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Oh! Min! Synopsis
Andy's boss is constantly harping on the fact that he is no longer a young man and threatens to get a younger man in his place if he doesn't get in on time. This gets Andy thinking and he decides to take a course advertised by a Fanny Fair to make you youthful. Min sees a note from Fanny telling Andy when to come for his first treatment and immediately thinks that her husband is untrue to her. She confides in a neighbor who advises her to get dancing lessons. Andy goes to Fanny's institute and gets an awful deal. When it has been completed he is told to look in the glass and see how young he has been made. What he looks through is merely a frame with a handsome youth on the other side. He mimics Andy's movements so well that Andy really believes he has been remade. On the way home, however, he wants a second look and takes a mirror out of his pocket. What he sees makes him go back and swat the man behind the frame with a brick. When he arrives home he finds his wife in the company of the dancing master and remonstrates with her, demanding to know who he is. Min comes back with the story of the note she found from Fanny. Explanations follow and everyone is happy once more.
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.
"Oh! Min!" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Mary's Ankle" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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