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Poor But Honest Synopsis

In attempting to rescue a charming young girl from drowning, Bobby becomes involved in a fracas with the police. Many complications ensue including an interesting mix-up in a tailor's shop where Bobby and his opponents have gone to have their clothing put to rights. Then in attempting to escape from the officers, Bobby becomes involved with two hold-up men in a tramp hotel. He finally manages to give them the slip only to get into another mix-up with his uniformed enemies. He is unsuccessful once again in evading them and the final fade-out shows Bobby arm in arm with the girl he has rescued from the watery grave and whose heart he has won.

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.