Author Archive: Retro

Leon’s boss and his wife aren’t getting along together, so Leon asks them to visit his home and observe how he and Mrs. Errol manage to keep the old knot tied. Before the couple arrives, Leon manages to get into a situation with a pretty, blonde neighbor, which leaves him having to introduce her as his wife when they do arrive. Neither Leon’s wife, when she comes home, nor the neighbor’s husband are too pleased with this arrangement.

Charlie’s wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two men meet at a restaurant and each takes the other’s coat by mistake. Charlie’s wife thinks he has a lover; Ambrose’s believes he has an illegitimate child.

Musty Suffer steals a bicycle and is transformed into a bicycle messenger. He is run over by trucks, assaulted by babies with beards and suffers, as indeed he must, for the audience’s amusement.

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master’s assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.

Errol, the head of a hosiery firm, refuses to allow his son to marry a night club entertainer.

Henry Aldrich becomes the most sought after guy in town when he wins a date with a movie star.

Mr. Harding, a fussy old fellow, has a daughter; he also has a private secretary, an attractive young fellow, who falls in love with the daughter and gets his “walking papers.” Later he employs a female secretary, who proves to be an old schoolmate of his daughter. She drives the old gentleman to desperation by using perfumery extravagantly on herself and everything else about his office; so he decides to get a secretary over sixty years of age. In the meantime, Ralph, the first secretary, disguises himself at Betty’s suggestion as an old man and makes an application with the rest of the would-be secretaries. The apparent feeble and antique secretary at once starts to work, but his employer has no sooner turned his back when the ancient secretary becomes very spry and active in his attentions to Betty, and proves very strenuous in his embraces and kisses. Mr. Harding is apprehended of Ralph’s identity, [...]

This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett’s company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It’s a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or flirting inappropriately with their nannies. Others take in a movie matinee, where the on-screen action is outpaced by the outrageous behavior of certain theater patrons. Marital strife between a restauranteur and his hoity wife contribute further to one chaotic afternoon whose ever-increasingly craziness culminates in much farcical gunplay, mistaken identity and general property damage.