The Smiths open a restaurant, but can’t pay their bills because all of their customers won’t pay their checks.

The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short.

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.

To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.