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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
Where Is
My Wife?
ILLIE RITCHIE and LucUle Hutton in a tworeel L-Ko express. It speeds from start to finish.
HERE IS MY WIFE?" is the title of the latest of the L-Ko laugh compellers, featuring Billie Ritchie and Lucille Htitton. The L-Ko Company is now progressing at such a rapid rate that it is hard to tell where they will end. Each release is better than the one before, or at least that is the way it seems to the average spectator.
Lucille Hutton, as she gets more experience, added to a natural ability to act comedy roles with especial regard for the ridiculous, bids fair to be a real acquisition. She is the subject of the front cover sketch this
But outside the stars the feature that makes a slap-stick comedy funny is the number of laughable bits of business that is included in the production. Here is where the L-Ko Company excels, as they contrive to get more funny things for their act
"What is this, Billie?"
ors to do than appear in the films of other concerns in a whole month. When Billie in a bathtub goes sliding about the hotel, forced now one way and now another by the streams of water that are being turned on him, there is real comedy. Whatever the highbrows may say, a person that can sit still without laughing at a picture like this has a piece of dull lead where his funny bone ought to be.
Billie is the proprietor of a hotel, but his wife is the one who does most of the proprieting. Billie is a modest little fellow and is well content to do the entertaining of the house. He is very active about the place, showing every one how to perform their jobs, but he really shines at serving the ladies. One of these delicate creations arrives and Billie is all attention. But his wife says "No," and the ambitious lad is forced to sojourn under the desk. There he finds a way to get in a word or two by
poking his head out from the bottom. He makes a little rendezvous with the lady without his wife learning of it. Then when the lady rings for soap he writes his love on the bar and covers it so that the sentiments are not apparent until the bar is used.
Then follows a series of mistakes that were most vmfortunate, as they put the attentions of Billie in the wrong light. He sent a little note to the lady of his love by means of a fan. But the dam thing blew too far and the note came into the hands of her husband. Then there followed a great mix-up, as the doors of the two rooms that the manager and the lady had were changed. The husband went after Billie, and, strange to say, he found him in the most embarrassing of positions. Then there was a chase in which Bilile barely escaped the wrath of the other, and it all ended when Billie fell into a bathtub and was carried about the streets in the rear of an auto.