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1920
This clip contains footage of slapstick comedy, and 2 men vying for the attention of a girl.Begins with an intertitle introducing a wealthy girl. WS of a group of people playing tennis. Cuts to a man holding a racket and smoking a cigarette, he spots the rich girl sitting on a chair and eating alone. She is approached by a group of men and she waves them off. The man approaches her and introduces himself, he then gets down on one knee in a gesture of marriage proposal. She shakes her head and as she stands up, we see that she had been sitting on a man. CU of him looking t the camera in disbelief. The man continues to coddle the girl, and walks her to a bench where he takes her hand and whispers in her ear. The protagonist approaches him from behind and taps his shoulder, the man turns the other way as he swoops in and takes the woman off screen. He walks with her, hand in hand and the other man approaches angrily, he attempts to walk off with her but the protagonist places a string around the man’s ankle, tripping him. He then takes the girl by the arm and walks off. The man struggles free and chases after them. The man grabs the protagonist and pulls his ear, who then pinches his nose. The man shakes the protagonist’s head who then slaps the man’s hand. The man gets into a fighting position but the protagonist reaches over and undoes his bow tie before punching him in the face. The men circle each other before the girl tells them to ask papa for her hand. The men each take her hand and walk down a path, they each pick up speed and run off. They enter a sitting room and run about looking for the father. They spot him and each tries to stop the other. Finally, they decide to flip a coin, then the other suggests that the first to pick a cross from the scraps of paper gets to ask. Ends with the intertitle.