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- A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her.
- A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
- The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.
- Although his parents have warned him to stay away from the movies, our hero winds up acting in a costume picture, doubling for comedian Lloyd Hamilton.
- A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
- While his wife (Helen Foster) is away, the husband (Johnny Arthur) attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pillows everywhere, and a dog (Napolean) decides to chase a cat around the house wiping out what the water and fire didn't damage already.
- A stolen garter. A kidnapped girl thrown off a bridge. A mother's kiss. A father's kiss - and plenty of pies in the face. Who threw those pies?
- 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.
- 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.
- Johnny is a pupil in a school for barbers. He is elated when he is sent out to a swell hotel barber shop in the city. Johnny makes a lot of errors with a razor, but fortunately doesn't scalp anyone. He handles hot towels carelessly and is a little unhandy with the clippers, but by managing to escape the eagle eye of the proprietor he keeps his job. Then he meets Helen. She is a simple country girl with her dresses to her ankles. She hasn't even learned to roll her socks. She makes a big hit with Johnny, who is heart-broken when she is refused a job as manicurist at the barber shop. Johnny tells Helen that she must spruce up a bit. She tucks up her skirts, rolls down her socks and on her second appearance makes a big hit with the boss barber and gets the job. Johnny is already in love with her. One of Johnny's errors with a razor results in the complete destruction of the beard of one of the patrons. But Johnny grabs the wig of a patron in a nearby chair, glues it on, and is about to get away with the deception when the bald-headed man discovers his loss. His wig is recovered but the bearded man swears vengeance when he catches Johnny. Johnny and Helen are sent to one of the hotel rooms to attend a guest. She is a beautiful vamp who proceeds to practice her wiles on Johnny. While she is vamping him, her sweetheart comes in. He is the man whom Johnny's error with the razor whom had robbed of the beard. He chases Johnny around the room until the luckless barber takes refuge in the bathroom. The guest next door, hearing a noise in the bathroom and thinking it is some suitor of his wife's breaks in the door just as the vamp's sweetheart enters from the other side. Each accuses the other-and the fight is on. When they are both knocked out, Helen enters, sees the prostrate men and, thinking Johnny has vanquished them, hails him as her hero.
- 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.
- In 1830, a train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for most of them, but the real challenges come when the train is ambushed by Indians.
- A lonely country girl writes her name on an egg. Ten years later it is found in a lunch room by a man who hates work and sees a chance to get a good home easily. He arrives, only to find that the lady has already been married once and is about to marry a second time.
- Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
- A farm girl visits her cousin, an out-of-work actress, in Hollywood. Men flock to the fresh-faced newcomer, including the head of a movie studio, whose house they borrow to throw a wild Hollywood party.
- 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.
- Mrs. Morton, a tireless bargain hunter, hires a young man to act as chauffeur, gardener, butler, and valet to her husband. He takes the job to be near his sweetheart, next door.
- Felix the Cat is on a meeting of cats, and says they can all live in space. He fires an arrow upwards with a rope attached. The arrow hits the tire of a cyclist on Saturn, who pulls up the rope and Felix with it. The cyclist fights with Felix and then kicks him of the planet. Felix lands on Mars, where he saves the king from a comet. He then throws a rope to Earth, inviting all the cats to come to Mars.
- Felix starts to worry that, because he's a black cat, he may be a jinx. In fact, he worries about that so much that he becomes morose, doesn't eat and begins to get thin and scrawny. He realizes that it's not good for his health and that in order to get better, he has to learn how to laugh so he'll eat more.
- Felix chases a mouse onto a ship, gets seasick, and eventually finds himself in Holland. He flirts with a local Dutch girl and angers a local man who hits him in the head with a wooden shoe. He makes a deal with another man for a dish of milk in exchange for watering the man's plants, but Felix accidentally puts gin into the watering can and gets the plants drunk.
- A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
- A wacky bunch of explorers go to the "I'm Gagging country" (reference to Ingagi, released the same year) to make an African picture on a Gorilla and his girl.
- The burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is suffering. He hangs out a "man wanted" sign and awaits results. A knock comes on the door and in walks an old lady. With her is her son Lloyd, who applies for the job as soda-jerker. He is accepted, dons his apron and starts mixing the drinks. As a soda-counter man, Lloyd is a total loss with no insurance. He tries to copy the artful style of his fellow workers at the fountain but only succeeds in spilling the drinks all over the place. He has little better luck serving the food orders. A patron orders a stuffed tomato and Lloyd, watching his co-worker tries it himself. He stuffs it with everything behind the counter until it is stretched all out of shape. When the customer sticks it with his fork, it explodes in his face. For this Lloyd is taken from behind the counter and set to work in the gymnasium as an instructor. He tries to teach the class a lesson in Indian.club work but makes a mistake with his orders and the entire class is knocked out. When he tries to show them how to perform on the flying rings, he puts them all into a state of horror by his healthy swings which carry him out of the window high over the city below. The proprietor comes in just in time to see Lloyd do something more foolish than ordinary. He gets sore and tells Lloyd that he is going to give him boxing lessons. On the floor above a lady is taking exercise and jumps up and down. Her weight dislodges one of the globes on the light in the ceiling below, just above the head of the gymnasium proprietor. Just as Lloyd swings, the globe hits the proprietor on the head, knocking him out on his feet. Other globes fall until the burly instructor is completely out, and Lloyd is hailed as the gym champion.
- Casey Jones, Jr. (Lige Conley), assistant to the president of the railroad, is sent to speed up the Speed-Ball Express, Celeryville's month-late arrival. Casey has things going reasonably well, until Mexican Pete and his banditos board the train and steal the safe.
- Lupino Lane is a wealthy young sap very much loved by the young hostess at the party, but not by the young clubman athlete who is his rival. The latter finds cause to eject him from the house and does so. Lane is advised to start training in a gymnasium and eventually to get his revenge. After six lessons he thinks the time has arrived, but gets himself another beating. A month later a regular bout between them is arranged and after a terrific battle Lane is again defeated. Still later he meets the girl and his rival on the links and in a rough, and tumble fight wins, only to find the girl has fled over the course with two other suitors.
- A star-struck fan of a film star botches his chance to meet her with a wardrobe malfunction. But, did Lester give up so easily? He sneaks onto the movie studio to try and make amends--which does not go exactly as planned.
- A man buys a jalopy to impress a girl. It works, but she is just using him to make her lover jealous,
- An animated short in which Felix the Cat is drawn, but he is not satisfied with the results and he attempts to fix it.
- A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife mistakes him for a prize athlete, and he's put on the football team. The big game includes unusual things like a mud hole on the field and a wasp nest substituting for the ball.
- A radio station catches fire, and the mouse-girl that does the exercise program is trapped on the studio's upper floor. A boy mouse listener pulls her to safety through his radio at home.
- Two aspiring marksmen take lesson in a shooting gallery with make-believe marshes as the background. Their ability stays at zero while they manager to demolish the shooting gallery. What they have left standing is undone by the man in the studio below them who is trying to attach a gas-light fixture to the ceiling.
- The wife and doctor of a hypochondriac come up with a creative way to cure him of his malady.
- When Buttonshoe Bill steals some papers from Buckwheat Ben, and kidnaps Ben's daughter, Rodney Hemingway comes to the rescue.
- A Terrytoons animated short. Starts off with Salty McGuire singing his introduction sailing to a popular beach where anthropomorphic animals enjoy the beach. Suddenly a damsel in distress calls out for help and Salty McGuire is there for the rescue.
- The aspiring actresses get a call offering all three an acting job. The problem is, while celebrating their good fortune, no one asked which studio hired them, so they set off in search of the job.
- 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.
- "Old-fashioned rancher father Pop Martin wants his wayward daughter Marje to marry foreman Jim Brady just as soon as she leaves the finishing school he has sent her to make her behave herself. Marje prefers dashing young cattle inspector Frank Thornby and runs away from school. Jim finds Marje and brings her home. Pop is waiting for his disobedient daughter. Marje has a lot of explaining to do, and a lot of cajoling if she's to marry Frank instead of Jim. A slapstick battle of wills follows between Pop and Marje."