Author Archive: Retro

Overly suspicious of his wife, Robinet follows her into an apartment building, where he proceeds, floor by floor, bursting into rooms, looking for her. In these rooms he finds a dentist hell bent to pull teeth, a boxing match he gets mixed into, an aggressive bunch of masseurs and lastly, a sculptor

Complications arise when Henry, in love with the new music teacher, joins the band. He accidentally gets a Stradivarius that belongs to another man.

Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss’s son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

Her mother-in-law strenuously objects to her extravagance, and so wifey has to resort to subtle means to get a set of furs that strikes her fancy. She gets the furs all right, but in scheming to get them home, plays her game right into mamma-in-law’s hand. To tell more of the story would spoil the surprises pulled off in the comedy.

Musty Suffer is a bicycle messenger in this episode of the series. He takes his work very seriously, when he can be woken, and breaks into houses to deliver the goods