Synopsis
Percy and Bobby are companions. Percy is in debt and Bobby is in love. Percy enters. Crowd outside have been hooting him. He cannot understand why until he gazes at the calendar and sees it is the first day of April. He looks and finds a "Please Kick Me" sign on his back. He is down and out. The janitor hands him a letter from his aunt, the contents telling him that she would not forget him in her will. Percy is overjoyed at the news, looks around the room and decides it would never do for aunt to see some of its contents. See the pictures of two women very much decolette. He decides to change them. He takes them down and reverses them. Getting a paint brush, he writes on the back of one, "What Is Home Without an Aunt?" And on the opposite one, "Love Your Relations." Percy hears someone at the door, goes hurriedly to meet his aunt, throwing his arms around Bobby instead. Bobby wants the use of Percy's room to meet his fiancee in. Percy gives consent, and Bobby writes a note to his lady love. Percy looks at the addressed envelope, glances at the calendar and laughs. He removes the letter from the envelope and addresses another one, sending it to the washerwoman. He gives the letter to the janitor. Percy then leaves Bobby to meet his affinity alone. A rap is heard and Bobby, thinking it is his sweetheart goes to the door with arms outstretched to receive her, but is horrified to have Bridget fall into his arms, who tells him she came to marry him and shows the letter. Bobby…
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Details
- Studio
- American Film Manufacturing Company
- Released
- 1911-01-12
- Running time
- 7 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Silent Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
J. Warren Kerrigan
