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

PATHEPICTURES 45 Mack Sennett Comedies STARRING HARRY GRIBBON, BILLY BEVAN, MADELINE HURLOCK AND OTHERS NIP & TUCK (M., H.S., MEN'S GROUPS) 2 Reels Nip and Tuck keep a laundry and are passably happy until Nip's brother, a sailor, comes to visit them. He tells of his adventures underseas, and then gets them into a poker game. After much cheating and arguing they begin to divide the money, but the dog has taken it and given it to a beggar. ONE CYLINDER LOVE (M., H.S., AD.) 2 Reels Harry Gribbon, a bachelor, is trying to break off his engagement with his fiancee, a manicurist, in order to marry an heiress, but his chauffeur tries to keep him from doing it, and the heiress takes a hand because she doesn't want him. DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHOES (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Father, mother and daughter have a house at the beach. Daughter has two suitors who spends their time tricking each other. The whole action takes place on the sea, where they all walk with the aid of floating shoes. Father goes fishing and gets mixed up with a bullet from a torpedo and a whale, and is carried away on the whale's back. ONE SPOOKY NIGHT (M.( H.S., MEN'S GROUPS) 2 Reels Billy Bevan, as the young country man, goes to the big city and is "fleeced" by the crook and his fair assistant. The two crooks then transfer their activities to the country and Madeline vamps Billy's father. When she finds that the old man has given all his money to Billy she changes her tactics and elopes with him. A storm comes up and the elopers take refuge in a haunted house. A colored man and Madeline's accomplice do likewise. After a confused and dreadful night the crooks are captured and Billy returns to his father — both sadder and wiser men. INBAD, THE SAILOR (M., H.S., MEN'S GROUPS) 2 Reels The captain, the first mate and the second mate all love the same girl in a port where their ship is anchored. The lighthouse keeper on his lonely island is a victim of unrequited love for the same damsel. Her attempts to keep all four enslaved and the efforts of each to win the fair lady's esteem make a most amusing slapstick comedy. BLACK OXFORDS (M., H.S.) 2 Reels The mortgage on the old homestead is about to be foreclosed by the village Shylock and the mother and her daughter are lamenting the absence of the son. At the same time the son is escaping from prison. He reaches home in time to enter his horse in the village Derby, win it and is paying off the mortgage when the warden arrives and announces that the villain is the real criminal for whom the son has been serving time. LIZZIES OF THE FIELD (M., H.S.) 2 Reels The main theme of this comedy is an automobile race, with much trouble in starting and eluding rival racers. The finish comes when one car after another falls into a steep ditch, until all are so piled up, the hero rides to victory over the pile. GALLOPING BUNGALOWS (M., H.S.) 2 Reels Morning paper carries advertisement for mustached husband for $1,000,000 heiress. All citizens with mustaches apply and after the choice is made and the knot tied, the groom finds he has married the mother of the heiress. To add to his troubles a California real estate salesman sells him a shore lot and throws in a bungalow, which collapses with every breeze. The heiress comes to visit in a bungalow on wheels with horses as motive power. The horses run away with the bungalow full of family and guests. The citizens and fire department pursue, providing the inevitable chase and all are rescued just before an engine smashes the bungalow-on-wheels. THE CANNON BALL EXPRESS (M., H.S., J.) 2 Reels This comedy tells, through two diverting and foolish reels, the adventures of a train on a railroad that "has made walking easy since the Battle of Bull Run." The skeleton plot hinges on war between the President of said railroad and a financier, but fun, not the plot, is the thing.