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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, given five hundred dollars to buy her engagement ring, loses the money in a black and white taxi. Seeing a baby show at which a first prize of five hundred dollars is offered, she steals her janitor's baby and wins the money. How she then tries to return the baby without being seen and caught, finally falling into the taxi her sweetheart is returning home in, and discovers it is the taxi in which she left the money, forms the action.
- 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.
- Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
- A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Neal hates to give up his evenings with the boys, even for his wife, Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wants to go to a mask ball, so he gives her a powder, telling her it will make her sleep soundly. She slips the powder into his favorite decanter, hides his costume, and then retires. In the kitchen, the cook gives a policeman some of the doped whiskey. Neal takes the cop's coat, hat and stick and starts for the ball. On the way he is called on to restrain a wife-beating husband. He gets a black eye, so decides to go home. Meanwhile the cook has tried to waken the real policeman. A burglar enters, drinks from the decanter, and rolls under the table, asleep. The officer wakes up, upsetting his chair, so that Betty is awakened. Taking a gun, she looks for the trouble, and shoots at the officer in the kitchen, which awakens the burglar. Running into the dining room, Betty tries to capture the burglar, but he is getting the best of her, when Neal rescues her. The officer makes the arrest, while Neal promises to stray no more.
- Eddie plays the role of an Oriental dancer, a vampire, and the hit of the boardwalk of a California beach. He assumes the role to earn money to get home to his sweetheart, the coin having been refused him by a father whose patience and generosity have been exhausted. A pal in the same boat, financially and sentimentally, aids in the deception.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans. At the same time, German agents are looking for the same papers. When Castleback is found murdered in his apartments with Lupin's visiting card pinned to his breast, suspicion points to the master crook. Following Castleback's murder, his secretary and a hotel porter are found dead. By mysterious messages, Lupin informs the public that he is innocent of the crimes, although the authorities believe him to be guilty. Lupin thereupon sets out to solve the mystery himself. By impersonating an officer of the law and dodging his enemies successfully, he aids the police in catching the real criminal and, after making his identity known, escapes the net thrown out for him.
- 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.