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The Aggravatin' Kid Synopsis

Buddy bounces vases and pillows off his sister's head because she is determined to marry and stop his source of support. Her fat sweetie dashes to the rescue in his auto and puts an extension ladder against the window, five stories high. Sister ducks a huge vase and it hits her sweetie, knocking him off his perilous perch. He climbs back and is knocked off again. Then he places the ladder in his car and climbs up again. Buddy dashes out, driving off with his sister's beau dizzily hanging onto the ladder's top. Driving past his house, his sister leaps out of the window, catching hold of her sweetie. Buddy continues to drive, until the car stalls in front of a parson's window. The latter marries them and they depart for their honeymoon. Arriving in Florida they discover Buddy in one of their hand-bags. Her uncle writes that he will pay them a visit and give her $30,000 of her forthcoming inheritance if her husband is a successful business man. Hubby poses as the butler and they take Ritzy quarters. Hubby is kept dizzy until Uncle leaves. Just then the owner enters and demands a year's rent in advance. Hubby hides her in a clothes closet. She screams just as Uncle signs the check. He opens the closet and discovers the "victim" to be his sweetie. He forgives hubby and gives them the check.

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.