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- Dolly, a farmer maiden, longs to become a screen star. A visiting film company wants to shoot "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on the farm and she gives permission. When the leading lady fails to arrive, Dolly is cast as Little Eva, Topsy and Eliza. Various laughable sequences occur in the filming of the venerable classic along somewhat unique lines. At the end of the day, Dolly draws all of the undeveloped film from the camera magazines, hoping to see her "pitcher," thus ruining the most original version of the "Tom" show ever screened.
- Magnolia Milkshake wants to help the war effort to compensate for her husband who is exempt for being overweight. She tries to join the Red Cross, then the rifle corps.
- This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
- One of a pair of twins gets lost and leads a rough life as assistant to a railroad engineer, while the other one enjoys luxury and ease. They get mixed up of course, but eventually both twins are restored to their parents.
- Baby Peggy as the mischievous child of doting and fussy parents.
- Alice is the daughter of a fisherman. She gathers herring to support her family. Alice's folks are worshipers of the cuckoo clock. Even the dog bows his head in prayer when the cuckoo cuckoos. Joe, a sailor, loves Alice. He calls on her at midnight, and takes her to a cabaret. While there, a sea captain falls in love with Alice, and strange things come to pass when Alice sees the hula hula dancers. Joe takes Alice home under great difficulties Alice and Joe are happily married and are proprietors of a lunch room. Undaunted by his previously unsuccessful attempts the sea captain is still bent on possessing Alice, and lays his plans to kidnap her. Alice is kidnapped, and is placed on a sea going vessel. Just as Joe comes home. He pursues the yacht with his billowy sail boat. Just as he is about to catch the vessel he is lassoed and left mercilessly to drown. Instead, Joe pulls himself up on the rope and outs his way in through the boat. Meanwhile, Alice is having her troubles trying to keep the captain out of her stateroom. Joe rescues Alice, and there follows a lively boat chase with marines, patrol boats, etc. Alice and Joe manage to destroy the lighthouse in which the captain and his crew sought to shelter themselves. A novel ending follows.
- A city slicker in a high hat beats the time of a country boy with his sweetheart.
- When Baby Peggy closed her little eyes, little did she realize that the same night she would capture a bold, bad burglar. Her toys and balloons met the burglar every way he turned until at last he ran into the wall, stunned. A passing policeman took him with him, and Baby Peggy closed her eyes to sleep her Beauty Sleep. The next day her suitors called - one at a time. When Harry called he was thrust into the closet when James rang the front bell. James, too, was thrown into one of the obscure corners of the house. This continued in turn as Henry and David each paid their respects with a call on their little "sweetie." But when Chauncey called in his Packard car Peggy was ready to go out, and she did. Then the rivals discovered each other - and then the fun began. When Peggy's folks returned home they found their place looking like - well, you know. Peggy's return home was far from triumphant, but she was saved from a sound spanking by the return of the officer who had Peggy's reward for capturing the burglar.
- The story of a bad organ grinder, a life saver, a pretty girl and her baby sister. A dog takes an active part in the final rescue and helps save the child from the fleeing kidnapper.
- Betty leaves the child at the County Orphan Asylum while she delivers the weekly laundry to the bachelor's home. But the kid escapes and slides down a chute from the second story landing in the basket which Betty is dragging along behind her. At the bachelor's the baby is turned over to Brownie, the valet, who gives the baby a bath, filling the small tub with water and placing a screen around the outdoor bathroom. Later the baby roams out into the street where she is picked up by an officer. Brownie saves his little playmate as the baby is about to be placed in the wagon and taken to the Children's Society Home, by substituting another baby who looks like his pal. Betty and the bachelor find Brownie coming down the street with the baby. The child says that she wants the man for a a daddy, and with Brownie tugging at his trousers' leg and the baby 'pulling "at his coat lapel, he could hardly resist, and the baby's wish is granted.
- A spoof of Bizet's Carmen. Somewhere in Spain, a young girl gets the better of the neighborhood boys, then, dressed as a fashionable senorita, visits a club where a boy is demonstrating a tango. She joins him to the enjoyment of the spectators. In act 2, she's dressed as a matador and presents herself at the arena to General della Bambinodi Carradavadoves, a man who knows bulls. She fights one and finds that her sword isn't strong enough to stab him. In the excitement, the General falls from the stands, and he and the child must face the brute. Is there an escape?
- Misadventure has Baby Peggy shot out of a swing into a truck with minority orphans where she mixes in due to her dirty face. She escapes the truck only to be chased by police in a toy store. She poses as a mechanical toy doll to escape them. (Note: Licensed Baby Peggy dolls were being marketed at this time.) Unfortunately, she is purchased by a girl and her mother who take her home. Once there, she terrifies the unsuspecting family and household servants. The situation is resolved by police who get her back to her home and her own swing.
- Pansy Pickles was the step-daughter of Peter Pickles who kept the most fashionable boarding house in Corncob Corner. He had ambitions of either sending Pansy to school or marry her off so that he could live comfortably from his son-in-law. Pa Pickles receives a letter from some attorneys stating this his step-daughter's uncle died and left a vast estate but that Pansy was not mentioned in the will. At and the same time the school teacher who taught Pansy her P's and Q's, received a letter stating that his inheritance was being shipped by express. The station agent hears of this inheritance and knows right well old Pa Pickles will favor the school teacher. He takes a bank book from one of the men, crosses out the name and puts his name on it, adding several figures too. Pansy goes off to school, but when teacher calls the roll, Pansy is not present. He sends a notice to her Pa, who searches for her, finds her sitting in a tree reading a book. He throws a stone at her and she falls right into the school room under the spanking machine. She, in turn, throws the teacher under the spanking machine and the poor fellow has matches in his pocket, that burn and blaze like fury. Pa Pickles finds the bank book with the station agent's name on it and decides that Pansy shall marry the agent. Some one put's Pa wise that it isn't his book at all, and the agent is thrown out. The wealthiest man in town is at the wedding and offers his son as a groom, the minister sets them up again and just as he's about to pronounce them man and wife, Pa discovers that the bridegroom isn't worth a cent, and he too is thrown out. Pansy is thoroughly disgusted now and changes place with another girl who has come to the wedding. This time the school teacher is pronounced bridegroom and they are married. His inheritance comes at the same time and to Pa's dismay he finds it is a pig, he is just about to murder the teacher he discovers the change in brides. Pa gets a bridegroom whom Pansy likes and they are married with a whoop and hooray.
- Gordon is a puzzle bug to such an extreme that the walls of his study are decorated by filled in squares. This comedy will surely be a treat to ardent aspirants of enlarged vocabularies. It adheres so closely to the theme that Gordon never leaves his house but that each pocket is filled with pencils and material to solve. He is hooked by a crane and hoisted to the top of a steel structure. His antics high above a city are hair-raising and he descends just in time to enjoy a ride to police headquarters. There he infuses his crossword mania into the cops and leaves them all with pencil and paper or chalk, scrambling about to solve the wordy problems.
- A country youth, who is an amateur cameraman, and a city chap, are in a rivalry for a girl.
- Baby Peggy is a little homeless girl living in the streets of Paris. She makes her living by selling little flowers, and her only companion is Buddy, the dog. Peggy and Buddy make many friends on their routes through Paris and while walking through the fields of a nearby meadow they make the acquaintance of a famous Parisian artist. He invites Peggy over to his studio and promptly the next morning Baby Peggy makes her appearance there. The artist is painting the picture of one of his models and, after he is through, he paints Peggy's portrait. This wins the commendation of every critic who sees it and together Peggy and this artist win fame.
- The boys are spending their vacation on the farm of their hard-hearted Uncle, who is a radio enthusiast, with a dislike for dogs and children. Naturally, their pranks irritate him, especially when listening in on his radio apparatus he hears the boys instructing Brownie to swipe some pies off the kitchen window-sill. Uncle starts out to punish the boys, but finds that it is more difficult to catch them than he expected, especially since Brownie seems to have human intelligence in preventing the grown man from getting near enough his pals to do them harm. The boys and the dog find new friends, who join in their fun, with the result that the vacation is a success after all.
- After making all the mischief that she can, Baby Peggy runs away from home. All this because of jealousy. A new baby brother has made his appearance in her home and is taking away a good deal of attention from her. Out in the cruel world she is captured by a junk dealer and set to work. She manages to fill her wagon with junk by going into the yards at night and meowing like a cat. Windows are thrown open and all kinds of things are thrown at her. At the end she escapes and returns home.
- Brownie the dog goes about his work with a lot of pep, and apparently enjoys everything he does. He sets a table, fries an egg, warms up the baby's milk, and then serves the kid's meal.
- Al and his pal Jack lose all but their underwear in a poker game, and have to flee in their underwear when the cops raid the joint. The elude the police by joining a bunch of marathon runners, and easily win the race as they have more to win than the contestants. They are given a Silver Cup for winning the race, and take that and trade it at a pawn shop for two sets of clothes. The police are still in hot pursuit and chase them to a roof of a house where they dive down the chimney, and land in the arms of two black brides-to-be. Al and Jack are somewhat hesitant about getting married but the girls, mistaking that for shyness, drag them to the altar for a double-wedding ceremony. They escape to the street and hide in two packing boxes in which they are delivered to the jail by the watchful cops.