Author Archive: Retro

Blase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the ‘wild west ‘ by his father.

Young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.

An inventor and his accomplice plan to rob a ship carrying gold bullion by using a submarine. A waiter overhears their plans, buys himself an admiral’s uniform, tricks his way into command of the sub and plots to take the ship himself.

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his ‘title.’

While at an amusement park, two men try to win the heart of a young lady. They compete with each other while attempting to find her runaway dog, and they race to ask her mother’s permission to take her up in a hot air balloon.