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- A cartoon version of the Little Tramp character gets thrown off the boxcar in a cow town. He seeks employment as a farm hand, but is disappointed to learn that hard work is involved.
- This is a combination of Hy Mayer cartoons and travel pictures which go to make up a travel comedy. Architecture typical of China is shown, a pagoda, a street scene, with soldiers marching through an arch. Cartoons show how Europe taught China to hold the gun, and how China learned to drive the white man out of his country with the European gun. Cartoons caricaturing the fashions follow. The jinrikisha is contrasted with the auto. The children are shown with their living toys, birds, fish, etc. A cartoon shows that a very good boy may someday have a rhinoceros. Market scenes and restaurants in the open air follow. Trades, the shoemaker and barber, are illustrated, with comic comments in the form of cartoons. Chinese theater scenes come next. The interiors of the theaters are shown and the strange antics of the country traveling troupes. The music reminds Mayer of his janitor turning on the steam. The first Chinese skyscraper is shown. When the Chinese cut off their queues they freed themselves from backwardness and bigotry. A smiling Chinese face closes the picture.
- Wandering figure of Charlie (known from the Chaplin films). After visiting a second-hand bookshop, Charlie dreams that he has kidnapped the Queen of Sheba. Yet there is no beautiful woman behind the veil of this Turkish lady.
- Zippy buys a hen, thinking that he will have fresh eggs every day. He does everything that he can think of, but she refuses to lay an egg. Six months later a professor sees the hen, which has grown fat under Zippy's treatment. He recognizes it as a rare specimen of an almost extinct breed. He wishes to buy it and will give $1,000. Zippy meets him and invites him to dinner. This is a fine time to get the worth of the hen, he thinks. It is killed and served for dinner. When he hears that he has lost the thousand he has a fit.
- The climate of Colombo, in Ceylon, is very hot, and the costumes of the natives suit it. Lace makers use the same patterns that their ancestors used. We see a Buddhist procession with its dancers in their strange headdresses. Hy Mayer then suggests in a cartoon that this more picturesque headgear should be adopted on Broadway. The foliage of Ceylon is wonderful, and the variety of trees immense. We see the elephants' bathroom, and then Hy Mayer suggests the use of an elephant as a shower bath. Native dancing to the sound of a tom-tom is the suggestion for other cartoons.