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COMEDY.
comes into its possession again and about the same time comes upon the other members of the band. He joins them, but their unbalanced faculties render them devoid of maintaining order in
the line of march, and Looie is obliged to assume the color standard as well as his drum, and the return trip is commenced. Humorous end well developed.
G. D. 1599 SIGN OP THE TIMES. Price, $68.04
Approximate Length, 567 feet.
The opening scene is that of an open air refreshment parlor. A number of patrons are seen at the tables when the subject of the film is seen gathering cigar stumps from the ground. As he receives a rebuke from one of the patrons whom he has disturbed, a man with a high sign advertising moving picture films comes along; they recognize each other and he is invited to come along and secure a similar occupation. This he readily agrees to and both hurry on and report to the office of the advertising department of the film concern. The engagement is made and our friends start down the road; reaching the corner they separate, and soon after we see our hero in the wake of a well attired gentleman whom he expects to throw away a cigar he is smoking. He is not disappointed in his expectation, but as the cigar is dropped and our friend dives after it the top of his sign crashes down over the head of the other man who, for the moment, is dazed.
The two now are running down the street, one in pursuit of the other. A number of accidents along the line causes the already growing crowd to assume large proportions, when the hero falls and. with the top of his sign, catches on the back of an automobile just starting out. Our friend is trailed over the streets with the crowd in hot pursuit. When the auto stops, the man is rescued from
his precarious position.
Owing to a series of turns the crowd loses the trail and, passing a dark street, he comes upon two men trying to scale a wall. He is pressed into service and, using his back and the frame of the sign as a ladder, the purpose of the pair is accomplished. Going on down the street he comes upon the crowd still seeking him, and as they are about to place their hands on him he passes between the framework of a building undergoing alterations, the sign is caught up by a pulley, and the man is drawn to the roof out of reach of his pursuers. He climbs around the roofs and finally creeps down a skylight, and by this means enters a fiat, where he comes upon the two men he assisted in scaling the wall, and who are now engaged in plundering the flat. They seize the man and throw him down the shaft, and he lands at the bottom without serious harm. An officer hurries to his aid and, relating his experience, he is soon assisting two officers to scale the wall. They go to the flat, capture
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