Arthur W. Bates

Sweedie, the theater's scrubwoman, in love with the unappreciative props, become enamored with the idea of a stage career.

Sweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The fireman escapes her caresses and gains the firehouse and loses her seven hours later when a fire breaks out. The next day she finds him with another woman and administers punishment. Then she opens a lady barber shop and her first customer is the faithless fireman.

Charlot se présente à une audition pour devenir acteur ; de nombreuses personnes passent devant lui et cela finit par l'agacer, il se dispute avec Ben Turpin pour être le prochain à entrer. Il perturbe ensuite le tournage d'un film et le patron l'engage comme homme à tout faire ; en tant qu'accessoiriste, il ne fait que retarder le tournage. Suite au renvoi d'un comédien, le patron lui donne sa chance mais regrette rapidement tellement Charlot est maladroit ; Charlot finit par quitter le plateau après avoir assommé le directeur et Ben Turpin.

A 15-episode dramatic action movie serial only two of which survive.

Stuart Northcote, a London adventurer, slays the president of a mythical South American republic, and establishes himself at its head. Mercia Solano, daughter of the slain official, leads a conspiracy to avenge her father's death by killing Northcote. The adventurer escapes to London, however, after looting the republic's treasure chest. He is pursued by Mercia and a band. The adventurer, perceiving his deadly peril, employs Jack Burton, an impoverished young Englishman, to act as his double. The girl shoots at the double, and other fiendish plots are carried out to kill him. Burton frustrates them all.