Luke opens a circus, but when local officials discover that his side-show attractions are fakes, trouble ensues.
Luke's courting of Maizie Nut is interrupted by a villain.
Working as a pastry chef, Luke steals a watch from a customer, which results in a wild police chase throughout the store.
Luke, stranded on a desert island, becomes chief of the natives. When he pursues the affections of a pretty white girl, he runs afoul of her sweetheart and has to swim back home.
As a baggage handler at a terminal, Luke is led on a merry chase by a billy goat.
Luke attempts to sell books to a businessman and his wife.
Luke, a street tramp, is taken to a dance contest by a pretty millionairess, but when he is ejected, he returns with a gun and wreaks havoc.
In pursuit of a pretty miss, Luke gets admitted to a hospital.
Maisie
This offering tells the tale of one, Oscar Weeban, a fellow deeply in love with a certain Maisie. He has promised to take her to the Garbage Gentlemen's Rally, that annual society event of the small town in which it is their fortune to reside, and she sends him a note to this effect. He is a rank outsider, but manages to inject himself into the spirit of the affair and enters into the sport of the occasion with a vim. It is at this event that the ashes throwing contest is held every year, and garbage men from all sections, trained to the minute, flock to the party to compete. The contest is at its height and one of the experts is trying for a world's record when Oscar crosses the range. Of course, he and Maisie manage to get in the way of the winning throw and spoil the record which is about to be made.
Luke lifts a wallet from a golfer and thereby gains entry to a golf course. Mayhem ensues.
Lucas and Larkin, his running mate, after looking for a job for some time, finally land one in a photographer's shop and immediately start to take possession of the place. They rule supreme in their own inimitable way until a bespectacled college graduate arrives to have his diploma, and incidentally himself, photographed.
Luke lives the life of a millionaire until it is discovered that a mistake has been made and his inheritance belongs to someone else.
Sourball Joe gets the "can" for sassing the tenants, and Easy Otis supplants him. But the latter does not know an awful lot of the art of "janitoring" and soon gets into many and various jams with the people upstairs.
Vamp Customer
Lonesome Luke, working in a shoe store, has difficulty keeping his mind on business whenever a pretty girl is on the scene.
Dolly Smawl
Farm youth goes to college, pursues the pretty co-eds and joins a fraternity.
Luke dreams of the good times that he will have with a young girl with the expense money he his given.
Mazie Orpe
Maisie Orpe is a dispenser of victuals in a second rate "beanery," and is the light of the lives of several of the town "swells". But Luke de Fluke, an all-round gay lad, and Shorty Magee, the local tough nut, seem to lead the field in Maisie's blue orbs.
A young man promises his girl that he will get Spitball Sadie, a renowned female pitcher, for her all-girl baseball team. When he is unable to get Sadie to come, he dresses up as her and takes her place on the team.
Punctual Pete prepares the "Shaved in Silence" shop for the day's business. He is as handy as a man with five thumbs. Gertie, almost a soubrette, looking for a job, decides that she is willing to try anything once. Seeing a sign in the barber shop window advertising for a lady barber she beats it home and brushes up on the tonsorial art.
Pete is a discontented hostler. Hostlers are always discontented but Pete is a little more so. In fact, he is so sick and tired of his job as the mule's chambermaid that he is fast becoming desperate. He gives Maud her morning "Massage" and is interrupted by his "steady," a queen of the avenue, and a movie fan. She "coaches" and "wheedles" him in the naturally gentle, persuasive way of her class, in this wise: "Aw, loosen up. Separate. Give yourself another frisk," etc. As Pete finds himself unable to supply his "best" with the wherewithal to attend a movie, his discouragement becomes despair.
Sum-Babee
Неугомонный Чарльз Чаплин в роли одного из первых представителей рода homo sapiens, который также не прочь повеселиться, подраться и побегать от более сильных противников. Герой Чарльза влюбляется в любимую жену вождя Соломона и пытается флиртовать с нею. Незаметно аппетит доисторического бродяги вырастает до того, чтобы и самому стать вождём первого племени…
Girl in Park (uncredited)
Господа Сниффлз и Эмброуз вышли на прогулку в парке со своими женами. Так получается, что оба они оказываются подле чужих вторых половинок и ведут себя в их отношении не самым лучшим образом. Это навлекает на них преследования не в меру ретивого полицейского, которому удается-таки свести вместе обе семьи. Таким образом и состоялось их знакомство.
Maid / Waitress (uncredited)
Бравый городской парень как-то пошел искать сельские тропы, после того, как городские улицы стали слишком горячими для него. Случайно он знакомится с Тилли, дочкой фермера. Ну и что же, что она больше похожа на слониху, чем на девушку, зато у ее отца водятся денежки, и наш герой не прочь или завладеть. А Тилли, никогда прежде не видевшая такого бравого парня, влюбляется в него по уши и сбегает с ним из отчего дома.
Actress (uncredited)
Чаплин в роли решительного молодого актёра, которого то и дело шпыняют из гримёрной за любопытство и длинные руки. Как-то раз герой решает переодеться в женщину, дабы вновь проникнуть в полюбившееся местечко. Внимания мужской части съёмочной группы во главе с самим режиссёром теперь избежать не удастся…
Patient (uncredited)
Любимец публики и настоящий балагур Чарли в данной ленте исполняет роль непоседливого и немного строптивого помощника местного стоматолога. Подумать только, какими последствиями будет чреват поход этого человечка в аптеку за лекарствами, или чем же обернётся его смена на приём пациентов в кабинет дантиста.
