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Flying Romeos Synopsis
Cohen (Sidney) and Cohan (Murray) are partners in a barber shop, always squabbling with each other, both being smitten by their beautiful manicure girl. She is fascinated only with aviators, so, determined to win her, both take up flying. They find themselves in the same aeroplane, taking beginner's lessons, fighting with each other and causing the craft to do all sorts of random crazy turns and loop-the-loops. This impresses the plane's owner so much, he commissions them to do a Lindbergh-like "Hop" across the ocean. They miraculously make the flight, but in the end, they find another pilot has married the girl.
An Amateur Devil Synopsis
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.
"Flying Romeos" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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