Confusion and mirth ensue when a photographer takes a sneaky picture of Rigadin with his wife, a woman who happens to look very similar to someone else's wife.
Charles Prince is a gypsy street violinist, whose appreciative audience disappears as soon as he stops playing and passes the hat. He returns home to Gabrielle Lange with empty pockets to a dinner of stale bread and fetid tap water. But an engagement at a celebration offers hope of better times to...
After visiting the first Cubist exposition in Paris, Rigadin (Charles Prince) is struck by his discovery: A egg is a rhombus, the earth a cube! Unfortunately, he is engaged to Miss Rondebosse (Gabrielle Lange), whose father is head of the Tradition...
Rigadin and a friend ae motoring. The car breaks down, and Prince goes in search of some place to say. Meanwhile, his friend is attacked and tied up by a man in blackface. Later, he breaks into Prince's room and blacks him up, then removes his disguise, leaving Prince to bear the brunt of the law.
Germaine Reuver's father doesn't like Charles Prince because he isn't musical. Mlle Reuver tries to teach him to play the ocarina, which he promptly swallows. It becomes lodged in his throat and he emits its dulcet tones, which cause s everyone to dance, to Prince's annoyance.
The maid and the driver of Sidonie de Valpurgis have the absurd idea of subletting the hotel of their boss during her absence, and precisely to Sidonie's ex-friend, who wants to spend his wedding night there.
Charles Prince has grown wealthy, put on a fat suit and combed his hair to show he is balding. Meanwhile, his brother (also played by Prince) has failed to prosper, so he wears a flat cap. The wealthy one refuses to help his brother, so the poor one goes to a lake, writes a suicide note, and.......