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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- 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.
- Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
- 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.
- When Jimmie's girl pays him little attention, he proceeds to follow a tip and "treat'em rough." Real caveman stuff follows, and somehow he wins the girl with it. But during the wedding the groom is kidnapped and forced to put on a convict's uniform--and then he meets an actual gang of prisoners working on the road.
- A wife refuses to allow her husband to go to the prize fight because no women are allowed. When she discovers that he has gone she dresses up in male attire and secures a ring side seat.
- 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.
- A young man secretly marries his girl and then smuggles her into his parent's home dressed as a boy chum of his.
- Dorothy falls in love at first sight with Rodney, and while racing after him, breaks the law speeding. She is thrown in jail and her father orders them to keep her there as a lesson. Rodney is also arrested and occupies the next cell. They confide to each other that they are crooks, with bad records. Then Dorothy is released. She breaks the law again and is arrested. Then Rodney is released and tries to get back in. He finally succeeds but finds Dorothy walking out of the jail as he enters. Then the judge sentences them to life together, which just suits both of them and their parents.
- A male fusspot (Jimmie Adams) and attractive maiden (Gayle Lloyd) meet on the "Mountain Dew Express" train, each headed to visit relatives in the Tennessee hills. Upon arriving, however, they quickly discover they're on opposite sides of a Hatfields-and-McCoys-style feud between hillbilly clans. Can romance survive moonshine-fueled rural warfare? Adams carved out a moderately successful career in two-reel comedy shorts for various studios through the later silent era, relying more on his singing talent with the arrival of sound. Alas, not for long, as he died of a heart attack in 1933. - Dennis Harvey
- George is seeking divers ways of committing suicide because his sweetheart has given him the mitten. While attempting to find a painless way of ending his life, he encounters a bathing girl by the name of Chlorine who soon makes him change his mind about wishing to leave this wicked world. Just to relieve his former sweetheart Lillian's mind, he sends her a wire which reads that he is changing his mind and taking chlorine instead. Then George walks home, having in his despondency given away his money to a beggar. Too weary to disrobe, he falls asleep on his bed. When Lillian receives the telegram, she thought chlorine meant poison, so with a bunch of her girl friends, she goes to George's home to inspect the remains. She finds him "dead to the world" but alive. She wants a doctor so she telephones to a "Dr. Hitchem." While waiting for the physician, Lillian regrets that she hadn't accepted the supposed suicide. Soon the doctor arrives with prayer book in hand, for it is a D.D. instead of an M.D. to which Lillian has telephoned. The wedding is held immediately.
- Mrs. Gertrude Lennox (Laura La Plante), formerly Gertrude Bellamy and formerly Mrs. Gertrude Lord, finds herself in somewhat of a ticklish problem, when supposed-dead husband number one Philip Lord (Lew Cody) turns up alive and well to find his wife married to husband number two, Harvey Lennox (Harry Myers), who is not overly thrilled when husband-number one returns from the dead. Meanwhile her younger sister, Doris Bellamy (Joan Marsh) has two romances going; one with Gregory Brown (William Janney), a poor newspaper reporter, and another one with a rich English fop named Victor Staunton (Claud Allister.)
- Hubby is a prey to imaginary ailments and it keeps his wife, Betty, busy remembering the pills for twenty different ailments. On the morning that Hubby develops housemaid's knee, Betty and the doctor decide that something must be done, so doctor recommends making him jealous. Fortunately, at the same time arrive Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed. Betty plans with them, and Mrs. Newlywed drops out of sight. That night Betty has a few friends over to dance. She is made violent love to by Newlywed, whom Hubby believes to be a single man. Next morning, Newlywed comes to take Betty, and Hubby, of course, for a ride. They go boating and spill Hubby in the lake, so that they have to take him home and put him to bed. But Hubby sees Betty slip out in heavy coat and veil. She goes around the corner, meets Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed and the latter puts on Betty's coat and veil, while Betty slips out of sight and goes home. Hubby, just getting started, does not see this, and when he comes in sight Newlywed is kissing the "veiled lady." Hubby forgets that he thinks he is an invalid and gets in a fight with Newlywed. At the police station the veil is lifted and Mrs. Newlywed disclosed, so Hubby can only apologize and go home to Betty. There he throws the pills out of the window and invites her out to a party; the cure is complete.
- Bobby is trying to sell flivvers in Scotland and he hasn't any more chance of selling a car than he has of selling foot-warmers on the Sahara. But he keeps trying. While driving along the road he sees Frances dancing and does a rubberneck stunt. Before he can get his eyes back on the road he bowls Over MacTarnish, the richest man in the neighborhood and his only prospect for a sale. MacTruck, seeing Bobby talking to Frances, and being jealous of the salesman, fixes Bobby's car so that it will not steer or stop. Then he tells Bobby that MacTarnish wants to buy a car. Bobby asks Frances to come for a ride with him and when he gets started they go for a wild jaunt, finally landing, car and all, in the halls of the Mac Tarnish castle. The old man is furious but Bobby still tries to make the sale. He is finally thrown out of the castle. MacTruck conceives another scheme to get Bobby in bad. He tells the young salesman that MacTarnish is very fond of the MacRuff clan and dresses Bobby in the MacRuff plaid. Bobby goes to see MacTarnish again. The MacRuffs and the MacTarnishes are rival clans and Bobby is once more thrown out bodily. A member of the MacRuff clan, seeing Bobby tossed out, tells his brother clansmen that the MacRuffs have been insulted and they grab their trusty broad-swords and go to annihilate the MacTarnishes. They invade the castle, and the old man and his henchmen are in a bad fix when Bobby thinks up a scheme to save them. The old man forgives him-but refuses to buy a car when he sees that Bobby is going to marry Frances-he'll use Bobby's car.
- Bobby and his sweetheart are hungry - and broke. At their boarding house, Bobby figures out a way to steal some food but the landlady quickly puts the kibosh on that and chases them out of the house. Walking down the street, Bobby is caught by a hook and hoisted ten stories above the street before he falls on a pile of mattresses a salesman is demonstrating. He give Bobby $50 for helping make the sale, and Bobby and his honey go to a diner and order $50 worth of wheat cakes.
- Perry and Vivian Reynolds are on their honeymoon when Vivian finds Perry with a girl in his arms; he explains that he merely caught her when she slipped, and Vivian is satisfied about his fidelity. Shortly thereafter, Vivian finds Perry with a girl sitting on his lap and quickly decides to teach him a lesson, flirting with everything in pants, including a Scotsman. Perry is enraged and, on the advice of his friend, Geoffrey, boards a small plane bound for Hawaii. Geoffrey follows the plane in a boat, and Perry jumps out, returning to land and hiding in his own boathouse. The plane on which Perry was riding crashes, and Vivian is disconsolate. She later discovers that Perry is alive, and she resumes her mad flirting. A policeman reports that there is a lunatic on the loose, and Perry, disguising himself as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, crashes one of Vivian's wild parties. After some confusion, Perry and Vivian are reconciled.
- Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two lovers visit a fortune teller who pictures the husband as a loafer and spendthrift refusing to even carry the hod and making his wife slave. The girl breaks off the engagement. Her father tries to prove the fortune-teller a fake, but through the aid of the hero most of the prophecies come true. The hero learns the truth, after he had paid a fighter to lay down in order to make the last prophecy come true. He puts the other fellow out of business and takes his place. Then follows one of the most laughable prize fights ever screened. It is a screaming burlesque, with each fellow laying down on the job and force the other fellow to knock him out, the hero tries to explain but the other fellow won't believe him. Finally the hero gets his opponent real mad and gets knocked out when he jumps out of the ring and kisses the other fellow's girl. After it is all over, of course he wins the girl who is convinced of her error.
- Jerry Warner falls in love with Edith Somers but cannot obtain her father's permission to marry her. Jerry is given $10,000 by his uncle, however, and makes a proposition to Edith's father: if Jerry can retain the money for 30 days, Edith's father will withdraw his objections to the marriage. Edith's father agrees. Jerry immediately invests half of the money in an apparently worthless stock and lends the other half to a friend. Desperate for money, Jerry then accepts the offer made by his friends, Beatrice and Christopher Skinner, that he act as the corespondent in a temporary divorce they must obtain in order to prevent Christopher's disinheritance. After numerous complications, the Skinners manage to stay married, and the value of Jerry's stock doubles, enabling him to claim Edith for his own.
- Hazel, from Iowa, searches for fame in Hollywood. She starts out as a waitress, waiting on the stars, but accidentally becomes a star herself.
- A young woman is being pressured by her father to marry a cad because he has something on the father. However, the boy who really loves her is determined to stop the wedding at any and all costs and marry her himself.
- Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
- An old gentleman goes to the doctor's office and becomes youthful again after the monkey gland operation. He cuts up several didoes in a cabaret and his nephew, the doctor, is worried that the old man's fortune will be gone before he can inherit it. So he gives his aunt the monkey treatment too, and she lures her husband back to the "straight and narrow," although she must show considerable pep to woo him away from the young girls. In the end the doctor gets his reward.
- 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.
- Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.
- Walter accidentally finds himself as the hero of a "thrilling" encounter with a band of "bad" bandits who have kidnapped a baby.
- Bobby has been in the air service but has never got off the ground. He is induced to take the place of an American "ace" at a home party. Things become complicated when his host introduces him to an airplane that he has just purchased.
- On the strength of father's promise of a $10,000 check to the happy bride and groom, a truckload of furniture arrives with which newlywed Mary desired to furnish a city flat.
- Father thinks no rich man's son is a proper husband for his daughter, so he forbids Betty to see Neal. They had a date for the masquerade ball that night, so Betty tells Neal that she will describe his cavalier costume to the cook, who will let him in at the back. But "Slim" Dorgan, crook, overhears this. When he goes to get his costume, Neal sees an old suit of armor outside the shop and the man tells him it is left outside all the time. Betty and Neal get ready for the ball, but as Neal is on his way to Betty's he is waylaid by "Slim" and a pal, who take the cavalier costume from him. "Slim" puts it on and starts for Betty's. Neal thinks of the suit of armor, goes and puts it on. At Betty's, Officer Griffo is making love to the cook, Stella. The costume gets "Slim" in and he finds father counting his money. Neal arrives and catches the pal, watching outside. The crook shoots at Neal. but the bullets have no effect on his armor and the crook runs away. Inside, "Slim'' and father are fighting, and father is knocked out. Neal tries to get in, but is refused admission. Betty has come down and "Slim" attacks her. The pal comes back to warn "Slim"' and is captured by Griffo. Neal gets in and engages in battle with "Slim." Neal bests him and saves Betty just as father comes to. Griffo takes the crooks and father decides that Neal will make a good son-in-law after all.
- A couple's relationship is forbidden by the prospective groom's father, who believes that the bride-elect is the daughter of a former enemy. To hurry the apology demanded from the groom's father by the bride's father, Miss Dalton, clad in the habiliments in which she is to appear in amateur dramatics, comes to ask the pardon. So does Burns, impersonating his father. The complex situation comes with the meeting of the two, but all is cleared when the fathers discover that they have been mistaken in each other's identities.
- The many rejected suitors of Mary Brown form the "Broken Heart Club" and console each other in their misery. The last member decides that Mary needs a lesson and proceeds to give her one. He gets a fashion dummy and on his porch the rejected ones pay "Miss Hope" all sorts of attention. Mary falls for the ruse and starts an investigation. She doesn't find out who the guest is until she has promised to marry the man who had the brains to think up the trick.
- 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.
- Horace Radish wants a drink, but Prohibition is in force. When all his other schemes fail, he heads to the Bootlegger's Haven Hotel with high hopes. But waiting at the hotel is the tough lawman William Allways Tryan, who is ready to toss in jail anyone found with even a drop of liquor.