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Mr. Hyppo Synopsis

Famous magician Mr. Hyppo induces a young man to act as his subject in an exhibition of hypnotic power. But a rival hypnotist sets up a cross-current of vibrations that causes a riot and his arrest when he denounces Hyppo as a faker. Hyppo takes the fastest way out and escapes by clinging to the ropes of the curtain.

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.