Bobby Tracy

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.

Stan Laurel et Oliver Hardy ont beaucoup de mal à conserver un emploi et sont persuadés que c'est parce qu'ils n'ont pas fait suffisamment d'études. Ils réussissent à se faire embaucher comme domestiques dans une maison bourgeoise en se faisant passer pour un couple grâce à Laurel travesti en femme mais déclenchent vite une série de maladresses et de catastrophes qui les font mettre à la porte. Devenus balayeurs de rue, assis sur le perron d'une banque, ils contribuent accidentellement à l'arrestation d'un voleur. Le directeur reconnaissant en guise de récompense leur paie les meilleures études qui soient : Oxford...