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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.

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.

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.

A millionaire, alone in his big house except for his servants, receives a letter notifying him that his grandson, Big Boy, has been cared for by a poor family ever since his birth and that the law now demands that he, as the only living relative of the child, assume the care of it. The rich man protests, but it is the law, he sends his chauffeur and his secretary-butler for the infant. Big Boy is found at the widow's home, surrounded by his friends, the widow's children. When he is told that he must go to his grandfather's house to live he is heart-broken. He kisses all his playmates farewell, not forgetting his animal friends-the cows, chickens and the pigs. It is a real blow when he is told that he must leave Mutt, his dog, behind. But Mutt outwits everybody and steals a ride on the top of the big car. He is discovered and thrown off, only to catch a ride on the rear bumpers. When they arrive at the millionaire's home, the dog is thickly covered with dust and soot from the exhaust of the car. Big Boy angers his grandpa first by accidentally stepping inside his silk hat. Then he gets tangled up in the hat rack and has to cry for help. The millionaire regards the child coldly but is very nearly won by Big Boy's smile when the dog enters. Mutt jumps into grandpa's lap, covering him with dust and soot, and then chases the parrot all over the house. This soon has the house in an uproar and throws his grandfather into a terrible mood. Big Boy follows him, tracking soot and mud all over the rugs and carpets, throwing the servant into a rage. But again the millionaire's heart is softened by the child, and the picture closes with Big Boy safely established as a member of the household.

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Of course the very charming daughter of a very lady-like mother simply had to have two sweethearts. These two lovers naturally vied with each other to gain the "edge" on the fair damsel's affections and on a big occasion- the afternoon of a select tea party being given at her mothers home, they both arrive with rival bouquets. The very next drink the lady-like mother takes certainly proves to be something of an eye-opener, for she is not slow to show the effects. Sitting beside her is an intellectual guest who is always inclined to discuss weighty subjects He too imbibes unwisely. After which he is prone to argue and the lady-Slice mother being Irish and naturally adverse to taking insults, soon becomes involved in a veritable altercation with her guest. She expresses the opinion that the world needs a new Moses- one who can crack a rock and bring forth wine instead, of water. The intellectual guest takes issue with her insisting that what the world needs most of all is a new St. Patrick to keep out the new species of snakes known as Hooch snakes. This is the last straw, for the thoroughly irate lady-like mother and she hurls a defi which inspires the intellectual to invite her to remove her eyeglasses. The battle-royal which follows is funnier than it is dangerous but it assumes more threatening aspects, when the mere, little, husband commits the grievous error of undertaking to separate the gladiators. Whereupon his more portly wife turns all her wrath upon him. The couple seem unable to reach conclusions in the usual manner of fistic war-fare and so boxing gloves are brought. The husband gets a very severe drubbing and the revengeful intellectual comes to his rescue by inserting a "tender" iron horse-shoe into one Of the gloves, giving him the necessary "kick". Thus are the tables turned against the woman in the fight.

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.

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 beautiful day in Spring, and Miss May Time is beholding strange sights. Along comes gay young Billie Paste, son of a wealthy bill poster, and much stuck on himself, to meet his love, May Time. While. they are talking, an emigration of fleas from May's pet poodle, "Shimmie," causes a hasty retirement into the shrubbery, and a hurried disrobing by May, to rid herself of the offenders. And then- horrors. May turns to find her clothes gone, and in their stead the raiment of a man. Thus clothed she experiences many troubles and annoyances at the hands of a Mysterious Stranger, who is imbued with the spirit of Spring - until he is dragged into the lake in the nick of time by an obliging swan. Meanwhile, the wealthy bill poster has treacherously pasted Shimmie behind the Oriental dancer's poster, with the result that La Belle Fatima executed some remarkably Oriental movements on the billboard, shocking the passing populace, whenever "Shimmie" moves about. And then, in the midst of her troubles, Miss May Time wakes up - it was all a dream and Billy Paste proves to be none other than Montague Moon, May's own, wide awake sweetheart, while the wealthy bill poster turns out to be the hall boy in May's home, who keeps the guests in good spirits, with a hose full of hootch. Unable to use the family bath tub, because one of the lady house guests had taken up a permanent abode therein, much to the joy of the hall boy, who seems to have entree every where, May finally appeals to dear Montague, and he builds her a Russian bath on the floor above. Thither stealthily creeps the hall boy and the Mysterious Stranger, bent on beating May to it with a cooling plunge. But curses, the first dive proves the water to be glass. Troubles are but beginning for the hall boy and his mysterious friend. A quiet sleep is rudely interrupted by a nice warm fire in the middle of the bed, which greatly disturbs their dreams. In a panic, all rush for the fire extinguishers, and then the evils of bootlegging become apparent. The extinguishers are filled with inflammable hootch. Up to the roof they dash for help, but alas. The hall boy finds him self being borne swiftly to the edge of the roof on the stream of a fire hose, while the unlucky Stranger has mounted a ladder which is toppling precariously over into the canyon of the street. With the building burning around them, all appears to be lost.

Poor Harry never could get a job and when he found Ima Peach's dog, he was in the seventh heaven of bliss, for it meant a fifty dollar reward. Harry never bargained for what he got in addition, however, for he got a perfectly good job as butler. He was commissioned to take crotchety old man Peach out in his rolling chair. Harry wheeled the old guy to the beach and then promptly forgot about his charge when he heard him snoring and the chair took a little rapid stroll all by its lone and was only saved from destruction by Harry coming to his senses. But somehow the old guy was pleased with Harry, proving again that there is no accounting for crotchety tastes. Harry let the chair bump down the front steps and old man Peach got out and ran. Harry ran, too, and tried to hang himself on the cable rope attached to a street car. Imagine the surprise when the old man handed him $10,000 as a reward for helping him regain the use of his heretofore powerless legs. He is so upset that he allows the street car to ride off while he is still attached to the rope. And all because Harry was fortunate enough to meet with Ima Peach's little dog, Napoleon.

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.

Jimmy prints up business cards that give his job description as "bouncer," which intimidates everyone--until he runs out of cards.

Harry is in love with the daughter of an executor of an estate who has been threatened by some crooks. Harry comes to the house and accidentally opens the safe and a bag of money falls out. Cops on the trail of the crooks chase him all over town. The crooks come to Harry's place and start to divide the money. Harry finally subdues as the cops arrive and he gets his sweetheart.

All on the ship are seasick. Three slick jewelry crooks pass a necklace down Wanda's back. Wanda accidentally bumps their female accomplice, and the dame takes a long tumble into the deep blue sea. A detective tries to keep his eye on the crooks, who are busy keeping their peepers on Wanda, for fear that they lose their precious swag. They chase Wanda until she is almost bowlegged, but she manages to elude them and gets on shore. Here they spot her again, and she pops into a cab. They follow and enter her cab. She battles them and escapes to another cab. Finally, she seizes a telephone wire and pulls herself into a home which proves to be that of her aunt's. They are delighted to meet each other. She discovers that her aunt, who has considerable jewelry, is also bothered by thieves. Wanda's original pair make several efforts to get in, and when they succeed, she dives out of the window, is picked up by a passing motorcycle, and finally lands in the police station, with the thieves hot on her trail. The two plumb into the arms of the law, and Wanda is rewarded with a cop's coat, hat, and badge.

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.

Bobby asks permission to marry Betty, but her father, who is Chief of Police, refuses, telling Bobby that she can only marry a policeman and that he has promised her hand to Artie, the new Lieutenant. Just then Artie comes in and tells Bobby he is to announce their engagement that night at the Policeman's Ball. Bobby leaves telling Betty he will see her that night. Bobby, masquerading in a policeman's outfit, arrives at the ball, but is thrown out. As he is walking along, a patrol wagon comes by, filled with police on their way to raid Chinatown. They see Bobby and thinking him an officer, pull him into the wagon. When the patrol reaches Chinatown, the Lieutenant order. Bobby to patrol the street and tells him to stay there. They depart, leaving Bobby all alone and a bit scared. As he sits on a garbage can a little Chinese boy places a big firecracker in it and when it explodes, Bobby lands in an underground Chinese den. Won Lung, a notorious smuggler, is seated in Buddha fashion when Bobby arrives. In his endeavor to see him better, Bobby ignites Won's beard with a candle and when Won discovers it, he starts after Bobby. In the meantime, the Chief of Police, Betty and Artie arrive with the other police. In the den, Won and Bobby are having a fight and the Chinaman is just about to kill Bobby when he knocks him out. Hiding behind Won, he directs the Chinamen to get out of the den. The ground opens and one by one they land in the patrol wagon. Finally, Bobby arrives with Won Lung and the police recognize him as the smuggler. The Chief of Police congratulates Bobby and gives him his daughter and his blessing. As they embrace the street opens and they disappear down below.

Jack and Billy are indulging in the old Scotch game. Jack is the father of Jimmie, while Billy is the proud parent of Ann. The two youngsters are planning to get married that day. Billy finds himself in a sand-trap, and takes a mighty swing at the ball. The only thing he moves is the sand. Four times he swings at, the pill, and four times he fan the atmosphere. Jack counts the strokes, and when Billy declares he only took one stroke to get over the bunker, Jack wants to know whether he was killing a snake with the other three wings. And the battle is on. Billy declares his daughter shall never marry Jack's son. Jack declares that his son will marry Billy's daughter just for spite. Then Jack and Jimmie speed away from the Course in their car. Billy sends the' sheriff after (hem with a warrant for speeding. Ann warns Jimmie and his father that a bald-headed sheriff is after them with a warrant. Jack and Jimmie take Ann into their car and speed home where they prepare for immediate marriage. Jack gives everyone warning that they must keep all bald-headed men out of the house, with the result that Jimmie's uncle and a newspaper reporter are locked up in closets and desks, for Jimmie thinks each of them is the sheriff. Finally the sheriff arrives and, after a lot of trouble, serves his papers. But Jack tells Billy that no judge will believe him if he ever tells how he keeps his golf Score. Billy relents, tears up the warrant, and the wedding proceeds.

While struggling with two police officers who are trying to remove him from a barrel, Hank Mann espies a damsel in distress and endeavors to rescue her. After evading Persian-garbed guards, Hank infiltrates the harem and bedazzles the pasha with a rendition of the dance of the seven veils. Hank leads the women to freedom and chases the pasha through the trick doors and floors of the harem and, with the help of the police, captures him.

Andy pays five thousand dollars received from Uncle Bim to a real estate shark for a home that belongs to some one else.

Sylvia and Janet, having just lost their only remaining relative, their mother, are now left poor orphans. The good land lady interests Jenny Smart, a leading moving picture actress in the young girls and Jenny take Sylvia to the studio. Sylvia, showing her ability for acting, is employed as a moving picture actress and sends her little sister Janet to a Boarding School. By her earnest perseverance, in a month's time Sylvia has become "principal character". The production then in preparation was the old fairy tale "Cinderella" for which part Sylvia was appointed. The famous story of the loosing of the slipper was to be taken and the actors set off for the beautiful mansion of the Count Sivry, an old incorrigible bachelor. Soon reaching their destination they find the Count not at home but are gladly welcomed by the valet who allows them the use of the great old hall and staircase, where the scene was to be taken. All is well. Cinderella leaves the ballroom, quickly trips down the stairs and loses her slipper in her hurry, Just as the story related. In preparing to take her leave, Sylvia really forgets to pack together with her other articles, the little slipper which she leaves on a small table in the Count's sitting-room. Jenny, who had formally been the most popular actress, is jealous of her rival whom she treats with great aloofness. Knowing that Mr. Piccolini, the stage manager had a strong liking for Sylvia, she lays a snare to entrap her. That day, Jenny invites Sylvia to supper at her home as well as the young girl's admirer. On a pretext she leaves the room, but through the slightly ajar door watches the outcome. Her clan works as she desires, Mr. Piccolini finding himself alone with the young girl attempts to embrace her. Sylvia, very indignantly repulses him and taking her hat, leaves Jenny's apartment. That night after careful deliberation she writes to the company requesting the cancellation of her contract with them. In the meantime Count Sivry has returned home and is greatly surprised at finding a woman's slipper in his sitting-room. He soon learns the truth and carelessly dismisses the matter from his mind, but somehow the pretty little satin clipper persists in haunting him, and he finally gives himself up to pleasant dreams regarding the fair owner. While passing along the street one day, he is attracted by a billboard in front of the Alhambra Theater and learns that the picture "Cinderella" was then playing. He enters the theater and what is his surprise to recognize the staircase of his own mansion and immediately sees the connection between the picture and the little slipper in hie possession. The Count sets out for the studio is search of the pretty "Cinderella," but of course she is not there and he secures her address. Sylvia having given up her position in the studio, and desiring to keep little Janet at the Boarding School, has taken in some sewing to do. She is busily engaged in her work when the Count Sivry interrupts her. He explains his infatuation but she refuses to listen to him and turns him out. The old bachelor has now completely fallen under the charms of Sylvia and has determined to marry her. He takes the kind old landlady into his confidence and they concoct a plan together. At the Boarding School the good woman asks [?] for little Janet whom she takes to the Count's house. [?] Sylvia with a letter which is written by a woman admirer [?] asking her to come to see her as she was an invalid. [?] anything peculiar Sylvia goes with the landlady to the Aunt's house which she does not recognize. She is taken into a beautiful room and what is her surprise and joy when a little later Janet rushes into her arms. Her sister then gives her a letter which the Count has written begging her to accept his heart and name. And as the fairy tale ended, the poor young girl Sylvia married the Prince and they lived happy ever after.

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 girl has been kidnapped by members of "the black hand," and a boy trying to rescue her is also caught. The couple escapes but are soon followed by the two kidnappers who chase them back home where the cops are waiting.

Paul finds himself alone and penniless in a small town and to add to his discomfort, he is exceedingly hungry. He enters a restaurant A-La-Cafeteria and before selecting the items that would make up an ordinary meal, he samples nearly everything on the layout before the proprietor gets wise to him. In revenge, the proprietor outs him to work and all would have gone well until Paul's inventive brain exerts itself and he induces the proprietor to install a new system, namely one of the LUNCH BASKET ORDER which automatically locks as the goods are put into it. The scheme worked nicely until one day with an unusual lunch hour rush, the baskets are all filled and a cry of fire soon empties the restaurant, guests baskets and all. This so annoys the proprietor that the last we see of Paul is his being flattened against the wall with the proprietor's two revolvers pointing at him.

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.

A group of men work on various parts of a large generator, assembling the pieces. A crane carries a large piece of the generator over to the rest of the machine, and the men guide it down to assemble it. The crane brings two other pieces to the machine and lays them down where they belong.