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"Johnnie Walker is two people in this picture. The odd man is his bearded brother, killed early by a human vulture ( William Reynolds ) who preys on luckless prospectors . - Scene switches to the city, where the smooth-shaven twin tracks down the murderers through the discovery of a mating glove by Silverstreak in the home of the gal's guardian. Walker stages a night club scrap with Wheeler Oakman, assistant villain." - Variety, 1927.

Charles King and his wife are worried about a rash of burglaries in their neighborhood, but a homemade alarm is useless when Al St.John the burglar comes around. Smashing through the house, he's confronted by King, who lets him go if he'll include a terrible coat his wife made in his loot bag. When he realizes the coat may be valuable, he chases Al around Culver City in his pyjamas and bathrobe.

Nuts in May (1917), re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_, combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.

A farmer boy, infatuated with a movie queen whose pictures he has thrilled to, arrives in Hollywood to meet her. He is fortunate enough to get a job as extra at the studio where she makes her productions. The experience furnishes him thrills and excitement he had not banked upon and after a rough session with the villain he is glad to get back to his flivver and head her for home.

A not very successful fighter is in love with a girl who works in a book store and he yearns for education. He takes to reading Shakespeare and then gives a slang recital of the story as he would tell it. This becomes a visualized burlesque of "The Merchant of Venice" with a fighter and a manager serving as the central characters. The fighter, who has borrowed in advance from a promoter, is about to have the pounds he is overweight sliced from him, as per the contract, when the girl who waits on the book shop intervenes and renders Portia's decision.

A scientist has invented a silent airplane motor of tremendous potential benefit to aeronautical and military concerns. But a plot is underway to steal the plans. Lloyd Darrell, a secret service agent, disguises himself as Bill Smith and covertly endeavors to prevent the theft.

Johnny stars out on a camping trip accompanied by his wife and her mother with the usual collection of bundles. After many mishaps they arrive at their destination and Johnny's clumsy efforts at pitching camp arouse the mother-in-law's ire so that he is the object of her verbal and physical assaults. He finally escapes with his wife and they return home but just as he is about to declare himself "monarch of all he surveys" the mother-in-law, in some mysterious way, appears on the scene, so all becomes "as it was."

Tom and Jerry, unable to pay their rent, are left clothes-less in their room by the landlady. Seeing two strangers on the street in front of their room they hook them up by means of torn sheets and clothes hangers and strip them of their clothes, leaving the disrobed ones dangling from the window ledge. Tom and Jerry leave the room but are pursued by the police and dodge into a modiste's shop. They are followed and a merry chase ensues in which Tom and Jerry perform all sorts of stunts in an effort to hide from the police, but they are finally caught, stripped and beaten and left in an alcove in the shop. They form an unconscious tableau when a mannequin draws back the curtains to display some gowns.

The veteran returns home with shell shock and must defend his timberland property with the help of his dog.

Maya, betrothed to a treacherous tribesman, is rescued from the wedding by Jaime. Both are caught, however, and are returned to the Gypsy camp, where Jaime is sentenced to be burned alive. Maya joins him on the pyre, but both are saved by Maya's father and his men.

Jack and Al, two actors, are due to perform in a small town 'Opry' house. They arrive and after a few mishaps succeed in getting started on their routine which consists of doing everything known to vaudeville from playing musicians to the 'dumb' or acrobatic act. Try as they do they can't seem to awaken the audience from its lethargic state. Having finished most of the work they go into a Bowery melodrama scene but during the performance the 'snow' catches fire and the actors become the unwelcome recipients of a variety of vegetables. The story closes with a scene showing the actors trying to sell that with which they were hit.

A messenger boy is halted by two mysterious men, who take the message he is bearing to a certain house and substitute another, commanding him under pain of death to deliver it. At the address he finds a beautiful girl. The note is a threat of death for herself and her father unless she delivers certain documents to the senders. The messenger boy goes to get Sherlock Bones, famous detective. Later the mysterious gentlemen get into the house and there is enacted a series of mysterious and baffling events, the outcome of which is that the messenger boy triumphs over the forces of evil and wins the girl.