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Scared Stiff Synopsis

Two college boys vie with each other to make the most trouble in college. They have a large push-ball larger than the average sized man, which they push around town, breaking everything in their path. They finally land in the principal's office, where they are reprimanded and expelled from college. Disconsolate, they enter a cabaret, where they get into a lot of trouble on account of an impudent clam-shell. The clam-shell bounces from Al Alt's plate, skips along the floor and lands down a lady's back. After he rescues it, it decides to pinch a lady's leg. This is too much for the proprietor and he throws them out. Sitting on the curbstone, they hear cries for help and discover a charming little lady in deep distress. They find out what the trouble is and learn that her relatives are trying to scare her out of the house which she has inherited from her grandfather. They decide to help her. Many ghostly and ghastly things happen to scare the boys away, but they stick and win the home for the little lady.

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.