Production
Born Hampton Price Ruth on 7 September 1881 near Christiana, Delaware.
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Betty’s parents are eager to achieve financial security and believe she is their ticket to wealth. They are easily deceived by a villain who poses as a rich man by wearing expensive, hired clothes. Despite her parents' pressure to marry the "wealthy" imposter, Betty is in love with Jack, a young man who once saved her life. Jack is currently engaged to a society girl he does not love. Through a series of fast-paced gags and fortunate circumstances, the two lovers manage to outmaneuver the villain and Betty's parents, eventually realizing their ambition to marry one another.
A bumbling grocery-store employee must deal with such job-related problems as a conniving boss, unruly customers, a baby alligator and an escaped lunatic, all of which culminates in a wild melee involving hurled cakes, pies, buckets of jam and bags of flour.
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.