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COMEDY.
U. D. 3215. FRENCH RECRUIT. Price, $80.04.
Approximate Length, 667 feet.
This comedy is one of exceptional merit and will prove a veritable side splitter.
The subject illustrates the adventures of an army recruit from his enrollment to the time of incarceration. Order of Pictures:
Recruits appear at barracks.
Assigned to quarters.
Quartermaster's office.
Return to quarters.
Bugle call. During absence the props on cot of our subject are "fixed," and when he returns and takes a seat on foot end the bed collapses and mattress turns over. A "rough and tumble" ensues, from which our hero extricates himself with difficulty.
At drill our hero is the cause of considerable reprimand and censure and forms very ludicrous sights in his endeavors to follow instructions.
Sent on an errand he drops into a man-hole and, after vain efforts to extricate himself, he takes a seat under a coal hole. Disturbed by a number of rodents. This, followed by a lot of water washed through the opening, which deluges the recruit thoroughly, fills him with fear and he is quivering as ne contemplates his end.
Rescue by street cleaner.
Return to barracks.
Reprimanded by officer and given in charge of guard, who escort him to the jail.
U. D. 3199. HIS FIRST SHOOTING PARTY. Price, #54.48.
Approximate Length, 454 feet.
Comic and burlesque sporting incidents, enacted amid most picturesque scenery.
A Frenchman, thirsting for excitement, decides upon a day's shooting, and his experiences are comically depicted in this mirthprovoking series.
Determined to do the thing thoroughly, he attires himself regardless of cost in garments suitable to the occasion, and his accouterments and appointments are also in strict keeping. A worthless hound is palmed upon him by a dealer as a perfect sporting dog. and thus equipped, after loving adieux exchanged with his sympathetic partner, he ventures forth in search of game.
His theatrical methods and numerous accidents, his comical mistakes in hitting the wrong object, his efforts to induce the dog to stalk or retrieve — or do anything but hamper its owner — are most ludicrous.
The climax is reached when, after triumphantly producing the contents of a full bag (purchased from a dealer), his wife discovers the tickets denoting the price attached to the hares he had brought home as evidence of his skill as a sportsman. Wifely chastisement of a vigorous character follows the detection, and the curtain falls upon the much reduced sportsman meekly accepting deserved punishment.
Order of Pictures:
The sportsman tries for game. Dog refuses to flush; fawns, wife, and ventures forth, fully armed and equipped.
He inspects the stock of a dog fancier, and purchases an animal "of the right sort."
Led by a string, the dog early causes trouble to his new owner.
The sportsman, fortified by a good breakfast, bids adieu to his instead, upon its new master.
Game is sighted and shot — an old hen!
Owner of the hen — an old woman — belabors the sportsman, who doubly pays for his sport.
The sportsman stalks game of another sort. Feathers project over the top of a stone wall. Feathers mean birds. He fires, and
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