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- Our heroine is obsessed with the idea that she can and must sing. Living on a farm she has lots of open space in which to exercise her voice, but is compelled to admit that not even the cows and chickens will listen to her. During an opportunity to sing in the choir, she awakens every living thing, among others a number of peacefully-sleeping congregants. From the city comes a smooth-talking man who promises her the world if she will only be his. They go to the big city where, at a trial given to her in a cabaret, she nearly causes a riot. Of course, everything ends happily. Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures, Third Edition.
- This story tells about "The Swede" and The Tad. "The Swede" sweeps the streets and The Tad drives a dump cart. While talking one day the fire department runs past and they envy the fireman. They stop the political boss and ask him to set them jobs with the fire department. He tells them to stick to their jobs. During the noon-hour they sit in the rear of the dump cart and finish the contents of their lunch pails. As they sit back to enjoy a smoke, their imaginations show them as fire chiefs surrounded by husky firemen. A political friend dashes up and informs them he has started an independent fire league and wants them to take charge of it. They are delighted, and he takes them to the new fire house. They are introduced to the firemen and at once take charge. They put the firemen to work and keep everything humming. The chief orders a fire drill after which all grab the pole and slide up to their dormitory. There the firemen undress by order. The helmets all come off at one count and are thrown across on their respective pegs on another. The shoes follow and are thrown into a corner where they arrange themselves in a row. The firemen jump backward into bed and are automatically covered up. The chief and his assistant retire to their own bedrooms where they undress, and hang their clothes on a rack. In the night the fire-gong awakes the firemen, who turn to a row of push buttons. They push No. 1, and the bed clothes fly off; No. 2 and the shoes fly out of the corner on to their feet. No. 3 tips the beds and lands the firemen on the floor. On pushing No. 4 their helmets fly off the pegs and land on their heads. No. 5 lines them all up at attention. The chiefs start for the door. As they pass the clothes rack they appear on the other side fully clothed. They dash into the dormitory and all slide down the pole. The horses are quickly harnessed and all start for the fire, the chief in a dinky roadster, the others on the fire engine, while the hose cart, pulled by a dried up little fireman, speeds up and passes the engine, runs up behind the chief's auto and jumps over it. At the fire they have many difficulties and finally seeing a girl at the fourth story window with the flames shooting out around her, they lasso her and pull her to the ground. She "bawls them out" and the boys decide that their methods of rescuing are wrong. Another girl appears at an upper window. The chief orders his men to play the hose just under the window. He jumps into the stream and slides up to the window, gets the girl and prepares to slide down again when the hose breaks. With his arms around the girl, and struggling against the flames he awakes to find himself seated in the dump cart with his arms around the street sweeper. He relates his dream and finishes by saying "I don't want to be a fireman," and they start for their afternoon's work.
- In Mexico, the hero has to give an acceptable exhibition of the toreador's skill to win the hand of the fair maid.
- Bridget, a cook, is in love with Clarence, the cop, whose affections are centered elsewhere although he occasionally makes love to Bridget for the sake of the pies and doughnuts which are always forthcoming at such times. One day as he is leaving the back door after a pie-feast, he accidentally drops a note out of his helmet which Bridget finds after he is gone and proceeds to read. The note pertains to an appointment for that afternoon and is signed, "your own sweetheart. Ellen". Bridget realizes that she is being "worked for a good thing" and resolves to go to the meeting place and spy upon her supposed lover. She conceals herself behind a signboard and watches as Clarence and Ellen meet in front of it. Ellen begs Clarence to take her to the carnival that night and although he is supposed to be on duty, he plans to dress in civilian's clothes, disguise himself with a moustache and meet her at the carnival at eight o'clock. Bridget hears all this and, being armed only with a frying-pan, she goes home to prepare a fitting revenge for that evening. The cop hides a suit of clothes and a big moustache under a bridge so that he can get them later. Moon Faced Mike, a crook finds the clothes, puts them on and throws his own ragged ones into the river. The crook wears a big black moustache and, attired in the Cop's clothes, he looks exactly as the Cop intended to look. The sergeant of Clarence's precinct steps under the bridge to light his pipe and stumbling on his way out he drops his revolver unnoticed to the ground. Shortly before eight, Bridget, armed with a huge revolver, starts for the Carnival grounds. Ellen is already there awaiting her lover and Clarence goes to the bridge. He finds his clothes gone and in looking for them he discovers the sergeant's revolver. He recognizes it and decides that the sergeant must have over heard his plan. So in fear of losing his job, he hurries back to his beat. Ellen is waiting in the Carnival grounds as the Crook drifts in, in search of pockets to pick. Ellen sees him, and mistaking him for the Cop in his disguise rushes up and throws her arms around his neck. The Crook is surprised but wholly pleases until Bridget rushes up and opens fire with her "Gatling". Not knowing what else to do, the Crook runs with Bridget close behind. A wild chase through the Carnival grounds ensues with some hair-raising stunts on a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel, after which the Crook leaves the grounds and seeks safety elsewhere, with Bridget, blazing away, just one jump behind. They run through a Chinese laundry leaving it in ruins and then through a saloon which they wreck completely. They climb a high chimney, leap from the top of that, several hundred feet to the top of a wireless station tower and run out on the "wireless" wires. The operator starts to send a message and Bridget and the Crook are shocked off the wires and fall to the roof of an office building. They chase around the roofs and jump to the group where Bridget pre-empts an automobile and gives chase in that. The poor Crook dives into the side window of a brick house. Bridget drives the car right through the brick wall and chases him throughout the house, smashing the furniture on the way and throwing inmates into hysterics, and tearing through the brick wall at the other end of the house, she chases the Crook on down the street. The police station looms up ahead and the poor Crook takes refuge there, running up a long flight of steps and into the judge's room. Bridget, in the auto, follows right up the stairs and, bursting into the run, confronts her supposed lover. He appeals to the police to save him. They recognize him as Moon Faced Mike, wanted for burglary and look him up. Clarence enters in uniform and Bridget seeing her mistake, throws her arms about his neck. "All's well that.... "etc. The foregoing story "Bridget's Blunder" was written and worked out by the following persons all citizens of United States of America, and all in the employ of the United States Picture Corporation. Rex A. Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A, Richmond, William Fables, James M. Harris, and Horace G. Flimpton.
- Out of a job again, Susie Speed sits in her room and scans the paper while consuming coffee and rolls. She reads an account of movie queen Sarah Slickford, whose salary is $400,000 a month, and contrasts it with her last job at $4 a week. Finding an ad "comedian wanted," she decides to go in for the movies and after a wild ride on a streetcar she reaches the studio. The director gives her a try-out, and she displays her ability by running up and down a tree, pulling a flat tire off an auto, blowing it up with her mouth, and slamming it back on again. She then jumps fences with the car, climbs poles and runs on telephone wires. She then races another car, but half way around the course her machine stalls and her opponent gets the lead. Not to be defeated, she fastens a chain to her car and tows it down the street. She gains on the other car and finally whips her flivver around on the chain and wins the race. The director now tells her he will try her out in a real scene. In the studio a set represents a café. The director explains that several roughnecks are to try to kidnap her and she is to resist. She puts up a terrific fight, beats up the gang, and smashes everything. She even knocks down an adjoining set where a dramatic company is working. The director now yells to the gang to stop her. They bear down on Sue, who retreats to a brick wall with an archway. As the gang approaches. Sue tears a brick out of the arch and throws it with such good effect that she repeats the trick. Soon she is tearing down bricks by the armful and bombarding the gang. At last the arch collapses and Sue is buried under the bricks. She is rescued by the director, who tells her the job is hers. She is delighted and has visions of a $10,000 salary, but when the director says $9 a week, she hits herself on the head with a brick and passes away.
- Two hitchhikers that look alike hatch a plan to make a few quick bucks.
- Owata Hobo is a poor friendless tramp on the road to nowhere. In his travels he comes upon poor little orphaned Louise crying as if her heart would break. She explains that she is on her way to a farm and that she has been robbed by three bandits. Owata Hobo captures the bandits and gives Louise back her valuables. He carries her bags to the farm where she gives the farmer a letter of introduction and is immediately hired. Owata Hobo is so smitten that he works for nothing at the farm. The farmer who is a tyrant beats and mistreats poor Louise. He sends her to fetch to fetch a pail of water. While getting the water she discovers an artist painting a landscape. He asks her to pose for him which she does. In the meantime, Hobo has his troubles with the scarecrow and the farmer. Charlie brings a bouquet of flowers to Louise while she is posing. The artist takes the flowers from him, gives him 50c and tells him to beat it. The farmer discovers Louise posing and drags her back to the farmhouse. He starts to beat her when Hobo comes on the scene. He jumps on the farmer and knocks him out, grabs Louise, puts her on a buck-board and they race away. The artist has witnessed their escape, and follows in a racing car. The buck-board overturns and they are both pretty badly hurt. The artist takes the girl and rides away with her. Charlie gets up, shakes the dirt off himself and travels along his lonely way to nowhere.
- Chemist Donald Wallace is an atheist who believes science is the only God. He is loved by his cousin, Truth Eldridge, but is too self centered and too attentive to his radium experiments to notice her affection. Instead, he falls for Paula Roberts. When they come upon a lost little girl named Peggy, Wallace decides to take care of her until he finds her parents, but despite being a kind man, he insists to the girl that there is no God. James Dale, Wallace's assistant and Truth Eldridge's secret admirer, accidentally kills her when he tries to poison Wallace. Shortly after her death, Truth returns in spirit form to convince Wallace that God exists after all.
- The Duke of Ozsklopvitch is on his way to the country place of the Climbers to attend a week-end party. His roadster turns turtle and the Duke is knocked unconscious. One of the tires from the roadster rolls through the woods, where it lands around the necks of Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, hobos, who are taking a snooze under the trees. They rouse up, and following the path of the tire, come upon a view of the wrecked auto. Two men passing in a touring car rush the Duke to a hospital. The hobos find the Duke's trunk and dress themselves up in frock coats, high hats. etc. They discover in one of the pockets the Duke's invitation to the Climbers' week-end. A passing motorist offers them a lift, and lands them in front of the Climbers' estate. Mrs. Climber and her guests are seated on the veranda awaiting the arrival of the guest of honor. Jim being in front, Mrs. Climber assumes that he is the Duke and greets him. Jim introduces Bill as his valet, and Bill and the butler take the trunk into the house while Jim makes a triumphal entry. Attired in incongruous outing attire, the boys finally come down to the veranda. Bill picks out a pretty girl and proceeds to make love to her. When Jim sees this, he leaves the other guests, runs Bill out and takes his place on the bench. Bill sets a lawn sprinkler under the bench and turns on the water, breaking up the tete-a-tete. Jim goes in to change his clothes while Bill decides to take a drive. He finds a horse and tries to harness it. The horse objects and kicks Bill up into the air. Jim, coming out of the house in dry clothes, sees Bill in the air, and running with a wheelbarrow, catches him just as he lands. Jim then finds another pretty girl and takes her for a walk by the fountain. Bill finds a fat girl in a swing and gallantly offers to swing her. In so doing his hat falls off, and in stooping to pick it up the fat girl hits him as she swings back and knocks him across the lawn to where Jim stands at the edge of the fountain. The girl saves Jim from falling in, and he thanks her profusely, but as he stoops to pick up a handkerchief, she knocks him in and falls in herself. Both retire to the house for dry clothing, while Bill starts to fish in the fountain. Jim comes out in dry clothes again and Bill surprises him by hooking a fine bass. In swinging it out of the water he drops it into a bowl of punch that the butler is bringing out to the guests. Bill thinks he has caught a big fish, but as he holds it in his hand it shrinks down to a small minnow and Bill eats it whole. He and Jim see a milk maid crossing the lawn and stop her. They tell her she is too pretty to work and that they "will gather the milk for her." They take the milk stool and pail from her and start toward the pasture. Arriving there they set the pail under the cow and wait for the milk to flow. As nothing is forthcoming, they try to seat the cow on the milk stool so that she will be more comfortable. They are interrupted in this by a calf, and as they try to tie the calf up it runs away from them, dragging them across the pasture. They grab onto a tree and the calf, swinging around them in a circle binds them to the tree. They are rescued by the milkmaid and start back to the house. In crossing the lawn they are attracted by a gas-power lawnmower. Jim tries to run it and the mower runs away with him, mowing down trees and hedges, leaping over stables and stone walls, etc. Finally as the machine passes Bill, he grabs on to stop it, and he and Jim are dragged into the garage, where the mower plunges through a brick wall at the rear. The wall collapses upon them, and we leave them buried to the neck in bricks.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, two typical hoboes, awake in a hay-stack and are chased out of the field by a bull. They arrive at a lunch-wagon near the far terminal of streetcar line and sit on the steps, pining for a meal. The lone street-car of the "Lazy Line" reaches the terminal and the crew, leaving their caps on the car, run into the lunch-wagon for a bite before starting back. A crotchety travelling-man, in a hurry to catch a train, paces up and down beside the car, looking for the crew. The tramps hear him say to himself "I'd give five dollars to make that 4.30 train." They get an inspiration, sneak into the car, put on the caps of the motorman and conductor [unreadable] the traveler, saying "Give us the five, we'll get" [unreadable] and speed down the track. People on the [unreadable] car and the boys decide they might as well get [unreadable] fares they can. A girl with a dog, an old lady with a cat, a fat man, an Irishman with a goat, a woman with two mischievous children, a dude, a loving couple, several pretty girls and many others get on the car and furnish many different kinds of trouble for the crew. Unable to back up for a passenger, they pick up the car and turn it around. Another time as Bill is helping a lady off, Jim starts the car and leaves Bill far behind. Bill seizes an old fashioned high bicycle from a small boy and chases after the car The car crosses a bridge and Bill rides up the girders and across the top of the bridge. He jumps from the bridge to the trolly wire and rides on that until he hits the trolly wheel of the car. This throws him off and he falls through the roof of the car and goes on about his business of collecting fares. When the real car crew find that their car has been stolen, they telephone the car barns and several car men are sent out with another car to stop the thieves. The two cars meet at full speed. A bad wreck seems inevitable. The tramps, however, jump their car right over the other car and continue on down the track. A broken bridge looms up ahead but the tramps fail to see the danger sign and the car crashes through the bridge and into the river. As a finish, the two tramps float down the river on the top of the broken car, dividing their profits from the trip. The foregoing story, A TROUBLESOME TRIP, was written and worked out by the following persons, all citizens of the United States of American, and all in the employ of the United States Motion Picture Corporation [unreadable] Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A. Richmond, William [unreadable] Harris and Horace G. Plimpton, Jr.
- The competition between a rural jitney bus and a trolley car include lifting passengers onto cars with a derrick.
- Two effete noblemen get slightly mixed up when two knights of the road obtain their passports and clothes, impersonate them, and lay a series of mischief and crimes at the door of the imported innocents.
- Susie Speed loses her job n a lawyer's office and gets another one as waitress in a restaurant. Her slowness nearly drives the manager crazy. A chappie enters and sits at Sue's table without removing his high hat. After several attempts to remove it Sue places it on his chair and he sits on it. She then throws it through the service window, where it lands on a tray, and another waitress serves it to Herr Tonik, a scientist. He tries to eat it and on discovering his mistake, angrily leaves. Sue and Maggie start a fight. The manager throws Sue out. Sue sees a sign "Stenographer Wanted" at the "Chemical Research Laboratory" and applies for the Job. Herr Tonik engages her. As she dawdles over her typing he recognizes her as the girl from the restaurant and determines to speed her up. His experiments evolve a "speed powder" and he tries it out on a dog. The dog jumps out of a third story window, climbs a tree, sits in the branches and howls. Satisfied, Herr Tonik gives some to Sue in a box of candy. She speeds up, fairly burns the typewriter. Tonik dispatches Sue to the factory with a bag of the powder in his car. Falling to start the car by cranking, Sue gives it some of the powder, whereupon it goes so fast that it runs into a wooden Indian. Frightened, Sue gives the Indian some of the powder and he comes to life and threatens to take her. She escapes on a wooden horse which she brings to life in the same way. The factory manager refuses to believe the powder is as wonderful as Sue says. She throws a pinch of it into the street and the traffic begins to move like mad. She blows some toward the river and the boats go crazy. A ferry boat loops the loop and dives into its slip. The drawbridge opens and shuts in a flash as boats and trains dash by. This tickles the office boy. He wants to see real action and throws the bag out of the window. Sue escapes as the factory begins to rock and dashes out while the powder starts a cyclone which whirls across the city, tearing up trees and houses and destroying everything in its path. She reaches the laboratory just ahead of the cyclone and tells Herr Tonik. In the midst of this the office begins to whirl and Sue wakes up as Herr Tonik calls her down for sleeping on the job.