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- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison.
- While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
- The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".
- In this picture there is a limited amount of action in the pose. As the curtains are drawn aside the shell appears shut. It gradually opens, disclosing the model curled up in a recumbent position. She slowly arises as if awakening, and gracefully assumes the final position of the pose.
- A man seems to be at the races, rooting for his favorite number.
- This is a clever comedy production in several scenes. In the opening scene the hired man is complaining to Farmer Jones that the woodpile is being depleted by thieves. Farmer Jones decides to adopt drastic measures and loads one of the sticks with dynamite. In the next scene a colored deacon, one of the shining lights in the African Church, is seen making away with the wood. The next scene shows the home of the deacon, where he is taking his comfort at the kitchen fire, while his wife is busy with the washing. The loaded stick is, of course, put into the fire, and there is a terrific explosion and the building is ruined. Farmer Jones and his man appear at the critical moment and the colored thieves are given a punishment they will not soon forget.
- This is one of the most exciting and at the same time one of the most laughable subjects ever made. A lunatic confined in a barred cell, labors under the delusion that he is the Emperor Napoleon. In the first scene we see him in an altercation with his keepers over the quality of food furnished him. The keepers set upon him and beat him unmercifully and leave him unconscious. He comes to and determines to escape. Wrenching a leg from a table he bursts the bar of a window, smashes the glass and crawls out. The next scene shows him dropping a distance of 30 feet to the ground below. He picks himself up and starts off at a run. The faces of the keepers appear at the cell window for an instant, but quickly they come running out of the main entrance to the asylum, and start in pursuit of the escaped lunatic. Then follows a series of thrilling and ludicrous chases through the mostly picturesque scenery. The lunatic is cornered on a bridge over a waterfall, but manages to overcome the keeper and hurls him into the rapids below. In another scene he crosses a torrent on a slender wire cable swinging loose above it. Time after time the lunatic succeeds in circumventing his keepers. Finally, however, he tires of the chase and is seen running back to the asylum. He leaps the 30 feet back to the window and when the keepers, all blown and covered with mud, rush into the cell, Napoleon I, is calmly reading a newspaper.
- To save her father from bankruptcy, Nan Everard marries wealthy Peter Craddock and under protest goes with him to South America. En route she is injured in an automobile wreck, but Peter continues the trip. He returns to find her renewing an old friendship, and though she hopes to obtain a divorce she finally surrenders to his stronger will.
- A small boy is sent from the table because his mother expects a caller. He slyly comes back and creeps under the table, where he pins his mother's gown to the tablecloth. When the caller arrives she arises to meet him and pulls the cloth with its burden of dishes to the floor.
- A man dressed as a waiter brings a plate of food to a woman seated at a table in a restaurant. The woman tastes the food, indicates it lacks something and the waiter leaves to get it. He returns with a bottle of Tabasco sauce which the woman shakes vigorously over her food. After sampling the concoction, it is evident from her facial expression that she has made a terrible mistake, and the film ends with the waiter squirting seltzer water in her mouth.
- This subject is the same as No. 1863 [ANNA HELD], but shown in full length figure. Both are admirable, and make hits either in the Biograph or Mutoscope.
- Captain Leyton treats his son, Boy, harshly to eliminate every weakness, but he is so overjoyed at Boy's courageous defense of the character of his sweetheart, Minnie, that he has a heart attack. Before he dies, Leyton charges Boy with avenging his mother's desertion of his father for another man. Boy finds his mother; discovers the other man to be Leyton's first mate, Morgan; hurls Morgan overboard; and returns to marry Minnie.
- Married to a spy who seeks to induce her to betray her country, the daughter of the American Ambassador to Belmark welcomes the news of her husband's death not knowing that he has merely staged a deception. She becomes the morganatic wife of Prince Leopold, of Belmark, but renounces the marriage that war may be avoided, only to learn that the new alliance means a still greater war. She persuades Leopold to renounce the compact, then saves his life by throwing herself between him and an exploding bomb, but the story does not end there.
- Showing a trio of amateurs rehearsing a song. The action is extremely ludicrous.
- A lighthearted spoof of family life and fatherhood. President Roosevelt, who had just won reelection, believed Americans had to lead "the strenuous life" (it was the title of one of his books) if the United States was to retain its position of world leadership. He also declared that married women of northern European stock had a responsibility to produce at least four children to prevent "race suicide." Porter combined these two elements into a burlesque: the father returns home as his wife gives birth and soon finds himself caring for quadruplets. Using a close up, Porter shows the father's initial expression of pride as he weighs the first baby, but this expression quickly changes to distress as the nurse brings in one infant after another.
- A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden. After considerable persuasion she is induced to raise her veil, but to the cowboy's amazement she reveals a hideous face. The cowboy leaves in disgust, but his place is quickly taken by a dapper Eastern youth who removes the mask from the girl's face, and the two enjoy a hearty laugh over the cowboy's discomfiture.
- A near-sighted beau brings some flowers to a pretty girl. She leaves the room for an instant and a colored maid enters and proceeds to arrange the flowers. The near-sighted chap at once seizes her hand and proceeds to cover it with kisses, much to the amazement of the maid and of the mistress, who in the meantime has returned.
- Novelist April Poole reads her new book to Kerry Sarle, her publisher and sweetheart, and to Ronald Kenna, her editor. The story begins at a masked ball, where April meets Kerry and recognizes master thief Kenna. April retrieves a note discarded by Kenna and learns that he intends to steal the Mannister diamond. Meanwhile, the Earl of Mannister, hoping to end his daughter Diana's relationship with an impoverished American artist, orders her to deliver the jewel to her mannish female cousin, Clive Connal, in South Africa. Aboard the train, Diana persuades April to assume her identity. Eager to foil Kenna, April complies. When Kerry overhears a struggle in April's stateroom, he rushes in and ejects Kenna. In gratitude, April reveals her identity and mission. After Kerry receives a note from April that asks him to take the trunk to Clive, April disappears. Disconsolate, Kerry delivers the trunk. When Kenna and his cronies locate it, April springs out, pistol in hand, and captures them. As she concludes her tale, April embraces Kerry, who accepts the story.
- A female crook is dragged in by two policeman to be photographed. The camera dollies in to show her making faces.
- A woman in fancy dress enters a dressing room and begins to disrobe. She removes a coat, a top, and her skirt. As she starts to remove her chemise in front of the camera, she thinks the better of it and steps behind an opaque screen. Soon, she tosses her slip over the screen toward the camera. Then, she reaches with her naked arm across to a chair to grab her next costume. She emerges dressed in a very short and spangled skirt and top, ready for her next performance.
- American ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard warns that Germany will rise again to power and an attempt at world domination unless safeguards are taken, in this documentary-style propaganda drama.
- Alphonse and Gaston are in a Western saloon and are forced to dance by a cowboy, who urges them on by shooting at their feet.
- The new maid is very pretty and interests the master to an unusual degree as he sits alone at the table taking an early breakfast. He thinks it not amiss to steal a kiss, and is just getting away with the good when his wife, clad in her "robe de nuit" comes in unexpectedly and creates a scene.
- Three young woman wearing pajamas are seen performing a tap dance.
- Clive Herbert, the Duke of Cheshire's younger brother, about to leave England to relieve his boredom, falls in love with Helena, the unhappy Duchess of Harwich, who was forced to marry a corrupt duke to save her father's name, but the rogue treats her cruelly. Although she loves Clive, Helena will not leave with him because she does not want to sully this love. When Harwich returns from France, where he was treated for paralysis brought on while forcing his attentions on Helena, he maliciously taunts Helena and Clive. After Clive's brother dies, Clive becomes a duke and a member of the House of Lords and nearly marries American heiress Cornelia Kirby so he can keep up the family estate. Harwich dies without leaving Helena anything, but after Cornelia's Chicago sweetheart Howard McClintock takes her back and Clive becomes the Ambassador to the U.S., he marries Helena.
- A man and his wife are engaged in a domestic quarrel and have come to blows, when a policeman interferes. The couple immediately turn upon the policeman and give him a terrific beating. When he is laid out completely, they take him by the arms and legs and throw him out the door. A thoroughly funny picture, well enacted.
- Clarence the Cop falls asleep on his beat, and two burglars rob a store under his very nose. The roundsman happens along and Clarence gets a hard call down.
- The scene is laid in front of a theatre where two bill-posters are at work. They get into a fight and the paste flies. The manager rushes out and attempts to stop the fracas, but only succeeds in getting himself full of paste.
- A Salvation Army girl is taking a collection from some workmen in front of a flour and feed store. Pleased with the contributions, she asks for a blessing from above. It comes unexpectedly in the shape of a shower of flour from a bag which breaks as it is being hoisted to the second floor.
- The scene is laid in front of a Baxter street clothing store. The proprietor has just succeeded in dragging a man into his place to sell him some clothing, when a tramp strolls along. The man comes out of the store highly indignant, and seizing a suit which hangs on a peg outside the store throws it at the tramp. The various articles immediately, in the most surprising manner, take their proper places on the tramp's body. The Jew rushes out and seeing the tramp wearing the clothing, calls a policeman, who arrests the tramp and marches him off.
- Scene -- In a grocery cellar. A large box of eggs is on the floor and a ham hangs on a line above. The groceryman enters with a boy who carries a candle. As the man sorts the eggs the boy carelessly burns the line on which the ham hangs. The ham falls, precipitating the groceryman into the box of eggs.
- A young girl is receiving her lover against the wishes of her father. They hear him coming, and the lover hides in the coal box. The coal man comes in and empties a bag of coal upon the unfortunate young man. Hearing another suspicious noise, the lover hides in the chimney. This time the father enters and starts a fire in the fire-place. The lover falls down from his warm perch, covered with soot.
- Hooligan is thrust into prison, but makes the most of his hardship. He is seen in his cell enjoying a full meal of prison hash.
- A young couple are seen swinging in a hammock, enjoying themselves thoroughly, when their tete-a-tete is interrupted by a small boy and girl who play a joke on the young couple by suddenly throwing a hoop over their heads. While the couple thus caught are struggling to escape, they tip over backward from the hammock, much to the delight of the little folks.
- A policeman goes out of his way to make love to the cook in the absence of her steady. The latter returns in time to catch the policeman trespassing, and a fight ensues in which the policeman gets decidedly the worst of it.
- An extremely ludicrous practical joke played on Hooligan by two small boys. Hooligan is asleep when the boys fasten the skates to his feet. Hooligan jumps up and finds, to his dismay, that he has no control on his feet. The fat policeman comes in and Hooligan runs into him full tilt, knocking him over. Hooligan is, of course, arrested and carried off to jail.
- The feed store boy is fastening bags of flour to a rope for the purpose of having them hauled to the second floor. Clarence the Cop comes along and reprimands the boy for obstructing the sidewalk. At the same time another workman, with some bags on skids, enters and trips up the policeman unintentionally. The policeman threatens to arrest the two, but the boy fastens the rope to the policeman's belt and he is hauled up and pelted with flour.
- Hooligan crawls through a window into a room where two ladies have set a dainty table for an afternoon luncheon. Hooligan proceeds to make himself at home and sits down at the table. As he is devouring the dainties, the ladies return. One of them, perceiving how Hooligan had effected his entrance, closes the window, while the other calls the police. Hooligan dodges about and finally jumps head first through the window, smashing the glass as he does so. The scene then changes to the exterior of the house, where Hooligan is discovered as he comes through the window, landing in the arms of the fat policeman, who promptly arrests him. An excellent comedy scene.
- Again the stunning girl who posed for 2453 [LUCKY KITTEN] and 2454 [THE ROSE]. Here she is seen enjoying to the utmost the contents of a box of candy. Very winsome and very attractive. A splendid picture.