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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.

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.

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.

When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills.

Henry is expecting the new cook and when Sally, his wife's sister, appears, he immediately shows her the kitchen and orders her to serve food. When Henry's wife learns this she fears to present him as her husband, commands him to masquerade as the butler and calls in a friend to pose as her husband. The "butler" puts soap into the soup with the result that the sister-in-law and the other man become ill. When fire breaks out in the house the sister-in-law is trapped in her room and Bill thinks the terrible heat he feels is the result of fever from his illness. The fire brings on a climax in which the fire department performs and a series of hilarious gags are introduced.

A farce set in and around a western gold mine featuring a tough foreman who takes no prisoners, and a donkey who kicks everything and everybody within his kicking range. Lige both chases and is chased but he is mostly chased.

The day's takings from a shop are stolen and an employee gives chase to catch the crooks.

A rich father wants to marry his daughter to a fortune-hunting scoundrel. Lena and Al have other ideas.

Lige and Zelma elope but are forced to go to the big city to escape her father who follows them. Lige has trouble finding his wife on an elevator and falls into the lap of Estelle, Eddie's sweetie and Eddie is very jealous when other men are in Estelle's lap. Otto, the father arrives, and Lige tells him that Estelle is his wife. Otto then assumes that his darling daughter eloped with Eddie and starts punching him.

A young Swedish immigrant gets a job as a plumber's assistant. The problem being, that he has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of plumbing.

Dorothy's father, an inventor, has just perfected a new type of airplane and is anxious to have Stanley, a captain of aviation, inspect and test it. Stanley is Dorothy's sweetheart, and Glen, also an aviator, is his rival. Dorothy, her father, Glen and Stanley start for the aviation field, with the chauffeur driving. On the way they get into all kinds of trouble with the car, finally being forced to abandon it and to proceed on foot. Dorothy and her father catch a motor-bus to the field after many ludicrous efforts. At the field, the plane is inspected and Stanley is to drive it. Before he can take his place in it, Glen slips into the cockpit and starts the ship. While Dorothy is christening the plane, it takes off. She is caught in some of the rope and the plane soars aloft with the girl dangling from the wing. Stanley and her father see Dorothy's predicament and they commandeer another plane and start in pursuit. Frank, the chauffeur, is caught in another rope and he is also carried aloft. Dorothy manages to climb up the rope and then she recognizes Glen in the plane. Glen is trying to kidnap her and attempts to force his attentions on her. He chases Dorothy out on one of the wings of the ship, but Dorothy pulls the release string of his parachute and Glen is dragged off the plane. Meanwhile, the plane with her father, Stanley and Frank, is circling overhead. Frank drops to Dorothy's plane and they try to get to the other ship. Finally, both of them jump, but Dorothy goes through the floor of the other plane and falls earthward while Frank lands astride the fuselage. Stanley jumps over after her and catches her, and they both float safely to earth in his parachute.

A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.

Nipper is a young man in his early twenties and when he first meets Kathryn he falls immediately in love with her. He is thinking about her when his father enters and tells him he is planning to re-wed and, as he wishes to conceal his real age from his fiancee, he asks Nip to dress as a child until he has been married. Dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy garb, Nip goes with his father to visit his prospective step-mother, who thinks, of course. He is a mere child and treats him as such. One of the young girls in the house makes life miserable for the young man and he is having a perfectly terrible time until he sees Kathryn. She is being annoyed by a man who persists in forcing his attentions upon her. Nip manages to get between them and the man is furious. Nip is having a great time until Blanche, his step-mother-to-be, enters and tells him it is time to goo to bed. She takes him upstairs where Nip struggles against being put to bed. He finally escapes and locks Blanche in the room. Then he hears a struggle between the man and Kathryn and runs to the rescue. He is thrown into a room and locked in while the man hurries Kathryn into a car in a forced elopement. Nip jumps out of the window but misses the car and pursue them on a bicycle. The bicycle falls to pieces as fast as he can get it together but he finally overtakes the pair and gets into the car where he overpowers the too-ardent lover. Kathryn discovers that the little boy is really the full-grown man she had seen earlier in the day and everything ends happily.

With the aide of a fake spiritualist, Walter's future mother-in-law is trying to contact her deceased first husband. The fake spiritualist is just interested in robbing the safe.

The children of the orphanage are elated over the outing, given to them by Mrs. Bullock, a rich lady charitably inclined. She doesn't know what she's undertaken, though, when she volunteers to be chaperone and guide to the youngsters on their sea trip. She loads them all in her auto, and when she comes to count noses she finds that the party has been swelled by the addition of several miscellaneous animals, pets of the children. She orders them all left behind. But "Pal" decides that he wants an excursion, too. At the dock the kids get into mischief. Pal shows up on the dock and he is thrown off, chased off and locked off the boat, but that does not discourage him. Before the boat sails he climbs the hawser and makes his appearance when the ship puts to sea. The life on the bounding main seem to incite the kids to more mischief, and things are going merrily when a wild flying fish comes aboard and forms an attachment for "Ginger." The rest of the gang go to the rescue with fire-axes and water pails. When the flying fish is finally chased back to the waves the cabins of the ship look like they had been visited by the big wind of 1889. To keep the kids quiet a, traveling man kindly offers them the contents of his sample cases to play with. It is a good thought--except that the cases are full of fireworks and the kids think it is Fourth of July. Rockets ricochet through the cabins. Roman candles roam through the portholes; pinwheels puff and firecrackers crack, until the Captain takes a hand and puts the entire gang to work cleaning the decks. It's been a great day for the orphans, but a greater one for Mrs. Bullock and the ship's crew.

Newlyweds are on a boat bound for Honolulu. The wife has a first-class passage, the husband's ticket reads steerage; hence complications.

The hero, Lige, accompanied by his Black valet, land on a desert island and are captured by cannibals who prepare to put them in a stew. A flood of water released to put out a fire in one of the straw huts sweeps them away. With the aid of an alligator, mistaken for a spar, they land on a shore and are received as guests of an oriental potentate in his palace; however, the desire of the ruler for the girl and the opposition of the hero causes the latter with his companion to be thrown in a room where a lion is let loose, and then follows a merry chase and general mix-up which covers the whole palace ending in the hero conquering the lion.

A farm hand has a fat girl friend, but he comes to the aid of a sleek heiress and tries to stop her wedding to a seedy aristocrat. The girlfriend gets jealous and complicates his efforts.

A star-struck fan of a film star botches his chance to meet her with a wardrobe malfunction. But, did Lester give up so easily? He sneaks onto the movie studio to try and make amends--which does not go exactly as planned.

Lige is a sporting goods salesman in a retail store and is compelled to demonstrate the different devices in the store, which he does to very, poor advantage as an irate boss looks on and threatens repeatedly to fire him. Eventually Lige shows the ladies how to "pin the tail on the donkey." He is blind-folded and walks through an open window to land on a safe being hoisted to an upper floor. A negro, in an effort to rescue him, also winds up on the safe in midair. After a lot of horse-play they are rescued.

Bobby is the guest at the party given for Frances, and George is his rival. George connives so that Bobby is compelled to dance with Aunt Muscena, while he dances with Frances, but Bobby outwits him. George then bets Bobby he cannot disguise himself as Bad Dan Derby and deceive the party into believing he is the real Dan. Bobby dons the disguise as the real Dan appears. The guests are robbed of their jewels by Bobby, who returns them, and they are then taken by the real Dan, from whom Bobby steals them and again returns them. The police arrive and take Bobby for the real culprit, but after much confusion he turns over the real Dan to them.

Neal is interrupted in the rehearsal of the show, he is getting ready for viewing by his financial backers by the arrival of a telegram from Natalie, his sweetheart, saying that they can be married soon if Neal's house suits her father. Neal has no house at all and is about crazy until his stage manager suggests they build one from the scenery. The house is finished in time, for Natalie and her father to see upon their arrival. Everything appears all right until father offers to make one of his famous omelettes. He fakes a fight with the cook. But he manages to mix things up worse than ever. Then Neal tries to make the best of things by frantically attempting to fix up the phony kitchen so that it will cook the omelette. Just as father has the omelette cooked, the carpenters start removing. the front part of the house for the first act at the theatre. Piece by piece the "scenic" house is carried away while another section is returned from the theatre as soon as the acts are completed. Consequently, Neal and Natalie have a busy time trying to keep her father in the section of the house which is neatly whole at that particular time. The lack of scenery disgusts the financial men and they begin to leave one by one. Neal hears of this and rushes up to the remaining one and begins to plead with him. In the meantime one side of the house has collapsed on father and he has started out for Neal with blood in his eye. He arrives at the same time as an unknown producer who has witnessed the farce of the scenery house. The moneyed man offers Neal $10,000 for a play written about this trick house and gives him a check in advance, Neal pretends that he won't take the check because he informs Natalie and her father that he is through with the stage forever. But father has a change of heart insists that he take the check, and asks to take part in the play.

At the home of Mrs. McGee, the Anti-Prizefight League is about to elect officer. Old Cornelius McGee is a hot fight sport and when he is nominated for president of the club, he is elected after Mrs. McGee offers her home as a club-house with refreshments free. This method of gaining his election makes the rival candidate. Hiram Prune, sore, and he and Cornelius exchange warm words. The argument ends when Cornelius offers to fight it out by proxy, the proposition that a fighter he will pick out will whip a battler Hiram will select. The men agree to conditions and set the following Tuesday evening at Kelley's as the time and the place. Cornelius is hard put to find a fighter but finally chooses the butler as his battler after James admits having been champion of the gas-house district. Cornelius starts training him immediately. At the big fight Tuesday night. Hiram Prune's entry. Battling Bittsky, is the odds-on favorite. In the first round Bittsky is getting a trimming from the butler when he lands on a hay-maker that stretches James on the floor. The bell ending the round saves the day for Cornelius' entry. The second round starts and James again hits the floor. Seeing the bout and the wager slipping away with the referee's count. Cornelius revives his fighter by the judicious use of a hatpin. A second application is necessary a second later but the third application revives the rival fighter. Bittsky fouls James and Cornelius jumps into the ring. When the referee tries to quell him, he cleans up on all of them and escapes from the police who answer the riot call. They chase him home, however, where he hides both from the cops and his wife. Everything is smoothed out though, when the police tell Mrs. McGee that Cornelius has "broken up a prize fight."