The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

A ladybug lives in a pumpkin house and is aimed at by a dragonfly.

People of all nations come to America, sing a native song and go into a “melting pot”. This scene was later used in King of Jazz (1930).