Volume II: Filmography

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Working title: RUNNING RIVAL RESTAURANTS

(Falstaff)

June 5, 1916 (Monday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Cast: "Oscar and Conrad:" Claude Cooper (Oscar) and Frank E. McNish (Conrad); George Welsh (restaurant owner), James Murray (restaurant owner), Louise Emerald Bates (the maiden), Billy Moran

Notes: 1. The title was listed erroneously as Advertisements in the title of a review in The Moving Picture World, June 17, 1916. 2. This film was produced during the first week of May 1916. 2. An incident in the filming of this picture is related under the biographical listing for Billy Moran.

ARTICLE by Tracey Hollingsworth, "Flivers From Film Folk" column, The Florida Metropolis, May 1, 1916:

"Director Claude Cooper and his company of funmakers are hard at work on a comedy entitled Running Rival Restaurants. George Welsh and James Murray are the restaurant proprietors and Cooper and McNish as Oscar and McNish [sic] are business builders and undertake the job of building up the business of Welch's restaurant. Louise Emerald Bates perfects an agreement with Murray to build up business in his restaurant. There is a great deal of lively action in the comedy which promises to be a winner."

ARTICLE by Tracey Hollingsworth, "Flivers From Film Folk" column, The Florida Metropolis, May 2, 1916:

"That Thanhouser 'Marathon Restaurant' created quite a stir out on Main Street. Several ex-waiters applied to Cooper and McNish for positions, and could not understand why their services were not needed."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, June 3, 1916:

"The proprietors of two restaurants thought they were rivals. Neither did any business until Oscar and Conrad became advertising experts. Conrad became a sandwich man, while Oscar posed as a 'passerby,' who went into raptures over the bill of fare. A maiden who made flapjacks in public won away the fickle crowd. Conrad met and fell in love with her. The girl gave a farewell demonstration. Oscar told him he had put 'gunpowder in her baking powder.' The flapjacks blew up, and the patrons were somewhat 'battered.' Conrad and the girl went to a minister's, while Oscar repented of his crime."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, June 17, 1916:

"A nonsense number, with a knockabout finish. Two rival restaurants employ sign carriers and a girl to bake pancakes in the window. Oscar and the girl fall in love and disrupt the rivalry, or rather bring it to a head. This has numerous amusing moments and is pleasingly presented."

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