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The Fresh Heir Synopsis

A swindler applies for a place in heaven. He is rejected by St. Peter and hurled to earth in very human style by one of the archangels. His real home, it proves, is in jail. With the aid of a dog, who is in for stealing bones, he makes his escape from prison, thereupon learning that he has fallen heir to a vast sum of money left by his uncle. The money is concealed in the lining of a checked suit which he unwittingly throws out of the window. The rest of the picture shows how he pursues various checked suits in an attempt to get the right one and how finally the dog brings it home.

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.