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Buster's Picnic Synopsis

Trouble starts at the very beginning with Buster's characteristically masculine inability to cut the bread for sandwiches and otherwise help. Mary Jane does the work. Once started, Buster's baby brother tosses the contents of the luncheon basket to the trailing Tige so that there is no food when the picnic grounds are reached. Tige makes amends by stealing the luncheon of a neighboring party. Also having eaten the cream covering off a cake he creates a panic because all the picnickers think he is frothing at the mouth and suffering from the rabies. To add to the comfort (?) of the recreation-seekers a hornet's nest is dislodged and the hornets rout the entire picnic-camp crowd. For a finale a table cloth becomes a parachute and carries the youthful trio over a cliff-side into the ocean. All rescued, it becomes an entry in a Samuel Pepys diary "and so home to bed."

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.