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- Nerve lands "Rainbow" Riley a job as cub reporter on the Louisville Ledger. His first big assignment is to cover a feud in the Kentucky mountains between the Ripper and White clans. Thinking that the assignment is in the nature of a vacation, "Rainbow" provides himself with athletic equipment. Arrived at the scene of the hostilities, "Rainbow" is forced to declare his ability to use a boomerang as a weapon of defense instead of a sawed-off shotgun. Because "Rainbow" is in love with Alice Ripper, the village belle and sweetheart of Tilden McFields, known as the "killer" of the Ripper clan, he antagonizes the Rippers. Conversely because he cannot fall in love with Becky White, who loves him, he incurs the enmity of the White faction. Both sides set out to exterminate him. He elopes with Alice, sending a telegram to his newspaper stating that there is unprecedented danger in the mountains. The lovers, however, are captured by McFields, who releases "Rainbow" upon the girl's promise to renounce him. Later "Rainbow" rescues Alice by taking a precarious swing across a deep ravine on the end of a cable wire. Trapped by enraged feudists of both sides, "Rainbow" keeps them temporarily at bay by giving them a fusillade of golf, tennis and base-balls. Meanwhile the telegram telling of the unprecedented danger has been interpreted to read "president in danger," and the militia, and the air force hasten to the scene succoring "Rainbow" and Alice in the very nick of time. "Rainbow" the cub, returns to his paper not only with the biggest scoop of the feud that the paper has ever had, but also with the adorable Alice.
- Prince Arthur is in love with the fair princess Lena. He asks for her hand, and is accepted. Zamaliel, supreme monarch of all that is evil, decides to come upon earth from the lower regions to prey upon mankind, in his peregrinations, his first victims are the joyous Prince Arthur and the Princess Lena. His evil eye covets the beauteous damsel, and he begins his cruel machinations to accomplish his selfish purpose. Fantasma, the fairy queen, Queen of Good and Light, whose realm is not far distant, has her subjects safeguard the lives of young lovers. They observe Zamaliel's coming upon earth with two of his infernal sprites, quickly the news is sped to Fantasma. All Fairyland is in a turmoil, and the Queen, with her retinue, goes forth to protect the Prince and princess and pay Zamaliel his deserts. We follow Arthur through his wanderings over hill and dale, and finally to his descent beneath the sea, before he rescues his betrothed. Fantasma has created Pico as Arthur's companion in the rescue, and with their faithful goat, they pass through many and varied experiences. Good finally triumphs over evil, and we see the two lovers sailing away on the Sea of Happiness.
- 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.
- Joe, the new boy in town, is initiated into the gang's secret club. But the proceedings are interrupted when a couple of auto thieves hide out in the kids' meeting place.
- Two playful young ladies make the acquaintance of two idle sons, who follow them, persistently forcing their way into a dancing academy, much against the dancing master's will. One of them gets a bright idea, and with the help of two pieces of mirror and a long pipe making a periscope, watch the dancing lessons. They are much interested in the dance of the seven veils, when the dancing master spies the periscope. He comes down, scares Monte away, and takes his place beside the unsuspecting Joe. Joe finally evades him, the two again resume their persistently in forcing their way into the place, assuming two suits of armor, being brought to the academy. Queer things follow rapidly on top of one another, winding up with the two running, as the picture fades.
- The story treats of a wealthy girl portrayed by Lois Boyd who owns the hotel in town and the attempts made by a notorious crook who inveigles her into a phony elopement. The crook's Wife becoming wise, complicates matters and the fat men who play tho part of bell boys in the a picture certainly give the heavy an awful time. Finally they save the girl from the villain and all ends well.
- "Coyote" Crosby, owner of the "Big Star" ranch is in a feud with "Horned Toad" Smith, an Arizona bad-man, who claims Crosby's house is on his land, "Horned Toad" draws first and kills "Coyote" The first news of the killing reaches Dorothy Stewart, "Coyote's" niece and Teddy Crosby's cousin, and she sends for Teddy to inform him that "Coyote's" will specifies that they must marry to inherit the ranch. This pleases Teddy, who now receives word from two lawyers, Teck and Kikal, executors of his uncle's will, to meet them at a hotel, These men are crooks and try to frighten Teddy so that he will sell the ranch cheap. They tell him a wild and weird take about "Horned Toad" and Teddy, all his life aching for such an experience, refuses to sell and declares he is leaving on the first train for the West. Paprika, a black-eyed, young woman, who has a claim against Teddy's uncle, comes to New York to force Teddy to settle with her. She just misses him at his apartment and goes to Dorothy*n home, where Herbert Wendling a fortune hunter and suitor for Dorothy's hand, learns enough from Paprika to allow him to intimate to Dorothy and her mother that Paprika has been mixed up in Teddy's life, Dorothy refuses to believe the story, but her mother is skeptical. When they hear from Herbert that Paprika went West on the same train with Teddy, they immediately start for the ranch to protect Dorothy's interests. Arriving in the feet, Teddy starts looking around the town, in his evening clothes, in which he was dressed when put on the train by his intoxicated friends, and wine a full outfit of Western togs from a cowboy who in turn dons the formal costume. Teck and Nikal have informed "Horned Toad" that Teddy is wearing evening clothes, "Horned Toad" finds the cowboy with the said outfit and is about to shoot, but the cowboy is too quick and Teddy barely saves "Horned Toad's" life. Neither knowing the other, Teddy and "Horned Toad" become bosom friends. Upon finding Paprika comfortably settled at the ranch, Dorothy, her mother and Herbert are about to leave for the East, when "Horned Toad's" gang raids the place. Herbert is frightened and in attempting to hide, becomes involved in a ludicrous situation with Paprika. Teddy seeing this and learning of the suspicion against himself, turns the tables on Herbert. It is the Fourth of July and Teddy insists on going to town for fireworks, ignoring the warning from "Horned Toad" that the ranch must be surrendered in twelve hours. Teck and Nikal plot to get Dorothy to sign over her interest in the ranch, and to have "Horned Toad" kill Teddy. They send a gang of Mexicans to capture Dorothy; they storm the house and, discovering the wine cellar get very drunk. Pedro, the leader steals Dorothy, while Herbert flees and goes to tell Teddy of the trouble. Teddy rescues her in a spectacular manner, but they are captured by "Horned Toad's" men, Teddy is tied to a tree and "Horned Road" heats a branding iron to brand him. Dorothy is allowed to return to the ranch where she tells the cowboys of the incident and they swoop down on "Horned Toad's" men, but are held at bay. The Mexicans go to Teck and Nikal for their money and, upon being refused because of not delivering the girl, they mob the lawyers, who take refuge in jail. At daybreak the cowboys defeat "Horned Toad's" gang and, to their surprise, find "Horned Toad" wrapped in a blanket playing poker with Teddy. Teddy has won all "Horned Toad's" clothes and his claim to the Big Star ranch. Teddy likes "Horned Toad" and gives him the job as foreman of the ranch. Teddy and Dorothy marry and also do "Horned Toad" and Paprika, who formerly were sweethearts. Herbert speeds Eastward, very glad to be out of the terrible West.
- There's excitement as well as humor galore in this Vitagraph one-reeler which has to do with the adventure for food of two penniless wayfarers who appropriate a stuffed bear skin and then, with one disguised as a performing train, they work the dear old change. The discovery of the fraud eventually involves them in a made medley of events from which they emerge, exceedingly willing to leave the Mudspring the City of their funny tragedies.
- On the Spanish island of Majorca lives the Faneaux family, product of a degenerate English father of good family and a Spanish woman, whom he had not married. Following the father's death, poverty has driven the daughter, Emilia, into shady living and the brother, Rodney, into disreputable adventures. Rodney, tortured by the realization that his life is doomed to be wasted in penury, urges his sister to marry Ewing, a crooked but immensely wealthy film actor. But Emilia rebels and soon afterwards falls in love with Jerome Hautrive, an aristocratic English writer. Rodney and Ewing plan to fleece the Englishman but when Rodney sees in Jerome the man that he might have been, he comes to his side, rescuing him from a dangerous predicament. Thereafter he remains his devoted servant. With the marriage of Jerome and Emilia imminent, the jealous Ewing persuades Emilia that the difference in there social stations will make both of them miserable. Convinced that Ewing has spoken the truth, Emilia returns to her old ways. Jerome discovers her dancing in one of the lowest dives. But still his love burns for her. Thereupon Ewing, in a last desperate effort to make the girl his own, abducts her. Jerome hotly pursues and after a terrible struggle, in which Ewing is wounded, saves her. A short time later Jerome and Emilia are married in England and through the good offices of Jerome, Rodney and an older brother are both settled in positions to which their blood entitles them.
- The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
- Alice Ardell portraying a feature role in this vehicle is about to be initiated into a sorority. One of the requirements of the initiation ceremony is that she don male attire. In this guise she is mistaken for a person of Royal Blood and the comedy centers about the mistaken identity of the prince and the flapper who is candidate for the Phi-Delta-Pie. Of course in the end everything is straightened out and both the girl and the prince achieve their object.
- Billy West comes to a dance hall and looks for a job. The Proprietor throws him out. He comes back again - buys a glass of beer and has no money to pay for it. The Proprietor again throws him out. The third time - he's in again, and then the Proprietor hires him for a dancer, as the dancer who is supposed to dance, has been taken sick. He is then made to take the place of a prize fighter, as the man who was supposed to fight that night, fails to show up. In the meantime, the villain comes in with a young girl and Billy protects her.
- We start with the birth of two children "the whole wide world apart," one in a swell house in Washington Square, the other in the slums of New York. We see them on their third birthday; Bob, the rich little boy, surrounded by the presence of love and care ; Jenny, the poor little girl, stealing an apple from a fruit stand. We see them getting their education^ Bob, under the care of a private tutor and Jenny learning to read through stolen glances at the Police Gazette. When they are grown up, Bob Van Dyke and his sister, Beth, now orphaned, are caught in the whirl of a gay social life and are spending the fortune left them by their parents. Jenny, left alone in the world, has been adopted by Dugan, an old crook, who stands in the place of a father to her, and who makes use of her in his illegal calling. The young cracks-man, Kelly, suggests to Dugan that they burglarize a house in Washington Square by putting Jenny through the basement window and have her open the front door for them. Jenny is captured by Bob and is about to turn her over to the police but in questioning her, sees through her girlish beauty, a soul struggling for expression and he determines to try to save her. Jenny, never having heard of right and wrong, is fascinated by the rich young man and when he leaves his money on the table and says that he will go upstairs "until he hears the front door close behind her", she realizes that she has found someone in the world who will trust her. She is about to go when she sees Bob's photograph on the table. She is tempted to steal it but hesitates and leaves fifty cents, her whole fortune, in place of the picture. She then goes out and shuts the door and facing her crook companions, announces that she is going to live straight. Back in the tenement home, she packs her small bundle of clothes and leaves. Two years pass, during which time Jenny has succeeded in making herself an expert dressmaker. She lives alone in a little room and, inspired by Bob's photograph and the memories it recalls, has grown to worship the young man who trusted her, although she has not seen him since. A strike is called in the dress factory and Jenny is let out of work. She saves a little newsboy who has stolen money and who is being pursued by the police and is able to reform him. Penniless, Jenny is finally thrown into the street with her goods and chattels. In the meantime, Bob and Beth have speculated with what is left of their fortune and while down town to pawn some of his sister's jewels, Bob finds Jenny and takes her to his home to have her make clothes for his sister. While there the love of the two young people grows and the difference in their stations is apparently insurmountable. Bob's speculations go wrong and he is tempted to use money belonging to their old nurse. Jenny overhears their plan to use the money and pleads with Bob^not to do this thing for if the speculation goes wrong, he will be a thief. Bob is deaf to her entreaties and puts the money in the safe. Jenny sees her ideal tottering and induces Kelly to enter the house and open the safe for her. She then takes the money and hides it. The next morning the loss is discovered. Detectives find Jenny's finger-prints on the safe and she is arrested but will not tell where the money is, preferring to go to jail rather than let Bob do anything dishonest. Bob realizes this and promises to go straight. Jenny steals away as Bob awaits the impending smash. Bob and Beth are forced to live in a small Harlem flat and Beth marries her wealthy young lover from the smart set . Bob realizes that he had happiness in his hand and let it go and hunts up Jenny. He sees that class does not count and, in spite of Jenny's protests, takes her in his arms.
- A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
- A married couple with a toddler bicker about waking up in the morning and who will make breakfast.
- Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
- Pollard as the dentist gets the wrong hand bag by mistake. When he reaches his office he discovers that the contents, which are bottled goods, have very nearly leaked out. As his clients are very few and far between he walks through the offices of his tooth-pulling competitors with the open bag, with the result that his own office is soon overflowing - with eager, clamorous patients.
- At the instigation of Louis Berger, Henry Rogers is falsely accused of embezzling a large sum of money and sentenced to prison. As a convict in the prison's quarry, he becomes good friends with the prison warden's son, Allan. Little Allan believes in Henry's innocence and helps him escape. Investigations yield no results and it is assumed that the prisoner drowned during the escape. The villain Berger and his accomplice Daniels triumph. Fifteen years later, through blackmail, Daniels has driven Louis Berger to the brink of ruin and forced him to destroy even most of his beautiful niece Eva's fortune. Eva is engaged to the now grown-up Allan Williams, the prison warden's son. Allan has fallen into bad company and incurred large gambling debts. Henry Rogers, meanwhile, has become a wealthy man abroad and returns to his homeland to repay his debt to the young man who once helped him escape. Daniels learns that Rogers is back and is using his knowledge to extort additional money from Berger. When Eva asks her uncle for money to help her fiancé, her fortune is completely squandered. However, Allan's predicament is resolved through the prompting of the unknown benefactor. Henry Rogers seeks out Louis Berger, who goes half-mad at the meeting and commits suicide. During the police interrogation, Daniels provides such information that Eva is suspected of having murdered her uncle. When Rogers learns this, he turns himself in to the police and dispels the suspicions against Eva. Daniels escapes, but Eva and Allan can look forward to their wedding under Henry's protection.
- A carload of coal arrives at the railroad station of a town that is destitute for coal. Naturally the populace cheers wildly when it pulls in. Nervy Ned and his valet, riding in the same car, think that they are being received by the town and make a couple of pretty bows. This is all they do, however, because the people immediately start throwing, among other things, pieces of coal. Ned collects a scuttle full of the coal and sells it to a nearby baker for five dollars. He soon looses this on a bet that his valet can eat one hundred pan cakes. In an attempt to cover his losses, he arranges a scale behind a fence with the platform on the other side. After fooling many persons, by making them believe he could guess their weight, he is finally discovered and beats it. With his valet he hops on the back of a coal wagon and when it is delivered, they are dumped into the cellar. The owner of the house finds them there and thinking that they are a couple of coal bootleggers, invites them to dinner. At dinner, one of the guests offers Ned two thousand dollars if he will dig him up a ton of coal. With his valet he goes out to dig the coal and after digging for some time they come up in Turkey. Not receiving a very cordial welcome they turn around and jump back again.
- Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
- Larry Semons is sent to collect unpaid rent in a rough neighborhood where "Babe" Hardy as the local boss won't give up easily.
- Fernie Schmidt lived with her father and mother in back of their delicatessen store. Fernie hated delicatessen--and still more disliked the two rooms in which they lived. She felt that she could never invite friends to visit her in such a "smelly" home. Pop Schmidt didn't understand the young girl's need for a nicer home, and although Mom did, she couldn't persuade Pop to make the change. Pop had it all planned that she was to marry Peter Halitovsky, who sold sausages. Then, at a dance, Fernie met Jack Dugan. It was a case of love at first sight. But Fernie couldn't bring Jack home to meet her parents, because of those two ill-smelling rooms back of their business. So, when he returned home from the dance, Po, who had been inflamed by Peter's recital of Fernie's rejecting him, demanded why she hadn't brought her new friend home. She explained that she couldn't bring him to such a place. Infuriated, Pop put her out of his home. Fernie went to work in a department store. Her affair with Jack progressed, and one Sunday, at a picnic, he proposed. He was going to buy a business, he explained, so he would be able to take care of Fernie. Fernie accepted Jack. That same night, she went home to dinner at Pop's invitation. He had finally decided to buy a new home, but back of his decision lurked a wish for Fernie to marry Peter. Peter proposed, and Fernie was about to reject him, when Jack appeared unexpectedly. When he told her that he had bought a delicatessen store, Fernie was happy that she could help him. Pop and Mom were immediately won over by Jack's manliness, and Mom began to plan the wedding.
- A tramp gives Slim a helping hand when this star is thrown out of a souse party. Slim does not know what it is all about the next morning when his wife asks him for an accounting, so he introduces the possessor of the stubbled face beside him as his brother. The wife is convinced and so is the tramp and he immediately takes full possession of the Summerville domicile, even to the extent of marrying a sister-in-law.
- Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
- Jimmy is traveling west in a stagecoach when it's held up by bandits and they decide to take him with them.
- Arriving at Ellis Island from Ireland, alone, Kitty finds upon arrival that she is just one more person than the quota system would allow to be admitted. However, when she sees a Jewish family with which she has become acquainted on the ship, admitted, she finds a way to get by the gateman and join her friends inside. Established in the home of the Jewish immigrants in the Ghetto, Kitty becomes enamored of Danny, a handsome young copper who patrols the nearest beat. One day she meets Eddie a childhood sweetheart in Ireland and finds that he is keeping company with Marion, a hard boiled rose of the Ghetto and Eddie's dancing partner in an amateur dancing skit. Kitty rushes into the second hand store and takes a vase which she proceeds to throw at Eddie. The vase narrowly misses a cop who rushes into the store. Kitty seeing her predicament takes some hair and makes herself a mustache, puts on a derby and makes it appear that she is a man. Later, she goes to the amateur show to see Eddie do his dance. Tomatoes, eggs, cabbages and then watermelon slices greets Eddie's efforts. Kitty throws a potato at Eddie so hard her mustache is knocked off and Eddie recognizes her. He hits her with a catsuppy tomato. A general riot starts and Kitty chases Eddie across the stage. As she reaches the far end of the stage, Danny the cop enters from the opposite side as Eddie is the target for another barrage of vegetables. The second hand dealer rushes to the aid of his borrowed suit and as Eddie is stripped of his finery, Kitty embraces Danny the cop and leaves the theater.
- As the three fat boys, answering the radio's call of "Get Up, Babies," roll out of bed, they begin their daily morning exercises. These include "ups and downs," "Dumbel Exercises." and such, which are necessary, says the aged and crippled broadcaster, if one wishes to attain physique such as his. During the "Ups and Downs," the fat boys use pulley-weights, and finally produce from the other side of the wall a man in a bath-tub. who complains that it is bad enough taking a bath without making a personal appearance. The ''Skipping Rope" Exercise proves to be disastrous, as the next scene shows the floor undulating with the bounces of the three fat boys, and finally collapsing when they all pounce upon a medicine ball. Nothing daunted, they run out into the hall where they find their rowing machine. This carries them into the street, and down a hill, where they make the discovery that they are late for the barber school. There they ply their trade on various interesting customers, whom they elevate in the barber chair at will. One of these received a most unusual hair-cut when the clippers plow a path in his hair from his forehead. to the back of his head. Another customer's beard discloses a pigeon when one of the boys starts to cut it. Lois Boyd, the manicurist, displays her ingenuity when she removed a half moon from her table in order that the fat boys may be seated comfortably when being manicured. But in spite of their cleverness, the boys and Lois Boyd cannot fool the two-gun man who is their last customer, and the fade-out shows them being chased down the street by their ferocious client.
- Andy Whittaker, an ambitious shoe clerk who has invented an unmarketed arch supporter, meets June Allen on the street and pretends he is an important business man. But she buys shoes from him that afternoon and later forgives the deception. Robert Riggs, son of the owner, finds them dancing together. Andy resigns after Robert belittles him. Meantime an uncle of Andy's returns to town and calls on the bank for the purpose of establishing a $250,000 trust fund for Andy. Andy, however, has several accidents during the day with this unknown uncle always the goat. Andy visits the bank and the banker is pleased to loan him $10,000, much to Andy's amazement. On the way to a party, Andy's new car hits the uncle and the uncle goes to the banker at whose house the party is being given to cancel the trust fund. Andy is hounded by his creditors who demand the return of the ring Andy gave June. He leaves disgraced but the banker is unable to call the loan for 90 days. Andy, meanwhile starts a shoe store and sells his arch supporters which are a big hit. He is pushed by Riggs who wants him out of the way. June hires an actor to fake a fictitious offer for the supporters before the assembled creditors. But a real buyer appears and Andy unconsciously gets him up to a big price and sells when June outs him wise. The two are happy in their success.
- Mickey invites the gang to hunt for 'wild animals' on his farm. The fun is interrupted when the kids come across a real bear.
- A wife is tired of her husband (Ben Turpin) ignoring her to go hunting so she runs off with one of his friends.
- About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
- When the local territory strikes an oil boom and Molly Vernon and her mother are about to become rich, Bud Harris, in love with Molly, leaves for other parts. When the oil bubble on the Vernon property burst, he returns to find the place encumbered with debt. To pay it off he enters a horse race. Bush, who holds the mortgage, is trying to foreclose, having secret information about the land. He conspires to keep Bud out of the race and lays heavy bets, knowing that Bud is the only formidable rival. Four men jump on Bud as he leaves the Vernon home at night. They take him to a secluded cabin and lock him in. However, Bud's horse finds the place and breaks down the door. When the race is about to start, Bud rides up and flabbergasts the opposition. After a thrilling ride, he wins the race, at the end of which he pulls Bush from his horse and administers a sound thrashing. Subsequently, oil seepage is found on the Vernon ranch and the boom is on again, with Bud and Molly happy together.
- Alice is the daughter of a fisherman. She gathers herring to support her family. Alice's folks are worshipers of the cuckoo clock. Even the dog bows his head in prayer when the cuckoo cuckoos. Joe, a sailor, loves Alice. He calls on her at midnight, and takes her to a cabaret. While there, a sea captain falls in love with Alice, and strange things come to pass when Alice sees the hula hula dancers. Joe takes Alice home under great difficulties Alice and Joe are happily married and are proprietors of a lunch room. Undaunted by his previously unsuccessful attempts the sea captain is still bent on possessing Alice, and lays his plans to kidnap her. Alice is kidnapped, and is placed on a sea going vessel. Just as Joe comes home. He pursues the yacht with his billowy sail boat. Just as he is about to catch the vessel he is lassoed and left mercilessly to drown. Instead, Joe pulls himself up on the rope and outs his way in through the boat. Meanwhile, Alice is having her troubles trying to keep the captain out of her stateroom. Joe rescues Alice, and there follows a lively boat chase with marines, patrol boats, etc. Alice and Joe manage to destroy the lighthouse in which the captain and his crew sought to shelter themselves. A novel ending follows.
- Paul and his little pal "Sunshine Sammy" are traveling across the continent and their arrival in a small town is disclosed by the opening of a man hole cover on the top of an empty tank car. Not having much coin of the realm, the hungry pair immediately scheme to get a meal. When passing an appetizing looking restaurant they meet an apparently benevolent old gentleman to whom they tell their tale of woe. The kindly disposed man takes them into the restaurant and tells them to eat any and everything they desire and excuses himself for a moment but fails to return. The scenes which follow arrival of the proprietor whose explanation that the man who ordered the meal for them had escaped from an asylum, add to the discomforture of the now satisfied travelers. Their endeavors to make restitution and their flight from the restaurant wind up in a merry chase and their eventual eluding of the police.
- When the wealthy society woman has her beautiful pearls stolen she hurries to the newspaper office to have a notice of reward printed immediately. The editor offers to make the first reporter who brings in the details of the robbery and recovers the pearls, an editor, Baby Peggy, as the boss' stenographer, hears this and decides to be the one. She procures some male attire and a false mustache. Leaving the office, she sees two of the regulars just going off in a flivver. She jumps in the rear seat, unnoticed and by punching first one and then the other leads them to believe that the other is getting too fresh. They have words and finally get out to settle the matter, fistically. Our heroine seizes the opportunity and drives away in the car while the men are fighting. She arrives at the home of the society woman and questions the butler. His actions convince her that she is on the right track and after being thrown out several times she reenters in a new phonograph cabinet being delivered. While in the cabinet she gets the goods on the butler and rushes with her story and the pearls to the office where she is made editor and has them all jumping at her command.
- Aggie is a tiny tot, weighing some two hundred, with a fondness for mixed ale. Her father is a baker, who hands out plaster of Paris bread to the poor and her mother is constantly in tears over the agonies of Agnes. Cuthbert Caramel, Aggie's wooer, comes to call with a bouquet for her. Aggie is overjoyed, makes love to Cuthbert and floors him with her tempestuous embrace. On that fatal visit, Aggie discovers the one weakness of the otherwise perfect Cuthbert - he takes snuff. She at once has another agony, her young heart is about to break. She sends him from her, crying, "Must this love depart from my life?" Then she "ags" considerably till her distracted father and mother give her mixed ale and she is herself again, though a bit woozy. The villain is the Itching Mitt, served by a gang of 12 desperate followers who pass their idle time knitting. The Itching Mitt resolves to become the husband of Aggie's money, summons his gang to his for be-draped den and reveals his dark plot to "get" Aggie by putting Beevo into her ale. So on the fatal evening when Cuthbert is calling on Aggie and they chew a stick candy from the box he has brought her, the Mitt calls as a representative of the Food Commission. Aggie is taken with the handsome stranger and Cuthbert departs in a huff. The Mitt offers Aggie ale, slyly drops Beevo into her glass and she succumbs. He summons the waiting gang, who leap in at the window and make off with the limp Aggie, down over the front porch via two large and conspicuous ladders. They toss her into a wagon and rush her to the den of the Mitt. There Aggie comes to, "ags" considerably, to the amusement of the gang, who "agg" her on till the Mitt sets about subduing her proud spirit. She wallops the Mitt and all the gang, till they bind her and give her the ale torture - setting the ale in sight, without allowing her to drink, till the maddened woman promises to marry Mitt and he lets her drink. Meantime the father and mother find the note left by Mitt in their parlor, call the great detective and break the news to Cuthbert who is overcome. The great detective reaches the den of the Mitt armed with powerful Limburger cheese, whose virtues he has been investigating for long time. With the cheese in his hand and a clothes pin on nose, the detective bursts into the Mitt's den, followed closely by the trembling Cathbert. Just as the Mitt proclaims in triumph, while Aggie swills ale, "She's mine - Cheese Mine!" the cheese overcomes the Mitt and his gang and Aggie falls into the arms of her Cathbert.
- Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight. The sheriff and his deputy had the habits of Jesse James, and he also robbed the country by teaching school. The weekly train was the town's only sport. The engineer knew Weazel Bend- so he didn't even hesitated. They had a nice soft mattress on the station platform to catch the passengers that chanced that way. But one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties-teaching school. Her sweetheart Hiram Biff, had followed her, how ever, riding on his nerve and the engine rod. "Big Kick Kitchen," was the place where society mixed soft drinks with hard fists. Even the bad guy, Pineapple Pete, didn't look so hard, sipping a soft drink. However, looks are not everything. Pineapple decided to pay the bank an unofficial visit to draw out some cash he had never deposited, but he was interrupted by our friend the Sheriff, who demanded half of the loot. Everything was going lovely, when who should appear but Hiram. He rounded up the crooks in fine shape, grabbed the money with one hand, his girl with the other and they both grabbed the first train going the other way.
- Snub is a traffic cop and succeeds in mixing things up by trying to flirt with every pretty girl motorist.
- A man is a stowaway on a vessel loaded with birds, monkeys, snakes, and other animals. He is discovered and forced to act as cook.
- The in-laws drop in on happy newlyweds and leave them to babysit their nephew, the eponymous pest,
- Jimmy is having fun in the surf when he is swallowed by a whale, gets into a fight with both a palm tree and an octopus, and saves the day all while the lifeguard is distracted by bathing beauties.
- Hubby stays out all night playing poker and goes to sleep at the breakfast table. Wifie reads about an epidemic of sleeping sickness and immediately believes he has it. Then begins a wild chase to the doctor. Hubby falls into a baby carriage, which rolls down hill and over a cliff. Finally the doctor tells her the truth. Hubby says he wants to be put to sleep. Wifie socks him and accomplishes the deed.
- Magnolia Milkshake wants to help the war effort to compensate for her husband who is exempt for being overweight. She tries to join the Red Cross, then the rifle corps.
- A strange man shows up in a Spanish town and becomes mistaken for a federal spy.
- This is a burlesque on the story of Aladdin and the wonderful lamp and we see Dinky Doodle's successful search for the lamp and the wonders which he accomplishes. One of these is transforming the artist into a cartoon and taking him on a series of comical and astounding adventures.
- Sid arrived home in wee small hours on top of hansom cab with lot of boisterous companions from party. Old man refuses him admittance and he gets a linen duster and goes down to waterfront deciding to leave. On board liner, girl there also. Seasickness and gags attendant thereon. A whale is sighted, excitement; storm at sea and ship explodes. Sid and girl on crate in ocean-crate has silk hats for which Sid's father is agent. Pelican is pulling the crate along. Land on island. Cannibals. Step on stones which are cannibals heads - buried in ground. They arise and surround girl and Sid, Pelican interferes with savage about to shoot Sid and they get away. Finally return to civilization after hats have made a hit with savages. Sid forgiven and all ends happily.
- To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a trumped-up charge made by some stock swindlers. Aunt Pearl would like Bonnie to marry small-town capitalist Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie is in love with young lawyer Art Binger. Binger eventually effects a release from prison for Mr. Day just at the height of Bonnie's business career.
- The action centers about the tailor shop which is owned by "Tiny" Alexander, who plays the part of the father, the other two fat men portraying the roles of the two sons. The plot treats of the mischievous antics of the two boys who cause all kinds of trouble and complicate matters in and about the tailor shop in great shape.
- Zip Monberg, who is a live-wire messenger boy on roller skates, gets mixed up in a fashionable modiste shop where he has gone to deliver some parcels. Bull Slinger, whose wife runs the shop, likes the girls who are employed there, but gets in wrong when he tries to "vamp" Zip's sweetheart. Bull's wife, seeing the flirtation, starts a battle, during which Zip is kicked out by Bull and chased to a dentist's office. The dentist thinks Zip wants a tooth extracted and starts the work, giving Zip gas. Zip dreams of woodlands and beauteous girls, and as he is brought back to life by the extraction, sees in a haze Bull Slinger, surrounded by all the models. Frightened, he looks at Bull, then looks at the girls and smiles, whereupon he takes the gas tube and goes back to sleep.
- Dinky Doodle looks for the beautiful dancer who lost her shoe the previous night.