After a year, Lizzie Cake finds her husband no longer loves her. Hubby gets a letter from his uncle that, expecting to die any moment, he is coming to make his home with his nephew so no designing woman can get her tentacles upon his money, adding he hopes that the nephew has remained single. Hubby tries to get wifie to go away, but wifie decides to stick. The day uncle is to arrive, hubby determines to keep wifie out of the house. She goes downtown shopping, and is attracted by a beauty advertisement. She looks like a peach when the beauty doctor gets through. Hubby returns with uncle, and is amazed to discover wifie. He tells uncle she is the nurse whom he hired to take care of him. Then he gets a look at wifie and falls in love with her again. Uncle takes a fancy to her. Hubby is forced to take his medicine. In desperation hubby tries to drown his sorrows. Returning home, he is infuriated to see a shadow on the window curtain that looks like wifie was kissing uncle. Hubby dashes in with drawn gun; uncle grabs a gun to defend himself. Wifie snaps out the lights and after the two have emptied their guns at everything, she snaps on the lights. Explanations follow. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | July 19, 1917 | |
Genres: | Comedy Short | |
Cast: | Billy Franey Gale Henry Milburn Morante Milton Sims | |
Crew: | Tom Gibson Jack Cunningham Allen Curtis | |
Speed711 : Best episode ending I've ever seen on this show. Nice.