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COMEDY.
lished has exceeded it in popularity. We doubt if it will ever be equaled in this respect.
The subject opens with Romeo and Juliet up to date. The young man is seen in the front yard of a city mansion serenading his lady love or, as the father of the girl seems to think, rendering the night hideous with his attempted harmony. The old man turns loose a deluge of water over the youthful aspirant, and this proving ineffective lets loose the family bull dog, which serves to give the ardent lover a chase for his life.
A very funny chase takes place, which "Freddie" attempts to put an end to by scaling a 12-foot wall. The bull dog, however, which is still holding on, proves Itself to be a regular canine leech
and a veritable heavy weight. Finally, however, the modern Romeo succeeds in eluding the dog for, long enough time to get a ladder and climb to, the top of the wall.
The young man attempts to make good his escape by running along the wall, but the dog is too foxy and accompanies him so faithfully that when he finally drops to the ground he falls again into the waiting jaws.
With every ray of hope apparently gone, Freddie makes for the lake, the dog still attending him. A high parapet halts him long enough for the old man and the girl to catch up. The excitement increases and the lover leaps into the . water, but is followed by the girl's father in this neck and neck race, who also leaps into the lake and a fierce struggle ensues.
With the dog still clinging to him Freddie escapes the old man and a watery grave and a convenient automobile appears on the scene and picks up the girl, who apparently has a scheme for rescuing her lover.
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THE TOMBOYS.
Approximate Length, 525 feet.
Price, $63.00.
This subject is certainly one hilarious laugh from start to finish and a feature that will make good wherever it is shown. It is full of clean, wholesome, legitimate comedy, such as makes the whole world kin and abounds in humorous incidents from the first to the last foot. Two little girls are the heroines of this story and one of them is seen trying to, hide from her mother and escape the duty of going to school. But at last she starts off, apparently on her way to her daily studies. On the way she calls for her chum, and the two girls decide to play "hookey' and start off for a day of fun. Their first victim is an old gentleman seated in his front yard. He gets up to buy a paper from a passing newsboy. The Tomboys put his chair over a bucket of water with which a colored
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