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Wife Shy Synopsis

Bobby gets showered with rice while attending a wedding on a yacht. When he comes ashore, his friend Bill accuses him of being married because of the rice. Bobby explains that he has never married because he hasn't found the girl he wants. Bill advises him that when he sees her he should "go after her." Bobby sees the one he ones, follows her and is jailed. Bill bails him out. Bill asks Bobby to visit him at his apartment. He meets the girl again in the hall and she has him arrested again. Bill bails him out again. He goes to Bill's officer, sees her again, she screams and he is jailed again. Bill asks Bobby to visit him at home again. There, while alone, the girl Bobby has been following, enters the room. It is Bill's wife. But Bill has a younger and prettier sister he introduces to Bobby.

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.