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- Billie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. They vie for her hand, duel with eggs and bricks, until one makes a getaway with the girl in a car, the other close behind.
- Ambrose and his wife are going to take charge of a seabeach hotel.
- It was his wedding day, but he wandered from the wayside and dropped into one of his old haunts, where he partook of a little more than was good for him. The bride, knowing his haunts, after an hour or two of waiting, decides to call up his old place and find if he is there. She begged him to hurry home, but he was in no condition to be called sweet names and resented her interference. He wandered out into the park, where he found some girls to his liking, but hardly had he got started to making love before the husband of one of the girls, a very bad man, came on the scene and it was curtains for the groom. He hurried to the side of his fiancée, whom he knew he could bluff. The wedding was hastened with all speed and the groom immediately appropriated his little wife's hard-earned savings and back to Mike's place he went. The bride gives up her flat and returns home. The mercenary landlady soon afterwards rented the flat to a man who happened to be the bad man the groom bad encountered that morning in the park. Later at night the groom, after a hard evening, decided that he would return home to his little wife. Not knowing that his flat had been rented to others, he entered and got into bed with the bad man. There was some excitement. Wife and brother entered just in time to avert a murder.
- Ima Knutt was the life saver on the beach and the idol of all the girls. He liked girls to be small and slim, and was much disconcerted when the biggest nut on the beach, an enormous lady in a black bathing suit, insisted upon having his services to teach her to swim. At the same time Knutt Sunday, the clerk at toe soda fountain, was regaling Hazel Knutt, his sweetheart, with the sweetmeat named after him. Ima much prefers Hazel to the fat lady. Into the bathhouse comes Krazy Knutt. H» decides to go in swimming. So does Hazel. Ima brings water wings for her and is delighted with the chance to teach her. He invites her to go for a ride in a beach chair. it runs away with them and Knutt Sunday gives chase. At last they return to the bathhouse. Krazy is pushed into the water, and Ima and the girl sit on the edge making eyes at each other. Krazy ties their shoelaces together, and they both fall in when they try to get up. Ima then seizes Krazy and makes him his assistant life saver. He then goes off with the girl to get some ice- cream. Knutt ties a weight to his leg as he is eating it and the weight drags him into the pool. Ima pulls Knutt in with him. They rush out onto the beach. Ima and the girl hide behind a beach umbrella. Knutt removes the umbrella and puts it over a hideous girl. Ima returns to her and is disgusted. Ima and the girl go for a ride in the flying boats and Knutt follows and spills Ima into the sea. A crab grabs him, and he rushes to the shore. He puts the crab on Sunday. Sunday determines to be revenged. He decoys Ima and the girl into a bathhouse and then chloroforms them with a bicycle pump through the keyhole. He hires two confederates to push the machine into the sea and drown Ima and the girl. The police see the suspicious characters and arrive in time to rescue Ima and Hazel. But the men make a mistake in the bathhouse and Knutt Sunday is drowned.
- The janitor lost his last pail of water. The faucet was out of order so it was impossible to get water. Prof. Thinem, one of the most successful failures in the dancing profession, was crying profusely. The janitor took his pail and held it under the professor's eyes, and secured enough water for cleaning purposes. At that moment in came a large, stout lady, and the dancing master conducted her to the studio. He warned her that the floor would sustain only fifty pounds to the square inch. After a high kick the floor buckled under the strain, and landed the fat lady in the plunge below. But the janitor was on the job, he rescued her, and then he sawed a hole in her purse, as the professor was reviving her, and recovered all her money. The professor, having obtained a little coin, sent the janitor to Mr. Printum to have a hand-bill advertisement printed for him. Mrs. Printum was a devotee of dancing. She would dance right over her husband's head, as she lived above the print shop. She, too, fell through the weakened floor, and right into the press, where the announcement of the prof's studio was imprinted upon the back of her dress. Hubby was furious, and chased her down the street, but the ad did its work. In her flight, many ladies, tall and short, fat and thin, saw the ad, and made a bee-line for the dancing academy. A bevy of lovely pupils arrived at the academy. Some of them disported themselves in the plunge and all of them were robed in imitation of the Goddess Diana. The prof wished to show them all out in the park. Mr. Printum had struggled out of the barrel of printer's ink into which he had fallen, and was still pursuing his wife. She decided to change clothes with the janitor to save herself. Then the lovely dancers were very nice to the disguised janitor, and shoved Mrs. Printum - in his overalls - out into the cold. Mr. Printum chased the party to the park, and began to beat up the supposed janitor. She managed to get hold of the real janitor and changed her clothes again. Then Mr. Printum did not know what to think. The chase was on again, and they all ended their troubles in the park lake. Moving Picture World, September 29, 1917
- Phil is a corn-fed country boy, and Mert is pleasingly plump and mischievous. She rakes the meadows and Phil at the same time. Pop Snodgrass, her father, does not like Phil. He chases him up the windmill, and Phil gets caught in the fans, and whirls around at a great rate. Pop thinks he is rid of him for good. However, a change in the wind throws him into Mert's room, and then Pop is mad. Tinhorn Ted is in jail. However, he steals a saw from a passing workman, and escapes. He hides in a mail bag, and is delivered with the rest of the bags at Pop's place. Pop receives a letter introducing a famous artist, who is recommended to him by a friend. "He wants to paint a pig," says the letter, "so I sent him to you." Pop is delighted and says the artist shall be Mert's husband. Ted determines to impersonate the artist. He meets the real one, beans him and takes his outfit, locking the senseless artist in the hen house. Ted is then presented to Mert as the artist, and she plays and sings for him, to his great agony. They are spooning under a tree, when Phil puts a hen coop over Ted's head. Pop rescues him and spanks Mert. Phil and Mert then determine to elope. Phil is taking Mert out of her window down a ladder when Pop catches him and he runs off down the street balancing Mert on top of the ladder. Pop overtakes them and sends Mert to school. Ted meets his accomplice, Melba Sundae, at the school to kidnap Mert, the heiress. The girls are all in overalls, and Melba puts on a wonderful silk pair. Phil arrives, too, following Mert. The snobbish girls are horrid to Mert, but surround Phil. The mistress throws him out, so he disguises as a little girl and returns. Mert says he is her twin. The girls go to bed, and Melba stays up waiting for Ted. The mistress takes Phil to her room to comb his hair, and his wig comes off. He runs. Mert is kidnapped by Melba and Ted, and Phil follows them to the city. Mert is taken to a café below the street level, and Phil slides through a manhole to get in. Ted introduces Mert as the new dancer, and Phil comes to rescue her. There is a fight, and Mert is carried off in an auto. Phil takes a bicycle from a cop and gives chase. At last they are both caught in the safety fenders of a street car. Moving Picture World, August 11, 1917
- Billie Ritchie, who is blessed with a numerous family, many bills and a small income, has great trouble in avoiding his many creditors. His adventures are too numerous to mention. He is rather attracted to a neighbor who has a jealous husband, but his efforts to see her are interrupted by a mysterious man, who finally corners Billy and tells him that he wishes to hand him a legacy. Billy, who has employed various subterfuges in order to get a chance to talk to his fair neighbor, at last sees his opportunity and arranges with her to meet him at the telephone company's masquerade. The wires get crossed and wifie becomes suspicious. She goes to the ball followed by her large family. These she masks and mixes in with the guests. Her husband's gay actions finally cause him to become a storm center and in order to escape a mobilization of angry husbands he has to flee across the telegraph wires. They follow him and he is captured and punished after a spirited chase.
- Alice is the tattletale of the whole village. So when a real opera singer comes to town she has a great deal to do. There are two of the men in the town who are smitten with the opera singer and first one and then the other gets into a compromising situation with her. Alice tells on both of them and in the end she gets the proper deserts for such conduct. There is a motor boat race and then a ducking.
- A tale of the quarrels between the jitney driver and the president of the railway. The streetcar is drawn by two skinny mules and manned by a conductor and a motorman, equally as skinny and snug. The people demand service or the jitney driver for them. Then begins a series of stunts whereby the passengers are pulled by threats, breakdowns, and promises, from the jitney to the streetcar. Finally they both go over the side of a bluff, an equal wreck of debris side by side. The passengers peer out of the windows wearing the never-never-again expression.
- Billie enjoys flirting with the ladies, and so does Henry, although he's married. Trouble erupts when both men bring dates to the same beer garden, and Billie's date turns out to be Henry's wife.
- Dan was the shepherd at Rushville. Gladys was the Rushville beauty, the daughter of the hotel proprietor. Every day the hotel keeper went to meet the guests who never came, and he grew sad. At last came a day when a guest did arrive on the 4 o'clock train. She was a vampire, but the proprietor did not know that. He rushed her into the old wagon and drove at top speed to the Rushville House. Gladys was sent upstairs to dust off the furniture in the guest room, and the lady was ushered into her apartment by the full staff. She was given a cowbell with which to make her wants known, and when she sat in the rocker, which promptly went over backwards with her, she rang it furiously. Pa disguised himself as the bellboy and answered. She was registered as La Belle Petroleum, a heel dancer, but when Dan saw her practicing in the woods in a Ballet Russe costume he thought it would have been more accurate if she had spelled heel with a double l. Dan had a hard time rescuing his flock from contamination, and the black lamb was determined to attach himself to the dancer. Pa invited his guest to drive with him, and Dan was jealous. The horse balked, standing on the railroad tracks, with an engine coming rapidly nearer. Only Dan's presence of mind in lighting a fire under the carriage prevented a tragedy. Then Dan and Pa had a fight, and Dan went off with the dancer, while the wagon burned in front of the hotel. Years went by. La Belle Petroleum had become a family drudge, with six husky boys. The hotel had flourished, and Pa had purchased an auto. But he had never forgotten the lovely dancer, and one day he just got into the buzz wagon, drove off to her house, and asked her to elope with him for old times' sake. This she was delighted to do, and managed to elude Dan and the children. When they found that she was gone, they set out to follow her, the youngest one carrying his lamb. The elopers got stuck in a mud puddle and abandoned the car. which Dan and his husky boys managed to set going again. They rushed after the train, and just succeeded in catching it. Then they threw Pa off with one mighty heave, and the family were reunited at last.
- A satire and comedy reflections on the methods of evangelists.
- Phil and Bill love Gaby. Phil had the best of the bargain for he was the proud possessor of a real car while Bill only had a two-seated motorcycle. Bill called to take Gaby out and Phil came along and stole the girl away because he had a real car. But cars have their troubles and Phil stalled and Bill took a shot at the tires. He had no trouble in persuading Gaby to steal away with him, but he disregarded all speed laws and raced over the ill kept street and spilled Gaby into an excavation. Phil saw this and recovered the lost Gaby. Bill was too interested in the scenery to miss her for some time, but when he did he raced back looking for the missing Gaby. Phil had won her heart and hand owing to the fact that he had a real car. This angered Bill and he immediately purchased himself a large touring car and after some difficulty he learned to drive it. When he learned to drive well enough he went on a hunt for Gaby and found her, but alas, too late, for she was just coming out of the minister's home with her husband. This was too much for Bill. He immediately grew desperate and wanted to die at once. He invited the newlyweds to take a ride in his new car. Hardly had they got seated before he turned and told them it would be their last day on this earth. It was some wild ride and aroused the whole country. Cops in automobiles, cops on motorcycles and cops afoot were chasing Bill on his wild ride, and perhaps it would have been going yet had not Bill disregarded all auto ethics and headed for the pier and into the briny deep. This was Bill's finish for the car was a land car only and they all went to a watery grave.
- Mr. Rockabilt has been living on good prospects for the last six years, and owes about three thousand dollars for his board during that time to the proprietor of the hotel where he has been living. The proprietor tries to collect the debt and Billie gives him a bad cheek. When the man finds that it is bad, he says that Billie has a couple of hours to make good or out he goes. But the proprietor has a comely daughter, and Billie has a plan. He sends himself a telegram stating that he has been left a fortune of a million dollars, and shows it to the proprietor. The latter at once offers his daughter's hand, and all arrangements are made for the wedding. But Billie has not paid for the telegram he sent himself, and just as the ceremony is about to be performed the boy comes in and asks for the money. This of course gives the whole thing away and the proprietor is angry, to say the least. He decides that as he needs money he will burn the hotel to get the insurance. So he arranges to have the furnace filled with gasoline and stuffs the janitor in the fire so he cannot squeal. At last the fire is started and all the guests are excited. But when the proprietor goes to look for the policy he cannot find it, as the rats have eaten it. The old man is frantic and rushes for the fire department to put out the fire. In the meanwhile the daughter has been caught in a top room of the house and is yelling for help. Billie is the only one who is brave enough to go to the rescue. He climbs up the side of the house, but when he gets up he is at a loss to know what to do. Downstairs the firemen are helpless, and there seems to be no hope, when the gasoline explodes and the whole house ascends to the upper regions. Billie and his sweetheart and a minister all meet in the air and the delayed marriage ceremony is performed then and there.
- Mrs. Doehound runs her hotel in her own peculiar way, with Mr. Doehound as a flirtatious helper. He is henpecked. On the 65th floor a scientist is working, and when an explosion occurs he telephones the proprietress. Mistaking his call for ice-water, she sends a belligerent bellhop up to room 5,000. with orders "to walk." Meanwhile, hubby is flirting with a fair female. She is put out by Mrs. Doehound, only to return with the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Potash. Potash sells costly gowns to fair women, and Mrs. Potash is his model. She begins a flirtation with Doehound, while the scientist is almost cremated alive in room 5,000, the weary bellhop climbing up the stairs with the now empty pitcher. Potash explains to Doehound that he wishes to stage a Fashion Show in his hotel, and asks Doehound to summon for it, as models, the handsomest females in town. Doehound takes up the burden of his tasks. The day of the show dawns. A buyer and his watchful wife are present in the audience gathered in the hotel for the show, also the fierce fire-eating brother of the young woman who was put out of the place by Mrs. Doehound, and who has reported the occurrence to her brother, who has previously killed five or six men for just such omissions. Doehound grows jealous of the buyer, who has the first peek at the models, and attempts to impersonate him. The bell-hop and the hotel proprietress see through the disguise, and things begin to happen when the buyer's wife is tipped off. The scientist and the bellhop, battling with flames in room 5,000, are mixed up in the ensuing melee, and the ambulances of two or three hospitals are called in to cart off the participants. Moving Picture World, August 18, 1917
- A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
- Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
- Shortly after the day began in the property room of the U-Funny theater, there entered Griffith, the company's manager, with his associates from town. There was Mrs. Morris, the heavy, and Gladys, the soubrette. Bert, the head prop man, and Walter, his assistant, made a grab for Gladys, who was none other than the affianced of Griffith. Her suitcases and trunks received first attention, despite Mrs. Morris' fondness for both the property man and his assistant, and when her foot caught in a board in the stage and dangled into the prop room there was almost a stampede as to who should come to her assistance first. The climax arrived when Walter and Gladys were discovered in a small canoe in the middle of the lake by Griffith. The boat is overturned and, with the aid of a passerby, the two vacationists are lassoed, and almost dragged over the bridge's railing to safety. Griffith, unable to stand it longer, enters the water, when the rope is snapped, and there ensues a lively fight, with all emerging and seeking refuge in the park until their clothing dries. A weary Willie passing along, with a penchant for stealing clothes, further complicates matters so, when the trio does finally arrive, much the worse for wear and tear, at the U-Funny theater, where the curtain is already up, some more things begin to happen. Mrs. Morris is justified in feeling slighted, and she plans a few stunts herself, which deprive Gladys of some of the spotlight, especially as she has arrived after Walter, taken from his duties as head prop man, is mustered into soubrette service. Bert finally helps out and becomes a target for the heavy, who hurls knives, daggers, hatchets and other delicate things at his head, shoulders and limbs, to show that she is an A No. 1 marksman, each time just missing a part of Bert's quivering flesh. Finally, when it comes to throwing the burning torches, a fire is started, and while the firemen are arriving other things start to happen, with Gladys, Walter and Mrs. Morris mixed up in the melee. Bert is finally rescued, after a very horrible experience, and Gladys and the chorus find that they have left little of their original abbreviated wardrobes. Moving Picture World, September 1, 1917
- The Baron Wilhelm von Hasenpfeffer, a fat old coward, is anxious to show himself the gamest old sport in the country to the girl of his desire. He is favored by the girl's father, who, impressed with his wealth and position, uses a cane to drive off Wallace, a youthful and favored suitor. Nursing his sore feelings and limbs, young Wallace procures a bear skin, and, hiding on the back of the wagon which carries the Baron's hunting party to the mountains, gets into the skin in time to play bear for the ardent hunter. Driven by terror, the Baron falls over a precipice. Thoroughly frightened by the consequences of his joke, Wallace calls to the Baron, now hanging to the limb of a tree half way down the precipice, that he will bring aid. Still in the bear skin, he rushes for help, and only the drunkenness of the first man he meets saves him from meeting the fate of the bear whose part he plays. Coming to the call station of the mounted police, he turns in a call that starts the force out on the gallop. Discarding the bear's head, he rushes back to the family, awaiting the return of the hunter. They, too, start to the rescue. Fearing he has not sufficient help to meet requirements, he calls upon the storekeepers at the crossroad of the mountains, who start forth at high speed to lend their aid. The family arriving first, get a rope down to the struggling Baron, but their combined strength is not enough to raise him, even the tree about which they wind the rope is giving way. The mounted police arrive and add further to the excitement by one of their number falling over the precipice. To stop his terrific slide, he grabs the unfortunate Baron, and both are precipitated to a mud hole at the base of the precipice. The different parties of rescuers arriving at full speed lose their foothold on the slippery mountain side, and one after the other join the Baron in the mud hole, who finds himself a cushion for each arrival.
- Whether to asphyxiate himself outright or hire someone to put him out of the world and thus relieve himself of the suspense of death, was the question Mr. McIdiot had to decide for himself after his lady friend refused to marry him. At first he decided on self-destruction, but when he attempted to throw himself into the lake, several hungry alligators cruising around it in changed his mind. He then hired the Chief Assassin of the Murderers' Association to do away with him within 12 hours. Same assassin agreed to the bargain, but meanwhile, Mr. McIdiot's lady friend decided she had made a mistake and told Mr. McIdiot she wanted him back. He went to cancel his bargain with the assassin, but unluckily he was out on a killing expedition, and Mr. McIdiot couldn't find him. To make matters worse, the Chief Assassin had a fit of remorse and decided to give up his old life. He chose the same minister to confess to who was marrying Mr. McIdiot, and the meeting was not pleasant. Mr. McIdiot ran up a high ladder, and the Chief Assassin fell off the same ladder into shallow water. Mr. McIdiot finally got the girl, but he was in such nervous condition he forgot to kiss her at the close of the wedding ceremony.
- Dinty, a bum, had just alighted from his "pullman" when he went out on a hunt for cigars. But the men were smoking them very short that season, so it was a hard job to get a good smoke. At last he was run over by a machine as he was in the act of getting a good one, and the doctor took pity on the fellow and took him home. At the house of the doctor he revived and was asked to stay for dinner. During the meal he became flirty and began to write notes to the lady of the house under the table. After dinner he became a little more familiar and the doctor was angry. He ejected Dinty from the house, so the tramp swore revenge. Dinty telephoned the doctor to come to a certain house at once, and then, when the doctor went to the door, he stole the car. Calling for the doctor's wife in the car, he took her for a ride. But as a chauffeur Dinty was not a success and it was not long before the flivver was a thing of the past. It so happened that the smashup occurred just in front of the hospital, so that he was taken inside and given the best of attention. The doctor was at once sent for, as an operation was deemed necessary. But the doctor that came was the very one who was looking for Dinty. With fiendish glee he sharpened the knife and prepared to take his pound of flesh. Dinty managed to get away and led the surgeon a chase all over the hospital. Then the police arrived and things got even more complicated. Dinty got out and took refuge in an auto with the cops after him. The chase ended in the doctor's house again. Dinty entered the room of the doctor's wife and then the doctor came in. He was forced to hide in the closet, but at last was discovered by the irate man. The picture ends as the masher gets his true deserts.
- A country couple at a county fair visit the various amusement concessions and then fall asleep in a canoe and dream they have been captured by a band of cannibals.