Volume II: Filmography

DISGUISERS

Working title: PEARL'S PERFIDY

(Falstaff)

May 29, 1916 (Monday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Cast: "Oscar and Conrad:" Claude Cooper (Oscar), Frank E. McNish (Conrad); Louise Emerald Bates (Pearl, Oscar's bride), Riley Chamberlin (Uncle Dave from Dakota)

Note: The title was listed erroneously as Disguises in a synopsis in The Moving Picture World, June 3, 1916.

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, May 27, 1916:

"When Oscar returned from his honeymoon, Conrad was unhappy, for Conrad had been a rejected suitor. He decides to make trouble. The plotter's way was made easier by the sudden arrival of a man who Pearl introduced as 'my Uncle Dave of Dakota.' Conrad agreed to closely watch Pearl and any callers she might have. Oscar and Conrad were their own detectives, and gained admission to the house in various disguises, but with uniform ill luck. 'Uncle Dave of Dakota' appeared, and the husband, from his place of hiding, saw him kiss the beauteous Pearl. But Uncle Dave was really an uncle, and had called with a deed for a house and lot as his wedding present. He was treated roughly, and tore up the deed."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, June 3, 1916:

"There is not a very strong element of comedy in this number in which a discarded lover tries to separate husband and wife by concocting a false story and persuading the husband to disguise as a plumber, a painter, etc. at different times, in order to discover his wife's supposed perfidy. The suspected man turns out to be the wife's uncle, who is about to give the newly-married couple the deed of one of his houses as a wedding present."

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