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- Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his wife and brother have conspired against him for revenge.
- Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
- Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to eat anything she cooks him.
- A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- A philandering husband meets a flapper at a speakeasy and brings her home to meet the missus--with whom he has an agreement to divorce if either of them meet someone they like better. Things do not go as planned.
- College--the joys of hazing freshmen, sexually harassing co-eds and dirty tricks. Those were the days. Class struggle was not limited to Bolshevik doctrine, it is played out at this college between the freshman and sophomore classes.
- A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
- A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show, and she is to introduce a designer's brand-new sexy teddy. However, the designer's jealous rival steals the garment just before the show. Complications ensue.
- A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.
- Young struggling lawyer has to haul a doctor into court with a summons by 3 P. M. or lose his job. Gets thrown out of the hospital in a dozen different ways and finally chloroforms the doctor.
- A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.
- When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
- Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
- A company of barnstormers goes on strike in the middle of a performance and a number of local amateurs are prevailed upon to furnish the show, which they do in more ways than one.
- An overambitious ringmaster is deviously plotting to have his circus' owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over the whole show. However, World War I intervenes and he eventually aids the Allied cause by joining the German army.
- A young girl goes off to an all-girl boarding school. Her boyfriend, who can't bear being away from her, disguises himself as a girl and goes with her to the school.
- Neal hates to give up his evenings with the boys, even for his wife, Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wants to go to a mask ball, so he gives her a powder, telling her it will make her sleep soundly. She slips the powder into his favorite decanter, hides his costume, and then retires. In the kitchen, the cook gives a policeman some of the doped whiskey. Neal takes the cop's coat, hat and stick and starts for the ball. On the way he is called on to restrain a wife-beating husband. He gets a black eye, so decides to go home. Meanwhile the cook has tried to waken the real policeman. A burglar enters, drinks from the decanter, and rolls under the table, asleep. The officer wakes up, upsetting his chair, so that Betty is awakened. Taking a gun, she looks for the trouble, and shoots at the officer in the kitchen, which awakens the burglar. Running into the dining room, Betty tries to capture the burglar, but he is getting the best of her, when Neal rescues her. The officer makes the arrest, while Neal promises to stray no more.
- The store-keepers son and the banker's son are both striving for the hand of the squire's daughter who is the village belle.
- A hypocrite and manufacturer of counterfeit money finds himself caught in his own trap. When he tries to foreclose a mortgage, he is paid back in bills of his own making, and is therefore caught with the goods.
- Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
- The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.
- Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
- Dorothy is a film fan from the middle west, who arrives in Los Angeles to visit relatives. Neal, a cashier of a local bank, is her fiance. She shows such interest in motion picture comedians that he impersonates Charlie Chaplin and visits her at the home of her relatives, wrecking the place and stealing her gems. He is arrested and sent to jail for thirty days, during which time she is cured of her infatuation. When released he returns without the disguise and is accepted on the old footing.
- A camping party of young people go into the mountains where the girl, for whose affections two lads are rivals, becomes the captive of a bandit and is rescued by Billy, who previously has been the butt of sport to the rest of the crowd.
- A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for the wedding, the bridegroom is kidnapped by a jealous cousin who is envious of his position as heir of a fortune. An amusing chase and final escape from a sanitarium where he has been taken brings the picture to a close in a pretty wedding scene.
- George and another married man try to get into their apartments at an unconventional hour, without their wives being aware of it. George tries to bluff it when he is caught, but wifey detects a note pinned to the silk stocking he would offer her and he is betrayed. The resulting trouble is finally patched up, but not until after several girls in pajamas have appear.
- Rastus Jones and Swanee Sam are rivals for the hand of Mandy. It is decided that the first suitor back with a parson from the neighboring riverboat landing will be the winner. (All performers are in black face.)
- A young man helps Ethel out of trouble with her car and she asks him to call. But Ethel has a sister, Billie, a little younger and pretty, so Ethel fears she'll have no chance. Mother says, "We'll dress Billie as a child until you land him." Billie objects, but Mother and Ethel carry out the plan. Harry calls and takes a great fancy to the "child." He brings her candy and toys and dolls, while Billie rages inwardly. There is to be a party and Billie insists upon going, so vehemently that Harry overhears her, and learns the secret. Mother refuses, but Billie slips off and Harry falls for her harder than ever. Next day he determines to have some fun, so he says, "Come, sit on my knee, my child." She does and each one thinks they are kidding the other. Stella and Ethel catch them and are horrified. Harry's love-making gives him away and he proposes. They drive to the minister, who refuses to marry such a child to anyone. Ethel and mother have followed, and when Harry says, "Billie or nobody," mother consents to the marriage.
- "Like mistress, like maid," so when Ethel goes away with her parents, her maid Billie proceeds to make a selection from Ethel's wardrobe and "play lady." Just then a young gentleman friend of Ethel's arrives, unaware that she is out of town. He takes the maid for a girl chum of Ethel's and Billie carries along the joke by ordering about the other maid. Harry has tea, loses his heart, makes a date for the next day, and departs. In the neighboring city Ethel meets Harry's father, who tells her that Harry expected to see her at home. Meanwhile, Harry and Billie are playing on the beach. Harry comes to dinner and when Billie sees him she runs through the kitchen into the yard. She is pursued by Harry who tells her that a little matter of social position makes no difference in his love for her. She accepts him and Ethel joins in the best wishes for the happy pair.
- Katie is forced by her mother to masquerade as a little girl in rompers in order that she will not "steal" her fat sister's beau. Of course things don't go as mother intended and Katie gets him after all.
- Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans. At the same time, German agents are looking for the same papers. When Castleback is found murdered in his apartments with Lupin's visiting card pinned to his breast, suspicion points to the master crook. Following Castleback's murder, his secretary and a hotel porter are found dead. By mysterious messages, Lupin informs the public that he is innocent of the crimes, although the authorities believe him to be guilty. Lupin thereupon sets out to solve the mystery himself. By impersonating an officer of the law and dodging his enemies successfully, he aids the police in catching the real criminal and, after making his identity known, escapes the net thrown out for him.
- A burlesque on the vampire genre.
- Billie and Ethel happen to read that a girl disguised as a boy worked two years in the mines. This starts an argument. Ethel saying it can't be done. Billie says that not only can it be done, but that she can do it and is willing to bet that she can. Ethel takes her on and Billie looks around for her opportunity. She dresses as a boy and gets a job as bell boy in a large hotel. After some complications in the locker room, Billie gets by with her job, while Ethel is on her trail. But with the entrance of Nolan, a traveling salesman, Billie's fate is foreshadowed when he sees a girl's ring on her finger and is set to wondering. Her concealed sex gets her into some predicaments, but she always escapes with her secret. However, Nolan knows Ethel and brings her to the hotel to dinner. Billie, bringing Nolan a telegram, is recognized by Ethel, but she has to keep still. Nolan has become much attached to the bright little "Bellhop" and decides to take "him" to a show. He gets Billie's address from the captain and goes to the house. Ethel is there with Billie. Billie comes down, as herself, and Nolan, not recognizing her, asks for the bellboy. "That is my brother," says Billie, "but he's out tonight." Having the tickets, Nolan asks Billie to go in place of her "brother," and she accepts and goes to dress. Ethel now breaks the faith and tells Nolan. He finds proof when Billie comes down, in the same ring he saw at the hotel, and the whole thing comes out. Billie pays the bet, but Nolan declares that he is the real winner by Billie's little escapade.
- Bobby's marriage to his employer's pretty daughter depends on the successful demonstration of his ability to handle plumbing, which he knows nothing about.
- On "the morning after," Neal wakes up with $2.80. He has promised to take his fiancée to the flower show. She wants to lunch downtown and on the way must have flowers, so Neal enters the restaurant with $2.30. He isn't hungry, not a bit, but Betty's appetite is good. Two girl friends of Betty's come in and, of course, they must join her and Neal. He phones some friends but has no luck. Two boy friends of Neal's drop in and join the party. "Sent me from Heaven," says Neal, as he orders wine. But the boys were unlucky, too, in the game the night before, and have about $1.79 between them. One of them, Eddie, takes what Neal has and goes home in a taxi for more. His driver speeds and they are arrested. At the café, matters are serious. The girls are ready to go, but not so the boys. The proprietor gets suspicious. George goes for aid but meets with a mishap and is arrested. The waiter gets insistent and Neal is at his wit's end. The two girls leave, thanking Neal "for the lovely luncheon." The chief of the police station is an old friend of George and releases him and Eddie, even lending them money. Poor Neal has not been able to conceal the true state of affairs and Betty says, "Why, Neal, how foolish," as she produces a roll of bills and settles the account. They start for the show and Eddie and George rush in to find them gone, so the boys order another bottle and resolve to run no more big bluffs on "small change."
- Henri de Brush wins a prize with his painting from the nude. Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed, happy though married, are at the exhibition with Mr. Snoop, their legal adviser and friend, perhaps. Mrs. Newlywed is so struck with the painting that she arranges to meet the artist, though Snoop tries to prevent the introduction. De Brush asks her to call at the studio. This makes hubby take notice and he tells Henri that his wife does not visit studios. Newlywed's interference and lack of trust makes his wife angry and, at home, she vows to go if she pleases. Next day hubby is at the office and wifey does go to the studio, finding Henri beginning another masterpiece of undrapedness. The model is out for a few moments. Henri tells Mrs. Newlywed to come back in an hour, as he will have the picture then outlined. But Snoop sees Mrs. Newlywed leave and he goes up. De Brush says the model has gone out for a moment. This is enough for Snoop, who rushes to the office and tells Newlywed his wife is posing in the nude. Grabbing a gun, they rush to the studio. The model has returned, and through the keyhole Snoop sees her form but not her face. The model takes refuge in the dressing room as Newlywed breaks down the door and begins a furious chase after Henri that takes them over rooftops and back to the studio, as the model comes in and reveals Snoop's hastiness and the trouble he has caused. Mrs. Newlywed comes and makes it hot for Snoop for suspecting her. Hubby forgives wifey, and vice versa, and they go home, leaving De Brush to make a wreck of Snoop.
- A very hungry Dave Finkel misses his birthday diner because of business. Getting home his wife and friends insist on taking him out to a nightclub instead of letting him eat. His attempts to get something to eat are thwarted each time during the night. Jean Harlow has an uncredited appearance as a girl in the nightclub Dave has a brief conversation with.
- In the "Scientific Scrubbery" there is rivalry between the head rubber and the engineer. The hand of the cashier is the prize for which they plot and counterplot. The engineer lets the mercury race up and down the tube, and the patrons fry and freeze while he lingers at the desk, until the rubber throws him bodily to the Stygian regions below. Even the proprietor, Prof. Steamem, is against the engineer, so he plans revenge. An Englishman is wandering about the dormitory when he is seen to have a black hand imprinted on his back. The patrons thinking the Mafia is after the place, run in all directions through the plant, even alarming the women and adding them to the chase. At the same time, the engineer pops a safety valve to give the effect of a bomb, and this adds a few feet to every jump they make. Bringing up in the engine room, they find that the engineer had caused all the trouble. They chase him out and leave the chief rubber and the cashier in each other's company. The "Scientific Scrubbery" is in peace again.