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A young man faces perilous adventures when he is evicted from his apartment.

In an attempt to dodge a cop, Claude hides in a museum, but he gets locked in after closing time and tangles with a pair of burglars.

A well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy who is sitting in a box seat near the stage. Soon the inebriated man himself begins to cause disruptions, with his overly emphatic opinions of the various acts.

Lupino Lane, an English dandy, visits a gunsmith in preparation for a big hunt. He and his brother, Wallace, indulge in a lot of conversation as this was a two-reel 'talkie' so they talked a lot. Lupino knows from nothing about guns and accidentally fires off a rifle, which sets off all the cartridges around him and ends when the shop has been demolished.

A wandering swordsman in the reign of Louis XIII stumbles into a nest of conspirators against the King when his horse throws him and he is forced to seek refuge in a nearby inn. Without money or rank, he is treated ignominiously by patron and customers, but when a captured messenger from the King arrives, accompanied by a lovely lady, he swings into action to save the day. Or try to...

Belle-Hure and Horatio Babaorum escape from a Roman galley only to land in a Roman palace where they indulge in their antique antics!

A star-struck fan of a film star botches his chance to meet her with a wardrobe malfunction. But, did Lester give up so easily? He sneaks onto the movie studio to try and make amends--which does not go exactly as planned.

Society is more or less agog over the expected arrival of the Duke. His visit will be the crowning event of the social, season. Kathryn is particularly excited about his arrival, for her home will be the first that the titled guest will visit. Wallace, a jealous suitor for her hand, isn't at all pleased with the amount of attention the Duke is getting before his arrival. He knows that when his royal Nibs lands and meets Kathryn, his chances for her hand will go glimmering. On his way to the boat to meet the Duke, Wallace encounters Nip, a newsboy, who is trying to avoid a detective whom he has antagonized. Wallace is struck with the resemblance between the newsboy and the published pictures of the expected guest. He thinks quickly and hits upon a plan. When the Duke arrives, Wallace shows him to a hotel room. Wallace then gets Nip, dresses him in the Duke's clothes and, after locking the Duke in his room, takes Nip to Kathryn's home, expecting that through his lack of manners, he will disgust Kathryn with royalty. Nip is introduced as the Duke and then the fun starts. Although Nip hasn't much of the royal manner and his parlor etiquette is somewhat rough, he manages to make a big hit with Kathryn. Just when he is getting along in fine style, after nearly wrecking the dinner table with a vivid description of his daring deeds, he finds the detective on his trail. The newsboy tries to elude the officer and is nearly successful where the real Duke appears on the scene. Then things begin to happen rapidly: The sleuth, thinking he is the newsie, starts after the real Duke, When he thinks he has him down and out, the newsboy disguised as the Duke walks in. The officer gets dizzy trying to follow the two men, and all the time he thinks it is the same person. Even Kathryn is fooled, kissing first the pretender and then the real Duke to the astonishment of both, Finally, everything is explained to everybody's satisfaction. But Kathryn finds that she prefers Nip, the newsboy, to his Royal Nibs.

At a toy hospital, an apprentice deals with a trouble-making boy and his clueless mother. After they leave, he is forced to work late, falls asleep and dreams of a castle where the toys in the shop come to life.

A young bride and groom go to Morocco for their honeymoon and visit the harem of the Caliph, who becomes enamored of the bride and would make her the newest member of his harem. She is made a prisoner as the groom is detected in the room with the Queen of the Harem. The enraged Caliph orders him tossed to the lions. After innumerable difficulties he makes his escape and takes his bride with him.

Mayhem ensues when two sailors are shipwrecked on a cannibal island.

A family go on a five-week holiday by the sea - - but it keeps raining all the time.

The film imagines war in the future - 1980 - when the women dress and fight as soldiers, and the men wait at home knitting and worrying.

A dude tramp becomes a builder, is robbed by his foreman, and meets bathing girls.

Reggie Hemingway is a rich broker who continually bullies his valet. World War I breaks out and the valet enlists immediately. Reggie goes to the army later and arrives at the training camp to find that his valet is now a tough sergeant in charge of the recruits.

A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.

Action gets under way with a duel between Colonel Amos Blackwell - the deadliest shot of his day - and Major Wimpett, the latter furnishing the cause for a combat which is to settle an argument as to whether a "full house or five aces" is the better hand. News of the duel is carried to the Colonel's family and to prevent the demise of the Major, the Colonel's son mounts a trusty high wheeled cycle and crashes into the field of battle in time to effect a cessation of hostilities - the bullet having hit the boy's watch when he appeared in the line of battle. Beholden, the Major presents him with his own "Waterbury." Time passes and in the meantime the boy - after bidding his sweetheart good-bye - reaches the cold, cruel city to build his fortune from a capital of ten cents. Hovering around a lunch counter where a customer is drinking a cup of coffee, the lone coin is accidentally dropped in the cup and disappears down the drinker's throat. Disheartened, the boy seeks a country road and meets a repulsed lover who is attempting suicide with a harmless gun. However, the gun suddenly goes off and hits a lamp globe which drops on the boy's head. He is taken to the home of an adventuress who tries to vamp him after linking up the "Waterbury" with a newspaper article which seeks to locate a missing heir to a fortune. The other suitor appears and at this point Lane displays a lot of his tricks in his endeavors to dodge his pursuer. The boy escapes the scheming pair and with his "Waterbury," returns to claim the fortune and his sweetheart.

Lupino Lane is a wealthy young sap very much loved by the young hostess at the party, but not by the young clubman athlete who is his rival. The latter finds cause to eject him from the house and does so. Lane is advised to start training in a gymnasium and eventually to get his revenge. After six lessons he thinks the time has arrived, but gets himself another beating. A month later a regular bout between them is arranged and after a terrific battle Lane is again defeated. Still later he meets the girl and his rival on the links and in a rough, and tumble fight wins, only to find the girl has fled over the course with two other suitors.

Nipper is a young man in his early twenties and when he first meets Kathryn he falls immediately in love with her. He is thinking about her when his father enters and tells him he is planning to re-wed and, as he wishes to conceal his real age from his fiancee, he asks Nip to dress as a child until he has been married. Dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy garb, Nip goes with his father to visit his prospective step-mother, who thinks, of course. He is a mere child and treats him as such. One of the young girls in the house makes life miserable for the young man and he is having a perfectly terrible time until he sees Kathryn. She is being annoyed by a man who persists in forcing his attentions upon her. Nip manages to get between them and the man is furious. Nip is having a great time until Blanche, his step-mother-to-be, enters and tells him it is time to goo to bed. She takes him upstairs where Nip struggles against being put to bed. He finally escapes and locks Blanche in the room. Then he hears a struggle between the man and Kathryn and runs to the rescue. He is thrown into a room and locked in while the man hurries Kathryn into a car in a forced elopement. Nip jumps out of the window but misses the car and pursue them on a bicycle. The bicycle falls to pieces as fast as he can get it together but he finally overtakes the pair and gets into the car where he overpowers the too-ardent lover. Kathryn discovers that the little boy is really the full-grown man she had seen earlier in the day and everything ends happily.