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The Reverend Goodleigh's Courtship (1911)
Short | Short, Comedy

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The Reverend Goodleigh's Courtship (1911)

Short | Short, Comedy

Arthur Ames and Cora Rogers are sweethearts, but her family will not allow any of her young men friends to enter their house. Cora is told that she is expected to marry the son of old friends of her parents, the Rev. Harold Goodleigh. He ...See moreArthur Ames and Cora Rogers are sweethearts, but her family will not allow any of her young men friends to enter their house. Cora is told that she is expected to marry the son of old friends of her parents, the Rev. Harold Goodleigh. He arrives and is at once shown up to his room by the butler. Realizing that his clothes need pressing he sends the man out with them, arraying himself in a blanket taken from his bed. The butler, passing the disconsolate young couple on their way to the street, Arthur spies the clothes and is seized by a sudden idea, which he hastens to explain to the butler. The butler escorts him to another room in the house, where Arthur sacrifices his lovely mustache and clothes himself in the clerical garments of his rival and coming downstairs, surprises Cora by the daring nature of his ruse. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have never met either Arthur or the Rev. Goodleigh and so, when Arthur is introduced by Cora as the reverend suitor for her hand, they suspect nothing and Arthur goes in with the family to dinner, which he gets through with very nicely. In the meantime, the Rev. Goodleigh, attired in his blanket, is having a mournful wait. Then a new element is injected into the plot. "Mad Harry," a lunatic from a neighboring asylum makes his escape. Now, Harry imagines he is an Indian chief and proceeds to decorate himself with feathers from the tail of a turkey hanging outside of a butcher shop, and with a horse blanket and hatchet, which he takes from a hardware store. Running swiftly down the street, he comes to the Rogers' home and climbing up he pries open the window of the room which contains the Rev. Goodleigh and springing in upon the terrified clergyman, he compels him to join in a war dance. The Reverend gentleman finally breaks away and rushes out of the room into the street closely pursued by Harry. Harry, getting sidetracked, runs into the midst of the Rogers family and soon has them all busily dancing in a circle, he dashing everywhere, fiercely brandishing his bright, new hatchet. The Rev. Goodleigh, clad in his primitive garments, breathlessly meets the keeper, who is seeking Harry, and leads him to the house. But before the keeper can overtake him the clergyman, who arrives at the height of the war dance, is compelled to join in it. The keeper arrives, Harry peacefully surrenders to him and quiet is restored. Then explanations follow as to who is who and Arthur is duly unmasked as a bogus minister. But nothing daunted, he puts in his claim for Cora's hand and after strenuous begging on the part of the young lovers he is finally accepted as the son-in-law, that is, to be. And the Rev. Goodleigh's sad but exciting courtship is over. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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