Century Film

This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.

Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that involves skunks and moonshiners!

A Baby Peggy two-reeler

Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough they believe they are in outer space, and Dumbo takes a space walk.

The 'secretary' of a busy newspaperman is revealed to be a cherubic small child, Baby Peggy. When a rich woman's pearl necklace is stolen, Baby Peggy's employer promises to make the reporter who cracks the case Editor-in-Chief. The little girl seizes the opportunity, and - several disguises and chases later, with the grudging aid of the office-boy - duly returns with the jewels to achieve promotion, with all the adults scurrying to serve her.

A feisty homeless orphan girl struggles with winter cold and hunger.

The adventures of an escaped convict.

"In "Queen of Aces" released through Universal she [Wanda Wiley] appears as an athletic young woman whom her prospective father-in-law characterizes as a he-woman and forbids her to come to a party in his home. Wanda puts on male attire even donning a mustache. Father takes a shine to the "boy" when "he" says the party is too tame and they slip away to a poker party. The place is raided but they make a getaway and there is a general mix- up when the "boy" is seen slipping into a girl's bedroom." - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World

George working at a construction site.

Teddy and Peggy are discovered working on the farm, but they are soon fired and leave for the city. Here a rich uncle is expecting his niece.

Eddie and his pal, after repeatedly standing off the landlady, find the door of their room barricaded and escape cut off. Eddie endeavors to make his escape across a wire to a telegraph pole, but the wire breaks and he swings back into the room, breaking the barricade from the door. They make their getaway and Eddie sneaks into the garage and gets his cab, as his pal is fired for being late. The latter appeals to a rival company for a job promising to take all the business from his late pal. It is then a chase between them for customers with all sorts of devices resorted to to secure business.

Al is the assistant shipping clerk. He plants himself on top of a mass of crates and fishes valises up with a line attached to a rod and reel. He accidentally catches his boss and the latter runs him ragged before he escapes. Al discovers a crate marked for a Mrs. Wilson - a police dog from Germany. He opens the crate. The hound runs free. Al pursues.

Incidental to the business of getting married and living scrappily ever after, Charlie and Louise are engaged on a flivver jaunt. Charlie has invited Louise along, never dreaming that she would invite the family. But the girl has asked dad, and dad asks mother, and mother invites grandpa and grandma, and they in turn invite the children.