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An overambitious ringmaster is deviously plotting to have his circus' owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over the whole show. However, World War I intervenes and he eventually aids the Allied cause by joining the German army.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A male fusspot (Jimmie Adams) and attractive maiden (Gayle Lloyd) meet on the "Mountain Dew Express" train, each headed to visit relatives in the Tennessee hills. Upon arriving, however, they quickly discover they're on opposite sides of a Hatfields-and-McCoys-style feud between hillbilly clans. Can romance survive moonshine-fueled rural warfare? Adams carved out a moderately successful career in two-reel comedy shorts for various studios through the later silent era, relying more on his singing talent with the arrival of sound. Alas, not for long, as he died of a heart attack in 1933. - Dennis Harvey

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.

Johnny gets drunk at his bachelor party. He intends to "sleep it off" in the apartment of his best man, but mistakenly goes to the apartment of two women instead.

Mr. and Mrs. Smudge win a honeymoon trip to Honolulu.

It starts off with the hero driving a car so slowly that he gets a summons for blocking traffic and a tortoise outspeeds. But the finish, goes to the other extreme. Bobby accidentally finds himself in a racing car that gets out of control, is then shanghaied into a road race, finally finds himself in a "wild" aeroplane, and by means of a parachute gets his "dead" auto over the finish line and wins the prize and the girl.

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

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 very hungry Dave Finkel misses his birthday diner because of business. Getting home his wife and friends insist on taking him out to a nightclub instead of letting him eat. His attempts to get something to eat are thwarted each time during the night. Jean Harlow has an uncredited appearance as a girl in the nightclub Dave has a brief conversation with.

Mrs. Gertrude Lennox (Laura La Plante), formerly Gertrude Bellamy and formerly Mrs. Gertrude Lord, finds herself in somewhat of a ticklish problem, when supposed-dead husband number one Philip Lord (Lew Cody) turns up alive and well to find his wife married to husband number two, Harvey Lennox (Harry Myers), who is not overly thrilled when husband-number one returns from the dead. Meanwhile her younger sister, Doris Bellamy (Joan Marsh) has two romances going; one with Gregory Brown (William Janney), a poor newspaper reporter, and another one with a rich English fop named Victor Staunton (Claud Allister.)

Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."

Two undergraduates are expelled from college for cutting up didoes. To square things with father, one of them is forced to settle down by entering matrimony and, no girls being visible on the horizon, he intrigues his chum to pose as his wife. He disguises himself in frills, negligees, and what not, and events look safe for them until a couple of girls happen on the scene. Bobby is determined to be with the flappers much to the chagrin of his chum. Eventually the irate papa comes to the house and asks Bobby to show his affection for his "spouse" by kissing him. In the end the complications are straightened out when the real girls consent to go through with the marriage ceremony.