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- "Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.
- A high-society boy falls for a girl from a family of acrobats. He invites her to his home to meet his parents.
- ZaSu falls for a wrestler and drags Thelma to his next fight.
- Two American soldiers are on leave in Paris on Armistice Day and, due to a misunderstanding, believe that they've killed a man, although accidentally. When they discover that the police are looking for them, they're convinced that they're in big trouble and take off. Complications ensue.
- While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in distress over her balky roadster. Martin wins his fight but is counted a loser by a crooked referee. Later, he is invited to a barbecue at Charlotte's home, but when John Hamilton, who strongly dislikes fighters, learns of Martin's profession, he shows him the door. Danny gives up his career for Charlotte and opens a health resort for obese millionaires. Hamilton and his prospective son-in-law, Penrod, arrive at the resort for treatment, and their indignation and disgust at the treatment provide comic complications. Learning that Danny and Charlotte have already eloped, Hamilton is at first furious, then resigns himself to their happiness.
- A troupe of English theater actors stays at the hotel.
- Aboard a ship bound for Paris, the two girls get involved with an actor who's impersonating a chaperon, and a burly prizefighter.
- Gale's opponent in an important fight hires two goons to prevent Galen from showing up. The henchmen trap Galen and Judy on a Ferris wheel. If he doesn't get to the ring in time for the bout, he'll forfeit the fight.
- A noted playwright staying at the hotel gets writer's block and can't think of any ideas for his next play. Gladys persuades him to give Jimmy $10,000 so he can follow Jimmy around and get some ideas for a plot, but things don't turn out quite like she planned.
- Gale is kidnapped, apparently through Kelly's maneuvers, but it is only a scheme for Kelly to get more money to bet on Gale.
- Galen is unjustly sent to jail for beating up Rags Dempster. K.O. bails him out on condition that he trains to fight. Galen soon finds out that he has a knack for the knockout.
- A press agent attempts to secure a photograph of the star's knees. She refuses this honor, but when he will not take a refusal, she palms off on him the photograph of another girl, a regular frump. He is so pleased he agrees to marry the original, but nearly collapses when he sees her. The heroine, however, dresses her up until she is so attractive all of the boys want to marry her.
- Mazie, a stenographer, needs a job and when the young lawyer to whom she has applied tells her he hasn't even money to pay the rent, she sets about to force the hard-hearted landlord to defer action against the attorney. A plot is evolved which places the landlord in the position of being liable to a suit for $50,000 damages because a client has been delayed, because the elevator halts between floors, or compensating the lawyer for his loss by offering rent free for several months and giving him the landlord's legal work.
- Gale Galen has his first professional fight--against the former light-heavyweight champion of the world!
- Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.
- The hero's enemies have tossed a wrench into his printing press and stripped the gears. So, naturally, to replace the gears he decides to enter an auto-race. He builds a car that will not turn over by building two cars attached by their roofs, with a driver (one always upside down) in each car. The car often turns over but half of it always has the rubber-meeting-the-road.
- George and Stanley are competitors in a swimming race this time and as usual Stanley tries to pull some crooked work to prevent George from winning, but of course fails. The title, a travesty on a successful play, refers to the fact that Stanley hires a woman with this name to aid him by claiming she is George's wife.
- A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.