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Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanetarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! The plot involves the Los Angeles police station reporting that Norma Shear’s pearls have been stolen. A detective has been sent to the actress’s home to interrogate party guests, most of whom are famous Hollywood stars. The detective ends up chasing leads all over town, ending up at a movie studio, where he learns the truth about the slippery pearls. Nice effort, considering it was for charity.

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A must see! Involves Laurel as a laborer who spends more time flirting with a pretty girl instead of working, and constantly annoys the foreman. His character is known as Sunkist and of course works in a citrus grove. The foreman, fed up with Sunkist’s behavior, chases him into the packing plant, where much mayhem ensues. There is some funny business on a conveyer belt before Sunkist traps his antagonists and breaks for lunch.

Vaudeville monologist Hamilton starrs in this two-reeler. He plays a ham actor in a third-rate stock company, while Polly Moran steals the picture as the sweetheart of the troupe’s gangly prop man played by Summerville. Marching to the altar with Summerville, Moran is suddenly lovestruck by wedding guest Hamilton. She deserts her fiance and embarks upon a stage career. The rest of the film is a travesty of a serious stage melodrama, where everything goes wrong because of Summerville’s jealous sabotage.

At a farm near Bangville, a daughter spots strangers in a barn. She quickly rushes to the house and phones the police. The cops engage in a haphazard rush across the countryside to get there on time. Oh Beautiful Mabel!

After Conklin aka Walrus has been shot, Ambrose, played by Swain, takes him into his house. Ambrose leaves after witnessing Walrus flirting with his wife. The two lovebirds run away. The cops, along with Ambrose, are on the hunt for Walrus. There are several laughs throughout the short running time, especially scenes of Walrus revealing his affections for the wife and the climax on the bridge.

A mild mannered man’s trials and problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law result in complications with the law. The henpecked husband sneaks off with the family Ford so he can entertain his stenographer. Meanwhile, the wife and her mother believe that it was stolen. This results in a typical Keystone chase, with the Kops in frantic pursuit, which ends in inevitable wreck. The husband insists on going to jail than going home to his quarrelsome wife. FUN SHORT!

Thermosa, the Isle of Roquefort and Razzamatazz are neighboring kingdoms. The Prince of Razzamatazz is in America cavorting with Verona Vermuth when he receives word from his father via his tutor/bodyguard that Princess Florelle of Thermosa will be choosing the coveted role of her prince, it between him and the Prince of Roquefort, and that he is to appear before the Royal Court of Thermosa immediately for such purpose. Not wanting to abandon the fun he is having in America, the Prince of Razzamatazz instead sends an American bookseller he meets to take his place at the Royal Court, as the two have a striking physical resemblance to each other and thus the American could easily masquerade as him. Although not very good at selling books, the American has no shortage of verve. That verve, unprincely in nature, causes one potentially disastrous international incident after another at the Royal Court, which is further complicated when [...]

Suburban neighbors (Lloyd and Pollard) join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard. Further mayhem ensues when chickens are set loose.