Lord Southpaugh
Eli Spooger is a devil in his old home town, but when it comes to dealing with the big jovial confidence man from the metropolis, he turns out to be fit for a devil's subject. Spooger is president of a bank in Oak Centre and he owns several shares of the Bessemer Malleable Iron Foundry. Bessemer unwittingly aids them into circulating a story about a million dollar war order he's going to get from "Lord Southpaugh," so Wallingford and Daw told him, and so Violet and Fanny made Spooger believe. Before the Oak Centre Clarion printed the rumor and even after that, the Wallingford party purchased all the shares of about town for less than a hundred. In Spooger's and Bessemer's presence they act as business rivals and Violet and Fanny form a third party, Secret Service Sarahs, as Spooger later called them. When Wallingford offered Spooger two hundred for every share that he could get, and when Daw wanted to borrow money from Spooger on his stock and Wallingford's, Spooger wouldn't do it, he bought every one at a hundred and fifty. $85,000 was what he was cleaned out of on the famous Bessemer stock. At their hotel in New York the Warden girls look longingly at a nice little miniature cottage. Wallingford offers to sell it to Violet for one dollar, providing that she take the contents also. Assenting, she takes from the house a clay image of Daw. Surprised and happy, she buries her face in her hands. Then the expressman brought Daw in with a tag around his neck. Violet and Daw we leave in a state of rapture, while Wallingford, the Daw's star boarder, goes forth to sell the bill-posting rights to the North Pole.
- Runtime
- 20m
- Released
- 1916
Details
Release year: 1916
Storyline
Eli Spooger is a devil in his old home town, but when it comes to dealing with the big jovial confidence man from the metropolis, he turns out to be fit for a devil's subject. Spooger is president of a bank in Oak Centre and he owns several shares of the Bessemer Malleable Iron Foundry. Bessemer unwittingly aids them into circulating a story about a million dollar war order he's going to get from "Lord Southpaugh," so Wallingford and Daw told him, and so Violet and Fanny made Spooger believe. Before the Oak Centre Clarion printed the rumor and even after that, the Wallingford party purchased all the shares of about town for less than a hundred. In Spooger's and Bessemer's presence they act as business rivals and Violet and Fanny form a third party, Secret Service Sarahs, as Spooger later called them. When Wallingford offered Spooger two hundred for every share that he could get, and when Daw wanted to borrow money from Spooger on his stock and Wallingford's, Spooger wouldn't do it, he bought every one at a hundred and fifty. $85,000 was what he was cleaned out of on the famous Bessemer stock. At their hotel in New York the Warden girls look longingly at a nice little miniature cottage. Wallingford offers to sell it to Violet for one dollar, providing that she take the contents also. Assenting, she takes from the house a clay image of Daw. Surprised and happy, she buries her face in her hands. Then the expressman brought Daw in with a tag around his neck. Violet and Daw we leave in a state of rapture, while Wallingford, the Daw's star boarder, goes forth to sell the bill-posting rights to the North Pole.
Top credits
- Burr McIntosh — J. Rufus 'Jim' Wallingford
- Max Figman — Blackie Daw
- Lolita Robertson — Violet Warden
- Frances White — Fanny Warden