When a peddler offers to sell Margie Reiger a coat for $100, husband Ben Turpin is so irate he throws the peddler and the coat out the door. Miss Reiger is inconsolable, so Ben buys her a stylish $7 coat, and tucks a $100 bill in a pocket. But it seems that every other woman has bought the coat, so Miss Reiger throws the coat out the window, and the money with it.
It's a fairly good slapstick comedy, with Ben taking a lot of falls. The observant viewer will notice that there are several Black characters, all of whom seem to be White people in blackface. Also, one of the women is a man in drag. That was pretty standard for 1915, but not so today.
It's a fairly good slapstick comedy, with Ben taking a lot of falls. The observant viewer will notice that there are several Black characters, all of whom seem to be White people in blackface. Also, one of the women is a man in drag. That was pretty standard for 1915, but not so today.
