donation from Mr. Tightwad, the millionaire. She tells Sweedie, the cook, of her failure, so Sweedie decides to try her luck at making him "come across." She goes to his office, where she is refused admittance. She is finally allowed to enter after almost smashing in the door, but Mr. Tightwad absolutely refuses to give her money. She then rolls up her sleeves and prepares to make him produce. He becomes frightened and gives her the amount she demands. Later Sweedie and Mrs. Goodheart, loaded down with provisions, go to the home of a poverty stricken family. Shortly after they arrive, in comes Mr. Tightwad with a policeman. Sweedie gives him one look and he shrinks back, again offering her more money. Mrs. Goodheart and the family are overjoyed, while Sweedie marvels at her own success.
- DirectorGeorge AdeStarsWallace BeeryCharlotte MineauRobert BolderThe first story is: "The Fable of Another Side-track and the Fatal Album".
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinSweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff Puff, has sent her a present in the form of a servant. She refuses to accept the slave, telling the Sultan's messengers that her husband would seriously object to having him around the house. She is then told that those who refuse a present from the Sultan will be put to death. She prepares to defy the Sultan, when her husband, Swipes, comes in. He demands to know who these strange men are. Sweedie tells him and he becomes enraged at the nerve of the Sultan. They start to eject the intruders, and Sweedie awakes just as she is about to kill the messenger with a butcher knife. She finds her husband on his knees begging her to be merciful. She was about to slay him.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinRobert BolderSweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police department. After writing a note to him, she calmly makes ready for the end. About this time the tricksters arrive and inject "dope" into her which puts her to sleep. They then erect a tombstone beside her. Upon awakening, Sweedie is unable to determine whether she is alive or a ghost. She goes home, but is unable to make herself seen or heard. The family is overcome with grief. She is then certain that she is a ghost. Her note is delivered to the captain, and he goes to the grave followed by his recruits. Here Sweedie determines to make sure whether she is dead or alive, so "sails in" and all but annihilates the entire department.
- StarsWallace BeeryLeo WhiteBetty BrownMr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog "Skinny" and her parrot along. Mr. Dingy dislikes dogs, but rather than lose Sweedie he consents. On the way home the dog catchers attack "Skinny" and Sweedie is forced to give battle to the entire squad in order to free the dog. At the Dingy home Sweedie is sent in to cook dinner. Instead she gives her dog a bath in the dishpan and uses the best linen napkins to dry him. About this time her sweetheart is whistling over the back fence, so she goes out for a ride in his hansom cab. While she is gone Mr. Dingy beats her dog, so upon her return she simply wipes up the kitchen floor with him for abusing her pet.
- StarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderBetty BrownMildred refuses Archie's proposal of marriage. Shortly after, Fred arrives and she accepts him as her future husband. As he is leaving the house, his attention is attracted by a young lady who has a cinder in her eye. He stops to give her his assistance. Mildred, who happens to be watching from an upstairs window, thinks he is kissing the young lady, his head being behind her large hat, giving that appearance. She becomes angry, and after mailing his ring to him she calls up Archie and says she will marry him immediately. After marriage, Mildred discovers that her husband is the father of four children. Soon after, Fred marries a nurse, only to find she is also a mother of four children. Several months later, Mildred is a widow and Fred a widower. They meet each other--hence, two hearts that beat as ten.
- StarsWallace BeeryTommy HarperHarry FaginThe country school board assigns a new teacher, and the lot falls to none other than Sweedie. She takes up her duties the following Monday, and the pupils have great sport with her. She is the target for their bean shooters and rubber bands, but is unable to catch any of them in the act. Finally she is forced to be the peacemaker between Tim and his rival, who have started a fight over Sadie, the little girl in the case. As time goes by, Sweedie is paid great attentions by one of the old members of the school board. This fact becomes known and the town gossipers get busy and demand that Sweedie be discharged. She loses her position, but not for long, as the pupils threaten to quit unless she returns. The next day finds Sweedie back on the job.
- DirectorRichard Foster BakerStarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinCharlotte MineauSweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted. At college her sleeping quarters are in the dormitory, and that night while Sweedie sleeps the other girls cook a rarebit. The matron is awakened by their giggles, and when they hear her approaching they put the rarebit dish in Sweedie's bed, then pretend they are asleep. The matron finds the dish and scolds the innocent Sweedie. After she leaves a pillow fight ensues, in which Sweedie is victorious. Next day she receives a note from her Romeo telling her to meet him at 11:00 P.M. and they will elope. He tells her he will wear a mask and advises her to do the same. Another coed receives a note from her sweetheart to the same effect. The result is that the elopers at the last minute are about to marry the wrong party.
- StarsWallace BeeryBetty BrownCharlotte MineauWhen Mrs. Justwed receives a note from her mother telling her that she expects to arrive next day, her husband seems overjoyed, and says he intends to make her stay all winter. She arrives next day, but it is not long before the well-meaning husband is hoping it will be a short winter. The mother-in-law finds fault with everything, including Mr. Justwed. He talks back to her one day, and now his wife takes offense. He is not allowed to eat at the same table with them and is ordered from his wife's room. That night he goes to the club very much downhearted. Here he meets a friend who suggests a plan to make them relent. Justwed goes home late and turns the water on in the bath tub. Soon the plaster comes tumbling down on his sleeping wife and her mother. They flee from the room drenched to the skin. Next morning they cannot be attentive enough to him.
- StarsAlan RoscoeNell CraigWallace BeeryStarvation faces the little post of Red Gold. Jack Thorpe, in a final effort to obtain food for his wife and baby, offers all his gold for one pound of meat. Buck Gibson, who has a secret passion for Hester, Thorpe's wife, goes to her and promises to sell meat to her husband if she will betray him. She refuses, so Buck refuses to sell his meat. In desperation Thorpe tries to steal the meat from Buck and is caught. He is punished by being sent into the wilderness to starve. Hester deprives Buck of his revenge by following her husband. Next morning they are found by a half-breed with a sledgeload of meat. Thorpe induces him to let him sell the meat in Red Gold. He refuses to sell to Buck. Half starved, Buck steals, and his lot is the same as Thorpe's. Thorpe then gives up all his meat to have Buck's life spared.
- StarsWallace BeeryRuth HennessyRobert BolderWhen Donald Wellington is ordered from the house by his sweetheart's father, they decide to elope. He calls for her next day in his speedster, but before they can make their escape the father is seen coming down the street. The elopement is then abandoned. Donald sees him fishing some time later and has a plan to bring him around. He walks up the pier and starts a conversation and accidentally knocks his bait into the water. The father becomes angry, but Donald tells him that he has a bait which will catch twice as many fish. He hands him a box of bait, then goes to a fisherman's hut where he buys a basketful of fish and rents a boat. He rows down to the pier and from underneath fastens fish to the father's hook. That night he decides that any man who can produce bait like that can marry his daughter.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinBetty BrownSweedie has fallen in love with the grocery boy, and in order to gaze upon his smiling face orders groceries at every possible opportunity. She does not appeal to the grocery boy, so he keeps his distance. One day while Sweedie is expressing her love to her Romeo, her mistress appears upon the scene, and, in her confusion, Sweedie pushes the grocery boy into a closet and locks it. That night when the man of the house comes home, he finds the grocery boy in the closet. He reproaches his wife and throws Sweedie and her sweetheart into the street. The grocery boy manages to make his escape, but sometime later, when he is rescued from a burning building, he recovers to find Sweedie had been his rescuer. He decides he would rather die, so crawls back into the building.
- StarsWallace BeeryBilly RobinsonBetty BrownMr. Grouch has a decided antipathy for young men who call on his daughter. He shows it by ejecting all visitors. But the daughter is so popular that he finds the labor too great for a small man and determines to hire a big Swedish maid to do the heavy work of removing callers. Jack, the favored suitor, sees Mr. Grouch's ad in the paper, and, disguising himself as a maid, applies for the job and is given it. The new maid performs her duties with such skill that Mr. Grouch is smitten and proposes marriage. Daughter catches her parent on his bended knees and threatens him with publicity unless he gives his consent to her marriage with Jack. He gives it and when last seen is waiting for his Swedish maid to come back to him.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinSweedie holds a clandestine meeting with her beau in the kitchen of her employers, a young married couple. Her love affair influences her cooking and the bread she serves that evening is a little harder than granite. The young husband loses his temper and Sweedie loses her job. A flying bit of paper catches her attention and she picks it up. It is an invitation to a soiree in one of the most exclusive homes in town. Sweedie and her beau borrow her former employers' finery and appear at the reception. A suspicious butler is reassured by their card and they shake hands with the hostess and stop at the punch bowl. The punch has strength and it influences but two social climbers. They jump in a fountain and throw water on each other. The former mistress appears and calls the police. Sweedie and her sweetheart run for it, using bicycles and a rope attached to a speedy automobile. But finally they are caught and lodged in jail.
- StarsWallace BeeryBetty BrownBen TurpinSweedie, with her arms splattered by dough, looks out the window and sees her mistress just mounting he horse for her morning ride. The simple, toilsome life straightway becomes monotonous and Sweedie prepares to go and do likewise. She calls up her Romeo, who is a captain of the mounted police squad, and tells him to come with two horses prepared for a canter. Her faithful swain obeys instructions. Sweedie dresses in a nondescript riding habit and starts. She finds it difficult to mount the steed and when she does she learns that riding is not as easy as it looks. Meanwhile her mistress returning to the house, finds Sweedie's absence annoying. She sends out a general alarm for Sweedio's arrest. Here Romeo comes in again, for he pursues her and brings her home under arrest. Sweedie is cured of her love for that sport.
- StarsWallace BeeryThe girl gets a beautiful bouquet of flowers from her fiancé, who wants her to enjoy the fragrance because these flowers will be in their new home when they are married. The girl puts them in a vase and uses them for a table decoration. There is to be a party at her home that day and they are a very welcome ornament. Sweedie, the maid, also loves flowers, and when she sees them on the table, decides to put some greens in with them. She goes into the woods and picks nettles and puts them in with the flowers. When the guests arrive they all admire and smell the flowers. By the time they are ready to partake of the refreshments, their skin is stinging from contact with nettles. The fiancé comes and he gets it too. The girl's mother finds out Sweedie is responsible and calls the police. The policemen also get it and when last seen they are all running to try to get away from it.
- StarsWallace BeeryRobert BolderOnce upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice and who had a reputation for making history. The professor noised it abroad that he had secured the figure at an enormous expense. Everybody was crazy to see it. But it caught on fire on shipboard and the professor was up against it. Now just as he was figuring on how to get out of his hard luck, a hobo wandered in and the professor pressed him into service with the promise of ten beans. He dressed the hobo like King Woof and set him on a pedestal. Business was poor, however, and he sold the kink to a restaurant keeper. The figure was the middle piece of a fountain and looked so life-like that the guest caught it eating food. The restaurateur got wise and nailed the "kink" in a box and threw him into the lake.
- StarsWallace BeeryArthur W. BatesEdmund ThompsonSweedie, the theater's scrubwoman, in love with the unappreciative props, become enamored with the idea of a stage career. A poker game in which she is lucky enough to hold five aces furnishes her with the financial resources. At a booking office, she gets Slivers, a three-hundred-pound dancer, for a partner and they make the ham and egg circuit. On their tour they strike the theater in which Sweedie works as a mop artist. When their turn comes to go on, the jealous props, who has just awakened to Sweedie's possibilities, tries to "crab" the act. While Slivers and Sweedie are dancing the wings and other things fall on them. Sweedie suffers about three minutes for art and then she and Slivers decide to fight back. They advance on the home guards and, after a terrible struggle, get and keep possession of the stage.
- StarsWallace BeeryBen TurpinLeo WhiteSweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry. Arrived at the hotel, she is given two pails and a mop and she starts to work. The first thing she does is to mistake the train of a woman's gown for a mop and then she overturns a dining table when she is pushed into the dining room by an irate clerk. The bellhop in charge of the elevator will not let her ride, so she walks up ten flights of stairs and falls down the whole ten again. She goes out on a ledge on the sixteenth floor of the hotel to wash windows. She loses her balance and almost falls. The bellhop appears and pulls her back to safety and she falls on his neck calling him "My Hero."
- DirectorE.H. CalvertStarsFrancis X. BushmanRuth StonehouseWallace BeeryGloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the Princess Kalora, fat, synonymous with beauty in that country, have failed. Popova, the Princess's tutor, devises a terrible revenge because the count called him a Christian dog. He feeds the princess pickles to keep her thin. The beaux of the country pay assiduous court to the Princess Jeneka, the younger daughter, but the laws of the country forbid her marrying before her elder sister. As a last resort the count orders the slim princess to stuff her clothing with pillows and invites all the dandies to a garden party. But they are deceived. They try the weight of the princess and find her as light as a feather. Coming uninvited to the party is Alexander H. Pike, an American millionaire. He falls in love with the princess and comforts her by showing her pictures in a magazine, proving that in his country slim persons are considered most beautiful. But Pike is discovered by the count's slaves and barely escapes with his life. He returns to America. The count finds an advertisement in a magazine Pike had dropped in his flight, which promises to make thin persons fat. He sends the princess to America to try the cure. T'here she meets Pike, who renews his courtship. But the impatient count learns from the ambassador that the princess is getting no fatter and orders her to return. Pike follows. The young American then visits the court, tells the count he is Grand Exalted Ruler of a fraternal order, a Knight Templar and King of the Hoo Hoos, and asks for the hand of his daughter. The count, much impressed with the titles, consents, especially after he finds that it is the slim princess the American loves. The cloud of gloom is lifted from the palace and Pike prepares to leave with the princess for America, where she can have all the varieties of pickles to suit her taste.
- StarsWallace BeeryArthur W. BatesBetty BrownSweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The fireman escapes her caresses and gains the firehouse and loses her seven hours later when a fire breaks out. The next day she finds him with another woman and administers punishment. Then she opens a lady barber shop and her first customer is the faithless fireman. She gives him a close and disagreeable shave and is interrupted by the news that she is an heiress. The fireman's affection kindles at the news and he declares his love. To celebrate their engagement they go out in Sweedie's new car and the romance ends at about 650 feet above ground when the car blows up and both disappear from view.
- StarsWallace BeeryHarry DunkinsonGloria SwansonThree young girls, pledged to spinsterhood and contempt for mankind, go camping in the woods. Three boys, unpledged to anything save fun and the joy of living, likewise go camping. Fate spins the wheel and the six, pledged and unpledged, pitch their tents not far apart. The boys get curious about their neighbors and investigate. The girls spurn their advances and the boys retreat in good order to plan a new campaign. The boys play Indians and frighten the girls into hysterics, almost. One of the girls, in the excitement, fires a gun. The shot strikes one of the boys, inflicting a slight wound. He sends word to the girls' camp that he is wounded unto death and needs the ministrations of one of the girls, or he may die. Womanly sympathy gets the upper hand and the girls go to the boys' tent. Cupid does the rest and the play ends in a triple love making and prospective marriages.
- StarsWallace BeeryHarry DunkinsonPa and Ma, living at Maple Junction, decide to send the two boys to college. Pretty soon large expense bills begin to arrive and Pa goes to the college to find out for himself what the "incidentals" mean that loom so large in the bill. The boys take him in hand and give him the time of his life. After Pa has been gone a week. Ma concludes she will hunt him up. She arrives at the college in the midst of a hilarious scene. She is shocked and surprised, but not nonplussed. She takes the two boys away from the two young ladies to whom they have been making love, and marches away with them to the depot, en route to Maple Junction. She concludes that "education" has many meanings and is too expensive for the sons of simple farmer folks.
- DirectorRichard Foster BakerStarsWallace BeeryCharles J. StineOut in the celery belt there is a stunted flag station whose leading citizens still wear gum arctics. In this lonesome kraal two highly respected money getters marched at the head of the women and school children during Perfect Developing and Printing dry movement day. As a result liquor was not to be obtained in town except at the drug store or in cellars of well conducted homes. For eleven months and three weeks of every year they battled to uplift the community, but every autumn they went skylarking in the Windy City. Every night of their week of hilarity they turned in with daylight tickling their noses and awoke entirely surrounded by towels. The fourth morning their bodies were taken to the Union Station. Two weeks later, at the Union revival services, when the Rev. Mr. Poindexter gave out, "Yield not to temptation," Milt and Henry sang their heads off. Moral: One who would put Satan on the mat must get inside information at his training quarters.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsGertrude AstorWallace BeeryPeggy CoudrayThere is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or released at this time. Most likely, it was planned, but never completed, or else it's a working title or re-release title for some other film, identity unknown.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsHarry GribbonGuy WoodwardGloria SwansonA band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner collector. Great preparations have been made to receive the distinguished visitor. The only drawback to the welcome is the sour music dispensed by the police band. The musicians are sent upstairs in the police station to practice some more, and here they are found by Gribbon's associates. A quart of chloroform poured into the base horn stops their discords and while they are asleep the crooks exchange clothing with them. During the interruption Gribbon has begun his collecting by attempting to rob the safe of the richest man in town. Woodward telephones for the police and the crooks respond. They suggest that he wait until the culprit has the money, which can be used as evidence. Gribbon is then arrested by his own men. Woodward, suspicious after a long wait, again telephones to the station and is answered by the real police, who have revived. Their pursuit is complicated by the fact that they are wearing the clothes which belong to the pursued. A combination of thrills and laughs brings the picture to a close.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsWallace BeeryGilmore HammondRuby CoxJohn, the janitor, has a pet monkey that accompanies him on his different jobs. Because of the monkey's wonderful ability, John is given a post of janitor in one of the large hotels. He becomes acquainted with the stenographer in the place and admires her very much her affections are bestowed upon John, the clerk of the hotel, and John, the janitor, is unable to get her interested in himself. One day he finds a flower and places it upon her desk. John the clerk, also sends a flower of the same kind with a note, begging the girl to meet him that night. She answers the note, thanking him for the flower and promising to meet him that night. She lays the note on the clerk's desk. While John, the janitor, is cleaning up, he finds the note, addressed to John and thinks it is for himself. He reads it and is pleased that the girl thinks so much of him. He receives a rude jolt, however, when the girl tells him that he is "off his nut" and does not care for him at all. He goes to his room and dozes off. He is sadly cleaning a room on the thirteenth floor when he detects a crook robbing a room. He takes him in charge and gets a substantial reward. The hotel management praises him for his good work and the girl, regretting her harsh action, forgives him. He is kissing her with relish, when the owner of the house awakens him and he finds that he has been kissing the monkey. The owner tells him to get busy or he will get fired, and poor John goes back to his drudgery.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsVictor PotelRuby CoxWallace BeeryArchie, a man well past the age of forty-five proposes to Mildred, a young and pretty girl and is rejected. Fred, her youthful lover then enters and does the same thing and is accepted. As Fred leaves the house, it is very windy and a young lady passing by gets some dust in her eyes. He tries to assist and from Mildred's window it appears that he is embracing he young lady. Mildred's temper quickly rises, and she writes to Fred, calling off their engagement. She then telephones Archie, and they marry immediately. Arriving at Archie's home Mildred is dumbfounded to find that she has suddenly become the mother of six children. Fred becomes sick, and the tender sympathies of the nurse at the hospital so plays on his heart that he proposes marriage. After the ceremony, he goes to his bride's house and finds he has married a widow with seven children. One year elapses. Mildred is dressed in mourning; Fred is without a wife. They meet by accident one day and after explanations have straightened matters out, they decide to get married at once. After the marriage they find they have a family of thirteen children, but in the final scene they are both happy, as they send the thirteen off to school.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsWallace BeeryBelle BennettA janitor finds a piece of jewelry dropped by a young woman, which he in turn gives to his wife. Feeling sorry for the young woman, the janitor tries to straighten things out, with many funny complications.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsWallace BeeryKewpie MorganBelle BennettHubby can't stand his wife's cooking and he goes to the employment agency and gets Sweedy as a new cook. They arrive home and dinner is about to be served. Sweedy never reaches the table, however, for her foot slips and the expected dinner flies away. Sweedy then starts to clean house, but she gets in wrong by raising clouds of dust. Sweedy now starts to do more cooking, but gets a note from the iceman saying he will meet her on the comer and go for a lark. Sweedy takes the wife's new gown and goes to keep the appointment. Hubby discovers the note, thinks his wife is false, follows and brings Sweedy home, where, in the parlor, he protests against such treatment and declares his love in hot terms, which is overheard by the wife. She steps in and the astonished husband discovers his terrible mistake.
- DirectorWallace BeeryStarsWallace BeeryDana OngGertrude AstorThe Janitor arrives, turns his things over to the Jap valet, puts on overalls and jumper and gets to work. The President and daughter arrive, the President bawls the Janitor out for not keeping things dusted. The Janitor falls for the girl, but she won't have him until he gets fruit and flowers (from a customer's hat). John J. Villian arrives, demands his money or the banker's daughter. The banker gives him the money, and Villian leaves, but vows to return. The girl and Janitor become quite friendly. That night the girl returns to the bank for a forgotten powder puff. Villian and his confederates also return to rob the bank. The girl hurries to the vault room to hide. The Janitor hides in the vault and the girl tries to open it, but part of her dress becomes caught in the door. Crooks attack the vault. The girl gets away, calls the police and returns to the bank. The President has in the meantime been caught by the crooks, and he and the girl are both held as prisoners. The Janitor gets out of the vault, finds a keg of powder with a burning fuse, lights a cigarette from the fuse and sits thinking. Villian tries to get away and the powder explodes. The Janitor and Villian are blown through the roof and fall upon the rest of the crooks. The Janitor captures them. The cops arrive and remove their prisoners. Then the Janitor awakens to find himself being beaten by the President and is thrown out of his private office.
- DirectorJacques JaccardLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsIrene CastleMilton SillsWarner OlandSerial about Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.
- DirectorFrank GriffinMack SennettStarsCharles MurrayLouise FazendaWallace BeeryLouise Fazenda, a country girl, has always lived a quiet life until Wallace Beery motored into the village and offered to make her famous. She had always been inclined to incur the wrath of her parents by trying to sing and Beery assures her that he can soon make her a great singer if she will run away with him. In his machine he takes her to the city, where he accidentally meets his wife. Quick action being required he throws Louise out of the machine and she finds herself alone and without a job in a strange city. While sitting in the park wondering what to do, she meets Charles Murray, who is a floor walker in a department store. He takes her with him and puts her to work in the store. Beery has succeeded in stealing all her money, but she manages finally to get it back. Her parents learning of her elopement come to the city to rescue her, but the father becomes much interested in the pretty shop girls and gets into trouble. Louise falls in love with the floor walker.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsBobby VernonGloria SwansonWallace BeeryGloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.
- DirectorFred HibbardStarsPolly MoranWayland TraskWallace BeeryCactus Nell, the new sheriff, tries to hold the affections of her lover, Bud, as well as uphold the laws as sheriff. All is well until a vampire causes trouble between the lady sheriff and Bud. Other circumstances convince Nell of his guilt until in the Indian camp bullets straighten out the tangle.
- DirectorHerman C. RaymakerFerris HartmanRobert P. KerrStarsBen TurpinChester ConklinWallace BeeryDummy inventor Samuel Tinker has just developed a new life-sized mechanical dummy. He and his partner, Peter Clay, modeled the dummy after a janitor in their building. While the inventor's daughter is in love and engaged to Clay, the janitor pines for the daughter. A misunderstanding breaks up the partnership, and Tinker forbids his daughter from marrying his now ex-partner. But the daughter hopes a possible lucrative purchase of the dummy from a vaudeville company will be the impetus for her father and Clay to mend their differences, and for them again to be married. The janitor, who sees this rift as an opportunity, hatches his own plan to be near the one he loves, the plan which involves him taking the place of the dummy. Not wanting to blow his cover, the janitor keeps on masquerading as the dummy even after the sale to the vaudeville company. A life-like dummy with a mind of his own on the loose has its own consequences.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleJoseph LeveringStarsMary PickfordJack HoltRaymond HattonA young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.