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- Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- A company of barnstormers goes on strike in the middle of a performance and a number of local amateurs are prevailed upon to furnish the show, which they do in more ways than one.
- When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
- Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
- Dorothy is a film fan from the middle west, who arrives in Los Angeles to visit relatives. Neal, a cashier of a local bank, is her fiance. She shows such interest in motion picture comedians that he impersonates Charlie Chaplin and visits her at the home of her relatives, wrecking the place and stealing her gems. He is arrested and sent to jail for thirty days, during which time she is cured of her infatuation. When released he returns without the disguise and is accepted on the old footing.
- Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
- Walter wants to marry Nancy, but her father, "High Goatee Of The Ancient Order Of The Goat", wants him to pass the test of riding the goat. His rival organizes a false Ancient Order Of The Goat to fool him and have the girl.
- Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.
- Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his wife and brother have conspired against him for revenge.
- A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- George and another married man try to get into their apartments at an unconventional hour, without their wives being aware of it. George tries to bluff it when he is caught, but wifey detects a note pinned to the silk stocking he would offer her and he is betrayed. The resulting trouble is finally patched up, but not until after several girls in pajamas have appear.
- The doctor prescribes fresh air for a man with a bad cold. His wife is determined to comply with the doctor's orders even if it kills him.
- Bobby's entertaining adventures during the night which he had to spend with the Human Ouija Board, because he was engaged to a girl who believed in "spooks," should be a warning to young men who contemplate marrying into families who are addicted to spirits of this nature.
- A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show, and she is to introduce a designer's brand-new sexy teddy. However, the designer's jealous rival steals the garment just before the show. Complications ensue.
- A young girl goes off to an all-girl boarding school. Her boyfriend, who can't bear being away from her, disguises himself as a girl and goes with her to the school.
- Jean gets herself expelled from school so she can travel with her grandfather. Grandfather decides he'd rather have a new grandson, so he puts an ad in the paper. Jean decides to apply for the role and confusion ensues.
- A city chap, who as the result of a ducking, is forced to wear "rube" clothes. He meets a cabaret dancer who thinks to have fun by kidding him and keeping up the bluff he goes to the cabaret in this make-up. His action finally necessitates calling the police and in making a getaway he dons a ballet girl's costume.
- Uncle leaves to travel and sends his niece and nephew some things to look after while he's away. A mix-up causes the wrong items to be delivered, with hilarious results.
- Young struggling lawyer has to haul a doctor into court with a summons by 3 P. M. or lose his job. Gets thrown out of the hospital in a dozen different ways and finally chloroforms the doctor.
- A contest offering $500 to whoever can open a "burglar proof safe" attracts an unfair competitor in Andy (Jimmie Adams); he doesn't bother mentioning that he works for the safe company and has the secret combination. But Andy isn't the only one who's got some tricks up his sleeve. This Christie Comedy, featuring one of his favorite leading ladies, former Mack Sennett "Bathing Beauty" Vera Steadman, was directed by Harold Beaudine. Harold was a prolific director of comedy shorts throughout the 1920s but he was a slouch compared to brother William "One-Shot" Beaudine, perhaps Hollywood's all-time most prolific director of movies and television episodes.
- The youngest and prettiest girl of a family is always getting in sister's way when the beaus come around.
- A married couple are about to leave on a trip, but so great is their hurry to be on time that things become confused to the extent that their baby is left behind. After many trips from the dock to the house, in which everything and everybody becomes jumbled and the story runs wild, the baby is recovered and the trip about to commence, when the excited couple learn that the boat does not sail for a few days.
- After removing their respective valuables, a pair of supposed crooks, male and female, find each other out and fall in love.
- A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.
- A man on a cart flies all over town.
- Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
- Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
- Katie is forced by her mother to masquerade as a little girl in rompers in order that she will not "steal" her fat sister's beau. Of course things don't go as mother intended and Katie gets him after all.
- Returning from war something less than a hero ("he saved a second lieutenant from fainting"), our humble protagonist Bobby Vernon nonetheless gets sucked into some very farcical post-combat politics involving Mittle-European royalty, Teutonic ruffians, forced marriage, much sword-fighting and mass ivy-climbing. Not to mention brief cross-dressing "gay" humor. This two-reeler spoof featuring the petit five-foot-two-inch former vaudevillian Vernon doubtless used costumes and sets from more expensive actual Ruritanian romances of the day.
- After a man's sweetheart turns him down the day before their wedding, he agrees to marry an old maid for the money.
- Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met. He invites Andy out to the house and, of course, he is called away on business and asks Andy to stay and entertain his bride Betty (Ethyl Sykes, which is how she spelled it until some researcher changed it to Ethel), who Andy still hasn't met, although she did dain to stick a hand out of her bedroom door for Andy to shake, as she too has an aversion to pig farmers, even rich ones like Andy who was also the Pig-Calling Champion of Kansas three years running. Betty calls a friend over to take her place. The friend---what a coincidence---is Andy's old girl friend, and she peeks out and recognizes Andy and also a million reasons why she now likes him better than she did. She invites him into the bedroom where she is spread out, wearing silk pajamas, on the chaise lounge and, like Cleopatra, is not prone to argue. Andy, of course, thinks his old girl friend is now his friend's wife. Will Andy yield to temptation despite his fondness for his old friend?
- The trials and tribulations of a young couple determined to elope are complicated by the fact that the girl's father is the town judge and decidedly opposed to the young man. Inadvertently he comes into possession of the marriage license, the thousand dollar bank roll and the steamer tickets. The ingenious daughter conceives the idea of recovering them from the courtroom and to do so it becomes necessary to start a fire scare. A mad dash to the steamer via of a motorcycle with bathtub attachment and then the fact is revealed that they have forgotten the necessary detail of being married. Another dash back to an irate traffic cop who is persuaded to be witness to the marriage, and all ends happily.
- Jimmie, as the lover, is mistaken for a burglar by the police and for a detective by Dorothy.
- Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in Tommy Robbins, who lives in an adjoining bungalow and whose wife Letty is devoted to the cabarets. Harry admires Letty as much as Tommy admires Grace, and suggests to his neighbor that they arrange an exchange of wives. The wives overhear their husbands' plotting to obtain divorces and, still in love with the men they married, conceive a counter-plan of a week of platonic trial marriages. Over the seven-day period, the wives make life so miserable for each other's husbands that the two men gladly return to their respective spouses.
- Billy and Eddie are telling each other their troubles. Billy has just been turned down by his best-girl and so has Eddie. Just then Jimmie bursts into the room with the news that he is engaged to be married. He tells them that his girl was engaged to a big sap but has given him the air and then brings out her picture for them to look at. It is the same girl that Eddie was to marry and he gets furious and says that Jimmie will never marry her-he will see to that and he goes in search of Molly. Billy and Jimmie, left to themselves, are discussing their girls when Bill gets a brilliant idea and has Jimmie dress up like a boob and he takes him to see Kathleen, thinking when she sees Jimmie, she will be glad to marry him. When they arrive at Kathleen's home Jimmie starts acting the boob and makes love to her which she accepts graciously. He meets her father and he is so tickled with Jimmie's playfulness that he immediately decides that Jimmie shall be his son-in law and Billy is put out of the house. Father calls on the phone for the minister but Jimmie makes his escape and Kathleen, her father and Billy, who has been waiting outside, start after him. In the meantime Eddie has found Molly as she is leaving her house and much against her will says they are going to be married. He drags her off and they start for the minister's in a broken down Ford. Jimmie follows after them and in turn he is followed by the other three. They all arrive at the minister's about the same time but the young couples escape from Eddie and Kathleen's father and are once more reunited-Molly and Jimmie and Kathleen and Billy.
- A craving for a night with the boys brings grief to the Newlyweds' home. Jay is at the club and the hour is late. Mrs. Newlywed paces the floor and halts when a cuckoo clock announces the hour of one. She gives up hope and prepares to retire. When the game breaks up, Jay wanders home and makes a stealthy entrance. The cuckoo calls twice. Jay promptly cuckoos some more with the hope of fooling his wife on the hour of his return. She is far from fooled and makes life miserable for him. The next morning at breakfast a messenger brings a telegram that calls for Mrs. Newlywed's immediate departure for her mother's, who is ill. She leaves for the train after making Jay promise not to go to the club during her absence, so Jay determines to bring the club to him. He calls the boys and invites them to a game at his house. While he is talking to them he sees men post a quarantine notice on the house next door. Soon after the game starts Jay sees an old couple approaching the house, and recognizes his wife's uncle and aunt. In desperation he steals the fever sign from the neighbor's house and posts it on his own door. The ruse works and the couple depart in all speed. Trouble develops when the boys attempt to leave the house after the game. Every effort is foiled by the health officers, until Jay calls the club, and his pals promise to assume the role of undertakers and carry them from the house in coffins. Ethel, meanwhile, gives up the journey to her mother and returns in time to upset all their plans. The police arrest Jay and the boys and they are sentenced to 30 days in jail for the disturbance they caused. Ethel forgives Jay when she sees him behind bars.
- Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.
- A philandering husband meets a flapper at a speakeasy and brings her home to meet the missus--with whom he has an agreement to divorce if either of them meet someone they like better. Things do not go as planned.
- A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue.
- Perry and Vivian Reynolds are on their honeymoon when Vivian finds Perry with a girl in his arms; he explains that he merely caught her when she slipped, and Vivian is satisfied about his fidelity. Shortly thereafter, Vivian finds Perry with a girl sitting on his lap and quickly decides to teach him a lesson, flirting with everything in pants, including a Scotsman. Perry is enraged and, on the advice of his friend, Geoffrey, boards a small plane bound for Hawaii. Geoffrey follows the plane in a boat, and Perry jumps out, returning to land and hiding in his own boathouse. The plane on which Perry was riding crashes, and Vivian is disconsolate. She later discovers that Perry is alive, and she resumes her mad flirting. A policeman reports that there is a lunatic on the loose, and Perry, disguising himself as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, crashes one of Vivian's wild parties. After some confusion, Perry and Vivian are reconciled.
- A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for the wedding, the bridegroom is kidnapped by a jealous cousin who is envious of his position as heir of a fortune. An amusing chase and final escape from a sanitarium where he has been taken brings the picture to a close in a pretty wedding scene.
- A baby is dumped on a couple's doorstep, neither knows how to take care of the child, and funny situations arise. But things get more complicated when the husband receives a letter informing him that his mother is sick.
- Neal is a flirt. His wife Billie gets a delayed telegram from her friend Ethel, saying that she is coming for a visit. On his way downtown, Neal sees a pretty girl and starts a flirtation. The girl happens to be Ethel, who has never met Neal. Billie tells Ethel that Neal is a gay dog, showing Ethel his picture. "Yes," says Ethel, "he tried to flirt with me." So the two girls plan to teach the wayward one a lesson. Ethel continues the flirtation without letting Neal know she is his wife's friend. Ethel goes to dinner with Neal, while Billie gets herself up as a "bad man," with a big mustache and a six-shooter. Going to the café, she appears suddenly in the private booth. Ethel gasps, "My husband!" as Billie fires and chases Neal out. The girls hurry home and Billie, properly dressed, receives Neal when he comes in breathless. When she goes out, Ethel comes in and blackmails Neal. He gives her $100 to get her out before Billie comes in. Ethel goes out in the hall and there she and Billie divide the money and have a big laugh. Neal hears them, comes out, and sees the joke is on him. "But who was the little gun-fighter?" he asks. "That was your wife," says Ethel. This flabbergasts Neal completely.