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- Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
- Balkan Country in which this story is laid, is governed by an elderly widowed queen whose will is of iron. She has a very soft spot in her heart for the Crown Prince Alexis who will eventually succeed her. Alexis is a hefty laughing cavalier who is an all-round sport and the finest shot in the country. Alexis has been officially betrothed to the Princess Elena of Avonia by the old queen. He has never seen her, nor has anyone else in the country besides the old queen. One day the news comes that the Princess is staying at Castle Anuscheff, just like an ordinary school girl on a vacation. The minister informs Alexis that he must go to the castle to pay the Princess a formal visit. The Prince sends his aide, Dimitri, to the castle with a letter announcing his impending visit. The next day, Dimitri rides out through the country. Near the castle he sees a wonderful looking girl riding on horseback. He is instantly smitten by her and tries to race with her. Not succeeding in out-distancing her, he pretends to fall from his horse. The dark-haired beauty turns around at his cry of distress and returns to help him. He stands upright, looks at her and says, "thanks; your eyes are really brown-that's all I wanted to know." The girl, nettled by the impertinence, whips up her horse and gallops off. Arrived at the castle Dimitri sends in the letter from the Crown Prince. He is presented to two girls, one a blonde and the other a brunette. The brunette is the one with whom he tried to flirt in the forest and she is announced as the Princess Elena. Her blonde friend is the Countess Vera Anuscheff. Dimitri feels that he is falling in love with the officially announced bride of the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince arrives and they hold an informal dance. Dimitri sweeps the Princess off her feet with an impassioned declaration of his love. The Prince who has been dancing with the little blonde has seen nothing of what has occurred and he suggests a sleigh ride. He makes Dimitri, drive the blonde while he takes as his partner, the little brunette. A terrific snow storm arises and the Prince's sled overturns. As they are quite close to the inn, the Prince takes the blonde there; they go to his private rooms. After a moment, the Prince comes up with a warm drink for her and tries to calm her. She bursts out with "I'm worried about the Princess Elena." The Crown Prince is mystified; she rattles on. "I'm not the Princess. I'm Countess Vera Anuscheff. The Princess was so nervous about meeting you for the first time, that we changed names for one day and this is what has happened." In the Castle Anuscheff a similar explanation is taking place. Dimitri realizes that the girl whom he loves is not the princess and that she is lost somewhere in the snow storm. He drives hurriedly off. The Prince who is angry at being fooled tries to make love to Vera. She puts up a fight but the Prince is relentless. Dimitri enters in time to save her and she cries to be taken away. Dimitri challenges the Prince to a duel but the Prince has him put under arrest. Next day Dimitri is condemned to death. The Princess on learning the story from Vera, pleads with the Prince to grant a respite. He agrees to give one hour of freedom on Dimitri's promise to return promptly. Vera. persuades him to run away and he is torn between his love and his word of honor. In the Castle, the Princess turns on the Prince and accuses him of having played the part of the coward. Vera enters and tells them that Dimitri has run away. The Prince sneers and Dimitri walks in, confessing that he could not go back on his word. The Crown Prince offers to duel Dimitri, and pistols are chosen. Dimitri flings off his coat and removes a cigarette case from his breast pocket. This is the case that the Prince had given him for having saved his life. Dimitri will not use it as a shield and he removes It. Alexis follows the gesture and repents. The Prince shoots but only hits the pendulum on the clock. The sentence is revoked and the picture ends with Dimitri and Vera dancing their way thru the dark and empty ball room, to the strain of their waltz which is played for them by an old violinist, who is on his way home.
- Al takes the Overland Limited for the open spaces and on the way encounters the girl, who is much sought by a pair of yegg-men, who would capture her and hold her until her father delivered to them the deed to the rich mine he owns. After much horse- play in which Al thwarts the villains after they have taken the girl, it all comes out right in the end.
- A millionaire, alone in his big house except for his servants, receives a letter notifying him that his grandson, Big Boy, has been cared for by a poor family ever since his birth and that the law now demands that he, as the only living relative of the child, assume the care of it. The rich man protests, but it is the law, he sends his chauffeur and his secretary-butler for the infant. Big Boy is found at the widow's home, surrounded by his friends, the widow's children. When he is told that he must go to his grandfather's house to live he is heart-broken. He kisses all his playmates farewell, not forgetting his animal friends-the cows, chickens and the pigs. It is a real blow when he is told that he must leave Mutt, his dog, behind. But Mutt outwits everybody and steals a ride on the top of the big car. He is discovered and thrown off, only to catch a ride on the rear bumpers. When they arrive at the millionaire's home, the dog is thickly covered with dust and soot from the exhaust of the car. Big Boy angers his grandpa first by accidentally stepping inside his silk hat. Then he gets tangled up in the hat rack and has to cry for help. The millionaire regards the child coldly but is very nearly won by Big Boy's smile when the dog enters. Mutt jumps into grandpa's lap, covering him with dust and soot, and then chases the parrot all over the house. This soon has the house in an uproar and throws his grandfather into a terrible mood. Big Boy follows him, tracking soot and mud all over the rugs and carpets, throwing the servant into a rage. But again the millionaire's heart is softened by the child, and the picture closes with Big Boy safely established as a member of the household.
- Jack takes the overgrown juvenile "Big Boy" with him when he goes to play with the other kids, and tries to get rid of the bumble-prone "Big Boy." However, the latter keeps turning up like a bad penny. At the "Beezer Club," "Big Boy" is too large to get inside the door. A storm comes up and the club-members are trying to get the roof papered before it hits, but a herd of goats eats it as fast as they put it on. Later, "Big Boy" breaks a store window and has to leaves his dog as payment.
- Jackie and Tom are assistants in a nursery. Their job is to take care of the babies which tired mothers leave there while doing their shopping. Their duties are numerous, for the nursery is equipped with cubby-holes in which each baby is stored and a machine which bathes and dresses the infants. -The Mayor lives next door to the nursery and the noise and the tricks which Jack and Tom play on him annoys him so that he decides to spend the rest of the summer at Restwell Springs. Hardly has he become settled there before the nursery forces, accompanied by a few of the babies, arrive on the scene. Jack and Tom don't lose any time in starting mischief. Finally the Mayor in desperation calls the council together and proposes an ordinance prohibiting babies being born under twenty years of age. Their deliberations are interrupted by the kids, who have succeeded In substituting a hornet's nest for a roast and the hornets successfully break up the meeting. The Mayor chases the kids into the woods. Determined on revenge they procure a bear skin and attempt to frighten the Mayor who sees through the trick and lays for them with his cane. But a real bear emerges from the woods and chases the Mayor back to the hotel. The sick guests of the sanitarium suddenly regain their health and discard wheelchairs and crutches in a wild scramble for safety. The bear follows and soon clears out the hotel. Jackie and Tom are enjoying the fun hugely when the bear catches sight of them. They climb into their daschund-o-mobile but the dog refuses to pull until he sees the bear headed for them and then he dashes off down the road at express-train speed.
- After being ejected from his boarding house, Lige gets a job at an automotive school, and there isn't much left of the garage or cars in the neighborhood after he gets through teaching a girl to drive.
- Wilbur, a young farmer, contracts to furnish his farm animals for a show. On his way to the city they all get away except his mule. At the Opera House he sees the manager making advances to Sadie, the leading lady. He knocks the manager down and tells Sadie that he'll keep him from bullying her again. The manager tells one of his prop men to throw Wilbur out. But he escapes, dressed in one of the Russian costumes. The show is going on. It is a Russian scene and the chorus is doing a Russian dance when the Czar and Czarina arrive. Wilbur is the Czar and Sadie is the Czarina. In the meantime, the manager instructs his prop men to examine every man with a beard until they find Wilbur. While they are looking for Wilbur, the real Czar comes out of his dressing room and says someone has stolen his costume. They discover Wilbur dressed as the Czar and throw him out. The second act is a country scene with the chorus girls dancing as dairy maids. The property men dress Wilbur's mule in a cow hide. Wilbur sees this, and when no one is looking and changes the hide to his own back. Sadie is carried in on his back and as she starts to alight, he falls and is unable to arise. In his efforts he loses his head and his disguise is penetrated. And once again he is thrown out. When the show is over he is waiting for Sadie at the stage door and they both drive off in the sleigh drawn by the mule. They are stopped by the traffic officer who asks them where they are going. Sadie tells him they are going back to the farm.
- James Benton marries much younger Alice Torrance, who is from from the city, but she soon finds it difficult to adjust to the small town and Benton's preoccupation with his oil wells. When Benton is away, Alice leaves him. Longtime admirer Duncan Phelps, appears in her train compartment, and Alice repulses him just as there is a train wreck. Benton finds Alice's farewell note at the moment he hears of the wreck, but when Alice returns on the rescue train they reunite.
- Bobby is playing sick to get out of some work his mother has told him to do. He is in bed and the doctor is visiting him. His mother and two nurses are also in attendance for Bobby is the son of the richest family in town. But Bobby is all boy-and out on the lot near his window his boy friends are playing base-ball. Bobby is their pinch hitter, but can not get out to play. The score is tied and the team needs his services and they get a message to him. Bobby gets out of bed, still in his nightgown, races to the plate, swings and knocks a home run and keeps on running back to his bed. The doctor come's in again and notices his heavy breathing and declares that he is in a serious condition. Again the score is tied and again Bobby sneaks out to make the winning run. This time some jealous rival throws a tomato which splatters Bobby's face with the juice and when he gets back in bed the doctor declares that he has the measles. The kids outside continue their game until the ball is finally knocked through the window. "Pal" is sent in to get it but fails-and the kids stream in to recover the ball. They are discovered and quarantined in the house. As Bobby is not sick, they plan a wonderful time. He proposes a Charleston contest and the kids don the clothes of the grown-ups and have their party. Then some one proposes a bathing party in the big bathroom. The bunch disport themselves in the spacious tub until they are discovered. Then it is noticed that the "measles" have all washed off of Bobby's face-and the kids are sent home, sadder and wiser.
- Jack was a great help to his mother. He watched the baby while she did the neighbors' washings. ---Then he delivered the washing while mother hunted up more trade. Between deliveries Jack was captain of the East Side Base-BaIl Team. He was captain because he owned the ball. The score of the big game between the East Side and the West Side teams was forty to nothing in favor of the East Side when the game was called on account of darkness, but the West Side hadn't been to bat yeti But Jack's mother decided that her family was too large to be supported by the washing business and Jack was taken to an orphan asylum along with his dog. The dog wouldn't stay out of the asylum and Jack wouldn't stay in. The superintendent sent for the best dog-catcher in town, determined to put Jack's dog under the sod. But the canine catcher had more trouble catching Jack's dog than he would have had catching an eel in a barrel of oil. The dog thought of more ways to outwit the dog-catcher than there were fleas on his back. Jack finally liberated the captives in the dog-catcher's wagon and then the fun started in earnest but Jack saved the entire lot and took them home to his tired mother. Next day Jack was reading the paper when he saw a lost and found advertisement announcing a big reward for the return of a lot of dogs lost from a kennel. Jack recognizes the rescued dogs as the missing pets and returns them to the owner and the reward he gets enables him to buy his mother a new cuckoo clock, a new washboard-and a Rolls Royce.
- A row with the village "tough kid" causes Mickey to seek refuge in a baby show. He disguises as a baby and wins the prize.
- As an actor just graduated from a correspondence school course, Walter jumps from an extra to the male lead when the well formed Romeo in the cast falls through a trap door.
- Lige is assistant lighthouse keeper, under Phil, the grouchy head keeper. Lige's life is miserable, but he has many dreams, not the least of which is that of himself as the gallant captain of a noble ship with hundreds of women as his admirers. On board a passing ship is Estelle, the Princess of Blahstark, who is endeavoring to escape from conspirators who are trying to abduct her and marry her to the pretender to the throne. The Princess overhears their plot and tries to escape by changing clothes with the Chinese steward of the ship. Then Otto, the pretender, forces his attention on the princess and soon discovers that the princess's clothes are on the Chinese steward. The real princess gets in his way and in his rage he throws her overboard, thinking she is a steward. Estelle swims to the lighthouse and is pulled from the water by Lige, who soon discovers that she is a girl. On board the ship, Otto, through his glasses, sees the rescue and tries again to abduct her. He lands at the lighthouse and Lige and Estelle again escape aboard the ship with Otto in close pursuit. Otto chases Lige into the hold where he hides in a sack. The sack is hoisted to the masthead and when Lige takes off the bag he finds himself on the spar. He gets down all right and lands in Estelle's cabin. The ship runs into a terrible storm at sea. In the midst of it, Lige sends for the captain to marry them, but the seas are so high and the ship rolls so that it is impossible to stand. Lige fixes that by pivoting the settee to the all, and while the ship turns hand-springs over and over, he and Estelle are married by the captain.
- When Lige, a simple country lad, hears about the bill money movie actors make in Hollywood, there is nothing that can hold him back from a life on the screen so he cranks up the old family flivver and sets out for the land of movie opportunities. Before he has gone very far one of the tires goes flat and he pulls up to a service station to get some free air, but through a mistake he hooks up with a pipe line from tanks filled with helium gas. The tires on his car assume balloon-like proportions and the old flivver takes a notion to ride among the clouds. Lige has a tough time until he discovers the cause of the flivver's antics and then he pries off the tires and comes back to earth. Arriving in Hollywood he hunts up a studio but finds that it is easier to get into the mint than into a modern movie factory. The gateman is so tough that he even keeps his shadow outside and Lige is kicked out so often he feels like a football. Just as he is about to give up, he trades places with an actor and enters the studio where he is promptly beaten up as part of a big mob scene. Lige wanders among the stages and when he gets mixed up with Lloyd Hamilton there are many funny things happen to him. He finally is hired as a property boy and is given a can of powder to distribute on a movie battlefield, but he leaves a trail through the studio and when the powder is touched off it blows up everything in its path. To escape from the angry studio people. Lige takes refuge in an airplane which is to be shot down by anti-aircraft guns. When he gets high enough the guns start and the plane is soon riddled. Lige retains his hold on the wings and soars over his old home into which he drops just as his father is praying for his safe return.
- The kids from the tenement district are enjoying their annual summer vacation at a "fresh air" camp in the country. There is so much hard luck in camp that if it was raining soup, there wouldn't be a spoon within a mile of the camp. "Big Boy" is at an unlucky age. He is just out of the baby stage and not big enough to be one of the boys. He is left out of all of their games and sports and whenever the gang goes fishing he is left behind. But he surprises them all by his ability to catch fish in the center of the road. They leave him in camp to watch the baby while they go swimming. "Big Boy" presses "Pal" into service and brings the baby along. "Pal" watches the baby while "Big Boy" tries to join the boys. They try to elude him but he follows them "Big Boy" decide to do some more fishing but he is short of bait. He finally gets hold of a piece of Limburger cheese with which he bait his hook. The bait is wonderfully successful for it sets all the fish crazy and "Big Boy's" basket is soon filled. Back at the camp again, "Big Boy" is appointed official "White-wings" and his job is to keep the grounds clean. With a pointed stick and a bag, he collects all the rubbish and is going along fine when he spears the prize fat boy of the camp. A wild animal breaks loose from a circus and it keeper seeks it in the woods near the boys' camp, naturally, this throws a scare into them and lead to many mad scrambles to escape imaginary beasts. Bonnie, the daughter of a millionaire visits the camp and "Big Boy" falls in love with her. The two of them have quite a romance which is spoiled when both he and the girl sit on a pair of the chauffeur's dirty glove. For a while they think the camp is threatened by the black hand. Every thing is straightened out all right and "Big Boy" is in luck once more. Bonnie smiles at him and everything is all peaches and cream.
- A farm hand has a fat girl friend, but he comes to the aid of a sleek heiress and tries to stop her wedding to a seedy aristocrat. The girlfriend gets jealous and complicates his efforts.
- The scenes are laid in a beauty establishment and a grocery store, which adjoin each other. Larry, an expert hair curler, is in love with the grocer's daughter.
- The janitress of a girls' school tries to keep her husband in line and away from the young beauties.
- Into "Big Boy's" life the first drop of bitterness has fallen. No longer is he the pampered pet of the family, for the stork has brought a usurper to take his place. Even mother does not pay any attention to him. He is "shushed" by the nurse, shooed from the bedroom, and even when he tries to get mother to kiss his "hurted" finger, she pays more attention to the new baby. Feeling that he is not wanted anymore, "Big Boy" resolves to leave borne and make his own way in the world. A few personal possessions, a supply of safety pins to guard against mishap, some wieners for sustenance and the young man set out for the wide open space. Walking the railroad tie, he encounters another "knight of the road" and the two become great friends. They camp together and then prepare a "mulligan" over a campfire. A mean sheriff has posted signs prohibiting campfires but when he chases the two wanderers from their fire, even the dog forsakes him. In the meantime, a reward has been posted for the return of "Big Boy". The sheriff and his deputy try to capture him, but the tramp strives to keep his new friend until be can return him safely to his parents. The two unfortunates hunted from pillar to post until "Big Boy" find his way home again. He knows has done wrong and pauses in front of the house to place a tin pie pan in the spot where it will do the most good during the impending spanking. But mother is so glad to see her boy back again that she forgives and foregoes the use of the strap and everyone is happy once again.
- Bobby, hastily rounding a corner, bumps into a stranger and in the mix-up when both fall Bobby in picking up his scattered goods also picks up the stranger's rare old valuable watch, which is wanted by a trio of anarchists. The latter immediately start pursuit of Bobby, who encounters the girl, whose photo is in the case of the watch. He tries to return it to her without success, until after the wildest sort of chase. Then he disposes of the anarchists, returns the watch and wins the girl.
- A young man is the victim of a plot to deprive him of his inheritance by having him committed to an insane asylum. There he meets and falls in love with a pretty nurse and, together, they foil the scheme.
- A farce set in and around a western gold mine featuring a tough foreman who takes no prisoners, and a donkey who kicks everything and everybody within his kicking range. Lige both chases and is chased but he is mostly chased.