A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter’s upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor’s amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All…