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Forward March Synopsis

Jimmy, seated on a scaffold, is painting the house. His sweetheart attracts his attention below and Jimmy accidentally falls and is rendered unconscious. In his delirium he sees himself a messenger bearing an important code message through an enemy country. The president commissions the general, Bimbo, to capture Jimmy. The President's daughter, who is none other than Jimmy's reel sweetheart, overhears. Bimbo marches out the army and succeeds in capturing Jimmy. Jimmy escapes from his clutches several times through clever ruses, but is finally searched. The code is not found on him. He accidentally seeks refuge in a bear cage, and is scared into the hands of Bimbo again. Jimmy causes such a hubbub in the palace, leaping to chandeliers and causing Bimbo such annoyance end trouble that he is placed into a barred cell. He is given some "liquid fire" to drink, which burns his mouth, but which enables him to melt the bars of his cell end, with the aid of the girl, he escapes. He is pieced in a beg, but even this does not keep him in custody. Finally he is placed on a mail stand for a passing train to pick him up. Instead he is knocked high into the air, falling down through the roof, where lives the official to whom Jimmy is to give the message. He presents his message, but learns much to his disgust, that the real message has already been delivered, and that Jimmy was given a fake message, merely acting as a decoy all along. He faints, and in so doing, revives in his sweetheart's arms by the building he was painting, and they realize it was only a dream.

Mary's Ankle Synopsis

While walking along the street one day, Arthur P. Hampton, an impoverished young doctor, and his chums, Stub Masters and Johnny Stokes, are persuaded to part with their last remaining funds by tag day solicitor Mary Jane Smith, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love. Doc's friends then hit upon a get-rich-quick scheme. Knowing that his Uncle George has promised a large sum of money upon his nephew's marriage, they persuade Doc to send out fake wedding invitations naming Mary Jane as the blushing bride. Uncle George, elated at the good news, writes to Mary Jane's aunt, Angelica Burns, an old sweetheart, to invite Mary Jane and Angelica to be his guests on an ocean voyage. Meanwhile, Mary Jane pays a visit to the doctor's office and, upon seeing the wedding invitations, becomes so flustered that she trips and sprains her ankle. Doc comes to her rescue and then begs her to pose as his wife. She agrees, but at ship-side, Stub and Johnnie confess all to Uncle George, who flies into a rage until Doc announces that he and Mary Jane have chosen a wedding at sea.