Snub and Marie have just gotten married, and guests are pressing gifts on them; everyone knows wedding gifts should be sent to the bride's home before the wedding. One of the boxes contains a baby and the usual note about taking care of Egbert; babies should arrive nine months after the wedding. These people know nothing. Marie, however, looks pleased; at least her child won't grow up to look like Snub.
Snub and Marie honeymoon in the traditional fashion, by smashing dishes to amuse the baby and Snub playing poker with a troupe of acrobats. While these hoary rituals are observed, all the furniture and the baby disappear, and the donating mother wants her baby back, so it's off on the chase in this very funny short.
Snub Pollard's shorts for Roach tended to be more of the white-face-clown variety than the studio's more believable characters, but the star and staff knew how to build gags and enough plot to get from one to the next;Marie Mosquini made a fine foil for him, since the young lady never seemed to notice that anything odd was happening. Eventually she retired from the screen to marry Lee DeForest and I'm sure that was odd enough for anyone.
Snub and Marie honeymoon in the traditional fashion, by smashing dishes to amuse the baby and Snub playing poker with a troupe of acrobats. While these hoary rituals are observed, all the furniture and the baby disappear, and the donating mother wants her baby back, so it's off on the chase in this very funny short.
Snub Pollard's shorts for Roach tended to be more of the white-face-clown variety than the studio's more believable characters, but the star and staff knew how to build gags and enough plot to get from one to the next;Marie Mosquini made a fine foil for him, since the young lady never seemed to notice that anything odd was happening. Eventually she retired from the screen to marry Lee DeForest and I'm sure that was odd enough for anyone.
