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An irate father, a persistent lover, and a pretty girl who solves the difficulty, furnish a tale of elopement that is pleasing and excites the risibilities of the most sedate. The father ... See full summary
An irate father, a persistent lover, and a pretty girl who solves the difficulty, furnish a tale of elopement that is pleasing and excites the risibilities of the most sedate. The father objects to the marriage, and elopement is resorted to with complicating results. The girl flees to the apartments of her sweetheart, and just escapes the father and his detective, by being carried away in a wardrobe that has been delivered to the young man by mistake. This muddles matters, but the young man sends for the minister and prepares for the wedding. The girl has been delivered to the rooms of a friend, and he assists. The lover and the minister dive through the window into a mortar box, and are followed by the sleuth and the father, and they emerge, sorry looking specimens indeed. The lover and the minister, covered with a white coating, find the girl, and the ceremony is performed, only to be broken into by the father and the detective, whose clothing is also soiled. The old man forgives ...

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    • Author: Jan
    A farce that, now and then, intentionally burlesques other farces. There is a situation in it that is very like one in a Selig picture of a few weeks ago in which a girl hides from an objecting parent in a wardrobe, delivered to the hero's rooms by mistake and then carried away, without his knowing it, with the girl inside. One of the Biograph sleuths also seems to have a part in this picture. But, taking the farce as it comes, it is lively and very amusing. It will give plenty of laughter, for the actors didn't lie down on the job at all, and took everything that came, even to a plunge into what seems to have been a plaster trough. It is a picture that will be acceptable on almost any bill. It is light. - The Moving Picture World, January 20, 1912
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