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During the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper invention.

A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.

A variety of accidents and escapes culminates in a cyclone which produces some ludicrous effects on the buildings, persons and animals in a small Western town.

Garrett and Ryan are on an adventure to see stars in America but they find a gay bar that slows their journey

A boy is sent to his society aunt, where his pals join him and make a mess of the place.

A couple and their young son move into a fixer-upper - which they try to fix up with mostly disastrous results.

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.

Johnny works in his father's general store and manages to mess things up.

The Aspiring Reporter tries to land a reward by capturing a notorious killer.

Just arrived in America, a Swedish maid entangles herself in seemingly supernatural events at the home of her employers the Joneses. Diamond Dick, hiding from the police in a steamer trunk, is the cause.

An unsuccessful inventor (Lige Conley) tries to get a millionaire to back his newest invention and ends up taking his daughter (Olive Borden) on an aerial adventure.

A gang of youngsters proceed to tear up the neighborhood with their mischief.

In a road race, nothing can stop the "tin can on wheels" that Lige is driving.

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.

"Poodles" is the handy man around a circus. He drives stakes, waters the elephants, shovels sawdust and does most of the work, but whatever he does, incurs the wrath of Glen, the hard-boiled boss. He carries tent poles and only succeeds in knocking Glen down with them. When Glen chases him he crawls under the side-wall of a tent and an elephant kneels on him. When "Poodles" catches a glimpse of himself in a distorting mirror belonging to a side-show, he thinks he is crushed all out of shape. Glen volunteers to stretch him out and does so by putting a noose around his neck and fastening one end of the rope to an elephant. Then "Poodles" sees himself in another distorting mirror and thinks he is stretched out to a giant's size. George and Lucille are partners in a riding act. George wants more money and threatens to desert the show unless his demand is granted. Lucille refuses to strike and during an argument, a flatiron drops on her head. "Poodles" finds her woozy from the blow and volunteers to do her riding act for her, although he knows less about a horse than an Arab does about polar bears. He dons the rider's costume, gets into the ring and climbs aboard the horse. George recognizes him and when Poodles comes for rosin to put on his feet, George substitutes grease and the would-be rider slips and slides all over the horse's back. Poodles rides the horse and saves the show. But he is so dizzy he doesn't know the difference between an imitation horse and the real thing, and he gallops off the lot on the fake animal.

The chief attraction at a cabaret is Marcella, the dancing girl. She makes a hit with Jack, a millionaire so old he is in his second childhood. George, the waiter, also has an eye on Marcella. The millionaire sends a note to the girl asking her to elope. The waiter intercepts the note and thinks it from Marcella. He scribbles a line on the note saying she should hide in her trunk and he will smuggle her out of the cafe. Marcella gets the note and is amused. She tosses it away, but it falls in the millionaire's lap, who thinks he is to hide in the trunk. Meanwhile, George incurs the wrath of the proprietor by smashing a tray full of dishes, and is chased into the vaudeville act, "Sawing a Woman in Two." In his haste he climbs into the box which the professor is sawing. He eventually eludes the proprietor, and thinking Marcella in the trunk, he loads it on a truck. There is a wild ride until the truck, which is loaded with dynamite, hits a handcar. After the explosion George finds that the millionaire is the occupant of the trunk.

John and. Hank ship their wives off to the country for a vacation. While the cat's away, the mice will play. The naughty boys invite freshly fired cleaning ladies Pert and Ann up to the penthouse.

Two aspiring marksmen take lesson in a shooting gallery with make-believe marshes as the background. Their ability stays at zero while they manager to demolish the shooting gallery. What they have left standing is undone by the man in the studio below them who is trying to attach a gas-light fixture to the ceiling.

Jack was a great help to his mother. He watched the baby while she did the neighbors' washings. ---Then he delivered the washing while mother hunted up more trade. Between deliveries Jack was captain of the East Side Base-BaIl Team. He was captain because he owned the ball. The score of the big game between the East Side and the West Side teams was forty to nothing in favor of the East Side when the game was called on account of darkness, but the West Side hadn't been to bat yeti But Jack's mother decided that her family was too large to be supported by the washing business and Jack was taken to an orphan asylum along with his dog. The dog wouldn't stay out of the asylum and Jack wouldn't stay in. The superintendent sent for the best dog-catcher in town, determined to put Jack's dog under the sod. But the canine catcher had more trouble catching Jack's dog than he would have had catching an eel in a barrel of oil. The dog thought of more ways to outwit the dog-catcher than there were fleas on his back. Jack finally liberated the captives in the dog-catcher's wagon and then the fun started in earnest but Jack saved the entire lot and took them home to his tired mother. Next day Jack was reading the paper when he saw a lost and found advertisement announcing a big reward for the return of a lot of dogs lost from a kennel. Jack recognizes the rescued dogs as the missing pets and returns them to the owner and the reward he gets enables him to buy his mother a new cuckoo clock, a new washboard-and a Rolls Royce.

A man rises to a day in which everything seems to go wrong. He handles it all in good humor, but does he have a breaking point?

An ordinary day - so an eventful one - of Tom Katt, a young man who works as a drugstore owner's assistant: his - very acrobatic - bike ride to his place of work; the - fanciful - way he performs his job; the - ingenious - subterfuge he finds to help his employer, who has money problems; the - swift - way he escapes the cops chasing him...