Acting
A nobleman posing as a necktie salesman falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, although he's already wed to the daughter of his country's war minister.
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
A hunchback, sworn to revenge against a woman who rejected him, lures her stepdaughter Elaine to the stage and assists her to become a dancer. Her stepmother goes to see her dance where the hunchback murders her goes mad and falls off a cliff to his death. John Butler, who is loved by Elaine, is accused of killing him, but Elaine clears him of the charge by proving the hunchback was the murderer of her stepmother.
"Midnight at the Old Mill" has some nice "Guignol" touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.
The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an American Army officer, but her devotion to her husband convinces the officer to try to extricate her from the gossip and scandal that have ensued.
When Jim is released from prison, he returns to his Chinatown neighborhood determined to lead a virtuous life. While walking, he hears a woman's cries issuing from a house and enters to investigate. In her delirium, the dying woman mistakes Jim for her nephew and entrusts him to deliver a package to her daughter.
Ham & Bud fight over the ladies.
Ham, with his 999 disguises, is called on by Mrs. Worry to keep an eye on her husband. Armed with a photograph of hubby, the two set out on a riotous sleuthing career which ends with a bang when they find hubby at dinner with another fair lady and send the news to wifey.
Ham and Bud get jobs as cooks. They flirt with Bombino Souptureeno, and incur the wrath of her boyfriend, Tony Slambango, and his gang.
