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Hot Water Synopsis

Newlyweds expect to raise a family of five children but are eager to gain experience in taking care of kiddies. Therefore, welcome the opportunity offered by a widower friend who expects to go to Europe and ships his child, parcel post, to the couple. Meantime, the young married man's bosses plan to play a joke on him, each borrowing their own children (two to a family) and bribe the station agent to tag the four, so that when the newlyweds arrive there are five children on their hands instead of the one expected. The fathers tell their children that they may be as naughty as possible for one whole day, so that as soon as the five are herded into the automobile they begin. The young couple find that five children in a house can disrupt things in general, and not until the following day is the situation clarified. The father of the motherless baby decides to take his child with him to Europe, so calls to claim his own. When the wives of the two bosses find they have been misinformed as to the whereabouts of their respective children, there is considerable explaining to do.

Mary's Ankle Synopsis

While walking along the street one day, Arthur P. Hampton, an impoverished young doctor, and his chums, Stub Masters and Johnny Stokes, are persuaded to part with their last remaining funds by tag day solicitor Mary Jane Smith, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love. Doc's friends then hit upon a get-rich-quick scheme. Knowing that his Uncle George has promised a large sum of money upon his nephew's marriage, they persuade Doc to send out fake wedding invitations naming Mary Jane as the blushing bride. Uncle George, elated at the good news, writes to Mary Jane's aunt, Angelica Burns, an old sweetheart, to invite Mary Jane and Angelica to be his guests on an ocean voyage. Meanwhile, Mary Jane pays a visit to the doctor's office and, upon seeing the wedding invitations, becomes so flustered that she trips and sprains her ankle. Doc comes to her rescue and then begs her to pose as his wife. She agrees, but at ship-side, Stub and Johnnie confess all to Uncle George, who flies into a rage until Doc announces that he and Mary Jane have chosen a wedding at sea.