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- The girl's parents are opposed to Walter as a suitor because of his poverty. He receives a wire from his rich uncle that the latter is arriving that day and will give Walter a million dollars of his wealth provided he is married. Walter conveys the news to the girl and her parents via Buddy, the dog. There are hasty arrangements for the wedding and the church is crowded waiting the bride- groom, who has forgotten the marriage license. He dashes back on skates to get it and then forgets the wedding ring and is compelled to go back for that. The wealthy uncle arrives and sees his nephew for the first time and because of complications following his arrival refuses to give him the million until he is vamped by the young wife.
- Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
- 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.
- Anne's father arrives at the bank too late to deposit $5,000 in cash which he has just received. He is being followed by Billy, a pickpocket, and is nervous about the money. When he arrives home he hides it in a sofa pillow, but the pickpocket sees where he puts it and determines to get the money. Anne is preparing gifts for a charity bazaar and unwittingly gives the collectors the pillow in which the money is hidden. The maid discovers that the missing pillow contains a huge sum and tells her sweetie, the iceman. He also sets out to get the money. Father then learns of his loss and starts for the bazaar. The iceman and the pickpocket also race for the place and there is a fight to buy the pillows. All four buy pillows, each thinking he has the right one, only to discover that the money is in none of them. Finally Anne learns that the pillow has been sold to her Jimmie, who has given it to his aunt. The four of them dash to the aunt's house where they find that the pillow has been sent to the cleaners and then they stage a sprint for the cleaning establishment. Every pillow in the place is torn to pieces, With the feathers flying everywhere. Father falls into a starch tank and the feathers settle on him until he looks like a huge chicken. But he recovers the money and is chased out of the place, taking refuge on an ostrich farm where he is rescued by Anne from the birds who are picking him to pieces. Then Anne decides to take the money and spend it on her honeymoon.
- A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue.
- A man on a cart flies all over town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Walter wants to marry Nancy, but her father, "High Goatee Of The Ancient Order Of The Goat", wants him to pass the test of riding the goat. His rival organizes a false Ancient Order Of The Goat to fool him and have the girl.
- The trials and tribulations of a young couple determined to elope are complicated by the fact that the girl's father is the town judge and decidedly opposed to the young man. Inadvertently he comes into possession of the marriage license, the thousand dollar bank roll and the steamer tickets. The ingenious daughter conceives the idea of recovering them from the courtroom and to do so it becomes necessary to start a fire scare. A mad dash to the steamer via of a motorcycle with bathtub attachment and then the fact is revealed that they have forgotten the necessary detail of being married. Another dash back to an irate traffic cop who is persuaded to be witness to the marriage, and all ends happily.
- When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress.
- Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
- 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.
- Billy is commissioned by his superior officer to invest ten dollars in flowers for a fair lady. Susceptible, as most sailors are, he presents the flowers to the first attractive nurse-maid whom he encounters. Getting mixed up in a group of classical dancers on the lawn of a public park, he replaces the bouquet by taking the flowers which they are using in the dance. Wrongly credited with rescuing a pet dog he is invited by the owner of the canine to her house to receive a reward. Arrived there he is utilized as the lover for rehearsals of an amateur version of the hectic Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks," tiger rug and all. The usual suspicious husband being tipped off by the house-maid arrives to annihilate his supposed rival, the poor boob sailor. But before he can carry out his dire plans two traffic policemen, seeking him for violating the speed laws, invade the house. Then naturally a free-for-all fight and marathon race in which everybody takes part.
- 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.
- A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- 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.
- 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.
- A baby is dumped on a couple's doorstep, neither knows how to take care of the child, and funny situations arise. But things get more complicated when the husband receives a letter informing him that his mother is sick.
- 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.
- Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
- A city chap, who as the result of a ducking, is forced to wear "rube" clothes. He meets a cabaret dancer who thinks to have fun by kidding him and keeping up the bluff he goes to the cabaret in this make-up. His action finally necessitates calling the police and in making a getaway he dons a ballet girl's costume.
- At the home of Mrs. McGee, the Anti-Prizefight League is about to elect officer. Old Cornelius McGee is a hot fight sport and when he is nominated for president of the club, he is elected after Mrs. McGee offers her home as a club-house with refreshments free. This method of gaining his election makes the rival candidate. Hiram Prune, sore, and he and Cornelius exchange warm words. The argument ends when Cornelius offers to fight it out by proxy, the proposition that a fighter he will pick out will whip a battler Hiram will select. The men agree to conditions and set the following Tuesday evening at Kelley's as the time and the place. Cornelius is hard put to find a fighter but finally chooses the butler as his battler after James admits having been champion of the gas-house district. Cornelius starts training him immediately. At the big fight Tuesday night. Hiram Prune's entry. Battling Bittsky, is the odds-on favorite. In the first round Bittsky is getting a trimming from the butler when he lands on a hay-maker that stretches James on the floor. The bell ending the round saves the day for Cornelius' entry. The second round starts and James again hits the floor. Seeing the bout and the wager slipping away with the referee's count. Cornelius revives his fighter by the judicious use of a hatpin. A second application is necessary a second later but the third application revives the rival fighter. Bittsky fouls James and Cornelius jumps into the ring. When the referee tries to quell him, he cleans up on all of them and escapes from the police who answer the riot call. They chase him home, however, where he hides both from the cops and his wife. Everything is smoothed out though, when the police tell Mrs. McGee that Cornelius has "broken up a prize fight."
- Professor Pierre Ginsberg is having wife trouble and, on the advice of his lawyer, sets out to wear her down with kindness; she wants constant entertainment his lawyer promises him that a month of dancing and entertainment will eventually kill her or, at least, calm her down some. The exact opposite happens and Professor Ginsberg stands a good chance of dying himself. He manages to sing a song, in the best Willie Howard style, along the way.
- Bobby elopes with Duane and marries her against the wishes of her mother, who has selected the rival for her. The girl is bustled off to Reno for a divorce and is followed by Bobby, whose arrest is ordered on arrival. This starts a merry chase, in which Bobby eludes his pursuers, lures them all into a closed police patrol wagon, drives them out on the desert where he threatens to leave them as prey for wild animals unless all agree to another marriage ceremony on the spot.
- Billy gets caught flirting with his wife's school chum, and his wife and her friend hatch a plot to cure him.
- A chauffeur falls in love with the daughter of his employer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
- 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.
- A crooner is engaged to a woman who believes her father enjoys listening to her sweetheart on the radio. She is mistaken.
- Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.
- Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck! Billy reaches the Von Ratseller mansion where a tough army sergeant is his rival. Army sergeants are terrified of navy guinea pigs, at least until they learn that the disease-ridden rodent never actually escaped from the zoo. Fortunately for Billy, a public health assault squad armed with gas masks and disinfectant sprayers shows up and starts spritzing. Everyone gets giddy and collapses. The addled Billy takes the opportunity for a smooch with his girl. And when they start to lose their nerve, there's always another giddy spritz from that spraygun.
- Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!
- Newlywed Neal is expecting his wife, who is visiting her mother. Betty wants to bring Mother home with her so she can meet her son-in-law, but Neal objects and Betty returns alone. This causes the newlyweds' first quarrel. Betty's friend Ethel succeeds in getting Neal to allow mother-in-law to come, but he escapes under the cover of an urgent business trip. Stella, although young in years, is an old-fashioned and quiet lady. Betty and Ethel decide to make her over, and after a steam bath and pretty clothes, mother was rejuvenated and looks 20 years younger. The two girls then decide to take mother out to a café, and they tell her that if she wants to have some fun she must flirt a little. Neal comes back from his trip and, finding his home empty, goes to the same café. Betty and Ethel have met some friends and leave mother alone. Neal sits at a table next to Stella and is attracted by her good looks. They flirt and pretty soon Neal comes, sits at the same table and buys drinks. He even kisses Stella. A picture of Betty in Neal's watch attracts Stella's attention and she realizes that Neal is her son-in-law. She enjoys the situation and promises Neal that she will see him again. Neal goes home. Betty takes Ethel home after leaving mother at the door of their house. Neal sees Stella enter the apartment and is puzzled. He insists that she leave, saying that he is a married man, and nearly faints when Stella tells him that she intends to spend the night there. Betty comes back and Neal hears her opening the door. Afraid to be caught with another woman, he pushes Stella into the bedroom and tries in vain to keep Betty away from said room. When Betty comes out of the bedroom and asks why he has hidden mother there, Neal nearly collapses, but recovering, says, "Oh, just a little joke; mother and I are great friends." Betty is delighted, but mother and Neal decide that the wisest thing to do is to keep mum.
- The city editor refuses to give Anne a reporter's job. Two photographers have failed to get a picture of Senator Hangnail, and Anne is promised a job if she succeeds. She gets into the senator's house and is suspected of being a mafia black-hand terrorist. Escaping that, she manages to snap several pictures but, when they are developed, she has photographed everything by the senator's face. The senator has hired a couple of bodyguards to protect him the the 'black-hand' woman, and takes them to eat at a café. She poses as a waitress and gets the picture. She is offered the job but her boyfriend, Jimmie, says he will have to get another girl to be his wife, and she turns down the job.
- Glenn (Glenn Tryon), is trying to get into a secret fraternity in order to impress his girlfriend, Fanny (Helen Mann). But his rival is the president of the fraternity and has some very special plans for Glenn. The latter soon finds himself crooning a love song to two tough policeman. and being instructed to convince his blond sweet patootie, Fanny, that he prefers a brunette sweet patootie.
- 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.
- 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.
- A wife plots to keep her husband at home.
- Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
- A young woman's plan to trick an old rich Scot out of his money backfires.
- Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.