Plot

To pay back his increasing debts, Father writes a comic opera, Frolic of the Frogs , with the financial backing of Carelton Bayne, who fancies Father's youngest daughter. On the day of the opera's opening, Fredericka, the elder daughter, is to be married, but when Father receives a frantic call from the opera's leading lady, who is about to be replaced by one of Bayne's former lovers, he abandons the wedding and rushes to the theater in the honeymoon car. Arriving too late to stop the exodus of both male and female stars, Father steps in as the leading man after one panicked rehearsal and is vigorously booed by the audience. The show in ruins, Father slugs Bayne and is hauled off to jail but organizes the other prisoners and effects a clever escape. Several adventures, car chases and misunderstandings later, Father and family finally reunite for the wedding.—Pamela Short

Worried almost to death over the increasing bills pouring in, father writes a comic opera, with the idea of producing it and becoming rich. Carlton Bayne, a young society man, offers to back it if father will use his influence with Tommy, his youngest daughter, whom Bayne wants to marry. Tommy is in love with Dawson Dale, a young hospital intern, but to help poor father out, she agrees to marry him later. Fredericka, his older daughter, is to marry Mortimer and on the day of the wedding father receives a hurry-call from Georgetown, where his play is to be given its initial presentation, and dashes off in Fredericka's car, which he doesn't know how to run. He arrives at the theater, puts a stop to Bayne's attempt to ring in his own leading lady on him, knocks the fellow down and escapes in the auto, hotly pursued by the police. A hair-raising chase follows, the car smashes into a tree and father is pulled down out of the branches and jailed. Dawson learns from Bayne what has happened and Tommy jumps to the conclusion from his vague talk that father is in the hospital seriously hurt as the result of an auto accident. The young intern is in a pretty fix, as the whole family insist on going to the hospital to see "poor Dad." Meanwhile, father after many laughable escapades, has escaped from jail and Dawson succeeds in smuggling him into the hospital ward. Dawson confesses all, they put father to bed, call to the others, and all ends up in a joyful reunion of happiness and love.—Moving Picture World synopsis