Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

An antiquarian is willing to pay handsomely for a mummy and so Dick bribes a filthy old bum into pretending to be one.

Ethel may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father’s rich friend.

Billy tries to win over his girlfriend’s father, who imagines himself to be a great hunter, by disguising himself as a man-eating bear.

Walter Grey’s family of social climbers is embarrassed by his circus rider wife, but she is more disturbed by the society they are so desperate to break into.