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Roman Scandals is a pre-code musical comedy with elements of fantasy and romance. It follows the story of a man who is transported back to ancient Rome and embarks on a series of misadventures, including being sold into slavery and participating in a chariot race. The film features catchy musical numbers, comedic farce, and a touch of romance.

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

When two musicians are fired from their orchestra, they must find a way to survive on the streets. They end up staying in a boarding house, where they get into various comedic misadventures.

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.

Captain Kidd's Kids is a comedy short film that follows the misadventures of Captain Kidd's mischievous children as they navigate an ocean voyage, encounter pirates, and deal with their domineering mother. The film is filled with slapstick comedy and humorous situations.

A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.

Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.

Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.

Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.

When the story begins, Johnnie comes to the lawyer's house (James Finlayson) in order to woo the man's daughter. However, a love-crazy woman has been chasing Johnnie and the lawyer tries to help out....and gets nothing but trouble in return. The lady now wants the lawyer...who's a married man. Soon all sorts of problems develop...and the lawyer is sure his wife is going to kill him!

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.

While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.

Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for nobility.

Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.

Western Slapstick. A good chance to see Al St. John moving into the western comedy sidekick that would be his bread and butter role for the next twenty years. Also, it's a rare screen opportunity for Addie McPhail, Roscoe Arbuckle's wife and therefore Al's aunt.

The college aerial club is at the airfield to inaugurate a new glider. Alabam gets a lot of teasing for being a "land lizard," never wanting to fly. Mary takes him aside to boost his spirits and offers to take his photo if he'll sit on a glider parked nearby. Dave is ready to take the club's glider up, but Mickey hooks the wrong rope to his car and pulls Alabam into the air. He hasn't a clue what to do; below, Mickey and Dave try to shout instructions while the glider's owner gives chase. What goes up . . .

Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.

A Bobby Dunn comedy short for Arrow Film Corporation.