Author Archive: Retro

Ben falls in love with Dora Darling, the star in a motion picture. He “finds” some money and starts for the studios. He is followed by the crooks, whose money he has appropriated. He is put to work in the studio as assistant property man, after giving them some of his money. Ben cannot make any progress with Dora because she and Demon Desmonde are already in love with each other. After many funny situations Ben is blown up by the crooks, but manages to escape alive; the crooks are arrested.

Musty needs a job, so when Della Connor needs a maid, a butler and a gardener, Musty is hired three times.

Musty Suffer ventures into the badlands of suburban New Jersey, where he captures a wild pantomime horse and trains him. Next he wishes to be a cab man, so his fairy godfather appears and creates a coach and uniform for Musty. After that, things get silly.

Charlie dreams he is in the stone age. There King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king’s favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting trip the king is pushed over a cliff. Charlie proclaims himself king, but Ku-Ku discovers the real king alive. They return to find Charlie and Sum- Babee together.

Musty Suffer is taking a nap in the middle of the road. A stranger loads him into a wheelbarrow, which breaks and sends him into a dream where he falls into the hands of Doctors Hickory and Nutt: specialists in imagination, who proceed to feed him meals which vanish, have him go to bed and wake him up a minute later, telling him he has slept twelve hours and taking him on sleigh rides on a block of ice.

Just as the local movie theater is about to begin showing a picture, the star of the film arrives and comes to see the movie himself. On screen, the star must rescue his girl from danger. In the theater, the star finds that not all of the audience admires his acting as much as he does.

Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for “Sleep”, “Eat”, “Dope” and “Drink”. In fact he’s used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with “Leaping Fishes”, and the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the “fish blower” girl. Will Coke be able to free the girl ?

Complications arise when Henry Aldrich runs for Centerville High School Student Body President.