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- Mame is the charming little proprietress of a boarding house at a railroad junction point and has managed to corner most of the trade on the division by virtue of her pleasing ways and good eats. She has many suitors and one of the most ardent is young Jeffrey Peters, son of the road's general manager. Jeffrey is serving an apprenticeship as a brakeman and in order to impress Mame, discloses who his Father is. Mame does not seem to be over-impressed. Out on his private car, a few stations away, the general manager is having troubles with the kitchen help. The cook has walked out and as eating is the chief interest of Michael Peters' life, the situation is terrible. However his secretary cheers him with the thought that he can stop at the junction point to satisfy his abnormal appetite. They find Jeffrey at the boarding house and the father proceeds to consume sixty or so minute steaks. In the meantime the secretary is making eyes at Mame who seems to like her new admirer. Michael is so impressed with Mame's cooking that he invites her to accept a position abroad the private car. Before leaving her restaurant, a man drives up and inquires for the last time if she will come back to his home. Mame refuses. In her new position, Mame does so well that Michael is also considering her as a mate and in the meantime Jeff is in such distress that he seeks the aid of the secretary. He plans to win his father over in the matter of taking a cook for his wife and is overjoyed when he becomes aware of his father's wedding plans. Jeff thinks that they are for him. Mame and the secretary go for a walk while the train is at a stop off and with a lot of fast work, the secretary induces her to marry him. Consternation reigns in the private car when they return and announce the marriage. At this point, the stranger who besought Mame to return to his home enters the car. He turns out to be the president of the railroad - and Mame - his daughter.
- The boss is giving a banquet in honor of his new partner and Alice has been chosen by the employees of the store to attend the event. She is to make a speech before presenting a loving cup as a token of their esteem. Her strange surroundings seem to embarrass her and she falls down terribly while doing her act. However, the situation is saved from being a total flop by the good graces of the new partner with whom Alice makes a big hit.
- After a brief absence from their apartment, Helen and Warren return to find their home invaded by a brother-in-law's family who announce that they can stay for a month. The brother-in-law is keen for these visits on account of the liberty that they afford him from his home ties, and immediately suggests to Warren that they visit a night club. Warren is tired after a hard day in court where he lost his case and reluctantly consents to go although Helen urges him to do so. The judge of Warren's court is out on a tour of inspection that evening and chooses to visit the same night club. Soon after they arrive the place is raided by prohibition agents. Warren and the judge escape but brother-in-law is caught and gives Warren's name next morning, Warren is presented with a summons to appear in court and is thrust in jail with the same man whose case he lost the day before. Helen, unaware that Warren has been arrested and thinking that he is defending a case, picks out the day of his trial to witness his efforts. Discovering Helen in the court room and with his jail companion near him, Warren adroitly switches to his defense to the consternation of all. About this time, the judge's trousers, which he lost on the wild night before, are returned to him and all cases are dismissed.
- Sid's prospective father-in-law is the inventor of a new kind of airplane which several aviators inspect and pronounce unsafe. Eager to impress the girl of his choice, Sid engages one of the fliers to put him thru an aviation test with the idea of trying out the new machine which no one else will attempt to do. He is put thru a series of tests on ingenious mechanisms. The day of the flight arrives, Sid hops into the freak machine, the propellers whirl and off he goes - backwards. He is supposed to receive instructions via radio but inadvertently tunes in on another station where a girl's calisthenic class is in action. He follows the dizzy antics of the class, and his instructors, thinking that the machine is beyond control, send up another aviator who carries along Sid's sweetheart as a passenger. A furious battle in the air follows in which our hero's machine tumbles earthwards. Not liking the villain's love making, Sid's sweetheart gets out to walk home by means of a parachute and after a thrilling descent, lands in about the same spot as her true lover who effects the rescue.
- Captain Galt, sent as British Government representative to Arabian town, does much to relieve strain of military rule, wins favor of Musa, blind Koran teacher, and his daughter, Yuni, but incurs enmity of sheik Hahmed. Latter seizes Yuni and attacks British native troops. Yuni escapes to the governor's house where she and Galt are besieged and rescued by British infantry. Yuni turns out to be white girl, reared by Musa, and finds happiness with Galt.