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- Dummy inventor Samuel Tinker has just developed a new life-sized mechanical dummy. He and his partner, Peter Clay, modeled the dummy after a janitor in their building. While the inventor's daughter is in love and engaged to Clay, the janitor pines for the daughter. A misunderstanding breaks up the partnership, and Tinker forbids his daughter from marrying his now ex-partner. But the daughter hopes a possible lucrative purchase of the dummy from a vaudeville company will be the impetus for her father and Clay to mend their differences, and for them again to be married. The janitor, who sees this rift as an opportunity, hatches his own plan to be near the one he loves, the plan which involves him taking the place of the dummy. Not wanting to blow his cover, the janitor keeps on masquerading as the dummy even after the sale to the vaudeville company. A life-like dummy with a mind of his own on the loose has its own consequences.
- While engaging in their favorite pastime a group of hunters cause a commotion that culminated in a chase involving autos and geese.
- Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
- Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
- Harry runs into his old Marine sergeant and is reminded of the rivalry they had for a girl while they were stationed in France.
- Molly accidentally takes a picture of a woman who turns out to be her mother, who abandoned her fourteen years ago. She tracks her down, only to find that she has another daughter, and both are connected to a dangerous crime element.
- A meek man heads to the north woods to try his hand as a lumberjack and ends up at a wild west saloon as he woos a beautiful girl.
- When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter.
- Poor Walter messes up his old sweetheart's wedding, botches a suicide attempt, and rides along on her honeymoon. Can he get some CALIENTE LOVE for himself at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he deserves?
- "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act, only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
- Bookkeeper Ralph Graves loses his job because he pays too much attention to the beautiful Thelma Hill but he can redeem himself when her family needs help.
- An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.
- Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife Carmelita is being unfaithful. His landlord Billy offers to take her out to a cafe and have Wilbur follow them to test his wife's fidelity.
- Marge Clancy leaves her small town and boyfriend Joe behind to strike it big in Hollywood. The only work she can get is stunt doubling. Joe goes after her and causes many messes in the studio.
- A bashful man in love with a blonde beauty enlists the help of his cousin for advice how to win her hand. Will the cousin's unorthodox advice get the girl?
- A Marine aviator spies a sunbathing woman below and will do anything to meet her. Her boyfriend, a journeyman boxer, will do anything to stop him.
- Two men propose to Agnes at her birthday party. Both suitors fight over their sweetie until a new woman arrives and turns their heads until another man arrives. Watch closely for an early, uncredited appearance by Betty Grable.
- Lloyd, Marjorie, and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the girls selling music sheets. He has eyes of Marjorie, but she feels that she can do better and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
- As Harry has "cleaned up" on the football field and won the big game, Natalie's dad figured that he should do the same in the world of work before marrying his daughter. Harry's chance to prove himself comes with an "engineering" job with the city. But it's sanitary engineering, and while our street sweeping hero tries his best, he just can't avoid making enemies. When he stumbles into the midst of a lively Chinatown tong war, it's Harry's bravery that saves Natalie and wins the day.
- Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
- When attacked by two dogs, Joe Gilmore leaves them on the desert to die. Later one of the dogs saves John Blake from drowning. Men arrive claiming the dog is killing their chickens. They want to kill the dog but John convinces them the dog's fate should be determined by a trial.
- Andy, feeling that he's getting old, chases after a young girl, but gets more than he bargained for.
- An expert bridge player marries a man with a solid claim to being the world's worst card player. On the wedding night, he trumps her ace and lands in hot water.
- A misogynist Fire chief counsels his nephew to avoid matrimony at all costs. Uhe love-struck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel.
- In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed and it takes a bride's kiss to set things right.
- A jealous father thinks his son is after Dad's fiancee and kicks the son out. Working in California, he falls for a girl and runs into his new Mamma with another man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
- Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown, both traveling salesmen, meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy somehow manages to get one of his old girlfriends, telephone operator Peggy, to (reluctantly) set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody who spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperones. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
- A burlesque on the "Frozen North" pictures and the fly-by-night production. Fans are disillusioned by showing that snow, icicles, sleigh-dog races and the atmosphere are sometimes artificial.
- Charlie Murray and his daughter Phylis Haver run a boarding house frequented by penniless actors and bathing beauties.
- A couple of young newlyweds are enjoying their marital bliss when they have an unexpected house guest: an ex-husband, played by Catlett. It doesn't take much time before he wears out his welcome and the two men battle it out. They end up having to take the shenanigans to court and having the judge sort out the mess.
- A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a shady hypnotist who hears about the man's good fortune. He manages to get a chance to hypnotize the winner and then takes his ticket, after which he disappears. When the man wakes up and realizes his ticket has been stolen, he sets out to find the phony "professor" and reclaim his ticket.
- A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play.
- Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
- Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings them. He meets a young boy, Laury, and his mother Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson--who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morley's daughter, had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
- Kentucky loses his horse in a rigged horse race and gets framed for the murder of a stagecoach driver.