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- Bobby is a sandwich man who is in love with Vera Pretty, a motion picture star. The story concerns his efforts to get into the studio to see her. He succeeds several times, each time butting in on the scene and being thrown out. The picture that Vera is making is about an escaped convict. In a nearby prison a convict is about to be executed. He make his escape and Bobby buys his convict suit from him in order to get into the picture with Vera. The guards capture him, believing him to be the escaped convict. He finally escapes from them and flees to Vera and begs her to save him. He again butts in and as this is a scene that the director is trying to take for some time and he does it so well, the director offers him a leading part in the next picture. He is delighted but when Vera says no one shall play the lead except her husband, he goes back to the prison to be executed.
- Bobby Dunn is the ballast of a balloon. The occupants of the balloon decides to go higher. They throw Bobby out. He lands in a schoolhouse and is mistaken for the new teacher. He is accidentally the means of capturing a bold, bad man who has stolen the savings bank money belonging to the children. Bobby is the hero of the day and he goes on to explain what a brave man his grandfather was - fighting Indians, killing half-breeds, and bringing his settlers to a safe camping place. Having such a wonderful ancestor, how can he (Bobby) be other than a brave man? This sounds all right till the bad-man escapes and chases Bobby out of town.
- Bobby Dunn is thrown from a freight train passing thru the Kentucky mountains and be comes mixed up in a feud with the moonshiners and revenue officers. He is forced to join the revenue officers and become one of them. He finally rounds up the gang after many adventures, and marries the daughter of the chief of the moonshine gang.
- A day in the life of a hapless plumber and his bumbling assistant, flirting with a customer's daughter, a dangerous drive, plumbing a house and fixing a flooded bathroom. Good help is hard to come by.
- An intense rivalry exists between the post-man and the leading soda clerk of Hay Centre, who are suitors for the hand of the prettiest girl in town. An automobile race, agreed upon as a method of deciding to whom the lady is to give her hand, has a number of intensely humorous complications. The mail-man loses out and the final fadeout shows the happy victor riding off triumphant with the girl.
- Bobby is a hard-working hired hand on a farm whose personnel includes an irate farmer, the farmer's beautiful daughter, a roughneck suitor for the daughter's hand, a coquettish hired girl and various other characters. Between Bobby and the roughneck there exists an intense rivalry for the daughter's affections. She favors Bobby and aids him to thwart the roughneck at every conceivable opportunity. In a screamingly funny climax Bobby, through error, feeds dynamite pellets to the chickens instead of their usual diet and succeeds in blowing the farm to smithereens. He himself, together with the girl, is blown sky-high, as is also a wandering minister who, as they go soaring together through the air, unites them in holy wedlock.
- After being chased all over town by a cop, Bobbie is finally apprehended, but he tells a "hard-luck" story that registers well when he displays a letter from a broken-hearted mother. However, the letter is printed on one side of a circular exploiting (the film) "The Wandering Boy." But the bluecoat is an agreeable gentleman and touched by the letter offers to find a job for the lad. Jobs are not to the liking of the young man, though, and he loses them as fast as the officer finds them, finally finding a wife and happiness at a powder factory where he thwarts the efforts of a Bolshevik mob.
- In attempting to rescue a charming young girl from drowning, Bobby becomes involved in a fracas with the police. Many complications ensue including an interesting mix-up in a tailor's shop where Bobby and his opponents have gone to have their clothing put to rights. Then in attempting to escape from the officers, Bobby becomes involved with two hold-up men in a tramp hotel. He finally manages to give them the slip only to get into another mix-up with his uniformed enemies. He is unsuccessful once again in evading them and the final fade-out shows Bobby arm in arm with the girl he has rescued from the watery grave and whose heart he has won.
- Bobby Dunn wants to get married. He has found the girl, and though, fat and forty, she is perfectly willing for the ceremony to take place. It all rests with mother, and she decides that her son-in-law must have at least ten dollars. Bobby has only two so it's all off. Broken hearted, he leaves the house and on his arrival home he is telephoned that mother has changed her mind, and to meet them at the church in ten minutes. Unfortunately, he is delayed by a roughneck and he arrives too late. He tries to give an explanation but it is not accepted. The only thing to do is to die. Hurrying back to the man who delayed him, he offers him the two dollars to kill him painlessly. The man tries his best, but Bobby bears a charmed life. Meanwhile at the girl's house, her brother has arrived from Montana, Having heard that his sister is about to be married, he has called with the intention of taking them both back to his ranch. They take a walk, and turning a corner they see Bobby just about to be shot by the hired assassin. Stepping between them, she tells Bobby that she cannot let him die and they will be married at once. Here the brother interrupts and tells her that as the roughneck will be of more use to him on the farm she had better marry him. To Bobby's dismay, she agrees. Bobby looks around once more for a means of committing suicide.
- Useless as learning the very necessary, if not artistic, trade of plumbing. In two more months he would be a qualified plumber. A customer comes in with his beautiful daughter. "Useless" upon seeing her, becomes possessed with a desire to be in her vicinity. He places a chair for her father over a lighted blowtorch. As the torch nobly does its duty the customer's temper rises with his temperature and upon witnessing the flirtation he threatens "Useless" with a permanent wave in the nose. The Boss starts for the home of the customer. Tricks of divers nature being the specialty of "Useless" the Boss to keep the two together tows "Useless" in the bathtub. On the way "Useless" diverts himself by grabbing his breakfast from a traveling cafeteria. There is a blockade in the traffic, some irascible man trips over the tow rope and just saves himself from a headlong dive into the heart of the traffic, so to ease his ruffled temper he cuts the rope and "Useless" is left stranded in the bathtub towless. The "Boss" thinking all serene in the rear rambles along in his "Henry" minus the bathtub and "Useless". A friendly car comes along and bumps the tub sending "Useless" sailing after the Boss. Dire misfortune stalks "Useless" this day. The pipe he is carrying seems to constantly come in contact with everybody's head. In order to fit it, he tears down the wall of the newly erected house, to the extreme mystification and rage of the carpenter who has rebuilt it three times. By this time, everybody wants to murder "Useless" and they all chase him. After narrowly escaping a fight with the carpenter and a few other equally unpleasant things he reaches the truck in safety, but not yet is he allowed to rest his aching limbs. A house across the way needs the attentions of a plumber, the bathroom pipe having sprung a leak. The housewife, on learning he is a plumber, drags him to the scene of disaster. "Useless" settles down to think and meanwhile the house threatens to float away. At last a bright idea strikes him. He cuts a hole in the floor and makes it so big that he falls through and comes face to face with his boss. If the boss could only lay his hands on "Useless", but "Useless" noting the gleam in his boss' eyes flees rapidly. The boss pursues him through rooms, up and down stairs and at last "Useless" takes refuge in the handy old furnace. The boss, by this time tearing off his clothes in rage, resorts to a tin of dynamite. Before he can reach safety it explodes and the two are blown into the sky their clothes torn to ribbons. "Useless" gently floats down and lands in the bathtub which rolls downhill into a lake. The boss lands in the truck. Infuriated, he again pursues "Useless" and wading into the lake shakes his fist and yells "You're fired." "Useless" just before sinking retorts "You're too late I quit."
- Bobby is a blacksmith's helper and is also chief of the local Fire Department. The blacksmith shop is also the firehouse. Both Bobby and his employer are in love with the same girl, and when a fire is discovered in her house, it gives Bobby an opportunity to shine as chief of the Fire Department. After ruining the house by flooding it, it is found that there was no fire, with the result that the whole Fire Department is fired, and both Bobby and the blacksmith lose the girl.
- In a fashionable hotel wander a love-sick couple with matrimony for their purpose, and an angry daddy and jealous porter making life for them anything but a bed of roses. And to add to the trouble of the prospective man and wife an undertaker, mistaken for a minister, timidly contributes further complications.
- Los Angeles is in the midst of a burglar scare which worries both Eddie Lyons and his little wife, as well as their colored cook. There are a number of false alarms which involve many ludicrous happenings. Then Eddie reaches his office where the boss assigns him to the task of depositing ten thousand dollars in cash in the bank. He reaches the bank only to find it closed and upon returning to the office finds that closed too. He notifies his employer by telephone and is instructed to take care of the money until the following morning. Then, unbeknown to him, he arranges to have two detectives guard the house during the night. This causes many other complications, for the detectives are mistaken for robbers, but all ends well.
- Bobby hides as a stowaway aboard a balloon on which some scientists are going on an expedition. When over the desert the balloon begins to sink, and the scientists throw out all excess weight, Bobby among the sandbags. He drops in the middle of the desert, and after wandering a long time, suffers from thirst and sees mirage after mirage, until finally he stumbles upon a motion picture company taking scenes in the desert. He believes this to be still part of his imagination with the result that he spoils many scenes for the director and finally breaks up the work.
- Bobbie, a sign painter, is at work on a building opposite the hospital where his sweetheart is employed as a nurse. He decides to feign illness to get into the hospital where she is. The ruse is discovered and he is thrown out. Repeated attempts meet with the same results. He takes the place of a patient who is about to be operated upon, and the doctor, who is also in love with the nurse, chloroforms him.
- Bobby Dunn arrives on board a freight train in the town of Angels' Rest. Instead of finding a peaceful little village as the name would imply, it is the abode of some desperate characters - one of them being Black Wolf for whose capture $10,000 reward is offered. Bobby doesn't get far in the town when he meets Black Wolf's gang shooting up another gang. Black Wolf gets captured and for some reason Bobby gets credit for being the captor and is immediately awarded a badge, and to crown it all the village beauty falls in love with him. However, Black Wolf escapes from jail again and again, but the third time he sets out to get Bobby, captures him when dynamite doesn't end his life, hangs him from a tree. The village beauty is on the job and rides up and shoots the rope from which Bobby is suspended and he falls into her arms.
- Eddie is in love with the daughter of a collector of mummies. In order to be near her he has himself disguised as a mummy and transported to her home.
- "One Stormy Orphan" concerns the adventures of a child abandoned by its mother on the steps of a church on Christmas Eve. She leaves the baby in a basket and the scene fades out with the people leaving the church and paying no attention to the "Orphan." The scene fades back as a title indicates that twenty-five years have passed and the baby, now grown to manhood, still occupies the basket and the church-goers are still passing him by unnoticed. A policeman tells him that he has been there long enough and to move on, which he does. He sees a bed for sale in front of a furniture store and lies down there, but cannot be comfortable, he has grown so used to the basket. Finding a basket of clothes a Chinaman has left and crawls in, and the Chinaman takes him back to his laundry where he makes him work. The Chinaman has also adopted an orphan white girl and of course she and Bobby fall in love with each other. After many adventures when Bobby upsets the plans of the villain who also wishes to marry the girl, all ends happily.
- Bobby and his little companion are living very luxuriously in an old piano case which they have fitted up. They are routed from their home by an unfeeling policeman and in attempting to escape from his clutches be come involved in a series of difficulties. They see two men extracting money from passing motorists by feigning to be hurt, and in attempting to work the same trick become more deeply involved with the officers of the law. They finally seek refuge in a house where a charming girl proves both sympathetic and kind, feeding and clothing the two wanderers. Later on, to their dismay, they discover her to be the daughter of the policeman who started all their difficulties, and when he finally finds them in his home things, for a while, look rather black. All ends happily, however, with Bobby a member of the force, and an accepted suitor for the hand of his benefactors daughter, while the youngster who has shared his ups and downs with him is installed as a member of officer Clancy's household.
- Bobby, thrown out of his boarding house walks along the street carrying all his worldly possessions in a suitcase, bumps into a crook carrying a suit case of stolen jewels. The two suitcases (being alike in appearance) get mixed - Bobby getting the one containing the jewels. Realizing that detectives are after him he tries various ways to dispose of the troublesome suitcase. Whether he drops it on the street, or throws it on a passing trolley or auto truck, always the unwelcomed suitcase returns to him. As a last resort he throws it in a back yard, but a little dog picks it up in his mouth and "dogs" Bobby's very footsteps with it until he has to relieve him of it. Then the crook comes along and takes the suit case away from Bobby. Two detectives are working on the case, one a very charming young lady. Bobby immediately joins forces with her and between them they get the suitcase and return it to Smith and Co. (the people who have been robbed), only to find upon opening that it contains nothing but Bobby's old clothes. Suddenly the little dog is seen carrying the stolen suitcase containing the jewels, and Bobby and the lady give him a lively chase before they recover it from him. Luck turns and Bobby captures the crook, turns him over to the lady detective to arrest. The other detective working on the case gets jealous and decides he also must make an arrest just for the look of things, so he places the handcuffs on Bobby and takes him to jail.
- A penniless husband has misadventures ending in a black-eye, which he has to explain to his overtly violent wife.
- Eddie is a new editor in a typically chaotic newspaper office. To get revenge for an imagined slight, a copy boy mixes the type so that a debutante is described as "wanted by the police." Eddie goes to a sanitarium for peace and quiet. So does the debutante who has been libeled. The sanitarium houses also a bootlegger and a superstitious housemaid. To secure solitude, the bootlegger poses as a ghost and, as a result, the patients get anything but peace and quiet.
- Bobby Dunn has been shipped out of one city by the sheriff, for the reason that he absolutely refuses to work and is therefore considered undesirable as a citizen. He arrives in a mail sack and the sheriff immediately tries to see to it that he gets work, but Bobby is successful in eluding job after job until finally, in his attempt to escape, he lands in a training camp where a heavy-weight. prize fighter is getting ready for a championship battle. The fighter, badly in need of sparring partners, takes Bobby on and knocks him out with the first punch. While out, Bobby dreams that he is so successful that he becomes the fighter's manager and trains him for the fight. The fighter has a very attractive sister with who Bobby falls in love. On the day of the fight the fighter falls and breaks his arm and Bobby says that he will go into the ring in his stead. He does, when to his horror he finds that his opponent is the official who has been causing him so much trouble. He gets very much the worst of the fight until he succeeds in grabbing a hammer and stuffing it into his glove, promptly knocks out everybody in the ring and the entire audience. The girl, very much impressed, embraces him and he wakes up to find that it was only a dream and the disgusted sheriff puts him back in the mail sack and ships him back to the city from which he came.
- The doctor of a sanitarium is sounding the heart of a patient - the patient is radio crazy and thinks the horn is the loud speaker, puts it under a water tap and drenches the doctor. He calls the attendant who is the nurse and maid also, and who is in the gymnasium with a crowd of girls and tells him to take the patient upstairs to his room and treat him nicely. The attendant wheels him upstairs and on hearing the bell, lets go of the chair which rolls down the stairs. While he attends to another patient, the former one has found his way into the gymnasium and is having a great time with the girls. The attendant finds him, knocks him on the head with a club, puts him in his chair, pushes it with so much force that it goes upstairs and the patient is thrown onto the bed. Another patient wishes to take a steam bath, but the attendant forgets to turn off the steam. The patient screams for help, the doctor hears and rushes to her rescue. She, in her wrath, shuts him in the bath where he is found by the attendant. The attendant takes to his heels, the doctor after him, goes into the gymnasium, quarrels with another patient and they decide to fight. Swords are used and the attendant is getting so badly prodded that gloves are decided on. First one gets knocked and then the other, this goes on until the doctor puts the content of a glue pot on the attendant's chair. He tries to get up and at last succeeds but has a spring attached to his pants which won't come off. Every time he falls he bounces up, much to the enjoyment of his opponent who hits him every time. At last he gets worsted and the attendant wins, and there is a chase after him. He escapes down the dumb waiter, one patient is sent after him, the attendant pushes the patient in the dumb waiter. The others, thinking he is the attendant, club him; one by one they go down the waiter and each in turn is clubbed. They recover and continue the chase, the attendant disguises himself as one of the gymnasium girls, but he is discovered and beaten up.
- Bobby gets mistaken for a champion dancer called "Hot Foot," and ends up a contestant in a dance marathon.
- A young man wants to elope with his pretty girlfriend, but her father--the local police chief--won't let them leave town.
- A prince's assistant notices a lookalike on the street and switches them for the formal dinner party, setting up a series of comedic complications.
- The little town of Bird Center boasting of one hotel and theatre, was in a state of uproar. The Rawsbury sisters were expected at-the theatre that week and the five "sheiks" whose wives comprised the board of Censors had great expectations of a good time. The great day at last arrived and the Sisters were duly installed in the hotel (belonging to one of the Board) and the "sheiks" welcomed them with presents. The festivities were just at their height when the Board swoops down to pass on the act. After viewing the act, a meeting was called at the Purity League where it was voted to ban it and ask the Sisters to leave town before they contaminated the citizens. Not having the wherewithal to pay their bill and being threatened with the Sheriff, the Sisters were undecided what to do, when just at the crucial moment a telegram arrives offering than work if they were blondes. They decide to dye their hair and proceed to do so, but while talking among themselves one of the "sheiks" overhears them and thinking they are about to kill themselves has the fire department rushed out which again creates an uproar, during which he is knocked in a state of coma and awakens to find himself in his loving wife's arms.
- Featuring Eddie Lyons, an American film actor, director, writer and producer. Lyons appeared in 388, directed 153, wrote for 93 and produced 40 films between 1911 and 1926.