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- 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.
- A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
- 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.
- Evicted from his boarding house, a man takes his bed and belongings to the poorer section of a city. It rains but he lets down an awning and has shelter. He shares it with a girl who is unsheltered. It becomes cold and everything freezes. He is telling her of his love and feels a punch in the ribs, and wakes up to find a policeman in front of his boarding house telling him to move along.
- "Ham", an effeminate man-child who skips around chasing butterflies with a net, is forced to go on a camping trip to "make a man out of him".
- A man hired by a penny-pinching wealthy family to fulfill multiple roles for the family causes chaos at each task he is given.
- Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.
- Egbert Eggleston is a correspondence-school private detective. A gang of crooks rob some local homes and Edbert follows them into the big city and on into Chinatown. To keep from being detected he poses as a Buddah statue, and the incense puts him to sleep. And dreams he is a fairy queen,
- Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely everything goes wrong.
- Lloyd is just a private in the big army of the unemployed. But he is trying. He will try anything once, and if he isn't thrown out, he'll try it again. He gets a job as an electrician's helper. Now our hero knows just about as much about electricity as the ancient Egyptians knew about the Charleston. But, as said before, he is willing to learn. He is taken out on his first job after an apprenticeship in the store. Luckily nothing more serious happened in the store than the breaking of a gross of bulbs and turning on the "juice" in an electric gridiron just when the boss had his hand on it. But those are little things. At the house where Estelle lives and where he is trying to make a big hit, he makes his first serious blunder. He connects a line carrying high voltage -22,000 of them-into the house circuit and then things begin to happen. First, the electric sweeper creates such a vacuum that things disappear right in front of him. Then the radio swells up and bursts. But when the piano begins to play and all the strings and keys jump out, that is the last straw. The boss knows something is wrong and orders Lloyd to the cellar to inspect the meter. Lloyd tinkers with the meter until he short-circuits it and then there is a big explosion which leaves nothing of the house standing except the doorway. Lloyd then knows he has made a slight error somewhere, so after courteously bidding the owner a pleasant good-day, he bows his way out of the door and is on his way, once more a private in the army of jobless.
- A mother has high hopes of her son, who is born on a Southern farm, becoming a cotton king. He grows up to be a handy man on the plantation.
- Lloyd, in search of a job, runs across a former buddy whose life he had saved in the war. He is invited to the latter's birthday party and his escapades at the function of society's elite are ludicrous and laughable in the extreme. But funniest of all is his flight in the flivver accompanied by every canine in the neighborhood. One of the most persistent of the hounds chews his way in through the top of the car as the rain starts falling in torrents. The deluge continues until the occupants are flooded into the already flooded streets.
- An overly ideal fellow visits a rich family and recalls a pilgrims-vs.-Indians episode, then aids a desperately poor family by seeming to be able to produce money out of thin air.
- A three-some is waiting at the first tee for another player in order to complete their four-some when who comes into sight but our hero. He is carrying a golf bag and one club, but he eagerly accept their invitation to join the game. Lloyd tees up and take a swing at the ball with a strange looking club. It opens into an umbrella and carries him off the tee. His newly-found friends furnish him with another club and he scoops out a divot as large as a door mat. The next swing is a complete miss and one of his friend hands him a huge club. Lloyd's shot hits Dr. Frank, the keeper of a private sanitarium-a polite word for insane asylum. On the second tee, Lloyd again smacks the ball down the fairway and again it hits the doctor. All through the game he hits the doctor until this individual is mad enough to kill him. At the finish of the game Lloyd's gentlemen friends are met by a chauffeur who tell them that their car b waiting. They ask Lloyd to visit them at their home. Lloyd gets into the car and is driven to the sanitarium-;- He does not know that his new friends are a bunch of nuts that the squirrels have overlooked. In the sanitarium, Lloyd is surprised at the behavior of some of the people he finds there until he discovers that they are all lunatics. A beautiful girl begs him to help her escape and makes her plea very forcible by kicking Lloyd every time his back is turned. Doctor Frank is in charge. The doctor orders Lloyd into a straitjacket but a mouse runs into it and Lloyd tears the jacket to pieces. Then he meets a man with a wonderful invention-a self propelled airship which works ok for him, but which lands Lloyd in a heap outside the walls of the asylum.
- Lloyd has spent his entire life savings on a new flivver.
- Lloyd ends up as a referee at a charity prize-fight, where he takes considerable knocking about by both contestants.
- Lloyd, as a milkman, is hired to give lessons in table manners to an ex-sheepherder that has become a newly-rich oil magnate.
- 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.
- Competing taxi drivers vie for fares and stoop to devious and destructive methods. They also have rival football teams and play an outrageous, stop-at-nothing match that includes improbable vehicles and animals getting in the game.
- Lloyd is skipping along bound nowhere in particular when a gust of wind blows his hat off and Lloyd stages a big game hunt right in the midst of traffic. He finds the hat just in time to see it destroyed. He goes into a shop to buy another headpiece. The clerk is one of those fellows who is always trying, but he hasn't any more idea of the kind of hat Lloyd wants than he has of the size of the polar ice cap. Lloyd tries on hunting hats, riding hats, slouch hats, derbies and helmets. He tries everything from a hat big enough for a hippo down to one too small for a worm. He finally finds one that looks alright up on a shelf but the clerk pulls the shelf and all over trying to get it. Lloyd picks a hat from the wreckage and pays the bill. No sooner is he out the door than the hat is knocked off and crushed by a street-car. Another hat is purchased and this one is smashed by a truck. A small boy with a Pogo stick accounts for the third. He gets a fourth and decides to have the pleasure of throwing that one away himself. But it comes back to him. Then he shows the trick to a policeman and finally decides to duplicate it with the policeman's cap. But the cap lands in a fire and Lloyd hastily gives him his last hat and walks away. Then Lloyd gets a job in a beauty parlor where elderly maids are made into new chickens and double chins are lifted without the aid of an elevator. Lloyd furnishes a gentleman with an egg shampoo but the eggs have passed their youthfulness, and the customer is indignant. Then he steers a heavyweight gent into a steam room when it is his wife who wants a beauty bath. Lloyd carelessly targets how long the man has been steaming. and when his patron comes out, he has melted down to the size of a midget. It's a great life. but it looks to Lloyd as though he should be getting along to a safer neighborhood. So he quits the beauty shop while he is able to go unharmed.
- The troubles of a school teacher in a tough town of gun toting pupils.
- It is Lloyd's first trip on a sleeper and his troubles are augmented when his services are commandeered by a deputy sheriff who is conducting a pair of hard criminals to Sing Sing. They are left in Lloyd's keeping, but promptly take the gun from him and proceed to make their getaway through the made-up sleeper. Complications come thick and fast with many of the travelers confused as to the location of their own berths. Lloyd finally gets possession of the whole car when at an unscheduled stop he captures a "silver fox" (skunk).
- Lloyd is a detective in a private firm of crime hounds. Business is very slack until the firm gets a peculiar sort of case. At the house of old Bixby, a millionaire, mysterious messages have been received from a criminal signing himself "Scarface." These predict the disappearance of a valuable diamond necklace, worn by Betty, his daughter. The note names midnight as the hour the necklace will vanish. Bixby communicates with the detective agency, and Lloyd and the manager come out to the house to protect the valuables and capture the crook. They station the occupants of the house at points of vantage and wait for something to happen. They are warned that whoever the flashlight falls on shall die. They do not have to wait long, for doors begin to open and close, and mysterious noises are heard. Lloyd is scared stiff but tries to catch the crook, although the fateful light falls on him. Scarface adopts the disguise of a huge gorilla and terrorizes the entire household. He glides from room to room, through walls, trapdoors and secret exits, completely mystifying the watching detectives or frightening them out of their wits. The chase leads to the cellar. Lloyd is left there alone while boxes and barrels move around the gloomy place. Finally he thinks he has captured the crook-but it is only his partner. The gas light in the cellar is blown out and the gas escapes. Lloyd asks for a match to light the gas and when the match is struck the house blows up, the explosion landing the two detectives and the crook on the branch of a tree. Lloyd slips the handcuffs on the crook just before the bough breaks.
- Comedy with Lloyd and his dog, Buddy, who are trying to rid Philyburg of a swarm of flies prior to the city's annual toboggan contest and unveiling of an outdoor fountain. Hamilton and his dog pal, use various means to kill flies in humorous ways. But in chasing a frog, Buddy ends up in the city's reservoir with mud flying everywhere and polluting Philyburg's fresh water supply. As the fountain is turned on at its dedication, the city residents are sprayed with brackish water. Blame is pointed squarely at Buddy and he and Lloyd are evicted from Philyburg. A forthcoming freight train provides the pair with their means of escaping the hostile citizenry. The second half of the film finds Lloyd and Buddy now aboard a freight car with four hobos who've been consuming whiskey. The combination of whiskey, Buddy, and some loose chicks provide the slapstick comedy as our anti-heroes adapt to their railroad car environment.
- A newspaper boy who rescues a debutante's runaway dog and who is consequently rewarded by being invited to a society bazaar for charity is the trend of the story.
- Charlie has just been notified that he has secured the job of floorwalker at a large new department store. Fortified with confidence he visits the home of Virginia, daughter of the store owner, and proposes marriage. The father says "No!." It doesn't help Charlie's cause any that he breaks the bottle on the owners head at the store christening. Charlie gets put in charge of the one-hour bargain sale. He lives to regret it.
- At Glen's home, his father and mother have just received a wire saying that Glen, their son, was married the night before and he is hurrying home with his bride. Father wires him to hurry home and get $50,000 as a wedding present. Glen receives the wire but he can't remember getting married. He has been on a big party and he recalled very few events of the evening. But to get the $50,000 he has to produce a wife. He asks his roommate, Lloyd, to find one for him. But Lloyd fails to locate a suitable one after an exhaustive search, and returns home disgusted. Glen tells Lloyd he will have to dress as the wife. Lloyd is fitted out in female attire, and they set out for the home of Glen's father. When they arrive, the family immediately takes to the new bride. Estelle, the pretty daughter, makes quite a fuss over the bogus wife. Father, a frisky old gent, also gets smitten with the bride and makes himself a general nuisance. Henry, the son, becomes jealous and tries to take out his spite on the bride. Lloyd is annoyed by these attentions and plays some rough game with the men. Henry decides the bride has a wooden leg. He and father plan to find out if this is true by using needles. But their trick recoils on them, and the fake bride is greatly upset. Everything is finally straightened out satisfactorily when Lloyd takes off his wig and tells Estelle he is a man.
- Lloyd is the wandering boy who left home to set the world on fire, only to find that the world was made of asbestos. Broke and too proud to go home he encounters an affable stranger seeking company for dinner. The latter leaves a lead dollar for Lloyd to pay the bill. He is ejected from the establishment with considerable violence, only to run into more difficulty in a cheap lodging house. A social crook asks Lloyd's assistance in getting into a house under the pretense that he has lost his key. The latter recognizes the house as that of his father but is told that the stranger has just purchased it. The family rushes into the room as the safe is blown and then under these circumstances the prodigal is welcomed home.
- Lloyd is the lover who goes to the photograph gallery to get his picture taken and succeeds only in wrecking the gallery. He then goes to the home of the girl, where her rich father is entertaining his guests with the aid of a magician. Lloyd becomes the butt of all of the magician's tricks and before the thing is concluded the house is also a wreck.
- Lloyd is unsuccessful in his attempts to catch some fish for his sweetheart and also in his various endeavors to board a ship on which his sweetheart is taking a trip with his rival and her father.
- Lloyd appears as an alert press photographer.
- Lloyd gets to Grace's house just in time to hear her father say he is taking her away on a trip to Europe. Graces asks Lloyd to meet her at the pier to say goodbye. But Lloyd catches the wrong bus to the pier and, before he knows it, has signed up with the U. S. Navy for a four year tour-of-duty. From there it is slapstick and sight gags.
- The hero teaches night school and tries to sleep in the daytime. His parrot has other ideas and keeps him awake with its wise cracks. At school his pupils prove to be men and women of all ages, who shower him with gifts. Among the presents is a loaded cigar, which the teacher puts in his pocket. After having trouble with all the bad boys in the class, dodging paper balls and trying to lecture under difficulties, he gets everything under control by the time the principal, his daughter and the school board visit the classroom. The teacher gives the cigar to the principal in an endeavor to make an impression on him. It explodes and the board leaves in disgust. A dog visits the classroom and when chased out comes back with its friends and relatives. In the chase the schoolroom is wrecked.
- After participating in the first tournament of the season at a private fishing club, Lloyd smokes his first cigar and becomes so ill he has a wild dream.
- Lloyd, broke and out of a job gets employment as a dishwasher and is promoted to waiter in a fashionable restaurant where his rival brings his best girl to dine. Lloyd, humiliated and embarrassed, spills much of the edibles on the rival and eventually walks off with girl.
- A country boy arrives in the city, where taxicab drivers surround him and in their efforts to claim him as a fare leave him in the street practically unclothed. A policeman orders Hamilton to get some clothes on, and, in his efforts to do so, he enters a clothing store, where some of the action takes place, and then a shoe store, where some laughable situations occur. When Hamilton finally is clothed with a suit, the policeman pacified, he is overtaken by a rain storm, and as the new clothing dries it shrinks so that the policeman becomes wrathful again.