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- An art collector purchases a rare painting and the picture pirate gets two rubes to help steal it. They drink poisoned whiskey and fall into a fit. Later the picture pirate pays Rube and Ben for the forgery, thinking it's the original.
- Ben falls in love with Dora Darling, the star in a motion picture. He "finds" some money and starts for the studios. He is followed by the crooks, whose money he has appropriated. He is put to work in the studio as assistant property man, after giving them some of his money. Ben cannot make any progress with Dora because she and Demon Desmonde are already in love with each other. After many funny situations Ben is blown up by the crooks, but manages to escape alive; the crooks are arrested.
- A scientist invents an insidious bomb: It doesn't blow up, doesn't spread toxic gas, it doesn't kill. Instead, victims are thrown into uncontrolled fits of dancing which lead to their doom. And the enemy will stop at nothing to get it.
- Paddy, a plasterer's helper, is in love with Rena, the daughter of his boss, Huckins, but the father does not approve of the affair. Huckins and Bowes, rival building contractors, are both anxious to get a big plastering job. Their bids are exactly the same, and the owner says he will award the contract to the one who first completes his present job. The race starts and many funny complications follow. Huckins, becoming anxious about winning, takes Paddy with him to the dance hall and tries to get the men to return to work with him, but the crowd ridicules them and locks them in a closet. Meanwhile Huckins' daughter and her girl chum have donned overalls and taken upon themselves to finish the plastering job. When Huckins and Paddy are released they discover the girls have completed the job and won the best contract. Huckins is so delighted that he decides to allow Rena to marry Paddy.
- Two business friends, Rube, the boot-black, and Art, cigar-stand keeper, are keen bowling rivals. One day when bowling, Art becomes so engrossed in the game that he forgets an appointment that he has with Madge, to whom he is engaged. Madge comes to the alley to get Art. There she meets Rube and they are mutually attracted. This so angers Art that on the way home he quarrels with Madge. Madge returns Art's ring. Art then seeks Alice, who is queen of the bandits, and engages her to abduct Madge. Madge later arises in her sleep and goes to Rube's stand. Rube talks to her and not getting an answer concludes she wants a shine, so starts to shine her bare feet. Art, seeing this from the bowling alley, runs over. Alice, who is fond of Rube, also comes over and there is a general quarrel. Rube takes Madge home, foils the abductors, returns and engages in a bowling match with Art, who has previously nailed the pins to the alley, then persuades Rube, who has no money, to play for Madge against his money. In the meanwhile, Alice's bandits have succeeded in placing a bomb under Madge's bed. Madge, walking in her sleep, picks up the bomb and carries it to the bowling alley, where it explodes and blows Art, Alice and the bandits up into the skies, leaving Rube and Madge to the enjoyment of their mutual infatuation.
- Bill Jenkins goes to sleep and dreams that he enlists as a soldier. He is a stupid subject and the commanding officer has to resort to violence to get him to obey orders. The general's daughter joins the regiment, much to the delight of Bill. When the call for mess is given, Bill is the first to arrive at the mess tent. As General Fairfax arrives with the troops, Bill is hastily devouring a pie. General Fairfax orders him to the guardhouse. Later the general notes a distant attack being made by one of the enemy's troops on his daughter. Bill, by a great effort, has parted the bars of his prison and volunteers to save the daughter single-handed. He dashes on horseback without weapons. After traveling some distance, by driving the horse backwards at a terrific speed, he spies a cool spot under a tree. Leaving his horse to browse he lays himself down to slumber. The daughter works out her own salvation and returns to the camp. When Bill returns he starts to relate wonderful feats he has performed. The general, knowing his tale to be untrue, orders him to the guardhouse again, while the daughter pleads for him in vain. Jenkins is to be shot at sunrise. The daughter, visiting the tents, removes the cartridges from the rifles, extracts the bullets and replaces the cartridges. Bill is marched to the execution grounds. He is aware of everything that has happened. The grave is dug. When the soldiers fire Bill pretends to be shot, and after dusting off the stretcher with his hat collapses upon it. Not wanting to be buried alive he springs away quickly and attempts to escape. Then he is put into the mouth of a cannon and shot into the enemy's camp. He escapes again and returns to General Fairfax, who decides to execute Bill himself. He starts to prod Bill with his sword when Bill wakes up from his dream and finds the saloon-keeper poking him in the ribs with a long stick.
- The piano player falls in love with the wife of the bad man. The bad man meets the piano player and tells him that his wife is in the east; and so they decide to go and find her, the pianist not realizing who the girl is. Later Ben, the pianist, becomes the leader of the orchestra and gets into a fight with the violinist. The comedy ends with a chase, a wrecked theater and a bomb explosion which sends them all sky high.
- Rube (Rube Miller) and Ben (Ben Turpin), in charge of the castle poultry, learn that their ducks and geese have been changed into beautiful harem bathing beauties by the waters in a magical pool in a mysterious oriental palace. Then mysterious things begin to happen that draw the wrath of the emperor.
- Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
- This is all about a thousand-dollar bank note that the broker presented to his wife. She drops it, the butler picks it up and fearing discovery hides it in a can, which he throws into the alley. Later the can is tied to a dog's tail, it comes off and is picked up by a motorist and the bill drops onto the grass. A little boy ties it onto the end of his kite, and the kite breaks off and the bill is left dangling before the eyes of Paddy, the new butler in the broker's house. The broker has been carrying on a flirtation with a "chicken," so his wife gets the new broker to dress up and take her out for dinner. He has the broker's wife's purse and here she finds it. It is the reason for her attacking the chicken, with whom her husband is dining and then nestling in the broker's arms.
- After a prospector apparently kills the proprietor of an inn, a lynch mob brings him back for hanging, but the prospector tells his tale of woe to the crowd, how the innkeeper stole the prospector's girl.
- Rube is the chief of Police, and he is in love with Madge, one of the two daughters of a well-to-do farmer. Madge is pretty, while Alice, her sister, is a fright. Art is a member of the village force. He is in love with Madge. Madge favors Art. Rube is very fond of raw eggs and is in the habit of taking them from the hen house of Madge's father. He complains to Rube about the loss of eggs. Rube then has an idea. He thinks that if he can get Art caught in the hen house he can get him out of the way and win Madge, so he arranges a trap on the door of the hen house, stations Art on the inside to watch for the thieves. Once Art is on the inside, Rube bolts the door and nails the window. Alice later comes to the house to get the eggs. She springs the trap. Huckins, the farmer, comes running out of the house. Rube is on the job. Art is caught. He tries to explain; no use; he is offered the choice of marrying Alice or going to jail. Madge whispers to him; he chooses to marry Alice. On the day of the wedding Madge and Alice change clothes. Alice is married to Rube, and Madge gets the man of her choice. When Rube sees the face of his bride he faints away.
- Rube, a wanderer, crosses the Rio Grande by wading, and gets into Mexico. He is halted by a border guard, whom he passes by a changing hands of gold, which procures for him a sash and a headgear of the realm. Proceeding into the interior, he comes upon an inn where he discovers a pretty senorita being persecuted by a big Mexican. He saves the girl and thereby wins her love. In a card game, Rube discovers the duplicity of the innkeeper and his accomplice, winning their combined fortunes. The innkeeper sends his servants to kidnap Rube, and the latter is tied to a fence, from which he is released by the senorita. She is captured and tied to a tree, from which she is released by Rube who captures a cannon, and drives their oppressors from the scene. Later Rube shoots a flagstaff from the camera straight through the innkeeper's middle, and he sings his swan-song to his love to the sweet accompaniment of his guitar, while Rube and the senorita make off to enjoy their own lovemaking.
- Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out. Rube and Ben arrive in a small town. They pose as Kelsey and Ryan and are informed that the troupe has been driven from town, but inasmuch as all of their trunks, wardrobe and scenery have been kept by the manager of the opera house, they suggest that Rube and Ben produce a benefit performance and use the paraphernalia of the show troupe. In need of money, they consent. The night of the show brings a large audience and the first ac begins, finding Ben, the villain of the piece foreclosing the mortgage on the old man's home. Unable to receive payment, Ben offers the mortgage to the old man in return for his daughter's hand. She being in love with Rube, the leading man, refuses his offer. The old man insists and Ben carries her away, leaving Rube broken-hearted. The first act closes with a disinterested and disappointed audience. The lover of the girl, playing the part of the daughter, is sore and sneaks behind the curtain to watch the final act. The manager also comes to the stage to view the final act. The second act starts. Two years have passed and the daughter having left her husband, returns home with the baby, meeting her father and her former lover Rube. While Rube is acting, Ben substitutes his make-up box for the box of money, but is seen by Rube. Rube leaves the stage and Ben goes on. While he is working, Rube substitutes his make-up box for the money box which Ben has taken. Ben is on the stage demanding that the girl return to him, but the refusal causes Ben to set fire to the house. Rube then returns to the stage and the girl's real lover takes the money from the box which Rube and Ben have stolen, and puts it in his pocket. Rube and Ben start a duel, but are interrupted by the real Kelsey and Ryan, who have finally walked into town. Rube and Ren run off stage and grab the fire torches in an effort to hold the two actors off, but the torches are knocked out of their hands, starting a real fire. Rube and Ben both run to their dressing room, grab their make-up thinking they still contain the money, and run from the opera house, being chased by the two actors. They run up a ladder to the top of the opera house and jump through a skylight to the stage. The actors find them on the stage and demand the money from them. They discover that their boxes are empty. The lover returns and hands over the money to the manager. Rube and Ben run off, grab the fire hose and play it upon the crowd, chasing them away. The two actors still on the roof, throw down two large boxes, striking Rube and Ben upon the head, and knocking them unconscious. The hose which these two comedians are holding is thrown upward, and the force of the water knocks the other two actors off the roof.
- A safe blower and an adventuress learn of a shipment of gold made to the home of a mine manager. They plan to get the gold while the family is at dinner. An itinerant musician, who has befriended a homeless mongrel, goes to the mine manager's house for something to eat. The dog does some very good work in the kitchen and the yard. The crook manages to get the gold and the musician is accused of the theft and locked up in the shed, where he is freed by the dog. Later Paddy rescues the gold while the dog curries two sticks of dynamite to the excavation in which the crook and adventuress are hiding, drops the dynamite into the excavation, and blows the two crooks up.
- Jack, in love with Rena, finds that her father has sent her to college for the purpose of keeping her out of his reach. He then tries, while dressed as a woman, to enter the seminary, but without success, as a frivolous professor and a designing janitor who want the attentions of all the girls, cause him to be keenly alert, and thwart any attempts of men, disguised as women, to gain access to what they consider are sacred portals. Jack, finding he has been discovered, returns that night to the seminary and gains admittance, and so does a burglar, who, by his attempts to rob the girls, gets into a mix-up. The janitor and professor likewise encounter a series of mishaps, which result in the professor's wife finding them in bed in one of the girl's rooms. Things happen fast and furious after this. The girls settle the burglar and administer a severe beating to him, and Jack finds the turmoil and confusion an aid to his plans, and elopes with Rena. Father comes upon them just as they have been pronounced man and wife, and after a realization of his own youthful pranks, he consents, and forgives the loving couple.
- A jailbird is brought from his cell to the Warden's office, given $10 to go straight, and released, but not before the S10 has been picked from his pocket by the detective who slips it back to the Warden. At the jail gate the attention of the warden and detective is centered on the shapely ankle of a girl who is on her way to a pawnshop to obtain a loan on a necklace which her accomplice has stolen from the wife of the judge who sentenced the jailbird. While engrossed in this manner, the jailbird gets back his $10 bill from the Warden and also the watch of the crooked detective, which he later takes and pawns in the same shop that the girl is pawning the stolen necklace. The pawnbroker takes the necklace and is making out a ticket when the girl steals the necklace back from him and hides it in her muff, just as the jailbird enters to soak the detective's watch. The jailbird seeing this manipulation steals the necklace from the girl's muff, pawns the watch, receives a ticket for it and departs. Outside the pawnshop the judge is passing just as the girl emerges. He flirts and follows her, and the jailbird, escaping from the pawnbroker who has discovered his loss, jumps on the same car that the judge is in trying to flirt with the girl. Alighting from the car the girl tells her accomplice of the Judge's attentions, and he is promptly knocked down, and the jailbird helping him to his feet, recognizes him as the judge who sentenced him, and for revenge slips the pawn ticket for the detective's watch in his pocket. The Warden discovers the loss of the $10 bill and accuses the detective of double crossing him, and when later the detective discovers his watch he accuses the Warden of purloining it. The detective is summoned to the District Attorney's office, who is the sweetheart of the judge's daughter, where he hears the pawnbroker's tale of the robbery. Later in the park the girl discovers the loss of the necklace from her muff, and seeing the jailbird on an adjoining bench, they walk over to him, accuse him of the robbery and there is a fight. The detective locks the trio up, but not before the jailbird slips the necklace into his pocket, where it is found later in court. On trial, the judge discovers the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment that the detective finds the necklace in his. The judge calls the detective and whispering confidentially to him slips the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment the detective slips the pearls in his (judge's) pocket. The judge's wife who attends the trial, sees and grows fearful of the man who stole her necklace when she flirted with him (this man is the girl's sweetheart who pawned the necklace and whom the judge flirted with), and she cautiously begs him not to expose her as a flirt. The judge on the bench sees the girl (the accomplice of the crook), and he is afraid of exactly the same thing that is worrying his wife.
- The play opens in a beach grocery store run by Paddy. He is engaged in waiting on customers and passes odd moments in making love to the girls who enter. His wife sees him, and that is the beginning of the end. The clerk in the store stands talking to the cashier, and both are knocked into a box. Paddy rescues them and leads the cashier into the store. There he makes ardent love and is seen by the clerk, who calls Paddy's wife. She discharges the cashier and forces Paddy to scrub the floor. The clerk enters and robs the cash register. He goes out and meets the cashier and both go to a beach resort. Paddy discovers he is robbed and starts out in search of the two. He discovers them and picks the clerk's pocket, recovering his stolen money. The cashier sees him with the big roll of bills and immediately falls for him again. Together the two go to a roller rink, where skating in bathing suits is the rage. The clerk discovers them and telephones Paddy's wife. She and the clerk rush into the skating rink where they create excitement galore. Paddy and the cashier escape to a roller coaster. The clerk is a close second to them and as they leap into one of the cars he follows. A fierce fight starts and continues while the car is going at lightning speed. The wife and police run to the beach and watch them. The car goes up and up and around and around. Suddenly it crashes from the rails and tumbles with its occupants 250 feet into the ocean below. Paddy, the cashier and the clerk struggle from the surf, only to be met by the wife and the police. Paddy knocks them to one side and still holding the cashier's hand skates down the boardwalk. The two skate through the rear door of the store, coming up against the pillars with such a force that roof, walls and shelving fall in, burying them and the rest of its occupants beneath.
- Moon is a lazy businessman. His wife sends the maid to call him and she enters the room just as the wind, blowing in the bedroom windows, blows the covers from the bed, exposing him in his underwear. The wife, hearing the maid's startled scream, enters the room, and swears the husband had an ulterior motive in appearing before the maid in his pajamas. To square himself the husband promises the wife a new suit and leaves for his place of business, where he meets Rudolph, who has called to collect the bill. Searching for his wallet he discovers it is lost, and explaining this fact, he is enraged that Rudolph questions his credibility. Returning home for his wallet, he finds the maid entertaining a cop, who has had his badge and gun stolen, and who is there in search of it. Incidentally he flirts with the maid, who hides him in a clock, which falls on top of the husband, and a fight ensues. Hurrying to Rudolph's place after he has disposed of the policeman, the husband finds his wife in Rudolph's private office, and the door locked. Peering through the keyhole he sees the tailor's arms around his wife and he starts to shoot up the place. The cop enters and recognizes the gun in hubby's hand as the one which was stolen from him. Things happen rapidly and after many ludicrous situations, hubby learns his jealousy is unfounded, and the cop finds that Rudolph's assistant is the thief who robbed him.
- Squire Laurie, the village skinflint, takes a circus tiger as security for a loan. Arthur, who loves Lillian, the old man's daughter, hates tigers, having bucked them, but when Laurie's tiger dies of despondency Arthur skins it, so that Ben, the keeper can pose in its skin before the half-blind miser and save his job, while Arthur warned off the premises by old Laurie, turns tiger occasionally so that he can sit in the cage and make love through the bars to Lillian, despite her hard-hearted Pa. When the old man becomes suspicious he is chased by the fake tiger until he consents to Lillian's marriage.
- Rooney, a politician, reads in the papers that Bloggie spends his noon hour telling the other employees that Rooney is a crook. Rooney later meets the father of the girl. When they reach the father's home they find the girl in the arms of her sweetheart. Rooney orders father to get rid of Moon. In the mix-up which follows, Rooney gets the worst of it. Rooney falls with an awful thud. Rooney has Bloggie arrested for murder. But father comes to, and Rooney promises him some money if he will pretend he is dead until Bloggie is found guilty and executed. Father, sore at his treatment, exposes Rooney, and is locked up for perjury.
- Clarence Montmorency, an effeminate sailor on shore leave, is walking along the street when he witnesses the fire engines passing by. He is so impressed with the bravery and fearlessness the firemen display, that he resolves to be a fireman. To use his own words, "a sailor's life is simply grand, but, oh, for the life of a fireman." He applies at the fire house and is engaged by the Chief. While performing the duties, and going through the routine of a fireman, he encounters many amusing situations, and later proves to be a hero at a factory fire where he is instrumental in saving the life of a very pretty factory girl. How he wins her, love in the face of numerous obstacles which are put in his way by the fire captain and a villain are told in a fast and breezy way.
- Count Ferdinand Jasbeau, refuses to wait for his bride in spite of the pleadings of her father, who tries to convince the Count that the rain and floods are delaying her, which was the truth of the matter. Through machinery trouble, Grace finds herself up to hubs in mud, and is assisted by a baseball pitcher who happens along in his Ford. While he is fixing the car, two crooks hold them up, and after being robbed, the baseball pitcher succeeds in not only overpowering the robbers, but also gets back his money and jewelry, which they took from him. How the baseball pitcher fought a duel with baseballs and proved to the girl that he was worthy of her, and how he exposed the Count as a faker, and proved he was also a crook and an associate of the hold-up men, is told in a breezy manner, in this picture.
- Madame Parlevoo, a foreign emissary is carrying a hat box in which a secret code is hidden and this information is contained in a letter addressed to Count Romany a spy in the employ of the army of the unemployed. Romany calls his chief lieutenant, Baron Pooh Pooh by name and orders him to get the code which Madame is carrying in the hat box. As Madame is stopping at the sea shore the spies go there and after many attempts Baron Pooh Pooh finally succeeds in purloining the coveted hat box. The theft of this causes him, in his attempts to escape, to enter the village of an Igorrote chieftain who declares the Baron's intrusion to be a violation of an inviolate law of their religion and the only atonement to appease the anger of their God is the blood of the Baron. The Igorrotes tie him to a lunging board and throwing spears at him are about to make the fatal lunge, when Count Romany appears on the scene, and interrupts the execution by stealing the hat box. The sacrifice of the Baron is abandoned until the Count is captured the Igorrotes overtaking the latter in an alligator farm, where he takes refuge in the section of an old alligator. They are about to lead him back to the village when the police intervene and learning of the theft, open the box to find it empty.
- The gentlemen of a fashionable social club become annoyed when their guest, Ben, has their wives entranced with stories of his bravery battling outlaws in the wild west. They decide to teach him a lesson by having a club worker disguise himself with a bear skin rug and sneak up on Ben.
- Ben and his pal Paddy, a couple of drifting loafers and con-men, arrive in town via a "side-door Pullman" - a free ride in a boxcar. They set up a printing press, and start printing counterfeit money, get involved with a couple of swell-looking towns-girls (even when looked at crooked by Ben), and get highly inebriated.
- Lillian Hamilton is the young heiress, who, with her colored maid, goes to a fashionable summer resort. There she is seen and admired by John and Owen, who set out to win her. She is locked out of her room one night and so dons her brother's clothes. She is seen by John, who, thinking she is a boy, plans a trick on Owen. John goes up to Lillian's room and there he sees Lillian's maid, heavily veiled and dressed in Lillian's clothes. Thinking it is Lillian he drags her downstairs and there is astounded when she unveils. Meanwhile Owen marries Lillian.
- The lion hearted chief objects to his daughter's sweetheart, and favors the star detective. Her sweetheart arranges a plot to make the chief think his daughter has been kidnapped, hoping to be assigned to the case, prove his ability, and win the chief's approval. The daughter leaves the house, and her sweetheart sends news of the kidnapping to the chief. The star detective gets the assignment. Upon reaching the rendezvous, the daughter is bound and gagged by a bandit and his accomplice. The star detective follows the scent, and reaches the haunt of the bandit, where he is forced to guard the chief's daughter. In this compromising position he is discovered by the girl's sweetheart and her father. The star detective is disgraced and the girl and her sweetheart receive the blessing of the chief.
- Rube has a sweetheart. Madge, whom he is going to marry in the near future. One day when they are taking a walk, they see a gypsy man beating an old hag. Rube interferes and saves her. Later the Chief of the Gypsies sees Madge and has her kidnapped, sending her father a note telling him that if he does not come across with the sum of one dollar, that his daughter will kick the bucket. The father gathers all of his savings, which is only seventy cents, and takes it to the Chief. That is not enough, and Madge is condemned to be tied to a tree and blown up with a keg of dynamite. Rube tries to rescue her, but is foiled and tied up himself. However, the old hag releases him, and he pleads to be allowed ten minutes to return with the thirty cents that is shy. The Chief tells him that he will, but he lights the fuse as soon as Rube is out of sight. Rube has his money buried six feet deep underground. He digs it up and hurries back. He arrives just in time to throw the keg of dynamite after the fleeing gypsies and blows them up. They land in a hole that he has dug his savings from, so Rube just shovels the dirt in on top of them, and lives happy ever after.
- Art and Rube are both employed in the same café, Rube as a waiter and Art as a chef. They are both in love with Alice, a Spanish dancer, who is an entertainer in the café. They are bitter rivals for her favor and come to blows about her, much to the detriment of the service of the café. The proprietor settles this, and as he likes them both, allows them to continue in the service of the place. Madge comes to the café as a cashier. Art and Rube see her and fall for her. Madge being a flirt, encourages them both. They have a bitter quarrel about her, which winds up in a duel between them with meat cleavers as the weapons. As a climax to their struggles to win her favor. Madge is attracted by the brass buttons of a policeman, and falls in love with him. Alice, too, is charmed with brass buttons, so Madge and Alice leave Art and Rube and go with a couple of strange policemen who happen to come on the scene. Art is so disgusted that he polishes a frying pan, hands it to Rube. Rube then hits Art and himself on the head and they both pass away.
- A small town in the west is being terrified by a "peeping Tom" in the person of Bungling Bill. Dorothy's father is to be initiated into a secret organization, but his family object to being left alone when "peeping Tom" is in town. The father arranges for Dorothy's sweetheart, Joe, to come to the house in his absence to allay the fears of the family. Upon his return from the lodge, the father thinks he will play a joke on the household and is discovered peeping in a window. A detective who has been watching for "peeping Tom" thinks the father is the man he is after. The genuine peeper arrives on the scene and there is a mix-up of the father, the detective, Joe and the peeper, during which the peeper escapes, while father proves his innocent joke to the detective, and peace is restored to the family.
- Knockout Kelly, a champion pugilist, steals the cashier of a beanery from her sweetheart, Dowdy Donnelly, a waiter in the same place, who is in love with her. Learning from another waiter in the place that Kelly is winning her attentions he hurriedly visits a saloon, and in the back room pleads with her to return to him. She agrees to do this on condition that he challenges Kelly, and if he knocks out the Knockout Man she will marry him. Donnelly is aided by Kelly's manager, who, instead of receiving a condition for his services in the champion's behalf, gets a blow on the jaw when he asks what is coming to him. He trains and schools Donnelly and when the latter has a bad attack of cold feet, owing to unfavorable reports from Kelly's gymnasium, Dugan hits upon the brilliant idea or knocking out Knockout Kelly as follows: While Donnelly is fighting Kelly, Dugan will stand in an obscure corner of the club, and shoot Kelly in the seat of his tights with an air gun. When Kelly turns to see who shot at him then Donnelly is to knock him out while his attention is distracted from the fight. The plans works out O.K. after several mishaps, in which Donnelly gets the shot instead of Kelly, and finally when Kelly is floored the cashier incensed at the frame up, exposes Dugan and Donnelly and marries Kelly, while the conspirators have to flee from the ire of the fight fans.
- It is a rainy morning, and only a few of the motion picture actors arrive at the Vogue Studio. Waterfalls in torrents on the stage, and the drenched actors file into the studio grounds. The leading woman, the leading man and the camera man are late. The manager calls up the leading woman on the phone, and she refuses to go to the studio unless they send a car for her. Out into the streets filled with water goes the auto. She is called for and delivered to the studio, but refuses to leave the car unless she is provided with an umbrella. The property room and dressing rooms are turned upside down to find an umbrella but none is forthcoming. Finally, the resourceful property man plays "Sir Walter Raleigh" and lays his overcoat down for the leading woman to alight on from the auto. Now that the company is assembled, the director arranges the set and starts the action. A dramatic scene is taken when the leading man saves the leading woman from the clutches of the villain, the starving chee-ild is fed, and when the director asks the footage of the scene, he learns that the cameraman forgot to put any film into the camera. The ill-fated director was revived when he learned that the sun was coming out.
- Ben, a struggling artist, is in love with the daughter of a wealthy widow. He is thrown out by the girl's mother and Baron Moon, a fake baron, is received royally. Ben discovers Moon is a janitor in a side show next to the concession where Paddy, as "Jasbo," the dog faced boy, works. Paddy quits his job and gets one as a model with the living models. Ben puts in a one-man circus and breaks up Paddy's show by letting loose a bunch of rats; then Paddy breaks up Ben's show, by squirting water all over everyone. The baron steals a necklace from Gypsy's mother and is finally caught. Then the mother gives Gypsy to Ben.
- Joshua Elliott, who loves the ladies, flirts with Rena, who is taking her baby to the park to see her father, who is the Park Commissioner. Elliott mistakes Rena's pleasantness for flirtatious inclinations, and he grabs and kisses her on the park bench. Her husband, Moon, discovers them. Snatching a camera from a child, he photographs the scene. He threatens to sue Elliott for alienation of his wife's affections. Desperate at having no money to offset the inevitable expose, should he be the defendant in a suit of this kind, Elliott schemes to find a way to obtain money enough to buy off Moon. Bungling Bill and Bloggie, two rogues, read in the paper that a prize is offered by the leading newspaper in the city for the most perfect baby. As the prize is of no little magnitude, being $50,000 they decide to get a baby and try for the prize. They see Moon and his wife enter their home with their child. Bill schemes to kidnap the kid. He engages Moon in conversation at the front door while Bloggie enters the house through the rear. Entering the parlor, Bloggie arrives in time to find that Rena is struggling with a burglar. The burglar floors Bloggie and makes his escape through the front door, bowling Moon and Bill over in doing so. These two then enter the house to find Bloggie with the fainting Rena in his arms. While Moon is flaying Bloggie for loving his wife, Bill steals the suitcase and the kid and safely makes his getaway to a field where he finds the contents of the suitcase are Rena's clothes. He puts them on to take the baby to the contest. Bloggie in the meanwhile flees from the ire of Moon and steals a baby carriage he finds in front of a house. He later discovers that the baby in the carriage is a pickaninny. The police apprehend the kidnappers and they find Elliott with Moon's kid in his arms. He met Bill and paid him to loan him the child, thinking Bill in the woman's garb its mother and pursue him. Elliott arrives on the scene where Bill and Bloggie are changing clothes. Bill offering to do this if Bloggie would let him take the child he has, the pickaninny, to the contest. Bill has scarcely departed for the contest, when Elliott gives Bloggie Moon's child and runs off. Bloggie, who has stolen from Bill the money Elliott gave him for the loan of the child, runs off followed by the police. He meets Moon who is shooting mad, and beating him, arrives at the baby contest, while the unfortunate park employee and cops search the town for a trace of the kidnappers. At the contest, Bloggie wins the prize with his son Oscar only to find the prize is offered to encourage the birth of babies in China, and for this reason the prize of $50,000 is paid in coin of that realm, equal in America to about ten cents. Bloggie shows to Bill the money he stole from him, but before the Bungling Man has time to wreak vengeance, he and his compatriot make a hasty retreat before the onslaught of the kidnapped children's parents.
- "Bungling Bill" is discovered asleep in his dingy quarters. He arises, breakfasts on salted onions, washes and exercises with a couple of empty wine bottles. He then turns to his morning paper and notes the arrival at the local hotel of the Western "Bad Man" who is reputed to be carrying a large quantity of gold nuggets. At the same time the young couple elope from the girl's home, escaping in an automobile, hotly pursued by the girl's irate father and a policeman, both mounted on motorcycles. The couple stop long enough to kidnap a minister, who is forced to marry them. The ceremony concluded, the couple release the minister and proceed on their way to a local hotel. Meanwhile the father and the policeman have had a bad spill. The motorcycle refuses to provide any more locomotion and in desperation they set out after the couple on a dead run. The next scene finds the young couple and the "Bad Man" registering at the same hotel. The view shifts to the room of the "Bad Man," who sits before a table sorting his nuggets with the barrel of his huge revolver. The call of a "mighty thirst" takes possession of him and with his revolver he fires at the bell, which registers a strong call for refreshments at the clerk's desk. "Bungling Bill" has taken time by the forelock and climbed up the fire escape of the hotel, invading the room of the young married couple long enough to carry away some rather startling articles of the bride's trousseau. Then going to the window of the room of the "Bad Man" he reaches in for the drinks just deposited by the bellboy and replaces them with the delectable articles of apparel. Refreshing himself, he seeks further adventure. A general mix-up follows the "Bad Man's" discovery of the loss of his drinks. During the excitement "Bungling Bill" enters the "Bad Man's" room and obtains a large bag of the nuggets. Returning via fire escape he enters the married couple's room and secretes himself in the closet. He disguises himself by putting on one of Mrs. Newlywed's outfits. While he is doing so, a general chase and search is made for the unknown thief. An accident occurs in the closet and "Bill" catches fire. In trying to escape he encounters a policeman. They struggle and fall through two floors to the hotel lobby on the main floor. By clever dodging "Bill" gains the street, then turns into an alley closely followed by the whole company. He finally eludes his pursuers. Arriving at his "residence" he lunches on salted onions and by raising his left hand high over his head, registers the time-honored resolution, "Never again."
- Rube, a shipwrecked sailor, is cast upon an island, which is inhabited by a tribe of fire worshipers. The girls of the island take a fancy to him, which displeases the men, and they try to put him out of the way, but only succeed in getting hurt themselves. Finally they do catch him napping, and he is put in a cage to be offered as a sacrifice to the volcano on the island. The girls release him. He finds out that they are afraid of fire, and as the only thing that has been saved from the ship is a keg of powder and a couple of signal rockets, he has an idea. After he has exploded the powder and set off the rockets, they of the island think that he is the master of the volcano. All rush towards him to worship him. He thinks they are going to assault him and runs into the water. He wakes to find out that he has been asleep on a barge and has fallen into the water.
- A broken water pipe in the bathroom of Dr. Kripple's residence is flooding the rooms upstairs, and the Doctor sends the maid to phone for a plumber. Receiving a phone call from a very sick patient necessitates his departure, and excites the Doctor into sending the cook for another plumber. Ben arrives with his kit of tools after the water has begun to flood the downstairs, but wastes his time in trying to make love to the maid. He finally goes upstairs as Rube, the second plumber, arrives. Ben goes downstairs and turns on the water, and then goes back upstairs. Rube goes to the cellar and turns on the water, thinking he is turning it off. A patient comes to the house and thinking Rube is the Doctor seeks his aid. Rube poses as the Doctor, but is discovered by Ben, who also poses as the Doctor. Rube throws Ben into the hall, and he becomes so enraged that he locks them in and goes upstairs and bores holes in the floor to flood them out. The other occupants hearing their call to be let out call in several policemen who try to force the door, but leave to give chase to Ben, who has gone to the cellar. The weight of the water in the reception room now forces the door and floods them to the cellar, where the officers grab both Ben and Rube. The real plumber having returned to his shop discovers a note left by Dr. Kripple informing him of the leak, goes to the house and opens a sewer outlet in the cellar which lets out the water, taking Rube and Ben in the rush. They are carried through the sewer and deposited on the ground at the end of pipe where they shake hands over their success at getting out of it so easily.
- Jack a college man, receives a letter from his father, a book publisher, that the old gentleman has found a wealthy bride for him. Jack, after reading the letter, writes his father that he must first see the photo of his bride-to-be. Father then visits the rich spinster (his selection for Jack) and not being impressed with her photographs, he steals the picture of the spinster's secretary, a little blonde lady. Jack, when he receives the blonde lady's photo is so smitten that he hurries home from college only to find that his bride-to-be is a homely gaunt old maid. He refuses to marry her and is disowned by his father. The little blonde lady that night writes a story which she submits to father the next morning for publication, and the story father reads is the life of his son married to the spinster. Many humorous situations happen in the blonde lady's story, with the result that father is brought to a realization that a handsome young man is no husband for a spinster, and he tells his son to choose his own bride. Of course he chose the little blonde lady.
- Rube has a Bowery belle for a sweetheart. He meets another girl and falls in love with her. As a result of the double love affair Rube gets mixed up in a series of complications. After cleaning up the dance hall Rube is hit with a bottle and knocked out. His spirit is seen to leave his body and ascend to a fanciful spot. There are a royal queen, dancing girls, wood nymphs, corpyhees, etc. Rube is welcomed and he proceeds to enjoy himself. After some time Rube awakens and finds himself on an operating table. He wrecks the hospital and is finally subdued by a policeman's club.
- Mr. and Mrs. Loosit go for a stroll in the park. They sit on a shady bench and Mrs. Loosit dozes. Sue seats herself on a nearby bench and, deliberately flirts with Mr. Loosit, who, seeing his wife fast asleep, goes over and sits with Sue. Sue's accomplice, Tony, creeps up on the snoozing Mrs. Loosit, pilfers her watch and makes off with his booty. Then Sammy comes sauntering onto the scene. Sue sees him flourish a fat wallet, and at once she has designs thereon. She leads Sammy into a flirtation, and manages to filch the wallet, which, to her dismay, is filled with naught but Sammy's fine cut "chewin'" tobacco. Mrs. Loosit discovers the loss of her time piece. Loosit is sent in search of the thief. Sammy discovers the watch where the crook has dropped it through a hole in his pocket. He promptly takes the find to a pawn shop where he disposes of it. Sammy and Sue meet in a café, and Sammy proceeds to show Sue a wild and woolly time. A veritable fusillade of champagne corks greets the ears of the other diners. At length the celebrants are ejected. Then by the accusing finger of the pawn shop keeper, Sammy is arrested, charged with the theft of Mrs. Loosit's watch. Sue and her masculine depredators are arrested, and they and Sammy meet in the police station. Sue's stalwarts pick a fight with Sammy, who, through his acrobatic agility, is quick in cleaning up the two belligerents. Sammy, however, commits lese majesty in the police court, or was it habeas corpus? At any rate, he is on the point of being drawn, quartered and boiled in oil, when in walks a gruff detective, a bosom "pal" of Sammy's. The two shake hands, and seeing Sammy in the toils of the law, the detective comes to Sammy's rescue. "This man Sammy is as honest as I am," solemnly declares the plain clothes man. Then it is discovered that Sammy is not the man who stole Mrs. Loosit's watch. The time piece is returned, and Sammy is made a member of the force. Whereupon he exercises his newly-acquired law enforcing function by standing beside a beer sign before two swinging doors. He whistles, as he has seen "regular" policemen do, and is rewarded when a white-coated arm reaches from within, tendering the newest wearer of the star with a large sized glass of an amber fluid that wears a huge white collar.
- Madge's father, a retired millionaire, wants Madge to marry. She is willing to do so, but insists that her husband have a title, so her father brings her to the office of the matrimonial agent, and puts an order in for a Count. Bleary and Weary, a couple of tramps, awake one morning and as they are hungry and broke, they hold up the first ones they see. This happens to be a Count Bonehead and his valet. They take their clothes when they find out that the Count is also broke. Later, they see the sign of the matrimonial agent. Entering, they are informed that a Count is in demand, so they are brought to the home of Madge. There they are almost discovered as impostors, through the odd things that they do. However, all arrangements are made for the wedding to take place the morning following. Being broke, they are forced to lodge in a stable that night. In the morning, as payment for the lodging, they are forced to clean a horse, and are doing this while the guests and minister await them at the home of Madge. The real Count and valet awake from sleeping on the ground all night, and start up the street. They arrive at the stable at the moment of the leaving of the tramps. There is a battle from which the Count and valet come out second best. The tramps hurry to the home of Madge. The ceremony is almost over when the Count and valet arrive at the house. The tramps are exposed. Madge wants a title anyhow, and as the real Count wants her money they are married. The tramps on the outside are eating a long-deferred meal.
- A villain engaged in smuggling opium reads in the paper that a millionaire, the father of the girl he seeks to marry, is going to bequeath a million for the suppression of opium smoking. For revenge at the millionaire's interference in his business, the villain kidnaps his daughter with the aid of Hop Head Joe, and take her to the opium den and hold her prisoner. At this time Secret Service Sam, a government detective, is on the villains' trail, and in looking over his den he falls through a skylight and lands in the hop joint, just as Rena's sweetheart, disguised as a Chinaman, has found her in the den. The detective is made a prisoner also. Eventually the heroine is rescued and married by the hero, while the villain is captured by Sam.
- Madge, female detective, is sent out by her chief to round up a gang of counterfeiters which have been giving him a lot of trouble. Madge joins the gang, and when she has enough evidence to convict the gang, Rube, the mysterious one, joins the gang and Madge falls in love with him. Then, to inform on the gang means that Rube will get the same as the others, so Madge is torn between love and duty. Rube has trouble with the head of the gang about Madge. The police capture them all, and Madge and Rube find out that they are both in the same line of work.
- A man gives his wife the slip in order to attend a "leg show".
- Ben, proprietor of a small town restaurant and in love with his waitress, presents her with an engagement ring. About this time the waitress goes to the city to buy her trousseau. The cook receives word that a fortune awaits him in the city, and he and his wife leave. When the waitress arrives she finds that her aunt is not in town so puts up at the Chargealot Hotel. A drummer also decides to stop at the same place, but his room is given by mistake to the waitress. The cook and his wife get the rooms adjoining the waitress', and that night after the proprietor of the restaurant who has sold his restaurant and who has come to the hotel, arrives there, and things happen that sure keep everyone jumping, and finally a wild chase ensues, which results in the drummer and waitress bungling into the home of a preacher, where they are married.
- Gypsy, the daughter of the widow Templeton, who keeps boarders, is wooed by both Paddy, the boarder in hard luck, and Arthur, the star boarder. Paddy fails to pay his board bill and does not appear at the office in time and is fired. He goes to the ocean to commit suicide. Meanwhile a bank has been robbed and the booty hidden in an old sock, near the ocean's edge. Paddy finds the sock. Paddy and the burglar struggle on a jack-knife bridge and both fall into the water. The burglar is caught and Paddy is complimented for capturing the desperado. However, he is soon in the depths of despair, when he finds Gypsy has married Arthur.
- Two college boys, finding their funds low, meet a young girl and manage to "borrow" fifty dollars from her purse, without her knowing it. The theft is reported and the next day the boys write their fathers, asking them for money. The boys borrow fifty dollars from a pawnbroker and manage to slip it back into the girl's purse. The fathers of the boys arrive and are arrested as the thieves. The girl, however, gets the real thieves and they all meet at the police station. Here the girl finds her money is all intact and the matter is thought to be cleared up when the pawnbroker comes on the scene and demands his fifty. A chase follows and the boys are finally caught.
- Sammy can't make Sally, his sweetheart, love him because she is athletically inclined and Sammy is a little runt whose biceps are not up to her standard. He is in despair. But learning that the professor of the local gymnasium is hard up, he makes him a mysterious proposition, involving the exchange of a roll of bills. Sammy goes into training and in a few weeks has developed an astonishing amount of muscle. Sally, passing the gym, is surprised to see a large poster announcing the championship match between Sammy, "the wrestling wizard" and Nabisco, "the terrible Turk." Sammy happens to come out at this minute and he hands Sally complimentary tickets to the bout. The night of the great event, Sammy completely flattens out the Turk. Sally is convinced. She marries Sammy the next day.