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COMEDY.
S. F. 2394-2400.
WHO'S WHO?
Approximate Length, 500 feet.
Price, S60.00.
"It is to laugh." So says "Louis Mann, and that is the reason why we issue "Who's Who?" a picture which is essentially a mirth provoker.
We open our subject with a groceryman who has just painted a sign, "For Sale, $2.00," which Is placed on the article to be sold. The sign has had no chance to dry when a man seats himself, leaning up against it, intending to wait for his boy, but finds he has waited long enough to have the sign transferred to his back.
His troubles now begin. He is the object of much amusement to the passing pedestrians; furthermore, it is his ill luck to pass a school house at the hour the children are going home for lunch and, of course, it is useless to state that his life is made unbearable for a few minutes. They follow him in droves until he finally discovers the cause of their merriment and takes off the hated coat, making his escape only by using his feet to good advantage.
He now is coatless and would have remained that way if he had not happened to pass a second-hand clothing store where a dummy is standing out with an exact counterpart of his coat on. He thinks by changing his coat for the one on the dummy he will be out of his trouble, but there is "many a slip 'twixt the cup and lip." and this change happens to be from bad to worse, as the proprietor discovers him just as he is making a hasty retreat, Jerusalem following close. Then all kinds of things happen, and the funniest chase that has ever been shown occurs. They run backward, they jump in the air, make flying leaps into open windows, scare the populace out of their wits.
The hunted man eludes his pursuers at every turn, but being tired of running on foot takes his chance on a wagon that happens to be standing in his path. In he jumps, and the horse, not knowing whether he is going or coming, starts in rapid backward flight, the chase also following backwards, producing some extraordinary comic results.
He finally escapes by some very diplomatic work and manages to substitute an innocent policeman, who has to bear the brunt of the whole trouble.
S. P. Ill
Price, ยง60.00.
THE SERENADE.
Approximate Length, 500 feet.
Twelve scenes of cyclonic activity and as full of action as a Japanese torpedo boat. Not a case of one or two laughs, but continuous from start to finish. The Serenade has been pronounced by entertainers and exhibitors of most experience to be the comedy success of the day, and no humorous film that has ever been pub
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