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- Punctual Pete prepares the "Shaved in Silence" shop for the day's business. He is as handy as a man with five thumbs. Gertie, almost a soubrette, looking for a job, decides that she is willing to try anything once. Seeing a sign in the barber shop window advertising for a lady barber she beats it home and brushes up on the tonsorial art. Hastening back to the shop, she passes herself off as an experienced lady barber and lands the job. With fifteen minutes' experience she is ready to meet all comers. Pat Rooney, a son of the Emerald Isle, decided to be "duded up." Gertie tackles him and gets the decision. Josh, the farmer, with a beard like a mattress, is the next victim. He also "gets his." A good slogan for this barber shop would be, "All hope abandon ye who enter here." The patrons generally make their exit much quicker than their entrance. Gertie, chancing to get a flash at the bank-roll of a "live one," grabs the roll and beats for a healthier territory.
- Tony, a little newsboy, witnesses the advent of a dainty Miss, who disturbs his otherwise carefree and happy-go-lucky existence. Falling asleep on his pile of newspapers, he dreams that the little Miss breaks down the barrier of wealth and gives him a hearty welcome. She invites him for a ride in her large touring car and his happiness is supreme. Driving to the seashore, they soon get into mischief. Tony, after plaguing one of the life-guards, becomes greatly aggravated when he sees that the saver of human lives has become his rival. He soon eliminates his massive rival, however, who seeks solace from another bathing nymph. Miss Ann Teak also hies herself to the "briny," and decides to go in for a swim. The two mischievous little imps cause Miss Ann Teak great embarrassment by taking her clothes and transferring them to another bath house. In the meantime, they re-enter the touring machine and are driven back to the little girl's home, where Tony is separated from her by the stern governess who drives him away. He is tormented by a gang of young rowdies, and in the excitement of his dream he awakes and realizes that the awakening has been a cruel one.
- Pete is a discontented hostler. Hostlers are always discontented but Pete is a little more so. In fact, he is so sick and tired of his job as the mule's chambermaid that he is fast becoming desperate. He gives Maud her morning "Massage" and is interrupted by his "steady," a queen of the avenue, and a movie fan. She "coaches" and "wheedles" him in the naturally gentle, persuasive way of her class, in this wise: "Aw, loosen up. Separate. Give yourself another frisk," etc. As Pete finds himself unable to supply his "best" with the wherewithal to attend a movie, his discouragement becomes despair. He sees a way out when a hostler to humans, namely a bootblack, asks him to take care of his stand for a while. A rush of business causes Pete to do unaccountable, ludicrous things, one of which is to put a fat lady's shoe into a box of flowers taken by a dandy to his best girl. When Pete discovers his awful mistake it is too late to remedy it. He he thinks he can get away with it. The lady's stocking is white so he decides to blacken it and so cover her foot and his terrible blunder. He gets tripped up by the foot of the law and has a hard time explaining between the wrath of the triple Venus and the expostulations of the slim dude. However, his dark cloud has a "silver" lining in the form of the bootblack's till, which lining he "borrows" to satisfy his charmer's desire for the movies. His tale of woe, accompanied by a symphony of clicking silver, finds in her a ready and even eager listener and their troubles slip gently from them as they head at last for the movies.
- Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to give them a start in the new world. The ordeal of Ellis Island over and the trip to Battery Park on board the municipal ferry boat completed, Tony and Angelica found themselves in a little park in the shadows of the downtown scrapers. They slowly made their way across the historic park to a bench. Two shabbily dressed young men watched them from a distance. One of the pair approached Tony and smilingly offered to guide him to a respectable boarding house. Tony, without a friend in America, was only too glad to turn for counsel to the first stranger who approached. The two gangsters guided Tony to a street which passes under the great Brooklyn Bridge. In a tunnel leading under the bridge and up again to where the street continued on its way north the first gangster beckoned Tony to come ahead with him to make arrangements for lodging in a house which he assured him was just a short distance away. Tony unsuspectingly followed. When the gangster had assured himself that no one was about, he quickly pulled a short length of lead pipe from a hip pocket and brought it down on Tony's head Without a sound, Tony sank to the pavement. Meanwhile, the second gangster took Angelica to Park Row, and there, in the crowd before a bulletin board, disappeared. For a time Angelica wandered about, not knowing which way to turn. A well-dressed gentleman, walking through City Hall Park plaza, noticed her apparent confusion and stopped her. The gentleman took Angelica to the Italian Immigration Home, where she was given a warm meal and lodging. He promised to call next day, after making inquiries for her husband. Meanwhile Tony lay unconscious near the street curb. Strangers passed him by, thinking he was helplessly intoxicated. Finally a patrolman poked him with the end of his club and bade him move on. Tony staggered to his feet. He had lost all remembrance of his past life, of his wife and of the assault upon him. With fate guiding his footsteps, he made his way to the waterfront. By chance he wandered into the waterfront alley, at the end of which was a wooden shack. Inside were a number of rough-looking characters, two of whom proved to be the gangsters who had assaulted him. For a moment the gangsters were tempted to shoot Tony down, but they soon saw that he was harmless, that all memory had left him and that he was, in their own words, "foolish in the head." For several weeks, Tony acted as caretaker and cook in the shack. Meanwhile, his wife, Angelica, was found to have a wonderful voice. The choir in the immigrant home welcomed her, and the kind gentleman who had befriended her, engaged a vocal teacher to cultivate her voice. Not long after the gangsters whom Tony served, kidnapped Mr. Henderson's child and turned the latter over to Tony to safeguard. Wandering one day with his little charge in the residential section of the city, Tony entered the gates of a private home to the lawns where a garden party was in progress. And then, as Tony wandered through the garden, hand in hand with the little child, Angelica's benefactor suddenly clasped the little girl to his heart. He was about to ask Tony where he had found his kidnapped child when Tony spied his wife, in a splendid gown, singing to the assembled guests. Tony could not wait until she had finished the song, but broke in on the astonished gathering and clasped his wife in his arms.
- A young man promises his girl that he will get Spitball Sadie, a renowned female pitcher, for her all-girl baseball team. When he is unable to get Sadie to come, he dresses up as her and takes her place on the team.
- Tanglefoot Tom was born under an unlucky star. He gets into trouble with his landlady and a cop, but covers them both with flypaper and succeeds in making his escape. He takes refuge in a flour barrel in the bakery of his father-in-law-to-be and is passed unnoticed. Dotty Dough, the sweetheart, thinks Tom is the ideal of her dreams as handed down by her favorite authors, but goes out with Samson Strong, the village "roughneck," just the same. Tom succeeds in throwing them both in the water as they cross a rather shaky bridge on their travels, and rescues the fair one from Mr. Strong's clutches. He and Dotty then stroll to the river-front and are standing on a wharf, Tom telling what a hero he is, when the cry "woman overboard" is raised. Tanglefoot demurs at going after her, but Samson, who has followed, throws him into the deep. He has to be fished out with the aid of bystanders, however. One of the helpers is a peddler who has left his fruit cart alone, and just as Tanglefoot rescues the "woman," who proves to be the leg of a department store dummy, and is safely on the dock once more, the cart starts down the slope and again throws him into the deep, and Dotty is left for Samson.
- Maisie Orpe is a dispenser of victuals in a second rate "beanery," and is the light of the lives of several of the town "swells. But Luke de Fluke, an all-round gay lad, and Shorty Magee, the local tough nut, seem to lead the field in Maisie's blue orbs. This finally causes strained diplomatic relations between the pair, and a duel to the death is arranged. Each contestant writes to the object of his attentions that if she wants to see his rival she must be on hand at dawn the next day. Then both choose the same second. The dawn of the next day sees the two rivals at the appointed place with the one second to attend to both. The duel starts as per schedule, but while they are fighting their hardest they look up and see Maisie going off with the second. This, of course, causes a cessation of hostilities and both look longingly in the direction of the loving couple. Then Luke's sword catches in the ground and he has to resort to his feet to gain the decision. This gives Shorty the chance he has been looking for and he hurls a bomb at his adversary and blows him up. Luke comes down after a while, however, and they, too, call off the contest through mutual sympathy over the loss of Maisie, who has gone with the second. But later on Shorty lands the "bird," and the way he does it and the anguish of Luke are a fitting climax to this comedy.
- Luke has had a hard time. Try as he may, he cannot land a job. But there is one more place in the building where he might get something to do and he goes there. The owner of the place hires him, on the spot, for there's a reason. He has a big date with Florrie for that afternoon and he has just received a letter from his college chum asking that he meet his young daughter at the station at noon, just in time to spoil his party. He passes the buck to Luke and orders him to get on the job. The sole way Luke has of identifying the child is by means of "W.M." on her suitcase. He goes to the station, but the only person with such initials on her bag is a "dream." He reconnoiters around for a bit, but finally braces up and asks if she is the girl. She is, and Luke thinks of the time he can have on the expense money which has been given him. They have soda water, a wild boat ride, and do all the amusements in the vicinity before they get back to the office. Meanwhile, the employer has been spending money hand over fist and ends up by "falling" for an expensive hat which Florrie admires. Then he returns to his office and makes out his expense account and finds, when Luke returns, that the latter's account is much smaller and that he had had the better looking lady.
- Farm youth goes to college, pursues the pretty co-eds and joins a fraternity.
- Luke, working in a shoe store, has diffuculty keeping his mind on business whenever a pretty girl is on the scene.
- Lonesome Luke and his accessory, Moke Morpheus, are discovered in bellhop uniform, blissfully dozing on a bench in the lobby of the Bughouse Hotel. Comes a guest, and the desk clerk rings a bellhop. But, in the words of Aristotle, or Ted or someone, "you can ring and you can ring, but the house is boarded up." The clink of a few pieces of silver seems to touch some dormant chord in the boys' subconscious minds, and they immediately get on the job. Moke, after seeing the guest to his room, tries, of course, to hide the fact that a tip would be in order, and because of his modesty flies quickly from the room with the kindly aid of the roomer's leather encased pedal extremities. Luke escorts a girl guest to her room, and is starting quite a flirtation with her, when Moke, whose motto is "pass nothing up" approaches them and tells Luke that there is a tall tip awaiting him in the new guest's room. Luke goes, and the guest learns how foolish and wasteful it is to break a perfectly good water pitcher on a bellhop's head. Luke then staggers back to Moke, and sends him with neatness and dispatch through a door and into the lap of a retiring guest. With the arrival of a roughneck bouncer and his pretty wife, a fascinating free-for-all is started, in which Luke, with a fire hose, gallantly stands off the concerted attack of the whole household.
- Sourball Joe gets the "can" for sassing the tenants, and Easy Otis supplants him. But the latter does not know an awful lot of the art of "janitoring" and soon gets into many and various jams with the people upstairs. Multifarious are the tasks assigned to him and he knows naught of any of them. Then, to cap the climax, the janitor who received his passports comes back to start something. He figures that to change the gas and water pipes would be a good stunt and he does it. Upstairs, a fair dame wants her gas stove fixed, but when she turns it on, out come many streams of water. A love-sick lad across the hall contemplates suicide by gas, but he too, gets water instead. And so it goes until the whole place is in an uproar. Then they start for Otis, but he believes discretion is the better part of valor and takes it on the run.
- Luke lives the life of a millionaire until it is discovered that a mistake has been made and his inheritance belongs to someone else.
- Lucas and Larkin, his running mate, after looking for a job for some time, finally land one in a photographer's shop and immediately start to take possession of the place. They rule supreme in their own inimitable way until a bespectacled college graduate arrives to have his diploma, and incidentally himself, photographed. He looks rather harmless with his bone-rimmed goggles, but when Lucas and Larkin attempt to take his feet off the table where he has placed them for safekeeping, he shows them a few new ones in the manly art of self-defense. Then Harry Hardguy makes his appearance. He looks more dangerous than the college boy, and makes outlaw the rule that looks are deceiving. He literally cleans out the place, and the last we see of Lucas and Larkin is when they are both making a bee-line for the street and safety.
- Luke lifts a wallet from a golfer and thereby gains entry to a golf course. Mayhem ensues.
- This offering tells the tale of one, Oscar Weeban, a fellow deeply in love with a certain Maisie. He has promised to take her to the Garbage Gentlemen's Rally, that annual society event of the small town in which it is their fortune to reside, and she sends him a note to this effect. He is a rank outsider, but manages to inject himself into the spirit of the affair and enters into the sport of the occasion with a vim. It is at this event that the ashes throwing contest is held every year, and garbage men from all sections, trained to the minute, flock to the party to compete. The contest is at its height and one of the experts is trying for a world's record when Oscar crosses the range. Of course, he and Maisie manage to get in the way of the winning throw and spoil the record which is about to be made. But what cares he? Despite the boob he made of himself at this elite affair, Maisie falls for him hard, after he has written some poetry for her, and the picture winds up with Oscar in the charming role of bridegroom.
- In pursuit of a pretty miss,Luke gets admitted to a hospital.
- Luke, a street tramp, is taken to a dance contest by a pretty millionairess, but when he is ejected, he returns with a gun and wreaks havoc.
- If you put up at a hotel where the bus driver dropped the grips on your head and stopped the horses several times between the depot and the hotel while he went in for a "smile," wouldn't it make you sore? If, while registering, he stuck you in the ribs with a pen, escorted you into your rooms with a kick and paid not the slightest heed to your ringing or requests, wouldn't it exasperate you? If he started flirting with your wife, what would you do? If he aroused the feelings of another boarder who chased him through the halls with a gun, would you like the noise? And besides being bus driver and proprietor and hotel clerk, if he also tried to be the cook, what kind of "eats" do you think you would get? How long would you stay at a hotel such as that? Not very long. That is the plot of the MinA comedy of September 30th and is the reason why the boarders left.
- Luke attempts to sell books to a businessman and his wife.
- As a baggage handler at a terminal, Luke is led on a merry chase by a billy goat.
- Luke, stranded on a desert island, becomes chief of the natives. When he pursues the affections of a pretty white girl, he runs afoul of her sweetheart and has to swim back home.
- Working as a pastry chef, Luke steals a watch from a customer, which results in a wild police chase throughout the store.
- Luke's courting of Maizie Nut is interrupted by a villain.
- Blacksmith Luke and his boss pursue their rival who has taken away the girl. Antics in a mud puddle follow.
- Luke runs a bunco booking agency.
- Luke opens a circus, but when local officials discover that his side-show attractions are fakes, trouble ensues.
- Luke dreams that he has a double. One 'Luke' gets in all kinds of trouble, while the other pays the consequences.
- Luke is a movie actor who falls asleep and dreams that he and his fellow actors are school children again.
- Luke is trapped and bound by a group of terrorists.
- Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
- Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
- Luke and friends are crowded into his two-seater, out for a ride in the country. Hayhem ensues when his party of fifteen encounters some 'fashionable folk.'
- Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.
- Hi-jinx at a fire in a Chinese laundry.
- Out west, Luke changes clothes with an outlaw and proceeds into town. Of course, he is mistaken for the wanted man and a chase ensues.
- Luke happens into a spiritualist's shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.
- A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
- Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
- Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
- Luke and Snub become deep-dyed race track villains and try to brace up "Little Eva," a sagging specimen of horse flesh whose future is all behind her.
- Luke is the guardian of the taximeter. Seated on his benzine buggy's throne he "rips her into high" and describes some geometrical figures not recognized by Newton in his laws of gravitation.
- Luke begins his preparedness campaign with musical notes deliberately unfriendly, and as "Colonel Earache," acoustic rebel, he will raise a continual bombardment of laughs.