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Everything is arranged by Dick and his college chums to have their sweethearts from the city, with their chaperone, visit them to spend the day. At the eleventh hour the boys receive a telephone message from the girls informing them that their chaperone has disappointed them, and they will not be able to come. The boys are disconsolate. While they are deploring the matter, their tailor, the ninth part of a man, enters. Struck with a sudden idea, they seize him and compel him to impersonate Dick's godmother.

Opens on a closeup of a baboon "playing" a violin, then cuts to a medium shot of the same. The baboon wears a white short-sleeved shirt with a loose bow tie and tweed pants. Cuts to a closeup of the baboon in a circular mask or iris effect, without the violin but with a collar around his neck and a striped kitten that he places on his shoulder. Another iris effect opens to a long shot of a stage with a painted backdrop of a river. Standing at stage left is a woman in a spangled, sleeveless dress to the knee and high laced boots, holding the leash of a dark donkey. (Library of Congress)

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

A woman undresses, takes a bath, gets a massage, and relaxes.

The Glenroy Brothers perform a portion of their vaudeville act, "The Comic View of Boxing: The Tramp & the Athlete".

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After performing many unique tricks they disappear into space, and are replaced by a group of knives and forks, pans, kettles and spoons. (Moving Picture World)

"Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" is a bare all Avant-garde Anthology homage to silent stag films.

In Love with the Bearded Woman

A vaudeville song catches on and becomes so popular that everybody knows it. At first, those who hear it can't help but sing and dance to it. People have their limits, however, and reception to the tune begins to cool.

Cretinetti sidesteps his creditors using several amazing tricks.

A photographer welcomes a theather actress into his studio for a glamor shoot.

Instead of going to work, a man gets drunk, harasses women and torments his wife. The gimmick of this short comedic drama is that all characters are filmed from the waist down.

Will Evans, the Musical Eccentric

Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.

The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.

A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.

The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business rival to save the company from a stock market struggle. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

An insoluble quest.

A short skit in which vaudeville duo Foottit and Chocolat reenact the Wilhelm Tell routine.