Synopsis
A stagehand's efforts to impress a chorus girl and manage a theatre show cause disasters with flowers and a wind machine. An attempt to protect stolen jewels sends the comedy into a fantastic pursuit.
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- Original language
- No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
- This copy runs
- 26:37
- Subtitles
- No subtitle track in this language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.
No subtitle track in this language
Wikimedia Commons · Larry Semon / Norman Taurog · Public domain
Cast
Behind the scenes
Larry Semon's character shifts between the theatre's working and watching spaces. Stage equipment supplies the accidents before a dream permits a more extravagant chase.
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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.
Photograph credit
Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.
- Oliver Hardy — Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · CC0
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