Catalogue of Pathépictures Selected for Educational, Religious and Social Groups (1925)

44 P ATHEPICTURES Mack Sennett Comedies STARRING RALPH GRAVES EAST OF THE WATER PLUG (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Jim Bailey is a clerk in his Uncle's Drug Store. The townspeople are going to give a play and Jim has visions of himself as the dashing young hero, but when the announcements of the cast come out he is set for the villain and his rival in love is the hero. In the midst of the play the rival decides to abscond with the proceeds of the play, but Jim rescues the money and wins the girl. LITTLE ROBINSON CORKSCREW (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Jim Bailey returns to his home town from the city with a new method of reducing. He sets himself and his apparatus up in his Uncle's show window and gives the inhabitants a treat. The Widow Brown induces him to give her private lessons at her home. Jim's girl becomes jealous, the neighbors are scandalized and Jim has great difficulty explaining that he was only showing the widow how to reduce. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE COWS (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Daisy, the rancher's daughter, comes home from a fashionable Eastern school to find her father's cowboys in a state of mutiny. Daisy's beau calls her up from New Haven and she asks him to come out as foreman and subdue the cowmen. The cowmen almost annihilate Ralph, but he finds a giant, masquerading as a hermit, and with his last $500 he bribes the superman to beat up the bunch. A broncho eats the $500, but the victorious giant accepts the broncho in payment and the lovers live happily ever after. LOVE'S SWEET PIFFLE (M.) 2 Reel* The girl's father is forcing her to marry a rich man, but in the middle of the wedding the poor man abducts her. They escape in an aeroplane with the wedding party after them. After spending the night in the wilds everyone is captured by Indians. But Ralph tricks them and he and the girl are united. OFF HIS TROLLEY (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Ralph is a street car conductor engaged to sweet, ingenuous Alice Day. He meets a vamp, is infatuated and forgets alike his true love and that he is a poor man. He buys a car on credit and wrecks it. When the salesman comes to collect there is nothing to collect, but the vamp turns her batteries on him and he forgets Ralph and debts. Ralph returns to his sweetheart and his street car. THE PLUMBER (M.) 2 Reels Ralph, a young plumber, meets a girl, Alice Day, in a street car, where "all kinds of people are thrown together." Later he and his assistant go to repair one of the many bathrooms in the Van Derrick home. A party is on and the vamp is monopolizing all the men. An irate wife dresses Ralph up and introduces him to the vamp, who tries her wiles on him without much luck. The street car girl appears and Ralph takes her home that evening and to the Plumber's Ball the next. A gang of toughs come in, led by Ralph's enemy, who wants to take the girl. A free for all fight follows, ending in Ralph's rescue of the girl and the inevitable kiss. BASHFUL JIM (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Ralph is very bashful and in love with Alice Day. Her father favors another suitor, who does not please Alice at all. One night he takes her to the theatre where Ralph works and he joins them. The picture on the screen shows how to make love a la Elinor Glyn R-ilph decides' to follow the noble example and takes Alice home. He pursues her from room to room and finally into the kitchen, where she gets a gun and threatens to kill herself. Just in time father and the favored suitor enter, but Ralph has gotten so enthralled by his part that he quickly sends them off and he and Alice at last confess their love.