Un escritor se encuentra con el dueño de un viejo hotel de clase alta, quien le cuenta de sus primeros años sirviendo como chico del vestíbulo en los gloriosos años del hotel bajo una excepcional conserjería.

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

Un científico aparece muerto con extrañas deformidades en la cabeza. Este hecho hará que el sheriff y el médico del pueblo consulten la causa con un eminente doctor. Al no estar de acuerdo con las explicaciones del doctor, el médico se persona en su laboratorio el día que el doctor recibe a una ayudante. El doctor explica que se está dedicando a producir una sustancia alimenticia para combatir el hambre en el mundo, pero el caso es que aplicada en los animales les ocasiona un rapidísimo y asombroso crecimiento

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.

Tofiq and his father watch Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, and because of their differences they get into a debate; to settle it, they decide to have a showdown. Tofiq loses and, because of it, is forced to leave their house and go into the city. There he encounters someone else and they start having beef, and this goes on until the end of the movie.

In a smudgy hotel, guests and staff have a run in with fate.

A score of amateur children sing and dance in costume in a multi-act musical revue.

Ebenezer Jones is visited by the Ghost of Hospitality Past in the night, who confronts him about his mediocre customer service at a Holiday Inn. Will a vision of a desolate Hospitality Future make Ebenezer change his ways?