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- Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
- Billy escapes from an asylum, and through a flirtation with a manicurist is led to a barbershop, where he is induced to take her place, as she has an engagement she is anxious to keep. place. He takes the manicurist to the Barber's ball, where the asylum keepers trace him. He evades them and runs back to the asylum. Arriving there he heaves a sigh of contentment and locks the asylum guards out for the night.
- Two rival candy store owners compete over a pretty cashier. One hires a bomb-thrower. Sounds like this will end up as a sticky mess.
- Eccentric millionaire Billy is seen walking in the park by Ethel and the Count, who get possession of his handkerchief and decide to blackmail him. Billy has just received a telegram from his ward Daisy, notifying him that she is coming to visit him. When Billy's mother-in-law catches him talking to Ethel in the West home, Billy is panic-stricken, but remembering the telegram, he introduces Ethel as his ward. The mother-in-law is charmed with Ethel and decides to make a match between Ethel and her son Bud. Meanwhile, Daisy arrives at the Wests' and Billy takes her to a neighbor's house, intending to hide her there until Ethel is gone. The mother-in-law sees Billy in front of the neighbor's house, rushes out, and chases him. Daisy witnesses the chase and disguises herself as a boy to clear up the mystery that seems to enshroud Billy. She gets inside the West home, where she is seen and recognized by Bad Bill, a former pal of Billy's in his younger days out West. Buddy sees Daisy and Bad Bill in an embrace and begins to act like a sissy in derision of Bad Bill. West has eluded his mother-in-law and met Daisy and Bad Bill, so when the mother-in-law returns home she finds Daisy in her boys' attire sitting on West's knees. Horrified at such a sight, she phones to the insane asylum and to West's wife that Billy has gone insane. The asylum guards and Mrs. West hurry to the house where a fight occurs until explanations are in order. Just as West is explaining the situation, Buddy and Ethel enter with the announcement that they have been married. So when Daisy has proven her identity to the mother-in-law's satisfaction, Billy is received once more into his family's good graces. Moving Picture World, August 4, 1917
- Charlie Chaplin-impersonator Billy West pesters hotel guests, guilelessly ending up in a compromising situation with a PJ-clad bride as her jealous husband, Babe Hardy, searches for her.
- Billy works as a waiter at a sleazy bar and grill. Going for a walk in the park he meets a society girl talking to a French count. Indifferent to the count she is smitten with Billy and invites him to a society party at her home there he meets a rival for her affections played by Babe Hardy. Billy has to leave the party to return to work. The party guests decide to go "slumming" and chose the dive that Billy Works in. Everything ends in unresolved chaos.
- Billy and Babe wander into a Mission House. Babe sneaks into the library and starts to drill the safe. Babe enters with the valuables under his coat. Billy discovers it and announces he will do some tricks of magic. He takes a silver platter, makes it disappear and then opens Babe's coat and brings out all the silver taken by Babe from the safe, thereby saving the family that has befriended him from theft by his prison associate.
- A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
- The star of a traveling theatrical company is pressed into multiple services at a hotel where the staff have walked off on strike.
- Hotel proprietor Babe robs guests with his accomplice Leo, who is engaged to Babe's daughter. Father suspects something and peeps through the keyhole. Believing the bellhop has compromised his daughter, he rushes out to find a minister.
- Billy plays the role of a trombone player in a Jazz band. Through good fortune, he gets entre into a house of society, and becomes a bandmaster. While playing for the guests he recognizes an organ grinder who is posing as an Italian Count for the purpose of winning the heiress who is hostess. He exposes the bogus Count, but they will not believe him, and he is ejected. He goes to the organ grinder's room, gets his organ and monkey and returns to the reception. He enters the ballroom, and when the monkey sees his master, makes one leap on top of his chest and cries "Popper." Billy, having established that Tony is an impostor, is lionized by all. At the height of his enjoyment the cook, to whom he is engaged, appears upon the scene, and in a fit of jealousy she grabs him by the coat collar and drags him off to the kitchen.
- A cop is assigned to gain evidence against a ladies' gambling den.
- Billy is the janitor in a harem.
- After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town. Arriving in town, Billy's first thought is for food. Being without a cent, he hocks the burro in the local pawnshop and goes at once to the restaurant, where he orders a large feed. In the midst of his dinner, he remembers the burro, and knowing that he must be hungry too, Billy gathers the rest of his dinner and goes to feed his little pal. The pawnshop is closed for the night, and Billy breaks in a window and feeds the burro. He is discovered by the pawnbroker and arrested for burglary, though with Susie to vouch for him, the court soon releases him. Billy then wanders into the main saloon, gambling room, dance hall, where he has many exciting adventures with the roulette wheels with a dance-hall vampire and with the local bad man. He finally gets into such a mess that he is forced to run for his life. He breaks into the pawnshop again and steals his burro out to escape on. Then with most of the town in pursuit, he starts out across the desert. Meanwhile, Oliver, who is the owner of the saloon, has been making love to Susie, who resents it and will have nothing to do with him. Oliver then engages Pedro and Little Casino to kidnap the girl. They do, and are just taking her to their den in the mountains when Billy, in trying to escape from the posse, blunders into them and makes the capture. The posse arrives, bent on hanging Billy, but when they find that he has rescued the pet of the town, they give him three cheers and hang the Mexicans instead. Billy then beats up Oliver for his share in the proceedings, and Susie rewards him in the best approved style.
- Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. The Wiggle sisters, a Hawaiian act, arrive and demand the star's room, and there is a rumpus when Props declines to accede to their request. But Props relents when Babe, the strong man, and his wife, Ethel Burton, arrived, for Props has an eye for beauty. Props is forever getting in the way of the performers and causing unmeasured confusion. His bibulous assistant has an unfortunate propensity for dropping the curtain at wrong moments. However, the audience in front likes the show, and the philosophy of Props appears to be "I should worry." The strong man and his wife present their act, assisted on the stage by Props, who is always in the way. The curtain descends, leaving the strong man alone on the stage. The audience thinks this is part of the show and applauds accordingly. But to the succeeding act, "Rags and Riches," a serious drama, they tender a hostile reception and leave the house. Meanwhile the strong man, returning to his dressing room, finds Props making love to his wife and there is a fierce altercation. But Props escapes punishment and appears to be immune from the attacks.
- Billy's abilities as an inventor are supplemented by an unfortunate tenderheartedness which leads him into many matrimonial misadventures. He finds himself obliged for the time being to assume the paternity of a child which is not his, and the equivocal situations in which this circumstance betrays him are full of humor and bustling mirth.
- Billy is an orderly at the Peace and Quiet Sanitarium, where he brings havoc to all the patients.
- West modifies the story from Chaplin's "Dough and Dynamite", with the emphasis on throwing and covering everyone with bread dough.
- Billy starts as a kitchen helper, is thrown out, and repairs to a restaurant where he is engaged as a waiter. His position doesn't last long, but it remains for an automobile and a pretty girl to put him in soft. He is dined and wined at the palatial home of the girl and during his stay was "some time." A tea party is in progress when Billy turns loose a mouse and the excitement starts. He is a bit too rough to suit the old man who shows him the door and the fade-out finds Billy again facing the cold, cold world.
- When the beautiful new schoolteacher arrives in town, two rivals view for her attention: Oliver "Babe" Hardy and the little tramp in the form of a Charlie Chaplin impersonator.
- A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
- Billy is forced to become a messenger and through this he gets a position as leading man. However, his seriousness spoils the play and nearly results in disaster.
- Billy, a confidence man. arrives in Squashville, a lumber town. He sees Babe, the daughter of the village doctor, disporting herself on the banks of the river. Learning that her father is the richest man in the village, Billy begins to beguile the shy, simple miss with tales of life in the big city. The innocent miss falls into his snare and gives her tender heart to the black rascal. Billy, scenting spoils that far exceeds his expectations, summons Florence, his confederate, and two crooks to come to his assistance. Budd, the village boob and life-long suitor for Babe's love, is the one stumbling block in Billy's path to the successful culmination of his plans. The doctor, returning home after a professional visit, discovers Billy about to make off with all the money in the office safe. Learning from Babe that the villain has beguiled her into opening the safe, the doctor orders Billy out of the house and administers a well-deserved spanking to his too-trusting daughter. Upon the arrival of Florence and the crooks, Billy orders his woman confederate to win the love of Budd, and to keep him out of the way of the villain. Florence enraptures the country boy and succeeds in keeping him at a safe distance, leaving the villain, Billy, to work in safety. Taking the place of a man who has been shot in a gambling fight, Billy succeeds in gaining an entrance into the doctor's home and persuading Babe to elope with him. The doctor, discovering the plot, rushes to the church just in time to stop the marriage and drags Babe back to the house. Infuriated at the continued failure of his evil plans, Billy resorts to violence and has his two henchmen waylay the doctor, and carry him to the sawmill. Here Budd discovers conspirators placing the doctor upon a log, and threatening to saw him into halves unless he consents to the marriage of Billy and Babe. Horrified at the sight, Budd rushes off to notify Babe and to secure aid of the local police force. Babe arrives on the scene just in time to save her father from the cruel saw and the police arriving shortly after arrest Billy and incarcerate him in the local jail. Florence and the two crooks, who managed to avoid arrest, proceed to steal the jail. Placing the jail on a commandeered wagon, the crooks drive off with the police force in pursuit. Inside the jail Billy is urging his pals to greater efforts when a wheel of the wagon breaks off, and the jail and its sole tenant is hurled into the water. Florence's devotion to her lord comes to the surface, and diving into the water, she reaches the jail, and the two drift far out of the confines of the little village, while Babe, realizing the worth of the love of her rustic sweetheart, Budd, finds contentment and peace in his arms.